Myth Test #1

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What was the reason to study Greek mythology? 3

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-shows the way human race thought and felt untold ages ago
-leads up back to when people had connection with earth and nature
-provides us images of anything possible and not have to be right or wrong

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What was the Greek miracle?

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new birth of the world with the awakening of Greece
old things are gone and all things are new

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Greek mythology began with...

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Homer

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When was the Iliad written?

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1000 BC

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new point of view?

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realization of mankind
revolution in thoughts

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Greek gods

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centered in human beings
exceedingly humanly attractive

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did gods have any resemblance of reality before the greek gods?

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no

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universe became ___

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rational

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What was Homer's style of writing?

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beautiful, subtle language

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how did sculptors and artists perceive the daily world?

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saw beauty and gods in the men

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miracle of greek mythology

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men doesn't have to fear the unknown
scary spirits were banned

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human god's made heaven __

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familiar

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why are monsters present?

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to give the hero a chance for glory

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ovid was a __ poet

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latin

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when was ovid living?

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during the reign of Augustus

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What did Ovid do with myths?

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told almost all of them and at great length

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what did Ovid think of myths?

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nonsense, but understands their excellence to him

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Who was Hesoid?

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poor farmer with hard life

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Hesoid was the first Greke man to..

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onder how eveyrthing had happened

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which myth did Hesoid write about?

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Theogony

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what was the "Theogony"?

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account of creation of universe and generation of gods--about mythology

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what was "words and days" about?
and who wrote it?

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about living good life
hesoid

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What didn't Virgil believe in? But what did he find in them?

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myths, but found human nature in them

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what did Virgil bring from myths?

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personages to life

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Is Virgil roman or Greek?

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Roman

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Homer is the ____ of poetry

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father

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what did Homer write about? which was older?
What were they about?

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Odyssey - about journey
Iliad - about war
Iliad wa older

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Homer is an important ___ of myths

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source

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___ a river which the gods swore by

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Styx

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__ a ferryman of the Styx River who was paid a ___

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Charon; coin placed in the mouth of the dead at the time of their burial

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__ a three-headed dog which guarded the gates of Hades

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Cerebus

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___ a river which souls drank from to cause forgetfulness

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Lethe

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___ ___ paradise;

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home of poets, heroes, artists, and wise men

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_______ had to be crossed befoer the dead could enter the Underworld, aka ___

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all five rivers; Hades

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what are the five rivers of the Underworld?

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Styx
Charon
Acheron
Lethe
Cocytus

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Greek Vulcan/Mulciber

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Hephaestus

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Roman Hermes

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Mercury

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Roman Ares

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Mars

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Roman Apollo

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Phoebus Apollo

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Roman Artemis

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Diana

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Roman Hestia

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Vesta

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Greek Mercury

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Hermes

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Greek Mars

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Ares

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Greek Phoebus ___

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Apollo

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Greek Diana

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Artemis

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Greek Vesta

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Hestia

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Gorgons
how many
immortal?
appearance
ability

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3
2 are immortal
dragonlike with wings
their looks turn men into stone

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the 2 important Fates are...

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Clotho
Atropos

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What does Clotho do?

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the spinner-spun the thread of life

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What does Atropos do?

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carried the "abhorred shears" and cut the thread at death

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What are the nereids?
and how many of them?

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50 daughters of neureus and Doris

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Who is Mnemosyne?

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Memory--mother of muses

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Who is Eurynome?

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mother of graces

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Boreas?

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North Wind

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Eurur

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East wind

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Notus

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South Wind

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Zephyr

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west wind

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what does Mirth mean?

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happiness

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the 3 graces are..

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Euphrosyne
Agalia
Thalia

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Euphrosyne means

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mirth

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Agalia means

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splendor

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Thalia means

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good cheer

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3 of the nine muses?

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calliope
thalia
terpsicore

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calliope is..

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muse of (epic) poetry

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thalia is..

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muse of comedy

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terpsicore is..

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muse of dance

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Who is Thetis?

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Mother of Achilles
nymph of Nereid

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at first there was ___, a ________________

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Chaos, vase immeasureable abyss/vase seething darkness

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into Chaos, two children wre born: ___ and ____
then into this, ___ was born

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Night and Erebus (Hades)
Love

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Graudlaly the shapeless nothingness ceased to be mere darkness and confusion. It resolved into two great beings: ___ or ____ and _____, the _____

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Gaea, Mother Earth, Ouranus/Uranus, Father Heaven

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For revenge on mankind, Zeus made ___

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Pandora

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Pandora is the first

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woman

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All gods gave her gifts. They called her __ which means _____

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Pandora, "the gift of all"

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The source of all misfortune wasn't Pandora's wicked nature, but only her ___

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curiosity

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The gods presented Pandora a box in which each of them had put ____

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something harmful

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The gods gave Pandora a box and ____

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forbade her to open it

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The gods sent Pandora to Epimetehus who _____ although Prometheus had ___

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took her gladly, warned him not to accept anything from Zeus

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Pandora had to know what was in the box, so she lifted the lid and out flew ______ for mankind

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plagues innumerable, sorrow and misfortune

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Pnadora closed the lid, but it was too late. The only good that was in the box was ___

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hope

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What is the Story of the "Great Deluge"?

