Hesiod
This primordial mother deity is the progenitor of all life.
Who is Gaia?
This goddess helps Odysseus throughout his many trials.
Who is Athena?
This person, brother of Jocasta, has taken the throne of Thebes now that the sons of Oedipus are dead.
Who is Kreon?
This daughter of Demeter is kidnapped by Hades and taken to the Underworld.
Who is Persephone?
The theories of this man, like his famous Oedipal complex, center on unconscious desires and taboos.
Who is Freud?
This Titan, most well-known for a famous theft, also tricked Zeus into accepting the garbage parts of sacrifices.
Who is Prometheus?
Penelope's treatment of Odysseus-disguised-as-beggar is a rare instance of this Ancient Greek cultural value being performed correctly.
What is xenia?
By committing this action, Antigone commits a crime that carries a sentence of death.
What is bury Polyneices?
The dialogues of Lucian are intended to combine the weighty topics of myth and philosophy with this much lighter-hearted element.
What is humor/comedy?
This goddess of beauty arose from sea-foam following the castration of Ouranos.
Who is Aphrodite?
To be between these two trials faced by Odysseus is to be between a rock and a hard place.
Who are Scylla and Charybdis?
This blind prophet, who also appears in the Underworld with Odysseus, reveals the truth of the corrupted sacrifices to Kreon.
Who is Tiresias?
Zeus ultimately allows Demeter to reclaim Persephone because the famine she's causing means the gods are losing out on these.
What are sacrifices?
What is an aitiology/aitological myth?
This woman, famously associated with a piece of storage equipment, is responsible for all the ills of mankind.
Who is Pandora?
In the Underworld, this Ancient Greek general warns Odysseus to be careful regarding his wife.
Who is Agamemnon?
This term, which derives from the Greek word for "witness," comes to refer to someone who, like Antigone, dies for something they believe in.
What is a martyr?
This deity, who governs love and desire, is depicted both as a primordial god who emerges from Chaos AND as the child of Aphrodite.
Who is Eros?
This theory of myth focuses on how mythological stories and figures are adapted and used by other, later cultures (including ours!).
What is Classical Reception/Reception Theory?
This goddess is associated with witchcraft, the underworld, and snakes! She later shows up in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
Who is Hecate?
This is what we know for sure about the person who composed the Odyssey.
Virtually nothing concrete.
Antigone is described as "hysterical," a misogynistic term that takes its name from this internal organ.
What is the uterus?
This text, written by Plato, theorizes that souls must be immortal.
What is the Myth of Er?
Euhemerism is an ancient theory of myth that posits that mythical figures and events may have been based on these.
What are real people/events?