Greek Monster Padlet by Garrett Stockslader https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2 For ELA en-us 2018-12-12 17:50:24 UTC 2026-03-13 11:41:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png Centaur gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314755518 Centaurs  are  half man and half horse creatures,Their upper half is human and their lower half is bull. Centaurs have a bad reputation in myths there known for being the bad guy for example in the myth Hercules 4th labor Centaurs attacked Hercules because they smelled wine.  


 


]]> 2018-12-14 17:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314755518 Cerberus gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314757407 Cerberus was a giant dog with three heads. Also, Cerberus is the guardian of the underworld! Hercules was the only one brave and strong enough to fight Cerberus. Hercules knocked the dog out. Cerberus was included in Hercules twelfth labor.




]]> 2018-12-14 17:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314757407 Satyr gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314759521 Satyrs are half goat and half human creatures. Satyrs are known for being party animals and for playing the flute. The best known myth of the Satyr is Marsyas, he challenged Apollo to a music contest. Apollo skinned him alive because of his foolishness. The name of this myth is The musical contest




]]> 2018-12-14 18:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314759521 Sphinx gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314769680 The Sphinx had a body of a lion a head of a woman and the wings of an eagle.
What was the purpose of the Sphinx? The Sphinx guarded the entrance to the Greek city Thebes, and would ask 2 riddles if you got them wrong the Sphinx would kill you. Nobody had gotten the riddle right so far until a clever man named Oedipus got the riddle correct, and not just one both of them. Because of this, the Sphinx killed itself by tearing itself apart and throwing itself off a cliff.
]]> 2018-12-14 18:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314769680 Minotaur gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314774681 The Minotaur had the head of a bull and the body of a human. It  was the offspring of the Cretan Queen Pasiphaer. King Minos had two craftsman named Daedalus and Iracus build a huge maze, named the Labyrinth, to keep the giant monster imprisoned. The Minotaur was included in the myth of Theseus.

]]> 2018-12-14 18:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314774681 Medusa gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314786530 Medusa  is a woman. Well used to be a woman ever since Athena got mad at her, and turned her into a monster. Who ever looked at her, got turned into stone.  Medusa turned into a bad person. She would  bait innocent people into looking at her, and they would turn into stone. But one day she messed with the wrong guy, his name is Perseus. Medusa and Perseus got into a fight. Perseus won by cutting her head off, by looking at the reflection of his shield.


]]> 2018-12-14 19:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314786530 Furies gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314796602 Furies are flying creatures with sharp fangs. Furies are the goddesses of vengeance and retribution. They are concerned with homicide and offensives against the gods. For example, if you were a criminal and did something bad, you could get cursed by the furies with disease or death. I wouldn't want to get cursed by a Furie! The Furie was included in the myth Orstes.

]]> 2018-12-14 19:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314796602 Chimera gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314993555 The Chimera is a fierce creature that is a combination of a goat, lion and a snake. The Chimera breaths fire out of its nose and can attack with its serpent's tail. The Chimera was known to terrorize the city of Corinth. Every night the Chimera would fly down and pick up livestock, or a random person it could find. There was no hope for the city until a strange man named Bellerphon arrived. He was there because he angered King Proteus in his court, and so Proteus sent him to his father in law, Lobates, with a secret message for him to kill Bellerphon. Lobates sent him to slay the Chimera, knowing that no hero has ever succeeded and that most of them died. But instead, Bellerphon succeeded, killing the monster and saving the city.


]]> 2018-12-16 18:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/314993555 Cyclops gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315002608 The Cyclops is a giant one eyed creature. It would attack people and eat them, which an unlucky ship crew found out first hand. They got blown off course and landed onto a small island that neighbored another island with sheep on it. Odysseus, the captain, was starving and ordered his crew to go hunt the sheep. Once there, the crew found a cave with cheese in it. Before they could take it, the owner, a Cyclops, came home and ate most of them instead, except for a couple that outsmarted the Cyclops by getting him drunk. After that they put a large stick in his eye and blinded him. After that they escaped. The name of the myth was the cyclops cave.]]> 2018-12-16 19:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315002608 Harpies gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315012256  Harpies are part female and part bird creatures. They are best known for delivering bad people to the  Furies. One of the myths they are in is The Harpies and Phineus. The myth is about a guy named Xanthus who told a lie to a famous hero named Achilles. Xanthus  said  that although Archilles  would survive a forthcoming battle, he would die soon afterward. This was a lie and because of this the gods blinded him and put him on an island to starve. Whenever he tried to eat  food, Harpies would snatch it.


]]> 2018-12-16 20:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315012256 Griffin gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315014213 A Griffin has the body of an eagle, the body of a lion, head wings and talons of an eagle. Paintings of the Griffins way back showed that they guarded Greek palaces and that they pulled the chariots of both Apollo and Nemesis. (There weren't any myths specifically about Griffins I could find.)

]]> 2018-12-16 21:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315014213 Gorgons gs048685 https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315014813 Gorgons are ugly monsters with huge wings, sharp fangs and claws, and bodies covered with dragon-like scales. One of the Gorgons named Medusa, had her head chopped off by Perseus]]> 2018-12-16 21:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gs048685/bmkqcl6sozr2/wish/315014813