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Greek Mythology

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What are the 4 characteristics of myths -explains happenings in nature- example: snow, rain, earthquake -oral stories passed down -explains early Greek and Roman values -use of the supernatural
Get out your notes and look at the diagram in the way that the Greeks thought that the world was created did u look at it twin i see u XD
Themis titan of justice
Tethys titan of fresh water
Atlas titan that bore the weight of the world on his shoulders
Who were the fortune tellers and what happened when people went to them? they were oracles and would tell u what would happen, and then people would freak out because they thought that it would become true and then they would panic and make it become true
What happened in the prophecy of Cronus? Cronus was told that one day one of his children would overthrow and kill him, so he ate 5 out of the 6 children when they were babies, Zeus was left
What did they do against Cronus? Rhea and Zeus gave him a rock covered in a blanket and he ate t and puked up all of the kids, battle between titans and gods/godesses
Who wins the battle between the Gods and Goddesses vs titans Gods/Goddesses
Zeus
Poseidon
Hades 3rd in power/ruler or the dead and underworld/kidnapped Persephone into the underworld
Hera Zeus' wife/sister, punished marriages/punished who Zeus fell in love with
Hestia Zeus' sister, virgin goddess, symbol of home
Ares God of war
Athena daughter of Zeus, favorite child, sprang from his head, protector of mortals, Goddess of wisdom, called grey-eyes
Apollo beautiful archer God/God of truth and light
Artemis Apollo's twin sister, virgin goddess, goddess of wild things and youth
Aphrodite goddess of love and beauty
Hermes Zeus' messenger, wore winged sandals
Hephaestus God of fire/ ugly and deformed/kind, peace-loving God
Who were Theseus' two fathers? Poseidon and King Ageus
Who was Theseus' evil cousin? Pallas
How/why did Ageus die? Theseus didn't raise the white mast after he returned from defeating king Minos, so Ageus thought that he had died in battle and then he committed suicide by drowning himself
What happened in Crete with King Minos? 7 of the greatest gentlemen and 7 of the greatest maidens would be sent to fight the Minotaur in the Labrynth, and no one had ever survived it, but Theseus ended up beating it with the powers given to him from posiden
what is a Labyrinth? maze of hedges
minotaur half bull half man
Who is Ariadne one of the daughters of Minos, Theseus favored her
How did they defeat the minotaur? him and Ariadne used a sword and a ball of magic string to kill the minotaur
Pityocamptes he was the pine bender, he would ask people to hold the pine down for him and then fling them up into the air and they would die
Procrustes he was the inn-keeper, and he would cut your limbs or stretch you out so you would be exactly 6 feet tall to fit in the bed
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