Quiz #3 Flashcards
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Zeus
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- Son of Cronos and Rhea
- Gave birth to Athena from his head
- Hesiod said Zeus got tricked
- Zeus has a conflict with Prometheus
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Athena
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- Had Pandora with Hephaestus
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Aphrodite
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- foam born goddess
- other tradition says she was born from Zeus and Dione
- Contributed to creation of Pandora
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Chaos
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- meaning void/chasm
- came Gaia, Tartarus and Eros
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Gaia
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- gave birth to Uranos, who became her equal & consort
- had 12 titans, 2 cyclops, 3 hectatonchires
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Eros
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- Came from Chaos
- Sibling to Gaia and Tartarus
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Tartarus
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- Son of Chaos
- Offspring: Typhoeus with Gaia
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Ouranos
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- son of Gaia, became Gaia’s equal and consort
- After his Castration came: Erinyes, Giants and Nymphs
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Cronos
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- Has 6 children with Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon
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Rhea
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- Child of Uranus and Gaia
- Part of the 12 Titans
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Hecatonchires
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- cottus, briarus, gyes
- the hundred handers
- have 100 arms and 50 heads
- huge, powerful beings
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Cyclops
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- giants with one eye
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Titans
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- pre olympian gods who ruled the cosmos in ancient Greek before the Titanomachy war
- giant, immortal deities
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Giants
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- offspring of Gais (Earth), born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by his Titan son Cronus
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Metis
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- goddess of wisdom
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Prometheus
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- “fore learner”
- Son of lapetus (TItan) anf Clymene (Oceanid)
- Brothers: Atlas, Menoetius and Epimetheus (After learner or dummy)
- At mecone when the humans & Gods were arguing, Prometheis taight humans how to make a sacrifice to the gods and tricked Zeus in doing so
- He stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans (making him god of fire)
- Archetypical trickster (tried to outsmart Zeus but in doing so… Hesiod said he was unable to)
- Archetypical culture hero/god
- In Works and Days said not to accept gifts from Zeus
- Pandora was made bcs Prometheus stole fire
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Epimetheus
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- Twin brother to Prometheus
- means “Afterthought” or “Hindsight”
- Got Pandora and a pithos (storage vessel)
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Atlas
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- Brother to Prometheus
- Led the rebellion against Zeus in the Titanomachy
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Pandora
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- Story from the Theogony 570-617
- Created by Hephaestus and Athena
-Story found in Works and Days 60-105 - Means “All Gifts”
- Gave herself and a pithos to Epimetheus
- Opened a jar that released all of the ills and hard toils of the world
- Made because Prometheus stole fire
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Philemon
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Baucis
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Diomedes
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Glaucos
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Chimaera
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- a snake-tailed, goat- and lion-headed creature that breathed fire
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Bellerophon
- tamed pegasus : accompanied him on all his quests
- King of Lycia ordered him to kill the Chimaera
- fought solymi and amazons
- ambushed by King of Lycia
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Proteus
- trojan soldier killed by Odyessus
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Antea
- an epithet of goddesses demeter, rhea and cybele
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Iobates
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Pytho
- a huge creature that was killed by Apollo at Delphi
- sacred animal
