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60 Cards in this Set
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Tartarus |
Prison |
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Erebus |
Darkness |
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Eros |
Love Boy, Make him cupid-4 years old |
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GE |
Earth |
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Cronus' Parents |
Ge, Uranus |
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Chaos |
emptiness/nothing |
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What did Ge give birth to? |
Mountains, Seas, Heavens |
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Who did Ge marry? |
Uranus |
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How does Uranus create Aphrodite? |
Cronus castrates Uranus, throws in water, creates Aphrodite |
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Who does Cronus marry? |
Rhea |
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Cronus+Rhea= |
Hestia, Hades, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter |
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What is Hestia the goddess of? |
Fireplaces |
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Who does Hades steal? |
Persephone |
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Who is Persephone the daughter of? |
Demeter |
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Orpheus talent |
Best Musician |
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Who does Orpheus marry? |
Eurydice |
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Who doe s Orpheus make a deal with to bring Eurydice back from the dead? And what is the deal? Who does he become known as? |
Hades, story, Hater of Women |
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Who does Poseidon have an affair with? |
Scyla |
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What does Poseidon's wife put on Scyla's waist? How did she do it? |
Wolf Heads, Poisons bathtub |
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Where does Poseidon hide Scyla? What does she do to sailors? |
Cave, Story |
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What is Demeter the goddess of? |
Agriculture, Motherhood |
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Who is Hera married to and what is she the goddess of? |
Zeus, Marriage |
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Who does Zeus have an affair with? |
Semele |
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What does mythos mean? |
Story |
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Max Muller |
German, Talks about how ancient myths are about nature and natural phenomenon |
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Karl Young |
Acknowledged that similar myths appear in all cultures. Example-The Flood. Developed collective unconsicous theory |
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Collective unconscious theory
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Theory says humans have the same ideas in the unconscious. Myths explore these ideas deep in our unconscious
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Claude Levi Strauss |
Did research on human brain. Discovered different sides have different uses. The human body is binary. We think in pairs-On off, Right Wrong, Good Evil, Yes No They are pairs of opposites. Conflict based. |
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Sigmund Freud |
All human nature is driven by sex. Psycotherapy. All myths sex. |
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What happened to Semele when Zeus showed his true form? |
She was killed. |
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Who defeats Cronus and the Titans and where do they end up? |
Zeus Cronus-Italy, becomes Saturn Titans-Tartus |
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Who makes Hades return Persephone? |
Zeus |
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Who does Zeus cripple and why? |
Anchises-He had sex with Aphrodite and bragged about it |
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What does Zeus give Pandora? |
A jar. |
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How was Pandora created and by who? What gifts and qualities do gods give her? |
Created from mud. Hephaestus. Aphrodite-Beauty and charm Athena-important and useful skills Hermes-Makes her a thief and bitch |
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Who is Aphrodite married to? |
Hephaestus. |
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Who is Hephaestus and what is his flaw? |
god of craftsman. Only imperfect god. |
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Who is Ares and who does he sleep with? |
Brother of Hephaestus, god of war, Aphrodite |
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What does Pygmalion create? |
Creates a statue of a woman that Aphrodite brings back to life. Lives happily ever after with statue. |
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Myrrha and her story |
Girl who loves her father. Gets pregnant and has son. |
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Who is Myrrha's son and what does she turn into? Why does she turn into this? |
Adonis, Tree, Her father chased her, trying to kill her, and Aphrodite changed her into a tree |
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How did Adonis die and what is his curse? |
Boar, brought back to life and killed once a year |
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Who is Prometheus? What does he create? What does he give to his creations? |
Cousin of Zeus. Creates humans. Steals fire and gives it to them. |
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Pandora is the 1st what? |
Woman |
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What does Aphrodite give to Pandora? |
Beauty and Charm |
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What is Athena the goddess of? |
Wisdom |
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What does Athena give to Pandora? |
Important and useful skills |
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What is Hermes the god of? |
Practical Jokes |
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What does Hermes do to women? |
Makes them thieves and bitches |
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Who is Epimethius? |
The brother of Prometheus. Afterthought |
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What's inside Pandora's jar? What is in it after she opens it? |
All evils and hope. Just hope |
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What Deucalion and Pyrrah do to mankind and how do they do this? |
Start it over. They throw bones over their shoulders. Great flood |
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Who is Cybele? Story |
Mother goddess. Cuts penis off and made almond tree. |
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Who is Nana? What happeneds to her? |
She is a nymph. Gets pregnant by blossom of tree and has Attis. |
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Who is Attis? What does he do to himself and why? What is his curse? |
Perfect example of man. Dies once a year. |
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Ge+Uranus=
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Cronus, Rhea, Aphrodite, Titans
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Offspring of Chaos |
Tartarus, Erebus, Night, Eras, Ge |
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Another word for personification. |
Anthropomorphism |
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How does Eurydice die? |
Stepped on a snake |
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How does Hephaestus react to Ares sleeping with Aphrodite? |
He and all the gods make fun of Ares and critique how they would've gotten out of it. |
