What the heck are they teaching them these days?
Apparently the answer is lies. I mean, from a certain point of view a module on Greek myths is all imaginary, but that does not mean that you can make your myths up wholesale by mashing 3 other myths together.
A2's English comprehension reading and question paper this week is about Apollo vs the Chimera, in which king Minos steals Apollo's wife Athena, Apollo's father advises him to ask Zeus for help, Zues gives him sandals of swiftness and then he goes off to fight the chimera, who is defending Minos' palace. He wins the day and he and Athena live happily ever after.
And if you're having trouble recalling that myth, well there would be. Reason for that. Let's start with Athena and Apollo being siblings (not a marriage they typically went for even in the Greek myths), children of Zeus and gods in their own rights. The chimera defended nobody's palace, it was a monster that generally ravaged the countryside. She was female where this tale changes her sex, and she was slain by Bellerophon riding on Pegasus because she could only be killed from the air. No shoes of swiftness, which I do not recall occurring in any Greek myth, unless they are thinking about the winged shoes that Zeus gave to Hermes after Hermes had tangled with his brother Apollo.
I'm feeling a visit to the school with a book of Greek myths coming on.
A2's English comprehension reading and question paper this week is about Apollo vs the Chimera, in which king Minos steals Apollo's wife Athena, Apollo's father advises him to ask Zeus for help, Zues gives him sandals of swiftness and then he goes off to fight the chimera, who is defending Minos' palace. He wins the day and he and Athena live happily ever after.
And if you're having trouble recalling that myth, well there would be. Reason for that. Let's start with Athena and Apollo being siblings (not a marriage they typically went for even in the Greek myths), children of Zeus and gods in their own rights. The chimera defended nobody's palace, it was a monster that generally ravaged the countryside. She was female where this tale changes her sex, and she was slain by Bellerophon riding on Pegasus because she could only be killed from the air. No shoes of swiftness, which I do not recall occurring in any Greek myth, unless they are thinking about the winged shoes that Zeus gave to Hermes after Hermes had tangled with his brother Apollo.
I'm feeling a visit to the school with a book of Greek myths coming on.