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Greek Mythology Flashcards

0
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Cronos gave his name to ________.

A

Time

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Who was Cronos?

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Father of the gods

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How had Cronos obtained power?

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Killing his father, Oranos

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What did Oranos mean when he made the prophecy, “…crime begets crime”?

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Criminals would be enemies with other criminals

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What were the names of the children that Cronos swallowed?

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Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon

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How did Rhea trick Cronos when she had Zeus? Who raised Zeus?

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She hid Zeus in a tree. A shepard family raised him.

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How did Rhea and Zeus get the other five children back?

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Cronos threw them up

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Who was on Cronos’s side during the great battle?

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The titans

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Who was on Zeus’s side during the great battle?

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His siblings and friends (monsters) he met on Mount Olympus

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How did the word “panic” originate?

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The goat god, Pan, screamed

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How is this story and Zeus killed Cronos associated with New Year’s Day?

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A new era

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In what two ways was Hera related to Zeus?

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A sister and a wife

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Why were Zeus and Hera always quarreling?

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Zeus was set in his ways (strongly opinionated).

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How did Hera outwit Zeus?

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She drugged him, then tied him up.

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The story of Zeus’s pursuit of Metis shows one of his abilities. What is it?

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Shape shifting

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Why did Zeus swallow Metis?

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Because her child would hate him.

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How was Athene born?

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She came out of Zeus’s skull

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What is Athene’s domain?

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Goddess of wisdom

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What are Athene’s contributions to man?

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She taught man how to create the ax, the plough, the ox yoke, the wheel, and the sail.

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Why do armies and judges pray to Athene?

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She is the mistress of strategy.

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What was Arachne’s talent?

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Weaving

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What did Arachne say to anger Athene?

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Arachne said that she was better than Athene at weaving.

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How did Athene challenge Arachne?

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Weaving contest

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What item did Athene use in her tapestry?

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Cloud-wool

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How is Arachne’s talent preserved to this day?

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She became a spider.

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25
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What is an “arachnid”?

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A spider

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How did Cronos’s sons divide the world. Who received what?

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They threw dice. Zeus got the sky (1st place). Poseidon got the sea (2nd place). Hades got the underworld (3rd place).

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Why didn’t Poseidon want to marry Thetis?

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Their son would be more powerful than him.

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Who did Poseidon marry?

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Amphitrite

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What sea creature did Poseidon create for Amphitrite?

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Dolphin

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What did Poseidon and Athene quarrel over? What was Athene’s gift? Who won?

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The city of Athens; olive tree; Athene

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How did Poseidon woo (pursue) Demeter?

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He created a horse.

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What were the rejects from Poseidon’s creation of the horse?

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Giraffe, hippo, zebra, donkey, and camel

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Why did the Greeks put a coin under a corpse’s tongue?

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So that the soul could pay the fare on the ferry that crossed the river, Styx

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Who is Charon?

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A person that rows the boat in the underworld

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Who is Cerberus?

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A three-headed dog that protects the underworld

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36
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Name the three judges of the dead.

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Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus

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What was the punishment of the greedy King Sisyphus?

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He can’t drink water.

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What was the main activity of the Field of Asphodel?

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To wait for nothing

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39
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What was the Greek equivalent to paradise?

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Elysium

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40
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Describe Hades (the place).

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Made of black rock

41
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What was the job of the Furies?

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To visit earth and punish evil-doers

42
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What is Demeter’s domain?

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Goddess of the cornfield, mistress of planting & harvesting, lady of growing things

43
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Describe Persephone.

A

Looked like flowers and was in charge of flowers

44
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Who is Persephone’s father?

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Zeus

45
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What happened to Persephone when she pulled a strange bush from the ground?

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A big hole appeared and a chariot came out it. The guy on the chariot snatched her up.

46
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How did Demeter find out what happened to her daughter?

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She found Persephone’s little paintpot, overturned.

47
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After her plea to Zeus fails, how does Demeter react to her daughter’s disappearance? What does she do?

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She reacts poorly. She says she is going to go back to earth until Zeus calls for her.

48
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Under what conditions could Persephone’s be returned to her mother?

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If no food had passed her lips during her sojourn in Tartarus.

49
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How is Hades trying to win Persephone’s favor?

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By giving her everything she wants

50
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How does Persephone feel about Hades (ON THE SURFACE)?

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Doesn’t like being there. Wanted to leave.

51
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How does Persephone feel about Hades (IN REALITY)?

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Enjoyed his gifts and efforts.

52
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What did Persephone eat?

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Pomegranate seeds

53
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What was Zeus’s compromise regarding Hades and Demeter’s argument over Persephone?

