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Olympian Gods
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Ares
Athena Apollo Artemis Aphrodite Dionysus Demeter Hestia Hera Hermes Hades Hephaestus Poseideon Zeus |
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Apollo
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God of prophesy, music. Sun God. Mother Leto. Twin sister Artemis. Common attributes - bow & arrows, lyre, tripod, laurel leaves, muses
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Ares
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God of War. Mother ????. Lover of Aphrodite. Common attributes - aegis, helmet, sword, shield
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Artemis
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Goddess of the young, hunt, wild things, Moon. Common attributes - deer, dogs, Cyprus tree.
Virgin goddess Sister of Apollo. Mother - Leto. |
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Hera
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Goddess of Fertility, Family. Common attributes - throne, crown or headdress, peacock, cow or wedding veil.
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Achilles
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Invincible except his heel because he was dipped into the river Stix. He's a Greek warrior in the Trojan War. His prize was Briseis but was forced to give her up to Agamemnon. His friend Patroclus died and Achilles killed Hector in revenge. Mother - Thetis Father - Peleus
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Aegisthus
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Clytemnestra's lover. Killed by Orestes. Agamemnon's cousin.
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Agamemnon
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Greek warrior fought in the Trojan war. Sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia. Killed by his wife Clytemnestra. Stole Achilles' 'prize.'
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Tantalus
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Served his son Pelops to the Gods (Demeter ate his shoulder) to test the Gods. Sent to the underworld - food was always at his fingertips but unreachable.
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Agave
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Mother of Pentheus. Tore him apart under the control of Dionysus.
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Argos
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The city of Agamemnon.
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Athens
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Town of Athena. Parthenon - temple to Athena.
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Aeneas/Aineias
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Son of Aphrodite and Ankhises.
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Pathei mathos
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Learn by suffering.
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Anagnorisis
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recognition/identification
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deus ex machina
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a god may save you at the last minute
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Ajax
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Greek warrior, Giant.
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Amphitrite
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Poseidon's wife. Mother of Triton.
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Astyanax
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Hector's son.
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Briseis
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Achilles' prize, he is forced to give her to Agamemnon as compensation.
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Atreus
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Son of Pelops and Hippodamia. Father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. He killed Thyestes' (Atreus' brother) sons and cooked them and feed them to him.
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Thyestes
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Brother of Atreus. Was tricked into eating his sons.
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Calchas
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The seer who told Agamemnon he would have to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to grant the Greeks safe passage through the sea on their way to the Trojan War.
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Eros
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"Cupid" God of Love or Lust
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Eris
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Goddess of Strife. Wasn't invited to the wedding of Thetis and Peleus so she went anyway and threw in the Apple of Discord.
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Apple of Discord
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Thrown in by Eris. Said "Who is the prettiest?" Fought over by Athena (promised wisdom), Hera (promised wisdom) and Aphrodite. Paris decided to side with Aphrodite who promised the most beautiful woman (Helen). Began the Trojan War.
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Hissarlik
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In Turkey, where Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy in 1871. Found "Helen's Jewels."
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Asia Minor/Anatolia
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Names for Turkey
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Hettusa
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Discovered by Hugo Winckler in 1906
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Mycenae
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Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann. It is the home of Agamemnon. There was the Lion Gate and the Mask of Agamemnon (pure gold, death mask).
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Metis
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Mother of Athena. Zeus swallowed her because he believed if she had a boy it would usurp him. Athena survived and sprang from his head.
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Pentheus
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Ripped apart by his mother Agave. Didn't believe Dionysus was a god.
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Cadmus
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Father of Semele and Agave. Husband of Harmonia. Grandfather of Pentheus. Believed in Dionysus.
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Python
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Large snake monster
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Tiresias
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Oracle. He appears with Cadmus to warn Pentheus against denouncing Dionysus as a god.
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Thebes
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The setting of the Bacchants
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Atreides/Atrides
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Cursed house of Pelops and Agamemnon.
