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39 Cards in this Set
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Other offspring of Gaia and Ouranos
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Cyclopes and Hundred-handers
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Castration of Ouranos (and offspring
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Aphrodite and Furies
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Sons of Iapetus
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Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus
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Offspring of Cronos and Rhea
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elder Olympians Poseidon, Hades, Demeter (Hestia) Hera, and Zeus
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How does Zeus succeed in overthrowing Cronos
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Titanomachy
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Titans 12
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Okeanos (Ocean), Hyperion, Themis, Mnemosyne, Iapetus
Cronos and Rhea |
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In the cosmology of ancient Greece, Chaos gives rise to…
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Gaea, Tartarus, Eros.
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In the cosmology of ancient Greece, Tartarus is...
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The subterranean abyss.
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In the cosmology of ancient Greece, Eros can be best defined as...
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The driving force of procreative love
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In the cosmology of ancient Greece, Gaea can best be recognized as.
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Earth, the primordial mother, a primal entity.
D) mother of the titans |
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In Theogony, Hesiod's main themes include...
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interactive struggles of family life.
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Zeus was born of...
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Chronos and Rhea
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Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, was born...
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- From the sea foam that surrounded the castrated genitals of Uranus that were flung into the sea.
- Before Zeus. - From violence. |
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Athene was born of...
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- Chronos swallowing his children as they are born.
- Chronos castration of Uranus. - The birth of Aphrodite |
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Prometheus was known for..
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- Tricking Zeus out of the best portions of sacrifices.
- Bringing fire to man in a fennel stalk. - Being chained to a cliff and having his liver eaten by an eagle. - Being saved by Hercules. |
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The Theogony begins with a section devoted to
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The Muses
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Which comes into being first?
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Chaos
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Gaia bears three children without "mating in sweet love" but who is her first sexual partner?
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Ouranos
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Gaia produces the Kyklopes who have
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1 eye
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Another set of Gaia's children, named Kottos, Briareos and Gyges had
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- 100 arms
- 50 heads - amazing strength |
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The only child of Gaia willing to aid her in plot against her husband
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Kronos
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The plot involves
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a sickle and castration
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As a direct result of the plot, the following goddess is born
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Aphrodite
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Also created as direct results of the plot are the following two groups
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the Furies and the Giants
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After overthrowing his father, this god (the correct answer to #6) tries to prevent the same thing from happening to him, so he does the following to the children he has with Rheia
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Swallows them
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The following fight on Zeus' side during his battle against his father
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The Kyklopes
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Prometheus tricks Zeus on humanity's behalf into taking this part of the sacrificial victims for the gods
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The fat and bones
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Zeus punishes Prometheus by chaining him to a mountain and sending eagles to
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eat Prometheus' liver
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Zeus punishes humanity by
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taking away fire
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When the Titans are defeated they are imprisoned in
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Tartaros
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Was the most powerful god of the Greek pantheon. Is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder, in Greek mythology.
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Zeus
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Eros
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Love
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Gaea
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Earth
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Chaos
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Emptyness
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Morus
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Destiny
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Chronus
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Time
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Who cuts off his father's genitals.
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Ouranos son, Kronos
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Who is Zeus?
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The counselor and father of gods and men
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A retelling of the geneology of the Greek gods
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Theogony
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