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| 7269818675 | Pandora's Box | A box gifted to Pandora from the Gods (mainly Zeus) that contained something so harmful that she was forbade to open it. Curiosity got to her and she opened the box anyways. When opened, out flew plagues innumerable, sorrow, and mischief for mankind, but despite all the bad it also contained hope. To this day hope remains mankind's comfort in misfortune. Mortals learned that it's not possible to get the better of Zeus or ever deceive him | 0 | |
| 7269818676 | Pygmalion & Galatea | Pygmalion was a known women hater and artist. He was working on a new statue, that was of a woman. He found himself falling in love with the statue he had made. For a while he tried to pretend that she was real but he knew deep down she wasn't. That was until Venus (the god of passionate love) caught wind of his predicament and turned his statue into a real woman who Pygmalion later named Galatea. | 1 | |
| 7269818677 | Daphne and the Laurel Wreath | Daphne was another marriage opposed young huntress. One days she was hunting in the woods, when Apollo spotted her and thought she was the most beautiful thing he had seen. He called to her and said he loved her, but she fled through the woods. As she came to her father's river she screamed for his help, as she did that she became rooted into the earth, and slowly changed into a laurel tree. | 2 | |
| 7269818678 | Echo & Narcissus | Echo was a nymph that was "amusing" Juno's husband. She made it so that Echo couldn't speak first but always had the last word. One day Echo fell in love with a youth. He didn't like her back, she was so heartbroken that she withered away. He did this to many nymph's so one day he saw his reflection in a water fountain and fell in love with it, but he was rejected just as he had done with the nymphs, he finally felt the way he had made them feel. | 3 | |
| 7269818679 | Jason and the Golden Fleece | After saving Pelias, Jason demands he gets the throne. Pelias agreed but on one condition, that he take the Golden Fleece back. Jason agreed and set out on his journey. Which consisted of Lemnos, water nymphs, harpies, etc. When they arrived to get the Golden Fleece, Cupid was sent to make the daughter of the king fall in love with Jason. The king agreed to give the fleece if they proved they were worthy. The kings daughter gave Jason an ointment to make him invincible. However, she ran away and went with the ship, she lulled the serpent who guarded the fleece to sleep, they took the fleece and fled. | 4 | |
| 7269818680 | Cupid & Psyche | Psyche is a princess that is so beautiful that the goddess Venus becomes jealous. To get revenge for this, she instructs her son Cupid to make her fall in love with a hideous monster; but instead he falls in love with her himself. He becomes her husband, visiting her only at night so she doesn't see him. Psyche disobeys his orders not to attempt to look at him, and in doing so she loses him. In her search for him she goes through a series of cruel and difficult tasks set by Venus in the hope of winning him back. Cupid can eventually no longer bear to witness her suffering or to be apart from her and pleads their cause to the gods. Psyche becomes an immortal and the lovers are married in heaven. | 5 | |
| 7269818681 | Midas and the Golden Touch | A man who had no riches, was granted one wish. He wished that everything he touched turned to gold. | 6 | |
| 7269818682 | Arachne & Athena | Both entered into a weaving contest, however it ended in a tie. Athena was furious so she cut Arachne's work and beat her. Arachne then hung herself, making Athena feel terrible, she then turned Arachne into a spider. | 7 | |
| 7269818683 | Orpheus & Eurydice | Orpheus was a good musician. After their wedding Eurydice was stung by a viper and died. Orpheus then went down to the underworld and played his music to get by the beasts. Hades was moved by his music so he agreed to let Orpheus go as long as he didn't look back when taking her out. Of course he didn't but when he got out of the underworld and did she had disappeared. | 8 | |
| 7269818684 | Paris and the Golden Apple | The goddess of discord was mad because she felt as though she was always left out, because of this she decided to start trouble at a wedding. She threw an apples marked "For the Fairest" Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all wanted it. Zeus refused to judge who was the fairest so he told them to go to Mount Ida and ask the young Trojan prince, Paris, they each tried to bribe him: Hera offered power, Athena offered victory, and Aphrodite offered the most beautiful woman. Paris chose the woman, Aphrodite lead him to Helen, who was married to Menelaus; they fell in love and escaped back to Troy. | 9 | |
| 7269818685 | Perseus & Medusa | Medusa was a gorgon (1 of 3, wings, snake hair, can't be looked in the eyes); Perseus wanted to give her head as a wedding present; Hermes and Athena helped him by giving him a sword and a mirror. | 10 | |
