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A Farmer who's Main Works was: "Works and Days", It
was a Theogony (Genesis of the Gods)
Hesiod The "Divine Muses (9 Gods), tell him how the first
gods, earth, rivers, the endless sea.... Came into
being"
The original beginning of the universe, a swirling
Chaos darkness that spawned the first titans: Ge, Tartarus,
Eros, Erebus, and Night (Nyx)
Spawned from Chaos. Ge was the earth. She bore
Ge
Ouranus (Sky) and Pontus (Deep Sea)
Spawned from Chaos. The underworld. Also classified
Tartarus
as a God
Spawned from Chaos. Greek God of love and sexual
Eros
desire
Spawned from Chaos. The personification of Darkness
Erebus
of tarturus .
Spawned from Chaos. The personification of Night in
Nyx
the world.
Spawned child of Ge that became the husband of Ge.
Ouranos
Personification of the sky and mountains.
Mountains Spawned by Ge
, Son of Ge. Had no father. Was God of the deep sea.
Pontus
(A little more than a personification)
The son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night).
Air (Aether) Personification of the air the God's breathed up above
the mortals.
The daughter of Erebus and Nyx. Personification of
Day
Day.
They had 12 Titans. Specifically relevant ones include
Children of Ouranos and
Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Themis, Cronus, Rhea. Also
Ge
spawned the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires.
Cyclopes Spawn of Ouranos and Ge. Giant one-eyed creatures.
Spawn of Ouranos and Ge. (The 100-handed, 50
Hecatonchires
headed ones)
Drives a flaming chariot across the sky
Helios
(Sunrise/Sunset)
Reconstruction of the bronze statue of Helios known
as the Colossus of Rhodes. The statue stood 107 feet
Colossus of Rhodes
high at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. It
toppled in an earthquake in 226 BCE.
Hubris Word=reckless arrogance
Son of Helios and a mortal mother. Wants to drive the
chariot of his father and ends up scorching the
Phaethon
ground (creating deserts) and Zeus blasts him out of
the sky. (He overstepped his human bounds)
Selene Moon Goddess. Falls in love with Endymion
Shepard. Selene falls in love with him and becomes
smitten. God's decide it must be fixed so they force
Endymion
him to sleep forever. It is an example of how being
involved with the Gods is bad juju.
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Terms in this set (127)
A Farmer who's Main Works was: "Works and Days", It
was a Theogony (Genesis of the Gods)
Hesiod The "Divine Muses (9 Gods), tell him how the first
gods, earth, rivers, the endless sea.... Came into
being"
The original beginning of the universe, a swirling
Chaos darkness that spawned the first titans: Ge, Tartarus,
Eros, Erebus, and Night (Nyx)
Spawned from Chaos. Ge was the earth. She bore
Ge
Ouranus (Sky) and Pontus (Deep Sea)
Spawned from Chaos. The underworld. Also classified
Tartarus
as a God
Spawned from Chaos. Greek God of love and sexual
Eros
desire
Spawned from Chaos. The personification of Darkness
Erebus
of tarturus .
Spawned from Chaos. The personification of Night in
Nyx
the world.
Spawned child of Ge that became the husband of Ge.
Ouranos
Personification of the sky and mountains.
Mountains Spawned by Ge
, Son of Ge. Had no father. Was God of the deep sea.
Pontus
(A little more than a personification)
The son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night).
Air (Aether) Personification of the air the God's breathed up above
the mortals.
The daughter of Erebus and Nyx. Personification of
Day
Day.
They had 12 Titans. Specifically relevant ones include
Children of Ouranos and
Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Themis, Cronus, Rhea. Also
Ge
spawned the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires.
Cyclopes Spawn of Ouranos and Ge. Giant one-eyed creatures.
Spawn of Ouranos and Ge. (The 100-handed, 50
Hecatonchires
headed ones)
Drives a flaming chariot across the sky
Helios
(Sunrise/Sunset)
Reconstruction of the bronze statue of Helios known
as the Colossus of Rhodes. The statue stood 107 feet
Colossus of Rhodes
high at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. It
toppled in an earthquake in 226 BCE.
Hubris Word=reckless arrogance
Son of Helios and a mortal mother. Wants to drive the
chariot of his father and ends up scorching the
Phaethon
ground (creating deserts) and Zeus blasts him out of
the sky. (He overstepped his human bounds)
Selene Moon Goddess. Falls in love with Endymion
Shepard. Selene falls in love with him and becomes
smitten. God's decide it must be fixed so they force
Endymion
him to sleep forever. It is an example of how being
involved with the Gods is bad juju.
