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33 Cards in this Set
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theogony |
birth of gods |
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cosmogony |
birth of the world/ cosmos |
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First rulers |
Uranus (sky) + Gaea (earth) |
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Second rulers |
Cronus + Rhea |
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Third rulers |
Zeus + Hera |
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Zeus (Jupiter) (Jove) |
Great general and politician; patron god of kings; in Iliad he constantly struggles to keep other gods in line; god of thunder and lightning |
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Poseidon (Neptune) |
God of earthquakes and sea; scary, his powers do not take in to account of human life; often portrayed riding a chariot |
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Hera (Juno) |
Zeus's wife; she is dowered and his own sister |
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Aphrodite (Venus) |
some stories daughter of Zeus, or from the foam around Uranus's genitals; goddess of sexual desire, prostitutes, sex; only god to get the better of Zeus |
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Ares (Mars) |
god of war, for war's sake, violent, brutal war |
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Hephaestus (Vulan) |
craftsman god; born lame and ugly; Hera threw him from Olympus |
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Athena (Minerva) |
goddess of wisdom, law, civilization, just war |
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Artemis (Diana) |
goddess of the hunt, wilderness, moon, virginity, childbirth (Apollo's twin) |
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Apollo (Apollo) |
young man at the prime of beauty; god of sun, healing and prophecy, and music and poetry |
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Hermes (Mercury) |
trickster, thief, merchant, translator (only Olympian god to go to underworld) |
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Dionysus (Bacchus, Liber) |
god of the grape harvest, associated with ecstasy, outsiders, husband to Ariadne |
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Hades |
Pluto (Dis) |
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Hestia |
Vesta |
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lunar |
moon |
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solar |
sun |
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mercurial |
changeable |
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venereal |
relating to sexual intercourse |
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martial |
military, war-loving |
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jovial |
joyous, good-spirited |
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saturnine |
gloomy |
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binomia |
written so they stand out; italics' genus capitalized |
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species |
species name, specific name, species epithet (name/ title), specific epithet name in zoology, epithet in botany |
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genus |
noun; Latin, or Greek altered to conform to Latin, made up from Greek and Latin roots and combining forms, or modern word transformed in to Latin |
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genus endings with a consonant |
ius, ia, ium |
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genus with vowels |
us, a, um |
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genus end in a |
add ia |
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specific epithets |
adjective (one color) , participle (breaking), noun in apposition to the genus (wolf), genitive (of a bull) (end in i and ae) |
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trinomials |
used to label taxa smaller than species (homo sapiens sapiens) not written in italics sometimes (subsp. and var.) goes before it too |
