AMNE 151 UBC Final
titans - Correct Answer-any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and
their descendants
demigod - Correct Answer-half-god, half-human
Kronos - Correct Answer-- king of the Titans and the god of time
- ruler of the universe
- father of Zeus
Hesiod - Correct Answer-- working roughly 650 BCE
- later than Homer
- names the 9 muses
- wrote the Theogony
- wakes partial information and organised it
- from Ascra
Theogony - Correct Answer-- birth of the gods
- in the beginning there was Chaos, followed by Gaia, Eros, Tartarus, Erebus and Nyx
- Nyx and Erebus created light and day, Gaia created Ouranos the god of the sky. Gaia
also creates the sea and mountains
- Ouranos and Gaia have the Titans as well as Cyclopes and other monsters
- Ouranos does not like the monsters and hides them in Tartarus. Gaia is angered by
this and conspires with Kronos to cut off his genitals and become the new king, which
happens. Aphrodite is born from this debree
- Kronos fears another uprising of his children and swallows Rhea's children, except
Zeus who is hidden in Crete
- Zeus free's his sibilings from Kronos (Hestia, Demerter, Hera, Poseidon and Hades)
and the Olympians overthrow the titans
Pandora - Correct Answer-- first woman created
- given to Epimetheus by Zeus as a gift but with a jar of everything bad
- if she opens it, all bad things will happen
Prometheus - Correct Answer-- titan (not a god)
- humans wanted fire, so he stole it and gave it to them
- Zeus got angry so he bound him to a boulder with an eagle eating out his liver as
punishment
- freed by Heracles who slayed the Nemean lion
- liver could be used to predict the future
- fire, women and sacrifice all come from him
, Epimethius - Correct Answer-- titan
- created humans
- husband of Pandora
- "Afterthought"
- Prometheus' brother
Helen of Troy - Correct Answer-taken by Paris of Troy from her Menelaus so he and
Agamemnon go to War with troy
Homer - Correct Answer-- existed from 7th BC
- may have been blind
- wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad
- uses similes, Euphemisms, pathos
- composed orally, as writing was not a thing back then
- from Anotolia
Charon - Correct Answer-ferryman that takes you to the realm of the dead
Hermes - Correct Answer-- inherently a traveller
- thief god, operates at night, only god that travels to the Underworld
- associated with staff of snakes and wings
- messenger of the gods
- moves very swiftly
- winged helmet
- wears the travellers' cloak and wallet
The Odyssey - Correct Answer-- structurally much more complex than the Iliad
- about Odysseus at the end of the Trojan war
- composed in 8th Century BCE (same time as the Iliad)
- Odysseus is stuck on an island, and gets rescued by Athena, goes home and kills all
his servants
Odysseus - Correct Answer-- son of Laertes and Anticleia
- husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus
- came up with the idea of the Trojan horse which led the Greeks to victory against Troy
- faces Scylla, Charybdis and the sirens
- kills Poseidon's son a cyclops
Hecate - Correct Answer-- symbol is the torch, hunting dress, boots
- goddess of magic and crossraods
Athena - Correct Answer-- born from head of Zeus
- warrior, goddess of wisdom
- major Greek city named named after her
- challenged societal norms
titans - Correct Answer-any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and
their descendants
demigod - Correct Answer-half-god, half-human
Kronos - Correct Answer-- king of the Titans and the god of time
- ruler of the universe
- father of Zeus
Hesiod - Correct Answer-- working roughly 650 BCE
- later than Homer
- names the 9 muses
- wrote the Theogony
- wakes partial information and organised it
- from Ascra
Theogony - Correct Answer-- birth of the gods
- in the beginning there was Chaos, followed by Gaia, Eros, Tartarus, Erebus and Nyx
- Nyx and Erebus created light and day, Gaia created Ouranos the god of the sky. Gaia
also creates the sea and mountains
- Ouranos and Gaia have the Titans as well as Cyclopes and other monsters
- Ouranos does not like the monsters and hides them in Tartarus. Gaia is angered by
this and conspires with Kronos to cut off his genitals and become the new king, which
happens. Aphrodite is born from this debree
- Kronos fears another uprising of his children and swallows Rhea's children, except
Zeus who is hidden in Crete
- Zeus free's his sibilings from Kronos (Hestia, Demerter, Hera, Poseidon and Hades)
and the Olympians overthrow the titans
Pandora - Correct Answer-- first woman created
- given to Epimetheus by Zeus as a gift but with a jar of everything bad
- if she opens it, all bad things will happen
Prometheus - Correct Answer-- titan (not a god)
- humans wanted fire, so he stole it and gave it to them
- Zeus got angry so he bound him to a boulder with an eagle eating out his liver as
punishment
- freed by Heracles who slayed the Nemean lion
- liver could be used to predict the future
- fire, women and sacrifice all come from him
, Epimethius - Correct Answer-- titan
- created humans
- husband of Pandora
- "Afterthought"
- Prometheus' brother
Helen of Troy - Correct Answer-taken by Paris of Troy from her Menelaus so he and
Agamemnon go to War with troy
Homer - Correct Answer-- existed from 7th BC
- may have been blind
- wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad
- uses similes, Euphemisms, pathos
- composed orally, as writing was not a thing back then
- from Anotolia
Charon - Correct Answer-ferryman that takes you to the realm of the dead
Hermes - Correct Answer-- inherently a traveller
- thief god, operates at night, only god that travels to the Underworld
- associated with staff of snakes and wings
- messenger of the gods
- moves very swiftly
- winged helmet
- wears the travellers' cloak and wallet
The Odyssey - Correct Answer-- structurally much more complex than the Iliad
- about Odysseus at the end of the Trojan war
- composed in 8th Century BCE (same time as the Iliad)
- Odysseus is stuck on an island, and gets rescued by Athena, goes home and kills all
his servants
Odysseus - Correct Answer-- son of Laertes and Anticleia
- husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus
- came up with the idea of the Trojan horse which led the Greeks to victory against Troy
- faces Scylla, Charybdis and the sirens
- kills Poseidon's son a cyclops
Hecate - Correct Answer-- symbol is the torch, hunting dress, boots
- goddess of magic and crossraods
Athena - Correct Answer-- born from head of Zeus
- warrior, goddess of wisdom
- major Greek city named named after her
- challenged societal norms
