facts

Question 1

why did men fear women

Answer 1

They could bring children into the world, cleanse the miasma

Question 1

who are the 3 main fathers

Answer 1

Uranus —— Cronus ——– Zeus

Question 2

what happens when Miasma is not cleansed after murder

Answer 2

spreads to everyone, spreads terror, must atone for all bad actions comited

Question 3

where does everyone end up?

Answer 3

Hades, there, they are shades who drink blood and are temporarly vivified. They don‘t believe in worshiping the gods to get to paradise

Question 4

who is known for being a supporter of humans

Answer 4

Prometheus

Question 5

what does epimetheus mean

Answer 5

heignsight

Question 6

what would be reasons Zeus would choose the wrong plate

Answer 6

• be able to punish Prom
• because bones are the part of the animal that are truly immortal,
• meat means that humans must eat, reinforcing the fact that they are mortals, bones are not subjected to any constraints

Question 7

who does what for pandora

Answer 7

• Hermes: streght and voice (lying words)
• Athena clothes
• Aphrodite, beauty/charisma
• Hepheastus, molds her

Question 8

who are Typhons parents

Answer 8

Gaia and Tarturus

Question 9

what does he look like

Answer 9

100 snake heads, fire coming our of his eyes, always moving,

Question 10

why does Zeus win against Typhon?

Answer 10

He has focused power, 2 eyes, reinforces the idea that 1 leader is necessary

Question 11

what did hepheastus do to get back at Aphrodite

Question 12

what did men do as a rite of passage

Answer 12

• men would dress as women to show a full transition from boy to manhood: would then break free of the clothes to show that women (who raised them) had no more control over them
• spent time outside the city practicing military procedures and hunting skills

Question 13

what did girls do as rites of passage

Answer 13

sacrificed dolls to Artemis

Question 14

what was the golden age

Answer 14

Mortals lived like gods, never knowing sorrow or toil; when they died, it as if they were falling asleep. No one worked or grew unhappy. Spring never ended. It is even described as a period in which people aged backward. When they died, they became daimones (a Greek word only later converted to “demons”) who roamed the earth. When Zeus overcame the Titans, the Golden Age ended.

Question 15

what was the silver age

Answer 15

During Hesiod’s Silver Age, the Olympian god Zeus was in charge. Zeus caused this generation of man to be created as vastly inferior to the gods in appearance and wisdom. He divided the year into four seasons. Man had to work—plant grain and seek shelter—but a child could play for 100 years before growing up. The people wouldn’t honor the gods, so Zeus caused them to be destroyed. When they died, they became “blessed spirits of the underworld.” In Mesopotamia, silver was the metal of the moon. Silver is softer with a dimmer luster than gold.

Question 16

what was the bronze age

Answer 16

Hesiod’s Third Age was of bronze. Zeus created men from ash trees—a hard wood used in spears. The men of the Bronze Age were terrible and strong and warlike. Their armor and houses were made of bronze; and they did not eat bread, living mainly on meat. It was this generation of men that was destroyed by the flood in the days of Prometheus’ son Deucalion and Pyrrha. When the bronze men died, they went to the Underworld. Copper (chalkos) and a component of bronze is the metal of Ishtar in Babylon. In Greek and older myths, bronze was connected to weapons, war, and warfare, and their armor and houses were made of bronze.

Question 17

what was the iron age

Answer 17

Hesiod’s Third Age was of bronze. Zeus created men from ash trees—a hard wood used in spears. The men of the Bronze Age were terrible and strong and warlike. Their armor and houses were made of bronze; and they did not eat bread, living mainly on meat. It was this generation of men that was destroyed by the flood in the days of Prometheus’ son Deucalion and Pyrrha. When the bronze men died, they went to the Underworld. Copper (chalkos) and a component of bronze is the metal of Ishtar in Babylon. In Greek and older myths, bronze was connected to weapons, war, and warfare, and their armor and houses were made of bronze.

Question 18

what was the ideal greek women

Answer 18

tall, beautiful, submissive, fertile,chaste,silent,virtually invisible to those around her. (Hestia represents this). The best Greek women was the one no one saw.

• two great moments in her life was mariage and her death
• last act before mariage (14) , girls would offer their dolls to Artemis, sacrifice
• no man would marry women with past sexually experience, dad would sell her to be a slave
• time between first menstruation and marriage was said to be dangerous, girl would be wild

Question 19

who are the virgin godesses

Answer 19

Hestia , Artemis, Athena

Question 20

Who is born parthenogenically

Answer 20

Athena, Dyonisus (God who is born twice) , Aphrodite

Question 21

who did athena have a child with (parthenogenically)

Answer 21

Hepheastus (ejaculates on her thigh)

Question 22

why is dyonisus worshiped

Answer 22

He is worshiped for everyone to let go of their extasy, what they keep inside all the time, what they can never let loose.

Question 23

who is Agave

Answer 23

mother of the king of thebes, killed by her and all the women under dyonisus spell