Mythology - Titans to Minotaurs

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Titanomachy in Greek mythology?

• It was a battle between the Titans and the Olympian gods.

• It marked the beginning of the age of Titans.

• It was a peaceful resolution between gods and Titans that led to a Golden Age for the Titans

• It was a story about the creation of the world.

Multiple Choice

What was the punishment of Atlas in the stories of Hercules?

• To have his liver picked out forever

• To guard the golden apples

• To fight against Zeus

• To serve as a mortal

• To hold up the sky

Multiple Choice

I was assigned 12 impossible tasks.

• Hercules

• Achilles

• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

• Apollo

• The Titans

Match

Match the following (Titans to the jobs)

• Time, Agriculture, Universe

• The Titaness of fertility and motherhood; she was the mother of many Olympian gods.

• Atlas

• ...she is a primordial goddess, one of the very first entities to emerge at the dawn of creation, along with Chaos and Tartarus.

• ...sided with the Olympians (Zeus)

Cronus

Rhea

Atlas

Gaia (or Gaea)

Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed giants

• Cronus

• Rhea

• Atlas

• Gaia (or Gaea)

• Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed giants

Multiple Choice

What does Prometheus and the fire symbolize in the context of his actions against Zeus?

• Destruction

• Fear

• Weakness

• Human fragility

• Human progress

Match

Match the following

• The first mortal woman created by the gods; she opened a forbidden jar (or box), releasing all the world’s evils but leaving Hope inside.

• A Titan who shaped humanity and stole fire from the gods to help them, earning Zeus’s wrath and eternal punishment.

• Prometheus’s brother, known for acting before thinking; he accepted Pandora from the gods, unknowingly bringing disaster to mankind.

• A large clay jar used in ancient Greece; in myth, Pandora’s pithos contained all the evils that escaped into the world.

• King of the Greek gods; he punished Prometheus and devised Pandora as a trap to teach humanity a painful lesson.

Pandora

Prometheus

Epimetheus

Pithos

Zeus

• Pandora

• Prometheus

• Epimetheus

• Pithos

• Zeus

Multiple Choice

What does the story of Sisyphus symbolize in human existence?

• The joy of achieving one's goals effortlessly.
• The pursuit of knowledge and enlightenment.
• The inevitability of fate and despair.
• The struggle and resilience in the face of absurdity.

Open Ended

Compare Sisyphus and Prometheus. How are their characters and motives different? What does it say about humans that they both got these eternal punishments?

Multiple Choice

What is the punishment of Prometheus? What is the Punishment of Sisyphus?

• Prometheus is trapped in a cave, while Sisyphus is punished to swim in a river forever.
• Prometheus is forced to climb a mountain, while Sisyphus is sentenced to build a wall endlessly while it forever collapsed.

• Prometheus is chained in a dungeon, while Sisyphus is doomed to chase a shadow for eternity - never to catch up with it.

• Prometheus is bound to a rock, where an eagle eats his liver daily, while Sisyphus is condemned to roll a boulder up a hill forever.

Multiple Choice

Prometheus wanted man to have fire for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• so they could cook meat

• so they could see in the dark

• so they could defend themselves

• so they could destroy themselves

Multiple Choice

What responsibility was Prometheus given?

• To rule earth

• To give fire to man

• To find Zeus's lightning bolt

• To help create man

Open Ended

Had you known, as Prometheus, the punishment that Zeus would enact upon you, would you still have given humans fire?

Multiple Choice

Forge: to form by heat/hammering

Who forges the great chains that bind Prometheus to a mountain?

• Zeus

• Poseidon

• Hades

• Hephaestus

Multiple Choice

What does the myth of Persephone and Hades explain about the seasons?

• The changing of the seasons

• The creation of the world

• The importance of agriculture

• The role of Zeus in mythology

Open Ended

Was Zeus's decisiona good one? Was this fair for Persephone? What does this tell us about power in relationships in Ancient Greece?

Multiple Choice

What does the pomegranate seed symbolize in Persephone's story?

• Independence

• Deception

• Maturity

• All of the above

Reorder

Reorder the following

• Poseidon gives MInos a bull

• Queen is cursed to love the bull... resulting in a Minotaur

• Theseus kills the Minotaur

• Thesius abandons Ariadne

• Ariadne meets Dionysus

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2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
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• 5

Multiple Choice

What advice did Ariadne give to Theseus to help him escape the Labyrinth?

• To follow the Minotaur

• To tie a ball of thread to the entrance

• To defeat the Minotaur

• To find Daedalus as he knows the secret to escape the maze he designed

• Do not betray women... you must be loyal

Multiple Choice

What lesson can be learned from Icarus's flight?

• Icarus's flight teaches the value of blind ambition and endless dedication.

• The story emphasizes the importance of ignoring foolish warnings.

• It illustrates that one should always take risks without caution.
• The lesson from Icarus's flight is to avoid hubris and practice moderation.
• The lesson is to trust in one's abilities without limits.

Multiple Choice

Who kills the Cretan Bull?

• Achilles
• Perseus
• Hercules
• Theseus
• Odysseus

Reorder

Reorder the following (Life of the Bull)

• Gift to Minos

• "dating" the Queen

• Father to a Minotaur

• Captured by Hercules

• Enjoying himself in Attica when stupid Theseus kills him

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2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Open Ended

How would a feminist see the situation of Ariadne? How about the situation of Queen Pasiphaë?

Multiple Choice

How does Ariadne's story illustrate the theme of women's agency in Greek mythology?

• Ariadne is celebrated for her contributions

• Ariadne's fate is controlled by men

• Ariadne's story is a symbol of female empowerment

• Ariadne's actions are forgotten

Multiple Choice

Thorugh a historical or scientific lens, we might realize that the minotaur is actually ...

• a representation of ancient agricultural practices
• a creature symbolizing eternal life that hates its mother

• an embodiment of divine punishment
• a metaphor for societal isolation within the maze of life

• related to the earthquakes on Crete

Multiple Choice

What are literary lenses and how do they help in analyzing a text?

• They are frameworks for interpreting texts

• They are only used for historical analysis

• They focus solely on psychological themes

• They are not useful for understanding texts

Open Ended

Which lens will you use and which myth will you analyze?