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Morford and Lenardon
Comprehensive Greek Mythology
40
Classics
9th Grade
12/22/2007

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Theogeny
Definition
Work by Hesiod detailing the creation of Gods and the Universe
Term
Who wrote the Theogeny?
Definition
Hesiod
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According to the Theogeny, who appeared first?
Definition
Khaos
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Whose name refers to a yawning void?
Definition
Khaos
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Out of Khaos came who?

Definition
Ge, Tartaros, Eros, Erebus, and Nyx
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Who was the first Female Deity?
Definition
Gaea
Term
Who was the essence of love?
Definition
Eros
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What is anouther name for Eros?
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Cupid
Term
What is another name for Cupid?
Definition
Eros
Term
What was the region of evil and darkness?
Definition
Tartaros
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What was Tartaros?
Definition
The region of evil and darkness
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Who was the essence of love?
Definition
Eros/Cupid
Term
Who was the darkness of Tataros?
Definition
Erebos
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Who was Erebos?
Definition
The darkness of Tartaros
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Whom did Gaea create to cover her all?
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Ouranos
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Who was Gaea's husband?
Definition
Ouranos
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What was HIEROS GAMOS?
Definition
the term for sacred marriage
Term
What was the term for sacred marriage?
Definition
Hieros Gamos
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Whose names mean Orb-Eyed?
Definition
Cyclopes
Term
Who had one eye in the middle of their forehead?
Definition
Cyclopes
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Who forged Thunderbolts?
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cyclopes

 

Term
Who had fifty heads and a hundred hands?
Definition
hecatonchieres
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What was special about the hecatonchires?
Definition
they had fifty head, 100 hands
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Who were the offspring of Ouranos and Gaea?
Definition
The Titans, the hecatonchieres, the Cyclopes
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Who were the Titans' parents?

Definition
Gaea and Ouranos
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Who were the hecatonchieres parents?
Definition
Gaea and Ouranos
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Who were the Cyclopes parents?
Definition
Gaea and Ouranos
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How many Titans were there?
Definition
12
Term
They were six brotheres and six sisters
Definition
the Titans
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He encircled the disc of earth as a stream
Definition
Oceanus
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They were three thousand daughter and three thousand suns
Definition
Oceanids
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What titan was asociated with the sun?
Definition
Hyperion
Term
Whre does the sun-gos's chariot descend into?
Definition
The stream of Oceanus
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Who was the father of Helius?
Definition
Hyperion
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Whom did Hyperion beget?
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Helius
Term
Who misused his father's chariot?
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Phaethon
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Who was the sun of Hyperion/Apollo/Helius?
Definition
Phaethon
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Who struck Phaethon down?
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Zeus
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Who was Zeus mother?
Definition
Rea
Term
Who was the goddess of the moon?
Definition
Selene
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