Mythology
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greenandbluetiger on September 4, 2011
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mythology, ap english 12, ap english, literature, composition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Homer | The Iliad, The Odyssey |
| Hesiod | Works and Days, Theogony |
| Pindar | Odes |
| Herodotus | Histories of the Persian Wars |
| Aeschylus | The Oresteia |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus |
| Euripides | The Bacchae |
| Aristophanes | The Birds, The Clouds, The Frogs |
| Plato | The Republic, Symposium, Gorgias |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | The Argonautica |
| Catullus | Poems (Roman) |
| Horace | Odes, Epodes (Roman) |
| Virgil | The Aeneid (Roman) |
| Livy | Histories (Roman) |
| Propertius | Love elegies (Roman) |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses, The Art of Love (Roman) |
| Chaos | 1st in the Universe; swirling mass of disorganized matter; Erebus and Night are born from it |
| Gaia | The Earth, gives birth to Uranus and Pontus |
| Tartarus | the lower realm of the underworld where wicked are punished |
| Love | the fairest immortal |
| Erebus | a lower realm below the earth |
| Night | With Erebus, has Day and Aether |
| Aether | the upper level of the earth's atmosphere |
| Uranus | Heaven |
| Pontus | the deep sea |
| Cronus | Titan who conspires with Gaia to kill Uranus |
| Rhea | wife of Cronus, mother of Zeus |
| Mount Aetna | Volcano to which the Titans are banished by Zeus |
| Poseidon (Neptune) | God of the Sea, brother of Zeus, the "earthshaker," father of Polyphemus as well as horses and bulls, father of Pegasus (son of Medusa) |
| Hades (Pluto) | the underworld, the dead |
| Prometheus | son of the Titan Lapetus, allies himself with the Gods, helps create humans |
| Epimetheus | brother of Prometheus, helps create the animals of the world |
| Hephaestus (Vulcan) | metalsmith god who creates women; fire, the forge, smithery, forges things for Achilles, Agamemnon, and Aeneas |
| Pandora | the first woman |
| Aphrodite (Venus) | Love, beauty, fertility; mother of Eros and Aeneas, lover of Ares and Anchises (Trojan shepherd), wife of Hephaestus |
| Ares (Mars) | God of War, son of Zeus and Hera |
| Artemis (Diana) | Goddess of hunting, the moon; sister of Apollo, daughter of Zeus and Leno |
| Athena (Minerva) | Goddess of wisdom, craftsmanship, war; daughter of Zeus |
| Demeter (Ceres) | sister of Zeus, daughter of Cronus and Rhea; rules agriculture (grain, corn, the harvest) |
| Persephone (Proserpine) | daughter of Demeter, Queen of the Underworld |
| Semele | mother of Dionysus, mortal |
| Dionysus (Bacchus) | God of wine and festivity, important to the Maenads |
| Eros (Cupid) | son of Aphrodite; God of love, sexual desire |
| Psyche | beloved of Eros |
| Elysium | the delightful plain of the blessed (part of the Underworld) |
| Charon | ferryman in the Underworld |
| Styx | a river in the Underworld |
| Cerberus | Hades's three-headed dog |
| Hera (Juno) | wife of Zeus, queen of the gods, goddess of women and marriage, daughter of Cronus and Rhea |
| Hermes (Mercury) | messenger, god of commerce, science, and doctors, son of Maia and Zeus, creates the lyre |
| Hestia (Vesta) | daughter of Cronus and Rhea, goddess of the hearth, most minor of the Olympians |
| Pan | chief of lesser gods of nature, part man and part goat, god of wild beasts and the forest |
| Bellerophon | rider of Pegasus, beats the Amazons |
| Pegasus | winged horse |
| Amazons | a race of warrior women |
| Chimera | a fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, goat's body, and snake's tail; defeated by Bellerophon |
| Apollo | archery, music, prophecy, healing, light, son of Zeus and Leno |
| Helen | daughter of Leda and Zeus, wife of Menelaus |
| Clytemnestra | daughter of Zeus, wife of Agamemnon |
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