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The first creatures who had the appearance of life were the children of
______________________ and __________________________ .
2. Three of their children were ______________________________________________, and the other three were called _____________________________________________. They also had the
______________________.
3. Heaven was a very poor father. What did he do with his children? a. Monsters:
1 b. Cyclopes and Titans:
4. This upset Mother Earth, so she appealed to the ______________________ to help. Only
___________________________ decided to help her.
5. The _____________________________ and ________________________ sprang up from Ouranos’s blood.
6. _____________________ became lord of the universe with his sisterqueen,________________________.
7. Cronus was also a bad father. He ______________________________ his children.
8. Rhea protected ____________________ by wrapping a _____________________ in swaddling clothes and giving it to Cronus instead.

9. ___________________ rebelled against Cronus, and a terrible __________________ followed.
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10. _______________________ helped Cronus, and _________________________ helped Zeus.
11. Zeus conquered the Titans, with the help of the _________________________________________ and ________________ (who was a Titan himself).
12. Zeus punished Atlas the worst. How?
There is more than one account of how the creation of man came to pass in Greek Mythology
13. _________________________________, whose name means __________________________ was very wise, but his brother, _____________________________, which means
____________________________ was scatterbrained and followed his first impulse and then changed his mind.
14. ___________________________ took over the creation of man, and found a way to make them superior. He fashioned them _________________________, like the gods, and gave them
____________________.
15. There were ______________________ races of men. a. First Race of __________________. They were beloved of the gods, and when they died, they became _______________________________ of __________________________

3 b. Second Race of ______________________. They were inferior to the first. They had so little intelligence that they could not help but ____________________________ each other. Their spirits did not live on. c. Third Race of _____________________. They were lovers of ___________________. d. Fourth race of _______________________. They went on great ______________________ which men have talked and sung of through all the ages since. e. Fifth Race of ________________________. According to the myth, they are the race which is now on earth.
16. Story #1 and Story #2 agree on one thing, that for a long time there were no
_____________________ on Earth and that _____________________ gave man fire. This guy also made Zeus angry by arranging that men should get
_____________________________________________________ , instead of sacrificing it to the gods.
17. _________________________ means “the ___________________ of _______________________.”
18. According to Greek myths, ___________________________ are the source of all misfortune.
19. Zeus gave Pandora a ___________________. Pandora lifted the lid, and out flew
_______________________ innumerable, ___________________ and ___________________ for mankind.
20. One good thing flew out: ______________________. It remains to this day mankind’s sole
_________________________ in misfortune.
21. Zeus punished Prometheus by having Force and Violence
_______________________________________.
22. Zeus’ real reason for doing this was to learn
__________________________________________________.

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23. When Prometheus did not tell Zeus the secret, Zeus sent a ___________________ to
___________________________________.
24. Eventually, Prometheus was released. There are two storied about this. a. ___________________________, a Centaur, took his place b. ___________________________ freed him.
25. Zeus decided to destroy all of the men on earth, so he sent a __________________________.
26. It rained for ________________ days and nights. Afterwards, a _______________________ drifted to the only clear spot. Inside were ___________________________ and
____________________.
27. ________________________ was ______________________’s son, and ______________________ was the daughter of _______________________ and ________________________.
28. Zeus was not offended by this and drained off the flood. He sent a message to the two of them, telling them, “Veil your heads and cast behind you the ______________________ of your
___________________.
29. Deucalion and Pyrhha realized that ________________________ is the mother of all, and that her bones are ____________________. Deucalion and Pyrhha threw the ______________________ over their shoulders, and as those things fell, they took _______________________
__________________________.
30. They were called the Stone People, and they were a __________________,
___________________ race.