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94 Cards in this Set
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Heracles usually wears what
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lion skin |
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what is Heracles weapon
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bow or club
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rude side of heracles
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fountain of him peeing
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birth of heracle
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zeus and alcmena and amphytron
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story of zeus and alcmena
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-married amphytryon -said she wouldn't sleep with him till he avegedher fathers killer -amphytryon leaves -zeus disguise himself as amphytryon -says I killed him let have sex -zeus keeps night going for 24 hours -he leaves and real husband comes back -says lets have sex |
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alcmena has what
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twins Heracles and iphicleas
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what does hera do to stop Heracles birth
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-hera sends eleithyi to birth eurytheus -eurytheus was birthed on Heracles birth day -servant sees eileithyia outside -tricks her to stand up uncrossing her legs -Heracles is born |
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what does zeus want to do to heracles
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-wants him to live forever -takes him to Olympus to feed from hera breast as she sleeps so he will be immortal -hera wakes up and smacks Heracles -milk flies out -creates milky way |
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what does hera do to baby heracles
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sends snakes to kill hm -he strangles them |
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who is linus |
hercles music teacher |
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hercles and linus
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-Heracles isn't a good student -herecles attacks and kills teacher -example of Heracles angr issue |
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Megara
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marries hracles -have children and happy life -Megara sister maries iphicles |
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what does hera do to megar and heracles
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hera drives Heracles crazy -sets his house on fire -kills wife and son |
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12 labors of heracls
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Apollo said he will cure heracle of madness if he does 12 things -must go to uripidous and ask what he must do |
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1st labor
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nemean lion -decentant from pontus -lion is invulnerable (not abe to wound him) -must kill it with bar hands -cruses windpipe or throat punches it -skins lion with own claws cause nothing ca wound it -wears invulnerable lion skin |
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2nd labr
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hydra of lerna -spring was protected by 9 headed snak -wen you cut off one head it grows 3 back -as Heracles chops off head before it sprouts ioaus torhes it -last head even though it was cut was immortal -herals puts snake head at bottom of pool under rock |
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what does Heracles do to his arows
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dip them in hydra blood to make them poiseous
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3rd labor
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deer of ceryneia -when Heracles catces deer Apollo and artemis tel him he can't harm it -deerhas golden antlers -Heracles chases deer for entire year and rips off antlers and brings them back |
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4th labor
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labor erymanthian boar -Heracles brings boar alive to eurstheus -heraclescome back with oar eurytheus hides in jar |
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what was the side adventure on the way to erymanthia
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pholus and entar
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pholusand entaur
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-Heracles has friend centar -pholus has jar of wine that is to be only shared by everyone is presen -other centars smell wine being opened -centars attack -Heracles drove off entaurs killing them with bow |
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what happen during battle of centars
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chiron is shot by Heracles -chironn is immortal centar - |
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what happens to pholus
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he drops a arrow on his foot and dies from hydra poisen
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5th labor |
stables of augeas (humiliation) -barns have too much poop and must be cleaned -Heracles must clean stables -makes bet with augeas he can clean it in one day -bets cows for reward for 1 day -Heracles diverts river and cleans stables |
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what happens when augeas doesn't keep his promis
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Heracles kills him and takes all his cows
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6th labor
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stmphalos birds -flock of birds uses sling to kill the flock |
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7th labor
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Cretan bull -wrestles bull and puts it in the same pot as the boar |
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8th labor |
horses of diomedes -king of thrace is diometes his horses are eating men -Heracles feeds diomees to horses and they turn back to normal grass fed |
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side mission of adetus and alcestis
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guest friends of Heracles -admetus has arraged it so his wife will die in his place -same day Heracles arrives -Heracles wrestles thantos that brings people to hades -Heracles rescues Alcestis -Heracles plays gamea nd gives him new wife(Alcestis) |
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9th labor
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belt of the amazon queen -amazon women are warriors -heacles asks queen for belt -queen falls in love with Heracles -hera steps in to cause whole tribeo attack Heracles -Heracles kills them and has the belt |
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10th labor |
cattle of geryon -heraclesborrows bowl of helius to fetch cows -Heracles fights geryon dog -2 headed dog -geryon has triplet 3 heads and 6 arms - kills geryon |
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what happens after herales kills geryon
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puts cows in bowl to come back- -when heracle is in Italy he encounters cercopes -cercopes wait till he is aslee -steel Heracles cows -Heracles otice some cows are missing -ties them to a pole and take with him |
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what happens to cercopes
