CC 305 Quiz 3- Study Guide to Zeus and Afterlife

Dr. Shea

Titanomachy

10-year war between the Titans and Olympians

Hecatonchires

Monstrous giants with a hundred hands and fifty heads

Cyclops

“Round eye”; fought on side of Olympians during war.

Gigantomachy

Battle between Giants and Olympians

Typhoeus

A monstrous giant in Greek mythology, son of Gaia and Tartarus

Otus and Ephialtes

During Titanomachy, they tried to stack mountains on each other to reach Mt. Olympus (stairway to heaven)

Five Ages of Man

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron

Themis

Second wife of Zeus; Mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; Goddess of justice and law

Atlas

Titan that holds the sky up with his arms

Prometheus

Brother to Epimetheus; God of fire; created mankind with Athena

Epimetheus

Brother to Prometheus; tasked to create animals and humans; gave gifts to animals; marries Pandora

Pandora

first woman created by the Gods; told not to open the box as it contains the evils of the world; opens the box, leaves hope.

Aeschylus

greek poet/playwriter; father of tragedy; wrote Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound

Stage play; Zeus is the villain, punishes Prometheus for stealing fire.

Io

mortal princess in love with Zeus; Hera turns her into a cow

Lycaon

Tried to serve Zeus’ children to him; turned into wolf, known as first werewolf.

Deucalion

Son of Prometheus; married cousin Pyrrha; survived Greek flood

Pyrrha

Daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora; Married Deucalion; after flood, both were told to throw bones of their mother to repopulate the Earth.

Mt. Olympus

Home to Olympian Gods; tallest mountain in Greece

Marduk

The chief god in Babylonian mythology

Gilgamesh

mortal king; ancestor of Herecles

Ishtar

Mesopotamian Goddess of love and war

Persephone (Proserpine)

Queen of the underworld; Goddess of spring; Tricked into eating a pomegranate; Married Hades

Elysium

Part of the afterlife where you must die in battle to go here (like Valhalla)

Tartarus

Land of punishment in the underworld; For people who personally offended the gods

Hades

Brother to Zeus and Poseidon; God of Underworld; Kidnapped Persephone and married her.

Minos

Judge of the dead; powerful king; son of Zeus and Europa

Styx

River that leads to underworld

Lethe

Another river in the underworld; if you drink it, it makes you forget why you are there

Sisyphus

Punished by endlessly pushing a rock up a hill.