Greek Mythology Midterm 1 Question And Answers 100% Correct 2023

Prometheus {Ans: the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind. Credited as creator of mankind. father was Iapetus, his mother was Clymene. Name means foresight}Dumuzi {Ans: Consort of Inanna; the Mesopotamian dying male god of fertility.}Epic {Ans: derived from the Ancient Greek adjective, "epikos", which means a poetic story. In literature, an epic is a long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person of an unusual courage and unparalleled bravery.}Cinyras {Ans: King of Cyprus and father of Myrrah. His daughter falls in love with him and in drunkenness and darkness, he sleeps with her. Once he finds out it is his own daughter that he has been sleeping with, he kills himself}Titans {Ans: Children of Gaea and Uranus, 12 of them}Kore {Ans: daughter of demeter. Kidnapped by hades and returns to the overworld. She has to spend part of the year in the underworld. When shes on earth, it's spring.}Chaos {Ans: Chaos is the mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe in Greek creation myths.}Daphne {Ans: a nymph who was transformed into a tree so that she might be saved from