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| Feast of Adonis, mock funeral, female-only, involves plants quickly sprouting and withering |
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| beautiful man shared by Aphrodite and Persephone, killed by wild boar, and blood mixed with nectar to sprout anemone, born from Myrrh tree that Myrrha was turned into as punishment from Aphrodite |
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| Son of Aphrodite and Anchises, progenitor of Romans after Trojan war |
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| The mortal Aphrodite fell in love with, father of Aeneas |
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| Goddess of desire, came from the sea mixed with Uranus' sperm, made Zeus fall in love with mortals a lot, fell in love with Anchises, liked to start trouble, goddess probably originated from Cyprus and Greeks wanted her to exist |
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| Zeus and Hera's son, God of Aggressive War and Slaughter, sleeps with Aphrodite cause she fine, caught by Hephaestus but he's still mocked, Ares and Aphrodite birth Terror, Fear, and Harmony |
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| Goddess of wisdom, Zeus daughter from his head, stole Athens from Poseidon after giving them an olive tree, cleared Orestes from murdering his mom, very masculine, on the man's side, turns Arachne into a spider after weaving contest, virgin goddess,urban and manly, |
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| having a link to original founders of a city, usually means you're related to the God linked to the city; Athens is all about this |
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| Prometheus vs. Zeus, meat and fire, tricks Zeus and gods into eating bones forever so humans can eat meat at sacrifices, ends with Prometheus stealing fire and giving it to humans after Zeus takes it away, Prometheus punished by getting his liver picked out on the daily |
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| possibly came from Zeus and Dione(according to Homer) or came from Uranus' genitals falling into the sea (Hesiod) |
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| Zeus slept with Metis and then ate her to forever have her wisdom so Athena came from Zeus' head |
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| Daughter of Lycaon (wolfman), king of Arcadia, was Artemis' hunting companion, swore to be virgin, Zeus raped her and changed her into a bear, Artemis kills Callisto, baby Arkas given to Zeus, Callisto lives on forever in stars (catasteration) |
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| multi-headed guard dog of the underworld, Charon's pet |
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| ferryman of the underworld |
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| Poseidon comes to Attica and starts saltwater spring, Athena comes with witness Cered and plants olive tree, gods give it to Athena cause witness, people vote and men vote for P and women vote for A and one more woman means Athena wins. Poseidon's pissed so he floods it until men take away women's right to vote |
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| killed dad Uranus with help of Mom Earth, had kids with sister Rhea, swallowed them all except Zeus who was hidden and came back to free his siblings and lock dad and uncles in Tartarus |
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| traditional story with collective importance |
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| Persephone's mom, search for her forever before making a deal with Hades to get her for half of the year, goddess of harvest, has lots of rituals for grain fertility and shit, |
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| two humans left after flood on Mt. Parnassus, threw stones behind their backs to have more people sprout from the earth, they were both good people and descended from Prometheus and Epimetheus/Pandora, Themis oracle told them what to do to save themselves and they created the current human race (to Ovid) |
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| Eleusis/Eleusinian Mysteries |
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| Town where Demeter ends up and tries to make son immortal, she gets a temple there too, mysteries are an annual fall festival to get good agriculture |
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| Elysinian Fields, where heroes go in Hades, |
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| Prometheus' brother, Pandora's husband, dumbass |
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| God of sexual love, either Aphrodite's son or original titan |
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| Zeus bull rape, Minos and Menelaus' mom |
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Gold: first race of man, lived like gods, now defenders of mortals
Silver: violent race, pissed Zeus off
Bronze: warlike, all killed each other and went to Hades house
Heroes: before current era, god-like, live at the edge of the world
Iron: current generation |
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| chase after men who kill their own blood, |
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| father's hand, Demeter and Hades story, women have no choice:negotiation between husband and father, bride moves to husband's home forever |
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| God of the underworld, Persephone's hubby, |
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| most beautiful woman in Troy, |
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| lame god, Aphrodite's hubby, creates Pandora, Hera's son |
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| Zeus wife, has her own worshipping before they marry, has Hephaestus on her own which is why he's lame, Goddess of marriage and fertility, gets pissed at Zeus a lot for his affairs |
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| trickster god, messenger god, Pan's dad |
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| stone pillar with beard erect dick for fertility and protection |
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| wrote the theogeny and has the 5 races |
