Language Arts
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| Myth | show 🗑
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| What do constellations have to do with Greek Myths? | show 🗑
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| show | natural occurrences which, once explained, seem less frightening (such as "Where does the sun go at night?" and "What is thunder?"
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| Myths usually feature..... | show 🗑
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| show | metamorphoses or when characters frequently change shape
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| show | consequences of both good and bad behavior; They are didactic or they have a teaching purpose; They instruct you on the values that the ancient Greeks though were most important`
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| Pantheon | show 🗑
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| show | a real mountain that reaches 9,000-10,000 feet into the sky (Ancient Greeks thought that it reached into the heavens and that is where their Pantheon of Gods sat)
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| show | immortal, usually very beautiful, and very strong
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| Male gods tend to have many _____________ Female goddesses are respected when they remain faithful to ___ _____________ | show 🗑
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| Perseus and the Gorgon: Who is Perseus's father? | show 🗑
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| How did Perseus and his mother escape the cell where his grandfather had kept them? | show 🗑
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| Why did Perseus decide to kill the Gorgon? | show 🗑
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| show | one eye and one tooth
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| show | Medusa
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| show | She has a nest of live poisonous for hair and bronze wings.
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| What did Perseus do after he killed Medusa? | show 🗑
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| How To Kill A Gorgon | show 🗑
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| After Perseus After He Killed Medusa: What did Cassiopeia (Andromeda's mother) brag about all the time? | show 🗑
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| show | Cassiooeia said that Andromeda was even more beautiful than all of Poseidon's daughters
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| show | a sea monster, known as the Kraken, to ravage the land of Ethiopia
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| show | Poseidon was so angry that to be calmed down, Andromeda had to be sacrificed to the Kraken.
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| When Perseus saw Andromeda in danger, what did he do? | show 🗑
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| Which three characters from this story are remembered in the skies as constellations? | show 🗑
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| show | goods, men for the army, and tributes to honor him
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| show | the labyrinth
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| show | the minotaur, who is half man and half bull
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| How many of the seven young men and seven young women who are sent to Crete each year return to their homelands? | show 🗑
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| Who was Theseus's father? | show 🗑
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| What happens to these young people? | show 🗑
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| What does Theseus decide to do? | show 🗑
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| show | black; white; alive; successful
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| show | to take her back to Athens with him when he returns
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| What did Theseus do when Ariadne brought up the topic of marriage? | show 🗑
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| What did Theseus forget to do when he led Ariadne on the island? | show 🗑
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| show | King Aegeus, distraught and in despair, flung himself over a cliff.
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| show | In memory of Theseus's father, King Aegeus.
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| show | he committed a murder
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| What did King Proteus's wife falsely claim that Bellerophon did? | show 🗑
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| The Letter: Why did the paragraph claim that it would have been difficult for Bellerophon to read the letter that King Proteus asked him to take to King Iobates? | show 🗑
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| show | to kill the person who hands you this
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| Why didn't King Iobates do what was asked of him in the letter? | show 🗑
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| King Iobates asked Bellerophon to rid the kingdom of the _______ | show 🗑
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| The Challenge: The Chimaera has a ____'_ front, a _____'_ middle, and a _____'_ tail. | show 🗑
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| show | He was pleased at the opportunity to elevate himself.
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| The Strategy: Did Bellerophon decide to attack the monster by way of sea or air? | show 🗑
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| show | a winged steed (winged horse)
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| show | Poseidon and Medusa
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| show | a golden bridle
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| show | tame and rideable
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| show | lance: sort of spear best suited for fighting on horseback
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| The Solution: The gods suggested that Bellerophon attach a lump of ____ to the end of his spear | show 🗑
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| show | heartburn
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| show | Lycia
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| More Triumphs: After Bellerophon fought a neighboring tribe, he conquered the women warrior known as the _______ | show 🗑
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| show | Zeus sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus, who threw Bellerophon off. He spent the rest of his days wandering the land alone.
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| show | The 3 Fates
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| show | Clotho= the spinner
Lachesis= the measurer
Atropos= the cutter
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| At death, the soul, or _____, travels to the ________ ____ in order to go underground to the Greek Underworld. | show 🗑
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| The shade is accompanied by ______. | show 🗑
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| Sometimes, the entire Underworld is known as _____ | show 🗑
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| The shade arrives at the Underworld River ____ (which means hate) | show 🗑
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| Mourners out a coin in the deceased's mouth or on their eyes to pay _______, the ferryman, for the journey across the River Styx in his boat. | show 🗑
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| Even _____ who entered the Underworld had to pay Charon. | show 🗑
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| show | ghosts; 100 years
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| show | Adamantine gates
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| The Gates to the Underworld were guarded by ________, the vicious _____-_______ ___ | show 🗑
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| show | 3 judges of the dead, who decide if a shade is to be punished or rewarded
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| If the shade went to the ______, he/she went to the _______ _______, where the heroic lived forever. These fields were bathed in purple light and were filled with daffodils. | show 🗑
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| If the shade went to the ____, he/she was sent to Hades for __________. (These often included being tortured in flames) | show 🗑
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| show | ebony thrones; Persephone
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| Outside of the palace, ________ _______ and ___________ trees grew. | show 🗑
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| There were also ______ in the Underworld. These were ugly bird-women and were viciously cruel agents of punishment. They would snatch your food , defile it, and torment those who were on their way to Tartarus. | show 🗑
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| show | mists and marshes
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| ________ is in the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld- this is where the Titans were imprisoned after their battle with Zeus. | show 🗑
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| ________ would ambush travelers and rob them. He made it more difficult for shades to reach the Underworld by kidnapping the god of death and chaining him to a rock | show 🗑
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| The _______ were 50 sisters who all killed their husbands on their wedding night | show 🗑
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| Before a soul can leave the Underworld, he must drink from the River _____ or the river of forgetfulness | show 🗑
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| show | river of sorrow; river of wailing; river of fire
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| Echo | show 🗑
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| show | Crime: fell in love with his reflection
Punishment: died and turned into a flower
Theme: don't think too highly of yourself
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| Arachne | show 🗑
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| Icarus | show 🗑
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| show | Demeter, the goddess of the harvest
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| Wherever Persephone danced on her light feet, _______ sprang up. | show 🗑
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| show | A chariot with black horses appeared, and its rider was Hades. Hades then kidnapped Persephone and took her to the Underworld to be his queen.
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| show | jewels; sunshine; mother
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| The only tree in the realm of Hades that bore fruit was a ______________ ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Flowers wilted, trees lost their leaves, and the fields became cold and barren.
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| Who delivered Zeus's message to Hades and then escorted Persephone out of the Underworld? | show 🗑
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| show | She had eaten a few pomegranate kernels, so she tasted the food of the dead.
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| What natural occurrence does this myth explain? | show 🗑
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