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35 Cards in this Set
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Age of Hesiod
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675 BCE
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Age of Homer
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750 BCE
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Bronze Age
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3000-1200 BCE
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Destruction of Troy / Fall of Troy
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1230 ; 1190 BCE
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Dark Ages
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1200-800 BCE
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Iron Age
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1050 BCE
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Dorian Invasion
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1100 - 100 BCE
Tribe of Dorian |
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Archaic Period
Tyrant |
750 - 675 BCE
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Classic Period
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479 - 323 BCE
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1st Athenian Constitution
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508
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Chaos / Abyss
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1st was chaos, emptiness w/ potential for creation, primal abyss
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Gaia
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mother, Earth source of existence
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Nyx
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(night) breeding with darkness (Erebos) produced light and day, dark spirits
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Tartarus
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cosmic basement, fathomless abyss, elemental entity
Titans banished |
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Eros
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driving force in procreation
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Ouranos
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sky God, rules Earth, refuses to allow Gaia to give birth
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Kronos
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youngest of Titans, tricked father into taking poison, castrated father with Cycle
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Oceanos
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Titan of all rivers / gigantic river encircled Earth
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Hyperion
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Personification of the Sun , titan
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Rheia
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Mother of Zeus, tricked Kronus
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Themis
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personified justice + Law
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Mnemosyne
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Titaness of Memory . Remembrance ; mother of Muses
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Metis
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Zeus swallowed to shape Athene
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Prometheus
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Forethought, aligned with Zeus
Creator/Savior of Humans, developed civilization Negottiations w/ Gods + Men: Tricked Zeus - Took fire ; Stole Fire , punished with Eagle |
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Atlas
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cursed to hold up the sky
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Zeus
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(Jupiter) King of Gods , Conqueror of Titans
God of Order/Justice, Crete, Olympia , Symbols: eagle, thunderbolt |
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Sisophus
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told on Zeus who abducted Aegina, bribed father to give water to Corinthe, sent to Underworld, tricked God of Death, cursed to move rock in underworld
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oral tradition
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how pre-literate societies communicated, singers stitch together stories
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polytheism
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belief in/ worship of more then one God
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Invocation
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invoking someone for assistance
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Tantalus
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Tantalus – favored by Gods allowed to dine w/ , cooked/served own son and punished to tormented starvation/thirst
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Europa
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Europa – had dream continents were fighting over her, Zeus transformed into bull and stole
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Callisto
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raped by Zeus, turned into a bear; ultimately the Bear Constellation, Virgin follower of Artemis
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Theogony vs Cosmogony
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Gods Birth vs the Worlds Birth
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Succession Myth
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inter-generational conflict
old vs young gods |
