Quiz 1 Flashcards
Apollo
Olympian god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases
Artemis
Olympian god of wild animals and the hunt. Twin sister of apollo. Daughter of Leto and Zeus
Ares
Olympian god of war
Hermes
Olympian messenger god. Helps guide to the dead
Heracles
God of strength and heroic endeavor
Dionysus
Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy
Iris
Personification of the rainbow
Styx
One of the rivers of the underworld
Hekate
Goddess of Witchcraft & Necromancy
Perses
Human, brother of Hesiod
Metaneira
Queen of Eleusis
Keleos
One of the original priests of Demeter to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult
Gold generation
Kronos’s rule. Mortals lived among the gods
Silver generation
Beginning of Zeus’s rule. Humans became inferior to the gods, and the period ended when humans would not worship.
Bronze generation
Filled with hard people who loved war. Ended up killing themselves