Primordial Gods

Question 1

Who were Phorcys and Ceto

Answer 1

Children of Gaia and Pontus

together they gave birth to a number of monsters including Echidna (herself, the mother of monsters), The Gorgons, The Graeae and Ladon (the Hesparian Dragon who was slain by Heracles)

Question 2

Who are the Gorgons

Answer 2

Three children of Phorcys and Ceto

Stheno, Euryale and Medusa

Only Medusa wasn’t immortal

Question 4

In Hesiod’s Theogony, who is the God of Darkness, and who are his children

Answer 4

Erebus

married to Nyx (night)

Children include:

Aether (personification of the upper air that the God’s breathe)

Hemera (personification of day)

Question 5

Who were the two twin sons of the goddess Nyx

Answer 5

Hypnos (personification of sleep)

Thanatos (personification of death)

Question 5

Who were the Graeae

Answer 5

The grey witches

three children of Phorcys and Ceto

Three typically called Deino, Enyo and Pemphredo

In the film Clash of the Titans they are refered to as the Stygian witches

Question 6

Who were the children of Gaia

Answer 6

After bringing forth Uranus as an equal she bore

the hills (Ourea)

and the sea (Pontus)

both without union

and then with Uranus she brought forth the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Arges and the Hundred-Handers

Then with her son Pontus she bore various sea deities including

Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia

Question 7

According to Hesiod who was both the consort and son of Gaia

Answer 7

Uranus

• she brought hum forth as her equal to cover her on every side to be the abode of the gods.

Question 8

There are many identified primordial entities accoridng the various traditions, but which are the four great figures identified by Hesiod

Answer 8

Chaos (Void) - genderless

Gaia (Earth) - female

Tartarus (Hell) - male

Eros (Procreation) - male