Mythology Edith Hamilton Part 1

The first woman from whom comes the race of women who are an evil to men with a nature to do evil.

• Pandora

• Hera

• Semele

• Metaneria

Great favorites of Zeus because they were wonderful workmen and forged his thunderbolts.

• Cyclopes

• Gorgons

• Saytrs

• Minotaurs

Zeus disguised himself as a bull and swept this maiden away to the island of Crete where she would bare him two sons

• Io

• Pandora

• Semele

• Europa

A hero who fell in love with his own reflection; after his death flowers appeared and were named after him.

• Narcissus

• Hyacinth

• Adonis

• Sunflower

Accidentally killed by Apollo; his bloodshed bloomed forth this wondrous flower that made this young lad's name known forever.

• Narcissus

• Hyacinth

• Adonis

• Sunflower

Loved by both Persephone and Aphrodite; killed by a boar, which sprang the blood-red anemone on the mountain side.

• Narcissus

• Hyacinth

• Adonis

• Sunflower

What was the nymph Echo's punishment from Hera?

• She had to stare at her reflection forever

• She could never be with Narcissus

• She had to repeat the last word of someone's sentence

• She was abandoned on an island alone

The Greeks, unlike the Egyptians, made their gods in their own image because

• All the art and thought of Greece centered in human beings

• They were not creative and couldn’t think of their own gods.

• They did not make their gods in their own image

• Zeus created the gods in that image

Married to Hera; wields the thunderbolt; bird is the eagle; tree is the oak; has many affairs

• Apollo

• Zeus

• Hermes

• Ares

Lord of the sea; “earth shaker”; carries a trident; created horses

• Ocean

• Ares

• Poseidon

• Triton