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| epic poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
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| poet from the later 8th century or early 7th century BC - claimes authorship for his works but also gets inspiration from the gods. Theogony. Works and days. |
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| "Abyss" or "gaping void" from which the rest of the gods come |
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| Earth and the procreative force of nature. One of the four primordial beings in Hesiod, she produced by herself or with male partners many of the physical features of the world, as well as other children including the Titans, Cyclopes, Hundred-handers, Typhon and the Giants |
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| Amor or Cupid: personification of erotic Love, born either of Chaos or Aphrodite, later became used in the plural |
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| deepest region of the world, placed below the underworld |
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| the personification of Sky, son and husband of Gaia, castrated and deposed by youngest son Cronos |
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| collective name for some of the children of Ouranos and Gaia, the youngest of whom, Cronos, overthrew his father, hence the name Titans, "overreachers." They were defeated by Zeus in the Titanomachy. The name is sometimes also applied to the Titans' own children |
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| a Titan, youngest son of Ouranos and Gaia, father of Zeus and his siblings. He castrated his father and was deposed by his own son Zeus |
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| a Titaness, married to Cronos, the mother of Zeus and his siblings, she conspired with her children against their father |
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| a Titaness, the personification of Memory, by Zeus the mother of the Muses |
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| a Titaness, wife of Oceanos |
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| the eldest Titan, the personification of the river that ran around the known world, father of rivers and Oceanids |
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| enormous sons of Ouranos and Gaia with a hundred arms and fifty heads, instrumental in the Olympians' victory over the Titans |
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| monstrous offsprine of Gaia and Tartaros, defeated by Zeus |
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| the Sun, son of Hyperion, later associated with Apollo |
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| goddess of the dawn, mother of the Winds by Astraios, mother of Emathion and Memnon by Tithonos |
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| an Oceanid, river in the underworld, the first to side with Zeus in the Titanomachy, for which she was honored as being the river upon which all gods swore their oaths |
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| daughter of Coios and Phoibe, mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus |
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| a powerful and mysterious goddess in early Greek myth, closely associated with magic, darkness and crossroads, often identified with Artemis and Selene |
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| daughter of Cronos and Rhea, goddess of the hearth, an eternal virgin with little role in mythology |
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| daughter of Cronos and Rhea, goddess of fertility and grain. With Zeus she had Persephone. When her daughter was abducted by Hades, she searched for her, eventually coming to Eleusis. Mother and daughter are worshipped in the Eleusinian Mysteries held their annually. |
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| daughter of Demeter and Zeus, abducted by Hades and became queen of the underworld |
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| queen of the gods and goddess of marriage. She was the sister and wife of Zeus, with whom she had Ares, Hebe and Eileithyia. She had Hephaistos alone or with Zeus. In myth she appears most often opposing the children Zeus had by mortal and divine lovers, such as Heracles, Dionysos, Apollo and Artemis. When Paris slighted her in favor of Aphrodite, she became a major instigator of the Trojan War and sought every chance to destroy the city. She was a protector of cities and heroes. |
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| god of the underworld, son of Cronos and Rhea, he ruled the dead in the underworld, although he was also associated with the ability of the earth to produce wealth, especially under the name Plouton. His wife was Persephone |
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| god of the sea, horses and earthquakes, the son of Cronos and Rhea. Although he was married to Amphitrite, he had many other children, some quite violent, by women both mortal and divine. He was sometimes regarded as the father of Theseus and was the ancestor of many other heroes such as Danaos and the king of Thebes. In the Trojan War he vigorously opposed the Trojans and later greatly hindered Odysseus' return home. He competed with Athena to be the patron god of Athens but lost |
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| son of Ouranos and Rhea, sky god and king of the Olympian gods. He led his siblings in the revolt against his father and other Titans after obtaining essential help from members of his fathers generation. He then became the king of the gods. He faced further challenges to his power from Typhon and the Giants, but none of his own children were ever in the position to overthrow him. While he was married to Hera and had children by her, he had an exceptionally long list of affairs with goddesses and mortal women, producing most of the younger gods and many great mortals. He has many roles in myth: storm god, protector of the city, philanderer and upholder of justice |
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| son of Iapetos, humanity's benefactor and sometimes its creator. Tricks Zeus into taking the lesser portion of meat |
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| son of Iapetos and Clymene, brother of Prometheus, husband of Pandora |
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| incident (sacrifice) at Mecone |
