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23 Cards in this Set
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Arachnid
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Animal classification of eight legged creatures, including spiders
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Golden Fleece
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Skin of a flying ram, treasured in Colchis
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Muses
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Nine goddesses of storytelling
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centaurs
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Rude and vulgar half-horse, half-human creatures
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Amazons
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Fierce and warlike women that battled Heracles
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Pegasus
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Wild winged horse, sprung out of Medusa's neck, carried Zeus's thunderbolts
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Pan
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God of nature who played music, very ugly, fell in love with nymphs
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Medusa
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Snake haired monster, if you look at her you turn to stone
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Martial
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Pertaining to war
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Fatalistic
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Beliving events are preordained; destined to happen
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Dionysian
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Mysterious, irrational, undisciplined
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Plutocrat
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very weathy person
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Oedipal
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relating to a psychological theory that children are subconciously attracted to parents of the opposite sex
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Apolloninian
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calm, rational, reasoned, severe
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Narcissistic
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Self absorbed, egotistical
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Hydra
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Horrible monster with nine heads, deadly breath, killed by Heracles
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Bacchanal
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wild, drunken celebration
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Minotaur
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Half-man, half-bull, man-eating monster, son of Minos, kept in a labyrinth
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Saturnine
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gloomy, morose
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Erotic
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Pertaing to sex
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Mercurial
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Fast Changeable
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Nemesis
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Retribution or a perssistent enemy
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Titanic
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Gigantic
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