Extra Greek Stuff Flashcards
Apollos parents
Zeus and Leto
Ares parents
Zeus and Hera
Artemis parents
Zeus and Leto
Athena parents
Zeus and Metis
Demeter parents
Cronus and Rhea
Dionysus parents
Zeus and Semele (daughter of Cadmus and harmonia)
Hades parents
Cronus and Rhea
Hephaestus parents
Zeus and Hera
Hera parents
Cronus and Rhea
Hermes parents
Zeus and Maia
Hestia parents
Cronus and Rhea
Poseidon parents
Cronus and Rhea
Zeus parents
Cronus and Rhea
God of the heavens and father o the Titans
Uranus
Personification of sleep
Hypnos
God of love and attraction
Eros
The nothingness from which all else sprung
Chaos
Mother Earth and of Titans
Gaia
God of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld
Tartarus
God of death, brother of Hypnos
Thanatos
3 vicious sisters
Medusa
Euryale
Stheno
Vicious sisters parents
Phorcys and Ceto
Who killed medusa
Perseus Athenas mirrored shield Gold winged sandals from Hermes Sword from Hephaestus Hades helm of invisibility Pegasus and Chysaor appeared
Pegasus parents
Poseidon and Medusa
Chysaor parents
Poseidon and Medusa
Pegasus story
Captured by Bellerophon near fountain in Peirene with help from Athena and Poseidon. They defeat the chimera.
Trying to reach mount O, he falls off and Zeus turns P into constellation
3 great heroes pre Heracles
Bellerophon, Cadmus and Perseus
Chimera
Fire-breathing hybrid
Lion with goat head on its back, tail with snakes head
Typhon and Echidna
Siblings- Cerberus, Lernaean Hydra
Who is Typhon
Most fearsome monster of Greek mythology, last son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus
A giant, torso of man, legs viper coils, head 100 snakes, red eyes, breathed fire, hundreds of wings, hands 100 serpents
Aphrodites parents
Uranus (primal Greek god, father sky, son and husband of Gaia) Cronus cut off his genitals, or Zeus and Dione
Who is Echidna?
Monster, half woman half snake, live in a cave
Mother of monsters
Orthrus, Cerberus, Hydra, Chimera, Sphinx, Nemean lion
What is the Lernaean Hydra
Serpentine water monster Entrance to Underworld Killed by Heracles Regrows heads Poisonous breath and blood so virulent its scent was deadly
Sphinx
Head of human, haunches of a lion, wings of a bird, serpent headed tail
Asks riddle to allow pass into Thebes
Who is Echidna?
Monster, half woman half snake, live in a cave
Mother of monsters
Orthrus, Cerberus, Hydra, Chimera, Sphinx, Nemean lion
What is the Lernaean Hydra
Serpentine water monster Entrance to Underworld Killed by Heracles Regrows heads Poisonous breath and blood so virulent its scent was deadly
Sphinx
Head of human, haunches of a lion, wings of a bird, serpent headed tail
Asks riddle to allow pass into Thebes
