| A | B |
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| What are the reasons for myth? | aetological- to explain why;; to explain ritual;; to explain history (Trojan War) |
| early Greek author? | Hesiod (wrote Theogony) lived in the 8th century BC |
| Roman word for chaos | chaotic- means messy |
| Greek word for chaos | chasm- means a void |
| Chaos created ______ and _______ | Night and Erebus (depths where death dwells) |
| Night and Erebus created ______ | love |
| Love created _____ and ______ | light (aither) and day |
| Earth (gaea) and Sky (uranus) created... | monsters, cyclopies (3), titans, 100-hands |
| Who were the monsters | hurricane, volcano, and earthquake |
| pangaea comes from | Gaea- earth god, married to Sky, father of the monsters |
| what does cyclops mean literally? | wheel eye |
| who is father time? | cronos |
| roman name of cronos | saturn |
| when cronos died his blood created what? | more monsters (giants and furies) |
| describe the furies | blood dripped out of eyes, snakey hair, avengers |
| Saturn was married to ____ | Rhea |
| what is Rhea's latin name | ops-means wealth |
| opulent comes from what diety's name | ops- goddess of wealth |
| cronos=rhea to create | the gods |
| cronos ate all of his children except | zeus |
| after zeus was born (and not eaten by cronos) where was he sent? | crete |
| delphi- | the rock (disguised as baby zeus) that cronos threw up. also the belly button of the earth :] |
| typhon- | 100 heads, fire in its eyes, lives in mt aetna |
| prometheus- | means forethought, made humans upright and in the image of the gods, stole fire for the humans |
| epimetheus- | means afterthought. first made animals, and then made humans |
| gods made the humans (only men) out of what 3 metals | gold first, silver second, bronze third |
| iron made up what race? | god like heroes. when they died they were sent to the island of the blessed |
| zeus made _____- after _____- | women after men |
| eve | pandora- means all gifts |
| dodona | oracle |
| eileithyia | god of child birth |
| pandora was with epimetheus to create | duecalion and pyrrha |
| parthanon- | temple of athena on the acropolis in athens |
| femail warrior | athena |
| god of the sun | apollo (also known as pytheon apollo) |
| pythia- | sat on a tripod, said creepy stuff that preist had to translate |
| zeus had an afair with leto to create | apollo and artemis |
| delos | a floating island in the agean sea. place where you worship apollo |
| in the iliad sminthian means | mouse god |
