Greek mythology?

pometheus


icuras


narcissus


phaethon


theseus


what are their story kind of summarized like what he did and stuff! but i just need a 4 sentence summarization


if you can't give me all just give me as much as you can

Greek mythology?
Links to these characters:


Prometheus:


http://www.maicar.com/GML/Prometheus1.ht...


Icarus:


http://www.maicar.com/GML/Daedalus.html


Narcissus:


http://www.maicar.com/GML/Narcissus.html


Phaethon:


http://www.maicar.com/GML/Phaethon3.html


Theseus;


http://www.maicar.com/GML/Theseus.html
Reply:PRometheus (don't forget the R) - gave fire to man.


Icarus - tried to fly by creating wings stuck together with wax. Went too close to the sun and his son's (Daedelus) wings melted and he died.


Narcissus - fell in love with his own reflection in the water, a water nyph, (echo), fell in love with him when he gazed in the water, and was only able to repeat what he said. He turned in to a flower (the narcissus).


Theseus - can't remember - sorry!
Reply:Prometheus-responsible for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind, therefore attributing technology to this character





Icarus- Icarus and Daedelus, the two who built wings made of feathers and wax. Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted causing them to fall from grace and into the sea. Icarus is the embodied tale of people who get lost in the idea and take it too far ending in disaster (think of mad scientist)





Narcissus- was inlove with his own beauty (ie, the term narcisistic) generally thought to personify those who have over done arrogance. He gazed too long into a pool of water and fell in, drowning. A waternymph tried to come to his aid but was only able to give him life as a flower or something like that, but then all the god tales end with the human escaping the god or magic creature by turning into a plant.





Phaeton- sone of Helios. Something about learning to drive the sun chariot that travelled the sky. Blah blah blah, learning how to drive, killed a few people and destroyed a few things...Zeus killed him to stop the rampage...I think.





Thesseus- the slayer of the minotaur. The only way he passed this challenge of the gods was because the daughter of Minos? gave him a golden ball of string that kept Thesseus from becoming lost in the maze the minotaur dwelled after the beast was slain. He married this heroine and then later left her on a desserted island alone. Mercury swooped in and saved the new bride and she and Mercury/Hermes lived happily ever after.
Reply:This might take awhile, but let me try...





Prometheus - gave fire to man, and in so doing, allowed man to become intelligent (the fire of knowledge or enlightenment, etc.); punished for doing this by being bound to a rock where a bird would show up each day to eat his liver and his liver would grow back each night





Icarus - son of Daedalus; the two of them were stuck on an island, and Deadalus figured out a way to make some wings with wax and feathers; Icarus didn't listen to how his dad told him to fly; he went low over the sea and the water got his wings wet, and then tried to fly closer towards the sun to dry them out; unfortunately, when he got closer to the sun, the heat melted the wax on his wings and icarus plunged to his death





Narcissus - 'beautiful' man who loved to look at his own reflection; bent over a pool of water, saw his reflection, and dove in trying to find himself; the nymph Echo fits in there somewhere, but I can't remember exactly; one of the godesses was sorry he died, and named the Narcissus flower after him





Phaethon - son of Helios, the Sun God, who wanted to drive his father's chariot to prove to his friends that he was the son of a god; Helios finally relents, and he drives his father's horses and sun chariot across the sky; Phaethon flew low over his village to show off to his friends, but the heat incinerated the entire village and turned it into a desert; Phaethon flew too high, making part of the earth cold and covered with snow/ice; he then over-corrected and went too low again, burning Africa and making the people black and creating the deserts in North Africa; Zeus killed him with a lightening bolt to stop the runaway chariot





Theseus - performed six 'labors' of strength, cunning, heroism, and resourcefulness by tricking a bunch of bad people at their own games; traveled to the labrynth and slew the minotaur; he got out of the labrynth by following the string he trailed behind him as he walked; one of his sons hid in the Trojan Horse...
Reply:which one, maybe you could just do some reading?