Packet #1: Places And Progenitors Flashcards
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Oceanus
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- fresh water stream that encircled the earth
- sun, moon, and stars all rise and set into its waters
- Hades was beyond the setting sun and beyond Oceanus
- Native gods were the Titan Oceanus his wife Tethys and their 3,000 Oceanide daughters
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Tethys
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- Daughter of Uranus (Father Sky) and Gaia (Mother Earth)
- Wife and brother of the Titan-god Oceanus
- Mother if river-gods (sons) and Oceanids (nymphs/daughters)
- Raised Hera brought to her by Rhea
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Hyperborea
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- realm of eternal spring
- free of war and all bad
- Garden of Apollo - far north beyond the land of winter
- Boreas (god of winter wind) lived south in the mountains
- Phaethon landed in the water and his pals turned into swans
- Perseus and Hercules both got to Hyperborea
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The Elysian Fields
Isles of the Blessed
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- Beautiful meadow where the favored of Zeus enjoyed perfect happiness after they died
- Either way way west of down in the underworld/Hades
- Paradise in the Underworld
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Tartarus
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- Bronze gates with Hekatonheir giants
- Hellish prison
- Eternal damnation
- Really bad guys
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Hades
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- dark place bodies floated across grey FIELDS OF ASPHODEL
- Cross River Styx pay Charon and go past the three headed dog Cerberus
- Present themselves to King Hades and Queen Persephone
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Rivers of Hades
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Styx: (lake of fire) gods all swore oaths upon the goddess of the river Styx. Everyone dead has to cross it and pay Charon
Lethe: “Stream of oblivion” (goddess of forgetfulness)
Acheron: “the river of woe”
Cocytus: “the river of wailing”
Phlegeton: “the river of fire”
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Mount Olympus
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- Home to the Twelve Olympian gods Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus
- Met at the Pantheon
- Zeus has a throne because he is the Big Guy
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The Garden of the Hesperides
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- Here’s Golden Apple orchard in the west where he apples grant immortality
- Zeus gave Hera the tree
- Hesperides are there the watch the tree and a snake or hundred headed dragon is there to watch them
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Hesperides (nymphs)
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- Nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset
- Atlas is their father
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Atlas
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- Brother of Prometheus and helper of Titans
- Got in trouble during the Titan vs. gods war and has to hold up the earth
- Hercules almost got tricked into holding it for him but he was too smart for that
- Atlas got turned into stone when Perseus showed him Medusa’s Head now he is mountains
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Uranus (Father sky)
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- Son and Husband of Gaia
- Had 12 Titan children, three 100 handed Hekatonheires and some one eyed giants (Cyclopes)
- Gaia his her son Cronus so he could chop off his dads parts and free his other brothers and sisters from Tartarus
- Blood made Giants, Furies, and Meliae and the actual thing made Aphrodite
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Gaia
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- Mother Earth
- Made the Titans and married her son Uranus (the sky)
- Kids with Uranus:
- Cyclopes (Brontes, Steropes, Arges)
- Hekatonheires - Made Aristaeus immortal
- Gaia and Tartarus has a kid Typhon who was the last to try to take down Zeus
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Hyperion
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- “The High One”
- One of 12 Titan children
- Husband of Theia
- Son Helios (Sun), daughter Luna (moon), son Eos (dawn)
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Helios
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- The Sun
- Romans turned him into Apollo flying the Sun with a chariot
- Allowed Phatheon to try to fly the sun but he FAILED
- Whip and Globe
- Cock and Eagle
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Cronus
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- chopped of daddy’s stuff
- Father time with sickle/ scythe
- He and his sister Rhea ruled the world then his son (Zeus) cut him open after he ate all of his other children
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Titanomachy
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-Olympic gods vs. Titans
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Rhea
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- Daughter of Uranus and Gaia
- Lions
- Second largest moon orbiting Saturn
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Mnemosyne
