| Term | Definition |
|---|
| magic weapon | some object or force that helps the hero |
| Zeus | lived on Mt. Olympus; king of the gods |
| journey | lowest to high |
| scapegoat | takes the blame |
| outcast | banished from society |
| initiate | training phase |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love |
| penelope | wife of odysseues |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom |
| starcrossed lovers | two lovers forbidden to be together |
| earth mother | usually kind-hearted and nurtuting |
| achilles | greatest Greek hero |
| devil figure | always evil |
| nature vs. the mechanistic world | society is evil; nature is good |
| creature of nightmare | usually the monster who is the antagonist |
| hunting group of companions | hero's posse |
| platonic ideal | hero is attracted to this person's intellect |
| initiation | hero matures |
| loyal retainers | expendable servants |
| odyssues | came up with wooden horse idea |
| epic | long narrative poem |
| innate wisdom vs. educated stupidity | an unedcated person is wiser that the educated person |
| hero | protagonist with an unusual childhood |
| mentor | teacher to the hero |
| quest | search for someone or something |
| Telemachus | son of odysseus |
| myth | stories that show relationship between people and the unknwn spiritual realm |
| Menelaus | husband to helen |
| epithet | adjective phrae usef to characterize a person, place, or thing |
| supernatural intervention | higher power that heps the hero |
| subject | what the sentence is about |
| temptress | hero is attracted to this person |
| poseidon | god of the sea |
| unhealable wound | hero's weakness |
| predicate | state of being or doing that goes with the subject |
| haven vs. wilderness | bat cave vs. GOtham city |
| friendly beast | appers evil, but can show kindness |
| Odyssey | story by Homer about journey home from the Trojan War |
| Illiad | story about Trojan War |
| ritual | rite of passage |
| wooden horse | reson the greeks won |
| agamemnon | brother of Menelaus |
| fall | hogh to low |
| Paris | Prince of Troy who took Helen |
| apollo | god of music |
| task | hero must perform this superhuman deed |
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