Midterm 3/20 Flashcards
(85 cards)
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Zeus’s Roman Name
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Jupiter
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Hera’s Roman Name
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Juno
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Poseidon’s Roman Name
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Neptune
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Demeter’s Roman Name
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Ceres
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Hades’s Roman Name
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Pluto
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Hestia’s Roman Name
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Vesta
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Ares Roman Name
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Mars
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Athena’s Roman Name
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Minerva
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Apollo’s Roman Name
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Apollo
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Artemis’s Roman Name
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Diana
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Hephaestus’s Roman Name
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Vulcan
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Aphrodite’s Roman Name
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Venus
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Hermes’s Roman Name
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Mercury
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Dionysus’s Roman Name
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Bacchus
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The branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe
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Cosmogony
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The genealogy of a group or system of gods
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Theogony
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The battle in which Zeus and his siblings defeated their father Cronus and the other Titans
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Titanomachy
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Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world
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Hesiod
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Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love
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Ovid
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Being or happening first in sequence of time and generations
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Primordials
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The first created being, from which came the primeval deities Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus and Nyx
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Chaos
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The Earth personified as a goddess
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Gaia
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A place where the wicked are punished after death
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Tartarus
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God of love, son of Aphrodite, identified with Roman Cupid
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Eros
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God of the heavens
Ouranos
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A primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus
Titans
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Known as "the mother of gods" and therefore is strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele (who have similar functions)
Rhea
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Titan; father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera
Cronos
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Figures in an archaic stage; three giants of incredible strength and ferocity that surpassed that of all the Titans
Hecatonchires
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Greek goddess of love
Aphrodite
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Monster, Having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone
Medusa
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The three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades
Cerberus
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A many headed snake whose heads grew again as they were cut off, eventually killed by Hercules
Hydra
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Monstrous fire-breathing creature composed of the parts of a lion, snake and goat
Chimaira
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Winged monster having a woman's head and a lion's body that propounded a riddle about the three ages of man...killing those who failed to solve it
Sphinx
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Enormous lion strangled by Hercules
Nemean Lion
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Sun
Helios
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Moon
Selene
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Eos's Roman Name
Aurora
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Dawn
Eos
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Virgin goddess of the hearth, ancient Greek architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity
Hestia
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Goddess of grains, growth and fertility
Demeter
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Queen of the gods and sister-wife of Zeus
Hera
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God of the Underworld
Hades
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God of the sea, water, earthquakes, and horses
Poseidon
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Protector and ruler of humankind, dispenser of good and evil, and the god of atmospheric phenomena
Zeus
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Fore-Thinker, Able to tell the future, wisest Titan,
Prometheus
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After-thinker, Prometheus's brother, receives Pandora
Epimetheus
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Took part in the revolt against the gods. Condemned to hold the heavens aloft forever as punishment
Atlas
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Monster with 100 heads who breathed out flames
Typhon
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Virgin goddess of reason, intelligent activity, arts and literature that was born from Zeus's forehead
Athena
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Made queen of the underworld by Hades
Persephone
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God of poetry, prophecy, medicine, and light that represents all aspects of civilization and order
Apollo
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Virgin goddess that is twin sister of Apollo and has a lot of followers but eventually falls for Hippolytus
Artemis
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God of transitions and boundaries, messenger
Hermes
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God of grape harvest, winemaking and wine
Dionysus
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Concept of hospitality, the generosity and courtesy shown to those who are far from home
Xenia
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Monster with 100 eyes, used by Hera to watch over Io, killed by Hermes
Argus
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God of flocks, forests, meadows and shepherds
Pan
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Zeus's lover that gets turned into a cow
Io
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Son of Zeus and Io, king of Egypt
Epaphus
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Lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology
Hephaestus
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Wise king, son of Zeus and Europa, one of the judges of the dead
Rhadamanthys
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Hero celebrated for many achievements, cut off the head of Medusa and gave it to Athena, rescued and married Andromeda
Perseus
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Hero of superhuman strength and courage who performed 12 immense tasks imposed on him and who after death was ranked among the gods
Hercules
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Daughter of Zeus and Leda whose kidnapping by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War
Helen
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Wife of Agamemnon who had him murdered when he returned from the Trojan War
Clytemnestra
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Two heroes that were regarded as the tutelary divinities of sailors
Castor and Pollux
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Abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus and made the cupbearer of the gods and become immortal
Ganymede
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Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Often considered the greatest and most influential of all poets
Homer
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Greek poet. Little known about life. Surviving poems set in the country and epics, lyrics, and epigrams, set in towns.
Theocritus
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Sea goddess and wife of Poseidon. Diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea
Amphitrite
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Three old sea goddesses who had but 1 eye and 1 tooth among them and were the protectors of their sisters the Gorgons
Graeae
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Winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure white. Sired by poseidon in his role as horse-god
Pegasus
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Represented as a giant, brother of pegasus
Chrysaor
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Monster with 3 bodies, slain by Hercules
Geryon
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Messenger of the sea
Triton
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Giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis, placed in the sky as a constellation
Orion
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Mistress of Zeus, mother of Apollo and Artemis
Leto
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Ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus
Delphi
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Dragon/serpent that was the tutelary demon of the oracular cult at Delphi until killed by Apollo
Python
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Ideal of the kouros, Apollo has been variously recognized as the god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy
Phoibos (Apollo?)
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Son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world
Phaethon
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Textual symbol found in ancient Greek papyri that was used to mark the ends of entire works or major sections in poetic texts
Coronis
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Most frequently cited, sister of Pelops and Broteas
Niobe
