Intro to The Odyssey

Chaos

Being that was everything and nothing before time

Gaea and Uranus

They came from Chaos

Gaea

Mother Earth

Uranus

Father Heavens

Rhea, Cronus

2/12 of Gaea and Uranus’ kids, the Great Mother and the Titan of Time

3 cyclopes, 1 hecatonchires

Gaea and Uranus’ monster children, _ ___ and _ ____

Tartarus

Where Uranus sent his monster children

Cronus, Uranus, blood, giants, furies

______ helps his monster brothers, overthrows _____, releases them; from Uranus’ _____ come a race of _____ and ______

Rhea

Cronus’ wife, 6 children together

Cronus, Zeus, Gaea

Nervous about a rebellion like he had against his own dad, ______ eats all of his kids but ____. ____ replaced him with a rock because she favorited him.

Hera

Zeus’ wife

Realms

Zeus decides to divide the Gods into different ______

Golden age

Age when humans are under Cronus, everything is perfect

Silver age

Age when humans were under Zeus’ rule, the men suffer and hunger, work is hard

Bronze age

Ages of men going to war

Iron age

Age where the gifts of humans were squandered, crime and degradation are prominent (now)

Zeus, Hera, Athena, Ares, Apollo, Hestia, Hades, Hephaestus, Artemis, Hermes, Aphrodite, and Demeter

The Council of 13 Gods and Goddesses

Nectar, Ambrosia

Gods eat the nectar of flowers (______) and a special fruit salad (________)

3 Moire/ Fates

The important figures who were even more important than the Gods

Clotho, Lachesis, Atrophus

______ spun the web of life, ________ gave each man his fate, and ________ cut the fatal web

12

Number of wives Zeus had

Calliope

The muse of Epic Poetry

Scylla

6 headed creature who ate sailors

Charybdis

Whirlwind monster that swallowed the sea

Sirens

Half bird/ half women who lured sailors with their songs

River Styx

River in the Underworld that required a ferry (coins in eyes)

Elysium

Paradise (in the West), ruled by Cronus

Acheron

A land of aimless wandering.

Hypnos, Thanatos, Morpheus

God of sleep, God of death, and God of dreams

Phobos

God of fear

Pan

God who sometimes caused groundless fear among mortals

Syringe

Named after Pan’s beloved, who was turned into a hollow reed

Lethal

Named after the River of Forgetfulness in Hades

Cloth

Named after the fate who spun life’s thread

Junoesque

Stately and queenlike, after Juno

Mercurial

Quick witted, fickle, named after Hermes

Jovian

Majestic, named after Zeus

Orpheum

Music hall or theater, named after the musician who’s music charmed Hades

Prometheus

Name means foresight

Epimetheus

Name means hindsight

Silver age

Age when Zeus became disgusted with men and swept them off the face of the Earth

The clay from Arcadian river banks

What Prometheus was asked to create a new race of humans from

Warm, bronze

Prometheus wanted to give men fire to ____ themselves and to make ______ tools

Reed, domesticate animals, build ships, read, write

Prometheus hid the fire in a ____, gave it to men, and taught them how to ____ ___, _ __, and _ and _

Hephaestus and 2 giants

They helped Zeus trick Prometheus

Deucalion, Pyrrha

Prometheus’ son and wife

Mount Parnassus

Where Prometheus send his son and wife

Creation from mud, a flood, and a Savior

3 themes in Prometheus’ story that are similar to those in Christianity

1200 B.C.

The year the Trojan War took place

Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena

3 Goddesses who believed they were the fairest

King Priam of Troy

Paris’ dad

She fell in love with him, he was disguised as Menelaus, or she was under Aphrodites spell

The 3 possible reasons why Helen might’ve gone to Troy

Menelaus and Agamemnon

2 Kings who declare war on Troy

They’re worried that Menelaus might hurt her if she returns

The reason Priam’s sons decide to keep Helen safe

Troy

Country in the Trojan war that had more allies and food

Hector, Paris, Aenaes

Trojan heroes

Achilles, Ajax, Odysseus

Greek heroes

Greece

Country in Trojan war that had more support from the Gods, more heroes and allies, and refused to give up

Aeneus

Trojan soldier who escaped and was later found in Rome

Homer

Greek blind poet credited with gathering Greek stories, telling them as an Epic, and singing it

The Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and the Black Sea

What the REAL Trojan was was fought over

1200, 800

The Trojan war took place in _ B.C, but it was written down in _ B.C.

Western Turkey

Where Troy really was

Ilion

This is what Troy is also called

Greek virtues

What these Epics were used to teach

The Divine Comedy

Italy’s epic

Mahabharta

Indias epic

Song of Roland

France’s Epic

Ithica

The country Odysseus was King of

Loot, remorse

On their way home, Odysseus and his men would __ with no _.

Rhapsodes

Wandering bards, minstrels, historians, entertainers, and mythmakers

Rhythmic and Memorization aids

The reason they used pneumonic formulas

Acheans

Greeks were also called…

Law of Xenia

Law of Zeus that demanded hospitality