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Contrast Ares and Athena

Ares: tall, handsome, vain, and cruel; loved war, bloodshed, pain, and devastation; disliked by gods except Aphrodite.

Athena: wise, confident, respected, and just; accepted just wars; skilled at loom and potter's wheel.

100

stinging fly

What is a gadfly?
100

furnace for heating metal

What is a forge?

200

Describe 2 of the 3 sets of children of Mother Earth and Uranus

1: Titans and Titanesses, the first gods

2: Cyclopes, one-eyed giant smiths

3: sons with 50 heads and 100 arms

200

trident

What is Poseidon's symbol?

200

lyre

What is Apollo's symbol?

200

horrible and ugly

What is hideous?

200

being completely forgotten

What is oblivion?

300

How did Rhea and Mother Earth fool Cronus?

Because Cronus ate his children, when Rhea had her 6th child, Zeus, she wrapped a rock in baby clothes to trick Cronus into swallowing the rock.  Rhea hid Zeus in a cave on the island of Crete.
300

hearth

What is Hestia's symbol?

300

winged cap

What is Hermes' symbol?

300

plentiful, abundant

What is bountiful?

300

glittering with rainbow colors

What is irridescent?

400

Describe Hephaestus' workshop, location, and how one knew he was working

Mt. Olympus, forges inside volcanoes with bellows and hammers and 2 thinking robots to help him, sparks flew out of the mountains and hammers could be heard

400

owl

What is Athena's symbol?

400

hammer

What is Hephaestus' symbol?

400

shallow crossing place in a stream

What is a ford?

400

disrespectful, rude

What is irreverent?

500

Describe the palace of the gods and who was its builder

Cyclopes.  Palace in the clouds hidden by the goddesses of the seasons, always light, 12 golden thrones with Hestia at the hearth

500

bow and arrow

What is Artemis' symbol?

500

thunderbolt / lightningbolt

What is Zeus's symbol?

500

lacy ornamental work with gold

What is filigree?

500

caution, good sense

What is prudence?

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