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Week 2/3 Flashcards

1
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hieros gamos

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sacred marriage of “earth mother” and “sky father”

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2
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first order in hesiod theogony

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chaos, gaia, tartarus, eros, erebus

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3
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types of children from gaia and uranus

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titans, cyclopes, hecatonchires

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4
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parents of oceanids

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oceanus and tethys

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5
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hyperion (sun god) and theia children

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helius (sun god)
selene (moon goddess)
eos (dawn goddess)

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6
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selene and endymion myth

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endymion is a shepherd who selene falls in love with, she sleeps beside him every night and asks zeus to grant him perpetual sleep and youth

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7
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eos and tithonus

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eos falls in love with mortal, asks zeus for immortality, but forgets perpetual youth, he gets old and eos stays away

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8
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who castrates uranus

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kronos

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9
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from what and where is aphrodite born

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the sea foam from the severed genitals around cythera and the island of cyprus

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10
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what does cronus do to his kids

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he fears the prophecy of being overthrown, so he eats his children

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11
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kronos wife and kids

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rhea
demeter, hestia, hera
zeus, posiedon, hades

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12
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rhea’s plan

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she talks to gaia and uranus, gaia tells her to go to island of crete and give cronus a stone to eat instead

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13
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curetes

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rhea’s attendant’s who guard zeus and make noise to drown out his crying

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14
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where is zeus born

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mt dicte in crete
alternate version in arcadia

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15
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amalthea

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zeus’s nymphs with milk of goat

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16
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erinyes

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mighty giants from genital blood

17
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meliae

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nymphs of ash trees from genital blood

18
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divine myth

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stories of the actions of gods and the events that follow

19
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aphrodite epithets

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foam born goddess
cytherea of the beautiful crown
cyprogenes
philommedes (genital loving)

20
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aphrodite urania

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born from uranus genitals, ethereal and sublime

21
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aphrodite pandemos

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born from zeus and dione, essentially physical

22
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dual nature of aphrodite

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urania and pandemos; antitheses, sacred vs. profane love

23
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aphrodites son

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priapus, fertility god and bringer of luck with big phallus, apotropaic

popular with romans, comic

24
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aphrodite’s attendants

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graces (charites)
horae (seasons)

25
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pygmalion myth

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aphrodite enraged with lack of piety in cyprus women, makes them first prostitutes
pygmalion disgusted with women, creates statue and falls in love with it, prays for aphrodite to turn into real woman - ovid

26
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eros dual tradition

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  1. early cosmic deity in hesiod theogony
  2. son of aphrodite and ares
27
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pygmalion and galitea (statue) son

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paphos

28
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aphrodite and adonis part 1

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paphos son cinyras had a daughter myrhha, who fell in love with her father, tricked him into sleeping with her. when he found out he tried to kill her, she fled and prayed and was turned into a myrrh tree, the tree split and she had her son adonis

29
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aphrodite and adonis part 2

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aphrodite fell in love with adonis and warned him against hunting, but he did not listen and was killed by a boar. his blood became anemone, and ritual to aphrodite were performed annually (ovid)

30
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aphrodite and anchises

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zeus is upset by aphrodite’s ability to control him, makes her fall in love with mortal, she seduces him, but after she reveals herself he begs for immortality because he knows what happens to mortal men that sleep with goddesses. aphrodite tells him he will have a great son aeneas (homeric hymn)

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32
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symposium of plato

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aristophanes and socrates speak on eros

33
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socrates stages in the hierarchy of love

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philosper moves through these through knowledge of eros
sensual
generic
philosophical

34
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cupid and pysche myth

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aphrodite is jealous of beauty of pysche, sends cupid but cupid falls in love. When pysche is supposed to be married to serpent she ends up in cupid’s palace, sisters are jealous, trick her into looking a cupid’s face, he wakes up and gets burnt, venus is mad and sets impossible tasks for pysche, she does them all with help from gods and cupid, they marry ordained by zeus

35
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who was socrates instructed in the true nature of eros by

A

diotima

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