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Cassandra
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Gave the gift of prophet by Apollo in exchange for sexual favors, she did not keep up her end of the bargain and so she was also given the gift of never being believed. She was a Trojan princess and was captured by Agamemnon and prophesied her and his death.
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Cerberus
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Dog with many heads. Guards the Gates of the Underworld.
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Chaos
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Out of Chaos came Gaia, Night, Taurtarus, Erebus.
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Chimaera
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snake/lion/goat monster
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Chryseis
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Agamemnon's 'prize.' Her father, Chryses, appealed to Apollo and he sent a plague to the Greek forces. Agamemnon returned her to her father.
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Chryses
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Father of Chryseis, priest of Apollo. Called on Apollo to free his daughter from Agamemnon.
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Cronus/Kronos
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Son of Uranos, Sky God. Swallowed his children so they could not dethrone him. Wife/Sister - Rhea
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Diomedes
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Greek warrior. Received secret strength to fight Aphrodite (only Aphrodite) from Athena. He does wound her than he wounds Apollo and Ares.
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Echidna
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Snake monster. Mated with Typhon.
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Electra
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Daughter of Agamemnon. Sister of Iphigenia and Orestes. Helped plan the murder of Clytemnestra (her mother) and Aegisthus.
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Epimetheus
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The brother of Prometheus and husband of Pandora (who he received from Zeus).
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Eris
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Goddess of Discord/Strife
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Euripides
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Bacchants & Iphigenia Among the Taurians
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Gaea/Gaia
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Earth
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Hector
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Leader of the Trojan army and a Trojan Prince. Killed by Achilles. Brother - Paris. Father - Priam. Mother - Hecuba. Killed Patroclus.
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Hecuba
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Wife of Priam. Mother of Hector and Paris.
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Helen
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Queen of Sparta. Wife of Menelaus. Lover of Paris. The most beautiful woman in the world. Cause of the Trojan War.
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Hesiod
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Author of Theogony and Works and Days.
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Homer
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Author of the Illiad and the Homeric Hymns.
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Illium
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Troy
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Iris
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Goddess of the Rainbow
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Leda
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Mother of Helen (whose father is Zeus)
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Leto
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Mother of Apollo
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Maia
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Mother of Hermes
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Menelaus
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King of Sparta. Brother of Agamemnon. Greek. Husband of Helen.
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Mnemosyne
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Memory. Mother of the Muses. Her and Zeus had sex for nine nights and the result were her nine daughters - the muses.
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Mount Olympus
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The residing place of the Olympian Gods.
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Nestor
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Greek warrior in the Trojan War.
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Odysseus
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Greek warrior in the Trojan War.
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Orestes
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Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Killed his mother in revenge and under Apollos orders. Was chased by the Furies but was requited by the Athenian citizens and Athena.
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Ouranos/Uranus
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First Sky God
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Pandora
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Given a box, told not to open ...did... out came plagues of men except hope was closed in it before it could escape. Was created by all the gods and given to Epimethius.
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Paris
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Brother of Hector. Lover of Helen. Son of Priam. Went to fight Menelaus but was stolen away by ????????
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Patroclus
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Achilles' friend who borowed his armor to go into battle to protect the ships. But he didn't follow Achilles orders and continued to ambush the Trojans and was killed by Hector.
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Peleus
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Father of Achilles.
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Pelops
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Was feed to the gods and latter remade with a coral shoulder because Demeter had eaten it.
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Persephone
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Demeter's daughter who was stolen away from her to become the Queen of the underworld by Hades' side. Spends 1/3 of the year in the underworld and 2/3 on earth with her mother.
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Priam
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Trojan King.
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Prometheus
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Created man and animals under the Gods instructions. Stole fire and gave it to man.
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Rhea
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Wife of Cronus. Mother of the Olympian Gods.
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Semele
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Mother of Dionysus. Daughter of Cadmus. Princess of Thebes.
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Sparta
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Where Helen and Menelaus rule.
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Sphinx
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Half woman, half lion.
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The River Styx
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The river you must cross to enter the underworld. Where Achilles was dipped to become 'invincible.'
