Edith Hamilton's Mythology Study Guide Flashcards

A collection of vocabulary flashcards covering the major gods, writers, and heroes from Edith Hamilton's Mythology based on the provided study guide notes.

Primitive mythology

Savage and brutal, includes dark magic.

Classical mythology

Clear and full of imagination.

The miracle of Greek mythology

The creation of deities who take form of exceedingly humanly attractive lovely youths, unlike any beast ever known.

Mythology

An early explanation of some thing occuring in nature.

Ovid

Latin Poet who turned many greek myths into inde tales.

Homer

Greek poet who wrote the Ihad and the odyssey, representing some of the oldest writings in greece.

Hesiod

Poor farmer who wrote Work and Days and also theogony, an account of the creation of the universe and the gods.

Pindar

Greatest lyric poet in greece who wrote to honor victory in the Olympics.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

Tragic Poets whose plays are one of the most important sources of knowledge of myths.

Zeus (Jupiter)

Lord of the sky and powerful Ruler of meant; his oracle was Oak Trees.

Hera (Juno)

Goddess of marriage, wife of zeus and Queen of olympus; symble = owl.

Poseidon (Neptune)

God of the sea and brother of Zeus known as the 'earth shaper'; symbole = trident.

Hades (Pluto)

God of the under world and husband of persephone.

Athena (Minerva)

Godless of wisden | crafts, daughter of zeus, and Patro of adyseus.

Phoebus Apollo (Apollo)

God of music / Poetry, the Sun and Archarg; symbol = sun.

Artemis (Diana)

Goddess of the moon and hunting, daughter of Zeus and sister of Apollo.

Aphrodite (Venus)

Godess of love, wife of Hephaestus, and lover of Ares; symbole = dove.

Hermes (Mercury)

God of thieves and tranpers, son of Zeus and messenger of olympus; sybble = winged sandals.

Ares (Mars)

God of war, son of Zeus and hera, and lover of aprodite; symbol = boar.

Hephaestus (Vulcan)

God of smiths and crafts, son of Zeus and hera, and a crippled armorer for the gods; symbol = Hammer.

Hestia

Goddess of Health and sister of zeus who gave up her throne on olympus for Dionysus.

Eros

God of Love and son of aphrodite who shoots arrows of love and causes trouble.

Hebe

Godess of Eternal Youth, wife of Hercules, and daughter of Zeus and hera.

Iris

Goddess of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods.

The Graces

Sisters and daughters of Zeus and Eurynome named a glain (splendor), Euphryyene (mirth), and thalia (Good cheer).

The Muses

Nine sisters and daughters of Zeus and memosye, including Cllo (History), Urania (astronome), Erato, Polyhymica, and Eutope.

Ocean

Titan lord of the river and ocean whose wife is tethys.

Triton

Trumpeter of the Sea and son of pasiedon and Amplyteate.

Proteus

Son of Poseidon who could fortell the future and change shape.

Naiads

Water nymphs who lived in brooks, springs, and fountains.

Charon

Ferry man of the underworld who only carries souls that have passage money across.

Cerberus

Three headed guard dog of the under world who makes no one leave.

The Furies

Punishers of the under world.

Sleep and Death

Brothers who send dreams to men in the world above.

Demeter (Ceres)

Goddess of Harves, mother of Persephone, and provider of corn; symble = wheat.

Dionysus (Bacchus)

God of wine, son of zeus, and the only god who had a mortal Parent.

Pan (Faunus)

Son of Hermes and god of Shepards.

Castor and Pollux

Twin sons of Leda; Castor was mortal while Pollox was immiserable.

The Satyrs

Goat men and ugly woods men whose home was in weird places on earth.

Nymphs

Lovely goddesses of nature.

Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyr

The four winds: North (Boreas), South (Notus), East (Eurus), and West (Zephyr).

The Centaurs

Half horse - half man barbarians; Chiron was a mentor for heroes.

The Gorgons

Three immortal dragon creatures, including medusa whose look turned men to stone.

The Sirens

Lived on an island with enchanting voices who lured sailers to their deaths.

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

The Fates who spin, measure, and cut the thread of life.

Saturn

The protector of seeds who later changed to the father of Jupiter.

Janus

Two faced god of good beginnings and the start of the year.

Prometheus and Epimetheus

Titans who sided with the Gods; Epimetheus gave good gifts to animals while Prometheus gave fire to mankind.

Pandora

Created to plague mankind by inducing plagues and demons.

Deucalion and Pyrrha

The only two survivors of the flood sent by Zeus to destroy wicked humans.

The Stone People

A race of humans stronger and able to withstand more than others.

Io

Persued by Hera across the country due to an affair with Zeus; her descendant Hercules would eventually free Prometheus.

Europa

Taken across the sea to the Island of crete by Zeus in the shape of a white bull.

Narcissus

A very handsome man whose biggest lover was echo and who was cursed to fall in love with his reflection.

Psyche

A mortal woman more beautiful than her sisters who married Cupid and was later reunited with him after tasks from Venus.

Pyramus and Thisbe

Lovers who killed themselves, whose blood dyed the mulberry bush deep red.

Orpheus and Eurydice

The story that explains the sweetness of the nightingale's song through orpheus's despair after losing his love twice.

Pygmalion and Galatea

A sculptor who hated women until he fell in love with a sculpture of the 'Perfect Woman' that Venus turned into his real bride.

Endymion

A shepherd placed in an eternal slumber by Selene, goddess of the moon, so she could always love him.

Daphne

A young huntress turned into a tree to escape Apollo, who then made the laurel leaf his symbol of victory.

Alpheus and Arethusa

A river god and a huntress turned spring whose waters are connected from Greece to Italy.

Phaethon

Also known as Praction, the son of Helios who lost control of the sun chariot and was struck by a thunderbolt.

Daedalus

The inventor who built the labyrinth for the minitary in crete and made wings of wax safely used by himself but not his son.

Perseus

Son of Danae who killed medusa, saved andromeda, and fulfilled a prophecy by killing his grandfather with a discus.

Theseus

King of Athens who claimed his father's sword after lifting a stone, killed the minotaur, and started a people's government.

Hercules

Hero of great strength who performed twelve labors after killing his wife and 3 sons in a madness sent by Hera.

Atalanta

A huntress who sailed on the argo and only married Melanion after he beat her in a foot race using golden apples.