Flashcards in LCT5: Zeus II (continued) Deck (18)
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What is Zeus' punishment for men?
Pandora = women
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What does Hephaistos make women from?
Clay
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What do other goddesses help make Pandora? What do they do?
Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes, plus many others... add "gifts" to her.
4
What does Pandora mean?
"all gifts"
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Pandora's Jar
- life untroubled before Pandora
- opens jar and releases misery, disease, other evils into the world
- only Hope left in the jar... have to keep it "contained" and "safe"
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What are the five ages of man?
Golden, Silver, Bronze, Hero's, Iron
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The Golden Age
- time when Cronos was the sky (near beg. of time)
- natural abundance
- no old age
-death like sleep --> inhabit the earth as protective spirits
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The Silver Age
- inferior to men of the Golden Age
- children for a hundred years: short adult life
- violent: fail to honor the gods
- Zeus - in anger - buries them
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The Bronze Age
- made out of ash trees (same material as spears)
- "all they cared about was fighting and war"
- Homes, tools, weapons - all made of bronze
- destroyed themselves and went down to underworld
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The Hero's Age
- a godlike race of men (demi-gods)
- nobler, more just
- died in great wars (Troy, for example)
- after death --> Islands of the blessed at ends of the earth
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The Iron Age
- Hesiod's time
- endless labor
- bonds of family/hospitality weakened
- envy, greed, injustice everywhere
- shame and nemesis (righteous vengeance) depart the earth
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Deucalion
son of Prometheus
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Epimetheus and Pandora have a daughter named...
Pyrrha
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What does Prometheus tell Deucalion to do as Zeus prepares to destroy the men of the bronze age?
A boat
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How many nights were Deucalion and Pyrrha at sea?
9 days/nights --> land on Mt. Parnassos
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Who does Zeus send to meet Deucalion and Pyrrha, and why?
Hermes - to give them whatever they want
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What does Deucalion and Pyrrha decide to have? How do they get it?
They want ppl --> get them by throwing rocks behind them
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