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41 Cards in this Set
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Achilles |
Son of Peleus and Thetis, greatest hero of the trojan war |
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Agamemnon |
King of Mycenae, leader of the greeks against troy. Murdered by his wife Clymnestra.
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Ajax |
Aka Aias, meaning "The Great" or "Greater." Son of Telemonius who committed suicide. |
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Aeneas |
Trojan warrior, son of Aphrodite, husband of Creusa and Lavinia. Hero of Virgil's "Aenid." |
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Antigone |
Oedipus' faithful daughter who buried polynices in defiance of Creon. |
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Bellerophon |
Sisyphus' grandson who tamed pegasus and killed the chimera. |
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Cassandra |
Raped by Ajax and murdered by Clymnestra. Her true prophecies were never believed |
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Electra |
Clymnestra's daughter who hater her mother for the murder of her father. sought vengeance upon the return of her brother Orestes |
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Hector |
Killed by Achilles, ransomed by Priam, his mother. Father of Astyanax, the greatest trojan hero. |
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Hecuba |
Priam's wife who bore him many children and was changed into a bitch (dog). |
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Hebe |
"Youthful Bloom," daughter of Zeus and Hera, cupbearer to the gods. Wife of heracles on olympus |
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Jason |
Hero in the Argonautic quest for the golden fleece. |
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Medea |
wife of Jason, priestess, sorceress, and murderess. |
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Meleager |
Hero of the Caldonian Boar hunt. |
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Odysseus |
called Ulysses by the Romans. Son of sisyphus. His journey home to reclaim the throne in Ithaca is the theme of Homer's odyssey. |
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Oedipus |
"Swellfoot." Murdered his father and married his mother. |
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Orestes |
Son of Agamemnon and Clymnestra. Murdered his mother and was acquitted. |
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Perseus |
Beheaded the gorgon Medusa. Rescued andromeda from a sea monster. |
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Theseus |
Athenian King, son of Poseidon. Slayer of the Minotaur. |
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Atreus |
King of Mycenae, father of Agamemnon. |
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Calypso |
Atlas' daughter who detained Odysseus on an island. |
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Circe |
Daughter of the sun. Sorceress who turned men into swine. Odysseus overcame her |
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Aegisthus |
Lover of Clymnestra |
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Helen |
daughter of Zeus and Leda. Left her husband to go to Troy. |
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Hermione |
daughter of helen. |
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Idomeneus |
King of Crete and ally of the greeks at Troy. |
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Iphigenia |
sacrificed by her father/saved by Artemis to become her priestess |
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Myrtilus |
Son of Hermes and Charioteer Oenamus |
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Nausicaa |
Alcinous' daughter who helps odysseus |
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Neoptolemus |
aka Pyrrus, son of Achilles. |
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Nestor |
King of Pylos, wise orator in the trojan war. |
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Palamedes |
The sea god whom Melicertes became. |
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Penthesileia |
Queen of the amazon, killed by Achilles |
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Philoctetes |
Received Heracles' bow and arrows. abandoned after receiving a snake bite. Killed Paris at Troy. |
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Polyphemus |
A cyclops, son of Poseidon, blinded by Odysseus. |
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Telegonus |
Son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father. |
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Telemachus |
Son of Odysseus |
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Polyxena |
sacrificed on achille's tomb, daughter of priam and hecuba. |
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Andromeda |
wife of perseus, who saved her from a monster while chained to a rock. |
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Andromache |
captive of neptolemus, wife of hector. |
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