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- 3. Titan who sided with humanity against Zeus / credited with stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humans, enabling technology, civilization, and progress / punished by Zeus by being chained to a rock where an eagle eternally ate his liver, which regenerated each day
- 5. torch-bearing female earth-demons / depicted with blood dripping from their eyes and snakes instead of hair / their principal function was to avenge murder, especially the murder of a parent by a child / originally part of a cult based on ghost worship
- 7. goddess of agriculture / her name meant "earth mother" / worshipped by a mystery cult in the city of Eleusis / with the kidnapping of her daughter Persephone by Hades, her emotions and actions directly affected the cycle of the seasons
- 9. goddess of the hearth / responsible for tending to the fire in every mortal home and the divine hearth of the Olympians / also associated with food preparation and baking
- 11. god of wine-making and theatre / youngest of the Olympian gods / in Greek art, he is depicted as an Easterner - his cult was imported from Asia Minor and he brought Eastern things and ideas to Greece (e.g. cymbals, wine and the vine)
- 16. god of fire and the forge / at birth, he was so ugly that his mother flung him off Mount Olympus causing him to become lame / associated with volcanoes and the creator of several (metallic) inventions
- 18. killed the minotaur in Crete / fictional and probably originated as a local divinity / legendary early king of Athens - he laid aside his royal power, reserving to himself only the supreme command in war and guardianship of the law
- 19. a catch-all category of minor female divinities / usually associated with ecological niches: trees, springs, rivers, seas / often attended a more important deity (e.g. Artemis)
- 22. legendary musician and poet whose music could charm animals, humans, and even nature itself / traveled to the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice after her death / failed when he disobeyed the condition not to look back at her before reaching the surface, losing her forever and symbolizing the limits of human hope and trust
- 25. raised by the centaur Cheiron after his uncle kills his father / led the Argonauts and recovered the Golden Fleece - a symbol of authority and kingship
- 26. son of Zeus and Leto, a Titaness / god of many things: the sun, wisdom, prophecy, music, flocks, wolves, mice, plagues, medicine / center of worship for this god is Delphi - the Delphic oracle was famous for its misleading oracles
- 27. fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city - Thebes - and his family
- 28. god of the dead, the collector and keeper of souls / not a god of death like the Grim Reaper nor a demon like the Devil / his abduction of Persephone explained the seasons / his name meant the "Unseen One" / also called Pluto ("Rich")
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- 1. personifications of poetic and scientific inspiration / their name means "the reminders"
- 2. goddess of beauty / wed to the blacksmith god Hephaestus, but she cheated on him often - Greek authors often treated her with contempt / originally imported into Greece from the Near East / Ishtar, the primary female deity in Mesopotamia, had a major influence on the development this goddess
- 4. sky and thunder god who ruled from Mount Olympus / usurped the throne of heaven from his father, Cronus / attributes included the lightning bolt, the eagle, and a shield called the aegis ("protection")
- 5. depicted as three old women spinning thread - they included Clotho ("I spin"), Lachesis ("allotment"), and Atropos ("inflexible”) / a metaphor for birth, destiny, and death
- 6. Zeus' illegitimate son and messenger of the gods / god of lower-class working people: merchants, athletes, gamblers, and thieves
- 8. a woodland god depicted with goat's ears, horns, legs / caused terror during battle, hence "panic"
- 10. Apollo's twin sister and his antithesis / goddess of hunting / major attribute was the bow and arrow
- 12. returned to Ithaca after twenty years abroad (ten years of war at Troy and ten years of wandering) / known for his cunning, intelligence, and versatility
- 13. goddess of Athens, wisdom, arts and crafts / protectress of civilization and a war deity more popular with the ancient Greeks than Ares / principal attributes are the owl, the helmet, and the spear
- 14. became Zeus' wife after a long courtship - finally, Zeus tricked her into marrying him by turning into a pitiful sparrow / a suspicious wife, especially vengeful against Zeus' extramarital consorts and their offspring (e.g. Heracles)
- 15. god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses / father of many lesser sea deities (e.g. Oceanids - the sea-nymphs) / carries a trident with which he stirs up tidal waves and causes earthquakes
- 17. the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth) / first generation of gods to rule the world before the Olympians / overthrown as part of the Greek succession myth, which tells how Cronus seized power from his father Uranus and ruled the cosmos with his fellow Titans before being in turn defeated and replaced as the ruling pantheon of gods by Zeus and the Olympians in a ten-year war
- 20. god of war / an unpleasant and unpopular figure in Greek mythology as the ancient Greeks generally disliked war
- 21. killed many chthonic beasts (e.g. the Hydra, the Nemean Lion) as part of his Twelve Labors / became identified with the Phoenician God Melqart / associated with Thebes
- 23. killed Medusa, a monster with snakes for hair who could turn anyone to stone who looked into her eyes / son of Zeus and Danaë, the daughter of the king of Argos - as an infant, he was cast into the sea in a chest with his mother by his grandfather, who had been told that he would kill him
- 24. first woman created by the gods as part of Zeus’ punishment of humanity / given a sealed jar (often mistranslated as a “box”) containing all the evils of the world / curiosity led her to open it, releasing disease, suffering, and hardship into human life, leaving only hope inside