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| Prometheus cooks up an ox and divides it into 2 portions - one contains the good meat but looks like it is all fat, the other looks like it is good but is actually just bones. he gives Zeus his choice and Zeus knows what he is doing but he still takes the inferior portion and punishes his trickers by stealing fire from them |
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| first woman fashioned by Hephaistos out of clay, married to Epimetheus. beautiful like the gods, has voice and strength like humans, hungry and insatiable like an animal. |
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| The god of metalworking and crafts, son of Hera alone or Hera and Zeus. He was either born lame or became so when he was cast out of heaven. He trapped his mother in a golden throne and would not release her until Dionysos reconciled them. He also used his skills to trap his wife Aphrodite in bed with Ares. In some authors he is married to one of the Charites. His attempt to have sex with Athena produced Erichthonios. His fabulous creations appear in numerous myths |
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| goddess of war, intelligence and craft. She sprang fully formed from Zeus' head after he swallowed her mother, Metis. She was the defender cities and protector of heroes. She is regularly depicted wearing armor and her father's aegis, a goatskin breastplate decorated with the head of Medousa. She completely eschewed any sexual contact. The meanings of her epithetes Tritogeneia and Pallas were debated even in antiquity |
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| daughter of Oceanos and Tethys, personification of Intelligence and Resourcefulness, impregnated and then swallowed by Zeus, from this union Athena was born |
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| god of, among other things, music, prophecy and medicine. The son of Zeus and Leto, his and his twin sisters birth was delayed by Hera but eventually took place on Delos, where the god established an oracle. He gave Cassandra, the Sibyl and other mortal prophets the ability to foretell the future. As the god of music he was associated with the lyre, which he received from Hermes and with which he bested Marysas in a contest. His love affairs usually turned out badly, but by Coronis he was the father of Asclepios. He was armed with bow and arrows, which were sometimes said to cause disease. |
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| twin of Apollo and daughter of Zeus and Leto, Artemis was the goddess of hunting, wild animals and childbirth. She often wanders into the wilderness accompanied by a band of young women. A virgin goddess, she also vigorously defended the virginity of her followers. With her brother she defended her mother Leto against Niobe's insults and Tityos attempted rape. She was closely associated with Hecate and Selene |
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| goddess of love, sexual desire, and human fertility, born either from Ouranos genitals or from Zeus and Dione. She married to Hepahistos, but had a love addait with Ares and had children with him, including Eros. Among mortals she had affairs with Adonis and Anchises, but whom she had the Trojan hero Aineias, the ancestor of the Romans. One of her major religious centers was on the island of Cyprus |
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| a Titaness, Nereid, or Oceanid, sometimes the mother of Aphrodite |
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| a traditional tale with secondary, partial reference to something of collective importance |
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| → Myth is changed a little bit every time it is retold. Certain authors dominate because they told it the best way. any version of a story is just as true as any other version |
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| the place where we find the myth told |
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| a "once upon a time" story - contains character types that are interchangeable |
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| has more of a historical meaning - the Greeks really believed that these heroes existed |
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| stories that explain how/why something came to be the way it is |
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| Athenian inventor, father of Icarus, built the Labyrinth for the Minotaur & wings to escape from imprisonment |
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| son of Daedalus who plummeted to his death because he flew too close to the Sun |
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| guest-host relationship, formal institution of friendship |
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| a Neried, mother of Achilles by Peleus |
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| Mesopotamian creation myth (Enuma Elish) |
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| Hittite creation myth (Kumarbi) |
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| Judaeo-Christian creation myth (Genesis) |
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| a myth in and of itself. Believed to have lived in the Balkins many thousands of years ago and then went on the move. Had their own language and culture. A postulated group of people. We don't see their culture or language, only the remnants of it |
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| Innana, goddess of love goes to the underworld in a violent and demanding manner, she is kept there by the goddess of the underworld and while she is there no acts of procreation occur |
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| Isis, mother goddess, searches for her husband/brother Osiris, who had been trapped. She eventually finds him and resurrects him long enough to have a child by him and Osiris becomes the god of the dead |
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| Zeus gives his daughter Persephone to Hades as a wife, Demeter wanders the earth looking for her, she finally gets Persephone back but because she has eaten food in the underworld she has to spend 1/3 of the year there |
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| Ancient cult in a city near Athens which held a 9 day festival in September. Anyone who spoke guilt and was free of blood guilt was eligible |
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| son of Celeos and Metaneira, nearly made immortal by Demeter |
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| either a nobleman of Eleusis or one of Metaneira's children who spread the cultivation of wheat over the world |
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| Powerful Near Eastern/Egyptian goddesses of great antiquity, with many individual differences |
