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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

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