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Thetis
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Mother of Achilles. Zeus wanted her but he discovered a prophecy about her that whoever she married her son would be stronger than the father. So he made sure she married a mortal.
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Triton
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Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of Love/Lust. Usually naked. Common attributes - mirror, swans, doves, fruit, cupid
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Zeus
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Sky God. Top God. Common attributes - lightning, throne, crown, scepter, eagle,
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Poseidon
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God of the Sea. Common attributes - trident, dolphins, fish, chariot with hippocamps (seahorses), bull,
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Demeter
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Goddess of the Harvest. Common attributes - sheaf of wheat, bundles of grain, headdress, torch, fruits, cornucopia, sacrificial bowl
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Hestia
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Goddess of the Hearth. Virgin. Rarely depicted alone.
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Hades
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God of the Underworld. Common attributes - scepter, throne, chariot with horses, wheat, roster, two-pronged pitch fork
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Athena
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Goddess of War/Wisdom/Weaving. Mother - Metis. Zeus eats Metis because he fears her son will overthrow him. One day he has a terrible headache, he splits his head open and out pops Athena already in battle armor. Common attributes - aegis, helmet, sheild, owl, crown or Nike
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Nike
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The Goddess of Victory
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Hephaestus
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God of Fire/Blacksmith/Trickery. Has a deformed foot. Common attributes - hammer, tongs, fire, forge. Wife - Aphrodite.
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Hermes
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God of Thieves/Travelers/Messengers. Mother - Maia. Common attributes - Petasus, Talaria, winged hat, travelers cloak/staff, caduceus.
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Dionysus
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God of wine/merriment/orgies/festivals. Mother - Semele (mortal). Only Olympian depicted as a baby. Common attributes - kantharos (wine cup), thyrsus (staff tipped with a pine cone), chariot drawn by wild animals, grapes
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Thebes
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The setting of the Bacchants
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Anchises/Ankhises
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A mortal Aphrodite falls in love with.
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Clytemnestra
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Agamemnon's wife, she also killed him.
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Aegis
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Breast plate. Worn by Athena and Ares.
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Aetiology
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Explanatory hymn. Example - Hymn to Demeter
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Ambrosia and Nectar
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Food of the Gods
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Anthropomorphism
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human like; having human form or attributes
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Citadel
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A fortress in a fortified city
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Cosmogony
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the origin of the universe
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Cosmology
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the study of the origin of the universe
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Cyclops
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One eyed monsters. Sons of ???????????
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Greek meter
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dactylic hexameter
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The citadel of Athens
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Acropolis
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Description of a God
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Epithet
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The underworld
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Erebus/Erebos
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Three women with snakes for hair (Medusa)
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Gorgons
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Greek Dark Age
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Civilization collapses 1200 BC to 800 BC
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100 armed monsters
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hecatoncheires
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Furies
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Gods of Vengeance
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Sacred marriage between a sky god and an earth goddess
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hieros gamos
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Poseidons' Seahorses
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hippocamps
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Symbols of the Gods
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iconography
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"in the middle of"
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in medias res
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a drink offering or sacrifice on a grave
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Libation
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Oracle
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a prophet
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A group of gods; the Olympian gods
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Pantheon
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Three tipped spear
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Trident, possessed by Poseidon
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Tripod
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A cauldron, a symbol of prophecy often presented with Apollo
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An honor code between guest and host
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Xenia
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A round temple
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Tholos
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Under-underworld
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Tartarus
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Epic poetry
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is not read - is heard or sung
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A wandering epic poet
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Rhapsode
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The belief in more than one God
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Polytheism
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An epithet that tells the father
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Patronymic
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An epic poem about Troy
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Iliad
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Ages of Man
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By Hesiod
Gold/Silver/Bronze/Heroic/Iron |
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A horn from which fruits and flowers are held
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Cornucopia
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Means "from the earth"
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Chthonic
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Staff entwined with snakes
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Caduceus, Held by Hermes
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Limbo in the underworld
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Fields of Asphodel
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Nereids
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Underwater nymphs
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Maenads
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Inspired and frenzied female worshipers of Dionysus
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Rituals to honor Demeter
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Eleusinian Mysteries
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Inspired and frenzied female worshipers of Dionysus
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Bacchae, Bacchants
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Judgment of Paris
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Paris had to choose who was the most beautiful woman. Between: Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena
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Succession Myth
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Theogony
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Theogony - the word
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The origin of the Gods
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Theogony - the book
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by Hesiod in 700 BC
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Hymn
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A song written in praise to a deity
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Oresteia
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Three Athenian Tragedies: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and The Furies (or Eumenides)
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Eumenides
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aka The Furies
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The muses
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Goddesses of the Arts, invoked at the beginning of hymns or poetry
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Papa Silenus
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The Leader of the satyrs, chills with Dionysus
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Satyrs
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Male companions of Dionysus, have a goat-like aspect with a horse tail, often are depicted with erect penises
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A knife used to to reap wheat
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Sickle
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The Achaeans
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One of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad
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Aeschylus
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Wrote Oresteia
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Andromache
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Hector's wife. Mother of Astyanax.
