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71 Cards in this Set
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Saturno Devouring One of his Children
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Francisco Goya y Lucientes,
1821-1823, |
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Zeus of Artemesium
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artist unknown ca. 460 BC,
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Jupiter and Thetis
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1811
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"George Washington (as Phidian Zeus)"
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Horatio Greenough, 1840
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"The Birth of Venus,"
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Sandro Botticelli, c. 1486
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"Prometheus"
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Gustave Moreau, 1868
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"Prometheus Stealing Fire"
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Paul Manship, 1933
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"Mars and Venus"
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Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1485
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Artemis of Ephesus
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1st Century AD, Roman
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Diana
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E.J. Clack, 1954
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Apollo Belvedere
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mid-2nd Century AD Roman
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Apollo and Daphne
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ca. 1624
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"Mercury"
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Giovanni da Bologna 1564
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"Hermes with the Infant Dionysus,"
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Praxiteles,mid 4th Century BC
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Exekias
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530 BC
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2 Olympians removed
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Hades- never seen on Olympus
Hestia- displaced by Dionysus |
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Creation of Pandora
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"the beautiful evil"
retaliation for fire- theft |
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Who was Epimetheus?
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Prometheus' brother, "after thought", didn't listen to warnings, was given Pandora
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Prometheus' name and what it means
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"forethinking"
knows the secret of Thetis |
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Themis
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Prometheus' mother
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events at Mekone
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Prometheus tricks Zeus
-gives men the good stuff and Zeus the junk Hesiod says Zeus knew |
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Titan Iapetus
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Prometheus' father
pro-Zeus |
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Gigantomachy
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Zeus leads Olympians, crushes Giants
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Titanomachy
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Zeus leads Olympians, crushes Titans (Cronus)
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Zeus is a champion of justice according to who?
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Hesiod
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Results of the castration of Uranus
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1. Titan rise/Uranus demise
2. Aphrodites 3. The Erinyes (furies) conceived |
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Rhea and Cronus' children
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some of the Olympians:
Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus |
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Hera and Zeus
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Present Heiros Gamos
Children:some of Olympians |
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Ge and Uranus
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children = Titans:
Hyperion, Iapetus, Rhea, Cronus |
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Hieros Gamos
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sacred marriage
1. Ge and Uranus 2. Rhea and Cronus 3. Hera and Zeus |
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Inherent conflicts in Hesiod's account
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-matriarchal vs. patriarchal
-rising vs. established generations -sky vs. earth |
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Hesiod ve. Ovid's chaos
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yawning void vs. crude unformed mass of elements
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the works of
1.Homer 2. Hesiod 3. Ovid |
1.Illiad &Odyessy
2. Theogony and Works & Days 3. Metamorphoses |
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Semele
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Daughter of King Cadmus, mother of Dionysus, dies after seeing Zeus
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Newcomer God
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Dionysus
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the embodiment of the power of living things — animal or vegetable
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Dionysus
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The Bacchae of Euripides
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Agave, sister of Semele, the mother of Pentheus Cadmus, grandfather of Pentheus and retired king
Tiresias, priest of traditional religion Pentheus as adversary of the newcomer god... becomes a sacrificial victim |
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The Pirates who abducted Dionysus
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Master Image, Exekias
turns pirates into dolphins |
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Dionysus saves who from what?
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Ariadne, from life alone on an island after Theseus dumps her there, she triumphs
a mystical type of salvations |
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entheos
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: possession by god, ecstatic state of having the "god inside
"This "enthusiasm" is not drunkenness, but ecstasy caused by the god. |
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sparagmos
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: rending of living animal
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omophagia
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:eating of raw flesh — a ritual communion
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thiasus
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: sacred band of the god
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thyrsus
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: wand wreathed with ivy and topped with pinecone
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Variant of Dionysus’ birth
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Zeus + Persephone = Zagreus
-In the Titanomachy, the Titans kill Zagreus; Zeus eats his heart and later bears Dionysus. |
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Argeïphontes (“slayer of Argus”)
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Hermes: his role in the Io myth (a role he plays later in life)
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Who invented the Lyre?
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Hermes
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Hermes is god of...?
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god of commerce, eloquence, invention, travel, and theft
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The liminal deity
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Hermes: "threshold, boundary"
Takes souls to the undreworld |
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A young god, rising to take Zeus' place perhaps in the future?
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Apollo
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Healer and bringer of plague
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Apollo
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Who is Apollo's mother and where was her born?
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Leto, Delos
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Pythian Apollo
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god of Delphi
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Omphalos
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"Navel" a large round stone, meant to mean that Delphi is the navel of the world
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pythia
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Prophetess of Apollo, uttered the responses of the god.
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Three who consulted the Delphic Oracle:
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1. Croesus — “If you invade, a great kingdom shall fall.”
2. Oedipus — “You will murder your father and marry your mother.” 3. Socrates — “Know Thyself.” ΓΝΟΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ. |
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Why is laurel sacred to Apollo
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the story of Daphne and Apollo
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The Cumaean Sibyl
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A sibyl is a prophetess, this one denied Apollo and wished to live as many years as she had sand in her hand
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Apollo and Cassandra
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Apollo gave Cassandra the ability of prophesies, but she refused his love, so now no one will believe her prophesies
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Apollo’s Musical Contest with Marsyas
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Satyr picks up Athena's flute and challenges Apollo, Apollo wins and flays Marsyas
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Potnia Theron
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Mistress of the Beasts- Artemis
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Niobe and Her Children
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Niobe boasts against Leto and Artemis and Apollo kill all but one of her children
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catasterism
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turning a person into a constalation
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Orion
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One version (ML p. 226): Orion blinded and catasterized for attempted rape of Artemis
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Diana was the chief deity of?
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the Latin League
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Artemis, Selene, and Hecate
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Artemis on earth, Selene in the heavens, Hecate in netherworld
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Galatea
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prefers Acis over Polyphemus
(a Cyclops, son of Poseidon) Acis, in other literature, son of Faunus and Symaethis |
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Proteus
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Attendant of Poseidon (sometimes his son)
Seer Ability to change shape, protean an Old Man of the Sea |
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Poseidon
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In Trojan War he supports the Greeks, for Laomedon’s deceipt
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Contest with Athena for the primacy of Athens
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He offers a salt spring (“thalassocracy”) and (in Roman version) a horse;
Athena offers the first olive tree. |
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Three Important Nereids
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Thetis
Galatea: prefers Acis over Polyphemus Amphitrite cf. iconography in Poussin's "Triumph" on ML p. 169 Consort of Poseidon- this union binds Poseidon to another marine lineage Triton |