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CLT 3370 Exam 1 Flashcards

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Divine myth

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supernatural beings are main characters, takes place in the past before humans, explains why the world is the way it is

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Legends

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human heroes are main characters, set in the human past, have some historical accuracy

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Folktales

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ordinary people are main characters, so set chronology, used to justify or teach human behaviors

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Primal entities of the beginning of the universe

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Gaia, Tartarus, Eros, Ouranos

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Monsters of the beginning of the universe

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the Cyclopes, the Hecatonchires “hundred-handers”

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Cronos’s takeover

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spurred by mother Gaia, Cronos cut Ouranos’s genitals off and threw them into the sea
made Aphrodite, the Giants, and the Furies

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Children of Cronos and Rheia

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Hestia, Hera, Demeter, Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus

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Battles in the rise of the Olympians

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Titanomachy- fought Titans, Cyclopes made thunderbolt/ Hecatonchires guard them in Tartarus
Typhoios- Zeus fought Typhos, trapped Typhos under Mt. Etna
Giantomachy- fought Giants, Olympians won with Hercules’s help

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Key rivers in the underworld

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River Styx, River Acheron

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Key figures in underworld stories

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Hermes- to get there/ back
Charon- boatman
Cerberus- three-headed dog

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Permanent residents of the underworld

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Tantalus- food and water just out of reach
Sisyphus- boulder
Ixion- spins on wheel of fire

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Who wrote the Theogony/ why was it important?

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Hesiod
Oldest source on the beginnings of universe, also gave the origin of mortals from his poem “Works and Days”

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Who wrote the Homeric Hymns/ why was it important?

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Anonymous authors, hymns written in the style of Homer
Give an idea of how ancient Greeks felt about the Gods, tells of the deities’ accomplishments

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Who wrote the Bacchae/ why was it important?

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Euripides
best ancient source about Dionysus, moral is about the importance of worshipping him

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Who was Sappho and what are they known for?

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Lyric poet, wrote about F/F love and relationships, born in Lesbos, modern associations with term ‘lesbian’

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Who wrote Metamorphoses/ why was it important?

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Ovid
wrote down myths about transformation

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God: Zeus
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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thunderbolt, the bull, the eagle
the sky, weather, law, customs, the marketplace, freedom
Hidden by mother Rheia from Cronos (ate a rock) until old enough to defeat his father
Rheia and Cronos

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God: Zeus
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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N/A
The Olympics
Zeus and Io

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God: Hera
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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modest dress/ veil, diadem, scepter, cows, appears as an older woman
marriage, married women, women’s fertility, the family
eaten by Cronos/ later vomited up
Rheia and Cronos

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God: Hera
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Argos
N/A
Hera seduced by Zeus

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God: Poseidon
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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trident, sea-related images, horses
the sea, horses, natural disasters
eaten by Cronos/ later vomited up
Rheia and Cronos

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God: Poseidon
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Isthmia
Isthmian games
Fight for Athens, saltwater spring v olive tree

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God: Apollo
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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musical instruments/ the lyre, depicted as a young male without a beard
plagues, healing, music, the arts, prophecy
born on Delos after his mom, Leto, walked to the wandering islands after being cursed by Hera
Leto and Zeus

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God: Apollo
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Delphi
N/A
Artemis, Apollo, and Niobe

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God: Hermes
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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winged sandals, wide-brimmed hat, the ram, a purse/ bag, caduceus (staff with two snakes)
travelers, thieves, merchants, messengers, boundaries, luck
N/A
Zeus and Maia (nymph)

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God: Hermes
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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worshipped by travelers at herms (boundary/ distance markers)
N/A
Hermes, Apollo, and the Lyre

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God: Hephaestus
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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hammer, pair of tongs, donkey, lame foot
fire, metal smiths, craftsmen, metalworking, sculpture
N/A
Hera and Zeus or just Hera

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God: Hephaestus
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Athens
N/A
Trapping Hera in the Golden Throne

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God: Ares
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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shield, spear, sword, helmet
war, bold force, blood lust, courage, strength
N/A
Zeus and Hera

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God: Ares
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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N/A
N/A
Ares’s Affair with Aphrodite and the Golden Net

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God: Dionysus
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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staff with flowers, leopard skin, wine, depicted with his followers
wine, ecstasy, fertility, theatre
while pregnant by Zeus, Semele asked to see Zeus’s true/ god form which burnt her alive/ Zeus sewed fetus Dionysus into his thigh until he came to term
Zeus and Semele

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God: Dionysus
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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N/A
N/A
Midas and the Golden Touch, the Bacchae (main character is ripped apart by his mother while she was possessed by Dionysus)

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God: Aphrodite
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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dove, apple, seashell, mirror, Eros as a companion, depicted as a young woman, often nude
erotic love, beauty
born from Ouranos’s discarded genitals
Ouranos and sea foam

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God: Aphrodite
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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N/A
N/A
Aphrodite and Anchises

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God: Artemis
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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bow and arrow, deer, depicted as a young woman in a short skirt
hunt, wilderness, childbirth, women, phases of a woman’s life
born on Ortygia after her mom, Leto, walked to the wandering islands after being cursed by Hera
Leto and Zeus

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God: Artemis
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Bauron
Bauronian festival
Artemis and Callisto- became a bear, Ursa Major

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God: Athena
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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owl, olive tree, armor, spear and shield, aegis (goat skin with snake tassels)
cities, arts, handicrafts, weaving, war, wisdom
born of Zeus’s headache
Zeus (and sort of Metis)

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God: Athena
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Athens
Panathenia in Athens
Athena and Arachne

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God: Demeter
Symbols, Attributes, Birth story, Parents

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diadem, wheat, cornucopia, torch, depicted as an older woman
grain, agriculture, harvest
eaten by Cronos/ later vomited up
Rheia and Cronos

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God: Demeter
Place of worship, Festivals, Myth

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Eleusis
Maybe the Eleusinian Mysteries
Hades and Persephone

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