Greek Mythology Help?

Pandora's Box





Demeter and Persephone





Narcissus and Echo





Theseus and the Minotaur





Pyramus and Thisbe





Questions that need to be answered about each myth.


1) What natural phenomenon if any, does this myth explain?


2) What morals or social values does this myth teach?


3) What category does this myth fit into and why?





I really need help with these questions for my homework, I've searched them on the internet but I can't make sense on what the websites are saying. Please don't copy and paste the websites.

Greek Mythology Help?
So you are getting info for your homework on the internet. Normally, I would say no and walk away, but I just completed a mythology research paper and I'm in a good mood.


I have never read Narcissus sorry!


Pandora's Box:


1) This myth talks about how evil came into this world, and it all came in by curiosity.


2) This myth teaches you to keep your hands to yourself, like the expression "Curiosity killed the cat"


3) It fits into creation myths because it shows you how all the evil came.





Demeter %26amp; Persephone:


1) In a sense, this myth could explain love.


2) It shows you to be more careful.


3) This myth fits into the category of seasons, and fertility





I can't recall the Theseus myth, perhaps I am confusing myself with one the Labors of Hercules with the Minotaur, where he threw it to Athenes, where I beleive it became Theseus' problem.





Pyramus %26amp; Thisbe:


1) This myth explains that nothing should keep you away from your love, even if it means death.


2) True love beats parental control.


3) It too is a love myth, and in a way a death myth. Not only that, but a creation myth, from when their blood hits the mulberry tree and the color turns from white to dark purple.





I hope this helps a bit.


Got to do math Homework now!


%26lt;333 Sara
Reply:I've alway though Demeter and Persephone explained summer and winter. Winter is the length it is because of the amount of pomegranate seeds Persephone ate (and the length of time she has to stay in the underworld) and summer is when Demeter gets to be with her daughter.
Reply:Pandoras box explains that temptation is hard to resist and that curiousity hurt the cat not killed.


Demeter and Phersephone shows that you always listen toi your mother no matter if the president offers you something to eat.


Niccaruses and Echo shows what jelouse girlfriends will do.


Dont know about the other two if you need any more help you can reach me at island_girl_erin93@yahoo.com
Reply:http://www.pantheon.org/articles/e/echo....


http://www.pantheon.org/articles/n/narci...


Narcissus is another example among several of a beautiful young man who spurned sex and died as a result. As such, his myth has much in common with those of Adonis and Hippolytus. In the Roman poet Ovid's retelling of the myth, Narcissus is the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. Tiresias, the seer, told his parents that the child "would live to an old age if it did not look at itself." Many nymphs and girls fell in love with him but he rejected them. One of these nymphs, Echo, was so distraught over this rejection that she withdrew into a lonely spot and faded until all that was left was a plaintive whisper. The goddess Nemesis heard the rejected girls prayers for vengeance and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own reflection. He stayed watching his reflection and let himself die. It is quite possible, however, that the connection between Echo and Narcissus was entirely Ovid's own invention, for there is no earlier witness to it.





Echo


by Micha F. Lindemans


The chief god Zeus had many affairs with both mortals and gods, much to his wife's dislike. While he pursued his amours, it was Echo's duty to beguile Hera's attention by incessantly talking to her. Hera discovered the ruse and as punishment, she made Echo always repeat the voice of another.





Echo fell in love with a vain youth named Narcissus, who ignored her. Narcissus found a pool of water and stared at his lovely reflection until he died. Echo watched him until she pined away, now her voice remains, repeating the last few things people say.





The Greek version of the story of Echo (the above is of Roman origin [Ovid]) is as follows:





Echo was a very beautiful and musical nymph. She could sing and play many instruments. She lived deep in the woods and denied the love of any man or immortal. She therefore attracted the hatred and anger of many, including the god Pan whose love she turned down. Pan caused his followers the shepherds to kill Echo and tear her to pieces that were subsequently scattered far and wide. Gaia, the Earth goddess, received the pieces in her bosom and thus Echo, scattered now all over the earth, retained her voice and talents answering or imitating every sound or voice.





ECHO is a wood nymph who falls for a mortal, Narcissus. HE could care less about her and was so into himself. HE saw his reflection in water and eventually died by drowning.


The last thing he heard was echos voice. I think this expains why we have echos today. moral don't so self absorbd.





Demeter's myths expain why we have seasons. when persephone lives with hades that is winter. Spring when she retruns, fall when she is getting ready to leave. Moral don't take food form strangers. Thats how she was tricked to spend time in underworld.





pandora had a box that she was never to open no matter what. one day she did and before she could close the lid again evil got out. ONE THING that remained in the jar was hope. Explains to be careful what u are curious about. geuess that the moral too.
Reply:What I do know is that Narcissus and Echo were punished by the gods for their large ego. Narcissus loved himself, foresaking everyone else, even his family. He would stare at his reflection in a lake for hours until he was sentenced to live for eternity as a beautiful flower. Forever confined to the earth's soil. Echo's story is similar, he loved his voice so much that he lost control of his ego until one day the gods decided to take his voice from him and cause it to forever bounce between the mountains.
Reply:Pandora's Box





1. It released evil into the world


2. Man's ulimate, deep-seeded, curiosity and the consequences that come after.


3. I don't know what you mean by category...





Narcissus and Echo





1. It explains how echos were developed


2. The ignorance of arrogance and narcissism





Theseus and the Minotaur





1. Don't believe any natrual phenomenon were answered


2. Teaches us social values of keeping promises and the morals of neglilgence of breakign those promises





Pyramus and Thisbe





1. White mulberry trees now spring purple blooms


2. Portrays the chaos and passion of being in love,
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