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Struggling - Complete the following chart for the myths of Echo & Narcissus and Demeter & Persephone

Greek Name Character Cursed by whom and why? What happens following the curse? Echo Mountain Nymph Hera cursed Echo for her incessant chatter in stalling for Zeus 1. She can only repeat what Echo tried to fool the gods others have spoken 2. She falls in love with Narcissus but he rejects her 3. She pines (heartbroken) away for Narcissus in the caves until there is nothing left of her but her voice

Narcissus a Greek youth Aphrodite felt sorry for Echo and made him only love himself 1. He will see his image in the and feel unrequited love (love that is not returned in kind) pool of water and fall in love He saw his image in the pool of water and fell in love with it. 2. He slowly fades away and dies 3. The narcissus flower grows where he died.

Persephone daughter of Demeter; immortal Hades abducted (kidnapped) her and made her go to the 1. She is taken to the Underworld to be his bride Underworld and is sad 2. She becomes the wife of She ate the fruit (pomegranate) of the Underworld and could Hades but depressed and not leave completely (4 months – 4 seeds) misses her mother 3. Zeus intervenes and allows her to come to Earth 4. She will be able to ascend (go) to Earth but only for 8 months of the year. Hades Aphrodite has Eros shoot him with a love arrow to show him 1. He sees Persephone and God of the Underworld what it was like to love falls instantly in love 2. He takes her to his home in the Underworld upsetting Demeter. 3. Demeter causes all things to die; she thinks the Earth took her daughter 4. Zeus intervenes and forces Hades to give Persephone back for 8 months of the year.

Arachne A Greek mortal girl Athena cursed her and changed her into a spider 1. Following Arachne’s insults Athena was angry when Arachne not only challenged her to a of the gods and her challenge contest but made fun of the gods in her tapestry to Athena; the goddess Athena slapped her In the face 2. Hurt and embarrassed, Arachne tried to hang herself with a rope; Athena took the rope and made it a spider’s web with Arachne as a spider 3. Arachne and all of her offspring will become the spiders weaving their webs

Identify key vocabulary words:

1. detain – verb - to hold back Echo was asked to detain Hera, so Hera’s husband, Zeus, could wander about.

2. pine – verb – to long for; love painfully; hurt Quietly and painlessly, Echo pined away and died.

3. vainly – adverb – without hope or satisfaction Echo tried vainly to attract the young man’s attention.

4. quiver – noun a pouch to hold arrows He chose from his quiver his sharpest and truest arrow, 5. girdle – noun a belt her loosened girdle fell to the ground

6. trident – noun three point spear He struck the bank with his trident.

7. pomegranate – noun a red many seeded fruit; fruit of the Underworld For she had accepted a pomegranate from Hades and had sucked the pulp from four of the seeds.

8. loom – noun a structure used for weaving … soft thread and to weave it into cloth on the high-standing loom.

9. indignantly – adverb with restrained anger …she would stop her work and turn around indignantly to say, “With my own ten fingers, I gained this skill.

10. obstinacy - noun stubbornness Before the group that was gathered there she would not give in; so pressing her pale lips together in obstinacy and pride,