Theogony & more

Question 1

Chaos

Answer 1

emptiness

Theogony - Hesiod

Question 2

Eros

Answer 2

Desire
Theogony - Hesiod
worls comes from sexual disire, natueral

Question 3

Gaia

Answer 3

Earth

Theogony - Hesiod

Question 4

ouranos

Answer 4

sky
Son of gaia alone
With Gaia birthed Titans
Theogony - Hesiod

Question 5

typhoeus

Answer 5

monster of gaia and tartarus

last challenge of stability for zeus

Question 6

tartarus

Answer 6

abyss

Question 7

Orpheus

Answer 7

mortal son of the muse
musical power
eurydice engaged, bitten by snake
music to bring her back
puts Ceberus (dog of underworld) to sleep with music
Hades says can take her back if does not look at her

Question 8

Antigone

Answer 8

Sophecles

acheivments of man

Question 9

Perces

Answer 9

Works and days - Hesiod

brother of hesiod
takes more than his share from brother
is H encourages him not to follow Eris (god of Chaos) into the agora (town social center)

Question 10

Pandora

Answer 10

Works and days - Hesiod

punishment for prometheus gift to humans
before her, all men happy, without evils + illness
She was accepted by Epimetheus (Prom’s brother) from hermes after prom told him not to accept gifts from the gods
she opended the jar containing all evils accept Elpis (hope)- not god

Question 11

Myth of the 5 ages

Answer 11

Works and days - Hesiod

Golden- peace and plenty
never died, watch over all other ages, time of cronos

Silver- lived as clidren for 100 yrs
then suffered from follishness
fought and disrespected gods- zeus killed them all

Bronze- fearsome and warlike
everything bronze

Heroic- more just and noble, demigods
still fell to war (Troy)
pleasent afterlife like Golden

Iron- current age, toil and hardship
moral standards ignored