Greek Mythology
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- values held dear by the greeks
- beauty, marriage & infidelity, love & hate, peace & war, trust & betrayal, & innocence & lust
- did they live in marital bliss
- yeah
- hestia.....(sister of zeus)
- virgin goddess. worshipped by women who dedicated themselves to chastity
- dryads
- nymphs that lived in tha woods & dwelled inside trees
- what happnd to pro, the young titan
- he was chained to a rocky cliff AND zeus sent a vulture by day to devour pro liver and intestines. at night they grew back but the next day it happd all over again...........w0ww...........
- did hephaestus like punishing pro.?
- no no no...pro. was good and kind!
- shades
- (buried souls)
- all except ______________.
- atlas, whose job was to hold up the sky while standing at the edge of the earth
- cronus now became leader of the ______, even though he was the _______
- titans; youngest
- 2 parts that make up hades
- erebus & tartarus
- where did the cyclopes build a palace for the gods
- mt. olympus
- who did zeus send
- twin giants. kratos ( power ) & bia ( force ) to see hephaestus to have him bound pro.
- erato
- love poetry
- tartarus
- deeper region of no escape
- chinese folklore
- fuhi(father of chinese civilization) escaped great flood w/ wife, 3 sons, & 3 daughters. painting-fuhi's boat in water w/ dove carrying olive branch swimming toward it
- what is mythology
- an attempt to provide answers to ?'s a/b the world
- what gift did zeus give pandora
- curiousity
- why did the gods reign for many years & why were they unable to die
- b/c ichor flowed through their veins
- poets in need of inspiration have called upon _________ for centuries
- the 9 muses
- who did zeus order to make pandora
- hephaestus
- gaea created ______ & ________, b/c she __________
- typhon & echidna(created to defeat zeus), b/c she was angry that zeus had confined the titans in tarturus
- was epimetheus known for his intelligence
- no...
- erebus
- place of arrival
- clio
- history
- who also lived there
- sleep & death
- what monstrous figures lived near the entrance of hades
- the harpies, the gorgons, and the centaurs
- nereids
- daughters of poseidon that lived in the sea
- who did zeus call for to bring the woman hephaestus had made
- hermes
- zeus=
- master of the skies & earth
- what character in the bible does pandora resemble
- eve
- why was zeus fearful
- b/c pro. had strengthened the human race & he was scared humans would rebel against the gods
- what did uranus do w/ his children
- he decided to imprison them in the depths of the earth
- who named pandora
- hermes
- pro. still believed that humans needed
- fire
- how did the greeks bury their dead
- w/ coins in mouths to pay charon (ferryman on river) for passage to styx
- with dione, zeus produced
- aphrodite
- who was in tartarus
- titans, tantalus, sisyphus, exion, danards, and tityus
- who created the mtns & the seas
- gaea(mother earth)
- terpsichore
- choral dance & song
- pan?
- the great earth god, the god of woods & fields. half man & half goat
- did pro. see punishment coming
- yep.
- prometheus' name means
- "foresight" (he knew how the battle would end & he sided w/ winners)
- calliope
- epic poetry
- iapetus mated w/ the nymph _______ & they produced _____________________________
- clymens; atlas, prometheus, epimetheus, and menocticus
- what did metis advise zeus to do
- to create allies to overthrow cronus. she gave cronus herb that she promised to make cronus "unconquerable" but it caused him to vomit up children & rock
- demeter........(sister of zeus)
- oversaw task of helping to grow crops
- 3 fates
- clotho- spun threads of person's youth. lachesis- wound them on spindle. atropos- eldest symbol of death who cut threads w/ shears
- the gods who lived on mt. olympus had control over
- earth & nature, but they had no decision of length of handiwork
- the titans rebelled against the gods all except
- oreanus, epimetheus, & prometheus
- aphrodite is the goddess of _____________________
- love, beauty, & romance
- what power did epimetheus give to humans
- powers to make them greater than the animals
- who were the shades judged by
- a tribunal led by hades
- who was the messenger of the gods
- iris (rainbow) between earth & olympus
- what did the 4 seasons do to pandora
- combed her hair & breathed life into her
- greeks created gods _______________
- in their own image
- artemis was the goddess of the....
- moon
- who could not cross
- unburied souls
- who was king of the underworld
- hades
- what do many great mythologies share the 2 stories of
- 1) creation of man from dust & 2) flood that destroyed the earth
- in the beginning there was ____
- chaos-modern meaning confusion. comes from greek word that means abyss
- what is the underworld
- where the shades of the dead go for reward or punishment after death
- euterpe
- lyric poetry
- hera......(sister of zeus)
- became zeus' wife & patron goddess of family & marriage
- zeus released ___________
- the cyclopes & other monstrous children of uranus
- sons of hera & zeus
- ares(god of war) & hephaestus (god of forge, but became blacksmith of the gods)
- contributions made by the greeks
- olympics, science & math, drama & poetry, medicine, mythology, paintings & sculptures, philosophy, classical literature, & law govt. & democracy
- who was eventually to free pro
- hercules
- b4 zeus married hera, who did he marry
- metis- produced athene(unusual birth)
- the others went to
- the elysian fields
- zeus ________ & _______
- banished cronus to the ends of the earth; set himself up as master of the universe
- who was queen of the underworld
- persephone
- how was aphrodite brought into the world
- she arose from the foam in the sea where cronus had thrown uranus' body parts into the sea
- who taught men how to walk
- epimetheus
- who did hephaestus use as a model to make pandora
- aphrodite
- cronus married ________, & they gave gave birth to the first 6 gods _____________________________
- rhea; zeus, hades, poseidon, (female...)hera, demeter, & hestia
- poseidon=
- god of the seas & oceans
- what did epimetheus do with the jar
- hid it from her in a cup board
- she became the goddess of ...
