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32 Cards in this Set
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First there was
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Chaos
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Chaos gave birth to
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Night and Erebus (depth where death dwells)
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Who were chaos's children
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eberus and night
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Who were love's parents
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Erebus and Night
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Whom did Love create?
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Light and radiant Day. After which earth appeared
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Who did earth bear first?
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Heaven
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Roman name for Mother Earth and Father Heaven.
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Gaea, Ouranos
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Ouranos
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Father Heaven
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Mother Earth
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Gaea
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Name the races of monsters Mother Earth(Gaea) and Father Heaven(Ouranos) created.
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Fifty Heads and 100 hands, Cyclops, Titans, Giants.
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Who healped mother earth(Gaea) free the first race of monters that Father Heaven(Ouranos) imprisoned?
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Cronus (Saturn)
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Who sprung from the blood of father Heaven(Ouranos) after Titan Cronus(Saturn) killed him?
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Furies(Erinyes) and the Giants
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Who rebeled against Titan Cronus?
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Zeus, who onlky got the chance because his mother sent him to Crete so he wouldn't get eaten by his father.
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Cronus's wife?
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Rhea(Ops)
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Why did Zeus beat the Titans?
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Zeus called on the first race who had thunder lightning and earthquake
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Titan Iapetus ided with Zeus. What happened to his brother Atlas?
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Bear the burden of the earth on hi shoulders.
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Last child of earth?
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Typhon
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Who led the two rebellions against Zeus?
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Typhon and the Giants. After which the world was cleared of monsters
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Where was the only land with endless night?
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where the Cimmerians lived
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Two titan brothers whom the task of creation was left to.
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Prometheus(forethought), and Epimetheus (afterthought)
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How did Epimetheus me up?
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Thought quickly and gave all the strength, courage, cunnin, fus, feathers, and wing, to the animals, leaving nothing.
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How did Prometheus help out his brother?
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Fashioned men upright like the gods
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The 3 stories of creation.
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1) Prometheus and Epimethus.
2)The five ages 3) The flood- Zeu destroyed the stone age as anticipated, Promethu aved Deucalion and Pyrrha, and the stone people were created. |
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List the races of the gods
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golden race, ilver, brass, godlike heroes, iron
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golden race
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first race of the gods
did not experience sorrow rich in flocks and crops upon death became pure spirits |
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silver race
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little intelligence and as a result injured eachother
spirits did not live on |
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brass race
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lovers of war
violent strong detroyed themselves |
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goldlike hero
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fought glorious wars
departed to the ile of the blesed |
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iron race
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last race
never have rest from toil and sorrow become wicked with every generation zeus will destroy themall eventually when all worship power |
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The first mortal woman, who from her came the race of women all evil to men
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Pandora
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Why did Zeus create Pandora?
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To get back at Prometheus by gettin back on mankind. he would be evil for men.
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Pandora's box
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Box with all the evil harmful things, gave it to Pandora who had married Epimetheus and he opened it.
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