Greek gods

What is Demeter?

Festival in September that lasted 9 days

What is Demeter's Roman name?

Ceres

What is Demeter the goddess of?

Goddess of Grain

Why is Demeter called a suffering goddess?

She loss her daughter for 4 months

What is "wheat" for the Roman's?

Corn

What is Eleusis/ Eleusian Mysteries?

Life, death, and resurrection

Who is Metaneira?

The mother of 4 girls

Who is Demaphoon?

The little boy who Demeter tried to make immortal

Demeter spends some time with a little family until?

The mother finds out what she was doing to Demaphoon

Who is Persephone?

The maiden of the spring

What is Persephone's Latin name?

Proserpine

Persephone's daughter is?

Demeter

What is the Rape of Persephone?

- She was abducted/Kidnapped

- Taken by Hades

How long is Persephone gone for each year?

4 months

What did the Rape of Persephone cause?

A famine because Demeter refused to let anything grow

Who is Helios?

Sun God

Helios told Demeter what happened and the ________ ignored it?

Moon

What did Hades make Persephone eat?

Pomegranate seeds (4 seeds)

If you eat anything in the underworld what happens?

You have to go back

If you do eat anything in the underworld, you then have to go back which caused us to have?

Seasons

What is a Atiological / Etiological Myth?

Explains something

Who is Dionysus?

God of wine, Son of Semele + Zeus, Suffering God

What is Dionysus' Roman name?

Bacchus

Who is mad about Zeus + Semele?

Hera

What does Hera tell Semele?

If zeus really loves her, he will show his true forms

What does Zeus swear by?

The river Styx (unbreakable oath)

Zeus shows his?

True form, he is like a ball of light, then Semele dies

Dionysus looks like a rich young man so?

Pirates gang up on him

Who is the Helmsman?

He steers the ship, He knows that he is a god

The captian was turned into a ?

Lion

What were the rest of the men turned into?

Dolphins

Who did Dionysus rescue on the island of Crete?

Ariadne

After Dionysus rescued Ariadne they?

Fell in love with

What happened on Naxo's Island?

Dionysus fought death and brought his mom to Olympus, Semele was made a God

Who is Thesus?

Hero, lived in Crete, and fought the Minotaur

Who are the Maenads/Bacchantes?

Dionysus's followers

What were the Maenads like?

They were always drunk, wore their skin, ate raw animals, extremely aggressive

What is Thebes?

A town, Gets torn apart to death, Pentheus is the king, his mom brought his head to town and only realizes until the "spell" wore off

Who is Teiresias?

Seer (could see the future), blind prophet

What is the Greek creation myth?

Chaos → Night + Erebus → Love → Light (Day) → Earth (Heaven/Sky) → Gaea + Duranos → Monsters → (Cyclops) → Titans → Giants

Who are some famous heroes?

Hercules, Perseus, Theseus, Jason, Bellepheron

What is the 2nd Creation myth?

Gods → Golden Race → Silver Race → Brass Race → Heroes → Iron Race

Women were made to?

Punish men

Cronus's prophecy was that his child would?

Overthrow him

Cronus did what to his children?

Swallowed them all except Zeus

Who is the "fore-thought"?

Prometheus

Who is the "After-thought"?

Epimetheus

Epimetheus made?

Animals and humans , he gave animals "power"

Prometheus felt bad for?

Humans

What did Prometheus give to the humans?

Fire in a fennel stalk, this made us superior

How did Zeus get disrespected by Prometheus?

Animal sacrifice - Prometheus ate the good parts of the meat and gave Zeus and the other gods the bones

What is the consequence Zeus gave to Prometheus for tricking him?

A eagle eats his liver everyday, it grows back overnight to repeat the process → Hercules saves him

Who is Pandora?

Made to punish humans

Who is Pandora married to?

Epimetheus

What did Zeus give Pandora?

A box (do not open)

What comes out of the box that Zeus gave to pandora?

All types of evils

What is the one good thing that came out of the box?

Hope

What was sent to the earth to reset it?

A flood

Who is Deucalion and Pyrrha?

The only two survivors of the flood caused by Zeus

What is Parnassus?

Mountain was sacred to arts and literature

How was the earth repopulated after the flood?

Through Deucalion and Pyrrha throwing rocks, the stone people rose. It was a hard enduring race