Week 4, Chpt 9-11 Flashcards
How did Hephaestus return to Olympus?
Delegation sent to Earth to get Hephaestus to set his mother free form the golden throne. To do this they got him drunk.
Hateful Ares
God of War
Who was the first to be put on trial for murder?
Ares, for murdering his daughter’s rapist. It was considered justified and he was set free.
Ares in Roman
Mars
Aphrodite of the
Golden Laughter
Aphrodite in Roman
Venus
Aphrodite was born from
sea foam.
Who always accompanied Aphrodite?
Eros
Who is immune to Aphrodite’s power?
The virgin goddesses: Athena, Hestia, and Artemis.
Artemis, Potnia Theron
Queen of Wild Things. Mistress of Animals. Fertility in terms of wild spaces.
A woman who dies in childbirth was struck by the arrows of
Artemis
Who was Iphigenia sacrificed for and why?
Artemis. Greek warrior leading the ships to Troy unsuccessful because he boasted to be better than Artemis. The priest told him he must sacrifice a human life in order to sale to Troy.
Who was Niobe?
Niobe boasted that she put Artemis’s mother to shame in terms of fertility. All of her children were killed as Artemis’s and Apollo’s vengeance.
Why is the constellation Orion always running away from the Scorpio in the night sky?
He tried to rape Artemis. She set a scorpion on his head, he was stung to death and placed in the sky to forever be fleeing from the scorpion.
Acteon was torn apart by his own hunting dogs after Artemis turned him into a stag for stumbling upon her naked. What is this an allegory for?
How expensive hunting dogs were, someone may find themselves torn apart financially by their hunting dogs.
Where does Athena take her name FROM?
The city of Athens.
Athena is the goddess of
war, domestic craft, and weaving.
Who came on Athena’s leg in order to birth Erichtonius?
Hephaestus
How did Arachne come to be a spider?
She wove a piece with all of the god’s affairs on it in a weaving contest. In anger Athena sliced her face. Arachne hung herself and Athena turned her into a spider.
Who is Persephone’s Mom?
Demeter
Demeter is the goddess of
grains and the harvest
Persephone was taken to the underworld by her father Zeus’s permission to be with Hades. What is this an allegory for?
The marriage of Greek girls.
Parthenos –> Nymphe –> Gune
Virgin –> Nymph –> Mother
3 phases of a complete life as a Greek woman.
Who approached Demeter and gave her a home and a job?
The daughters of Eleusis’s King: Celeus.
