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| (Catastrophic Destruction) Decedent of the sun - crashes chariot into earth. Causes great fire. Zeus destroys Phaeton with a thunderbolt and floods the whole earth. |
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Progressive Social Development
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1. Piracy, Lawlessness, Theft
2. Commercial trade/culture
3. Political expansion and colonization. |
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| 10 types of wives, 9 bad, one good. (Sow, Vixen, Bitch, Earth, Sea, Ass, Weasel, Mare, Monkey) (BEE only good wife.) |
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10 year battle - Olympians vs. Titans.
Zeus releases 100hands+cyclopses. They help olympians win. Titans are imprisoned in Tartaros. Cyclopes give Zeus thunderbolt. |
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| All seeing, has 100 eyes. Guards Io in the cow form for Hera. Killed by Hermes. |
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| Primal reproduction (2 types) |
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Analogy (like produces like)
Antithesis (like produces unlike) |
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| Angered by treatment of titans, Gaia produces CHTHONIC giants. Zeus+olympians defeat giants. |
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| TYPES OF CREATION/GENERATION |
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Asexual Division
Parthenogenesis - virgin birth
Elemental Union - Different matter collides
Hieros Gamos- Sacred marriage: divine, gendered union. |
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| Charachter in a play - raped by posideon, and then blinded and imprisoned by her father. Says women are good and unjustly treated. |
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| Child of Ouranos and Gaia - castrates Ouranos with Gaia's help. Sickle.Cronos re-imprisons the 100 handers/cyclopses. Swallows his children. Married to Rhea. |
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| Creates men out of clay (rivals Zeus as a creator). Zeus' ally vs titans. Trickster. Tricks Zeus once, men are punished. Steals from Zeus and is chained up in Caucasus Mountains. |
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| Decline from Golden Era. Men dined with Gods. Lycaon tests Zeus with human sacrifice. Zeus punishes Lycaon - turns him into savage wolf. Stops feasting with mortals. |
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| Does NOT like anthropomorphism- says gods are TOO human - ungodly qualities. Evil is an internal state of ignorance - NOT sent to punish men. God does not automatically reveal things to mortals. Men must learn over time how to do things. |
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| Explains something, esp. sacrifice |
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FURIES. Goddesses of vengeance for murder vics.
produced when Cronos castrated Ouranos |
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| First woman, punishment for fire. "All gifts" - received gifts from every god. evils and diseases are released upon the world. |
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| Gaia created Chthonic giants after Titanomachy. Chthonic literally means earth. Snake like in appearance. Legs are serpents. |
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Gaia's last creation. AFTER Giantomachy. Created in a hieros gamos with Tartaros.
serpent legs, monstrous appendages.
Zeus fights him alone (other gods hide in Egypt.) Defeats him, and is imprisoned in Tartaros (causes monsoons) or under the volcano Aetna (Siscily)(causes eruptions). |
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| Xenophanes difference between divine and mrtal beings |
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God has no body. Unlike mortals.
All of god sees, hears and thinks = divine principle of perception and knowledge.
Reason is the abstract energy that keeps the cosmos in motion.
God is unmoving and unchanging. |
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Gods were really just FAMOUS men. Ouranos was astronomer king - godlike knowledge. Worshiped after his death.
(Things got better idea) |
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Gold - Reign of Titans
Silver - Reign of the Olympians. Simple minded, harmed eachother.
Bronze - Created by Zeus. Violent, monstrous, self destructive. Hades.
Heroes - Wars of Thebes and Troy.
Iron Age- Current, created by Zeus. Worst age. |
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| Good Eris / Bad Eris. Good = Healthy competition, Bad = famine, lies, murder, envy etc. |
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Hours/seasons(how zeus created time). Eunomia - Good order
Eirene - peace
Dike - justice |
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| Human shape - gods were shaped like humans. |
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| Leader of the Titans in Titanomachy. Punished by holding up the sky every day. Atlas Mountains in N Africa. |
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Moirai
Clotho - spinner
Lachesis - apportioner
Atropos - inflexible |
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| One god. (universal, abstract, unchanging, unmoving. Philosophical view. Associated with human autonomy.) |
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| Only natural son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. Hellen " Hellas" is greece. He had Doros, Aiolos, and Xouthos. Xouthos had Achaios and Ion. |
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| Priestess of Hera in Argos. Zeus ravishes Io disguised in/as a cloud. Zeus turns Io into a white cow. Io is chased by a gadfly to Egypt, where she is returned to her original form. She then has Zeus' son, Epaphus. Hera sends the Curetes to take Epaphus. Zeus kills them. Io eventually finds Epaphus in Syberia. Hera rouses the titans. Another version of Titanomachy. |
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| Region of the underworld ruled by Cronos. All from the Age of Heroes went there after death. |
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| Religion with multiple gods. (anthropomorphic, elemental, unpredictable, vindictive. Associated with human weakness.) |
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| Realistically, Prometheus. |
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Skythian king. Flooded river eagle. Chained up. Hercacles comes to save him.
OR Epimetheus was distributing charachteristics and ran out of them for humans. prometheus steals fire, and so he must be punished. Fire is bad - weapons and fighting, BUT Zeus gives shame and justice and saves the day. |
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| Son of Hellen. (Dorians, lived in sparta and central Peloponnese) |
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| Son of Hellen. Aiolians - northern Greece, Troy, Asia Minor. |
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| Son of Hellen. Peloponnese. Had Achaios and Ion. |
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| Son of Io. Abducted by the Curetes. Founds Memphis. Has daughter Libya. |
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| Son of Prometheus, Daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. lone survivors of bronze age flood. Zeus grants one request - so they throw rocks behind their backs to create more people. Have one natural son - (hieros gamos) - Hellen. |
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| Son of Xouthos, Son of Hellen. Ionians lived in Attica, Asia Minor. |
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| Son of Xouthos, son of Hellen. Achaeans lived in NW Peloponnesus. |
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| Theif/deception god. Kills Argus and is given the nickname Argeiphontes(Arugs Slayer.) |
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| Titan, Father of Prometheus and Epimetheus. |
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| Wife of Zeus. Enraged over Zeus' affair with Io. |
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| after 3 battles, creates order. Sleeps around. Creates: 9Muses, (for knowledge) 3Charites/graces (for beauty), 3Horai, Fates. |
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| different features or figures from different religious systems becoming blended together. Io + Isis + roman Stella Maris + virgin Mary. Hermes+Anubis(Jackal Headed god of the dead in Egypt) |
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| physics of the universe can be understood through language. Zeus = Dia, or "through". They receive all through him. |
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| pithos= large jar vessell. Pithos is a symbol for pandora herself being the evils. Pixis = literal small round box with lid. |
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| tenancy towards monotheism. Logos= Reason. Rational principle of universe. Myths are at least partfully truthful. Etymology reflects reality. |
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| the only thing left in Pandora's box - good or bad? |
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