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51 Cards in this Set
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Admetus
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deal w/ Apollo; wife gave herself so that he would not have to die
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Alcestis
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gave herself so that husband Admetus did not have to die
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Anu
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sky in Kumarbi Myth; he overthrowns Apsu, Kumarbi overthrowns him
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Ariadne
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helped Theseus from the labyrinth
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Arachne
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weaving against Athena
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Charon
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boatman of river Styx
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Chiron
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wisest, kindest centaur
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Deianira
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second wife of Hercules who kills him with poison on his robes accidentally
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Delos
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island that sheltered Leto when she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo
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Deucalion
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flood survivor, race of mean from stone
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Egypt
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agricultural center, similar myths to Greeks
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Endymion
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Selene fell in love with him; sleep forever
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Eurystheus
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cousin of Heracles, gave Heracles 12 labors
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Fates (Moirai)
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Clotho, Atropos, Lachesis; measured a life
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Geryon
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giant monster with 3 bodies slain by Heracles
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Graces (Charities)
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attendents of Aphrodite
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Hesiod
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8-7 century BC
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Hyginus
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4-5 century
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Kumarbi
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Mittite myth, over threw Anu by biting off his genitals
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Maia
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mother of Hermesq
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Marduk
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overthrew Tiamat
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Marsyas
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satyr killed by Apollo and skinned
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Meleager
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Calydonian Board Hunt; log in the fire
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Pasiphae
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wife of Minos, bore the Minotaur
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Omphale
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queen that Heracles served as a lady in waiting; taught him humility
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Otus and Ephialtes
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giant sons of Poseidon who tried to overthrow the Gods; Artemis promised her hand to Otus to stop them; they killed each other
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Ovid
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8 AD
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Pelias
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Jason's uncle, took his throne
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Pelops
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son of Tantalus; father served him to the gods for dinner; won Hippodamia as a wife after he father's chariot was sabotaged
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Phaethon
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son of Helios, killed when he drove the sun to close to the Earth by Zeus
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Pirithous
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wanted to marry Persephone from Hades, stuck on a bench for eternity
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Pyrrha
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wife of Deucalion
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Rhadamanthus
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brother of Minos, judge in the underworld
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Semele
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mother of Dionysus; tricked by Hera into Zeus sowing himself in all his splendor
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Theseus
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Minotaur, Ariadne, Aegis' son; Dionysus
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Tiamat
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married to Apsu; salt water
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Tithonus
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husband of Eos; grasshopper
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Tityos
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giant that tried to rape Leto; similar punishment to Prometheus in Tartarus
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Ullikummi
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stone monster of Kumarbi
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anthropomorphic
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human shaped
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Diachronic
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through time
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Georges Dumezil
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linguist and mythographer. Three Functions - rulers, warriors, farmers
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Indo-European
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parent language of many European languages
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Katabasis
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hero's journey to the underworld to bring back something
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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father of structural study of myth
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Linear B
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first Greek writing
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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used synchronic study of myth
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Structuralism
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breakdown of a myth into parts
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Synchronic
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a look at a myth in one moment in time
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Theriomorphic
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animal shaped
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Three Functions
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farmer, warrior, preist/ruler
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