Lecture 3

Question 1

What is important about Zeus?

Answer 1

• Renowned for his physical strength
• signature weapon is lightning bolt
• Associated with Bull and Eagle
• Derived from Indo-European sky god
• Many lovers and offspring

Question 2

What is Xenia?

Answer 2

• formal guest-friendship oversaw by Zeus

- Have to take care of individuals visiting your land/ demonstrate hospitality

Question 3

What is important about Hera?

Answer 3

• Zeus’s wife
• Goddess of marriage and childbirth
• Quarrels with Zeus incessantly and attacks his lovers and illegitimate children
• Mother of Ares, Hebe, Hephaestus, and Eileithyia

Question 4

What is important about Poseidon?

Answer 4

• God of Sea and Earthquakes
• Associated with horse (drowned in pools for him)
• Produces Pegasus with gorgon medusa

Question 5

What is important about Hades?

Answer 5

• Is immortal but not an Olympian God
• never willing allows individuals to leave the land of the dead
• name means invisible, describes faceless death