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23 Cards in this Set
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Ares |
Terrible god of war Son of Zeus Roman - Mars |
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Hephaesus |
The lame Blacksmith and god of fire Son of Zeus and Hera Roman - Vulcan |
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Aphrodite |
Goddess of love and beauty Wife of Hephaestus Roman - Venus |
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Hermes |
God of Science and invention Son of Zeus Roman - Mercury |
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Hades |
Lord of the dead and underworld Zeus's older brother Roman - Pluto |
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Demeter |
Goddess of hearth and harvest. Hero of the Earth Zeus's sister Roman - Ceres |
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Dionysus |
God of Wine, revelry, dancing and drama Roman - Bacchus |
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Zeus |
God of lightning and king of the gods Roman - Jupiter |
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Poseidon |
God of water & earthquakes Zeus's brother Roman - Neptune |
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Hera |
Zeus's Wife, queen of the gods. Marriage Roman - Juno
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Athena |
Goddess of wisdom, war, patriotism and good citizenship Daughter of Zeus Roman - Minerva |
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Apollo |
God of poetry, music, medicine, and light Son of Zeus Roman - Apollo |
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Artemis |
Goddess of hunting and wild things Apollo's twin sister Roman - Diana |
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Mt. Olympus |
Actual mountain. Where the gods lived |
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Fates |
three goddesses that controlled the lives of all mortals |
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Muses |
nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Goddess of various arts, mostly of literary |
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Nymphs: |
beautiful young women |
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Moral quality |
having a sense of right and wrong, good and evil |
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Myths of Creating |
these explain the beginning of time, space and man |
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Myths of explanation |
these explain the great questions of the universe |
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Myths of morality |
these teach lessons and reinforce cultural morality |
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Classicists |
Scholars and poets who recorded Greek myths |
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Virgil, Homer, and Ovid |
Best known scholars and poets of Greek Mythology |
