Week 4

Question 1

what does prometheus and epimetheus mean

Answer 1

“forerunner”
“afterlearner or dummy”

Question 2

prometheus parents

Answer 2

iapetus and clymene

Question 3

prometheus tricks zeus

Answer 3

arranges portion of ox for zeus to choose for sacrifice
zeus picks bones and fat angry that prometheus is trying to trick him
zeus keeps fire from mankind, prometheus steals it back

Question 4

prometheus punishment

Answer 4

chained to a pillar in the caucaus mountains, an eagle devours his liver every day

Question 5

who freed prometheus

Answer 5

heracles

Question 6

who wrote prometheus bound

Answer 6

aeschylus

Question 7

what does the forerunner tell zeus

Answer 7

that the woman the oracle made a prophecy about is the neried thetis (achilles future mother)

Question 8

which three works did aeschylus write

Answer 8

prometheus bound, unbound, and fire-bringer

Question 9

who wrote prometheus unbound in the 19th century

Answer 9

percy bysshe shelley

Question 10

what is frankenstein’s alternate title

Answer 10

modern prometheus

Question 11

hesiod theogony version 1 of pandora

Answer 11

more concerned with mecone, her being created is the punishment, not opening jar

Question 12

gold age

Answer 12

time of kronos, no old age, died as if sleeping, became spirits

Question 13

silver age

Answer 13

olympian time, were kids for 100 years, grew up and didn’t worship the gods so got rid of them, still honored

Question 14

bronze age

Answer 14

made from ash, terrible warriors like ares, destroyed by their own hands, went down into hades upon death

Question 15

heroes age

Answer 15

zeus made valiant demigods, destroyed by battle, went to the isle of the blessed ruled over by cronus

Question 16

iron age

Answer 16

worst age, made by zeus, evil will prevail and the race will be destroyed

Question 17

where do the gods meet to debate sacrifice

Answer 17

mecone

Question 18

parents of io and her decendants dynasties

Answer 18

inachus and melia
thebes, crete, and argos

Question 19

argus

Answer 19

child of gaia, sent by hera to watch over io so she did not escape, 100 eyes, never slept

Question 20

who slayed argus

Answer 20

hermes dresses as shepherd, sings to sleep and cuts of his head. Argus’s eyes placed in tail of a peacock

Question 21

what does hera send to torment io once she is free

Answer 21

a gadfly

Question 22

aeschylus themes in prometheus bound

Answer 22

tyranny and friendship, trickery and intelligence, stubbornness, zeus ultimate plan

Question 23

io son and what his name means

Answer 23

epaphus (fearless hand)

Question 24

lyacon myth

Answer 24

(ovid) the gods hear about a wicked king of arcadia, zeus disguises himself to find out. Lyacon tests his divinity and wants to kill him in his sleep, he also tries to trick Zeus into being a cannibal. Zeus is so mad he turns lyacon into a wolf and punishes all of humanity with a flood

Question 25

flood survivors

Answer 25

deucalion (son of prometheus)
pyrrha (daughter of epimetheus)

Question 26

deucalion and pyrrha myth

Answer 26

(ovid) both were very pious, they go to oracle because scared when its just them, themis oracle says to throw bones behind their back, pyrrha is scared that it’s evil, deucalion convinces her that bones of earth means just stones, they do it and it makes humans

Question 27

what does pandora mean

Answer 27

all gifts

Question 28

works and days pandora

Answer 28

all gods involved, pandora metioned by name, has to actually open jar