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51 Cards in this Set
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Human who partied with the gods.
Was not favored by Zeus. Sons Name who died before fated? |
Tantalus
Pelop |
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God ate refined food called?
Gods drank what? |
ambrosia
nectar |
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Has to push a rock uphill for eternity
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Sisyphus
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Pelop fell in love with?
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Hippodamia
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Driver of king's chariot?
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Myrtilus
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Pelop and Hippodamia has two sons name?
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Atreus and Thyestes
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Thyestes commits incest with his daughter, who was a son named?
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Aegisthus
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Atreus has two sons named?
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Agamennon and Menelaus
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Human women who was walking by a pong when zeus, whom in the shape of a swan raped her. They have 2 fraternal twins named?
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Helen
Clytemnestra |
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Menelaus marries?
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Helen
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Agamemnon marries?
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Clytemnestra
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Helen marries?
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Menelaus
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Clytemnestra marries?
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Agamemnon
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Who is leader of greeks in the Trojan war?
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Agamemnon
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Agamemnon has to sacrafice his daugther named who? because of Artemis
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Iphigenia
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Agamemnon's daughter is soppostly going to get married to who?
(the greatest warrior in the land) |
Achilles
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Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had a son named?
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Orestes
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______, and the trojan war, most details come from _________; people are still not sure if it actully took place
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Troy
Homer's Iliad |
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________ represents the end of the greek myth.
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Trojan War
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_____ is a beatuiful goddess, who was fated to give birth to a son who would be more powerful than their father.
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Thetis
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Thetis marries?
(mortal) |
Peleus
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For Thetis and Peleus wedding, everyone gets an invitation except for the goddess of _______.
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strife
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The three goddess who would not relinquish the golden apple?
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Hera
Aphrodite Athena |
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Zeus went to the a man named ______ who is the price of _____ to get him to judge a beauty contest with the winner getting the golden apple.
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Paris
Troy |
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Ever agreed to get Helen back after she ran of with Paris except for who?
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Achilles
Odysseus |
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King and Queen of Troy?
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Priam is king
Hecuba is queen |
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Priam had 50 sons, one is named _________ and the other is named ___________.
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Paris
Hector |
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_____ was the greatest warrior in Troy, and was married to __________.
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Hector
Andromache |
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_____, is morally correct behavior.
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Themis
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Achille's best friend was named __________.
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Patroclus
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__________ son of zeus who fought on the side of the trojans.
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Sarpedon
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The greek got Achilles body, thanks to the soldier named?
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Ajax
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The contest to get Achilles body armor was between?
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Ajax and Odysseus
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who hugged the alter in an attemp to save himself?
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Priam
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_______ wrote a play detailing the females called "Trojan Women"
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Euripides
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Who was given the slave _________, who had been given the gift of prophecy by apollo, but refused, and no one believes her now.
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Agamemnon
Cassandra |
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_______ was one survivor of troy who escaped with his life. His story is called ________. He wondered around after the war and moved to italy, and his descendant is Julius Caesar.
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Aeneas
Aeneid |
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It took Odysseus an additional ten years to return home from Troy, his story is called _______.
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Homer's "Odyssey"
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Odyesseus and his men are from the greek city of ____ where his wife ________ was waiting for him from the war.
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Ithaca
Penelope |
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Odyesseus sailed to a island of ________ people who ate fruit.
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Lotus-Eaters
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2nd Stop was a island where one-eyed giants live.
Was a cyclops and was son of Poseidon |
Cyclops
Polyphemus |
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island of _____, the god of the winds
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Aeolus
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island of ____, where a witch lived.
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Circe
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Circe told Odyesseus, to go to a prophet named ______, to learn details that would help him get home.
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Tiresias
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a group of bird-like women who sang beautiful songs.
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Sirens
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_______ had wolf heads around her waist to which she would feed sailors who got too close.
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Scylla
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A giant whirlpool.
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Charybdis
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Circe had warned Odyesseus about the island of ____________________.
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Cattle of the Sun God.
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Odyesseus ship was washed up on the island of _______, a beautiful goddess.
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Calypso
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Odysseus washed up this time on the isle of ___________. The king's daughter, Nausicaa, and her friends.
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Phaeacia
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the contest penelope had to find a man to marry.
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contest of axes
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