HUM 102W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Caduceus, The Bacchae, Metalworking
23 Feb 2017
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The twelve olympians are zeus, poseidon, hades, hera, demeter, athena, apollo, Several of his epithets are best among the gods and greatest , all-seeing , the lord of all , son of cronos , the fulfiller , cloud-gatherer . Crete is where he was raised, so the location is especially significant to zeus. Zeus is also bound by fate, though he is all-powerful and should technically be more powerful than fate. Is a philanderer: a man who casually enters into sexual relationships; a womanizer. One form of his name is dios, which is cognate with the word divine. Connected to the sea, helicon, and aegea. Epithets: earth-shaker , tamer of horses and saviour of ships , steadier . Important to athens because he"s supposedly the divine father of theseus, the athenian national hero. Chthonic - he dwells under the earth. Hades can also mean the location rather than the figure.