- wisdom
- where was pro. place of punishment
- caucasus mtns.
- who did gaea marry
- uranus(sky)
- did pro. defy zeus
- yes
- lenni lenape indians in north america
- time when powerful snake made all men evil. sent water to destroy everthing. man named monabozho (gfather of all men) saved by riding on the back of a great turtle
- who were the centaurs
- half man and half horse
- nymphssssssss
- beautiful young women who guarded different parts of nature
- gods could not interfere with whattttt
- the wrk. of these 3 sistas
- were humans amazed by fire
- Yeah!! and thay drew close!
- gaea & uranus' children
- 12 titans, 3 cyclopes, & 3 monsters
- what did pro. make men out of to please zeus
- clay
- with maia(daughter of atlas), they produced....
- hermes "herald of the gods"
- hades=
- lord of the underworld
- why were the caucasus mtns. terrible
- wind, lighting, & snow!
- pro. knew that humans needed ability to...
- think! he taught them all the things that athene had taught him
- polyhymnia
- sacred poetry
- who finally made peace w/ who
- gaea made peace w/ zeus
- there are more than ___ flood stories & historic records in the world
- 270
- those who committed crimes went to
- tartarus
- when you first arrived at the underworld you.........
- crossed the river styx to hades
- what biblical figures do deucalion & pyrrha resemble
- noah & wife
- pandora was beautiful but she couldn't.......?
- speak.
- who was the one child that would help gaea kill uranus
- cronus
- what 5 rivers separated hades from the world above
- acheron, cocytus, phlegethon, styxm and lethe
- who were the gorgons
- 3 sisters- euryale, stethro, & medusa
- what did pro. teach humans in addition
- - how to build houses. - basics a/b medicine. - how to write. - how to figure arithmetic
- oceanus married _________
- tethys. and they gave birth to the earth's rivers
- who were echidnas children that zeus allowed to live
- nemean lion, cerberus, ladon, chimera, sphinx, & hydra
- pan often played his
- "pipes" - set of tubes made of reeds bound together
- did epimetheus marry pandora
- yeah
- apollo was the god of the....
- sun
- where did pro. make fire
- from the hearth on mt. olympus. caught spark in hollow fennel stalk & built bonfire for men
- why did gaea want to kill uranus
- b/c she disapproved of him imprisoning their children
- with leto (daughter of titan, coeus), zeus produced twins _________ & ______
- apollo & artemis
- rhea sneaked away ____ in a ______ w/ his gmother, _____
- zeus; cave; gaea
- everybody fled from typhon & echidna by
- disquising themselves as animals
- who was the guardian of hades
- cerberus- a 3 headed dog w/ tail of dragon
- the 9 muses....?!?!?!?!
- -daughters of zeus & mnemosyne. - lived on heights of mounts parnassus, pindos, and helieon. - springs & streams were sacred to them. - palm & laurel. - goddesses of various arts.... mostly literature
- who gave pandora a voice
- hermes
- thalin
- comic drama
- b/c cronus was fearful that one of his children would murder him, what did he do to each child as it was born
- swallowed them
- how did cronus kill uranus
- he crept into his room at night, killed him, & mutilated his body
- what did echidna do
- she fled to a cave
- what were zeus' next orders for hephaestus
- to take pandora to epimetheus & tell him that she was a peace offering & she was to be epimetheus wife. jar as dowry
- what does epimetheus' name mean....?
- "hindsight"
- how long was this punishment to meant to last
- eternity
- which primitive civilizations have their own mythologies
- greeks, romans, aztecs, egyptians, indians, chinese, native americans, & vikings
- how did the cyclopes reward him for releasing them
- they gave zeus a thunderbolt used to create fire from heaven
- from now on pro. = prometheus
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- urania
- astronomy
- when across the river where did they go
- to lethe to drink
- who did zeus marry
- metis, a titan daughter(goddess of prudence)
- who were hyperion & theia's children
- helios-(the sun), selene-(the moon), and eos-(the dawn)
- how long did the battle last
- 10 yrs
- what's another myth for when after pan opens the box
- zeus wiped out mankind w/ flood saving only deucalion & pyrrha to repopulate the earth
- melpomene
- tragic drama
- who does poseidon look like
- tritan!!!!! from the little mermaid!!!!!!!!!!
- was pan often seen?
- noo but wheneva he played his music, ppl who were in the woods would panic!!! bahahahahaha.
- what all went inside the jar
- misery! sickness! death! hardwork! anger! jealousy! madness! hunger! old age! and hope was tucked away at the bottom
- who were the 3 goddesses that controlled the destiny of every mortal
- the fates
- who was the greatest of the titans
- prometheus!
- zeus pinned typhon under
- mt. etna ... making him a volcano
- pro. went on a long journey & left epimetheus wit a wat!
- BOX
- pro. would have to teach men to use fire how?
- wisely....
- gods never died.....why.......
- b/c they live on in myths & in the constellations
- what item in the jar was buried at the bottom
- hope
- zeus was preparing a
- jar
- who had warned who not to take gifts from the gods
- pro.; epi
- what happened when pandora opened the jar
- scream & smell & then a wind rushed out & evil came into the world
- who dressed pandora
- the other gods
- after the titans were defeated what happd to them
- zeus severly punished them by bounding most of them w/ chains & threw them into the depths of the earth