Mid term 1` Flashcards
(38 cards)
Who are the 6 Olympians born to Cronus and Rhea, and what are they the gods and goddesses of?
Hades God of the Underworld, Poseidon God of the Sea and water, Zeus God of the Sky, Demeter Goddess of Harvest , Hera Goddess of the Earth, Hestia Goddes of Hearth
What is Athena the Goddess of?
War strategy, military strategy, handicraft, patience, and skill. She is a virgin God
How is Athena born
Zeus brain child, the gods split his head open and out comes Athena with a spear and shield covered in blood
Who is Zeus’s first lover other than Hera? What happens to her?
Metis, she becomes pregnant Zeuss child, he is scared of her second child so to prevent that he swallows her and absorbs her (her pregnancy and quality of intelligence)
What is succession myth
Fighting between Gods, specifically the father and son where the son will usually overthrow the father
What are the 2 main sources of material in The Classical Period? What are some advantages and disadvantages
Texts: Advantage: potential eye witness Disadvanatge Bias from people writing the material, its passed down from generations can be altered.
and Archeology.Adv: Physical proof, eliminates forms of bias
Disadvantage: Archeologist bias
Issue with dead languages for both
Syncretism/Eclectism
Blending the differences of the Gods and making them the same. Combining their relationships
What was the Hellenic League
Ruled first by King Phillip the 2nd then by Alexander the Great. They overthrew Phebes Athens and Sparta
What is Heiros gamos?
Sacred marriage between Gods and Goddesses
What are the names of the 12 Titans? What are they the Gods and Goddesses of
Cronus: God of the Sky, Hyperion: the sun god, Oceanus: water, (Iapetus, Coeus, Crius) don’t know what they’re the god of
Rhea: Earth God, Themis: Righteous/the way things are supposed to be, Theia:?, Tethys: freshwater , Mnemosyne: memory,Pheobe: moon
What is Polytheism
The belief in more than one God (Greece and Egypt)
External Sources of Influence of Greece
Egypt, Jewish people, Persians, Mesopotamia
What are the 3 sets of children Ge and Ouranos had
Cyclops, Hectanchires, Titans
When Alexander the Great dies who takes over the Empire
His 3 Generals
Who do Eos and Selene have love affairs with and what happens to them?
Eos- Tithonas a Shepard. She asks him to live forever and forgets to ask for him to stay young so he ages forever
Selene- Endymion a Shepard, shes asks for him to live forever and to not age, doesn’t ask for him to be awake so he sleeps forever.
Which Titans marry who/which? Who are theyre children
Oceanus m. Tethys : Oceanids (3000)
Hyperions m.Theia : Eos, Selene, Helios
Cronus m. Rhea: Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Hera
What was Aphrodite the Goddess of? What did the Greeks think of her?
Goddess of fertility, sexuality, love, and romance.
The Greeks were scared of her because love was not a good thing it often lead to death and war, you didn’t want to fall in love so she was terrifying.
When Cronus castrates his father what beings come from his blood and “sperm”
1) Giants and the Meliae (tree spirits)
2) Furies
3) Aphrodite
In what ways does Ouranos try to prevent Ge from having the Titans
By plugging her up essentially.
What are the 2 domes around the Earth? What is in both of the domes?
Upper dome: Is the Sky and on top is the Aether
Lower Dome: The Underworld with the Erabes and Tartarus at the bottom
Hesiod and Homers view of the world was?
That Greece was at the center of a round flat disk and around it was only water. With 2 domes around it
Monotheism
The belief in only one God (Christianity)
Dark Age
1100- 800 BC
Increasingly chaotic, a decline in civilization
Bronze Age
3000-1100BC
Fall of Troy
Wealthy time and progress was being made
