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29 Cards in this Set
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Love; makes his home in men's hearts but not in every heart for where there is hardness he departs
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Eros
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Goddess of youth; daughter of Zeus and Hera; married to Hercules
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Hebe
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Goddess of the Rainbow
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Iris
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Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia
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The Graces
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daughters of Zeus and Eurynome; a triple incarnation of grace and beauty; queens of song
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The Graces
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9 in number; daughter of zeus and mnemosyne; later each had their own special field; the man they inspired was sacred for beyond any priest; to inspire creativity
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The Muses
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Lord and ruler of the sea.
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Poseidon
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Loard of the river ocean; a great river circling the earth
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Ocean
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Trumpheter of the sea; son of poseidon and amphitrite
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Triton
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Power of fortelling the future and changing his shape at will
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proteus
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Water Nymphs; dwelt in brooks and springs and fountains
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Naiads
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aged boatmen; ferries the dead across
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Charon
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Three-headed, dragon tailed dog; permits all all spirits to enter
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Cerberus
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Acheron
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River of Woe
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Cocytus
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River River of Lamentation
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Styx
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River of the unbreakable oath
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The Furies
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punish evildoers
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Sleep and Death
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Dwelt in the lower world; had 2 gates one to the true dreams and one of ivory for false dreams
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Pan (Faunus)
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Hermes Son; noisy, merry god; goat horns; goat herds god; all wild places were his home; born in Arcady; great muscian
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Lived half on earth, half in heaven
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castor and pollux
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goat men; homes in wild places of earth
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The Satyrs
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Half man, half horse; beasts
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The Centaurs
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earth-dwellers; dragon-like with wings; turned men to stone; phorcys was his father
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The Gorgons
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enchanting voices; no one saw them ever return, so nobody knows what they look like
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The Sirens
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The spinner
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Clotho
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Disposer of Lois
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Lachesis
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could not be turned, who carried "the abhorred shears"
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Atropos
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protector of the sowers and the seed; wife ops; reigned in italy
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Saturn
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the god of good beginnings; chief temper in Rome
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Janus
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