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71 Cards in this Set
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In the beginning there was ...
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Chaos
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Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful woman on Earth
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Paris
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Helen's husband
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Meneleus
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Brilliant Greek schemer
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Odysseus
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God who took the Trojans' side for the sake of Thetis
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Zeus
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Hector killed him instead of Achilles
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Patroclus
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Hercules's helpful cousin
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Iolaus
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Killed his wife and kids
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Hercules
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Gave fire to man
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Prometheus
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He really rode Pegasus
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Bellerophon
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Odysseus's men never wanted to leave.
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Lotus island
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singing maidens lured sailors to doom
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sirens
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killed music teacher
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Hercules
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killed Medusa
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Perseus
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Killed Minotaur
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Theseus
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Killed the Chimaera
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Bellerophon
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son of Odysseus
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Telemachus
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Turned men into swine
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Circe
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one eyed son of Poseidon
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Polyphemus
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God of Earthquakes
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Poseidon
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god of horses
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Poseidon
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god of fire
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Hephaestus
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Guided dead to the underworld
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Hermes
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Source of Achilles invulnerability
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River Styx
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King of the Trojans
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Priam
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The "fairest" goddess
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Aphrodite
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golden apple throwing goddess of discord
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Eris
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picked virtue over vice
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Hercules
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punished the cow killers
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Zeus
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god of music and medicine
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Apollo
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Roman god of wine and revelry
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Bachus
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god who was half man half goat
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Pan
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horses are Pain and Fear
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Ares
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son of Aphrodite
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Eros
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born out of a Blue egg
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Helen of Troy
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killed Hector
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Achilles
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kidnapped Persephone
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Hades
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goddesses of nature
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nymphs
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monster with 3 bodies joined at waist
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Geryon
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made lightening bolts, trident, cap of invisibility
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cyclops
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3 headed guardian of underworld
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Cerberus
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this creature was born from Medusa's blood
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Pegasus
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9 headed creature of Hercules's 2nd labor
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Hydra
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half bull half man creature
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minotaur
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man eating birds fought by Hercules
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Stymphalian birds
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half horse half man
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centaur
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Persephone
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Demeter's daughter
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goddess of hearth and home
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Hestia
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Roman goddesses of hunting and moon
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Diana
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Roman goddesses of grain and agriculture
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Ceres
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came from Zeus's headache
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Athena
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Hercules's mom
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Alcmene
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minor goddesses of artistic inspiration
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muses
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Dionysus's mom
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Semele
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Zeus came to her in the form of a swan
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Leda
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mother of Perseus
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Danae
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first woman
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Pandora
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Perseus saved her from a sea monster
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Andromeda
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wife of Orpheus
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Eurydice
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first wife of Hercules
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Megura
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chained to a rock and visited by liver-eating bird
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Prometheus
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it's blood gave Hercules's arrows special power
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Hydra
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created the first woman
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Hephaestus
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over-threw Cronus
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Zeus
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Cronus over-threw him
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Uranus
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Mother to the Titans
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Gaea
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came from the giant egg
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Eros
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produced the giant egg
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Erebus and Nox
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they shared one eye
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gray* sisters
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Atlas is one of them
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Titans
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her gaze turns you to stone
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Medusa
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