Study Information for Mythology Test

English 9,H

Test on 10-13

Test Format

I. Matching

II. Fill in the blank from a word bank (but there will be more words than you need and you may use words more than once.

III. Two Paragraphs on Allusions

Know about these characters from mythology

* in more detail

Introduction to Mythology What was the purpose of mythology?, What is the Greek Miracle?, Who were the major Greek and Roman writers of mythology?

*Creation of World

Chaos, Light, Love, Uranus, Gaea, Titans, Cronus, Rhea, Cyclops, Prometheus, Cyclops, how man was created

*12 Original Olympians (know how to spell them and their Greek and Roman names, birth & parents, powers/responsibilities, personality, story)

*Dionysus and Demeter (same as above)

Other Gods

Muses

Fates

Eros/Cupid

Persephone

Pan

Water gods- Ocean, Nereus

Underworld- Tartarus, Erebus, Charon, Cerberus, Erinyes (Furies)

Earth gods- Pan, Silenus, satyrs, Castor & Pollux, Chiron & centaurs, Gorgons, Sirens

Heroes- *Hercules, *Perseus, Theseus, *Daedelus, Phaethon, Bellerophon, Atalanta, Otus & Ephialtes

Love Stories- *Pyramus and Thisbe, Philomen and Baucis, Daphne, Galatea and Pygmalion, Alpheus & Arethusa, Endymion, Orpheus and Eurydice, Ceyx & Alcyone