LCT5: Zeus II (continued) Flashcards
1
Q
What is Zeus’ punishment for men?
A
Pandora = women
2
Q
What does Hephaistos make women from?
A
Clay
3
Q
What do other goddesses help make Pandora? What do they do?
A
Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes, plus many others… add “gifts” to her.
4
Q
What does Pandora mean?
A
“all gifts”
5
Q
Pandora’s Jar
A
- life untroubled before Pandora
- opens jar and releases misery, disease, other evils into the world
- only Hope left in the jar… have to keep it “contained” and “safe”
6
Q
What are the five ages of man?
A
Golden, Silver, Bronze, Hero’s, Iron
7
Q
The Golden Age
A
- time when Cronos was the sky (near beg. of time)
- natural abundance
- no old age
- death like sleep –> inhabit the earth as protective spirits
8
Q
The Silver Age
A
- inferior to men of the Golden Age
- children for a hundred years: short adult life
- violent: fail to honor the gods
- Zeus - in anger - buries them
9
Q
The Bronze Age
A
- made out of ash trees (same material as spears)
- “all they cared about was fighting and war”
- Homes, tools, weapons - all made of bronze
- destroyed themselves and went down to underworld
10
Q
The Hero’s Age
A
- a godlike race of men (demi-gods)
- nobler, more just
- died in great wars (Troy, for example)
- after death –> Islands of the blessed at ends of the earth
11
Q
The Iron Age
A
- Hesiod’s time
- endless labor
- bonds of family/hospitality weakened
- envy, greed, injustice everywhere
- shame and nemesis (righteous vengeance) depart the earth
12
Q
Deucalion
A
son of Prometheus
13
Q
Epimetheus and Pandora have a daughter named…
A
Pyrrha
14
Q
What does Prometheus tell Deucalion to do as Zeus prepares to destroy the men of the bronze age?
A
A boat
15
Q
How many nights were Deucalion and Pyrrha at sea?
A
9 days/nights –> land on Mt. Parnassos
