2nd Quarter Flashcards
1 of the 12 Olympians
_______: (Jove) (Jupiter)
- god of the sky
-eagle
- ruler of the 12 Olympians
- most powerful
- weapon: thunderbolt
- husband & brother of Hera (always tension)
- infamous for affairs
- overthrew father (Cronus) : Uranus : ate children as wife Rhea birthed them
- Rhea tricks Cronus into swallowing a rock
Zeus
________: Juno
- queen of Gods
- goddess of marriage & childbirth
- jealous of Zeus’s affairs they fight a lot
Hera
_______: Neptune
- god of the sea
- brother of Zeus
- weapon : trident
- Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drew lots for which portion of the world to rule.
Poseidon
________: (Bacchus)
- only god born of a mortal woman
- son of Zeus and Semele (not Hera’s son)
- god of wine & revelry (youthfulness)
Dionysus
__________
- god of music, arts, healing, light
- sometimes called “Phoebus _________”, “radiant”
- son of Zeus and Lito
- twin brother : Artemis
- daily: drives sun across sky
- Pictured holding lyre
- pray to ___ or muses
Apollo
_______(Diana)
- virgin goddess of hunt
- daughter of Zeus and Leto
- twin sister to Apollo
- seen as in forest with deer, conservative
- dying peacefully: shot by Artemis silver arrow
- demands purity
Artemis
__________( Minerva)
- goddess of wisdom (virgin)
- daughter of Zeus : popped out of his head in full armor
- powerful ?…
- “Pallas Athena” Pallas white?
- olive tree : symbol
Athena
_______( Mars)
- god of war
- son of Zeus and Hera
- Greeks often pray to him
- murderous, bloodthirsty, coward
- loses to Diomedes( a mortal)
Ares
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ -goddess of love - 2 accounts of birth 1.) daughter of Zeus and Dione Or 2.) sprung from sea after Cronus castrated his father Uranus & threw his genitals in the sea. - fickle , immodest, voluptuous, ? - unfaithful wife of Hephaestus
Aphrodite
_____________ (Vulcan)
- God of fire and forge
- son of Zeus and Hera
- crippled and ugly. Hera threw him from Mount Olympus
- sided with Hera over Zeus, Zeus threw him from Olympus
- husband of Aphrodite
- she is unfaithful to him
Hephaestus
_________(Ceres)
- goddess of fertility & agricultural (think “cereal)
- sister of Zeus
- mother Persephone, Queen of underworld
- Hades kidnaps her. She ate food of underworld so she must stay, when she walks flowers grow
- winter: when she’s in underworld plants die
- Hades kidnaps her. She ate food of underworld so she must stay, when she walks flowers grow
Demeter
________(Pluto)
- god of underworld (rarely leaves it)
- Cerberus: 3 headed dog. Guards underworld
- greedy and concerned with increasing his subjects
- husband to Persephone
Hades
Plot (_______)
A. The “action” or the “structure of incidents.”
B. Actions should be logical, naturally following the actions that precede the.
Mythos
Character (_____)
A. Main characters should be
I. Good (audiences don’t like it when villains win)
II. Appropriate (a wise character probably won’t be young)
III. consistent
1.) plays should be driven not by who the characters are, but what they do.
2.) “consistently inconsistent”
Ethos
Theme (_______)
Dianoia
Diction (_______)
-the quality of speech. We might call this the “dialogue.”
Lexis