CLSC 101 Quiz 1 Material
In the beginning there was _____. ANS✔✔ Chaos
Who was Chaos' first offspring? ANS✔✔ Gaea
What does Gaea mean? ANS✔✔ Earth, land, soil (Mother Earth)
What offspring does Gaea produce herself? ANS✔✔ Uranus
What does Uranus mean? ANS✔✔ Earth and sky
What were the offspring of Gaea and Uranus called? ANS✔✔ Titans
How did Uranus feel about his children? What does he repeatedly do with them? ANS✔✔ Uranus
hated his children/creatures; he keeps shoving them back into Gaea's womb
Who does Gaea conspire with to overthrow Uranus? ANS✔✔ Cronus
What does Gaea give Cronus to help overthrow Uranus? ANS✔✔ A sickle
Explain the story of Cronus overthrowing Uranus. ANS✔✔ Cronus waits near the entrance to
womb of Gaea --> when Uranus comes to mate w/ Gaea Cronus comes out and cuts off Uranus'
genetalia
What does Cronus physically do to Uranus? ANS✔✔ He cuts off his genetalia
What does Cronus do with Uranus' genitalia? ANS✔✔ He throws it into the sea
, What happens to Uranus after his genitalia were cut off? ANS✔✔ His blood dripped onto Gaea
which impregnates her?
Who were the offspring that Uranus' and Gaea accidentally made after the defeat of Uranus? (AKA)
ANS✔✔ Erinyes --> AKA Furies
What did the Erinyes do? ANS✔✔ They punish the people who shed the blood of their own kin
What did Uranus' genitalia turn into? ANS✔✔ Aphrodite
Primogeniture ANS✔✔ Eldest son inherits a majority or all of his father's estate (only happens
when the dad dies)
Etymological Myth ANS✔✔ A myth that evolves to explain similarity in words or sound
Who were the 2 most popular Greek poets/writers? ANS✔✔ Homer and Hesiod
Theogonia ANS✔✔ Poems about the family of the Gods
What was the prophecy that Uranus and Gaea told Cronus would happen to him? ANS✔✔ A
similar fate of Uranus will occur to Cronus --> overthrown by one of his children
Who does Cronus marry? ANS✔✔ Rhea
What does Cronus do about his prophecy? ANS✔✔ Cronus decides to eat the babies as they come
out of Rhea's womb
Who were Cronus' and Rhea's offspring? (include general name) ANS✔✔ THE GODS
- Zeus
- Poseidon
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