| 7269818686 | Leda and the Swan | Zeus raped human woman in form of a swan. It happened to the Wife of king of Sparta (Leda). She gave birth to two sets of twins (mortal of her husband Castor and Clytemnestra and of Zeus -Helen (ofTroy) and Pollox) | 11 | |
| 7269818687 | Twelve Labors of Hercules | The goddess Hera, determined to make trouble for Hercules, so she made him lose his mind. In a confused and angry state, he killed his own wife and children.When he awakened from his "temporary insanity," Hercules was shocked and upset by what he'd done. He prayed to the god Apollo for guidance, and the god's oracle told him he would have to serve Eurystheus, the king of Tiryns and Mycenae, for twelve years, in punishment for the murders. As part of his sentence, Hercules had to perform twelve Labors, feats so difficult that they seemed impossible. Fortunately, Hercules had the help of Hermes and Athena, sympathetic deities who showed up when he really needed help. By the end of these Labors, Hercules was, without a doubt, Greece's greatest hero. | 12 | |
| 7269818688 | Odysseus & the Trojan Horse | Meaning "man of wrath" according to Homer, or more likely, from Greek "a guide; the one showing the way"), known as Ulysses in Roman mythology. Known for his guile and resourcefulness, he is the hero of Homer's Odyssey, and a major character in the Iliad. Odysseus was the king of Ithaca, favorite of Athena. Odysseus earns this title by, among other things, masterminding the Trojan Horse. He is most famous for the ten years it took him to return home from the war, which is described in the Odyssey. | 13 | |
| 7269818689 | Odysseus & the Cyclops | Odysseus arrives at the land of the cyclops where they come upon a cave of sheep and milk. They devise a plan to get some but are captured and end up blinding Polyphemus (the cyclopes) before they escape while Polyphemus curses them | 14 | |
| 7269818690 | Odysseus & the Sirens | Odysseus plans to have his men plug their ears as the pass the sirens who promise him immortal knowledge, they escape and he is the first to live. | 15 | |
| 7269818691 | Odysseus & Scylla | After they escaped the sirens, they had to travel through a narrow channel. On one side scylla who snatches six sailers once they pass and are distracted by Charybdis | 16 | |
| 7269818692 | Odysseus & Charybdis | Opposite side of the channel from scylla. His raft was sucked into Charybdis's maw, but he survived by clinging to a fig tree. | 17 | |
| 7269818693 | Odysseus & The Suitors | Penelope will marry whoever can shoot a line through 12 axes. All of the suitors fail but Odysseus. | 18 | |
| 7269818694 | Odysseus & Penelope | Penelope was the wife of the hero Odysseus. She was the daughter of Icarius and Periboea. | 19 | |
| 7269818695 | Phaeton and the Sun Chariot | Phaethon went to Helios, where Helios confirmed that he was his sun and said he could have anything but a ride on the sun chariot. He faced all beasts and the serpent snapped chariot from horses and the chariot came too close to the earth; Zeus killed Phaethon with thunderbolt. | 20 | |
| 7269818696 | Daedelus & Icarus | Daedalus was an inventor (the Great Artificer) who killed a rival in jealousy and fled to Crete where King Minos gave him refuge and put him to work. The king's wife loved a gorgeous bull which had been given to Minos by Poseidon. She had Daedalus make her a wooden cow in which she hid herself in order to mate with the bull. She conceived and birthed a Minotaur. The furious Minos ordered the Minotaur imprisoned in a labyrinth, which he commissioned Daedalus to design. Daedalus and his son, Icarus, were also imprisoned in the Labyrinth, to get out they built wings from wax and feathers. On their escape, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high because the sun would melt the wax; but Icarus ignored his father, his wings melted, and he fell to his watery death. Daedalus escaped safely. | 21 | |
| 7269818697 | Minotaur and the Labyrinth | The Minotaur dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. | 22 | |
| 7269818698 | Helen of Troy Dido | Created the city of Carthage in North Africa after pretending to throw away a fortune in the river to keep her brother Pygmalion from stealing it | 23 | |
| 7269818699 | Achilles | Born of mortal and Zeus; mother dipped him in the river Styx to give him immortality but neglected to include the heel she held him by. Eventually, during the Trojan War, he was shot in that spot and killed. An Achilles heel is the one vulnerable spot in an otherwise invulnerable thing or person. | 24 | |
| 7269818700 | Adonis | A mortal youth who was loved by Aphrodite for his great beauty and later killed by a wild boar. | 25 | |
| 7269818701 | Aphrodite | The goddess of Love and Beauty who sprung from sea foam | 26 | |
