Pandora1. Pandora: Pandora was the first woman created in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days. She was created as punishment for men.2. Works and Days: In the Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days, Pandora is the first woman created by Hephaestus. She is created because Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men.3. Didactic: Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days is a didactic poem. It is all about moral instruction.4. Misogynistic: Both Greek Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days illustrates the misogynistic strain in Greek culture. This strain deals with hating women.5. Hephaistos/Hephaestus: Hephaestus is a blacksmith god. In the Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days, he creates Pandora out of clay and water.6. Epimetheus: Epimetheus is the dumber brother of Prometheus. In the Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days, he accepts the Zeus’ gift of Pandora from Hermes.7. Pyxis: Pyxis is a cosmetic box. Erasmus mistranslated pithos (jar) as pyxis (box) in the Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days.8. Pithos: Pithos is a large storage jar. Erasmus mistranslated pithos (jar) as pyxis (box) in the Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days.9. Hope: Hope and many evils are trapped inside of Pandora’s jar in the Greek Hesiod’s Works and Days. She puts the lid back on the jar before hope can escape along with all ofthe evils. 10. Kalonkakon: Kalon Kakon is the Greek Hesiod’s word for women. It means a beautiful evil.11. Myth of the Races: Myth of the Races is a Near Eastern idea that illustrates the devolution of people. The Greek Hesiod transposed it into a Greek myth after the Pandora story to offer a fuller view of why life is hard.12. Race of Heroes: The Race of the Heroes is present in the Greek Hesiod’s Myth of the Races. The people in this race do not decline and are better than the Bronze Race.Prometheus13. Titans: The Titans are the children of Gaia and Ouranos in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony.Prometheus is the son of the Titan, Iapetos.14. Iapetos: Iapetos is the father of Prometheus in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. Gaia and Ouranos is his parents.15. Gaia: Gaia is the mother of the Titans in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. Her grandson is Prometheus.16. Ouranos: Ouranos is the father of the Titans in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. His grandson is Prometheus.17. Atlas: Atlas is the brother of Prometheus in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. He is a sky supporter who is punished by Zeus to hold up the sky.18. Menoitios: Menoitios is the brother of Prometheus in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. He is thrown into Tartaros by Zeus as punishment.19. Mecone: Mecone is the city where the gods and men divide up the ox in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. It is where Prometheus tricks Zeus with the sacrifice.20. Sicyon: Sicyon is another name for the Greek city, Mecone, in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. It is where Prometheus tricks Zeus with the sacrifice.21. fennel=stalk: Prometheus steals fire and carries it in a fennel stalk in the Greek Hesiod’s Theogony. He gives fire to man, and is punished by Zeus for this deed.22. Aeschylus: Greek Aeschylus is the author of Prometheus Bound. In this myth, Prometheus is punished by Zeus because he stole fire and refuses to tell Zeus a fate he knows.23. Prometheus Bound: Prometheus is punished by Zeus because he stole fire and refused to tell Zeus a fate he knows in the Greek Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound. It portrays Zeus as a tyrant and Prometheus as a culture hero.24. culture=hero: Prometheus is depicted as a culture hero in the Greek Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound. His theft of fire from Zeus helps men build civilization.25. Enki/Ea: Ea is a trickster god in the Babylonian Enuma Elish. He, like the Greek Prometheus, is connected to the creation of humans.26. Metis: Metis is a binatural goddess of cleverness in the Greek Theogony. She is a threat to Zeus’ rule.27. Typhoios/Typhon: Typhoios/Typhon is the most serious of all threats to Zeus in the Greek Theogony. He is a dragon-like monster that is associated with the earth, and is defeated by Zeus.28. Metallurgy: The Greek Prometheus’ gift of fire helped men build civilization. It was because of this that men were able to practice metallurgy to create tools.29. Prometheus Unbound: In the Greek Prometheus Unbound, Prometheus was released. He also reconciled with Zeus.30. Kratos: Kratos is the binatural god of power. Him and Bia are Zeus’ henchmen that order=Hephaistos=to chain Prometheus to cliff in the Greek Prometheus Unbound.31. Bia: Bia is the binatural god of force. Him and Kratos are Zeus’ henchmen that order=Hephaistos=to chain Prometheus to cliff in the Greek Prometheus Unbound.32. Okeanids: The Okeanids are the daughters of the god, Okeanos, in the Greek Prometheus Unbound. They are the chorus of the play.33. Okeanos: Okeanos is a Zeus sympathizer god in the Greek Prometheus Unbound. He is a binatural freshwater river god who is also a Titan.34. Io: Io is a women who Zeus wants to sleep with in the Greek Prometheus Unbound. He turns her into a cow to hide her from Hera.Background Reading 7 (Prometheus Bound)35. Athens: Athens is a Greek polis, or city-state. Athena was the patron goddess and namesake of Athens.36. Agonistic: Ancient Greek culture as a whole was intensely=agonistic, or competitive. Thisis well exemplified in tragic competitions that were performed at yearly religious festivals in honor of Dionysus.37. Tragedy: Tragedies would be performed at yearly religious Greek festivals in honor of Dionysus. It probably developed out of choruses of singers/dancers who performed in religious contexts.38. Satyr=play: A Greek satyr play was a comic play based on a mythological story.=Satyrs—unrestrained, drunken, lusty humanoid creatures with horse tail and ears—provided the chorus in a satyr play.39. Trilogy: Greek Aeschylus’ play=Prometheus Bound=was part of a connected trilogy of tragedies. By the end of the trilogy, Prometheus is unchained from his bonds and mends his differences with Zeus.Raven and Coyote40. Native American: Raven and Coyote were Native American tricksters. The Native Americans told them as oral stories.41. Raven: Raven is a Native American trickster, specifically of the Tlingit people. He has a malleable body and often is portrayed as an animal, man, or god in different stories.42. Tlingit: The Tlingit people are a Native American tribe who lived on the coast of Alaska and northwest Canada. They may have originated aroung the Nass River.43. Nass=River: The Tlingit people, a
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