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FLASH CARDS
By: Noelle Parziale
Gaea
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Married Uranus
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Chaos created her
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She got in a fight with her husband and used her kids against him
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She tried to kill him but he was too strong, it didn’t work
Uranus
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Married to Gaea
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He was fought by his wife and 13 children
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He was immortal, so he didn’t die
Cronos
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Learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own
sons
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Overthrew his father
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Devoured Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, Rhea
Hundred-HandedGiants
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Gaia, Uranus, and Pontus, Titans, Hundred-Handed Giants Cottus, Briareus, and
Gyges, and Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, and Arges.
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Also, Titans and Titaness's sons and daughters
Cyclops
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Giant one- eyed monsters
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Were blinded by Odysseus
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The sons of Titans Uranus and Gaea
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The Cyclopes were his brothers
Rhea
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The Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia
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Daughter of the sky god, Uranus
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Sister and wife to Cronus
Tartarus
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Is the deep abyss, used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked
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As the prison for the Titans
Eros
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Was a primeval god
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Son of Chaos
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Original primeval emptiness of the universe
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Later made the son of Aphrodite
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Goddess of sexual love and beauty
Chaos
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The primeval void
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The first thing which existed
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After Chaos came Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
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Born “from Chaos” were Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night)
Titans
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One of 12 primeval deities
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The female Titan was called Titaness
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Were 6 sons and 6 daughters
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Children of Uranus and Gaea
Zeus
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God of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods
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Overthrew his father, Cronus
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Then drew lots with his brother, Poseidon and Hades
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He won the draw and became the supreme ruler of the gods
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And ruler of the sky and rain
Hera
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Wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek
mythology and religion
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Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage
Poseidon
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God of the sea, earthquakes, and horses
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Supreme gods of Mount Olympus, spent most time in his watery domain
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Brother to Zeus and Hades
Hades
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Brother to Poseidon and Zeus
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God of the underworld
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Son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea
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Had 3 sisters, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera
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Had 2 brothers, Zeus and Poseidon
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They were the original 6 Olympian gods
Prometheus
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Benefactor of mankind
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Son of the Titan Iapetus and of Clymene or Themis
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He foresaw the defeat of the Titans by the Olympians he sided with Zeus and then
he was spared the punishment of the other Titans
Epimetheus
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Brother of Prometheus
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Part of a pair of Titans
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Acted as representitives of mankind
Pandora
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“The all-gifted“
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“The all-endowed”
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“The all-giving”
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The first human woman created by the gods, by Hephaestus and Athena on the
instructions of Zeus
Hephaestus
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The lame god of fire and crafts or the two together, hence of blacksmiths
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The son of Zeus and Hera or, in some accounts, of Hera alone
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He limped because he was born lame, which caused his mother to throw him off
Mount Olympus
Demeter
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Goddess of the harvest
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Presided over the sacred law
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Goddess of the cycle of life and death
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Her daughter was Persephone
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They were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian
pantheon
Persephone
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Beautiful daughter of Zeus and Demeter
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Considered an Olympian
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While gather flowers, and was abducted to the Underworld by Hades
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He arose in his chariot from a fissure in the ground
Psyche
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Former mortal woman
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Goddess of the soul in Greek Mythology
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Was the wife of Eros
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Mother of Hedone
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Always pictured with butterfly wings
Eros
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A primeval gods
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Son of Chaos
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The original primeval emptiness of the universe
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Later made him the son of Aphrodite
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Zeus, Ares, or Hermes made him the son of Aphrodite
Aphrodite
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Goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture
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Was born when Uranus (the father of the gods)
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Was castrated by his son Cronus
Zephyrus
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Was the God of the West wind
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He was one of the four directional Anemoi (Wind-Gods)
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Also was the God of spring
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Was the husband of Khloris
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The father of Karpos
Daedalus
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Built the labyrinth for King Minos
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Needed it to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur
Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice
Icarus
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Son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax
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Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own
invention, the Labyrinth
Minos
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Is a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa
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Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young
girls to be sent to Daedalus' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur
Minotaur
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Was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by
Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull“
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Said to have been the offspring of the intercourse of Pasiphaë with the bull sent
from the sea to Minos, who shut him up in the Cnossian labyrinth
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They fed him with the bodies of the youths and maidens whom the Athenians at fixed
times were obliged to send to Minos as tribute
Narcissus
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Was a Hunter from Thespian in Boeotia who was known for his beauty
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He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope
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He was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him
Echo
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A mountain nymph, or oared
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III, relates that Echo offended the goddess Hera by
keeping her in conversation, thus preventing her from spying on one of Zeus'
amours
Orpheus
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Was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth
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The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things
and even stones with his music
Eurydice
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Was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo
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She was the wife of Orpheus
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Tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music
Theseus
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Theseus killing the Minotaur
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Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum great hero of Attic legend
Son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen
(in Argolis), or of the sea god, Poseidon, and Aethra.
Aristaeus
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Was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including
bee-keeping
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He was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene
Aegeus
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An Athenian King
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The son of Pandion and the brother of Pallas, Nisos, and Lykos
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Best known as being the father of the hero Theseus
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After Pandion died, the 4 brothers wrested control of Athens from the sons of
Metion
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Who’d driven Pandion from power
Ariadne
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Daughter of Minos
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King of Crete
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His queen Pasiphae
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Daughter of Helios
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Mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths
of the Minotaur and Theseus
Corynetes
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A son of Hephaestus and Anticleia
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His name means “Club-bearer”
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Was a robber at Epidaurus
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He slew the travelers he met with an iron club
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Theseus finally slew him and took his club for his own use
Pitycamptes
Procrustes
Sciron