This may not be terribly entertaining to you people, but it's terribly exciting to me. This is what five o'clock looks like now. A few weeks ago it was pitch dark by 4:30.Nothing but studying all day:
Olympian gods (14): 6 older, 8 younger
Zeus/Jupiter: sky god, weather, law and order, morality
Poseidon/Neptune: god of sea, water, horses, eathquakes
Hades/Pluto: Underworld, the dead, wealth
Hera/Juno: marriage, childbirth
Hestia/Vesta: the hearth, family life
Demeter/Ceres: agriculture, marriage, law
Ares/Mars: chaotic war, slaughter
Athena/Minerva: disciplined war, wisdom, crafts
Apollo/Apollo: sun, music, prophesy, archery, medicine
Artemis/Diana: moon, hunting
Hephaestis/Vulcan: metal working
Aphrodite/Venus: love, beauty, fertility
Dionysus/Bacchus: vine, enthusiasm, prophesy, ecstasy
Hermes/Mercury: messenger god, liminal spaces
The Greek names are so much better.
Heracles 12 Labors:
1. kill the Nemian Lion
2. kill the Lymaean Hydra
3. catch the Cyrneian Hind
4. capture the Erymanthian Boar
5. clean the Augean stables
6. kill the Stymphalion birds
7. capture the Cretan Bull
8. capture the man-eating mares of Diomedes
9. "retrieve" the girdle of Hippolyta
10. capture the cattle of Geryon
11. retrieve the Apples of the Hesperides
12. "Fetch the Hound of Hell": bring Cerberus out of the underworld.
He does them all, no problem because he's a hero.
Anyways, there are three more pages of identifications like this--the succession myth of the Greek gods (Chaos-->elemental forces-->Titans-->Olympians, and humanity mixed in there somewhere), summarize Trojan war, mythical episodes in the Odyssey, outline the Odyssey, identify all the characters in the Odyssey, identify all the people trying to keep Odysseus from home, on and on and on.
At 11am this exam will be over (starts at 9:30) and then I'm done. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself for two weeks here in Maynooth. Probably read a lot and watch movies and explore the Carton Estate.
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