Today’s checklist

1. Today’s checklist • Love myths – sketches • Narcissus • Demeter and Persephone • Review game – mythological characters

2. Pyramus and Thisbe Orpheus and Eurydice Ceyx and Alcyone Pygmalion and Galatea Baucis and Philemon Endymion & Daphne (combined) Sketches Your group (2 or 3) will be assigned a love myth Determine the key details You will enact a love myth One group member may choose to narrate Stories of love and adventure

3. Narcissus • Narcissus myth • What is the explanation provided for echoes in this myth? • “May he who loves not others love himself.” Who undertook to bring about this prayer? • Briefly summarize the reason for the nymphs attributing the name Narcissus to the new and lovely flower that they found when they sought to give Narcissus’ body burial. • Is there a moral to this myth? What would it be, in your own words?

4. Recall the depiction of Persephone in Percy Jackson How does this myth compare to other creation myths that you have studied? Demeter and Persephone

5. Demeter and Persephone • What effect does Demeter's grief have on the earth when she can't find her daughter? • What does Persephone eat while she is at the house of Hades? • Who (and where) does Demeter visit as she seeks her daughter? How does Demeter interact with her hosts? How do they come to recognize her as a goddess? • Give a brief description of the Homeric (Homer’s) view of death and the underworld. To what extent does this view of the afterlife color the Demeter/Persephone myth?

6. Who am I? • Character from mythology steps out of the room • Class must ask “yes” or “no” questions only to determine who the character is • Gods, goddesses, demigods, and mortal characters are all fair game!