REREAD   Hesiod, Theogony
              a. Learn the following myths:
              Chaos (yawning  void)
              Phaethon
              The castration of Uranus
              The birth of Aphrodite
              The deception of Cronus
              The birth and childhood of Zeus
              Battle of gods and Titans (Titanomachy)
              Zeus and Typhon
              The creation of man (Deucalion and Pyrrha)
              The five ages of man (Hesiod's version)
              Prometheus and the sacrifice dispute; Prometheus and the theft of fire
              Pandora  (see Topic  3)
              Prometheus' punishment

              b. Learn the characteristics, family connections, and mythic history of:

              All the primeval elements
              Children of Gaia
              Children of Gaia and Uranos:  Cyclopes, Hundred-Handers, and Titans.  Of the Titans recognize only:  Iapetus and his son Prometheus, Hyperion and his children: (Eos=Dawn; Selene=Moon;  Helios=Sun); Oceanus (one of his daughters, Styx, is important).
              Children of Gaia and Pontus: Nereus and the three Nereids named in the chart.
              The Twelve Olympian gods: know also their Roman names.
              Children of Cronus and Rhea: all
              Of the second generation of Olympians: (refer to chart for marriages of Zeus):  Metis and Athena; Themis, mother of the Fates; Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses (not their individual names)

              c. Learn how the following figure in the myths mentioned in a:

              Pontus (sea), Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades , Erebus (darkness of Tartarus), Night, Aether (=light or bright upper air), Eros (love), Poseidon, Mountains, Oceanus and Oceanids, Chaos, Amalthea, Hundred-Armed Giants, Cyclopes, Atlas, Epimetheus, Deucalion, Heracles, Themis, Pyrrha.