GRS

-The physical Earth
-Conceived offspring with Uranus
-Cylopes, Hecatonchires

-Located beneath the Earth/Gaea
-Windswept and dark
-Underworld
-Confine dangers to the gods of Olympus

-Sexual love or attraction
-Responsible for bringing people together to reproduce
-Cupid
-Love a threat to rationality ~ dangerous

-Physical embodiment of the sky
-Son & husband of Gaea
-Produced asexually
-Refused to let children out of Gaea's womb, maintaining a constant sexual embrace

-Uranus's castrated penis fell into the ocean
-Goddess of sex

-Child of Gaea & Tartarus
-Beast
-Defeated by Zeus ~ imprisoned beneath Mt. Etna

-525 to 456 BC
-Earliest tragedian whose works survive
-7 of his 80+ plays survive
-Individual will vs divine destiny

-Athenian playwright
-496 to 406 BC
-7 of his 123 plays survive
-Fate stands behind events

-Cultural capital of the Hellenistic world
-Muses home

-AD 150
-Travel guide
-Reported local versions of myths

-Modern meaning ~ Absence of order
-Greek Khaos ~ Absence of everything (void or emptiness)

-Democracy (polis)
-Center of trade
-Cultural capital
-Liberal education

-Oral poet
-Memorized long poems & stories
-Rhythm
-Poetic devices
-Preset rhythmical phrases

-Not much known about him
-Where Western tradition starts
-One Homer? Many Homers?
-Blind?
-Iliad & Odyssey

-Like a modern Homer
-Muses ~ taught him a song while shepherding
-Lived in a small impoverished village
-Theogony

-Epic poems about the Trojan War
-Poems lost, but we have commentary
-Great influence in Greek art & Athenian tragedy

-Originally attributed to Homer
-Anonymous
-In honour of a specific god or goddess
-Performed for enjoyment in public spaces

-Inhabitants of Crete
-Built wealthy elaborate palaces
-Worshiped a goddess of fertility
-Mythical kingdom of Minos dominated the seas

-Ruled by powerful kings ~ rulers of war
-Palaces strongly fortified
-Destroyed by the Dorians

-Supernatural protagonists
-Set outside of the natural order, both in place and time
-Aetiological

-Aristocrats
-Set in the past
-Argued to be historical fact

-Ordinary people / animals
-Entertain
-Relatable
-Focus on family & conflicts

-80 non-alphabetic signs standing for symbols
-Economic accounts
-Names of gods included

-Greek word for virgin capable of bearing children
-'Wild' and 'dangerous'

-Boatman
-Styx or Acheron river
-Requires a fee
-Reason Greeks buried with money

-Minos ~ legendary ruler of Crete
-Brothers
-Judges

-Attempted to feed his sons to the gods
-Punished with eternal thirst & hunger
-Tartarus
-Tantalizing

-Tartarus
-Revealed one of Zeus's seductions
-Made to push a boulder up a hill forever

-Continued life
-Heaven
-Available only to heroes
-Not in the Underworld ~ unknown place on surface

-Homer's Odyssey
-Journey to Underworld takes 10yrs
-Doesn't want to go
-Goes to consult with spirit of Tiresias
-Gives blood, wine & honey to Tiresias so he can speak temporarily

-Born from Zeus
-Personify the feminine qualities that make young women attractive to men
-Often portrayed in the company of Aphrodite

-Enormous divine beings
-Snake legs
-Born from the blood of Uranos's genitals
-Gigantomachy

-God of intelligence
-Devoured by Zeus
-Married to Cronus
-Forced Cronus to vomit children

-A god of the Underworld
-Brother of Zeus and Poseidon
-Represents the pitilessness of death
-Also called Pluto or Dis
-Married to Persephone

-Queen of the Underworld
-High authority
-Daughter of Zeus

-Underworld
-God of messenger
-Leads souls of newly dead into the Underworld

-3 headed dog
-Mane & tail of snakes
-Represents the finality of death
-Guardian of the Underworld

-Giants attacked Olympians
-Hurled rocks into the sky
-Olympians won ~ required mortal help

-Child of Ea
-God of Babylon
-Agreed to fight Tiamat and monsters under the condition he be given absolute power
-Separates the Earth & the sky

-Seduced by Zeus becoming a swan
-Produced Helen

-Seduced by Zeus becoming a golden shower
-Produced Perseus

-Zeus's male lover
-Carried by Zeus (eagle) to Olympus
-Zeus turned him immortal

-'Things established'
-Law & order over chaos & anarchy
-Produced the 3 Horae (seasons)
-Produced the 3 Morae (fates) ~ established length of a moral life

-'Memory'
-Produced the Muses with Zeus

-Feminine form of hero
-Wife of Zeus
-Goddess of marriage & fertility
-Often symbolized by a cow
-Had 3 children with Zeus
-Mortal marriage

-Child of Zeus & Hera
-God of war
-Little worshiped in Greek religion & has few myths

-Greatest seer in Greek myth
-Able to see the future
-Helps Odysseus
-Turned into a female by killing a female serpent

-Descends into Underworld with Sybil of Cumae
-Lover of Apollo

-Son of a mortal & a muse
-Superhuman singer
-Engaged to Eurydice
-Travels to Hades to bring her back to life
-Defeats the guardians of the Underworld with music
-Wins sympathy of Hades & Persephone
-Must not look back. Does

-Engaged to Orpheus
-Died from a snake on day of wedding

-Head of the Olympian family
-Sky god
-Immense power & strength
-Raised in Crete, hidden in a cave
-Son of Chronos & Rhea

-Zeus
-Formalized institution of friendship
-Xenos means guest, host, & stranger
-Punished those who violated the rules of xenia

-Lord of the Earth
-God of wisdom & magic
-Trickster

-Youth of tremendous good looks
-Fell & drowned in a spring reaching for himself
-Root of the word 'narcissism'

-"Fates"
-Apportions birth, length of life, & time of death
-Yarn
-Produced by Themis

-Born from Gaea & Uranus
-Round eyes
-Beasts

-Born from Gaea & Uranus
-100 hands & 50 heads
-Beasts
-Titanomachy

-Youngest child of Gaea & Uranus
-Contends with Uranus for power
-Ate his children

-6000 of them
-Descends from Oceanus
-Spirits of the sea, rivers, & springs

-Titan
-A river that encircles the world
-All water that emerges from wells, springs, fountains, & rivers come from Oceanus

-A Nereid ~ group of ocean spirits
-Mother of Achilles
-Could change shape

-Titans Vs. Olympians
-Olympians won
-Hecatonchires

-Child of Zeus & Hera
-A divine midwife
-Goddess of childbirth

-Produced by Hera asexually
-God of Smiths & metalworkers
-Lame ~ legs didn't work properly
-Could still fight
-Married to Aphrodite
-Important god of Olympus, but still marginalized

-Child of Earth
-Ferocious female spirits
-Haunt anyone who sheds kindred blood, driving them into madness

-"She-goat"
-Lion with a snake tail and a goat head growing from back

-Prince of Mycenae
-Unknowingly ate his sons

-Brother of Zeus
-Majestic bearded figure
-Hostile & dangerous
-Trident
-God of sea & earthquakes

-Son of Poseidon & Amphitrite
-Half man, half fish
-Calms seas by blowing on a conch shell

-Athen's patron god
-Beat Poseidon
-Offered an olive tree
-Conspired with Poseidon & Hera to imprison Zeus
-Sprung from Zeus's forehead fully clothed & armed