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35 Cards in this Set
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Tantalus & Pelops
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Tantalus cooked up his own son, Pelops, to test the Gods. Was therefore sentenced to eternal punishment of being hungry and thirsty forever.
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Pelops..
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Was restored to health and given an ivory shoulder to replace the original eaten by Demeter. (Alternate- Poiseidon abducts him and takes him to Olympus)
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Hippodamia
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Hippodamia is the daughter of King Of Pisa Oenomaus. Pelops loves her..
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Oenomaus
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King of Pisa, father of Hippodamia. Challenges Pelops to a chariot race to win her love. Lose = Death
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Pelops secret 'weapon'
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He has a golden chariot and winged steeds
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Variant of Pelops and Hippodamia
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Pelops bribes Myrtilus who drives Oenamaus' chariot to remove the lynch pin and Myrtilus agrees as long as he can sleep with Hippodamia. Furious Pelops kills him but as Myrtilus lies dying he curses Pelops and his descendants
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Myrtilus
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Oenomaus' chariot driver. Is bribed by Pelops, curses Pelops and his descendants as he lies dying
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Eponymous Hero of Peloponnesus
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Pelops
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Pelopion
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Shrine to Pelops
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Olympic Games
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Instituted by Pelops in honor of his victory over Oenomaus to to purify himself from Miasma
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"Miasma"
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"Blood Pollution"
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Children of Pelops
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Atreus & Thysestes - have a quarrel over kingdom because the oracle simply says "the son of a Pelops"
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Arteus
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Eldest son of Pelops and therefore demands he recieves the kingdom,
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Thysestes
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Demands a divine sign to determine who recieves daddys land. Sign is a"golden fleeced ram" Has an affair with Aerope, Arteus' wife and she give Thysestes some golden fleece
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Golden Fleeced Ram
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Divine Sign to show Thysestes/Arteus who gets their fathers Kingdom
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Aerope
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Arteus' wife, cheats on him with his brother Thysestes
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The Banquet of Thysestes
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Arteus has a dinner, invites brother to 'reconcile' things, but for the main course he serves Thysestes' own sons! Thysesteus curses Arteus and his descendants and then goes into exile.
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Thysestes & Pelopia
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Pelopia is Thysestes' daughter. He sleeps with her and they have son name Aegisthus
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Aegisthus
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Son of Thysestes & Pelopia. Will continue vengance against Uncle Arteus
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The Atreids
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Sons of Arteus. Agamemnion and Menelaus
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Agamemnon
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King of Mycenae. Son of Arteus. One of the Atreids
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Menelaus
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King of Sparta. Son of Arteus, One of the Atreids
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Agamemnon & Clytemnestra
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King& Queen of Mycenae
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Iphigenia
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Daughter of Agamemnon & Clytemnestra who is sacrifced to gain favorable winds and appease Artemis
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Clytemnestra & Aegisthus
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Clytemnestra takes Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon is at Troy for 10 years
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Agamemnon returns from Troy...
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Clytemnestra and Aegisthus kill Agamemnon.
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Cassandra
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Trojan Princess who is taken prisoner by Agamemnon but then foresees both his and her doom
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Orestes
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Another son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, divine duty to avenge fathers death (by killing mother). Succeeds, but it driven mad by the Erinyes
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Electra
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Orestes sister, doesn't go with him to kill mom and avenge dad, but cheers him on from home.
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Erinyes
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Ancient divinities who avenge the victoms of murder
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After killing mama and step father Orestes...
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Seeks purification and absolutin from Apollo. Apollo grants purification but says he must go to Athens for absolution.
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Areopagus
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"Athenian Homocide court" here Orestes pleads for absolution of killing Clyemnestra and Aegisthus. Apollo is his defender, Erinyes are his prosecutors and Athena is the judge
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Athena
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'Judge' of Orestes 'murder trial'. Orestes gets acquited
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Erinyes are appeased by Orestes' being innocent and become the
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Eumenides
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"Eumenides"
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"Kindly Ones"
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