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62 Cards in this Set
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Aprhrodite |
Goddess of love, beauty, procreation |
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Apollo |
God of the sun, music, prophecy |
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Aries |
God of war, battle, courage |
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Artemis |
Virgin goddess of the hunt, wilderness |
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Athena |
Goddess of wisdom |
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Demeter |
Goddess of fertility |
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Dionysus |
God of wine, partying |
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Hades |
God of the underworld |
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Hephaestus |
God of fire, forge |
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Hera |
Goddess of marriage, women, childbirth |
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Poseidon |
God of the sea |
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Zeus |
God of thunder, ruler of Olympus |
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Xenia |
An important social custom that involves a very good host/guest relationship |
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Hubris |
Extreme arrogance and excessive pride |
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Heinrich Schliemann |
A German businessman who excavated Troy, Mycenae |
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Telemachos |
The son of Odysseus |
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Muses |
Daughters of Zeus |
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Mycenaean Greece 2000-1100 BCE |
Indo Europeans migrate to Greece Warrior ethos Linear B writing |
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Penelope |
Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachos |
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Helen |
Wife of Menelaus, left him for a prince of Troy, this was the cause of the Trojan war |
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Kalypso |
A goddess who held Odysseus on her island |
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Agamemnon |
Menelaus’ brother, led the expedition to Troy. Returned home and was murdered by his wife and son |
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Aiolos |
A mortal king in charge of the change of winds |
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Alkinoos |
King of the Phaiakians |
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Anitinoos |
One of the leading suitors for Penelope, threw the footstool at Odysseus, first to be killed by Odysseus |
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Arete |
Queen of The Phaiakians |
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Charybdis |
A monster in the form of a freak whirlpool |
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Circe |
Goddess and enchantress of Aiaia, turned Odysseus’ men into pigs and sent them to the underworld |
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Eurykleia |
The old nurse of Odysseus and Telemachos |
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Eurymachos |
The second suitor of Penelope’s, attacked Odysseus and killed by. Odysseus |
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Elpenor |
Companion of Odysseus’, dies by falling off a roof on Circes island |
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Eumaios |
Noble swine herd of Odysseus |
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Laistrygones |
A giant cannibal people Odysseus encountered on his voyage home |
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Lotus Eaters |
Mysterious people who trap men there and have them forget about their purpose |
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Nausikaa |
Daughter of Alkinoos and Arete, befriended Odysseus |
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Nestor |
King in Pylos, old hero from the Iliad |
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Orestes |
Son of Agamemnon, avenged his death |
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Phaiakians |
The people of Alkinoos |
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Polyphemos |
Greatest of the Cyclopes, son of Poseidon, stabbed in the eye by Odysseus |
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Sirens |
Dangerous creatures of the sea who sing |
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Scylla |
A man eating monster who preyed on Odysseus’ men |
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Melanthios |
Goatherd, gave the suitors weapons |
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Divination |
Sacrificial victims entrails |
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Restless dead |
A person who was cheated out of life |
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Auros |
A person who can’t cross over |
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Biathanatoi |
A person who was violently killed Appear as they did at death of |
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Ataphos |
The dead must be buried and mourned to be able to enter the underworld |
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Greek dark ages 1100-800B.C |
Follows decline of the Mycenaean culture Government disappears Lack of civilization in Greece |
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Hundred handers |
50 headed giants |
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Menelaus |
Helen’s husband, Agamemnons brother |
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Minoan Age |
Powerful kings Thalassocracy Wealthy from trade Culture Writing: Linear A |
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Chaos |
Void |
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Gaia |
Earth |
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Tartarus |
Underworld |
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Ouranos |
Starry sky, Ouranos conceals his children back within Gaia |
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Kronos |
Son of Ouranos, also conceals his children |
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Epimethus |
Brother of Prometheus, seen as the “forethinker” |
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Prometheus |
A titan, credited with the creation of men from clay |
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Rhea |
A titan, was responsible for the ways things flowed within the kingdom of Kronos |
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Pandora |
The first women created in Greek Mythology |
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Titans |
Deities who preceded the Olympians |
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Oral Poetry |
Facts |
