CLA 210 EVALUATION EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Cronus - ✔✔-Parents: Uranus (Sky) & Gaea (Earth)
-Last born Titan
-Clever; hated father
-Uranus made Gaea hide their children inside her. Gaea is mad and comes up comes
up with plot to castrate Uranus.. Cronus does the deed
- Told by Uranus and Gaea he would be overthrown by a son so he swallows his
children as they are born.
✔✔Iapetus - ✔✔-father of Prometheus & Epimetheus (Twins, opposite)
✔✔Prometheus - ✔✔-Titan
-god of forethought
-entrusted with molding mankind, stole fire for men
✔✔Epimetheus - ✔✔-Titian
-God of afterthought
-created all the animals and gave each one a specific gift but did not leave a gift for
man. Accepts Pandora.
✔✔Menemosyne - ✔✔-goddess of memory
-supply children of Zeus (9 muses- history, poetry, music, tagedy, etc.)
✔✔Hyperion - ✔✔-"he who goes above"
-sun-god
-titan
-father to Helios (sun), Selene (moon), Eos (dawn)
✔✔Helios - ✔✔-sun god
-grants 1 wish to his son, Phaethon, (asked to be allowed to drive sun chariot but loses
control and sets world on fire) why Libya is a desert
✔✔Selene - ✔✔-Moon Goddess
-Falls in love with shepherd named Endymion.
-Has Zeus make Endymion sleep for a long time while she has 50 daughters with his
sleeping body
✔✔Eos - ✔✔-Goddess of the dawn. -Many love affairs.
-Encounters Tohonus (trojan prince morta), asks Zeus to make him immortal... he does
but keeps aging and turns into cicada/cricket
✔✔Who Zeus battles in Titanomachy - ✔✔-Cronus
-Typhoeus
,-Battle of giants
-titans
✔✔Big monsters in Titanomachy - ✔✔-Typhoeus
-Giants?
✔✔Fate of Titans - ✔✔-helped by 3 hectanochires
-Zeus casts them into black distant
✔✔Tarturus (in Titanomachy) - ✔✔-Atlas given punishment to hold up sky
-3 brothers divided world amongst themselves: Zeus (heaven), Poseidon (sea), Hades
(underworld)
✔✔How Zeus defeats succession myth - ✔✔-Zeus marries Metis (cleverness) and
swallows her when pregnant
-Later his head hurts and is cracked open by Hephaestus in which Athena pops out.
-Secures place by performing both female and male roles... therefore constant
successions
✔✔Themes in Creation - ✔✔-Zeus and Cronos: tricksters
-Cronos & Uranos: ogres
-Dragons: ancient guardians
-Family conflict
-Power moves from female to male & attempts to reclaim power result badly
-Female presence is constant
✔✔Athena (Minerva)
Virgin Goddess - ✔✔- Born from the head of Zeus
-Goddess of War (controlled/manipulated)
-Icons: Owls, snakes, body armor, craft work (weaving)
-Epithets: Pallas (maiden/weapon), Gluaukopis (owl/grey eyed), Pathenos (maiden),
Aegiophora
-Story:
1.) Held a competition with Poseidon to be protector of Athens. Poseidon created salt
spring, Athena created first olive tree.
2.) Arachne boasted that her weaving skills were equal to Athena's. Athena disguises
herself as old woman, giving Arachne a chance to apologize. Arachne talks shit. Athena
reveals herself after weaving contest and the prideful Arachne accepts her fate and is
turned into a spider, forever hanging. Ovid Story.
-Location: Parthenon
✔✔Artemis (Diana)
Virgin Goddess - ✔✔-Goddess of hunting and untamed areas
-Twin sister of Apollo
-Icon: Bows/Arrows, Deer, Iyre
, -Epithets: Potnia Theron (mistress of animals), Lydia, Arrow-covering
Stories:
1) Niobe bragged she had more kids than Leto, so Artemis and Apollo shot down all of
her kids.
2) Agamemnon killed deer sacred to Artemis and boasted about his skills, Agamemnon
ships won't move after and he is forced to sacrifice his daughter.
3) Orion rapes Merope, King Oenopion blinds him. Orion has affair w/ Eos & Artemis.
Orion killed by Gaea.
Locations: Delos, Aitolia, Lykia, Anatolia
✔✔Hestia (Vesta)
Virgin Goddess - ✔✔- Stays at home and cares for Olympians
-virgin
-Personal religion and internal space
Icon: veiled, holding tree branch/pot
Story: Dinoysus took her place
Locations: Never left Olympia
✔✔Aphrodite (Venus)
Non-Virgin Goddess - ✔✔-Goddess of love/sex
-Born when Uranus' genitals land in the ocean
- Opposite of Athena. Uncontrollable force on men, "oldest" olympian
-Icon: bathing/emerging from water
-Story:
1) Aphrodite transforms herself into human when sees Anchises (a Trojan prince).
Sleeps w/ him, gets pregnant. Has 2 sons: Lyros & Aeneas (Aeneas found Roman
Race).
2) Has sex w/ Hermes, gave birth to Hermaphorditus.
-From East
✔✔Hermaphroditus - ✔✔-product of Hermes and Aphrodite
-Herma is pursued by Salmacis, prays to be joined to him, their bodies join into one
✔✔Demeter (Ceres)
Non-Virgin Goddess - ✔✔-Goddess of cultivated land
-Daughter of Cronus/Rhea
-Mom of Persephone
-Icon: wheat, grain, harvest, flowers, chariot
-Epithets: motherhood, chthonia (ground), fruit-bearer
-Story:
In Eleusis, she thinks people are kind and decides to make Demophoon immortal but
mother walks in and the process stops
✔✔Apothesois - ✔✔-become immortal
-melt human flesh away
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Cronus - ✔✔-Parents: Uranus (Sky) & Gaea (Earth)
-Last born Titan
-Clever; hated father
-Uranus made Gaea hide their children inside her. Gaea is mad and comes up comes
up with plot to castrate Uranus.. Cronus does the deed
- Told by Uranus and Gaea he would be overthrown by a son so he swallows his
children as they are born.
