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Lecture 3 Flashcards

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Amalthea

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Goat who provided milk for the infant Zeus

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Chaos

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Greek word meaning “a yawning void”, the very first thing to come into being

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Clymene

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One of Helius’ mistresses, mother of Phaethon

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Cosmogony

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A theory regarding the origin of the universe

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Curetes

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Young men, Rhea’s attendants, guarded the infant Zeus and clashed their spears on their shields so that his cries would not be heard by his father

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Cyclopes

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Descendants of Gaia and Uranus, their name means “orb-eyed” because they had only a single round eye in the middle of their foreheads

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Cyprogenes

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Epithet for Aphrodite, associated with the island of Cyprus

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Cytherea

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Epithet for Aphrodite, associated with the island of Cythera

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Endymion

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A handsome shepherd, Selene falls in love with him, Zeus grants him eternal life but also eternal sleep

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Erebus

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Descendant of chaos, the gloomy darkness of Tartarus

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Erinyes

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Also known as the Furies, they arose from the blood of Uranus, they are manifestations of vengeance, usually depicted with wings

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Giants

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Called Gegenis (meaning “earth born”), they arose from the blood of Uranus

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Hecatonshires

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The “hundred-handers”, descendants of Gaia and Uranus

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Heliades

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Daughters of Helius and Clymene, sisters to Phaethon

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Hieros Gamos

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Greek phrase meaning holy marriage

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Mount Dicte

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Mountain where Rhea hid the infant Zeus from his father

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The Muses

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The 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, their name means “the reminders”, they are patronesses of literature and the arts

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Oceanids

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The children of Oceanus and Tethys

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Philommeides

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Epithet for Aphrodite, means “genital-loving”

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Succession Myths

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Archetypical motif

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Tithonus

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Handsome youth of the Trojan royal house, Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life but forgets eternal youth

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