Greek Origins Flashcards
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Gaea’s (Earth) first children were
Erebus (Darkness)
Nyx (Night)
Erebus and Nyx’s children
Aether (Bright upper air)
Hemera (Day)
Nyx’s 13 other children
Moros (Fate)
Ker (Doom)
Thanatos (Death)
Hypnos (Sleep)
Oneiroir (Dream)
Geras (Old age)
Oizus (Pain)
Nemesis (Revenge)
Eris (Strige)
Apate (Deceit)
Philates (Pleasure)
Momos (Blame)
Hesperides (Daughters of the evening)
Gaea and Uranus (Sky) gave birth to
3 Three-eyed Cyclopes and 3 hundred-handed Hecatoncheires
As well as 12 titans
Names of the 12 titans
Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Oceanus, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis, Thethys
Whose marraige produced the Olympics
Cronus and Rhea
First 6 Olympian gods
Zeus, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon
Cronus threw Uranus’ severed body part to the sea which was how ______ brought into being.
Aphrodite (Goddess of love and beauty)
The blood that spilled from Uranus also created the
Giants, Meliae (ash tree nymphs), and Erinyes (Furies)
What happened between Zeus and Metis (Wisdom)
Zeus swallowed her whole to prevent the child that was said to surpass him from being born.
However the child still emerged from Zeus’s forehead fully grown ready for war.
Name of Zeus’s child
Athena (Goddess of war and wisdom)
Most noteworthy wars among heavenly beings.
Which the titans led by Atlas clashed with the
gods and goddesses led by Zeus.
Titanomachy
The first story in Greek Mythology that depicted interactions between gods and men is that of.
Prometheus (Forethought)
Epimetheus (Afterthought)
What was inside Pandora’s box
Every evil:
Pain, Sickness, envy, greed, etc.
As well as one crucial thing, Hope
Roman Name: Jupiter
Identity: King of all the gods
Wife: Hera
Association: Eagle, lightning,thunderbolt, and scepter
Zeus
