CLA 10 exam 2

Prophecy

What was Apollo’s power of language?

Trickery

What was Hermès’ power of language?

Far-Shooter

Apollo is also known as ______ - _____________

Trickstar

Hermes is also know as ____________

Prophecy

Apollo is the god of what?

Delos and Delphi

Where are Apollo’s temples?

Near Eastern

Apollo is a deity with _______ __________ origins

attributes, Apollo

These are all __________ of _____________?

-long-haired

-beardless youth

-bows and arrows

-tripod (oracle)

-lyre from Hermes

-laurel crown

Apollo’s Influence

These are all areas of _______ ___________?

-“he who shouts from afar”

-archery, not not hunting

-plague

-medicine and healing

-prophecy and oracles

-music (played on lyre)

-poetry

-reason

-light (Phoebus)

Leto and Zeus

Who are Apollo’s parents?

Delos

Which region becomes major meeting point of the mid- Aegean thanks to Apollo’s Shrine?

Coronis

Apollo had a biological child with ________ and while she was pregnant, she cheated on him

Asclepius

Who is the child of Coronis and Apollo?

Chiron

Who cared for Asclepius, hint: he’s a centaur?

Artemis

Who was sent to kill Coronis?

Hermes

Who was sent to remove Asclepius from his mother so that he would survive?

Asclepius

Who presided over Epidaurus, which was the most renamed healing sanctuary in Greece?

Cassandra

One of Apollo’s failed romances, given prophetic powers in exchange for sex, but then she denied the sex, became the Trojan prophet whose words no one believes

Sibyl of Cumae

Another failed romance of Apollo:Given “as many years as grains of sand she could scoop up in her hands,” but she refused the sex, still got the years (but not the youth)

Daphne

Which river nymph fled Apollo and was turned into a laurel tree by her father, the river god Peneus

Laurel

What are crowns for victors made out of?

Apollo

Which Greek god came to embody the Greek ideal of order against disorder and reason against unreason?

Zeus and Maia

Who are Hermes’ parents?

Arcadia

Hermes was born on Mt. Kyllene, which is in ___________, thus there are many shrines to him located them

Herma

The directly translation of “he of the stone heap” is what?

Travelers

Hermes is known as the protector of who?

Messenger

Hermes is the primary _________ to the Olympians?

Attributes, Hermes

These are all ___________ of _____________

• Traveler’s hat (cap)

• Winged sandals

• Caduceus

• 2 copulating snakes intertwined

• Often winged

• the emblem of the herald/messenger

• given by the healer Apollo

Pschopompos

Hermes also guides souls to the underworld, what is the specific term for this?

Herm

A column with a head and phallus

Hermes

If a herm has an erect phallus, shows a human man (both beardless youth and bearded adult) and it is derived from piles of rocks, it is for who?

Herms

These are all functions of what?

-fertility of goats, sheep and swine

-protection to ward off evil eye

-Boundary marker

Inventions

The lyre, his sandals and the kindling of fire are all ____________ of Hermes when he was young

50 cattle

What does Hermes steal from Apollo

Hermes

won’t steal from brother, will oversee trading, gives brother Lyre

Hermes

Will give brother a whip and his 50 cattle and a splendid staff

Pythian Apollo

In Homeric hymns, Apollo is joined to who?

Telphousa

Who discouraged the establishment of Apollo’s temple at Delphi

Pytho

Who did Apollo slay on my. Parnassus

Dolphin

What did Apollo appear as to the Cretans to lead them to Delphi to be stewards of his temple?

Aphrodite

Who is the Greek goddess of sexual love?

Ouranos

Aphrodite was born from the foam (Aphrodite) of whose genitals in the sea?

