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39 Cards in this Set
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PERSEPHONE and Aphrodite fight over him, both love jim, yet he is killed by a wild boar |
Adonis |
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Close friend of Apollo, struck by discus |
Hyacinthus |
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Sails on Argo, hunted Calydonian Boar, defeated husband in footrace, changed into lioness |
Atalanta |
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Son of POSEIDON, suffered from longing for Pegasus, accidentally kills brother, traveled to Argo, begins trials, kills Chimera, tries flying to Olympus, is thrown by Pegasus, and wanders devouring soul |
Bellerphon |
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Architect, built Labtynth, was trapped there with son Icarus by Minos, showed Theseus way out. Escaped by building wings. |
Daedalus |
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Strongest man on Earth, supremely self-confident , considered himself equal to the gods. No strong intelligence, very strong emotions, did the "Twelve Labors" |
Hercules |
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Accompanied Jason on quest for Golden Fleece, protected by Hera, reach Colchis under the night sky |
Rode Argo, Argonauts |
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King of Phrygia, lans if roses. Wishes whatever he touches turns to gold, Bacchus grants it. When food and drink turn to metal, Bacchus tells him to bathe in River Pactolus. Latwr Apollo gives him ass ears for a misjudged music contest. |
Midas |
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Young giant, really hot, he kept delaying marriage, loved hunting, puts wife in drunken stupor via alcohol? His father asks Bacchus to punish him, Orion is blind, HEPHAESTUS makes him new eyes, joins hunters, Artemis eventually kills him and puts him in the sky as a constellation. |
Orion |
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Is almost sacrificed to sea dragon to stop killling of Ethiopians, saved by Perseus |
Andromeda |
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Idiot who drove Apollo's chariot |
Phaethon |
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Minos' daughter, falls in love with Theseus, gives Thesus bwll of yarn to escape Labrynth, later dies on island cause she got super seasick and is left there Thesus comes back and his bae be ded. |
Ariadne |
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Worrior women, daughters of Harmony the Nymph and Ares |
Amazons |
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Lion in front, goat in between, serpent in back, belived invincible, killed by Bellerphon |
Chimera |
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Spins string of life, a Fate |
Clotho |
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Assigns threads to people |
Lachesis |
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Snips life thread |
Atropos |
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Tisiphone |
Fury |
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Megaera |
Fury |
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Alectoi |
Fury |
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Only mortal of Gorgons |
Medusa |
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Shared one eye, sisyers of gorgons |
Graiae |
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9 heads, obe immortal, Hercules' 2nd trial |
Hydra |
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Goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera, marries Hercules |
Hebe |
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Only messanger in the Illiad |
Iris |
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One of the Numia "gid of good beginnings" doors of temple only close when Rome is at peace |
Janus |
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Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne(Memory) |
Muses |
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Muse of history |
Clio |
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Muse of Astronomy |
Urania |
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Muse of comedy |
Thalia |
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Muse of dance |
Tepsichord |
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Muse of epic poetry |
Calliope |
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Muse of love poetry |
Erato |
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Muse of lyric poetry |
Eriterpe |
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Muse of tragedy |
Melpomene |
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Muse of godly song |
Polyhymnia |
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Changes shape at will, can see future, POSEIDON's son, or attendant? |
Proteus |
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Trumpeter of sea, trumpet was huge shell, son of the big P and Amphitrite |
Triton |
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Shepherd god, goatherders god, god of wild places HERMES' son |
Pan |
