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109 Cards in this Set
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adamant |
refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind. |
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aegis |
shield of zeus. |
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aetiology |
an explanation of why we do what we do |
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Amaltheia |
foster parent of zeus at crete. nourished him with her milk (she-goat) |
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ambrosia and nectar |
food and drink of the gods |
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Amphitrite |
sea goddess. poseidon wanted to marry her. she fled to the protection of titan atlas. delphin find her. marry poseidon |
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anthropomorphism |
the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. |
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aphrodite |
goddess of love. daughter of zeus and dione. some say born from foam of genitals of uranus. |
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ares |
child of hera and zeus. god of war. only son? |
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athena |
daughter of zeus and metis |
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atlas |
son of iapetos. "Endurer, Darer" |
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bosporos |
is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. |
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chaos |
1st god |
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chthonis |
literal translation meaning 'subterranean', its historical or interpretive definition designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Greek religion |
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cornucopia |
filled with fruit |
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comsmogony |
order, universe. numerous versions of the creation of the universe |
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crete |
large island. where zeus was taken. where europa was abducted |
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cyclopes |
monster with one eye in the center of his forehead. Arges, Brontes and steropes |
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demeter |
goddess of grain and harvest. married to zeus. daughter is persephone. persephone is picking flowers then hades come and picks her up. she doesn't know about this. Demeter looks everywhere for her. someone tells her. no crops. zeus make her. bring back Persephone if not eaten. she eats |
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demophon |
nursed my dementer. baby of keleos and metaneira. dies in fire or blown up by demeter. tries to make her immortal |
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Deukalion and Pyrrha |
floated about in the boat for 9 days and nights running aground mount parnassus. |
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dione |
A titan or oceanid. mother of aphrodite. |
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dioskouroi |
Castor and polydeuces. brothers of tyndareus an dleda |
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dryad |
spirit of the tree |
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earthshaker |
poseidon or neptune |
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eileithyia |
goddess of childbirth. daughter |
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Eleusinian mysteries |
famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece. Demeter and. Persephone, Mother and Daughter Goddesses of Ancient Greece. |
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Eleusis |
demeter ends up in this town near athens while searching for daughter. Keleos an dMetaneira offer hospitality. treated nicely so rewards them. takes care of baby demophon. makes baby immortal. goes wrong. drops baby in fire or metaneirs spies on her and she gets mad and blows up |
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Eos |
goddess of dawn. called aurora by the romans. bore the stars. |
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ephebe |
a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training. |
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Epimetheus |
afterthought. son of titan iapetus and oceanic clement. ignored warning from brother prometheus and accepted gift from the gods. married pandora and opened jar. evil for mankind |
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epithet |
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. |
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erastes |
a lover. older male in a homoerotic relationship |
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Erinyes (Furies) |
female spirit who punished offenders against blood kin. hideous. avenge fathers or mothers upon their undutiful children. tortures prescribed by the gods. invoked in curses |
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Eris (strife) |
goddess of discord. disagreeable nature. not invited to wedding, throws apple. start of trojan war. 15 beings related to conflict and suffering |
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eromeno |
An adolescent boy who was courted by an older man |
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Eros |
goddess of love. born along Ge and Tartaros. goddess of birth. |
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Erysichthon |
Dryad:spirit of the tree. cuts down tree. dementer is mad. curses him with over appetite. eventually eats himself |
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Europa |
daughter of agenor. kidnapped by zeus (bull) and taken to crete. Three sons: minos, rhadamanthys and sarpedon. |
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folktale |
a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk,especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the commonpeople. |
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Ganymede |
zeus abducted him in form of an eagle to be his cupbearer |
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Ge/Gaia |
goddess of the earth. married to uranus. bears cronus. mad at uranus for hiding sons within her. painful. makes cronus sickle him. |
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Giants |
monstrous offspring of Ge and Uranus. legs ending in tails of snakes. |
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Gigantomachy |
battle between gods and Giants. giants lost. |
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Hades (Pluto) |
latin: pluto. means wealth. scepter and cornucopia. in charge of dead people. infinite of people below him. gems and gold under earth. marrys persephone. |
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Hebe |
doughtier of hera and zeus. youth |
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Hekationcheires (hundred-handers)
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hidden in mother because of their strength. fifty heads and 100 arms. |
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Helen, Klytaimnestra, Kastor, Polydeukes |
mother is leda. seduced by a swan |
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Helios |
god of the sun. one of the 12 titans |
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Hephaistos |
lame smith god. blacksmith and limps. sometimes child of zeus and hera and other times just son of hera. pissed at zeus for athena so has hephaistos. parthenogeneis
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Hera (Juno) |
goddess of marriage. married to zeus. queen of gods, scepter. bird: peacock. |
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Hesiod, Theogony |
two parts: Genealogy and narrative. "succession myth" |
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Hestia (vesta) |
goddess of hearth. important in rome. if fire goes out rome is in trouble |
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Hieros Gamos |
"holy marriage" of zeus and hera. fertility of cosmos. renews fertility to the earth |
