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GMS6mythology
Introduction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| According to the Greeks, what was the "nothingness" at the beginning of time called? | chaos |
| What are two things that came out of chaos? | darkness and death |
| The bottomless place where Death lives was called what? | Erebus |
| Night did something spectacular. What was it? | laid a "silver egg" |
| According to the Greeks, who were the first two beings? | Father Heaven and Mother Earth |
| What was Father Heaven called? | Uranus |
| What was Mother Earth called? | Gaia |
| Who were the children of Gaia and Uranus who had a large eye in the center of their foreheads? | the Cyclopes |
| Describe the 3 monster children of Gaia and Uranus. | They had 50 heads and 100 hands. |
| Who were two of the Titan children of Gaia and Uranus? | Cronus and Rhea |
| What did Cronus do to his first 5 children? | He swallowed them. |
| Who was the only child that was NOT swallowed by Cronus? | Zeus |
| Who were the five children that Cronus swallowed? | Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, Demeter |