CLCV Exam #2: Divinities/demigods/monsters

Aphrodite

goddess of love

Apollo

god of disease, healing, poetry, music

Ares

god of war

Artemis

goddess of hunting, death of women

Athena

goddess of cities, crafts, wisdom, war

Bull of Heaven

monster sent by Inanna to kill humans, killed by Gilgamesh & Enkidu

Centaurs

half man/half horse divinities

Charon

ferryman across river Styx in the Underworld

Cybele

Phrygian fertility goddess, her priest is Attis

Demeter

fertility goddess of crops, mother of Persephone

Dionysus

fertility god of wine, son of Zeus and Semele

Eros

Love, primordial force/son of Aphrodite

Gilgamesh

king and legendary hero of Mesopotamia

Gorgons

monsters with large eyes, apotropaic in art

Hades

god of the dead

Helen

daughter of Zeus, marries Menelaus, then Paris

Hephaestus

god of metalworking, crafts

Hera

goddess of marriage

Hermes

god of travelers, thieves, messengers, oratory

Hestia

goddess of the hearth

Humbaba

monster guarding a cedar forest, killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu

Inanna/Ishtar

Mesopotamian goddess of love/war

Io

daughter of river Inachus, loved by Zeus, turned into a cow

Isis

Egyptian goddess, wife of Osiris, mother of Horus

Medusa

woman turned into a snake-haired monster, her stare turns to stone

Minotaur

half man/half bull child of Minos and Pasiphae

Nymphs

minor goddesses of nature

Osiris

Egyptian god, husband of Isis, killed by Seth and dismembered

Pasiphae

daughter of Helios (Sun , wife to Minos, mother to minotaur

Persephone

daughter of Persephone, stolen by Hades

Perseus

son of Zeus and Danae, kills Medusa and sea monster

Poseidon

god of the oceans

Satyrs

goat/men divinities who follow Dionysus

Semele

daughter of Cadmus, mother of Dionysus by Zeus

Sphinx

woman/lion hybrid monster who kills travelers to Thebes

Thetis

Nereid, mother of Achilles

Titans

children of Gaea and Uranus, fought the Olympian gods

Zeus

storm god, king of the Olympians, enforces justice, hospitality