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| goddess of Hearth, stays put |
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| Son of Theseus and Amazonian queen, denies Theseus new bae, Phaedra, and she accuses him of rape so he gets punished by death, he hates all women because his mom hates all men, "horse-unleasher", liminal figure, devoted to Artemis, Artemis wants him resurrected, lots of town have monuments to him, |
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| lots of myth attributed to him but his are the Odyssey and the Iliad |
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| Aphrodite can't spell Athena, Artemis, or Hestia; Zeus made her fall in love with a mortal as payback, told Anchises she was a princess not a god, they get married, she comes out as a goddess and leaves him, they have Aeneas |
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| Tells of birth of Hermes, he creates a lyre and steals 50 cows from Apollo when he is 1 day old, makes barbecue to eat the cows, shows his stealth, Zeus tells him to apologize to Apollo so he gives him the Lyre |
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| Hades marries Persephone with Zeus permission and takes her to underworld, Demeter wanders for 9 days to find her, finds Eleusis and stays there for a bit, then makes the world suffer by not growing shit so Zeus makes Hades give Persephone back but she ate 6 pomegranate seeds so she has to spend 6 months of the year in the Underworld which is why winter |
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| Proto-Indo-European Culture |
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| because all of these languages evolved from this, stories probably did, too; myths have three functions: Sovereignty, war, and abundance/fecundity |
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| When Paris has to decide who gets Eris' golden apple; between Athena(victory in war), Aphrodite(beautiful woman), and Hera(royal power) who each want the apple, obvi Paris wants a pretty woman (Helen) so Aphrodite gets it, he gets Helen who's Menelaus' wife and that's how the Trojan war began |
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| putting something/someone in the stars |
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| Zeus becomes a swan to rape her, creates Helen and Pollux, she's the wife of the king of Sparta |
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| the theogeny from Ovid's perspective, with Roman god names, all about transformation and manipulation, depicts the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron age which are similar to Hesiod's races, shows them flooding the human race because they're so awful |
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| Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, Apollo, Athena, Artemis, Ares, Hermes, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, 12, Cronos and Rhea's kids (except Hades) and Zeus and Hera's kids |
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| shows the non-staticness of stories |
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| Kills mom Clytemnestra for killing dad Agamemnon, chased by furies, pardoned by Athena and protected by Apollo |
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| The first woman, all of evil inside of her, Epimetheus wife, Zeus created her to bring hell on mankind as revenge for Prometheus stealing the fire, |
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| Hades wife, Demeter's daughter, eats pomegranate seeds |
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| Minos' daughter, Theseus' second wife, hits on stepson Hippolytus then accuses him of rape when he denies her, then she kills herself |
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| God of Sea, controls natural world, has some kids like the cyclops and Bellerophon |
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folktale story about the lustful female who tries to seduce husbands BFF/bro and the man suffers/dies
this is a bible story in Genesis, Potiphar buys Joseph(slave) and his wife proposes a lot to him and he says no so she accuses him and he becomes imprisoned |
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| "creator of men," Titan, Epimetheus' brother, gets his liver picked out on the daily, |
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| jail for Titans, also a god, Earth's brother |
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| collection of stories, celebrates Gods and Zeus, basically tells the origin stories |
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| Cronos and Rhea; overthrown by Zeus, sibs, Cyclopes and hundred-handers |
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| Transfer of myths between cultures |
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| myths that people really liked from other cultures would get introduced into Greek culture |
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| likes to create mischief, figure of deceit and wiliness, "culture heroes", creative and energetic, Hermes, |
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| 10 years long, Greeks vs. Trojans, Gods take sides except Zeus cause he's related to everyone, involves Helen, Paris, Agamemnon, Achilles, Greeks win with Trojan horse |
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| Son of Earth and Tartarus, battles Zeus to rule the world and Zeus beats him with that nifty thunderbolt, sent to Tartarus (chilling with dad) |
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| you need a guide to go through it if you want to come back, has 5 rivers (including Styx), is forest like, has Tartarus for really bad people, Elysinian fields for heroes, and the Fields of Lamentation |
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| Heaven, Earth's son, equal to Earth, possibly Aphrodite's father, kinda, gets with Earth to have Titans, Cyclopes and Hundred-handers as kids |
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| most powerful of all gods, lots of affairs and lots of kids, lot of his kids with mortals become heroes(explanations!), married to Hera but it's complicated |
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