Name: _________________________
Date: __________________________
Ch. 3—“How the World and Mankind Were Created”
Answer the following based on your reading of Hamilton’s Mythology.
Part 1—
1. Long before the gods appeared, there was only the formless confusion of ________________ .
2. The two children of Chaos were _______________ and __________________ .
3. Night and Erebus had an offspring named _________________________ .
4. Love created __________________ and __________________ .
5. What is the explanation for the creation of Earth?
6. __________________ was the solid ground and _________________ was the blue vault on high.
7. The first creatures who had the appearance of life were the children of ____________________________ and
_____________________________________ (provide both Greek and Roman names). These children were
_______________________ (description).
8. Three of the monsters had ________ heads and ________ hands, while three others, called Cyclopes, had one
enormous _______.
9. The third group of monsters, some of whom were nice, were called _________________ .
10. Father Heaven hated his 100-handed, 50-headed children and, as each was born he ________________________
______________________________________________________ .
11. The Titan _____________________ wounded Father Heaven.
12. From Father Heaven’s blood sprang up the ______________________ and the ______________________ .
13. The job of the Furies was to _____________________________________________________ .
14. All of the monsters except the ___________________________ were driven from the earth.
15. The Furies had ___________________________ for hair and _____________________ that wept blood.
16. Cronus (________________) and his sister-queen ___________________ (_____________________) ruled the
universe for untold ages.
17. Cronus had what unique method of destroying his children so that none of them could dethrone him?
18. How did Rhea fool him?
19. The name of this sixth child (the one who was saved) was ______________ .
20. Zeus conquered Cronus with the help of _______________ and _______________ .
21. Prometheus’ brother ______________ was condemned to __________________________________________ .
22. How did Zeus punish the Titans?
23. Earth’s last offspring was ____________________________ .
Part 2—
1. Who was on the earth during the Golden Age?
2. What does “Prometheus” mean?
3. What does “Epimetheus” mean?
4. Tell briefly about the boo-boo that Epimetheus made:
5. What did Prometheus do to rectify his brother’s mistake?
6. List the five ages in the story of the gods’ creation of man and provide one characteristic of each.
7. Which race of mankind is on earth now?
8. What will be the deciding factors which will cause Zeus to destroy this last race of men?
9. What was the “gift” Zeus prepared for mankind? What were the two reasons for creating it?
Gift:
1.
2.
10. What does “Pandora” mean?
11. According to the first story about Pandora, the race of __________________, who have a nature to do ________,
came from Pandora.
12. According to the other story about Pandora, the source of all misfortune was not her wicked nature, but her
____________________________ .
13. Who accepted Pandora as a gift?
14. What was in the box that Pandora opened?
15. What was the one thing that she was able to keep in the box?
16. Why is that one remaining item important to mankind?
17. After Zeus had punished men by giving them __________________, he turned his attention to the punishment of
_________________________ .
18. Zeus had his two servants, ________________________ and __________________________ , take Prometheus to
_________________________ and bind him there.
19. What did these two servants tell Prometheus that his torture would be?
20. Besides punishing Prometheus for helping man, Zeus wanted to find out a secret. What did he want to know?
21. When Prometheus would not tell Hermes the answer to Zeus’ question, what new torture did Hermes promise him?
22. Prometheus was eventually freed. What two explanations of this were given?
1.
2.
23. The name of Prometheus has been known throughout the centuries as that of a rebel who stood against
______________________ and the authority of _______________________ .
24. The third story of creation begins with the __________________ .
25. How long did it rain?’
26. What was in the chest?
27. Deucalion was _______________________’s son, and Pyrrha was the daughter of ___________________ and
____________________________ .
28. Who told Pyrrha and Deucalion to build the chest?
29. The chest, with the people, landed where?
30. A voice commanded them to “____________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________ .”
31. What did they decide that this strange request meant?
32. As the stones fell, they took __________ shape and they were called the ________________________________ .