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39 Cards in this Set
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Zeus |
aka- Jupiter, god of lightning |
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Hera |
aka- Juno, wife of Zeus, integrity and marriage |
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Poseidon |
aka- Neptune, god of the sea |
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Hades |
aka- Pluto, god of the underworld |
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Aphrodite |
aka- Venus, sex and love |
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Demeter |
aka- Ceres, corn and fertility of the harvest |
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Artemis |
aka- Diana, Hunting |
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Apollo |
Music and medicine |
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Athena |
Minerva, wisdom |
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Ares |
mars, war |
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Hermes |
mercury, Messenger of the gods |
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Dionysus |
Bacchus, wine |
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Persephone |
Proserpine, goddess of the underworld |
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Eros |
cupid, love |
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Gaia |
Gaea, earth |
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Summarize the Perseus story |
Perseus is sent to kill madusa. he does this by cutting off her head which turns everything into stone. Perseus' mother in Danae. |
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summarize the Theseus story |
He killed the minotar in the labyrinth by following magic thread that he got from Ariadne. |
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summarize the story of Jason |
golden fleece, argonauts, cyclopse, medea, |
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Aeneas |
Carried father on back, decendants founded Rome. |
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who was in the underworld? |
Hades, all souls, Persephone. |
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3 sections of the underworld |
1. Elysian Fields 2. Erebus 3. Tartarus |
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rivers in the underworld |
Acheron (river of woe), the Cocytus (river of lamentation), the Phlegethon (river of fire), theStyx (river of unbreakable oath by which the gods took vows), and the Lethe (river of forgetfulness).
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judges in the underworld |
Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Aeacus
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Trojan war saga |
Greeks vs. Trojans, Greeks won, Greeks: Agamemnon(Clytemnestra), Menelaus(Helen), |
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Greek warriors in the Trojan war |
Greeks: Agamemnon(Clytemnestra), Menelaus(Helen), Achilles(briseis), Odysseus(Penelope)
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Trojan Warriors in the Trojan War |
Hector(Andromache), Paris( Helen), Aeneas( Creusa) |
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Couples: Baucis and?? |
Philemon- turned into trees (Zeus and Hermes) |
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Cupid and?? |
Psyche- cupid was sent by aphrodite to kill her but he scratched himself with one of his arrows and fell in love with her. |
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Epimetheus and?? |
Pandora- pandora released evil into the world (Zeus) |
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Admetus and?? |
Alcestis- wife is willing to die for him, hercules wrestles death and wins so she does not have to die |
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Ceyx and??? |
Alcyone- Faithfullness (Comnus and Morpheus) Ceyx is lost at sea. Alcyone was rewarded with closure |
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Milanion and?? |
Atalanta- foot race, live happily ever after (Aphrodite) |
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Narcissus and?? |
echo- loves his reflection, punished by aphrodite, dies by the river, hera |
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Leander and ?? |
Hero- swims across hellespont to see me, he drowns, she kills herself. |
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Pyramus and?? |
Thisbe- romeo and Juliet story
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Pygmalion and?? |
Galatea- statue comes to life (Aphrodite) |
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Apollo and?? |
Daphne- turned into a tree |
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Deucalion and?? |
Pyrrha- flood story |
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orphius and?? |
Eurydice- walks out of the underworld with her behind him |