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Man were getting so wicked that Zeus decided to destroy them with a great flood. All had died but Prometheus' son Decalion and Deucalion's wife Pyrrha (Prometheus' niece). They were hidden in a great box that was on the peak of Parnassus. After they got out on the dry earth, they were told to throw stones behind their shoulders and a new race of mankind was born.

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Helles is..

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son of Deucalion and Pyrrha

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Helles begins

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the Greek race

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Demeter's daughter was named ___ and she was considered the ____

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Persephone, maiden of spring

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___ fell in love with Persephone, tempting her with a flower called a ____ so he could ____

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Hades, narcissus, take her away in the chariot to the underworld and make her queen

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Demeter searched for ___ until she was told the story by ___

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nine days, the sun

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What is the story of Metaneira and her son, Demophoon?

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Disguised as an old woman, Demeter met Metaneira who welcomed her in her house. For reward, Demeter tried to make Metaneira's son immortal

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what's demeter's festival like?

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mysterious

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what's demeter's festival called?

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eleusian mysteries

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How did Zeus intervene with Demeter's sorrow for Persephone?

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had Hermes to make hades let go
had Rhea to assure Demeter that Persephone will come back for most of the year

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the role of a pomegranate seed in Demeter's story

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forced Persephone to come to Hades

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What did Rhea do in Demeter's story?

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negotiated

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what idea is foremost in the story of Demeter and how does this become a comfort for man?

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sorrow-they can go to her for compassion

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Demeter's story and sorrow and the cause of

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seasons

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___ was the __ god to eanter Olympus; his father was ___ and his mother was ___

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Dionysus, last, Zeus, Semele

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what happened to Semele, Dionysus' mother?

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Hera was jealous of her and made Semele wish to see Zeus in his full splendor and made eus bound his oath to Styx. Zeus showed in his fullness and caused Semele to die

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become of his mother's death, the god of vine ___ and taken to be _____

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snatched from semel's dying body, raised by the nymphs

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dionysus firsts years were spend in wandering:
-___ tried to capture him
he defeated the king of thrace who ___
rescues and loves ___ who had been ______
rescues ______

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pirates
insulted him
ariadne
her mother and brought her to mt. olympus and it was made her home

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the god of wine could be ___ (characteristics)

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kind, cruel, man's blessings or ruins

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women frenzied by wine were called the __ or ____

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Maenades, Bacchantes

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Roman Demeter

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Ceres

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Roman Dionysus

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Bacchus

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Greek Ceres

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Demeter

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Greek Bacchus

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Dionysus

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what happened at Thebes in Dionysus' story?

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Pentheus arrested Dionysus and his frenzied women, not knowing his identity. He ignored Teiresias, the blind prophet, who said that Dionysus was a new god and mocked the gods. He also insulted Dionysus and because of this, Dionysus turned women including Pentheus' mother and sisters into frenzied women and they tore him from limbs to limb.

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Wine is good...
bad...

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cheers and warms men's heart
quickened courage
happy freedom

drunk, careless, unclear

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Describe Dionysus' festival

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open to all
during the spring which lasts for 5 days
none could be in prison
worship at the theater
ceremony was the play
great poetry was written

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Roman Rhea

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Ops

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Greek Ops

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Rhea

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Roman Cronus

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Saturn

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Greek Saturn

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Cronus

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Titans are the..
they are __ and ___

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elder gods
huge and strong

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atlas is punished by zeus by

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holding the world on his shoulders

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prmetheus means..
gave mankind the..

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forethought
fire

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epimetheus means..
gave....
wife is..

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afterthought
good gifts to anialspandora

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Ocean/Oceanus is a ... and a ....-....

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Titan
River-God

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Cronus is the father of __
who ____ (action to his children)

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Zeus
swallowed all his children

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Zeus was saved by ___ from being ___

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Rhea
swallowed by his father Cronus

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Demeter is Goddess of ___

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agriculture

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Dionysus is God of

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wind and vine

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What is the Aegis?

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Zeus' breastplate

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Pan is the son of...
he is a ....
plays the...

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Hermes
satyr
flute

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What is Thessaly?

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northeast of Greece where Mt. Olympus is located

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Graiae are..

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Gray woman with 1 eye among them
sister of the gorgons
stygian witches

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harpies are..

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bird/woman
ate Phineus' food

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nemesis is..

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righteous anger
was in narcissus' story for answering prayer to bring about narcissus' narcissum