Greek Myth - Pandora

Prometheus's Gift

Heinrich von Füger

The Creation of Man by Prometheus

(1790)

Multiple Choice

Which generation is Prometheus from?

• First Order (Erebus, Nyx, etc.)

• Second Order (Ouranos, Gaia, etc.)

• The Gods (Zeus, Hera, etc.)

• The Titans (Kronos, Rhea, etc.)

Multiple Choice

Prometheus was the best friend of...

• Poseidon

• Hades

• Zeus

• Kronos

Multiple Choice

Zeus likes to transform himself into a(n)...

• whale

• eagle

• dog

• nymph

Multiple Choice

Why did Zeus decide to create humanity?

• He wanted humans to rule the Earth

• He wanted to keep his brother and sister gods occupied

• He was bored

• He believed humans would help him defend his throne from usurpers

​"Prometheus Creating Man in Clay" by Constantin Hansen (1845)

Multiple Choice

Why aren't there blue, violet and green people in the world?

• Prometheus thought they were ugly

• Zeus accidentally stepped on them

• Athena suggested the colors that Prometheus should use

• Gaia decreed that humans should be the color of earth

Open Ended

Who is Athena?

​"Creation of Man" -- painting by Christian Griepenkerl (1889)

Multiple Choice

How did Athena help to create humanity?

• She sculpted humans from clay

• She breathed life into them

• She was the model for human females

• She gave her blood to run through human veins

Multiple Choice

Why did Zeus want all humans to be male?

• Zeus thought that males were more attractive than females

• If Zeus created women, his wife, Hera, would be mad

• Zeus wanted the humans to look exactly like him

• Zeus worried that female humans would create too much trouble for the males

Multiple Choice

What materials did Prometheus use to craft the original humans?

• clay and Zeus's spit

• ambrosia and fire

• rain and earth

• sugar and spice

Multiple Choice

Which additional materials did the gods add to humans in order to bring them to life?

• sun and air

• bread and wine

• music and art

• love and compassion

Multiple Select

How did humans feel when they first encountered Zeus, Athena and Prometheus?

CHECK ALL THAT APPLY

• worship

• fear

• confusion

• love

Multiple Choice

Why didn't Zeus want humanity to have fire?

• With fire, humanity would destroy itself

• With fire, humanity could challenge the gods

• Zeus valued fire above all other elements and believed it should stay with the gods

• Zeus did not trust humanity to use fire for benevolent purposes

Multiple Choice

From where did Prometheus steal the fire he gave to humanity?

• Apollo's golden chariot

• Hephaestus's forge

• The edge of the known world

• The bowels of Tartarus

Multiple Choice

What does Zeus ask Hephaestus to create in order to punish mankind?

• cruelty

• a woman

• a weapon of mass destruction

• the devil

Pandora

​Pandora Opened the Lid

​by Walter Crane (1884)

Multiple Choice

What does the name Pandora mean?

• heavenly gift

• she who is beautiful

• curiosity

• all gifted

Multiple Choice

What gift does Zeus grant to Pandora?

• a beautiful gown

• a jar of secrets

• ambrosia

• a magical sword

​Pandora

​by Lawrence Alma-Tedema (1881)

Multiple Choice

Pandora is Zeus's gift (wife) to which god?

• Hermes

• Pygmalion

• Prometheus

• Epimetheus

Open Ended

"Epimetheus, who always acted first and considered the consequences later, promised to obey his more perspicacious brother."

Use the context clues to guess at the definition of perspicacious.

​Pandora

​by Pierre

Loison (1861)

Multiple Choice

What does Epimetheus tell Pandora to do with the box?

• Burn it completely.

• Put it out of sight and mind.

• Only open the box a little bit.

• Sell the box to the highest bidder.

Open Ended

"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, 1863

Write a paragraph connecting this famous quote to the story of Pandora. Cite evidence from the story and from the Dostoevsky quote in your paragraph. Use best practices for embedding quotations.

Multiple Choice

What causes Pandora to open the box?

• Anger

• Spite

• Curiosity

• Stupidity

Multiple Choice

When Pandora opened the box, what happened?

• The world exploded.

• Bees attacked her

• There was an earthquake.

• A swarm of horrible things came out.

Multiple Choice

To which creature does the myth compare all these plagues?

• wolves

• locusts

• sharks

• rats

Open Ended

Why would a swarm of locusts have been such a frightening image to the Ancient Greeks?

​Pandora

​by John William Waterhouse (1886)

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Open Ended

What is in Pandora’s jar? Be specific! List at least three of the creatures that emerge.

Open Ended

Who are the grandparents of the horrible creatures in Pandora's jar?

Multiple Choice

What was left after all the evil spirits escaped from the box?

• Happiness

• Hate

• Hope

• Agony

Multiple Choice

How did Zeus choose to destroy mankind?

• fire

• thunderbolts

• flood

• earthquake

​Pandora

​by Dante Gabriel

Rossetti (1871)

Multiple Choice

Why was Pandora created?

• To prove clay could be brought to life

• To be the most beautiful woman in the world

• To punish Prometheus

• To punish mankind

Open Ended

What does the story of Zeus’s punishment tell us about Ancient Greek attitudes towards women? What can you infer from it about their prejudices? What does the story tell us about who held power in the Ancient Greek world?