Greek Myth Final (CSULB) Scotton Exam study guide 2024 latest update already graded A+

What was theseus a symbol of and where athens and how athens saw itself, defender of democracy and symbol of protector of oppressed and defenseless who is the goddess of rain, agriculture, harvest, and is the guardian of marriage demeter what is demeter depicted holding (attribute) handful of wheat who did demeter teach how to plant and harvest? triptolomos Hades complains to Zeus about his life and wants to marry who? persephone does zeus let hades take persephone with his permission? yes how does perseph get kidnapped? Persephone is picking flowers with friends, the earth splits open, hades comes out on chariot, steals Persephone, turns around and goes back down to the underworld How does demeter know her daughter got kidnapped? persephones scream who is close with hades that does not tell demeter where or who took her daughter hecate what does demeter do after her daughter is taken? Demeter wanders for 9 days trying to find her daughter, doesn't eat ambrosia, nectar, and isn't bathing on the 10th day what does Helios do to help Demeter Helios takes pity and tells her hades took perseph to the underworld How does Demeter react Demeter is shocked and pissed at her brother, hades but most pissed at Zeus because she knows Zeus let him do this to her daughter. She completely disassociates herself from all gods and disguises herself as an old woman and names herself doso. She ends up in Eleusis near Athens What happens at the well 4 daughters of the local queen and king come by and (demeter) says she's doso, daughters go back to palace and tell her parents there's a homeless woman by the well (Demeter) and lead her to the palace in the throne room, introduce to the queen, she stands up to greet doso and asks her if she needs anything. Has a chair for her and then sits down with her. Demeter (doso) asks for kekyon. It is water with grain and mint, good chilled and she does How does demeter react to this and what does she become for the family? she thinks well of them and is a nanny for their baby who is the baby demeter raises demophone what does demeter feed demophone and do to him at night? ambrosia and puts him in a thing that makes him burn off his immortality without hurting him what does the queen see is happening to her son roasting over fire how does demeter react to seeing the queen flip Demeter loses it - exposes herself and tells them she's making demophone immortal but gets fed up and tries to leave what does the queen have to do to get demeter to come back? if they build a temple and an alter for her she will come back and teach them stuff a year later famine starts to break out, so what do humans do they stop leaving offerings to gods what does Persephone take and do from hades that makes her owe him she sucks on a pomegranite when is Persephone with hades and when is she with demeter Every springtime she comes back from hades and after every harvest she does back to hades after Demeter is happy when she goes back to the palace and sees a temple and alter what does demeter give them She teaches them Eleusinian mysterius (rituals for harvest) dionysus is the god of wine, theatre arts, vegetation, fertility, ecstacey (raves) Dionysus attributes Grapes, wine, panther skin, thyrsis (pinecone on a stick), bearded, accompanied by ladies (maenads) Ekstasis out of normal Entheos the god within (bring divinity insight) If you achieved entheos.... you were on the divine plane dionysus motto "partying with a purpose" satyr a creature that is half-man, half beast, with the horns and legs of a goat dionysus is a relatively ______ god newer where did dionysus come out of east( india region ) or thrace (N Greece) dionysus myth birth Hera visits semele and tells her zeus is ugly, and orge, etc, and tricks her into seeing what zeus looks like, and she does, and zeus is splendid and the sight of him fries her. Zeus looks down and grabs dionysus from the goop of semele and zeus sticks him in his leg to grow further before he is born Who are Dionysus' parents? Zeus is his dad, Semele is his mom after Demeter is happy when she goes back to the palace and sees a temple and alter what does demeter give them what does dionysis try to do in thebes gain acceptance when dionysus doesnt get accepted in thebes or thrace what does he do make all civillians go insane what was the book called that was about dionysus making everyone go mad the bacchae Bacchae (Euripides, c. 405 BC) At the start of this tragedy, the god Dionysus arrives in Thebes to seek vengeance against his aunt Agave, who has denied his immortality, and her son Pentheus, who as King of Thebes bans worship of Dionysus. The god first drives the women of the city mad, causing them to act as wild Maenads. He then convinces Pentheus to disguise himself in animal skins, and spy on the maddened women. However, the demented Agave mistakes Pentheus for a mountain lion, and dismembers her own son. The climax of the play occurs when Agave presents the head of Pentheus to her horrified father, Cadmus. As Agave realizes what she has done, Dionysus chastises her for her lack of respect, and foretells how Cadmus will spend his final days. Dionysus' cousin Pentheus who does not believe dionysus is a god pentheus who is tiersias a blind priest and prophet and friend of cadmus how did tiersias become blind (3 ways) 1) He had the misfortune of coming across athena while she was bathing and immediately blinds him, she feels bad but gives him gift of prophecy 2) teirisias pokes snakes and he is changed into a woman, spends 10 yrs as woman, one day he walking, pokes snakes again and hes a man again. Olympus gods are talking discussing who enjoys sex more man or woman, they say they wanna ask teirisius, they all go down and ask who enjoys sex more, teir says women do and zeus blinds him 2b) hera blinds him and offend sher modesty (both 2 and 2b they feel bad and make him a prophet) who accepts dionysus cadmus and tiereseus