This document provides summaries of three Greek legends: Perseus and Medusa, about the hero Perseus who slays the gorgon Medusa; Cassandra, about the Trojan princess who received the gift of prophecy but was cursed so that nobody would believe her predictions; and Pandora's Box, where Pandora opens a jar containing all the evils of the world. It also briefly describes the eternal punishment of Tantalus, who is made to stand in water and beneath fruit that always eludes his grasp.

1. Lesson about Greek
Legends
Educator Syuzi Karapetyan

6. Perseus
and
Medusa

7. Legend of Cassandra
Cassandra also known as Alexandra or Cassandra, was the daughter of King
Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. She received the gift of prophecy from
Apollo fell in love with her, but for the fact that she cheated, did not respond
to him in return, he made sure that the predictions of Cassandra nobody
believed. A tragic prophecy of Cassandra is not heeded, it ridiculed and taken
as insane. But the predicted culminated in the death of her family and the
destruction of Troy

8. Cassandra wonders
about the fate of Troy.

9. Pandora's box
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken
from the myth of Pandora's creation in Hesiod's Works and
Days. The "box" was actually a large jar given
to Pandora which contained all the evils of the world.
Pandora opened the jar and all the evils flew out, leaving
only Hope inside once she had closed it again.

10. When all the misery out of
the box, Pandora began to
cry, but it was too late.

11. Flour Tantalus
Tantalus was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for
his eternal punishment in Tartarus. He was made to stand
in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches,
with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always
receding before he could take a drink.

12. Fruit
tree and
Tantalus

13. Thank you
for attention!
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