If you are looking for the beginning of the study for Tales of the Greek Heroes then you can go HERE for a brief introduction. At the bottom of the introduction you will find the links to each section of the study guide as it becomes available. If you would like to see the growing list of available book studies you can go HERE. Enjoy!
Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What were the different roles of the three Fates? (pg. 229)
What did Queen Althaea do in order to preserve Meleager’s life from soon ending? (pg. 230)
What did Meleager decide was necessary in order to kill the Calydonian Boar? (pg. 230-231)
What was it that so upset some of the hunting party? (pg. 231)
Who was the first to actually deal a significant blow against the boar? (pg. 232)
Who dealt the death blow to the boar? (pg. 233)
What did Meleager do when his uncles “tore the spoils” from Atalanta’s hands “as roughly and insultingly as they could”? (pg. 234)
What did Queen Althaea do when she learned her son had murdered her brothers? (pg. 234-235)
How did Heracles come to claim Deianira as his wife? (pg. 235)
What condition did Atalanta give for her hand in marriage? (pg. 236)
How did Prince Melanion win Atalanta as his wife? (pg. 236-238)
What did Nessus give to Deinara before he died and what did he say it would do? (pg. 238)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
Why would the fates appear to Queen Althaea when they are normally unseen by people? (pg. 229-230)
Why were some of the men in the hunting party so offended by a woman taking part in the hunt? (pg. 231-234)
What was Atalanta’s purpose for making her suitors race against her? (pg. 236)
Why did Heracles “not wish” for lasting peace and rest? (pg. 239)
Queen Althaea cried, “Now I defy you, Fates!” (pg. 230) But did she in the end?
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
How does the concept of “anger” or “fury” play into this story? Is it helpful or harmful? Why?
Is it ever appropriate to be angry? If not, why not? If so, when is it appropriate?
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Read John 2:13-17. Is Jesus angry in this passage? Why might he be angry?
Read Exodus 32:7-14 and Revelation 14:9-11. What makes God angry?
How does Ephesians 4:26-27 inform us further about how Christians should deal with anger?
Read Micah 7:18-20. What does this tell us about God’s anger as it relates to those who, by faith, are his people?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Recklessness, arrogance, Indulgence, Hatred, Revenge, Gullibility