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27 Cards in this Set
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Kronos |
Creator of the Gods and Goddesses Father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera |
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Zeus |
Supreme God of the Olympian. God of Olympia. God of the sky Married to Hera. Father of Persus and Heracales |
Had the lightning bolts |
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Hera |
Queen of Olympus. Married to Zeus. Goddess of marriage and child birth |
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Hestia |
Goddess and guardian of the home and taught mortals how to build houses |
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Demeter |
Goddes of grain, she taught mortals how to save the kernels of wild corn, plant them where they wanted corn to grow, and harvest the mature plants |
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Athena |
Goddess of arts and crafts, goddess of reason, intelligent activity defensive war. Daughter of Zeus, born with no mother, sprang for zeus' forehead |
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Apollo |
God of prophecy, medicine, and archery. One of apollo's most important daily tasks was to harness his four-horse chariot, in order to move the sun across the sky |
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Apollo |
God of prophecy, medicine, and archery. One of apollo's most important daily tasks was to harness his four-horse chariot, in order to move the sun across the sky |
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Artemis |
Goddess of the hunt, the moon, and the natural environment. She was the protector of nature and the hunt; both wild and tame animals were under her protection. She also protected agriculture and animal herding |
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Hermes |
Zeus' messenger. Link between gods and the mortals. He was the protector of travelers, thieves, and athletes. He occasionally tricked the gods for own amusement or in an effort to protect humans. |
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Persephone |
The queen of the underworld |
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Ares |
God of war. He represented the raw violence an untamed acts that occurred in wartime |
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Hephaestus |
Greek God of blacksmiths, sculptors, metallurgy, firebrand volcanoes; thus, he is symbolized with a hammer, an anvil and a pair of tongs |
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Midas |
Mythological possessor of the "Midas touch", the power to transmute whatever he touched into gold. Midas was a king of region nowadays part of turkey |
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Pandora |
She was the first human woman created by the gods. She was given characteristics that would manipulate humans into think she was good but she was created to become a punishment to mortals. She unleashed all things bad into the universe by opening a jar given to her by the gods. Hope was trapped I the jar when she closed it. |
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Daedalus |
Greek inventor, architect, and sculptor. He created the labyrinth for the king Minos of Crete. He murdered his talented nephew Perdix. He created wings to escape the kid son they were in and told his son Icarus not to fly too high or too low. Icarus died because his wings melted and he fell to the sea |
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Prometheus |
He created all living things form mud and water. He gave epimethus the task of giving all creatures characteristics, teacher of mortals. Stole first to tear humans how to feed and protect themselves. He loved my mans more than Olympia. So then Zeus decreed that man must sacrifice a portion of foods to the gods. Prometheus tricked Zeus and crated two piles, one with bones and one with bones wrapped in juicy fat and another with the finest meat hidden inside. Zeus punished him forever and punished mortals |
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Aphrodite |
Goddess of love, desire, and beauty |
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Poseidon |
God of the sea and protector of all aquatic features. His weapon was a trident with which he could make the earth shake, causing earthquakes, and shatter any object he was second to Zeus in power. |
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Hades |
God of the underworld He rarely left the underworld His weapon was a pitchfork which he used to create earthquakes He had a helmet of invisibility given to him by the Cyclopes He married to Persephone |
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Eros |
The Greek god of love. He was depicted as a blindfolded male, who, carrying his bow and arrow, could target any human being and make them fall in love with the first person they would see. |
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Eros |
The Greek god of love. He was depicted as a blindfolded male, who, carrying his bow and arrow, could target any human being and make them fall in love with the first person they would see. |
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Psyche |
Was a woman gifted with extreme beauty and grace, one of the mortal woman whose love and sacrifice for her beloved God Eros earned her immorality. She is goddess of the soul. |
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Narcissus |
The hunter know for his beauty. Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fiscal ion with oneself and ones physical appearance. |
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The underworld |
An other world where souls went after death and was the Greek idea of afterlife. When the death of the souls happened, the soul was separated fro the corpse. Hades itself was described as being either at the outer bounds of the ocean or beneath the depths or ends of the earth. It's was a dark kingdom of the dead that corresponded to the gods |
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Echo |
A nymph wise myths provided an explanation for the phenomenon of sound echoing. She assisted Zeus in one of his adventures distracting Hera with her chatter. Hera made her unable to speak but only repeat what another persons last words were. She fell in love with narcissus but when he rejected her, she pined away until only her voice remained |
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Olympus |
In Greek mythology, mount Olympus was the dwelling of the Olympian gods. |
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