CLCV 115 - Exam 1

• Boreas


  God of the north wind, child of Eos
• Zephyr

  The west wind, child of Eos
• Eos


  Goddess of dawn; Aurora
• Selene

  Goddess of the moon; daughter of Hyperion and Theia
• Helios

  God of the sun
• Oceanids


  The children of the Titan Oceanus and Tethys; there are the countless nymphs of the rivers and streams of the earth; their name means "the daughters of Ocean."
• Ceto


  Child of Pontus and Ge; mother or grandmother of many mythical creatures.
• Phorcys


  an old god of the sea, father of Thoosa
• Nereids


  Nymphs of the sea
• Nereus


  old god of the sea; father of the 50 Nereids
• Ate


  Child of eris, "folly"
• Lethe


  The river of forgetfulness in the underworld
• Atropos


  One of The Fates - She cuts the thread of life and chose the manner of a persons death.
• Lachesis


  One of the Fates; as the "apportioner," she measures out the thread of destiny.
• Clotho


  One of the Fates; spins the thread of life
• Hesperides


  Daughters of Night; guardians of golden apples beyond splendid Ocean
• Moirai


  The "Fates" who control the life threads of all mortals. Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the measurer), and Atropos (the severer).
• Eris


  Goddess of discord
• Aphrodite


  Goddess of love and beauty, in Hesiod's version, born of Ouranos' castrated genitals
• Erinyes


  the furies, female earth-powers who avenge wrongs, especially of innocent women
• Titans


  Children of Gaea and Uranus, defeated by the Olympians
• Muses


  Nine sisters who give song and inspiration to humanity; daughters of Zeus and Mnemonsyne (Memory), give the Theogony to Hesiod
• Cyclopes


  a race of one-eyed giants;
• Hecatoncheires


  100 handed creatures with 50 heads; children of Gaea and Uranus
• Cronus


  Titan ruler of the universe; father of Zeus
• Mnemosyne


  Titan goddess of memory and mother of the Muses.
• Themis

  Titan of justice
• Rhea


  One of the 12 Titans, wife of Kronus, mother of the Olympians
• Iapetos


  A titan. Fathered Atlas, Menoitios, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. God of mortality.
• Oceanus

  Titan god of the ocean.
• Pontus


  The deep sea, child and mate of Gaia
• Uranus

  Sky god, son of Gaia who mated with her and fathered the Titans
• Gaia


  goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology
• Aether


  Air. Daughter to Nyx and Erebus. Sister to Hemera (Day) and Light.
• Night (Nyx)


  child of chaos
• Erebos


  Darkness; child of Chaos
• Chaos


  Chasm, gap, yawn, the beginning of creation in Hesiod's Theogony
• Phoenicia


  A maritime civilization of the Mediterranean that developed extensive trade and communication networks as well as an early alphabetical script (1500 B.C.E).

  
• Persia


  an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC

  
• Ugarit


  An ancient city of the Canaanites which was discovered in 1928. Many texts were found there, from which scholars have learned a great deal about the Canaanite religion.