| 7269818702 | Athena | Goddess of wisdom and warfare.. Her symbol is the owl. She was a great weaver and spinner; in charge of arts and crafts. | 27 | |
| 7269818703 | Atlas | A titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders | 28 | |
| 7269818704 | Dionysus | God of wine and revelry. Wild feasts were held in his honor, which usually turned into drunken orgies, since that was what he was in charge of. | 29 | |
| 7269818705 | Cassandra | A prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed. Daughter of Priam and Hecuba. given predictions by Apollo, punished by him because she rejected him. | 30 | |
| 7269818706 | Cerberus | A three-headed watchdog who guards the entrance to Hades. | 31 | |
| 7269818707 | Charon | The ferryman that demands payment from the dead to go over the river Acheron and styx to underworld | 32 | |
| 7269818708 | Oracle at Delphi | Delphi was an important ancient Greek religious sanctuary sacred to the god Apollo. Located on Mt. Parnassus near the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary was home to the famous oracle of Apollo which gave cryptic predictions and guidance to both city-states and individuals | 33 | |
| 7269818709 | Diogenes | Wanted to live a simple life and declared he was a citizen of the world and looked for an honest man while holding a lamp in the middle of the day. Died and wanted animals to eat his body. | 34 | |
| 7269818710 | Helen of Troy | She had many suitors and chose Menelaus. Fled with Paris, who died, and then married his brother. She got back with Menelaus and lived together in Sparta until they died. | 35 | |
| 7269818711 | Medusa | She was a very vein and beautiful woman transformed into a mortal gorgon by Athena. | 36 | |
| 7269818712 | Hera | Wife of Zeus, who hated Zeus's son Hercules and sent snakes to attack him when he was an infant. | 37 | |
| 7269818713 | Zeus | King of the gods, Zeus was allotted the dominion of the sky, having waged war against Cronos and the titans. Zeus got the thunderbolt, his ultimate weapon, from the cyclopes, and an eagle brings back the thunderbolts which he has flung. Zeus is married to his sister, Hera. | 38 | |
| 7269818714 | Artemis/Diana | Sister of Apollo; drives a chariot that carries the moon; goddess of the hunt and patron of virgins. Seen as a huntress. | 39 | |
| 7269818715 | The Creation (Genesis 1) | God created the Earth in six days He rested on the seventh day.... Therefore, we should keep the Sabbath (Sunday) holy Creation shows us how God is good and made all of us in his own image and likeness He loves all of us equally because he made us all. | 40 | |
| 7269818716 | Adam & Eve | The first man and woman; created from a rib taken from him. Lived in Garden of Eden. god told them not to eat from a tree but they did and got banished. Eve had to experiance child birth, and adam had to work in the fields. | 41 | |
| 7269818717 | Garden of Eden | In the middle of a luscious garden was a tree of knowledge which contained fruit; God warned against eating the fruit, but the serpent who lived in the tree convinced Eve to take a bite. | 42 | |
| 7269818718 | The Fall (Genesis 3) | The event in which Adam and Eve disobeyed God and thus brought evil into the world. | 43 | |
| 7269818719 | The Flood (Genesis 6) | Sent by God to devastate the Earth as a punishment for wickedness. God sent rain upon Earth for 40 days and nights, destroying everything he had created. Only Noah, his family, and a pair of every living creature, contained in the floating ark, were able to survive. | 44 | |
| 7269818720 | The Mark of Cain (Genesis 4-6) | When God declared that Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, be cursed for murdering his brother Abel. A mark was put upon him to warn others that killing Cain would provoke the vengeance of God, that if someone did something to harm Cain, the damage would come back sevenfold. | 45 | |
| 7269818721 | God's test of Abraham | Abraham is supposed to sacrifice son and goes to the land of Moriah to do it where he builds an altar and sacrifices a ram instead. | 46 | |
| 7269818722 | The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9) | A tower built by Noah's descendants who intended it to reach up to heaven. | 47 | |
| 7269818723 | Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18) | Sodom and Gomorrah were cities that God destroyed because their people were so sinful. Now any place that is very wicked is a Sodom and Gomorrah. | 48 | |
| 7269818724 | Lot and his wife (Genesis 19) | Described as a prophet, righteous man, inhabitant of the city of Sodom, and, according to tradition, a nephew of Abraham. Lot was sent as a prophet to Sodom and Gomorrah to warn of punishment for their sins. When Sodom was destroyed for its wickedness, exemplified by sexual perversity, Lot and his family alone were saved, except for his wife, who lagged behind. | 49 | |
