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49 Cards in this Set
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What is "nostoi"?
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returns
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What is cicones?
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Odysseus' first stop
Showed greed and carelessness of his men |
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Who is Polyphemus?
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Cyclops
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Who is Aeolus?
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Wind King
Showed greed of Odysseus' men |
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Who are the Laestrygonians?
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Canabals
Killed all but Odysseus' ship |
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Who is Circe?
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Lure of sex
Turns Odysseus' men into animals |
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What is a katabasis?
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Journey to the underworld
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Who is Tiresias?
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Gives advice to Odysseus on how to get home
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Who are the Sirens?
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Sing to lure men in
Offer knowledge and wisdom |
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Who is Scylla?
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Lover of Poseidon
Turned into a monster with 6 heads |
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Who is Charybdis?
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Tidal Pool
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What was Helios cattle?
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saving power of faith
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Who is Calypso?
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Offers a male fantasy and immortality
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Phaeacions
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Halfway house where odysseous gets gifts
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Nausicaa
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Found Odysseus on the beach and befriended him
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Eumaeus
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Swinherd
Loyal even w/the suitors there |
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Telemachus
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Odysseus' son
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Argus
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Odysseus' dog
Recognized him but he was killed soon after |
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Antinous
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Leader of evil suitors
Wreckless |
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Penelope
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Odysseus' wife
always faithful |
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Euryclea
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Odysseus' nursemaid
Recognizes him and keeps faithful |
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Contest of the bow
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First challenge
Arrow through the head of 12 axes |
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Trick of the bed
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Last trick of penelope
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Numina
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spirits which inhabit anything
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Sacrificium
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Sacrifice which stands as a contract
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Janus
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Gate
Beginnings Signified when rome at war |
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Jupiter
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Zeus
Sky god Power of Roman State |
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Juno
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Hera
Female members of family and household |
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Mars
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Ares
flocks and/or war |
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Minerva
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Athena
Handicrafts |
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Venus
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Aphrodite
fresh water and plant fertility |
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Vesta
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Hestia
House and home Vestial Virgins |
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Lar
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spirit of ancestor
protects people |
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Penates
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Protect household goods
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Paterfamilias
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Head of Household
Ultimate power |
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Pietas
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Duty and devotion to family, gods, and state
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Aeneas
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Trojan, who gave up what he wanted to please others
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Dido
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Aeneas' affair
Killed herself after cursing him Causes Punic War |
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Hannibal
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terrorizes Romans for 16 years
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Turnus
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Killed by Aeneas
Lavinia's fiancee |
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Romulus and Remus
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Brothers who were attempted to be killed
Grew up and rule the city |
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Rhea Silvia
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Mother of twins
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Horatii
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Won Battle
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Curiattii
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One lamented by fiancee
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Servius Tullus
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King after murder of his foster father
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Tullia
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Wicked daughter
Marries brother in law Tarquin Murders her sister, husband and father |
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Tarquin the Proud
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Kills Tullias family
Not a good ruler |
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Lucretia
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Raped by Tarquin's son
Makes Brutus, father and tarquin swear revenge Kills herself as an example to other women |
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Brutus
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vows revenge
takes lead role king and family killed or exiled |
