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Name:___________________
Date:___________________
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Ch. 8 Questions
“Four Great Adventures” (pp. 136-145)
Phaёthon
1. Phaёthon goes to the palace of the __________ to find out if the ____________ is his
________________.
2. The _________ says that Clymene, Phaёthon’s _____________, told him the truth.
3. The sun swears by the River Styx to give Phaёthon anything he wants, and Phaёthon asks to
drive the sun’s _______________.
4. The sun cannot refuse because he has sworn by the River Styx but warns Phaёthon that no
_________nor even the __________ of the gods could drive his chariot.
5. The sun says Phaёthon will have to pass fierce beasts of prey, the ____________, the
____________, the _______________, and the great _____________.
6. Phaёthon, however, felt, “not a __________ of fear, not a _______________ of his own powers”
to handle his father’s chariot.
7. Phaёthon had made his choice and “for a few ____________ moments” behind his father’s swift
horses, “he felt himself the _________ _of the _____________.
8. When his father’s _______________ felt the light weight in the cart they knew it was not their
master and could not be ________________.
9. “The horses soared to the very top of the _____________ and then, plunging headlong down,
they set the world on ______________.”
10. “It is said that it was then the _____________ fled and hid its _____________.”
11. Mother ____________ could take no more and called out to _______________ who hurled a
___________ ______________ at the charioteer, striking him dead.
12. The naiads (water spirits) of the river Eridanus wrote on Phaёthon’s headstone”
Here Phaёthon lies who drove the sun god’s car.
Greatly he ____________, but he had greatly ________________.
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Pegasus and Bellerophon
13. More than anything in the world, Bellerophon wanted the winged horse_______________.
14. Athena appeared to him in a dream and gave him a bridle of ____________ which Bellerophon
easily put on ____________ and rode away through the skies.
15. King ______________ first wanted Bellerophon killed because his wife claimed he had wronged
her.
16. Because Zeus was hostile towards those who” broke the bond between ___________ and
______________,” the King of Lycia would not kill Bellerophon either, but instead sent him to
kill the ______________, which was made up of three animals, “_________ in front,
____________ in the middle an ____________ behind.
17. Bellerohpon’s eager ambition lead him to think “thoughts to great for ___________.” He tried
to ride Pegasus up Mt. ______________, but Pegasus knew better and threw his rider, leaving
Bellerophon to wander and die alone.
18. Pegasus found shelter in Olympus and delivered ______________ his ___________________.
Otus and Ephialtes
19. Since they had very young, the brothers Otus and Ephialtes had been intent on proving they
were the gods’ _________________.
20. They first kidnapped ________________ and imprisoned him with chains of brass.
21. Next they tried to pile Mount Pelion on Mount Ossa and “ _____________ the heights of
__________________.”
22. Finally, they pursued the goddess ______________ who disguised herself as a white hind
(rabbit) and caused the two bothers to accidently kill each other with their _____________s,
thereby getting her revenge.
Daedalus
23. Daedalus and his son ___________ were imprisoned in the _________________ that Daedalus
designed to imprison the _________________ in Crete.
24. Daedalus built two pairs of _______________ to escape by air.
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25. Daedalus warned his son to keep to a middle course over the sea, or else the sun would melt
the ______________ and the wings would drop off.
26. The power of the wings went to the boy’s head and he flew too high in spite of his father’s
warnings, and sure enough, the wings came off and he fell into the ____________.
27. King Minos tried to catch the escaped Daedalus by offering a prize to anyone who could thread a
string through a ________________. Daedalus accomplished this by having an _________ pull
the string.
28. But the Sicilian king refused to give Daedalus up and instead, King ____________ was slain.