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cercopes start to laugh and say they would get awaywith steeling until they met dark bottom -Heracles has a hairy dark bottom -Heracles laugh and lets them go with a cow |
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11th labr
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appleof hesperidies -apple tree produces golden apples -tree was a gift to hera as a wedding preset - |
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how does Heracles find the tree |
runs into Prometheus -Prometheus stole from gods -tied to rock -Heracles frees Prometheus and kills bird that tourchures him -Prometheus gave iortality from chiron to romethius so chiron can die so he doesn't suffer |
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after Prometheus where does Heracles go |
-finds nereus -Heracles wrestles nereus to force him to tell him where to find apples |
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1st version of apples
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-Heracles finds atlas -atlas father was hesperidies -Heracles holds up sky for atlas -atlas returns with golden apples -when atlas gies apples to Heracles he doesn't want to hold up sky any more -Heracles said can you hold the sky while ajust the pillow -Heracles tricked atalas to take his positon back |
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2nd version of apples
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-ladon the snake guards aples -ladon is brother of graeand gorgons -Heracles kill ladon and takes apples |
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3rd version of apples
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-Heracles reaches garden -hesperidies feeds the snake while another hesperidies pick apple -nymphfalls in love with Heracles and gives him apples |
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12th labor cerberus
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sent to land of the dad to get cerebus -herecles makes del with hades and says you can borrow him but you have to catch him with bare hands and bring him back |
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Heracles and cerberus
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heracleshains up dog andbrings him to eurystheus -wie Heracles was I hades he finds theseus -theseus was stuck on a rck -Heracles rescues him |
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who else does Heracles find in underworld
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-finds meleager -asks if he wil marry his daughter -Heracles finds meleager sistster and marry her |
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who was borhtering deianera |
achellous the river god -wants to marry meleager siser -Heracles fights achelous and wins |
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what doe s Heracles do do deinaira
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tells her to go back hom with him |
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what happens at the river
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they find a strong riverthey cant cross -meet centaur nessus -says I can take you across one at a time -sends new wife over first |
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what does nessus do to Heracles new wife
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once on other side he tries to rap her -heacles shoots nessus with poisen arrow |
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what does nessus do as he is dieng
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tells dianira to collect blood which is poisoned and says if Heracles is ever unfaithful put thison his clothing ad he will never love again
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what happens to Heracles and dionira
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herales meets iole -Heracles was inmeeting with iole father -falls in love with her -killed her father an brothers -took iole captive -sent her home to diora |
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after heracls took iole captive what next |
takes a bath -when he gets out dionira puts nessus blood on his clothes for loving iole -puts on new robe and burst into flames -Heracles builds pile of woo and cremates himself -brurns human side and leaves immortal side to unite with gods |
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theseus
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aegeus king of Athena -don't untie until you get home -asks pittheus -says let me think on it -pittheus gets him drunk -sends his daughter to sleep with aegeus -result is birth of thesus |
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what is thesus test |
-hides his sandle under a big rock -moves rock to get his stuff back |
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what did minos pray to posiden |
minos prayed to posiden -asks to send me bull so I can sacrifice to you |
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what did posiden respond
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-bull came out of sea -minos keeps bull not sacrifice it -minos cheated god |
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how did posiden respond to being cheated
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posidn punished he made Pasiphae (minos wife) fall in love with bull -asked daealus to invent way for Pasiphae to have sex with bull -bulds fake cow for her to climb in to -her an bull have sex |
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phasiphe child
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minotar |
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minos asks deadalus to make what
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building to put miotaur in -builds labyrinth -labrynth is like a giant maze so te minotaur can't get out |
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androgeus
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athlete that travels around Greece cometing -goes to Athens andn wins a lot -gets jumped and killed -minos has large navy and attaks Athens -as payment athes must send 7 men a year to crete to fight minotaur |
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thesus vs minotaur |
-theseus was chosen to go to minatuar -as they sail with black flag if theseus survives change sail on way bak -Ariadne falls in love with thesusus -gives him string so he can find his way back out of the labrynth -thesus kills minotaur |
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theseus and ariadne
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after killing the minotaur theysail back to naxon -Athena wakes up theseus tells him to get out of here -hinos keep Ariadne asleep -Ariadne marries Dionysus -theseus sails back to athens |
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thseus and aegea
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theseus forgets to change sails -king jumps off cliff and kills himself |
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1st labor of theseus
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the clubman -as people come into the landhe hits them with a club and steels their stuf -theseus finds peripetes and kils him -now has club |
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2nd snis pinebender
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3rd labor of theseus
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sow of crommyon -has a pig to attack victims -thheseus attacks the pig and kills phaia |
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4th labor of theseus
