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CLAS 1100 Exam 2 Flashcards

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Adonia

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The ritual commemorating Aphrodite’s laughter and sorrows
Only celebrated by women

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Adonis

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The mortal boy that Aphrodite is attracted to
Spends part of his year with Persephone and part with Aphrodite

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Aeneas

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Son of Aphrodite and Anchises; founder of Rome

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Anchises

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Mortal seduced by Aphrodite
Father of Aeneas

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Ares

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Aphrodite’s lover
Son of Zeus and Hera, sister of Eris
Father of Deimus, Phobus, and Harmonia
Represents pure aggression in war and was despised by gods and mortals alike

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Cyprus

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The island where Aphrodite walks onto after she is created from the foam of Uranus’s genitals in the sea

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Eros

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The most important of he Erotes, generally considered a god
Sometimes described as Aphrodite’s son

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Erotes

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The collective divine winged beings

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Himerus

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One of the Erotes; Desire

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Pandemus

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Aphrodite’s cult title: Of All the People

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Peitho

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Sometimes considered Aphrodite’s daughter
“Persuasion”

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Philommedes

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What Hesiod calls Aphrodite; translated into “genital-loving”

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Pothus

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One of the Erotes; Longing

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Pygmalion

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A sculptor who turned away from women due to disgust at the practice of temple prostitution at the town’s worship of Aphrodite. He creates a statue that he falls in love with and Aphrodite turns her into a human named Galatea

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Acropolis

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Ancient citadel outside of Athens

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Areopagus

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A rocky situation near the Acropolis where Athena establishes a court for trying homicide

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Athena Polias

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“City Protector”
Most ancient and holy cult statue of Athena, an olive log believed to have fallen from the sky

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Autochthonous

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“Born from the earth”

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Erichthonius

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Athena resists Poseidon and he ejaculates on her leg. She wipes it up with wool and throws it onto the earth, creating the boy

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Furies

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Female spirits of revenge who attack those who have spilled kindred blood

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Metis

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The wisest goddess that Zeus swallows out of fear of her giving birth to a son who would overthrow him

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Oresteia

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A trilogy including Eumenides

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Orestes

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Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who plots to kill Clytemnestra to avenge his father

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Panathenaea

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A festival that celebrated the governance of Athens by Athena
Said to be a celebration of Athena’s birthday/her role in the victory of gods over giants

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Parthenon

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The temple of the Acropolis of Athens

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Peplos

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Ritual garment worn and weaved by Greek women

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Anthesteria

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Flower festival that honored Dionysus and Hermes
Signaled the opening of the Underworld

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Caduceus

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Hermes’s wand- a staff with two snakes wrapped around it

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Cyllene

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A mountainous region believed to be Hermes’s birthplace

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Herm

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Replaced Hermes’s Hill
Included head and erect phallus
Emphasizes Hermes’s connection to fertility of flocks and role as protector

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Hermaion

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“A lucky catch”

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Hermes’s Hill

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Pile of rocks typically found on the side of the road, eventually become Herms

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Mutilation of the Herms

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Athens, 415 BCE
Phalluses hacked off of all the herms in the city when the Athenian fleet was set to depart for a controversial military campaign
Perpetrators were put on trial for sacrilege

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Pan

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Hermes’s son
Part man, part goat, ithyphallic

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Actaeon

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Hunter who sees Artemis and her nymphs bathing in the woods
She turns him into a stag and he is killed by his own hunting dogs

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Artemis Orthia

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Located outside of Sparta
Boys initiations; often bathed in blood and whipped

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Asclepius

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Son of Apollo, known for healing the sick

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Brauronia

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A ritual for Artemis
“playing the bear”

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Callisto

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A female follower of Artemis who gets impregnated by Zeus and is turned into a bear by Hera. Their son doesn’t recognize her while hunting and when he goes to kill her, they both turn into a constellation

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Cassandra

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The Pythias’ mythical double
Condemned to knowing prophecies but not being believed

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Cartharsius

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Cult title of Apollo
“Purifier”

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Daphne

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Transformed into a laurel tree after refusing Apollo’s advances

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Delos

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Island where Leto delivers her children

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Delphi

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Oracle in Greece
Apollo provided “Zeus’s counsel” to men at these oracles

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Hippolytus

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One of Artemis’s adolescent male worshippers who wanted to stay a virgin hunter forever. Aphrodite makes his stepmother Phaedra fall in love with him (out of spite) and when she admits her love to him, she claims he raped her. His father, Theseus, kills him out of rage.

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Hyacinthia

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Three day festival that involved a form of ritualized loss

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Iphigenia

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Temple dedicated to her was at Brauron. She was supposed to be sacrificed by her father, Agamemnon when Artemis transformed her into a deer and saved her

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Orion

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Hunter who attempts to rape Artemis who she then kills directly with her arrows, transforming him into a constellation

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Pythias

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Apollo’s priestess at Delphi

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