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51 Cards in this Set
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Uranus eating his kids
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"Saturn Devouring One of His Children" by Goya and Lucientes 1818
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Unknown statue
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Zeus of Artemesium 460 BC found in 1928 near Greece
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Zeus Coin
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A drawing of an ancient coin used in Greece. Phidias created a 42 foot gold and ivory statue of Zeus in the 450's BC. It's missing now.
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Washington Statue
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"George Washington as Phidian Zeus" by Horatio Greenough in 1840
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Aphrodite naked
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"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli in 1486
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Vulture Eating Guy's Liver
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Gustav Moreau's
“Prometheus” 1868. Defiantly sits glaring toward Zeus who chained him there. |
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Prometheus Statue
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Paul Manship,
“Prometheus Stealing Fire” Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, 1933-4. Symbol of industrial dynamism. |
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Painting of the two lovers
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Sandro Boticelli, “Mars
and Venus,” ca. 1485. Love conquers all, even the god of war. Aphrodite and Ares. |
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White statue with lots of balls
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Artemis goddess of beasts. 1st century AD found in Ephesus, Rome. Everything about her represents nurture
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Painting of woman with bow and arrow
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Vecellio Tiziano (Titian)
“Death of Actaeon” ca. 1565 Actaeon accidentally saw Artemis bathing so she turned him into a stag so his own hunting dogs would kill him. |
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Uranus eating his kids
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"Saturn Devouring One of His Children" by Goya and Lucientes 1818
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Unknown statue
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Zeus of Artemesium 460 BC found in 1928 near Greece
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Zeus Coin
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A drawing of an ancient coin used in Greece. Phidias created a 42 foot gold and ivory statue of Zeus in the 450's BC. It's missing now.
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Washington Statue
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"George Washington as Phidian Zeus" by Horatio Greenough in 1840
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Aphrodite naked
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"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli in 1486
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Vulture Eating Guy's Liver
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Gustav Moreau's
“Prometheus” 1868. Defiantly sits glaring toward Zeus who chained him there. |
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Prometheus Statue
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Paul Manship,
“Prometheus Stealing Fire” Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, 1933-4. Symbol of industrial dynamism. |
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Painting of the two lovers
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Sandro Boticelli, “Mars
and Venus,” ca. 1485. Love conquers all, even the god of war. Aphrodite and Ares. |
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White statue with lots of balls
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Artemis goddess of beasts. 1st century AD found in Ephesus, Rome. Everything about her represents nurture
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Painting of woman with bow and arrow
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Vecellio Tiziano (Titian)
“Death of Actaeon” ca. 1565 Actaeon accidentally saw Artemis bathing so she turned him into a stag so his own hunting dogs would kill him. |
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Man statue with top-knot
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Apollo Belvedere, Roman
copy (ca. 130 AD). Far shooting god. Possibly just killed python? beautiful man. |
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Man and woman turning into a tree
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini “Apollo
and Daphne”, ca. 1624 Rome. From Ovid's metamorphoses |
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Bronze statue pointing up
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Giovanni da Bologna, “Mercury,” 1564. Hermes the messenger sent by Zeus with his iconic images.
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White statue with a man and baby
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Praxiteles, Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, mid 4th-9 century BC, Olympia. Debatable if it is an original b/c of hip brace.
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Gold vase/jar thing
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Derveni Crater 4th century BC. Artist unknown. Details of Dionysus and people being entertained by him.
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Zeus
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Jupiter
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Hera
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Juno
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Poseidon
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Neptune
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Hades
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Pluto
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Hestia
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Vesta
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Hephaestus
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Vulcan-lame god of fire
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Ares
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Mars-god of war
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Apollo
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Apollo-the far shooting god
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Artemis
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Dione- Goddess of beasts
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Demeter
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Ceres- Goddess of Harvest
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Dionysus
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Bacchus-god of wine
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Hermes
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Mercury-The messenger of the gods. The liminal god. Psychopompos
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Athena
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Minerva - Goddess of war
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Aphrodite
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Venus - Goddess of Love
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Europa
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Zeus appears as a bull and takes her into the ocean to rape her.
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Ganymede
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Hottie Trojan taken to be a cup holder/sex slave to Zeus
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Leda
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Zeus came as a swan and she bore Helen of Troy
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Alcmena
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Zeus came as her husband and she bore Hercules
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Zeus's iconography
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thunderbolt and lightening. Aegis (cloak) eagle and oak (long life)
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Hieros Gamos
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sex slaves
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Hera's iconography
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peacock (many eyes)
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Mother of 9 muses
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Mnemosyne and Zeus. Apollo looks after them
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The Fates
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Morai or Pacae.
Clotho-makes thread Lachesis-pulls out thread Atropos-cuts thread |
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Poseidon's iconography
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"Earth shaker" Trident, stallion and bull.
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Galatea
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Female statue brought to life by Aphrodite. Made by Pygmalion.
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Eros
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Cupid- falls in love with Psyche
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