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16 Cards in this Set
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Demeter
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the God of the Underworld, Hades, abducts Persephone, and her mother, the Goddess Demeter, threatens to kill all the vegetation on Earth. This myth explains the seasons.
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How the World and Mankind were created
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Includeds the story of the Titans, Prometheus's punishment for aiding manking (having his liver pecked out daily by a great eagle), Pandoras box and more.
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Prometheus and Io
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one day, while Prometheus was serving his punishment for his kindness toward man, he has a stange visitor who looks like a cow but has the voice of a girl. Prometheus tells Io (the cow girl) his story and Io tells him why Zeus turned her, once a princess into a cow.
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The Cyclops Polyphemus
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Son of Posiedon, this one eyed beasst was banned from Earth, by Zeus and wreaked havoc upon Odysseus and his men
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The flower myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, and Adonis
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Stories of how these flowers were created and why they are so beautiful, teh most well-known is that of the "Narcissus". The Narcissus is the result of a handsome young boy who falls in love with is own reflection. (hence the term narcissism)
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Cupid and Psyche
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Venus grows jealous of Pyche's beauty and, as always, turns to her son Cupid for help. She tells Cupid to go tyo earth and shoot Psyche wwith an arrow to make her fall in love with the most desspicable creature on earth. He would hae done so if he was not first shown Psyche: it was as though Cupid peirced his own heart with one of his arrows.
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Pyramus and Thisbe
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A story much like romeo and juliet, Pyramus and Thise are two lovers forbidden to be together by their parents but become united in death.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
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Eurydice, Orpheus' wife dies shortly after their marriage. Orpheus's greaf is so great that he vows to go down to the world of death and try to bring her back usign his musical gift. (similar to the story of lot and his wife in the bible)
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Pygmalion and Galatea
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Pygmalion, a gifted young sculptor of Cyprus, is a woman-hater. He has resolved never to marry, as his art is enough for him. Nevertheless, the statue that he gives and devotes his life to is that of a woman.
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The Quest for the Golden Fleece
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Essentially a soap-opera stroy revolving around power, it figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly
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Tantalus and Niobe
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Tantalus killsh is only son, boils him up, and serves him to the Gods. he is cursed to a death of tortuous thirst in Hades
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Agamemnon and his children
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Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war only to be murdered by his wife/ wifes lover in revenge for sacrificing his daughter to the sea b4 his journey
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Oedipus
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Oedupus is a mythical greek king of theves. he fulfills a prophecy that says he wil kill his father and marry his mother, and thus bring disater on his city and family
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Midas
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A greedy kind Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches into gold. he learsn his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well.
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The Danaids
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Maidens from hell mythology forever cursed to carry water in leaking jars for killing their husbands
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Glaucus and Scylla
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Glaucus was a fisherman whose fish came back to life and swam into the ocea. he captured on of them and ate it. And intense longing for the sea overwhelmed him. he flung himself into it. A nymph names Scylla found him and he fell in love with ehr. Circe also fell in lvoe iwth him and turned Scylla into the hideaous dragon of Scylla and Charybdis of the Oddysey
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