Match the Greek gods with Roman counterparts,
chief attributes and exploits.
Zeus
Hera
Athena
Apollo
Ares
Aphrodite
Artemis
Dionysus
Hades
Demeter
Hestia
Hermes
Hephaestus
Poseidon |
traded the lyre to his brother to pay for stolen cattle called Parthenos and Pallas, she bears her father's aegis master of lyre and 'leader of the Muses' god of prophecy, archery, music; known to Romans by same name Mars, the war-god Venus the love goddess Diana, virgin goddess of the hunt Bacchus, god of wine and ecstatic experience archer of plague and purification Pluto (or Dis), lord of the dead Ceres, goddess of grain and harvest Vesta, goddess of hearth and home Mercury, the messenger god his shrines are at Olympia and Dodona his emblems: eagle, aegis, and thunderbolt guardian of travelers, tricksters and thieves Vulcan, god of fire and forge 'lady of the beasts' (potnia theron) child of Maia (by Zeus) 'guide of souls' sacred to him are stallions and bulls child of Uranus, 'or of Zeus by Dione Child of Metis, born from the brow of Zeus Sumerian Inanna, Babylonian Ishtar his centers are Delos and Delphi (at Mt. Parnassus) Minerva, goddess of wisdom and war (strategy) his priestess is the Pythia, his motto:'Know Yourself' Indo-European Sky God (honored on 'Tuesday') worshipped at Troezen by Hippolytus Juno, queen of the gods, protector of marriage honored with woven peplos at mid-summer Panathenaea Earth Mother at Argos he invented the lyre from a tortoise shell Jupiter, sky-god, king of the gods |
Match Greek gods with chief loves and
adversaries
Zeus Hera Athena Apollo Ares Aphrodite Artemis Dionysus Hades Demeter Hestia Hermes Hephaestus Poseidon |
he loved Cassandra and Sibyl and gifted them with prohecy she doomed the hunters Orion and Actaeon Wed to Nereid Amphitrite, fathered Triton mother, by Zeus, of Persephone 'Earth-shaker' sired Arion by Demeter he was the ill-matched husband of Aphrodite husband and abductor of Persephone mother or Hermaphroditus and Priapus Arachne challenged her at weaving and shriveled to a spider she loved Anchises and bore him Aeneas by Oceanid Leto he fathered Apollo and Artemis Marsyas challenged him at Music (and lost his skin) his most tragic love, Coronis, gave firey birth to Asclepius Daphne rejected him but her laurel leaves are his victor's wreath by Medusa he sired the winged horse Pegasus he had an affair with Aphrodite, caught in the act by Hephaestus! she granted Pygmalion's unusual request |
You will be asked to give a brief description or outline for some of the following:
Hymn to Hermes
Loves of Apollo
Enemies of Artemis
Parthenon and Panathenaia
AND DON’T FORGET, be able to outline the Plot (what happens in the play) and identify key Characters in Prometheus Bound.