Mythology
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- Ge/Gaia
- the Earth
- Aeneas
- Son of Aphrodite and Anchises, national hero of the roman state
- Tartarus
- the underworld
- Prometheus
- maker/benefactor of the human race, fire-bringer, Symbol of human advancement via technology
- Titans
- Early generation of gods, 6 male, 6 female. Personifications of natural phenomena
- Pontus
- the sea, comes from Ge
- Crete
- Where Zeus grows up
- Ares/Mars
- god of war
- Minerva
- Athena
- Uranus
- the sky, comes from Ge
- Eros
- Love
- Callisto
- Nymph that Zeus rapes and gets pregnant, banished from Diana's group
- Dionysus/Bacchus
- goddess of wine, drama, fruit, music, dance and drink
- Cronus
- Uranus son who castrates him
- Zeus
- gets the heavens
- Hestia, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Zeus
- First 6 Olympians
- Hyancinthus
- little boy Apollo wants to freak with, turns into flower
- Artemis
- Diana
- Aphrodite
- Venus
- Neptune
- Poseidon
- Demophoon
- mortal that Demeter tries to make into a god after losing Persephone, son of metaneira
- Hephaestus
- Vulcan
- to burn
- Greek root word: Vesta
- Athena/Minerva
- goddess of war, crafts/weaving, and wisdom. Virgin goddess
- Vesta
- Hestia
- Hades
- gets the Underworld
- Juno
- Hera
- Jupiter
- Zeus
- Pandora
- Mankind's punishment, has jar that she released all of mankinds evils from
- The Muses
- 9 daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne
- Daphne
- Approached by Apollo and turns into a tree
- Hieros Gamos
- Sacred marriage
- Eros/Cupid
- name means "love" in Greek, in latin, "desire" --- Son of aphrodite
- Aphrodite/Venus
- goddess of love, beauty, and sex. Both spiritual and physical
- Priapus
- Son of Aphrodite, god of fertility
- Niobe
- Talks **** about Leto, Apollo & Artemis kill her 14 kids
- Ceres
- Demeter
- Hestia
- Vesta
- Demeter
- Ceres
- Maenads
- Female attendents of Dionysus, crazy women with drums
- Demeter/Ceres
- goddess of grain and agrilculture
- Hestia/Vesta
- Goddess of the Hearth Fire
- Hesiod
- Had epiphany on Mt. Helicon, the muses appeared to him and passed on the song to him, he wrote Theogony
- Titanomachy
- Olympians vs. Titans
- Hephaestus/Vulcan
- god of crafts, metal working, and fire -- was lame from birth
- Erebus
- the gloom of Tartarus
- Bacchus
- Dionysus
- Hebe
- goddess of youth (name means 'youth') / Cup bearer on Mt. Olympus
- Cassandra
- Apollo gives her anything for love, gives her power of prophecy, she doesnt beat, no one ever believes her
- Ares
- Mars
- Dionysus/Bacchus
- born from Zeus' thigh
- Poseidon
- Neptune
- Deucalion and Pyrrha
- two most virtuous and good people that repopulated the world after the Great Flood
- moist
- Roman root: Neptune
- Eileithyia/Lucina
- goddess of childbirth
- Mars
- Ares
- Pan
- god of woodlands and shepherds, half goat/half human
- Saturn
- Cronus roman name
- virgin
- "parthenos"
- Ursa Major & Ursa Minor
- What Zeus turns Callisto and Arcas into
- Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroes, Iron
- Ages in Hesiod's Work and Days
- Hippolytus
- Devout worshipper of Artemis, Phaedra tries to **** him, Theseus is angry--has him killed by Poseidon
- Dionysus
- Bacchus
- Zeus
- God of all Gods
- Arcas
- Callisto's son
- Gigantomachy
- Olympians vs. Giants
- Hermes
- Mercury
- Apollo
- god of poetry, music, prophecy, colonization, the sun, medicine, healing, archery
- Mercury
- Hermes
- Venus
- Aphrodite
- Artemis/Diana
- goddess of animals, hunting, childbirth and the moon --- sister of Apollo
- Vulcan
- Hephaestus
- Diana
- Artemis
- Zeus
- Jupiter
- Ge and Uranus
- 12 Titans, 3 Cyclopes, 3 Hecatonchires come from these two
- Lycaon
- terrible person Zeus meets before the Great Flood
- Athena
- Minerva
- Actaeon
- Sees Diana nude and is turned into a stag
- Poseidon/Neptune
- god of seas, waterways, and earthquakes
- Uranus Genitals
- Aphrodite is born from this
- The Fates
- 3 daughters of Zeus & Themis, control destiny of each human being
- Poseidon
- gets the Seas
- Hera
- Juno
- Satyrs
- Half man, half goat that try to **** everything, chase Maenads around
- bright
- root word: Zeus/Jupiter
- Persephone
- raped by Hades --- 8 months/4 months