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Chapter 3 (Lecture 3)
Myths of Creation
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Undergraduate 1
01/21/2016

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Gloomy darkness
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Erebus is...
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Hands
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The Hecatonchires have 100...
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Gaia and Uranus
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The Cyclopes are children of...
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Bodies of water
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The 6,000 children of Oceanus and Tethys are...
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God of love
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Eros is the...
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The sea
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Pontus is...
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Cronus
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The father of Zeus is...
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Earth
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Ge is...
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Uranus and Gaia/Ge
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The Hecatonchires were children of...
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Cronus
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The mother-earth goddess, Rhea, was the consort of...
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Zeus
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Cronus devoured all his children except...
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Uranus
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Aphrodite was born as a result of the castration of...
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Tithonus
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Which lover of Eos was granted immortality, but not perpetual youth?
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Dawn
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Eos is the goddess of the...
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Endymion
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Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with the handsome shepherd...
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Phaëthon
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Who drove the chariot of the sun disastrously?
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Oceanus
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Greek mythology imagines the earth as a flat disc encircled by...
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Gaia and Uranus
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The Titans are the offspring of...
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A holy marriage
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The Greek term hieros gamos means...
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Uranus
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Which god did not arise from Chaos?
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Goya
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What Spanish painter of the 18th and 19th centuries depicted Saturn Devouring One of His Children?
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Briareus
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Which is not a name of the Cyclopes?
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Aristophanes
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What author parodies myth in his comedy entitled Birds?
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Erebus and Night
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From what union did Day and Aether come into being?
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Hesiod
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Who was the author of the Works and Days?
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Hesiod’s "Theogony"
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Which story of creation was the most important?
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Oceanus and Tethys
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Homer originally thought that the world was created from...
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Birth of gods
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Theogony means...
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The creation of the world
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Hesiod’s Theogony is about...
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The muses
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Hesiod has a particular obsession with...
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The muses
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Who did Hesiod honour before and after his poems?
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The muses
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Who inspired the poets and teachers of Ancient Greece?
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Explain the origins of the world and also to help people understand how the world is today
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The purpose of the muses was to...
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The earth
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What does Gaia mean?
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The underworld that was not fully developed yet but where the dead went
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What was Tartarus?
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A big gap or chasm, an amorphous thing: “there was something there”
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What does Chaos mean?
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Zeus
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The muses were used to praise all of the gods but especially...
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Asexually
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How does Gaia produce Heaven, the Mountains, and the Sea (Pontos)?
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Sexually with Ouranos
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How does Gaia produce 12 Titans, the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants and makes for Zeus his bolts), and the Hecatonchires (Hundred-Handers)?
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The gods
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The embodiments of the world were...
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