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Theogany Flashcards

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Hesiod

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Author, wrote Theogony and Works and Days

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Works and Days

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Bibliography/ manual on how to farm

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Mt. Helicon

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Muses visited him here

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Theogony

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Birth and origins of the gods and humans

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5
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Generational conflict winner

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Zeus

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6
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Similarities with Enumah Elish

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generational conflict

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7
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Monster gender

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female

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Order of creation

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chaos
Gaia, Tartaros, Eros, Uranos
Titans
Olympians

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Chaos

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void

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Gaia

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Earth

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Tartaros

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Underworld

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12
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Eros

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desire

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Uranos

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sky

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Titans

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Offspring of Gaia and Uranos, Uranos stuffs them back up into Gaia, Rhea, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Kronos

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Kronos

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Castrates Uranos, has Olympians with Rhea, eats Olympians

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Aphrodite

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born of members of Uranos

17
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Sickle of adamanteum

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directly from Hittite myth

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Furies

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Born of blood of Uranus, kill those who kill family members

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Olympians

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Offspring of Rhea and Kronos, eaten by Kronos, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus

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Rhea

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Tricks Kronos by giving him a rock instead of Zeus and tricks Kronos to vomit the others up

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Titanomachy

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Battle Olympians vs Titans, Titans thrown into Tartaros

22
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Who rules in the end?

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Zeus and Hera

23
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Themes

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generational conflict
fathers stop birth
mothers/women instigate rebellion
Women are bad

24
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Who did Prometheus side with?

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Olympians

25
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What did Prometheus have?

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Foresight

26
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Why do humans not eat with gods?

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Prometheus tricked Zeus, so Zeus decides men cannot eat with the gods

27
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What did Prometheus give man?

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fire

28
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Creation of woman

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Punishment for giving man fire, Pandora (as named in other myths) built by Hephaistos and Athena, given to man as a trick, she open the box with all evil

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