| 7269818725 | Moses | At God's request, Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt and guided them through the desert to the edge of Canaan. Moses also led his people to a sacred mountain where God appeared in lightning and thunder. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and Moses established Israel's laws. | 50 | |
| 7269818726 | The Passover | A Jewish festival celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt | 51 | |
| 7269818727 | The burning bush | Angel appears to Moses in form of a burning bush. God says Moses must lead his people out of Egypt. Bush doesn't actually burn. Gets staff to part Red Sea. | 52 | |
| 7269818728 | The journey through the Red Sea | Moses uses his staff and God parts the sea allowing him and his followers to walk across the floor. They were followed by an army and he used the staff to tell god to unapt the sea killing the Egyptian army | 53 | |
| 7269818729 | The plagues of Egypt | Yahweh inflicted 10 different plagues on Egypt to get Pharaoh to release the Israelites: 1). water into blood (river), 2) Frogs, 3) Lice, 4) Wild Animals, 5) Diseased Livestock, 6) Boils, 7) Thunderstorms of Hail, 8) Locusts, 9) Darkness for 3 Days, 10) Death of a Firstborn. | 54 | |
| 7269818730 | The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20: 1-17) | 1) you shall have no other gods before me. 2) you shall not make for yourself an idol. 3) you shall not make wrongful use of the name of your god. 4) Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. 5) Honor your father and mother. 6) You shall not kill. 7) You shall not commit adultery. 8) You shall not steal. 9) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 10) You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. To govern life. | 55 | |
| 7269818731 | David and Goliath (I Samuel 17) | When Goliath, the great Philistine warrior, challenged the Israelites to combat, young David accepted the challenge and defeated Goliath with a single blow, a stone from his sling. Now anyone who wins against great odds is considered a David going against a Goliath. | 56 | |
| 7269818732 | Job | God and Satan test Job who they think only praises god because he benefits, but he does not curse god and He gets health, property, children, and a long life. He is tested with boils, death of children, death of sheep. | 57 | |
| 7269818733 | Ruth | The story of Ruth, a widow who remarried and became an ancestor of King David, showed how god worked behind the scenes in everyday events. | 58 | |
| 7269818734 | The Wisdom of Solomon | God promised to give Solomon anything asked, he chose wisdom. Solomon's wisdom is when he settled dispute over a baby between two women, one was the mom and the other who stole baby afters hers is killed my the mom rolling on top of her sleeping baby | 59 | |
| 7269818735 | Song of Solomon | Song of songs every Friday and Ashkenazim chant it on Sunday during Passover which marks the start of the grain harvest and remember Exodus. | 60 | |
| 7269818736 | The Nativity (Matthew 1, Luke 2) | Mary, a virgin, was told to marry Joseph. An angel appeared to her and told her that she would conceive a son by the power of the Holy Spirit. He was to be named Jesus. Joseph distrusted this, so God sent an angel to him in a dream. They were forced to travel to Bethlehem, Joseph's hometown, to fulfill a census. Mary gave birth to Jesus in a crude stable, because they couldn't find anywhere else to go. An angel appeared to shepherds, who then traveled to the stable to see Jesus. 3 wise men saw a star and followed it to the stable because they knew it signified the birth of the king of the Jews. They brought Jesus gifts. | 61 | |
| 7269818737 | The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) | Jesus' teachings about the meaning and path to true happiness; descriptions of the way to attain eternal blessedness, or holiness, to which God calls all of us | 62 | |
| 7269818738 | The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7:27, Luke 6:17-49) | The sermon given by Jesus in which he expresses the essence of his teaching. Begins with the beatitudes, which promise happiness for those who lack material goods and are in need of the spiritual blessings of God. | 63 | |
| 7269818739 | The Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32) | In one of Jesus' parables, this is the younger son who wastes his "portion," or his inheritance. His father forgives him and celebrates his homecoming over his older brothers' protests. | 64 | |
| 7269818740 | Lazarus ( John 11:1-12) | He is the brother of Martha and Mary of Bethany, whom Jesus raised from the dead after four days, prefiguring the resurrection. He is symbolic of one who lives after declared death (Sisyphus). | 65 | |
| 7269818741 | The Last Supper (Mark 14, John 13) | Jesus calls a dinner with his disciples before going to be crucified. Instituted communion where bread and wine become the body and blood of christ. By consuming, followers accept him as their savior. | 66 | |