✔✔Iapetus - ✔✔-father of Prometheus & Epimetheus (Twins, opposite)
✔✔Prometheus - ✔✔-Titan
-god of forethought
-entrusted with molding mankind, stole fire for men
✔✔Epimetheus - ✔✔-Titian
-God of afterthought
-created all the animals and gave each one a specific gift but did not leave a gift for
man. Accepts Pandora.
✔✔Menemosyne - ✔✔-goddess of memory
-supply children of Zeus (9 muses- history, poetry, music, tagedy, etc.)
✔✔Hyperion - ✔✔-"he who goes above"
-sun-god
-titan
-father to Helios (sun), Selene (moon), Eos (dawn)
✔✔Helios - ✔✔-sun god
-grants 1 wish to his son, Phaethon, (asked to be allowed to drive sun chariot but loses
control and sets world on fire) why Libya is a desert
✔✔Selene - ✔✔-Moon Goddess
-Falls in love with shepherd named Endymion.
-Has Zeus make Endymion sleep for a long time while she has 50 daughters with his
sleeping body
✔✔Eos - ✔✔-Goddess of the dawn. -Many love affairs.
-Encounters Tohonus (trojan prince morta), asks Zeus to make him immortal... he does
but keeps aging and turns into cicada/cricket
✔✔Who Zeus battles in Titanomachy - ✔✔-Cronus
-Typhoeus
,-Battle of giants
-titans
✔✔Big monsters in Titanomachy - ✔✔-Typhoeus
-Giants?
✔✔Fate of Titans - ✔✔-helped by 3 hectanochires
-Zeus casts them into black distant
✔✔Tarturus (in Titanomachy) - ✔✔-Atlas given punishment to hold up sky
-3 brothers divided world amongst themselves: Zeus (heaven), Poseidon (sea), Hades
(underworld)
✔✔How Zeus defeats succession myth - ✔✔-Zeus marries Metis (cleverness) and
swallows her when pregnant
-Later his head hurts and is cracked open by Hephaestus in which Athena pops out.
-Secures place by performing both female and male roles... therefore constant
successions
✔✔Themes in Creation - ✔✔-Zeus and Cronos: tricksters
-Cronos & Uranos: ogres
-Dragons: ancient guardians
-Family conflict
-Power moves from female to male & attempts to reclaim power result badly
-Female presence is constant
✔✔Athena (Minerva)
Virgin Goddess - ✔✔- Born from the head of Zeus
-Goddess of War (controlled/manipulated)
-Icons: Owls, snakes, body armor, craft work (weaving)
-Epithets: Pallas (maiden/weapon), Gluaukopis (owl/grey eyed), Pathenos (maiden),
Aegiophora
-Story:
1.) Held a competition with Poseidon to be protector of Athens. Poseidon created salt
spring, Athena created first olive tree.
2.) Arachne boasted that her weaving skills were equal to Athena's. Athena disguises
herself as old woman, giving Arachne a chance to apologize. Arachne talks shit. Athena
reveals herself after weaving contest and the prideful Arachne accepts her fate and is
turned into a spider, forever hanging. Ovid Story.
-Location: Parthenon
✔✔Artemis (Diana)
Virgin Goddess - ✔✔-Goddess of hunting and untamed areas
-Twin sister of Apollo
-Icon: Bows/Arrows, Deer, Iyre
, -Epithets: Potnia Theron (mistress of animals), Lydia, Arrow-covering
Stories:
1) Niobe bragged she had more kids than Leto, so Artemis and Apollo shot down all of
her kids.
2) Agamemnon killed deer sacred to Artemis and boasted about his skills, Agamemnon
ships won't move after and he is forced to sacrifice his daughter.
3) Orion rapes Merope, King Oenopion blinds him. Orion has affair w/ Eos & Artemis.
Orion killed by Gaea.
Locations: Delos, Aitolia, Lykia, Anatolia
✔✔Hestia (Vesta)
Virgin Goddess - ✔✔- Stays at home and cares for Olympians
-virgin
-Personal religion and internal space
Icon: veiled, holding tree branch/pot
Story: Dinoysus took her place
Locations: Never left Olympia
✔✔Aphrodite (Venus)
Non-Virgin Goddess - ✔✔-Goddess of love/sex
-Born when Uranus' genitals land in the ocean
- Opposite of Athena. Uncontrollable force on men, "oldest" olympian
-Icon: bathing/emerging from water
-Story:
1) Aphrodite transforms herself into human when sees Anchises (a Trojan prince).
Sleeps w/ him, gets pregnant. Has 2 sons: Lyros & Aeneas (Aeneas found Roman
Race).
2) Has sex w/ Hermes, gave birth to Hermaphorditus.
-From East
✔✔Hermaphroditus - ✔✔-product of Hermes and Aphrodite
-Herma is pursued by Salmacis, prays to be joined to him, their bodies join into one
✔✔Demeter (Ceres)
Non-Virgin Goddess - ✔✔-Goddess of cultivated land
-Daughter of Cronus/Rhea
-Mom of Persephone
-Icon: wheat, grain, harvest, flowers, chariot
-Epithets: motherhood, chthonia (ground), fruit-bearer
-Story:
In Eleusis, she thinks people are kind and decides to make Demophoon immortal but
mother walks in and the process stops
✔✔Apothesois - ✔✔-become immortal
-melt human flesh away