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Persephone would spend six months a year with Hades because she ate six pomegranate seeds.

54
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Why do we have summer and winter?

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Demeter said that during the six months that Persephone is with Hades, there will be desolation everywhere.

55
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In what form did Zeus pursue Leto?

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Quail

56
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What was Hera’s curse?

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You will grow heavy with child, but you shall not bear anywhere the sun shines.

57
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Who/what did Hera send to enforce her curse?

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Leto

58
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Where did Leto give birth to Artemis and Apollo?

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An island called Delos

59
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What gifts did Zeus give Apollo?

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A golden bow, a quiver of golden arrows that couldn’t never be emptied, and a golden chariot drawn by golden ponies

60
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What gifts did Zeus give Artemis?

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Gift of eternal chastity, gift of changing your mind about it, and the gift to chose her own gifts

61
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What metal/color is associated with Artemis?

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Silver

62
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What animals pull Artemis’s chariot?

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Nymphs

63
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What happened when Artemis shot one of her arrows into a city of unjust men?

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The arrow killed everybody.

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What did Artemis do to Callisto? Why?

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Artemis changed Callisto into a bear because she was so beautiful.

65
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How did Zeus save Artemis?

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He put her in the stars.

66
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What metal/color is associated with Apollo?

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Gold

67
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Apollo is the god of ________.

A

The sun

68
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Apollo is the patron of ____________.

A

Music, poetry, mathematics, and medicine

69
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Why did Apollo want to kill Python?

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Because Python had hunted Apollo’s mother

70
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What is an oracle?

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A priestess, trained from birth

71
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What did the priestesses of Delphi do?

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Chewed laurel, built fires of magic herbs, and sat in the smoke where they saw what was to come

72
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What did Apollo do to make amends with Gaea, Mother Earth?

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Promised annual games at Delphi, named the Pythian games (after his enemy)

73
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What happened to Marsyas? Why?

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Apollo was jealous of Marsyas’s musical talents, so Apollo challenged him to an impossible music competition. Marsyas lost and Apollo nailed Marsyas’s skin to a tree.

74
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List Apollo’s sons and their mothers.

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Corybantes (mother: Thalia), Aristeus (mother: Cyrene), and Amphissus (mother: Dryopes)

75
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Asclepius’s mother was ________.

A

Coronis

76
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What was the job of the white crow?

A

To spy on Coronis

77
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What was the result of Apollo’s scorching curse?

A

All of the crows have become black

78
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Why did Apollo kill Coronis?

A

She was in love with Ischys.

79
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When was Asclepius born?

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After Coronis had died

80
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What was Asclepius’s teacher? What did he teach the boy?

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Chiron; diagnostics, surgery, herbology, and hunting

81
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What did Asclepius do to anger the gods, particularly Hades?

A

Snatched several patrons from the gates of Tartaris

82
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Who did Apollo retaliate after Zeus killed Asclepius?

A

He killed all of the Cyclopes that had forged the thunderbolt, which had killed his son.

83
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How did Aphrodite get even with Apollo?

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She ordered Eros to strike him with a love arrow and then strike Daphne with indifference.

84
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How did Apollo honor the laurel tree?

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Gave a crown of laurel tree leaves (that would never die) to the people who won the games

85
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What kind of mischief did Hermes get into shortly after his birth?

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Snuck out of his crib and stole cows

86
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How did Apollo discover Hermes’s mischief?

A

The crows told him.

87
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What gifts did Hermes give to Apollo?

A

Lyre and pipes

88
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What type of personality do you think Hermes has?

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Swifty, ingenuity, cheerful

89
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What is Hermes’s job?

A

Messenger god

90
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Over what else (besides being the messenger god) does Hermes control?

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Liars, thieves, gamblers, commerce, treaties, and travelers

91
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What are some of Hermes’s inventions?

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Alphabet, astronomy, the scales, playing cards, and card games

92
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Why was Hera upset when Hephaestus was born?

A

He was shriveled and ugly.

93
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After Hera threw Hephaestus out of Mount Olympus, what physical disability did the baby have?

A

Unable to crawl

94
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Who raised Hephaestus?

A

Thetis

95
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How did Hephaestus come to be accepted back on Mount Olympus?

A

Hera demanded him back

96
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What is Hephaestus’s domain?

A

Smith-god

97
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What is Aphrodite’s domain?

A

Goddess of love and beauty

98
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How was Aphrodite “born”?

A

Cronos murdered Oranos, and Aphrodite came out of him in the sea (primal murder)

99
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Whom did Aphrodite choose as her husband? Why?

A

Hephaestus. He said that he would be a good husband for a girl like her and that he works late.

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