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39 Cards in this Set
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Erichthonius |
an early Athenian king was born from the earth *autochthony* as a result from Hephaestus clumsy advances to Athena |
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Hermes' parents? |
Maia and Zeus He is known as being psychopomp Argeiphontes |
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Actaeon (Aktaion) |
hunter accidentally saw Artemis bathing changed into a stag and torn down to pieces by his own dogs: sparagmos |
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Callisto |
follower of Artemis was impregnated by Zeus, changed into a bear and gave birth to Arcas Arcas hunted her down thinking it was a bear Zeus turned them into a constellation |
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Apollo & Daphne |
Daphne didnt want to be with him asked to be and was transformed into a tree |
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Apollo & Hyacinth |
accidentally killed by Apollo's discus |
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Apollo and Coronis |
she was unfaithful so Apollo killed her |
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Apollo and Cassandra (trojan princess) |
he have her the gift of prophecy because she said she would be his lover. she changed her mind and he made the gift to be useless by having nobody believe her |
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Niobe |
mortal queen mother of 14 children boasted that she was superior to leto Apollo and Artemis slayed all her kids |
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Apollo |
model for ephebe (young man) leader and archer leader of muses |
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Asclepius |
god of medicine, Apollos son & Coronis |
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when was Hesiod stuff written down? |
Archaic Period (800-480 BCE) |
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what period was from the end of the persian wars to death of Alexander the great? |
Classical period |
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Pericles? |
major statesman makes Athens an intellecutual center |
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when did athens lose its prestige as a a great naval strength place? "Delian league"? |
after the peloponnesian wars against Sparta and allies 431-404 BCE Athens lost but remained cultural center of the world |
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Typhonomachy |
Gaia has sex with Tartarous => Thyphoios Thyphoios waged war against Olympians but was defeated by Zeus |
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Prometheus parents? |
Lapetos (Titan born from Gaia) slept with Clymene daughter of Titan Ocean |
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Themis (TITAN of Divine order) + Zeus |
Seasons Justice and Fates |
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Eurynome ( Titan of water meadow PASTURElands) + Zeus? |
Three graces, godesses of grace and beauty |
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Background on Eurynome? |
she was the former queen of olympus, before Kronos's rebellion after which she was thrown into Tartaros and freed by Zeus later she received Hephaestus when he was expelled from Olympus in the sea |
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Demeter? |
Godess of Agriculture and harvest |
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Demeter + Zeus? |
Persephone |
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Mnemosyne (titan of memory) + Zeus |
slept with Zeus for 9 consecutive days, lead to birth of 9 muses |
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Leto + Zeus |
at this point Zeus was married to Hera : Artemis and Apollo |
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Hera (Goddess of women and marriage) queen of heaven + Zeus |
4th and final wife Ares God of War Hebe Eternal youth Eileithyia goddess of childbirth |
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Hera asexually gave birth to: |
Hephaestus |
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Semele (mortal) + Zeus |
Semele: princess of thebes, daughter of cadmus and harmonia killed by Zeus through a trick of Hera
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Herakles |
Son of Zeus + Alkmene marries Hebe wins immortality |
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How does Prometheus steal fire? |
hides in a in a fennel stalk |
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In Theogony who is Pandra? |
she is just mentioned as a necessary evil, as the first woman, isnt named as Pandra. created by Hephaestus and Athena. Eros gives her irrestibility |
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what are the two different accounts for decline in works an days? |
prometheus and Pandra five ages of men |
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Pandora in works and days? |
many gods give her gifts hermes puts lies and cheating heart in her becomes epimetheus bride (brother of prometheus) |
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Golden age? |
age of Kronos everything is great |
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Silver age? |
100-years infancy with mother no worshipping so Zeus destroyed them |
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bronze age? |
war loving killed each other off forgotten |
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Age of heroes? |
race before Hesiod enjoy afterlife in isles of the blest |
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iron age |
Hesiods contemporaries very depressing war shame and nemesis will leave the earth bad things remain unpunished |
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Pandora + Epimetheus ? |
Pyrrha |
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Prometheus has a son Deucalion that..? |
marries Pyrrha they surive flood send by Zeus, repopulate earth by order of Themis |
