Vocabulary
Ages of Man & The Flood
Heracles
Athena/Poseidon & Typhon
Cadmos, Dionysos, Asclepios
100
Marsh monster in Argos-daughter of Typhon
Hydra
100
Two similarities between Bible and Greek flood myth
1. Deucalion/Pyrrah = Noah and family 2. Chest = ark
100
Heracles' parents
Zeus and Alcmene
100
Gifts Poseidon and Athena give to Athens
Horses (struck trident on rock) & planted an olive tree
100
Cadmos gave mankind ....... & Dionysos means .....
alphabet & "Zeus' limp"
200
Came from Uranos' blood-punish humans who shed blood
Furies
200
Gods settle for water as the method of destruction because...
Fire might burn Olympos
200
Hera tried to kill Heracles by ..... AND prophecy that was told after this incident about him .....
putting two serpents in his chambers but Heracles killed them/protected him and twin --Teiresias' said "He'll do great and mighty deeds, be known throughout the world."
200
Who won and what did their gift bring to Athens
Athena- became wealth of city - food/oil
200
Dionysos found comfort after friend's death by...
drinking juice from grapes and his sorrow left him
300
last offspring of Mother Earth
Typhon
300
How Zeus tested humans before deciding to destroy them... What Zeus did and the punishment for who he tested)
See if they were behaving he went to visit King Lycaon who tried to trick him by feeding him a prisoner-Zeus caught on and turned him into a wolf
300
Nessos gets revenge on Heracles for killing him after he tried to take his wife by....
Tricking her into thinking his blood can be the charm to make sure Heracles stays faithful to her. Told to keep out of sun/fire and apply like ointment-ended up burning Heracles when exposed to sun.
300
Mother Earth never forgives Zeus because
children down to Tartaros
300
Two unfortunate things gods did to Midas
Everything he touches turns to gold & donkey ears
400
King of Arcadia who taunted Zeus
King Lycaon
400
Riddle from the oracle and the meaning behind it...
"Throw bones of Mother behind you." = Throw pebbles of Mother Earth over shoulder which turned into people
400
3 crimes Heracles committed AND his punishment/consequence
1. killed music-master not found guilty but sent to cattle-farm to master temper. 2. killed children serve King Eurystheus - 12 labors 3. killed a friend sold as slave for 3 years & pay price he was sold back to the soul of man he killed
400
Reason Zeus hides lightning and thunderbolt
woo a mortal woman
400
Semele wants this from Zeus...and that causes what...
see his lightning and thunderbolts and lightning ends up killing her
500
Healing & Health
Panacea & Hygieia
500
Four ages of man & one detail
1. Golden Age: Garden of Eden, no work, happy, lived like gods 2. Silver Age: 100 years, lived like children, neglected gods, perished b/c of neglecting gods 3. Age of Brass: Everything made of brass, violent/strong, Heroes, perished by own hand 4. Iron Age: tools/armor of iron, toiled day/night, fighting between family/friends, promises broken, current age
500
Name 8 of the 12 Labors
1. Nemean Lion 2. Lernean Hydra 3. Arcadian Deer 4. Erymanthian Boar 5. Augean Stables 6. Stymphalian Birds 7. Cretan Bull 8. Mares of Diomedes 9. Girdle of Hippolyta 10. Oxen of Geryones 11. Apple of Hesperides 12. Cerberos
500
Mortal who helped Zeus and how
Cadmos - charm Typhon with music
500
Two things Zeus does to Asclepios
Killed him and then gave into Apollo (Asclepios' father) and turned him into a constellation
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