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scirn -inhabits cliffs -has people to wash hisfeet then kick them off clif -theseus bends to wash sciron feet ducks and kicks him off cliff -giant turtle ate sciron |
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5th labor of theseus
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cercyon the wrestler -makes people wrestle him -theseus inveted scientific wrestling to defeat cercyon |
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6th labor of theseus |
procrustes -has hotel that has one bed -if person is too small he stretches them -person to big he chops them off -theseus puts crustes on bed and kill him with axe |
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theseus at athens
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medea lives with eaga in Athens -puts fear into eagea head -says to poisen theseus -recognizes him -makes him pince |
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what does theseus do while he is crowed in athens
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kills the bull of marathon that herecles brought fromcrete
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theseus and centaurs
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pirithous friend of theseus -theseus attends wedding of pirithous -Pirithous can't handle alcohol -end of fighting centaurs |
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pirtlhous trip to under wolrd
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-wants to marry persephon -theseus goes to get Persephone -sits down in underwold -gleued to rock -herecles rescues him -pirthous was left in underworld
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death of theseus
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-over thrown as king -goes into exhile -goes to island of friend -friend kills him -buries body -discovers a body near islandmake shrine to it of theseus |
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Priam + Hecuba |
hector
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who is hector son
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paris
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review the juddgement ofparis
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-paris was shepherd -given golden apple -asked who was most beautiful -picked aphrodite |
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Helen + menelaus
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-Helen is daughter of zeus and queen of Sparta -had the face that launched 1000 ships -menalaus leaves Helen alone at home with paris -some how paris gets Helen to leave with him |
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odyseus and the call to war
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odyseus doesn't ant to fight to get Helen of troy back -when messenger coms to get odsseus -they think he is crazy -he is plowing the beach and planting salt -takes his baby son and puts in front of plow -odyseus stops so he isn't crazy |
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achilles
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greeks wll not win if they do not have achillies -achillies mother is neared -achillies is greatest fighter greeks would have
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birth of achillies |
when achillies born mother dips him into the styx river and where he was dipped he is innvolnerable -mother holds him by akle (weakness) -leaes pealeus with achillies |
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who does pealeus give achillis to
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chiron the centaur
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how does odysseu find achillies |
-odysseus dress like a merchant (trader) -achillies is hiding in women part of palace -hasweapons as merchant gift -only girl to go to weapons is achillies
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call to war
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-sacrifice iphignia -wind blows into harbor -agamemon asks why the wind is against them -he forgot to pray to all gods but Athena -sacrifice daughter Iphigenia -artemis savs Iphigenia and substitutes a deer instead |
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Anger of achillies
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brieis was chilles slave -awarded to achillies as prize -Agamemnon has slave also -when agaemnon wont return his slave he brings plague to army -Agamemnon wants replacement for his lave -tries to take achillies slave |
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what happens when Agamemnon tries to take achillies slave
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Athena comes down and stops achilliesfrom killing agamemnon
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achillie + hector
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achillies kills hector -so angry he ties body to chariot and drives around city -this is an insult to gods -god send hermies to ask for body of hector |
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achillies + penthsilea
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army of amazons show up to help troy -queen is stabbedby achillies as she dies he realizes she is the only women he will love |
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achillies + troilus
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as long as trolius is alive the city can not be destroyed -achillies waits for trolius omes out of house -kills trolius -takes body throws it on Apollo statue -for this Apollo gives paris a bow to kill achillies ajax carrys achillies body off battle field |
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3 talismans of troy
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trolius: can't be killed palladium: (statue of Athena) -diomedesand achillies steel this neoptolemus (song of achillies) |
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suicide of ajax the greater
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considered best warrior after achillies -when achillies died his armor was given to odysseus -ajax kills him self |
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wooden horse
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horse was offered as offering to Athena -horse was hollow -so big they had to tear down wall to bring it inside -laocoon thinks its a trap -throws spear at it and hears its hollow -posiden sends snke to strangle laocoon and sons |
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who survives the battle of the Trojan horse
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aeneas (son of Aphrodite)
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polyxena
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polyxa was claimed by achillies as his wife -they sacrifice polyxena in front of her faher so she can be with achillies in afterlife |
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death of ajax lesser
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rape Cassandra in temple -made Athena angry -whe ajax is sailing home posiden raised up stom -storm destroyedship and flug ajax onto cliff wher he slowly died |
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death of agamenon
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-returns home with Cassandra as slave -she tells him his wife is angry -he takes a bath and wife gives him robe with no head hole -she takes agamenon cousin as husband andhe kills agamenon -wife kills casandra with axe |
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menalaus and helen
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chases her into temple -she falls and Menelaus drops his sword -falls back in love with her |
