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35 Cards in this Set
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Hades
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God of under world
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Hera
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Goddess of marriage
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Athena
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Goddess of wisdom and war
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What is the moral for Rape of Persephone
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don't eat devils food
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what is natural cause in the rape
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winter and spring
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What is the moral in promethius
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don't always listen
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what natural cause in promethius
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fire
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what moral does pandora teach
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curiosity can be bad
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Natural cause for pandora?
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why there is sin
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what two epics are attributed to Homer?
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Iliad and the Odyssey
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How were epics communicated in homer's day
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told orally
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who was homer
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blind poet credited with the two epics
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describe the controversy about the authorship of these works
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well it was written down years after it was created, so there was no right author
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what caused the trojan war
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paris, a prince kidnapped a woman named helen the most beautiful in the world from her husband
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when might the trojan war have occured
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1200 B.C.
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how long did the trojan war last
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10 years
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whose idea was the giant wooden horse
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odysseus
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who won the trojan war
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greek
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who accompanies odysseus on his way home
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12 ships, 720 men
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who are odysseus opponents as he attempts to return home to his wife and son
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various monsters
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characterize odysseus
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brave, strong, guile, clever
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Which goddess sides with the trojans and which with the greek?
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athena-greek aphrodite-trojans
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which god battles odysseus
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poseidon
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what is an epic
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a long narrative poem
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what is the story of the oddyssey
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odysseus getting home
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define the epic hero
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embodies the ideals of a nation or race
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why won't odysseus eat the meal that Circe, the enchantress, offers him, and what does this imply about his character?
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His men are pigs, being loyal
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what is an epic simile
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elaborate more involved version of a regular simile
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where was troy located
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northwestern turkey
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who does homer ask for help in telling this tale? why?
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Muse, it will last longer
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what is an epithet
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brief descriptive phrases that helped to characterize a part. person or thing
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what will happen to odysseus men, why?
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they were destroyed, their recklessness
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who holds odysseus captive, and for how long
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calypso, 7 to 10 years
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where does odysseus go next and who does he meet
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Phaeacians, Alcinons
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What literary term describes the action in books 9-12
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flashback
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