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50 Cards in this Set
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What were the food and drink of the gods?
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Ambrosia and nectar
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Whose face is said to have launched a thousand ships?
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Helen's
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Who stole fire from heaven to give to mankind?
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Prometheus
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What is the Roman name for Athena?
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Minerva
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What goddes is symbolized by the cornucopia?
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Ceres/Demeter
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What king turned everything he touched to gold?
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Midas
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Who slew the Minotaur?
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Theseus
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What hero went in quest of the golden fleece?
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Jason
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What Greek minstrel went to the Underworld to win back his wife Eurydice?
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Orpheus
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What Titan holds the world on his shoulders?
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Atlas
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Who was the Roman god of wine?
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Bacchus
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Who was the commander-in-chief of Greek forces at Troy?
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Agamemnon
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What Trojan prince abducted Helen?
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Paris
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Who slew Medusa?
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Perseus
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Name the three fates
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Clotho,Lachesis, Atropos
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Allecto, Megaera and Tisiphone make up what group?
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Furies
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What Greerk hero killed Hector?
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Achilles
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Who was the muse of epic poetry?
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Calliope
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What hero rode Pegasus to kill the Chimera?
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Bellerophon
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Who was to Roman goddess of the hearth?
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Vesta
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What daughter of Ceres did Pluto abduct for his wife?
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Proserpina
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What were the shades in the underworld called?
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Manes
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By what river did the gods swear?
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Styx
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Who were the Atridae?
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Agamemnon and Menelaus
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What great hero was the son of Laertes and Anticlea?
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Odysseus
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Who were king and queen of Troy?
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Priam and Hecuba
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What mythological figure solved the riddle of the sphinx?
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Oedipus
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What daughter of Minos helped Theseus kill the Minotaur?
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Ariadne
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Whose prophecies were never believed?
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Cassandra
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Who became a laurel tree to escape the embraces of Apollo?
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Daphne
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What daughter of Cassiopia did Perseus marry?
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Andromeda
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Who were the original six Olympians?
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Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, Hera(Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune, Vesta, Ceres, Juno)
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What deity was born from Zeus' head?
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Athena
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To what deity was Parthenon dedicated?
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Athena
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Who was Odysseus' loyal wife?
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Penelope
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Who was the goddess of the rainbow?
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Iris
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Who was the goddes of victory?
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Nike
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Who was the ferryman of the Styx?
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Charon
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What centaur was a tutor to heroes?
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Chiron
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After whose father was the Aegean Sea named?
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Theseus'
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What god carried the caduceus?
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Hermes/Mercury
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Who opened Pandora's box?
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Pandora
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Whose entrapment did Odysseus avoid when he put wax in the ears of his men?
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Sirens
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What creature was half goat and half men?
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Satyr
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What creature was half horse and half man?
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Centaur
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What was Hercules' first labor?
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Nemean lion
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What was Hercules' last labor?
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Bringing up Cerberus from the Underworld
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Where in the Underworld were heroes punished?
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Tartarus
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What Trojan prince escaped the ashes of Troy and founded Roman Civilization?
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Aeneas
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What deity was the father of Romulus?
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Mars
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