Myths for Quiz

Apollo and Daphne

• Cupid shot Apollo, (sun god) with a gold tipped arrow to make him fall in love with the first person he would see
• Cupid shot Daphne (daughter of a river god) with a lead tipped arrow to make her flee from the first person she saw
• Apollo sees Daphne, falls in love, and persues her
• Daphne fleeing and needing help, pleas to her father to help her and save her from Apollo
• Daphne is turned into a laurel tree and Apollo, upon seeing this, makes the laurel tree his symbol and his tree

Io 

• Jove sees Io and tries to seduce her without Juno's knowledge 
• He covers the land with clouds and when Juno finds out, he disguise Io as a beautiful cow and gives her to Juno
• Juno has her watched by the 100 eyed monster named Argus,
• Mercury is sent to fetch Io and slay the monster
• He tells a story to the monster to get him to fall asleep
• Pipes of Pan
• Mercury slays the monster 
• Io lives as a cow, sees her father and he does not recognize her
• She writes her name in the dirt to show who she is
• She is eventually turned into a human again 

Europa 

• was seduced by Zeus, as a white bull, 

Semele 

• another of Zeus' love interests, 
• Juno found out about the affair and told Semele to ask Zeus if she could see him in his turn form 
• She asked Zeus for a favor and he said of course (gods can not go back on their word) 
• She saw him in his turn form, she exploded, while a child was inside her, 
• Zeus put the child in his thigh and was born from it
• the child was Dionysus 
• Dithyromb - ancient Greek humn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus
• meaning - he of the double doors ( divine birth and human birth)

Callisto 

• Was seduced by Jove when he turned himself into a woman
• He kissed her, disguised as Diana 
• She was a nymph of Diana and banished when she become pregnant
• Gives birth to Arcas 
• Juno takes her revenge and turns her into a bear 
• Arcas tries to kill his mother as a bear while he is hunting 
• Callisto is in the form of Ursa Major 
• Arcas is in the form of Ursa Minor 

Actaeon

• Was a hunter who was the grandson of Cadmus 
• He stumbled upon Diana bathing with her nymphs 
• She caught him and turned him into a stag, and sent his hunting dogs after him and they ripped him to pieces 

Narcissus

• Blind prophet, Tiresias, prophosized that it is important that he does not know himself or else he will fall in love with himself 
• Nemesis leads him to a pool of water and there, he falls in love with himself  
• He stays there for his entire life, never leaving, trying to grasp at his reflection 
• Turns into a daffodil 

Tiresias

Pentheus 

Orpheus 

Myrrha 

Pygmylion 

Cadmus