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Mythology Amol Outline - Loves of Zeus Flashcards

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1
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Who was Zeus’s first wife?

A

Metis

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2
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How did Metis help Zeus overthrow Cronos?

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She gave him an emetic potion so Cronos would throw up Zeus’s siblings

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What did Metis prophesize?

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That her second child would dethrone Zeus

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Who did Zeus turn into a fly and swallow?

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Metis

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Who was Zeus’s first born child by Metis?

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Athena

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Who cleaved open Zeus’s head to release a fully grown Athena?

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Hephaestus

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7
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What did Zeus gain by swallowing Metis?

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Wisdom

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Who was Zeus’s second wife?

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Themis

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What children did Themis bear Zeus?

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The Horae (seasons), Dike (human justice), Eirene (peace), Eunomia (order of law), and the Fates

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Who were the three horae?

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Thallo (plant-raiser), Auxo (grower), and Carpo (fruit-bringer)

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Who was Zeus’s third wife?

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Eurynome

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12
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What children did Eurynome bear Zeus?

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The Three Graces

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Who were the three graces?

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Aglaea (splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth), and Thalia (good cheer)

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Who was Zeus’s fourth wife?

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Demeter

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What guise did Zeus seduce Demeter in?

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The form of a bull

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16
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Who was the child of Zeus and Demeter?

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Persephone

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Who was Zeus’s fifth wife (hint: STILL not Hera)?

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Mnemosyne

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18
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What group did Mnenosyne and Zeus parent?

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The Nine Muses

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Name the Nine Muses:

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Clio (history), Melpomene (tragedy), Urania (astronomy), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (dance), Calliope (epic poetry), Erato (love poetry), Euterpe (lyric poetry), and Polyhymnia (hymns)

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20
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Who is Zeus’s official wife?

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Hera

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21
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How did Zeus seduce Hera?

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In the form of a disheveled cuckoo (because that’s what the kids are into nowadays)

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Name Zeus and Hera’s children:

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Hebe (divine cup-bearer), Ares, Ilithyia (goddess of childbearing), and Hephaestus

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Who did Hera proclaim to be virgin-born, which are two things that are generally mutually exclusive?

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Hephaestus

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What island did Hephaestus hit when he was thrown from Olympus by Zeus?

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Lemnos

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What pleiad, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, gave birth to Hermes?

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Maia

26
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Who was the mother of Aphrodite?

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Dione (titaness of vague origins)

27
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What titaness was forced to give birth to Zeus’s children in total darkness/not on firm land?

A

Leto

28
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On what island did Leto give birth to Artemis, followed by Apollo?

A

Artemis on Ortygia; Apollo on Delos

29
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Who were the parents of the Theban princess Semele?

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Cadmus and Harmonia

30
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What did Hera trick Semele into asking of Zeus?

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To see him in his full glory (Burn baby burn!)

31
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What child did Zeus save from Semele by sowing him to his thigh?

A

Dionyses

32
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Who was the father of Io?

A

Inachus

33
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Io was the priestess of which god/godess in Argos?

A

Hera

34
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Into what form did Zeus turn Io to hide her from his wife?

A

Heifer

35
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Who watched Io at the request of Hera?

A

Argus Panoptes

36
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Who did Zeus send to kill Argus?

A

Hermes

37
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What did Hera put on a peacock feather in honor of Argus?

A

An eye

38
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At what river did Prometheus fortell that Io would change back into a human?

A

The Nile

39
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Who was the son of Io and Zeus?

A

Epaphus

40
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In what guise did Zeus seduce Callisto?

A

The form of Artemis

41
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Who was Callisto’s son?

A

Arcas

42
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Into what constellations were Callisto and Arcus changed into by Zeus?

A

Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

43
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What son of Taygete and Zeus founded Sparta?

A

Lacadaemon

44
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Who were Europa’s parents?

A

Agenor and Telephassa (King and Queen of Sidon)

45
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Where did Zeus, in the form of a white bull, carry Europa off to?

A

Crete

46
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Who were the children of Europa?

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Minos and Rhadamanthus

47
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In what form did Zeus seduce Leda, queen of Sparta?

A

A swan (don’t ask me how that works)

48
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Who were the children Leda bore?

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Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor, and Pollux

49
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Who was the mother of Tantalus?

A

Plouto

50
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Who were the children of Tantalus?

A

Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas

51
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Why was Tantalus punished in the Underworld?

A

He fed his son to the gods

52
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What was Tantalus’s punishment in the Underworld?

A

Insatiable hunger and thirst

53
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In what form did Zeus seduce Antiope?

A

A satyr

54
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Who were the children of Antiope?

A

Amphion and Zethus

55
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In what form did Zeus seduce Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus?

A

A flame (I don’t even know what is going through Zeus’s mind right now)

56
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What were the race of ants from which Zeus recreated people after Hera sent a plague to the island of Oenopia?

A

Myrmidons

57
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What woman tricked Zeus into making her eternally a virgin?

A

Sinope

58
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What pleiad bore Dardanus, founder of Troy?

A

Electra

59
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What titaness escaped Zeus by jumping into the Aegean sea, turning into a quail, and becoming the floating island of Ortygia?

A

Asteria

60
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Who did Zeus denounce after he found it was prophesied that she would bear a son more powerful than his father?

A

Thetis

61
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Who was the prince of Troy, abducted by Zeus as an eagle to serve as a cup-bearer to the gods?

A

Ganymede

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