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-Personification of memory
- Did Zeus to make the nine Muses
- Calliope: Epic Poetry
- Clio: History
- Euterpe: Music
- Erato: Lyrical Poetry
- Melpomene: Tragedy
- Polyhymnia: Hymns
- Terpsichore: Dance
- Thalia: Comedy
- Urania: Astronomy
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The Furies
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- female deities of vengeance/infernal goddesses
- Alecto (unceasing), Megaera (grudging), Tisiphone (vengeful destruction)
- emerged from Uranus’s penis blood
- live in Erebus
- listen to complaints from mortals
- brass studded scourges
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Aphrodite
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- Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation
- Created when her dads penis fell in Oceanus
- also known as Cytherea and Cypris
- No children but frequently unfaithful to her husband
- Depicted nude, ill tempered, vain, and easily offended
- Major player in Trojan war
- Paris got to pick which one was prettiest and they all bribed him and she won and the Hera and Athena were pissed and caused a war
- Dove, Cupid, mirror, Apple
- Slept with Adonis and Ares
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Cyclops
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- Brontes, Steropes, Arges
- Sons of Uranus and Gaia brothers of the Titans
- Helped create thunder bolts for Zeus and other weapons for the H war
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Hekatonheires
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- Hundred Hands Fifty Heads
- Uranus put them in Tartarus but Zeus took them out to use them against the Titans in the war
- Tried to put them back into Gaia’s womb because they were UGLY
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Prometheus
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- Titan
- god of forethought and crafty counsel
- molded mankind out of clay
- tricked the gods out of eating good food and gave it to mortals
- stole fire to give to mortals
- Zeus made him make Pandora to deliver misfortune to the house of man
- Bounded him to a stake
- An Eagle (Zeus’s symbol) are his regrowing liver forever
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Epimetheus
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- Titan god of afterthought and excuses
- got bored of making animals and bailed on the task leaving mankind lonely
- this is why his brother Prometheus stole the stuff from Olympus
- Married to Pandora
- She opened a jar and BAD SPIRITS came out
- only Hope (Elipis) stayed to help the unfortunate race
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Leto
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- Female Titan bride of Zeus and mother of twin gods Apollon and Artemis
- goddess of motherhood
- Like her sister Asteria May have been a goddess of night or of the light of day
- Hera didn’t want her to have her babies so she chased her around until she got to the floating island of Delos
- Lifting veil in gesture of modesty
- With two children
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Eos
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- Sister of Luna and Helios
- Depicted by chariot with winged horses or borne aloft on her own wings
- Liked young guys (cougar) because of Aphrodite
- Her lovers were Orion, Phaethon, Kephalos, and Tithonos
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The Centaurs
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- Half man Half Horse savages
- Inhabited the forests of Thessalian Magnesia
- Spawned by the cloud nymph Nephele after being violated by Ixion
- Got drunk at a wedding and almost extinct
- Fought with Hercules
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Antaeus
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- A Libyan giant who forced travelers to wrestle him
- Son of Poseidon and Gaia
- Got invincible Strength
- Herakles killed him by lifting him up and crushing his ribs
- Name means “Set-against” or “hostile”
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Satyrs
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- rustic fertility spirits of the countryside and wild
- escorted the Nymphai (nymphs) and we’re companions of the gods Dionysus, Hermes, Hephaistos, Pan, Rhea-Kybele, and Gaia
- donkey ears, pug noses, balding, horse tails, and “erect members”
- shown drinking, dancing, and playing flutes
- Panes: goat-legged satyrs
- Seilenoi: elderly satyrs
- Satyriskoi: child satyrs
- Tityroi: flute playing satyrs
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Typhoeus
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- Monstrous storm giant who tried to beat Zeus but got thrown into Tartarus
- Source of devastating storms from a dark nether realm
- Volcano giant trapped under Sicily
- had wings and was so tall his head touched the stars
- man shaped from the waist up but had two coiled serpents for legs, pointy ears, 100 serpent heads for fingers, a matted beard, and eyes that flashed with fire
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Asteria
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- Titan goddess of falling stars and perhaps of nighttime divinations such as oneiromancy (by dreams) and astrology (by stars)
- Mother of Hecate (goddess of witchcraft)
- Zeus chased her after the fall of the Titans but she transformed herself into a quail and jumped into the sea became the island Delos
- Her sister Leto gave birth to Apollon on the isle
