149 - 150 Mythology - Groups

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Cyclopes

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Uranus and Gaea’s set of offspring with only one large eye in the middle of the forehead, to whom Hesiod gave the names Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, meaning “thunder,” “lightning,” and “brightness,” respectively

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Fates

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3 invisible sister goddesses that the ancient Greeks believed were present at the birth of every child and controlled the destinies of mortals by carrying out the wishes of the gods—called Moirai, Morae, or Moerae by the Greeks and Parcae or Fata by the Romans, and usually portrayed as old women

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Furies*

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3 hideous old women with snakes in their hair, blood dripping from their eyes, and wings made of scales of brass, whom Virgil called Alecto, the unresting; Megaera, the jealous; and Tisiphone, the avenger *Also known as Erinyes and Eumenides

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Gemini (The Twins)

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Castor and Pollux, or Polydeuces, the 2 brothers of Helen of Troy—also called the Dioscuri

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Golden Apple goddesses

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Hera, (Pallas) Athena, and Aphrodite, 3 Greek goddesses who each claimed the golden apple thrown into the wedding feast by Eris (Paris chose Aphrodite as “the fairest”)

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Gorgons

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3 ugly sister monsters known individually as Stheno (Sthenno) “the mighty” or “the strong one,” Euryale, “the wide-leaping” or “the wide-wandering,” and Medusa, “the cunning one” or “the queen”—anyone who looked them in the face was turned to stone

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Graces**

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3 daughters of Zeus and Eurynome named Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia—who as minor goddesses presided over banquets and social activities **Also called Charities or Charites

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Graiae (Graeae)

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Gorgons’ strange sisters Enyo, Pemphredo, and Deino, the 3 old women who shared a single eye and a single tooth

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Harpies

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Filthy and vicious monsters with a woman’s head and a bird’s body who stole food from their victims and left a terrible odor behind—their names are sometimes given as Aello (“storm” or “wind”); Ocypete, or Ocypeta (“rapid”); Celaeno (“blackness”); and Podarge (“swift of foot”)

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Hecatoncheires***

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Uranus and Gaea’s offspring with 50 heads and 100 hands each, the very strong brothers Cottus, Briareus (Briareüs), and Gyges ***Also called the Centimani; Hecatoncheires means “the Hundred-handers” or “hundred-handed.”

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Hesperides

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Sisters (3 to 7 in number) who guarded the golden apples of Hera with the help of the dragon Ladon—their name establishes them as the “children of the evening star” or “children of the west”

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Judges

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3 judges of the Underworld known as Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Aeacus (some sources say Sarpedon was the third)

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Muses

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Nine patron goddesses of learning and the arts; writers, especially poets, usually asked them for inspiration

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Nymphs

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Spirits of the woods, trees, rivers, springs, caves, and mountains that appeared in the form of young maidens and often accompanied the gods

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Pleiades

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7 daughters of Atlas

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Rivers of Hades

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Rivers that separated the world of the dead from the world of the living

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Sirens

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Winged women whose beautiful voices lured sailors to their deaths

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Sparti (Spartae)

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Army of men who sprang from the Earth when Cadmus sowed the dragon teeth, five of whom survived the ensuing battle and helped Cadmus found the city of Thebes

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Winds

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4 winds of the world: Boreas, north; Eurus, east; Notus, south; and Zephyr, or Zephyrus, west