| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Zeus | Supreme God, Killed Father, Thunderbolts, ruler of heavens. Hera wife. Giver of laws and justice. Bird was eagle. |
| Athena | godess of wisdom and war, sprung from head of zeus fully armed and ready to fight goddess of Athens |
| Titans | Gods of early greeks. 12 total 6 male 6 female.Revolted against uranus and made cronos ruler. Overthrown and placed in Tartarus by zeus, Hades and posiden |
| Hera | Daughter of Cronos. Sister and wife of Zeus. Goddess of marriage and protectress of married women. Competed for Golden Apple. Petty, jealous, wrathful, implacable |
| Apollo | One of the most important. Identified with sun. God of intelligence, understanding, archers, healing, music, and poetry. seers and oracles were under his command. Ideal type of young man. |
| Artemis | Daughter of Zeus twin sister of apollo. Huntress armed with bow and quiver. Protectress of the young. Killed many |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love born from foam of the sea on the shores of the island of cythera. Married Hephaestus. Mother of cupid. Many lovers. |
| Hermes | Son of zeus and maia. Fashioned lyre as a child and stole apollo's cattle. God of traders and theives, messanger to the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world. Young man with winged sandals. |
| Dionysus | Son of Zeus and Samele. God of vegetation. Espicially wine. Associated with poetry and music. Worshiped as far as india and egypt. |
| Ares | God of war. Son of Zeus and Hera. |
| Demeter | Earth god of wheat and grain. Spread knowledge of agriculture. Daughter of cronos and rhea. Taught Triptolemus her arts in agriculture. |
| Poseidon | God of sea. Olympic god (Lived on Olympus.) Son of cronos and rhea. Symbol was trident. Gave horse. Did not acquire attica or argos. |
| Hades | God of underworld. |
| Hades (place) | Underworld. |
| Mount Olympus | Dwelling of greek gods in Thessaly. remote area. |
| hercules | Great strength, nature, and compassion. greatest of greek heros. Endured the twelve labors. Soul took place among gods. Married daughter of Zeus and Hera Hebe. Powerful and fearles hero. |
| Perseus | Son of Zeus and model greek hero. Killed the Gorgon, medusa, and punished atlas. rescued his wife andromeda. Ruled on the throne of Argos and Tiryns. Founded Mycenae. |
| Theseus | Son of Aegeus king of Athens. Went through strength test. Killed Minotaur. Did not hoist white sails and that killed father. Had kids. Fought against the amazons. |
| Jason and the argonauts | Sent into exile and raised by centaur. Needed golden fleece to claim throne of his father. Went with argonauts on Argo to Colchis. Sourceres daughter of King Aeetes Medea helped him get the fleece. Jason Became king of Cornith. Ditched wife medea for other woman. meda killed herself and kids. Jason became an outcast and was killed by the argo's falling prow |
| Amazons | Mythical women warriors. Lived in Asia minor. Removed right breast so that they could fire bow. Only saw men to breed female offspring and killed baby boys. Greek heros fought amazon women. Achilles, theseus, heracles. Amazon means robust and masculine woman. |
| Argonauts | Heros who accompanied Jason. Included Hercules |
| Pan | God of Nature, forests, fertility, wild animals, shepards and their flocks. Invinted teh syrinx. half man, half goat. Playful. |
| Mary Magdalene | repentant sinner who wept when Jesus was eating in the pharisee's house. Washed feet with tears and hair. Appeared at crucifixion. First to hear of reserruction?? |
| Peter | Leader of the apostles. Given jurisdiction over the popes. Simon peter. |
| Apostles | 12 sent to spread gospels. |
| Lazarus | Brother of mary and martha, friend of Jesus. Died and was raised from the dead after four days. |
| Judas | Betrayed Jesus with a kiss for thirty silver peices. Hanged himself later. |
| Doubting Thomas | Did not believe resurrection. Must have seen in oreder to believe. Need tangible proof. |
| Pandoras box | First mortal woman created out of clay. Created to punish prometheus for creating man. Was to release evil into the world. Carried jar containing illness and evil but also hope. Only hope remains today. |
| Pygmalion and Galatea | youthful sculptor who loved all women. Created perfect woman out of marble named Galatea. Aphrodite made him fall in love with the statue. She was turned into flesh. |
| Daedalus and Icarus | Dadalus was first engineer. Created wooden cow wherein Minos's Queen Pasiphae satisfied her desire for a bull. The half bull half man minotoar was kept in the laryrinth. Minos sacraficed 12 Athnians yearly to the monster. Theseus killed it. Daedalus and Icarus were imprisioned. Flew out using wax wings. Icarus flew by the son and was killed when the wings melted. Daedalus was an inventor. |
| Midas | Granted a wish by Silenus. Wished that he would have a golden touch. Begged to have it taken back later on. had to bathe in the Pactolus River to get rid of touch. |
| Sisyphys | Did wrong on Earth. Sent to Tatarus and was forced to roll a stone up a hill only to have it eternally roll back down. |
| Pegasus and Belleronphon | Hero of Cornith. Rejected advances of Queen Antea and was accused of seducing her. Sent to To Iobates to be put to death. Belleronphon was sent to slay Chimaera teh monster but was assisted by Athena. Caught the winged horse Pegasus who arose form Medusa's blood. They killed Chimaera. Later, they tried to ascend to the heavens but Belleronphon fell off. Pegasus became a constilation as she asscended. |
| Cupid and Psyche | Psyche was a mortal loved by cupid. She promised him never to try and find out his identity by lighting a candle at night to see his face (he only visited at night). He left her. She searched the Earth for him and was reunited. She was made immortal and now symbolises the human soul. |
| Narcissus | Beautiful youth who spurned the love of others and became enamoured with his own reflection in a pool. As he tried to embrace his image, he drowned. narcissism means expressive self love. |
| Tantalus | Son of Zeus and an oceanid. King of Lydia. Punished in Hades for stealing the dogs of Zues, Giving Ambrosia and nectar to men and killling his son and serving him as a meal to the gods. He was made to stand in chin deep water in hades with fruit overhead. Whenever he tried to eat or drink the fruit would rise or the water would receede. Tantalize comes from this. |
| Pyramus and Thisbe | Lovers who did not have parent approval. Agreed to tryst in an outlying district. Thisbe was attacked by a lion and as she fled dropped her scarf. The lion bloodied her scarf with his mouth as he had just eaten an animal. Pyramus arrived and saw the scarf and killed himself. Thisbe returned and saw his body and killed herself. |
| Orpheus and Eurydice | Master Musician and Lyre player son of Apollo and calliope. Able to tame wild beasts and reconcile contending parties. Wife Eurydice was killed by a snake. Orpheus went into Hades to convince the king of the dead to allow her to go back with him and live. Hades consented on the condition that he not look at her during the ascent. Orpheus violated the condition and she fell back into hades as he looked at her in the light. Orpheus was disembered by the Furies and ascended into the heavens as a god. his lyre becoming teh constellation Lyra. |
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