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WJHS - Ms. Sukalas
WJHS Greek Mythology - From Chaos to Cosmos
Question | Answer |
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The time when there was no earth, sea - only a black swirling mass of "nothingness" | Chaos |
Another name for Mother Earth | Gaea |
The son of Gaea, also called Father Heaven or Father Sky | Uranus |
The first three children of Mother Earth and Father Heaven. Three monstrous sons w/fifty heads and one hundred hands | The One Hundred-Handed Ones |
The next three children of Mother Earth and Father Heaven.- Ugly Giants w/only one eye. - Imprisoned under the earth. | Cyclopes |
Other children of Mother Earth and Father Heaven. - Six sons/six daughters. - Giants, but human-like. - They were the first gods. | Titans |
The strongest Titan. Along w/his brothers & sisters, he overthrew Father Heaven and released the Cyclopes & One Hundred-Handed Ones from imprisonment. He became ruler of heaven and earth | Cronus |
A Titan who married her brother, Cronus and became queen. | Rhea |
- The first child of Cronus and Rhea. - The goddess of hearth and home. - One of the 12 Olympians | Hestia |
- The second child of Cronus and Rhea - The goddess of the harvest/growing things - One of the 12 Olympians | Demeter |
- The third child of Cronus and Rhea - The wife of Zeus - The goddess of marriage - One of the 12 Olympians | Hera |
- The fourth child of Cronus and Rhea - The god of the underworld - Also the god of wealth - One of the 12 Olympians | Hades |
- The fifth child of Cronus and Rhea - The god of the sea - He is credited w/making sea & land animals especially the horse - One the 12 Olympians | Poseidon |