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40 Cards in this Set
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Children of Ouranos and Gaia
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Hundred Handers, Cyclopes. (Thrown into Tartaros by Ouranos)
Titans (Encouraged by Gaia to attack Ouranos) |
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Imprisons Hundred Handers and Cyclopes again after Titans let them out.
Swallows his children because of prophecy, except Zeus. |
Cronos
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Know how to tell lies, but also how to tell the truth.
Help kings to rule with straight justice. Represent culture |
Muses
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Political order
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Justice of Zeus
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Strife
(Threat to political order) |
Eris
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Chaos produces Night and Erebos (darkness)
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Asexual division
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"Virgin birth"
Gaia's children- Ouranos, Mountains, Sea |
Parthenogenesis
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Different types of matter collide
Ouranos' blood + Gaia Erinyes, Giants, Ash-tree nymphs Ouranos' blood + Oceanos Erinyes in Apollodorus Aphrodite |
Elemental Union
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"Sacred marriage"
Ouranos (sky) + Gaia (Earth) Oceanos (sea) + Gaia (Earth) Night + Erebos produces Day + Aether (Daylight) |
Hieros gamos
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Fates
Clotho Lachesis Atropos |
Spinner
Apportioner Inflexible |
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Goddess of vengeance for murder victims, produced when Cronos and Ouranos
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Erinyes
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Punishment for fire
____= gives gown, tiara, skill in embroidery, and weaving ____= gives her grace, makes her desirable, capacity to cause pain ____ = gives her a "bitchy mind" and "lyin, cheatin' heart" ____= all gifts |
Pandora
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"Afterthought"
Marries Pandora |
Epimetheus
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Symbolic of transformation from virgin to sexually active wife
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Pandora opens jar
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Large container= Pandora herself
Smaller round box with lid |
Pithos
Pyxis |
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Lazy, dirty
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Sow woman
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Opinionated, know-it-all
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Vixen woman
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Will not be quiet
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Bitch woman
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Made of clay, is always eating
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Earth
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Moody
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Sea
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Puts up with work, eats a lot, and sleeps around
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Ass woman
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Not graceful, sex crazed, and a thief
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Weasel woman
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Trophy wife, beautiful, needs constant attention
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Mara woman
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Not attractive, constantly scheming to hurt people
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Monkey woman
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The only good one
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Bee woman
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Raped by Poseidon and punished by her father (blinds and imprisons her)
Claims that women are treated unjustly because they contribute a good deal to society. |
Melanippe
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Tests Zeus by serving him human flesh
Is punished by turning him into a savage wolf Zeus stopped dining with mortals |
Lycaon
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Occured during reign of Titans
Men are characterized by no old age Death comes easy, like sleep After death their spirits roamed the earth as guardians. |
Golden Age
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Occured during reign of Olympians
Characterized by a long childhood Simple minded, harmed each other, did not sacrifice to gods Inhabited earth at their deaths |
Silver Age
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Men of this age were created by Zeus
Monstrous, violent, and self destructive Sent to Hades at their death |
Bronze Age
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Created by Zeus
Heroes took part in wars of Thebes and Troy Inhabited Isles of the Blessed after death |
Age of Heroes
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Current age. Last age created by Zeus.
Worst- characterized by much suffering and doomed to punishment because of the breakdown of justice. |
Iron Age
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Son of the Sun.
Tricks his father into letting him drive chariot. Burns up world. Zeus blasts him with thunderbolt. Zeus must cause flood to put fire out. |
Phaethon
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Son of Prometheus
Daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora Only surivivors of flood caused by Zeus Deucalion requests there to be more people Throw rocks and creates people. |
Deucalion and Pyrrha
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Three Developmental Models
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Progress, Decline, Catastrophe
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Forethought
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Prometheus
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Afterthought
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Epimetheus
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Creates humans from clay
Gives Zeus choice of two sacrifices Zeus punishes him by keeping fire from men. Steals fire and hides it in fennel stalk He is chained to a mountain in the Caucasus Mountains. Liver is eaten by eagle |
Prometheus
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Zeus' daughter
One of the Horai (Hours, Seasons) Related to Eunomia (Good Order) Eirene (Peace) |
Justice Dike
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Daughter if Inachus, priestess of Hera
Zeus ravishes her in the form of a cloud Turns her into a cow Mother of Epaphus Marries king of Egypt Erects statue of Demeter (associated with Isis) |
Io
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