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Hyoerion |
son of ge and uranus |
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Iapetos |
titan. son of ge and uranus. father of atlas, menoetius, prometheus and epimethus. |
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IO |
Zeus wanted to have sex with her. hid her in a cloud. hera knew. turned her into a cow. sent argo with a lots of eye to watch her. Zeus sent Hermes, disguised as a shepherd. made argo fall asleep. Hera put eyes on a peacock to watch. IO went to Egypt throw bosporus. known as egyptian queen isis |
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Ixion |
tries to have sex with hera. she is goddess of marriage and vows sacred to her. he is one of the 5 great sinners. punished after death |
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kourotrophos |
bringing up boys |
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Kronos (saturn) |
youngest titan. overcomes challenges. child of Ge and uranus. gave father a sickle because Ge said he was mistreating her. ruled over brothers and sisters. swallowed children of wife rhea. throw up stone. father of zeus and poseidon. |
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Laomedon |
king of troy. had apollo and neptune build a wall. promised wages. went back on word. sent sea-monster to his daughter. heracles saved her. went back on promise again. heracles killed him |
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Leda |
queen of sparta. zeus visited as a swan. layer eggs. two children from zeus |
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Legend |
a famous or important person who is known for doing something extremely well |
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Mekone |
prometheus tricks zeus about meat at mekone. now white bones on the gods altars |
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Metis |
"intelligence". daughter of okeanos. destined to bear next successor to cosmic power. zeus swallows her. now a part of zeus |
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Mnemosyne |
a titaness. daughter ge and uranus. birth to muses. personification: memory |
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Mount Aetna |
where typhoon is buried |
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Mount Olympos |
home of the gods |
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Mount Othrys |
mountain in central Greece |
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mythos and logos |
two recognized ways of thinking, speaking, and acquiring knowledge. Logos was forward-looking. mythos- human grief or find ultimate meaning in life’s struggles |
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myth |
a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. |
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Nereids |
sea-nympths. daughters of see god nereus and doris. |
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Nereus |
ancient sea-god. gave birth to 50 nereids |
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Nyx/Night |
one of the original gods. 15 beings related to death,despair and night |
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Oceanids |
daughters of oceanus and tethys. guardians of youth |
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Okeanos |
the river from the underworld. take hera for safekeeping during titanomachy |
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Olympians |
The Olympians are a group of 12 Greek gods who ruled after the overthrow of the Titans |
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Ouranos/Uranus |
married to ge. sickled by cronus. made ge keep hundred-handed inside her |
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Pandora |
"all gifts". marries epimetheus. has a jar. never to be opened. she opens it. everything but hope comes out. jar contains evil. |
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Pantheon |
temple for the gods |
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Parthenogenesis |
is a form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization. having kid by yourself |
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Persephone, Kore |
abducted by hades and taken to underworld. zeus arrange marriage. eats an apple in underworld. has to stay there. pomegranates at wedding |
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personification |
human qualities for objects |
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pithos |
large storage container,. jar of pandora |
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polis |
greek city state |
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polytheism |
belief in multiple gods |
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pomegranate |
what cementers daughter eats in underworld. wedding |
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Pontos |
was the divinity of the sea, one of the Protogenoi or first born gods. He was the father of the most ancient of sea-gods by the earth |
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Poseidon |
sea, ships, stability, horses, earthquakes. trident and sea creatures. grants favors to those he rapes. in roman known as neptune. |
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Prometheus |
knows future. foretells Zeus' overthrow. Freed by heracles. |
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Proteus |
old man of the sea |
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Rhea |
married to cronus |
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sacrifice |
an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure. |
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Selene |
the moon |
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succession myth |
son overthrow dad |
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Tartaros |
underworld. curses |
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Teiresias |
sees snakes. mess with them turns into woman. years later see them again turns back into a man. zeus and hera have argument about pleasures of sex. he said woman. hera mad. blinds him. zeus gives him ability to see future. |
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Tethys |
daughter of ge and uranus. married to oceanus. |
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The Ages/Races of man |
golden-good, silver-never grew up, bronze-made out of ash trees, heroes- died fighting in great wars, iron- we have trouble |
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Themis
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daughter of uranus and ge. goddess of order.2nd wife of zeus. duty to call gods to assemble. knows the future |
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Thetis |
daughter of nereus and doris. called hundred handed to help zeus |
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thought experiment |
hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through |
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titanomacy |
fight between titans and gods |
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titans |
firstborn children of ge and zeus |
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triptolemus |
inventor of the plough and agriculture, and of civilisation |
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triton |
calm sea and rivers by blowing through a conch shell horn |
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Typhoios/Typhon/Typhaon |
a monster. hundred burning snake heads. wanted to overthrow gods and rule universe equal to zeus in power |
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Zeus (Jupiter) |
ruler of the universe. hidden in crete. Amaltheia nursed him. represents lightning, scepter, throne, eagle. succession myth - swallows metis. many wives (7), many children. all-powerful. daughter athena. |
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what if the typical pattern of zeus? |
typical pattern disguises himself, have sex, woman pregnant, Hera takes out anger on the woman and child |
