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Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What was Heracles’ “eleventh labour”? (pg. 171)
Who did Heracles free from his imprisonment and how did he do it? (pg. 172-173)
Why do people wear rings on their fingers according to this story? (pg. 173)
Whose help did Heracles have to enlist so that he might recover the Golden Apples? (pg. 173-174)
What was unique about Antaeus which made him very difficult to defeat? (pg. 174-175)
How did Heracles kill the dragon known as Ladon? (pg. 176-177)
How did Heracles trick Atlas into taking the sky back upon his shoulders? (pg. 177-178)
In what strange way did the people of Lindos honor Heracles after his time there? (pg. 178-179)
What was Heracles’ final labor he had to perform? (pg. 179)
What convinced Charon to ferry Heracles across the River Styx? (pg. 180)
What was Hades’ one condition upon Heracles taking Cerberus? (pg. 181)
What set Theseus apart from the other children upon seeing the lion skin? (pg. 183)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
Why would Prometheus call Heracles a “rash mortal”? (pg. 172)
Why might it be that “a prophet cannot foretell his own future”? (pg. 173)
Why did Heracles anoint himself with oil prior to wrestling with Antaeus? Why did Antaeus cover himself in dust? (pg. 174)
Why would Hades forbid Heracles to wield weapons against Cerberus? (pg. 181)
Create a valid syllogism with the following statement as one of the three: “No mere mortal is a sky holder.”
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
What other great stories involve descending to and then ascending back from the underworld (i.e. the world of the dead)? What are some similarities and differences between those stories and this one?
Did Heracles do the right thing by tricking Atlas into holding the sky once again? Why or why not? (pg. 177-178)
How has C. S. Lewis made use of the imagery of the garden with Golden Apples in his book The Magician’s Nephew?
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Read Genesis 2-3. What connections would you make between this story and the biblical text? How does the true account of the garden in Scripture influence your thinking about this story?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Myth, Freedom, Deception, Courage