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| hunter with whom Aphrodite falls in love. He dies by being gouged by a bear. A cult develops in his name |
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| Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite |
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| father of Aineias by Aphrodite |
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| Birth site of Artemis and Apollo |
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| son of Aristaios and Autonoe who was consumed by his own dogs |
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| nymph loved by Apollo, turned into a laurel tree |
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| beautiful youth loved by Apollo, killed by a discus either by Apollo himself or Zephyros |
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| the serpent killed by Apollo either to gain control of Delphi (so that place is often called Pytho) or to protect his mother |
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| "will of Zeus" - includes destruction of the humans, the end of the age of heroes, and the triumph of Achilles. Emphasizes that men are instruments of their own destruction, rather than a flood, which wipes out everything in sight. |
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| The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis |
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| handsome Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to serve as cupbearer of the Gods |
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| (Alexander) son of Priam and Hecabe. Because his mother dreamed she gave birth to a torch, he was abandoned on Mount Ida and raised by Shepards. He later returned to Troy, where he regained his position as prince. He then seduced Helen, thus beginning the Trojan War, in which he killed Achilles and was subsequently killed by Philoctetes |
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| youngest of Laomedon's sons, originally named Podarces. King of Troy during the Trojan War. With Hecabe he had Hector, Paris, Cassandra & others, along with other children with other women |
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| wife of Menelaos, her seduction/abduction by Paris sparked the Trojan War |
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| son of Zeus and Plouto, killed his son and fed him to the gods, for which he is punished in the underworld |
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| son of Tantalos, who served him to the gods; gave his name to the Peloponnese, father of Atreus, Thyestes and Chrysippos |
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| son of Pelops and Hippodameia, king of Argos (or Mycenae). After his brother Thyestes seduced his wife and stole his throne, he killed his brothers sons and fed them to him |
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| son of Pelops and Hippodameia, feuded with his brother, Atreus |
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| Son of Atreus, brother of Menelaos, leader of Greek forces at Troy, killed by his wife, Clytaimnestra, or her lover, Aigisthos, upon returning home from Troy |
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| Atreus' son, Agamemnon's brother, Helen's husband |
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| daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaimnestra, sacrificed by her father at Aulis |
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| son of Aiacos, father of Achilles by Thetis |
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| son of Peleus and Thetis, the best Greek warrior in the Trojan War. He killed Hector and was killed by Paris |
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| female slave of Achilles captured in war, later taken from him by Agamemnon |
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| son of Tydeus who took part in the Trojan War and was a member of the Epigonoi |
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| son of Menoitios, accompanied Achilles in the Trojan War |
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| son of Priam and Hecabe, the greatest Trojan warrior, killed by Achilles |
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| infant son of Hector and Andromache, put to death after the fall of Troy |
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| daughter of Eetion, wife of Hector, mother of Astyanax |
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| son of Zeus and Europa, ally of Troy, killed by Patroclos |
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| son of Oineus or Ares by Althaia, he was the hero who killed the Calydonian Boar. Destined at his birth to live only as long as a log in the fire lasted, his mother eventually burned it in revenge for his killed her brothers, although his death is told differently in the Iliad |
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| son of Laertes, husband of Penelope, father of Telemachos. Hero noted for his cleverness and eloquence, he wandered for ten years after the Trojan War |
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| youngest son of Neleus and Chloris, survived Heracles' sack of Pylos and took part in the Trojan War |
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| son of Priam, sold into slavery by Patroclus |
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| son of Achilles and Deidameia, fights at Troy after the death of his father, also called Pyrrhos because of his red hair |
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| an Amazon, daughter of Ares and Otrera, ally of the Trojans, killed by Achilles |
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| son of Eos and Tithonos, Ethiopian ally of Troy, kills Antilochus, killed by Achilles |
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| Nestor's son, Greek warrior at Troy, killed by Memnon |
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| son of Poias, keeper of Heracles' bow, one of Helen's suitors. He was eft on the island of Lemnos after being bitten by a snake but was brought back to Troy when it was revealed that the bow was necessary to take the city. |
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| honor, which is either something you can hold or something you gain for your ability to do something |
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| glory which lasts for all time as opposed to honor which is fleeting |
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