Mythology Exammmm 1

sexual energy/desire

(in the beginning after gaia)

an empty gap, void (in the beginning there was only ___, the Abyss)

creates erebos and night

"gloomy darkness" of Tartaros

(from chaos, along with night)

the sky/the heavens

child of gaia

reproduces with gaia to make the titans, cyclopes and hundred handers

created by Gaia and blood of Ouranos' genitals

spirit of vengeance, especially giants

youngest Titan of Ouranos and Gaia

becomes king of cosmos after killing father Ouranos

(fated to be overthrown...)

parents of olympian gods with rheia

created by Gaia and blood,

born already wearing armour and spears, violent and savage

from the white foam in the sea of Ouranos genitals, near island of Cythera

aka Philommedes ("genital-loving")

becomes friends with eros

Titan, sister of Cronos, they become parents of first olympian gods

mother of Zeus

(is given birth by Rheia in secret so not to be eaten by father Cronos after prophecy)

plays 2 battles: against Titans, Typhoios

lightning

"war against the Titans"

Zeus and his allies vs. Titans

Zeus wins...unleashes lightning=earth in flames, Titans imprisoned under rocks

(Titariomachy)

bros and sisters: Hera, Hades, Hestia

Poseidon, Demeter

Cyclopes

hundred handers

parents: Gaia and Tartaros

Zeus fights him potentially twice (Zeus burns him with lightning, or he traps Zeus in cave without his tendons until Hermes rescues him and Zeus dominates)

king of the gods, a sky god

anthromorphic (has human shape)

lightning

staph

depicted as older man with a beard

wisdom

sky/weather god

"bright daylight"

Justice (guardian of kings)

hospitality/treatment of strangers

the supreme god

"cleverness" and Zeus' first lover

gives birth to Athena

Zeus' and Metis' daughter

(born out of Zeus' head cuz he swallows her, she emerges fully armed)

"established custom" tradition

a titan, Zeus' second wife

mother of fates and others

Eunomia (lawfullness)

Dike (justice)

Eirene (peace)

the fates (the spinner, the measurer, infexible)

children of themis and zeus

determines your lifespan

1. Clotho (the spinner) "spins" thread of life

2. Lachesis (measurer) measures

3. Atropos (inflexible) cuts thread

"memory"

a titan, Zeus mates with her to make The muses

-inspirers of poets and artists

wisdom (ingested Metis, "cleverness")

law, justice and order (themis and her children)

fate (father of moirai, the fates)

the arts and inspiration

Hebe (goddess of youth)

Eileithyia (goddess of child birth)

Ares (god of war)

creator/defender of mankind

trickster figure, "forethought"

fashioned humans from water and earth

tries to negotiate power with Zeus (with piles of ox)

Zeus' punishment for men

life untroubled before Pandora

Epimetheus opens jar: releases misery, disease, and other evils into the world

only hope left in the jar

when cronos was king of sky i.e. beginning of time

natural abundance, no old age, death like sleep, inhabit the earth as protective spirits

inferior to men of golden age

children for 100 years is not adult life

violent, fail to honor gods

zeus angry, buried them

All they cared about was war and fighting

homes, tools, weapons of bronze

destroyed themselves and went down to the underworld

a godlike race of man, nobler, more just

died in great wars (Troy)

afterdeath: islands of the blessed at the end of the earth

Hesiod's time

endless labor

hate in families

envy and greed everywhere

justive=more power (oh shit)

shame and nemesis (gods of righteous and vengeance) have fled earth

goddess of marriage, childbirth, also and earht mother of fertility

Queen/wife/sis to Zeus

"all-seeing"

demanded by Hera to protect lo as a cow

killed by Hermes

ordered by Zeus to kill Argos by lulling everyone of his eyes to sleep to get Lo the cow

earns title "Hermes Argeiphontes" ("the killer of Argos")

child of Zeus and Hera

goddes of childbirth, like her mom Hera

child of Zeus and Hera

"youthful vigor-goddess of youth"

cupbearer on mt. olym

myth: Hera gave birth to him without sex

divine blacksmith

god of fire

lame in his legs (bc thrown out of olympus onto Lemnos by zeus for interfering with fighting parents)

sometimes attended by 3 cyclopes

result of Hephaistos and Athena's struggle

Heph wants Athena but she wants to keep her virginity,

mythicak ancestor of Athenians

fooled by Athena and sleeps with her

son: Aineias. but shhhhh

gets drunk and tells his buddies...zeus blasts him bye bye

daugher of King Theias

has a "terrible passion" for her father

shes sleeps with him in secret, gets pregnant (Adonis) father finds out

prays to Zeus who turns her into a tree

Zeus and Ganymedes (Ganymedes, a mortal, is kidnapped by Zeus and replaces Hebe as cupbearer of Gods)

Eos and Tithonos (Eos loves Tithonos, a mortal, asks Zeus to allow him to live forever but doesnt ask for eternal youth, Eos shuts him away in chamber)

son of fucked up Smyrna and her dad

hunter beloved be Aphrodite, killed by a boar

rose forms from his blood on the ground

aphrodite's tears grow anemones (flower) MYTH!

4th century BC Athenian philosopher who wrote about love

The Symposium "the nature of love"

originally 3 kinds of human beings (male, female, both) completely round

split in half...."each desires reunion with matching half" =LOVE!

the sea

son of cronos and rheia

brother of Zeus and Hades

bearded, older, sometimes wet

trident

hippocamp: seahorse

Shaker of the Land (shatters earth with trident= eqs)

Savior of the Ships (power to save and destroy ships)

Tamer of horses (inventor or "horsemanship," in myth, father of first horse)

son of Poseidon and Amphitrite

cyclops (not like an original)

shepard and musician

in love with Galateia...write love song

but she loves acis

so he crushes acis with boulder

Polyphemos writes her a love song

but she loves Acis

Poly crushes Acis with a boulder

god of thieves, very sneaky

(saves Zeus from cave in potential Typhoios battle story)

and KILLER OF ARGOS

god of war

son of hera and zeus