Exam 1

Question 1

Primary creation myth

Answer 1

Hesiod’s Theogany

Question 2

Other work by Hesiod

Answer 2

Works and Days

Question 3

Hesiod intro thing

Answer 3

The Nine Muses

Question 4

Hera desc

Answer 4

Lady Hera of Argos

Question 5

Zeus desc

Answer 5

Zeus the aegis-bearer

Question 6

Athena desc

Answer 6

Pale-eyed Athena

Question 7

Apollo desc

Answer 7

Phoebus Apollo

Question 8

Artemis desc

Answer 8

Artemis the archer

Question 9

Poseidon desc

Answer 9

Poseidon the shaker of the earth

Question 10

Parents of muses

Answer 10

Memory and Zeus

Question 11

First part of creation

Answer 11

Chasm (or “yawning void”) English translation of the Greek word “Chaos”

Question 12

Earth

Answer 12

Gaia

Question 13

Love dude

Answer 13

Eros

Question 14

Heaven/sky

Answer 14

Uranus, created by Gaia

Question 15

Meddlesome son of Uranus and Gaia

Answer 15

Kronos

Question 16

Thunderer, Lightner, Whitebolt

Answer 16

Cyclopes

Question 17

Earth goddess/titan

Answer 17

Rhea

Question 18

Where Uranus tosses children

Answer 18

Tartarus

Question 19

Three successions

Answer 19

(1) Uranus and Gaia
(2) Kronos and Rhea
(3) Zeus and Hera

Question 20

After the castration of Uranus

Answer 20

The rule of the titans

Question 21

The tool Kronos used against Uranus

Answer 21

The sickle of Adamant (unbreakable)

Question 22

Born from the castrated testes of Uranus mixed with the sea washed upon Cyprus

Answer 22

Aphrodite

Question 23

Aphrodite’s traits

Answer 23

The whispers of girls, smiles, deceptions, sweet pleasure, intimacy, and tenderness

Question 24

From Typhon and Echida

Answer 24

Cerberus

Question 25

Zeus rock thing

Answer 25

You know it

Question 26

The goat

Answer 26

Amalthea

Question 27

Name of Zeus stone

Answer 27

“Omphalos” Stone | Literally “The belly-button”

Question 28

War against Titans and Olympians

Answer 28

Titanimachy - 10 years

Question 29

Zeus’s promise

Answer 29

“Anyone who sided with us will have a share in the victory”

Question 30

What happens to titans

Answer 30

Most cast to Tartarus

Question 31

Battles of the Giants

Answer 31

Gigantomachy - Typhoeus (last son of Gaia) vs Zeus

Question 32

Linear B

Answer 32

Disappears after 1100 BC. Followed by “Dark Age” from 1100-750 BC No writing; cities depopulated

Question 33

Mankind’s dad Meaning of name

Answer 33

Prometheus “Forethought”

Question 34

Men and animals

Answer 34

Prometheus and Epimetheus (“Afterthought”) made humans with scraps from animals

Question 35

Hesiodic “Five Ages of Man”

Answer 35

Golden Ages (Kronos) Silver Age (Zeus) Bronze Age Heroic Age Iron Age

Question 36

Punishment of Prometheus

Answer 36

Bird liver

Question 37

Man’s punishment

Answer 37

Pandora “All gifts”

Question 38

“Before the flood”

Answer 38

Antediluvian

Question 39

Dude who became a wolf

Answer 39

Lycaon

Question 40

Only humans that survived flood

Answer 40

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Question 41

Boat story

Answer 41

Deucalion and Pyrrha boat, mount Parassus, pray to Themis, Zeus stopped flood Prayed to Themis after - “loosen your clothing (an act of piety), and toss the bones of your mother behind you”

Question 42

Gilgamesh

Answer 42

From before flood | Story of Utnapishtim Mesopotamian Hero he met

Question 43

goddess to pray to for stuff; has power in both sky and earth

Answer 43

Hecate

Question 44

Hecate

Answer 44

Daughter of Perseus and Asteria, Titans | Later, relegated to Underworld; goddess of sorcery

Question 45

goddess of hearth

Answer 45

Hestia Rarely in mythology, just there

Question 46

Zeus info

Answer 46

Aegis/shield | Eagle

Question 47

Greek hospitality

Answer 47

Xenia

Question 48

Hera’s attributes

Answer 48

``` Matron with veil - modesty Peacock goddess of marriage and childbirth Queen of heaven “Divine royalty” expects respect and loyalty ```

Question 49

Zeus and Io

Answer 49

Turned her into a cow Argus Panoptes watches her Never sleeps, eyes Hermès kills him, Hera puts eyes on peacock

Question 50

Zeus and Ganymede

Answer 50

Young boy, kidnaps Cup-bearer Pederasty - elite Classical Athenian male mentor thing

Question 51

Ixion and Hera

Answer 51

Tried Hera, cloud, punish on wheel

Question 52

Hephaestus

Answer 52

``` Lame god Blacksmith hammer and/or tongs Inventor/craftsman god Builder of bronze palace on Olympus Zeus’s thunderbolts Shield of Achilles Robots Pandora ```

Question 53

Hephaestus parents

Answer 53

Zeus and Hera- Hera tried by herself, no no Or Both, mama’s boy, Zeus no no

Question 54

Hephaestus place

Answer 54

Lemnos

Question 55

Return of Hephaestus

Answer 55

Chains mom to chair | Dionysus does it

Question 56

Ares

Answer 56

god of war Giants Otus and Ephialtes trapped him in bronze jar for 13 months Wounded by mortal Diomedes Trojan war Outmatched by Athena

Question 57

Ares and Aphrodite

Answer 57

Something to do with Hephaestus