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(Part 2) Mythology by Edith Hamilton Questions and Answers How does Psyche compare in beauty with her sisters? Psyche looked like a Goddess compared to her sister What plan does Venus have for Psyche? Cupid must make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature Previous Play ...

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(Part 2) Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Questions and Answers
How does Psyche compare in beauty with her sisters? - answer Psyche looked like a
Goddess compared to her sister

What plan does Venus have for Psyche? - answer Cupid must make Psyche fall in
love with the ugliest creature

What happens when Cupid meets Psyche? - answer Cupid falls in love with Psyche
when he meets her and he cannot do what his mother originally wanted
him to do

How does "the mildest of winds" help Psyche? - answer Zephyr the West Wind God
brought her down to a river

When and why does Cupid appear to Psyche? - answer When - Venus sent Cupid

Why - humans stated that Psyche was more beautiful than Venus

How do her sisters create doubts about Psyche's future husband? - answer Her
sisters stated that Psyche never saw her husband and is probably the serpent from
Apollo's oracle

How does this myth end? - answer Psyche wanted to ask Venus for forgiveness.

Venus gave her a bunch of impossible tasks that Psyche completed. One of the tasks
(opened up a box from the Underworld, she was told not to open it, but she did) made
her fall asleep and Cupid woke her up.

Zeus made her immortal. Cupid and Psyche were happy in Olympus.

How does the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe explain the deep red color of the mulberry
bush? - answer Pyramus and Thisbe were forbidden lovers bc of their parents.
They met up at the Tomb of Ninus. Thisbe thought Pyramus was killed by a lioness, so
he killed himself by the snow-white mulberry bush, making it a deep red.
She felt bad and killed herself.

How does the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice explain the sweetness of the nightingale's
song? - answer Orpheus loved to play his lyre that swayed everyone. Orpheus and
Eurydice were married and she died from a viper bite. He went to the underworld,
played his lyre, Hades allowed him to take Eurydice, but could not look behind him (for
she was following). He reached daylight, turned around, but Eurydice was still in the

, cavern. She stayed in the Underworld and he weeped with his lyre. Maenads killed him
and the muses buried him near Mt. Olympus.

How does the myth of Ceyx and Alcyone explain the idea of Halcyon days? - answer
Ceyx - prince of Thessaly; son of Lucifer

Alcyone - daughter of Acolus (King of the Winds)

Ceyx had problems, so he wanted an oracle located overseas. Alcyone said not to go
bc he's bound to die in the dangerous ocean. He died and Alcyone prayed to Juno.
Juno sent her messenger Iris to Somnus (God of Sleep) and sent his shapeshifting son
Morpheus to disguise as Ceyx to tell her that he died.

Soon, dead Ceyx washed up and Alcyone + Ceyx turned into birds that flew overseas.
The oceans were calm for the lovers, until chicks hatched.

How does the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea illustrate the power of love? - answer
Pygmalion loved the Galatea statue, so he prayed to Venus and she came to life

Why does Pygmalion decide to remain a bachelor? - answer Hates women and their
emotions

Under what circumstances does he fall in love? - answer He produced a statue that
was perfect and a work of art

How does Pygmalion act after this? - answer He imagines that the statue is real and
treats her as such, talking to her and dressing her up

Who helps Pygmalion in his desire to have the woman he loves? - answer Venus

How does this story end? - answer During the day of Venus' celebration, Pygmalion
brayed and the stature came to life. They fell in love

How does the myth of Baucis and Philemon illustrate nature as a symbol of eternal
love? - answer Baucis - kind old woman
Philemon - kind old man

Jupiter (Zeus) and Mercury (Hermes) traveled to the low-poverty cottage of the
hospitable couple. They worked hard to provide food, they revealed themselves as
Gods.

The couple received a beautiful home and wished to die together.
They turned into an oak and linden tree from one trunk.

Explain the myth of Endymion. - answer Endymion - shepherd

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