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Aulis
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The setting of the sacrifice of Iphigenia
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Deiphobus
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Son of Priam and Hecuba. Brother of Hector and Paris.
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Pythia
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Apollos wife
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Apollos wife
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Pythia
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Python
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Dragon-serpent residing in Delphi. Slew by Apollo. He then remade Delphi as his city.
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Delphi
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The city of Apollo
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The city of Apollo
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Delphi
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A serpent like water beast with many heads
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Hydra of Lerna
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Mount Helicon
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Mountain with two springs sacred to the muses. Mentioned in Theogony
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Mount Ida
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In Turkey and Crete
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Pylades
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Orestes' assistant in the murder of his mother and her lover
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Thoas
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Greek warrior in the Trojan war
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Thyestes
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Son of Pelops, and father of Aegisthus.
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Typhon
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Serpent monster
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Tyndareus
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Husband of Leda
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Orthos
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A massive two headed dog
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Hesperides
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Nymphs that tend to the Garden of the Hesperides, where immortality-giving golden apples grew.
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Kantharos
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A cup used by Dionysus that never emptied
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Meliai
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Ash tree nymphs
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Mosaic
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Tiles used to create a picture
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Parodos
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Two passages on each end of the orchestra in front of the skene of a Greek open-air amphitheater
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Skene
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The stage behind the orchestra which held the scenery
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Sparagmos
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A Dionysian ritual where an animal or human being is sacrificed by being dismembered by the Maenad.
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Winged hat
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Petasus, worn by Hermes
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Potnia Theron
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aka Artemis
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Scaean gate
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Where Helen speaks to Priam in Troy.
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Scamander River
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River god who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War. He is said to have fought against Achilles, who was only saved due to the intervention of the Gods
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Stasimon
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A stationary song, sung after the chorus has taken up its station in the orchestra.
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Winged shoes
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Talaria, worn by Hermes
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Half human, half bull monsters
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Taurians
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A staff with a pine cone on top
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Thyrsus
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Apple with 'who is the most beautiful' written on it
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Apple of Discord
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Good underworld place
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Elysian Fields
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Apollo's musical instrument
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Lyre
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Ephebe
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Means "hansome young man"
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Athena's mother
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Metis
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Hermes mother
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Maia
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Apollo and Artemis' mother
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Leto
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Achilles mother & father
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Mother - Thetis Father - Peleus
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Who lives in Argos?
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Agamemnon
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Who lives in Sparta?
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Helen and Menelaus
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Who are the male followers of Dionysus and their leader?
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Satyrs and Papa Silenus
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Goddess of memory
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Mnemosyne
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Achilles "prize"
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Brises
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The father of Agamemnons' "prize"
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Chryseis
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Agamemnons' "prize"
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Chryses
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The man who discovered 'Troy'. When? Where?
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Heinrich Schliemann 1871 in Hissarlik Turkey
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Man who discovered Hettusa. When?
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Hugo Wickler 1906
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