Mythology

What is the blue circle and what god does it worship

Athens, Athena

What is the red circle and what god does it worship

Olympia, Zeus

What is the green circle and what god does it worship

Eleusis, Demeter, Persephone, Hades

What is the blue star and what god does it worship

Sounion, Poseidon

What is the red star and what god does it worship

Delphi, Apollo

What is the green star and what god does it worship

Cythera, Aphrodite

What is the blue open circle and what god does it worship

Delos, Apollo/Aertimis

What is the red open circle and what god does it worship

Thebes, Dinoyous

What is the green open circle and what god does it worship

Dodona, Zeus

What is the blue X and what god does it worship

Akadia, Hemes

What is the red X and what god does it worship

Epidaurus, Healing god

Terms: Temenos (Sanctuary)

Sacred grod dedicated to god, land of worship

Terms: Ouranos/Heaven

one of the first gods created by Gia, the sky that wraps over earth, father of titans

Terms: Giaia (Earth

Goddess of Earth, mother of all life

Terms: Eros

God of love and desire, one of the first beings, said to be the most beautiful

Terms: Cronus

Son of Ouranos, a titan ruler, over threw his father, Zeus’s father

Terms: Titans

powerful gods ruled before the Olympians, they’re children of Ouranus and Gaia

Terms: Prometheus

a rebelious being who tricked the gods defying Zeus, gives humans fires, cursed to have his liver eaten for eternity 

Terms: Metis

Goddess of wisdom and being cunning, zeus first wife which he eats, and mother of Athena

Terms: Sacrifice (thusia)

a ritual to send offerings to the gods, often food, figures, animals

Terms: Ocean

another older god, who surrounds the earth

Terms: Oceanids

Daughters of ocean, nymphs of rivers and springs

Terms: epimetheus

brother of prometheus

Terms: Pandora

frist women created by gods, opened a jar releasing evils upon the world

Terms: Athena (Parthenos)

Virgin goddess, born from Zeus’s head, goddess of wisdom, craft and war

Terms: Poseidon

Zeus brother, god of the sea, earthquakes and horses

Terms: Hephaestus

god of fire, metalworking and craftsmanship

Terms: Hera

Queen of the gods, wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage and family

Terms: Demeter

Goddess of agriculture, brings fertility to the earth

Terms: Persephone (Kore)

daughter of Demter and Zeus, queen of the underworld, symbol of rebirth

Terms: Hades

god and ruler of the underworld and the dead

Terms: Metaneira

Queen of Eleusis, welcomed Demeter during her search for Persephone

Demophone

The mortal child Demeter nursed while in Elusis

Terms: Eleusis

The sacared place where mainly Demeter, persephone is worshiped, home to the Eleusinian Mysteries

Terms: Mystes

initiated into the Eleusisan mysteries, experiencing first statge of initiation

Terms: Epoptes

fully initiated in the mysteries who seen a sacred vision

Terms: Telesterion

great hall at Eleusis where the secret rite of demeter were performed

Terms: Hiereis

Priests or priestesses who serve the gods and oversaw religious rituals

Terms: Manteis

Prophets or seers who interpreted omens and divine will

Terms: Artemis

goddess of hunt, wild animals and chastity, also a virgin goddess

Terms: Brauron

Sanctuary of Artemis in attica where young girls took part in initiation rites

Terms: Actaeon

a hunter turned into a stag by artemis after seen her bathing, torn apart by his own hunting dogs

Terms: Orion

someone who hunted with Artemis, or claimed to be better then her, placed in the stars after Artimes shot and killed him

Terms: Niobe

Mortal queen who claimed she was a better mother then Leto, Artimes and Apollos mother, got punished, the kids killed all her children

Terms: Callisto

a follower of Artemis, transformed into a bear because she was pregnant by Zeus’s trick, Zeus saves her and turned her into a constellation

Terms: Aphrodite (cypris, Cypogenes, Cytherea)

Goddess born from the casteration of Cronos, goddess of love and beauty

Terms: Anchises

mortal prince, loved by aphrodie (Zeus’s influence), father of Aeneas

Terms: Aeneas

Trojan hero oand son of Aphrodite, found the Roman race

Terms: Leto

Apollo and Artimes mother by Zeus, birthed on Delos, had a hard birth because of hera

Terms: Delphi

a sanctuary of apollo home of the oracle

Terms: Apollo

god of prophecy, music, healing, worshiped at Delphi and Delos, later god of sun

Terms: Hermes (argeiphontes)

messenger god, god of travel, trade, thieves

Terms: Mercury

Roman counterpart of Hermes, known more as a trickster

Terms: Psychopompos

“guide of souls” Hermes guide souls to the underworld

Terms: Dionysus (lysios)

god of wine, drama, ecstasy, born from the leg of Zeus after Zeus picks him up

Terms: Semele

mortal women, mother of Dionysus by Zeus

Terms: Teiresias

blind prohpet of thebes

Terms: Pentheus

Theban king, very traditional who opposed dionysus, torn apart by maenads

Terms: Cadmus

founder of Thebes and ancestor of it’s royal line

Terms: Agave

mother of Pentheus, unknowingly killed him in a frenzy from Dionysus

Terms: Maenads

female followers of Dionysus, known for ecstatic dancing and frenzy

Terms: Bacchae

another name for maenads

Terms: Sparagmos

ritual of tearing apart of a living creature during Dionysian rites

Terms: Ekstasis

State of a divine trance “outside oneself'“

Terms: Enthousiasmos

state of divine possession, “filled with the god”

Terms: Thebes

a major greek city, where Dinoysus story took place