Myths Quest #2: Demeter, Dionysus, and Olympians Flashcards

Question

Furies/Erinyes

Answer 1

- Goddesses of vengeance - Snake-haired - Blood for tears - Castration of father sky

Answer 2

-Half man, half goat

Answer 3

- Leader of the satyrs - Hermes' son - Noisy shepherd god

Answer 4

-Half man, half horse

Answer 5

-King of winds

Answer 6

-West wind

Answer 7

-Roman goddess of the dawn

Answer 8

- Flying horse | - Connected with Percyus

Answer 9

-Goddess of victory

Answer 10

- Where the gods and goddesses lived | - Highest mountain in Greece

Answer 11

-3 headed guard dog of the underworld

Answer 12

- Ferryboat driver | - Transports the dead

Answer 13

- Place | - Blessedness for the good

Answer 14

-Realms of the Underworld

Answer 15

- Tantalus - Sisyphus - Ixion

Answer 16

- Killed and served his son to the gods - Punishment: Food and drink always out of reach - Always hungry and thirsty

Answer 17

- Crossed Zeus | - Rolls rock up hill and then it rolls back down

Answer 18

- Insulted Hera | - Tied to wheel, forever spinning

Answer 19

- Lethe: forgetfulness - Phlegethon: Fire - Styx**: River of unbreakable oath

Answer 20

- Goddess of harvest, grain, wheat, corn, crops - Daughter of Cronus and Rhea - Sister of Zeus, Hera etc - Mother of Persephone (springtime) - Can be most understood in terms of their powerful relationship - Myths: Kidnapping/Rape of Persephone, Flower myths 1. Explains seasons 2. Themes: beauty= curse, innocence never lasts, motherhood= strongest of bonds - Human= can relate - Mother grieved about daughter - Worship - Eleusis: site of temple - Eleusinian mysteries: secret rites of her worship

Answer 21

- Major deities but not Olympians - Humans could identify with them - Connected with seasons and festivals at Eleusis  -Both demonstrate strength of the mother-child bond - Idea of two - Comparisons with New Testament - Other interesting tidbits

Answer 22

- Demeter as a simpler deity whereas Dionysus as more complex (just as bread is much simpler than wine) - Demeter’s secretive rites vs. Dionysus’ public worship - Demeter as a tragic persona (sense that always the grieving mother) vs. Dionysus as triumphant (sense that will always win in the end

Answer 23

1. walked/wandered the earth teaching mankind 2. associated with daily life (bread and wine) 3. experienced strong feelings of joy and pain (esp. lasting grief vs. temporary sorrows of the carefree Olympians) ~ thereby tied to the HUMAN CONDITION a. Demeter’s pain = loss of daughter Demeter’s joy = reunion b. Dionysus’ pain = vine torn apart Dionysus’ joy = revelry, celebration; also rebirth each spring

Answer 24

1. Demeter: 2 people (mother and daughter); 2 times of year | 2. Dionysus: 2 sides of wine/drinking just as 2 sides to him

Answer 25

1. Demeter like Blessed Mother (great sorrow and joy; child is brought back from death) 2. Dionysus like Jesus (suffering, death, resurrection) 3. Both with Christ: bread and wine

Answer 26

1. both “contained” by fathers | 2. both rescue a loved one from underworld (Persephone/Semele)

Answer 27

- God of vine, wine, grapes, intoxication, revelry, theater - Son of Zeus and Semele - Wandering god from Thebes - Taught of wine/vine, demanded respect just as alcohol's power must be respected - Followers= Maenads (mad women)-- drink into frenzies and kill things - Paradoxical god of duality w/ positive and negative faces (2 sides of alcohol) - Connection w/ humanity through suffering--> vines being pruned, alcohol being abused - Grief: dies every year/ what happens when drunk - Joy: rebirth, vine regrows, celebrations - Associated w/ theater: great tragedies written and performed in honor of him @ sacred festival - Connected w/ Eleusinian mysteries

Myths Quest #2: Demeter, Dionysus, and Olympians Flashcards

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