• Powell, Chapter 8:
• Key Names & Terms: Hestia, Aphrodite, Cypris, Hermaphroditus, Priapus, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Anchises, Artemis, Potnia Theron, Niobe, Orion, Actaeon, Athena, Arachne
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here
• Powell, Chapter 9:
• Key Names & Terms: Demeter, Persephone, Kore, Eleusinian Mysteries, Inanna, Dumuzi, Isis, Osiris, Cybele, Attis, Agdestis, Adonis
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here
• Leonard, Chapter 2: Key Names & Terms
• The Fire Goddess (Hawaiian): Pe-le, Lo-hi-au, Ho-po-e, Hi-i-aka
  
• White Buffalo Calf Woman (Brule Siouz): Standing Horn, Ptesan-wi, White Buffalo Calf Woman
  
• The Courtship of Inanna & Dumuzi (Sumerian): Inanna, Dumuzi, Nishubur
  
• A Taste of Earth (Vietnamese): Au Co, Dragon Prince (Lac Dragon)
  
• Kali Beheaded (Hindu): Kali
• Callisto & Arcas (Greek): Callisto, Arcas, Zeus, Hera, Artemis, the big dipper, the little dipper
  

Heroic Myths:

• Intro & Gilgamesh:Powell, Chapter 12:
• Key Names & Terms: hero, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Utnapishtim, Ishtar, Siduri
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here

• Perseus: Powell, Chapter 13:
• Key Names & Terms: Acrisius, Danae, Perseus, Polydectes, Gorgons, Medusa, Andromeda
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here

• Heracles:Powell, Chapter 14:
• Key Names & Terms: Heracles, Alcmena, Eurystheus, Amphitryon, Megara, Nemean lion, Hydra, Ceryneian deer, Erymanthian boar, Chiron, Augeas, Cretan bull, horses of Diomedes, Admetus, Alcestis, Hippolyta, Geryon, apples of the Hesperides, Antaeus, Cerberus, Omphale, Deianira, Nessus,
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here
• Hercules, the movie:
  
• key names & terms: Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Hades, Pain, Panic, the fates, Hercules, Alcmene, Amphitryon, Phil, Pegasus, Meg, the titans, the cyclops, Thebes, "go the distance", "true hero"
  

• Theseus: Powell, Chapter 15-16:
• Key Names & Terms: Aegeus, Theseus, Procrustes, Medea, Minos, Minotaur, Ariadne, Hippolytus, Phaedra, Pirithoüs, Centaurs,
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here (Ch15); and here (Ch 16)
  

• Jason: Powell, Chapter 18:
• Key Names & Terms: Pelias, Jason, Chiron, Argo, Lemnos, Phineus, Aeëtes, Medea, Apsyrtus, Creon
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here

• Short Essay Questions: (150-200 words long)
• Using the blueprint for the traits of a hero that Powell gives in his chapter on Gilgamesh, determine how well 1 of these Greek heroes (Perseus, Theseus, Jason) fit that blueprint. Address at some point the implications of your results.

• Long Essay Questions: (300-400 words long)
• For 2 stories of female deities given in Leonard's chapter "The Female Divine", compare and contrast the roles of women in the stories along with giving the implications of your results.
• It seems clear that Disney altered the myth of Heracles (as given in Powell) in the making of the movie Hercules in order to make the movie "kid friendly". Discuss how it did this and to what extent it succeeded.