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What is a hero's "clash of wills?"
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The final battle or final task a hero must face before they complete their quest.
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What is a hero's "road of trials?"
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The conflicts/confrontations a hero crosses/comes across during his quest that helps lead him to full-fill the quest.
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What is a hero's "ultimate boon?"
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The item that the hero must carry, protect, or use to achieve his quest.
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What is a hero's "call to adventure?"
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The incident/occurance that makes the hero take up his quest.
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The man that ferries souls across the River Styx and into the Underworld
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Charon
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One-eyed giants that work in the forges
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Cyclops
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Children of Ge and Uranos who have 50 heads and 100 hands
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Hecatonchires
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A three-headed, serpent-tailed dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld
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Cerberus
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A giant boar created by Artemis to get revenge on Atalanta and Meleager
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Calydonian Boar
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A creature with three heads where, when one head is cut off, two more grow back in its place
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Lernaean Hydra
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A creature that had an impenetrable skin and was strangled by Hercules
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Nemean Lion
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Three old women who shared one eye and one tooth and were the protectors of The Gorgons
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The Gray Sisters
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Three monsters who have snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone who looks into them to stone
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The Gorgons
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Nymphs who guarded Hera’s golden apple tree
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The Hesperides/Nymphs of the West
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This hero fell in love with a wild huntress
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Meleager
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This hero went to Hades and played his golden lyre to win his wife back
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Orpheus
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This hero was such a wonderful huntress many thought she was Artemis
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Atalanta
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This hero was known for his incredible strength
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Hercules
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This hero was known for being a wonderful musician, almost as good as Apollo
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Orpheus
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This hero suffered a bout of madness due to Hera’s wrath
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Hercules
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This hero offered the head of Medusa as a wedding gift to the king
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Perseus
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This hero led the Calydonian Hunt against the giant boar
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Meleager
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This hero had to full-fill The Twelve Labors
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Hercules
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This hero encountered The Gray Sisters, The Hesperides, Atlas, & The Gorgons during his quest
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Perseus
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This hero agreed to marry a man who would beat her in a footrace
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Atalanta
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God of wine, vegetation, and fertility
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Dionysus/Bacchus
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God of the sun
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Apollo
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Goddess of the silver bow, moon, and fisherman; protector of animals
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Artemis/Diana
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Goddess of wisdom and war
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Athena/Minerva
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God of fire, the forge/the smith, workman, artisans, and builders
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Hephaestus/Vulcan
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Goddess of love, beauty, marriage, and fertility
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Aphrodite/Venus
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Messenger god; god of thieves; god of good luck; protector of travelers
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Hermes/Mercury
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God of the underworld
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Hades/Pluto
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God of war
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Ares/Mars
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God of the seas, oceans, rivers, ponds, sailors, ports, and fishing; god of horses
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Poseidon/Neptune
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Goddess of the harvest
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Demeter/Ceres
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Queen of heaven; goddess of women, childbirth, marriage, and earth
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Hera/Juno
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King of gods and universe; god of sky/heaven; rain god
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Zeus/Jupiter
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