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First account of genesis is from who?
What are the works called? |
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-Hesiod
-"Theogony" and "Works and Days" |
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"yawning"
->everything is created from a void |
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| Chaos (Void)'s Children (5) |
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-Ge/Gaea (Earth)
-Tartarus (Depths of ground)
- Eros (Love)
-Erebus (Gloom of Tartarus)
-Night |
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-12 Titans
-Cyclopes
-Hecatonchires |
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"sacred marriage"
->refers to relationship between earth and sky, fertility and rain. In mythology, Ge and Uranus. |
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| 1) Oceanus; 2) Coeus; 3) Crius; 4) Hyperion; 5) Iapetus; 6) Theia; 7) Rhea; 8) Themis; 9) Mnemosyne; 10) Phoebe; 11) Tethys; 12) Cronus |
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| Hyperion (sun) + Theia = (3) |
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-Helius (sun)
-Selene (moon)
-Eos (dawn) |
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| Helius promised Phaethon any gift to prove he was the father. Phaethon wanted his chariot, and was given it reluctantly. Phaethon could not control the horses and flew too close to the sun. |
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| Results of Phaethon's death |
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-Earth set ablaze
-Jupiter shot down chariot with thunder and lightning, killing Phaethon
-Ph. lands in River Eridanus
- sisters become trees in mourning; tears become amber
-cousing Cycnus (from Liguria) becomes swan in mourning |
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-drives a chariot
-loved Edymion (young shephard, layed by him while sleeping)
-Zeus gives him perpetual sleep/youth |
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| Why is the Sun God often confused with Apollo? |
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-same epithet: Phoebus
-both of their sisters (Artemis & Selene) are moon goddesses. |
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-Dawn goddess
-cheated with Aphrodite's lover Ares
-made always lustful for young men |
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-Orion
-Cleitus
-Cephalus
-Tithonus |
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-Eos' lover
-granted immortality by Zeus
-not perpetual youth, locked in room when too old to love
-later turned into a grasshopper |
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-Brontes (thunder)
-Steropes (lightning)
-Arges (bright) |
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| Hecatonchires (Hundred-handed/-armed) (3) |
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-Cottus
-Briareus
-Gyes
->50 heads, 100 arms each; most terrible children of Uranus and Ge |
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| TItans' escape from Uranus |
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| Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals with a jagged sickle, threw them into the ocean. Created Aphrodite. |
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| What modern school of thought about the human psyche does the Cronus/Uranus myth support? |
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| Freudian thought/ Oedipus complex |
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-Hestia
-Demeter
-Hera
-Hades
-Poseidon
-Zeus |
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| Cronus devoured them all because of a prophecy that he would be overpowered by one of his children. Ge/Uranus helped Rhea have Zeus secretly. They gave him a wrapped up rock instead of Zeus to devour, and the Titans were freed. |
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