| 7269818742 | The Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26) | This is the garden outside Jerusalem where the agony and betrayal of Jesus took place. Symbolically, a place of great physical or psychological suffering. When Judas betrayed Jesus Christ for a numbered amount of coined cash, he gave him a kiss at the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper. This act led directly to the arrest of Jesus. | 67 | |
| 7269818743 | The Betrayal (Matthew 25,26) | The chief priests go to Judas and pay him 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus After the supper, they go to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Jesus is angered when he comes and finds Peter, James, and John sleeping. Judas comes and kisses Jesus. This signals the chief priests that it is time to arrest Jesus. On the morning of Jesus' crucifixion, Judas is unable to forgive himself, so he hangs himself | 68 | |
| 7269818744 | The Denial (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, John 18) | In the courtyard, Peter denies knowing Jesus 3 times. After the third time, the cock crows. Peter quickly realizes that this is what Jesus had predicted at the supper | 69 | |
| 7269818745 | 30 pieces of silver (Matthew 26:33, Mark 15:22, John 19:17) | Priests gave Judas 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus. Judas kissed him on the cheek to get him arrested. Then the people wanted him to get crucified. After Judas tried to return the money but couldn't. Threw it nto the sanctuary, the Holy of Holies. Then promptly hung self. Bought a field in which to bury foreigners— Potters Field or Field of Blood with the silver. | 70 | |
| 7269818746 | The Crucifixion (Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 19) | Jesus was arrested and given to Pontius Pilate to be sentenced. He couldn't decide and let the people decide. They chose to have him crucified with a sign over his head that said, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews". He died after the ninth hour and was put in a tomb. Three days later on Easter Sabbath, he rose. Angel told Mary Magdalene of this great miracle and she told the other followers. | 71 | |
| 7269818747 | Pontius Pilate | Governor of Judea under Tiberius Caesar from 26-36 CE; enmity existed between him and Herod Antipas, rule of Galilee; the case of Jesus was brought before him for review; he asked Jesus if he was King of the Jews to which Jesus responded that His kingdom was not of this world; Pilate was skeptical of the charges but Caiaphas, high priest of Sanhedrin, demanded that Pilate take action; only Pilate could impose the death penalty on Jesus; his skepticism about the political charge was neatly turned into a threat to his own status as "Caesar's friend"; he offered the crowds Barrabas instead of Jesus as the prisoner to set free for the holiday, but the crowds demanded Jesus' life; Pilate washed his hands before the crowd to make clear where the moral onus lay; he was maneuvered against his better judgment into authorizing what the Jewish authorities ad planned; ironically retaliated against the Jewish authorities by identifying Jesus on the cross as "king of the Jews". | 72 | |
| 7269818748 | Peter | Apostle of Jesus and servant of him and got his feet washed by Jesus | 73 | |
| 7269818749 | Barabbas | Man the people chose to let go during passover instead of jesus which led to the the crucifixion of Jesus because that's what the people wanted | 74 | |
| 7269818750 | Judas | Judas betrays Jesus for money and leads chief priests to Jesus. Leads to crucifixion of of Jesus | 75 | |
| 7269818751 | Mary Magdalene | It is assumed that Jesus removed her demons, healing her. She became a dedicated disciple and may have even had a relationship with him. Witnessed crucifixion, then 3 days later went found that Jesus had already ben resurrected | 76 | |
| 7269818752 | The Resurrection (Luke 24, John 20, 21) | Jesus is crucified and then goes to die in a cave. 3 days later his disciples go to find him and find that he is not in there. He is resurrected. | 77 | |
| 7269818753 | The Holy Spirit (Acts 1,2) | Gifts of Holy Spirit used to build up church and make it whole. Purpose to build body of Christ, to encourage, to comfort, to praise God, to build self up, to win people for Christ | 78 | |
| 7269818754 | Armageddon | Armageddon is where a battle takes place between the forces of good and evil, ending the world. An Armageddon now is any fierce confrontation resulting in mutual destruction. | 79 | |
| 7269818755 | The Beast | Beast rose up out of sea with seven heads and ten horns with ten crowns and blasphemy on heads. Other beast looked like a seaport with bear feet and a lion's mouth. Christ defeats the beasts and throws them into the lake of fire. | 80 | |
| 7269818756 | The Second Coming | A falcon gets lost and a people are violent. Thinks Jesus will come gain and imagines a sphinx is coming to fulfill the prophecy. The beast is on its way to Bethlehem | 81 |
