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anthropos= human being
morphe= form
the nature of the Olympian Gods |
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supreme ruler of the gods
domain: sky |
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underworld
rarely counted as Olympian
-Roman names: DIS, PLUTO (both=wealth)ORCUS
-god of death and agricultural plenty |
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originally an earth mother goddess
driving a chariot pulled by peacocks
usually accompanied by IRIS goddess of the rainbow
Sacred Marriage |
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Jurisdiction of the space within the house
gives place to Dionysus |
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| jurisdiction of the open space of the Earth |
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metalworker of gods
son of Zeus and Hera
Birth:
Hera alone, LAME, cast out by Hera
Zeus and Hera: interferred with parents quarrel, hurled down Olympus landed on Lemnos, cult-place |
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god of war
son of Zeus and Hera |
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god of arts, healing and disease
son of Zeus and Leto
god of shepards,associated with music
god of medicine
"know thyself"
"nothing too much" |
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goddess of wilderness
daughter of Zeus and Leto
lions
virgin girl characteristics of a fertility goddess
moon goddess with lunar and menstrual cycles |
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goddess of wisdom and domestic arts and crafts, war
Daughter of Zeus and Metis |
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god of cunning, communication, business and thieves
son of Zeus and Maia |
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god of wine, theatre and madness
son of Zeus and Semele
born by Zeus, hera burned semele alive
god of vegetation, wine
represents irrational in human beings
MANIA (madness) combines bestial and sublime |
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| Ares, Hermes, Anchises, Dionysus etc |
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boasts to have many children,
Artemis kills daughters
Apollo kills sons
Niobe turned to stone |
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| hunting, saw Artemis bathing, she transformed him into a stag, had his dogs tear him to shreads |
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zeus, disguised as Artemis raped Callisto
She gave birth to ARCAS,
hera turned Callisto into a bear,
Arcas almost killed bear mother,
Zeus made them constellations |
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Stone shaped like an egg
-marks the center of the earth
-marks the tomb of Pytho
-is the stone cronus swallowed instead of Zeus |
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| she rejected him, was granted immortality without eternal youth, became only a voice |
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| was given prophecy, changed her mind, no one listened to her |
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offended eros, sent an dull arrow at Daphne, makes her love repelled for apollo
Becomes a tree |
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vowed to remain a virgin devoted to Artemis, and fled apollo
turned into a tree |
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BOY
other suitor directs discus at HYAC and he dies,
becomes a flower |
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Pregnant with Apollo's child, raven saw her with another lover
Apollo shot her with arrow, saved baby
- ASCLEPIUS
god of medicine |
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| Satyr, challenged Apollo to flute contest, lost and was flayed alive |
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OMOPHAGY: ate raw flesh of sacrificial animal
THIASUS- congregation |
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male counterparts of maenads, part man part animal
SILENI, older satyrs, wise |
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pole wreathed in ivy or vine leaves, pointed at the top to receive a pine cone
DIONYSIAC PROP |
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Zeus mated with his daughter Persephone, and she bore a son ZAGREUS
Hera incited the Titans to dismember the child and devour the pieces
The heart of the child was saved; and Dionysus was born again, through Semele and Zeus, as recounted above. |
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ARIADNE gave the hero Theseus a thread by which he could find his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur.
He abandoned her on the island of Naxos
She was rescued by Bacchus, who fell in love with her |
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| female followers of Dionysus, women possessed by D |
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place of punishment
Hades' realm
EREBUS:
-darkness of Tartarus
-Tartarus itself |
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| Paradise of the Underworld |
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| MINOS, rhadamanthus, aeacus |
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| pass sentence on the just and unjust souls |
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The Ferryman that transports souls across Styx
demands a fare, coin is buried in mouth of corpse |
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| leader of the soul, takes souls to charon |
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The hound of Hades
guards the realm
ferocious with at least 3 heads |
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ERINYES, born from uranus' blood
pitiless and just avengers of crime especially murder and blood guilt within the family |
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Eleusis, daughters invite Demeter to take care of brother.
She refuses to taste food or drink until IAMBE (lifts her skirt makes demeeter laugh), with jests and jokes caused her to smile and laugh.
She then accepted a drink called KYKEON |
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| face staue with legs and harp |
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nursed by demeter,
\Attempts to make him immortal through fire.
When Metaneira interrupts her Demeter reveals her divinity.
She then disappears but promises to teach her rites to the inhabitants of Eleusis. |
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| Final message of Hymn to Demeter |
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Happy is the one of
mortals on earth who has
seen these things. But
those who are uninitiated
into the holy rites …
never are destined to a
similar joy when they are
dead in the gloomy realm
below.” |
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