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Mythology: Myth and Meaning Textbook
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BATTLE OF THE TITANS, OLYMPIANS
AND THOSE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

Instructions: The classroom is divided into three parts: The Titans, The Olympians and those Caught in the Middle. The African Tribe who won the last round heads up the teams. Read each section with the class with your worksheet face-down. At the signal, turn your paper over and answer the questions. Referral to text is allowed. A brief team time, at the signal, will also be allowed.

Weapons: Textbook, Time and Teammates.

Battle: Answering the questions

Injury: Teams veering from procedure will not receive credit for that section.

Victory: The side with the highest number of battle points wins.

SKIRMISH #1: THREE VERSIONS OF TYPHON STORY

A. Typhon, pg. 22 in M&M and related worksheets
Circle the most correct answer. As we read different versions of this story you are welcome to go back and change your answers.

1. Who created Typhon?

a. Cronus

b. Uranus

c. Gaia

d. Chaos

2. What was the consequence that occurred from the castration of Uranus by his son?

a. Each drop of blood turned into a geological or weather-related crisis

b. Each of the 24 drops of blood generated a giant

c. His blood mixed with the sea foam to create a female triad of demons who had the power to make the seas storm

d. Uranus sought vengeance by killing all of his son's children

3. Zeus had no part in the overthrow of Uranus, so why did giants "rebell" against him (Zeus)?

a. They were trying to re-establish the rule of Uranus

b. Mother Earth, Gaia, was angry at Zeus for confining her children, The Titans, to Tartarus. She wanted Zeus and the Olympians overthrown and commanded the giants to do the job.

c.They went berserk, as their nature is to do battle, and not even Mother Earth could stop their reign of terror.

4. Who were crucial in helping Zeus fight the Giants?

a. Heracles (aka Hercules in Roman vernacular) and Athena

b. Poseidon with his trident and Hades with his underworld cast of criminals

c. The mighty Cyclopes

5. Who were the pacifists who refused to join in the fray?

a. Hera and Athena

b. Dionysus and The Fates

c. Hestia and Demeter

6. Who were the parents of Typhon?

a. Mother Earth and Uranus

b. 24 drops of Uranus' bood

c. Mother Earth and Tartarus

d. Cronus and Rhea

7.Why did Gaia create Typhon?

a. Out of lust. This was a natural consequence for her coupling with Tartarus, synonymous with the evil place in the underworld

b. Mother Earth, Gaia, was still angry at Zeus for confining her children, The Titans, to Tartarus. She wanted Zeus and the Olympians overthrown and created Typhon with the capacity for the deed.

c. She was angry that all her creation was fighting so she created a huge disaster to destroy all living resemblances to humans.

8. The word typhoon comes from Typhon. What does it mean?

a. a system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure; a depression. 2 a tropical storm. — ORIGIN probably from Greek kukloma ‘wheel, coil of a snake’.

b. a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans. — ORIGIN partly from Arabic, partly from a Chinese dialect word meaning ‘big wind’.

c. a sudden violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth’s crust.

9. How did Typhon overcome Zeus?

a. He keep his winds pointed at him so that Zeus could not move and was thereby in a storm.

b. Typhon tore up Mt. Aetnea and hurled it at Zeus, crushing him under the weight so that he could not move.

c. He cut the sinews from his wrists and feet so that Zeus could not move.

10. How did Zeus eventually win the battle?

a. Using thunder and lightning bolts he got Mt. Aetna, hurled by Typhon, to fall back on its pitcher.

b. He did not win.

c. He electrocuted him with his lightning bolt.