Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths

Introduction-Part 1, Chapters 1-6

Reading Check

1. Cronos and Rhea (Part 1, Chapter 1)

2. Math/numbers (Part 1, Chapter 3)

3. Styx (Part 1, Chapter 5)

Short Answer

1. He makes her promise to never rebel against him again. (Part 1, Chapter 2)

2. They are afraid of him and pray to Athena for deliverance. (Part 1, Chapter 4)

3. Demeter turns him into a lizard, and he is eaten by a hawk. (Part 1, Chapter 6)

Part 1, Chapters 7-13

Reading Check

1. Her silver bow and arrows (Part 1, Chapter 8)

2. A white crow (Part 1, Chapter 10)

3. Zeus and Maia (Part 1, Chapter 11)

Short Answer

1. Leto will become pregnant but be unable to give birth anywhere where the sun shines. (Part 1, Chapter 7)

2. He was impulsive, wild, and sometimes cruel. (Part 1, Chapter 9)

3. After Cronos killed his father, Ouranos, he threw his father’s dismembered body into the sea. Aphrodite rose up from the foam. (Part 1, Chapter 13)

Part 2, Chapters 1-4

Reading Check

1. Fire (Part 2, Chapter 1)

2. Aphrodite (Part 2, Chapter 2)

3. Eurydice (Part 2, Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. He chains Prometheus to a mountain and sends vultures to tear out his liver over and over. (Part 2, Chapter 1)

2. Pandora manages to shut the box before the creature “Foreboding” can escape. This prevents humans from gaining the knowledge of all of the bad things that will happen to them. (Part 2, Chapter 2)

3. He asks to be allowed to drive Apollo’s chariot across the sky. (Part 2, Chapter 3)

Part 2, Chapters 5-7

Reading Check

1. A dryad (Part 2, Chapter 5)

2. Her sisters (Part 2, Chapter 6)

3. Dolphins (Part 2, Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. Because Echo lies to Hera about Zeus’s whereabouts, Hera curses Echo to lose her voice for any speech except repeating the words of others. (Part 2, Chapter 5)

2. Aphrodite, angry over Psyche’s beauty, sends Eros to make Psyche fall in love with someone inappropriate. But Eros accidentally wounds himself with his own arrow, causing him to fall in love with Psyche himself. (Part 2, Chapter 6)

3. An oracle prophesied that Arion would not return home from any trip he took onboard a ship. (Part 2, Chapter 7)

Part 3

Reading Check

1. Medusa (Part 3, Chapter 1)

2. Icarus (Part 3, Chapter 2)

3. Poseidon (Part 3, Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. The Gray sisters share a single eye and a single tooth between them. As they are passing these back and forth, Perseus takes the eye and the tooth and refuses to give them back until the sisters agree to help him. (Part 3, Chapter 1)

2. Pasiphae boasts that she is more beautiful than Aphrodite. To punish Pasiphae, Aphrodite sends a white bull to Minos’s palace. Pasiphae falls in love with the bull and has a child with it—the Minotaur—which results in Minos imprisoning Pasiphae, Daedalus, and the Minotaur in a maze. (Part 3, Chapter 2)

3. She agrees to marry anyone who can beat her in a footrace. But she stipulates that anyone who loses to her will be executed. (Part 3, Chapter 4)

Part 4

Reading Check

1. Turns them into donkey ears (Part 4, Chapter 1)

2. Aphrodite (Part 4, Chapter 2)

3. Galatea (Part 4, Chapter 2)

Short Answer

1. Apollo grants Midas’s wish that everything he touches will turn to gold. (Part 4, Chapter 1)

2. Midas feels real despair when he realizes that he cannot eat or drink because everything turns into gold before he can consume it. (Part 4, Chapter 1)

3. He creates a hundred miniature clay statues of Aphrodite. (Part 4, Chapter 2)