mythology

• -god of beauty and desire
• -fought between aphrodite and persephone 
• -1/3 year with each, 1/3 with aphrodite

-someone described as adonis is someone who's attractive & youthful

• -greek hero who is abandoned by grandpa b/c he is destined to kill him
• -kills medusa
• -accidentally kills grandfather

• -aphrodite hates psyche b/c she's so beautiful
• -sends cupid to kill her but he falls in love
• -psyche's jealous sisters try to get her to kill cupid
• -cupid escapes 
• -sisters try to jump off cliff but die
• -aphrodite makes psyche do many missions but gods help her
• -finally reunited with cupid

• -eurydice is killed at wedding by vipers
• -orpheus plays sad songs that stir hades and persephone
• -they allow eurydice to live once more if he walked in front of her without looking back
• -he looks back and eurydice disappears

• -arachne boasts her weaving is better than athena's
• -they compete & arachne's weaving insults the gods & was more beautiful
• -athena ripped arachne's work and turned her into a spider

• -sisyphus betrayed zeus
• -zeus orders Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in tartaurus
• -Sisyphus tricks Thanatos and traps him
• -Ares frees Thanatos and he punishes Sisyphus by making him endlessly roll boulder up a hill

• -Dido, queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, Trojan hero, fall in love
• -King Iarbas complains to Jupiter for her rejection
• -Mercury sends Aeneas away 
• -Dido curses him, proclaims hate between Carthage and Troy, and kills herself

• -Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena fight over golden apple b/c the apple is for the fairest one
• -Paris, king of Troy, is judge
• -Aphrodite offers him world's most beautiful woman, Helen  -> Trojan War

• -Hades steals Persephone
• -Demeter won't allow harvest
• -Persephone eats pomegranate seeds so she must spend 1/3 of each year in underworld

• -Daedalus & Icarus fly to escape tower
• -Icarus flies too high & sun melts wax, causing him to drown

• -Promestheus is chained to boulder where eagle eats his liver everyday
• -Io tells him how she turned into a cow to avoid Hera's punishment
• -Promestheus promises she will become a human again and mother to heroes 
• -> Hercules releases Promestheus

• -Echo distracted Hera while Zeus played with nymphs
• -Hera forces her to repeat other words
• -Echo falls in love with Narcissus but he only loves himself

• -Pygmalion carved Galatea & fell in love with it
• -Aphrodite turns Galatea to human

-Pygmalion Effect is prophesy where if you think something will happen, you unconsciously make it happen

Having a Midas Touch means to be successful or rich

• -Theseus overcame obstacles during travel to see father, King Aegeus
• -killed Minotaur in labyrinth & left Anadne on island
• -accidentally forgot to put up white sails -> father kills himself

-12 labours

• -when agammemnon was away, his wife Clytemnestra had affair with aegisthus
• -they kill agamenon
• -orestes hides with electra's help
• -orestes dilemma: whether to kill mother
• -kills her & followed by furies, goddesses of revenge

• -helped Jason get Golden Fleece & willingly killed brother
• -married and had many children but he left her for glauce
• -she killed Glauce and her children

• -hero fell in love with leander & swam acroos Hellespont every night to see her
• -leander drowns in storm
• -hero kills herself