Unit 1 Introduction to Mythology Mythological terms o Mythology o Myth o Legend o Folk tale/fairy tale Introduction pages 13-23 Mythology Final Review List Chapter 1 The Gods, The Creation, and the Earliest Heroes (pages 24-47) o The Best-Known Writers of Greek and Roman Mythology Ovid Homer Hesiod Virgil o The Twelve Major Gods of Greek Mythology Zeus Hera Poseidon Hades Athena Apollo Artemis Aphrodite Hermes Ares Hephaestus Hestia o The Lesser Gods of Olympus Eros Hebe Iris The Graces The Muses o Gods of the Waters Ocean Triton Proteus Naiads
o Gods of the Underworld Charon Cerberus Acheron Cocytus Styx The Furies Sleep and Death o The Lesser Gods of the Earth Demeter Dionysus Pan Castor and Pollux The Satyrs Nymphs Boreas, Notus, Eurus, Zephyr The Centaurs The Gorgons The Sirens Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos o Well-known Lesser Roman Gods Saturn Janus Chapter 2: focus on Demeter and Dionysus o You have a detailed study list/reading guide that we went over in class
Unit 2: Creation Myths Unit 2 paperwork and links on the web Chapter 3, How the World and Mankind Were Created (page 65+) o Hesiod o Prometheus and Epimetheus o Five Stages of Humanity o Pandora o Deucalion and Pyhhra o Heaven and Earth and their children (chart) The plots of various world creation myths You had handouts for all of these, AND they are located on our webpage. o Greek Theogony (chapter 3 in text) o The Yoruban creation myth Orisha council Obatala, Olorun, and Olokun o The Elder Eddas Ginnungagap Muspell, Niflheim, and Midgard Asgard Yggdrasil Ymir, Odin, and his sisters Ask and Embla o The Chinese creation myth Pan-gu and Nuwa o The Mayan creation myth Tepeu and Gukumatz o The Egyptian creation myth Nu and Maat Atum Shu and Tefnut Geb and Nut o The Maori creation myth Rangi and Papa Tane o The Inuit creation myth Raven o The Inca creation myth Pachacamac and Pachamama First Inca and his sister-wife o The Enuma Elish Apsu and Tiamat Marduk
o Genesis o The Rig Veda The information from Apples, Bananas, or? the sheet of squares that compared/contrasted creation myths concerning the following creation myth motifs: o Creation of Man o Evil, Death, and Punishment o Destruction and Renewal o Ages of Humanity Remember the 2 different kinds of questions about creation myths that we answered on the chart: questions about the creator questions about the creation Unit 3 Review List Greek Version of the Underworld Acheron Charon and the obolus Erebus Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Aeacus Cocytus The Fates The Furies and Nemesis Hecate Styx Cerberus Phlegethon Tartarus Sisyphus Tantalus Ixion Danaids Thantos (Mors), Hypnos (Somnus), and Morpheus Lethe The Elysium Fields The Grove of Persephone
Greek Monsters and Creatures Egyptian Cyclopes Hecatonchires/Centimanus Centaurs Sileni Satyrs Sirens Gorgons Graiae Women Furies/Erinyes Argus Scylla Minotaur Sphinx Chimaera Harpies Symplegades/Clashing Rocks Charybdis (and Scylla) Hydra Cerberus Pegasus Dragons Book of the Dead Ammit Osiris Maat and the scale Ani Dante s Inferno Number of levels Organization lesser sins down to the worst sins
Unit 4 Heroes For the exam, expect multiple choice and a matching section about the 12 Labors of Hercules. Who was the sorceress who used magic to help Jason? What was the reason for Hercules labors? What were the labors? Who killed Medusa? Who was the woman who accused her stepson of laying violent hands upon her? Who was the king who threw himself in to the sea because he thought his son was dead? Who was the young woman who helped Theseus find his way out of the labyrinth? What was the half-man, half-bull which was kept in the labyrinth? Be able to describe Hercules. Be able to describe Theseus. Be able to describe Jason. Be able to describe Perseus. What were Jason s tasks? What were the hounds of Zeus? What was Hercules chief character flaw? Who was the man with one sandal and what threat did he pose? How does Perseus resemble Moses? What was the Golden Fleece? What was the Chair of Forgetfulness? Why did Pelias daughters cut him up? Why might Hermes and Athena be called the fairy godparents of Perseus? What power did the Gorgons have? Why did Hera hate Hercules? Who was Procrustes? Who was Daedalus? Who was Alcmena? What was the Hydra? Who were the Argonauts?