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1
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Primary creation myth

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Hesiod’s Theogany

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2
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Other work by Hesiod

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Works and Days

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3
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Hesiod intro thing

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The Nine Muses

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4
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Hera desc

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Lady Hera of Argos

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5
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Zeus desc

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Zeus the aegis-bearer

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Athena desc

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Pale-eyed Athena

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7
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Apollo desc

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Phoebus Apollo

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8
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Artemis desc

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Artemis the archer

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9
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Poseidon desc

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Poseidon the shaker of the earth

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10
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Parents of muses

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Memory and Zeus

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11
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First part of creation

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Chasm (or “yawning void”) English translation of the Greek word “Chaos”

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12
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Earth

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Gaia

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13
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Love dude

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Eros

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14
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Heaven/sky

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Uranus, created by Gaia

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15
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Meddlesome son of Uranus and Gaia

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Kronos

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16
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Thunderer, Lightner, Whitebolt

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Cyclopes

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17
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Earth goddess/titan

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Rhea

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18
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Where Uranus tosses children

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Tartarus

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19
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Three successions

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(1) Uranus and Gaia
(2) Kronos and Rhea
(3) Zeus and Hera

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20
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After the castration of Uranus

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The rule of the titans

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21
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The tool Kronos used against Uranus

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The sickle of Adamant (unbreakable)

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22
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Born from the castrated testes of Uranus mixed with the sea washed upon Cyprus

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Aphrodite

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23
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Aphrodite’s traits

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The whispers of girls, smiles, deceptions, sweet pleasure, intimacy, and tenderness

24
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From Typhon and Echida

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Cerberus

25
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Zeus rock thing

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You know it

26
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The goat

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Amalthea

27
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Name of Zeus stone

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“Omphalos” Stone

Literally “The belly-button”

28
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War against Titans and Olympians

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Titanimachy - 10 years

29
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Zeus’s promise

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“Anyone who sided with us will have a share in the victory”

30
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What happens to titans

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Most cast to Tartarus

31
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Battles of the Giants

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Gigantomachy - Typhoeus (last son of Gaia) vs Zeus

32
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Linear B

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Disappears after 1100 BC. Followed by “Dark Age” from 1100-750 BC

No writing; cities depopulated

33
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Mankind’s dad

Meaning of name

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Prometheus

“Forethought”

34
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Men and animals

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Prometheus and Epimetheus (“Afterthought”) made humans with scraps from animals

35
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Hesiodic “Five Ages of Man”

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Golden Ages (Kronos)

Silver Age (Zeus)

Bronze Age

Heroic Age

Iron Age

36
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Punishment of Prometheus

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Bird liver

37
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Man’s punishment

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Pandora “All gifts”

38
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“Before the flood”

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Antediluvian

39
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Dude who became a wolf

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Lycaon

40
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Only humans that survived flood

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Deucalion and Pyrrha

41
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Boat story

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Deucalion and Pyrrha boat, mount Parassus, pray to Themis, Zeus stopped flood

Prayed to Themis after - “loosen your clothing (an act of piety), and toss the bones of your mother behind you”

42
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Gilgamesh

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From before flood

Story of Utnapishtim Mesopotamian Hero he met

43
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goddess to pray to for stuff; has power in both sky and earth

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Hecate

44
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Hecate

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Daughter of Perseus and Asteria, Titans

Later, relegated to Underworld; goddess of sorcery

45
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goddess of hearth

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Hestia

Rarely in mythology, just there

46
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Zeus info

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Aegis/shield

Eagle

47
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Greek hospitality

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Xenia

48
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Hera’s attributes

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Matron with veil - modesty
Peacock
goddess of marriage and childbirth
Queen of heaven
“Divine royalty” expects respect and loyalty
49
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Zeus and Io

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Turned her into a cow

Argus Panoptes watches her

Never sleeps, eyes

Hermès kills him, Hera puts eyes on peacock

50
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Zeus and Ganymede

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Young boy, kidnaps
Cup-bearer
Pederasty - elite Classical Athenian male mentor thing

51
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Ixion and Hera

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Tried Hera, cloud, punish on wheel

52
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Hephaestus

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Lame god
Blacksmith hammer and/or tongs
Inventor/craftsman god
Builder of bronze palace on Olympus
Zeus’s thunderbolts
Shield of Achilles
Robots
Pandora
53
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Hephaestus parents

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Zeus and Hera-
Hera tried by herself, no no

Or

Both, mama’s boy, Zeus no no

54
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Hephaestus place

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Lemnos

55
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Return of Hephaestus

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Chains mom to chair

Dionysus does it

56
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Ares

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god of war
Giants Otus and Ephialtes trapped him in bronze jar for 13 months
Wounded by mortal Diomedes Trojan war
Outmatched by Athena

57
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Ares and Aphrodite

A

Something to do with Hephaestus

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