The following exercises are intended as a warm-up and check-list of basic terms for Quiz 1— IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL TERMS.

In addition to matching (below), be able to give a brief summary for these main subjects:

(1-2) early creation and Greek 'Succession Myth' and

(3-4) the main stories for the Making of Man and the Ages/Generations of Man.

Use this matching exercise to test yourself, after you have finished the assigned chapters. For anything you cannot answer confidently, go back and study the relevant passages (index at the end of Powell).

 
 
Creation and Greek 'Succession Myth’

1) Furies 2) Aphrodite 3) Rhea 4) Omphalos 5) Metis 6) Ouranos 7) Themis 8) Tithonus 9) Phaethon 10) Moerae 11) Mnemosyne 12) Typhoeus 13) Tartarus

_____ 'navel of the world', the stone given to Cronos in place of Zeus _____ bride of Cronos and mother of Zeus _____ son of the sun, Helius, who drove his car to doom _____ mother of Athena, whom Zeus devoured _____ skygod, son of Gaia who mated with her and fathered the Titans _____ 'justice', Titan mother of Prometheus _____ stone serpent born of Gaia and Tartarus, to challenge Zeus _____ the so-called 'Fates', born of Night _____ farthest pit of darkness, born with Gaia out of Chaos _____ loved by the Dawn, Eos, he lives forever but withers with age _____ spirits of vengeance, born from the blood of Ouranos _____ born from the genitals of Ouranos, she came ashore at Cyprus _____ 'Memory', Titan bride of Zeus, mother of the Muses

Be able to recognize NE parallels, as follows:

1) Anu 2) Marduk 3) Kumarbi 4) Ulikummi 5) Tiamat 6) Enuma Elish 7) Atrahasis

____the Babylonian 'Theogony' (Creation epic) celebrated at New Year's _____ ancient sky god in Babylonian and Hittite epic = Gr. Ouranos ____ the Babylonian Noah, guided by Enki to save Mankind _____rival to Anu in Hittite epic = Gr. Cronos _____primordial mother (sea serpent) from which Marduk carved the world ______ stone serpent that towered to heaven to challenge sky god ______triumphant king of gods at Babylon = Gr. Zeus

Making of Man (and his doom) and don’t forget the Coming of the Greeks (ch. 2)

1) Prometheus 2) trick of sacrifice 3) Pandora 4) Minoans 5) Linear-B 6) Deucalion 7) Pyrrha 8) Lycaon 9) Bronze Age 10) Eros

_____ provoked the first quarrel between Zeus and Prometheus ______ fashioned by Hephaestus with 'all gifts' of the gods ______ 'life-force' born with Earth out of Chaos. ______ pictographic writing of the Mycenean Greeks pre-Greek, ______ seafaring empire with capital at Knossos. ______ son of Prometheus, the Greek 'Noah'. ______ he made man from primal earth still hot with seeds of sky ______ bride of Deucalion who helped him people the world ______ wicked king who plotted to murder Zeus, and brought on the flood ______ a race of men made by Zeus, slain by their own hands