Sweet desire

Overwhelming urges and passions

Cyprus

“Cyprian” born there or first came ashore there, Aphrodite statue there

Kythera

“Kytherea” also claimed Aphrodite

Characteristic and power

These are the ____________ and ___________ of Aphrodite:

Struggle/violence/unpredicatability and

Desire/loveliness/creation

Birds and eros

Aphrodite’s attributes are ______ and ______

Cult titles

These are the _______ __________ of Aphrodite

-of the harbor

-Of all the people

-laughter loving, genital loving

He

Aphrodite is married to who?

What

True or false, Aphrodite can cause

Who are the three people that Aphro

Anchises

Who was the mortal man that Zeus caused Aphrodite to desire as punishment for her induced affairs of immortals and mortals?

Aeneas

Who was Aphrodite’s and Anchises’ mortal son?

Ganymede and Zeus

• Father worried about Ganymede’s disappearance

• Comforted by Hermes’ message from Zeus and divine gifts

Tithonos and Eos (Dawn)

• Dawn neglected to ask for youth

• Tithonos wasted away (cicada)

Tree

Nymphs and ______ die together

Hermaphoditus

•Child of Aphrodite and Hermes

• Nymph Salmacis would not let go

• They fused together

• Woman’s breasts & man’s genitals

Priapus

Child of Aphrodite and Hermes (or Dionysus) and is associated with prosperity

Apotropaic

Enormous penis wards off evil

Priapism

A permanent penile erection

Ishtar

-goddess of sexual love, fertility and war

-she is associated with doves and lions

-she is from the Ancinet Neat East and shares some aspects with Aphrodite

Ishtar

Which god went to the underworld and was stripped and became diseased then all sexual activity on earth halted

Dumuzi

What was the name of Ishtar’s lover, who took her place in underworld?

Kurnugi

What is the name of the underworld in Akkadian/Babylonian tradition, it means the dark house

Ereshkigal

Who is Ishtar’s sister and queen of the underworld?

Good-looks the playboy

When Ishtar entered Kurnugi, Ea makes _______ -__________ ______ ____________

Seasonal fertility

The story of Ishtar explains what?

True

True or false, Dumuzi spent half of the year in underworld and half on earth

Sympathies magic

Like action produces like result

Ritual of “Sacred Marriage”

• A priest and priestess reenact the sex of Ishtar and Dumuzi

• Ritual to lead to rich natural harvest

Kronos and Rhea

Who are Hades parents?

Underworld

Hades is the god of the what?

False

True or false, Hades is an Olympian?

The invisable

What does Hades mean?

A helmet

What gift makes Hades invisible

Cyclopes

Who gave Hades an invisibility helmet?

Persephone

Who is Hades married to?

Childless

What type of marriage do Hades and Persephone have?

Receiver of many

A name for Hades is “___________ ____ ________”

No

Does Underworld = Tartarus

No

Can Hades cause or prevent death

Not honored

These are all reasons that Hades is _____ ________:

-He is not feared

-he does not demand the death of individuals

-he does not cause or prevent death

-he does not judge nor punish souls

Going to the House of Hades

Another term for death was _________ ____ _____ ________ ____ ________

Bleak

Greeks had a _________ conception of the afterlife

Actions of life on Earth

Where was happiness to be found for Greeks?

Another takes its place

What happens if a soul leaves the underworld?

Breath of life

What is the soul associated with?

Air-like

Greek believe that our soul retain an ______-______ nature after death

Appearance and personality

Our souls retain ______________ and ___________ after death

Proper burial rights

What do souls have to await before they can properly enter Hades

Women

Who oversaw steps in funerary rights

Prothesis

Laying out of the body

Ekphora

Funeral procession

Funeral games

What would be organized when an important person died

Many rivers

What keeps souls from wandering back and keeps underworld very separate

Charon

Who is the boatman that ferries people across the river and guards water to refuse passage to souls who want to return to the living

Cerberus

Guards the entrance of the Underworld, number of head varies from 2 to 50

The Athenian festival in Spring, strategy to appease ghost was to give them one night to mingle with living

Minos

Who is arbiter of disputes in Hades, NOT eternal judgement