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66 Cards in this Set
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Zeus
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sky god, weather, sovereignty
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Hera
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zeus' wife, marriage, family
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Poseidon
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sea god
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Thetis
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mother of Achilles, nymph that Zeus married off to a mortal
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Peleus
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Husband of Thetis, father of Achilles
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Eris
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Goddess, tossed golden apple into wedding of peleus and thetis
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Kallistei
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"most beautiful" written on apple tossed into the wedding of peleus and thetis
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Paris
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Prince of troy, promised Helen after judging which goddess was most beautiful (picked aphrodite)
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Ilion
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Troy
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Heinrich Schliemann
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German Archaeologist, 19th century, found site of Trojan War
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King Priam
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King of Troy
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Sparta
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Where Helen lived with Menelaus
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Achilles
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live long or die with kleos
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kleos
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eternal glory
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Patroclus
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Achilles best friend whose death caused Achilles to go on rampage
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Hector
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killed by Achilles for killing Patroclus
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Apollo
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Healing, music, poetry, prophecy
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xenia/ xenios
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guest host relations
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Diomedes and Glaucus
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traded armor at Troy because they learned that their grandfather were xenia
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Agamemnon
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sacrificed his daughter, was killed by his wife, fought at Troy
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Clytemnestra
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Agamemnon's wife, killed him after having affair but was then killed by his son in revenge
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Iphigenia
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Agamemnon's sacrificed daughter
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Aulis
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Coast of Greece, where warrior's met before heading to Troy
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Mycenae
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where helen was from (city in Greece)
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Oikoi
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household
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Nestor
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friend of Odysseus
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Pylos
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where Nestor lived
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of Love
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Ares
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God of war
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Adonis
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killed by a boar by Ares after having an affair with Aphrodite.
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Anchises
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Zeus made Aphrodite fall in love with him to get a taste of her own medicine, she got pregnant, gave child to him
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Eos and Tithonius
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Eos was a god, asked for immortality for Tithonius, but he kept on aging
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Demeter
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Goddess of Harvest, mother to Persephone
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estuary
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river mouth
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Artemis
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virgin goddess, goddess of the hunt
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Ino
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gave odysseus the veil in the sea
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Kikonians
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first stop of Odysseus after Troy, had skirmish with them
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Outis
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nobody
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Aeolus
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wind god
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Laestrygonians
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Giants that threw rocks at Odysseus' ship
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Skylla
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sea creature that eats men. takes 6 from Odysseus' boat
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Island of the Sun
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where Helios keeps his cattle
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Charybdis
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whirlpool
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The Arrhephoria
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Coming of age for girls, carry box up and down stairs
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Acropolis
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temple in Athens
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King Cecrops
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founder of Athens
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Aglauros, Oandrosis, Herse
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three daughers of Cecrops who carried the sanke baby up from temple of aphrodite
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Hephaistos
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Got off on ground while thinking about his sister, artemis, and a snake baby was born
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Gaia
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mother earth
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Ephebes
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greek boy when he becomes a man
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Pausanius
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wrote a "guide to greece"
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O. Brooner
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Archaeologist who uncovered the temple of Athena in Athens
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Milman Parry
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studied oral tradition to see if bards could have recited long stories
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Gilgamesh
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king of mesopatamia, oldest known myth
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Aegean Sea
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sea between Turkey and Greece
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Black Sea
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north of Turkey
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Hellas
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Greece
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Hellene
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Greek
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Achaeans
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Greeks
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Danaans
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greeks
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Argives
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Greeks
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Phrygia
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Region in Turkey/ Asia Minor
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Mount Ida
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a mountain near Troy
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Lacedaemon
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Spartan
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Cyrpis and the Cyrpian
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Aphrodite
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Alexander
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another name for Paris
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