CC 305 Exam 1

Ball State, Dr. Shea

Chaos (Chasm)

A void from which everything emerged.

Gaia

Mother Earth; Emerged from Chaos; Married Uranus

Uranus

Father of Titans; emerged from Chaos; Primordial god of the sky.

Tartarus

An abyss in the land of the dead. Used to punish mortals that offended the gods.

Eros

Greek god of love

Erebus

“Gloom of Tartarus”; god of darkness

Night

Must be female due to moon linked to menstrual cycle

Pontus

Son of Gaia; Primordial god of the sea

Titans

One of 3 groups of children from Uranus and Gaia

Children of Uranus and Gaia

Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires

Hecatoncheires.

Children of Uranus and Gaia; Get stuck in Gaia

Oceanus

Titan god of ocean; married sister, Tethys

Oceanids

Water nymphs that were daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.

Leto

Titan goddess of motherhood, mother of Apollo and Artemis

Phaethon

Mortal who attempted to drive sun chariot of his father Helios

Selene

Greek goddess of the moon

hieros gamos

Sacred marriage between gods or dieties

Cronus

Youngest Titan of Uranus and Gaia; reaps his father’s genitals

Rhea

Mother goddess; married Cronus; saved zeus from Cronus

Components of myth

Myth as religion, Anthropology, History, Fairy/Folk-tale, natural science, psychology, sociology

Myth as fairy-tales examples

distorted cause and effect, magical helpers, simple moral lessons, archetypes

Pontus

Primordial god of the sea

Oedipus’s biological parents

Laius and Jocasta

Oedipus’ adoptive parents

Polybus and Merope

Twin sons of Oedipus

Eteocles and Polynices

Seven against Thebes

Polynices, Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Parthenopaeus, Hippomedon, and Adrastus

Eriphyle

Exchanged husband for necklace

aetiological

explaining the cause of something

Catharsis

cleansing of emotions

aminism

spirits in objects

Allegory

story with hidden meaning

Dionysian

extatic religion