Week 3, Chpt 6-8

Question 1

What did Hera’s use of Aphrodite’s girdle result in?

Answer 1

As an allegory for fertility, plants would grow on the Earth.

Question 2

What was the final resting place of Zeus?

Answer 2

Mt. Luktas

Question 3

Hera, she who sits on a golden throne

Answer 3

Goddess of marriage and childbirth.

Question 4

Poseidon, dark-haired lord of the deep

Answer 4

The Earth shaker, god of the sea and earthquakes. He produces grotesque offspring kind of like Pegasus.

Question 5

Hades, receiver of many

Answer 5

“The wealthy one”, invisible, although an immortal god he is not an Olympian.

Question 6

What is the story of Hades and Persephone an allegory for?

Answer 6

Greek girls and their experience in marriage, being taken away.

Question 7

Apollo

Answer 7

Physically perfect, unsuccessful with love, twin to Artemis. God of music, aristocratic concerns, and light. God of illness and healing. Became god of prophecy after killing a python and gaining an oracle in his temple.

Question 8

Hermes, psychopompus

Answer 8

God of travel, commerce, boundaries, theft, and trickery. Messenger of the gods. Invented the lyre.

Question 9

Caduceus

Answer 9

Hermes’ staff

Question 10

Pan

Answer 10

Son of Hermes, fertility in sexuality and in nature.

Question 11

Hephaestus

Answer 11

God of smiths, butt of the joke. Married to Aphrodite.