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50 Cards in this Set
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Gaea |
Mother Earth; Marries/Births Uranus and create 3 HH Giants and 3 Cyclopes |
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Uranus |
Father Sky; Marries Gaea and Births 3 HH Giants & 3 Cyclopes. Feared them, banished them, was "killed" by son Kronos |
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Kronos |
God of the Sky; Wife= Rhea. Birthed Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, & Zeus. Zeus overthrows Kronos and sends him to Tartarus |
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Hundred Hand Giants |
Birthed from Uranus and Gaea. Uranus feared them so imprisoned them in Tartarus. Later were released by the Gods and helped take down the Titans. |
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Cyclopes |
Birthed from Uranus and Gaea. Uranus feared them so imprisoned them in Tartarus. Later were released by the Gods and helped take down the Titans. Also gave the Big Three each a unique weapon. |
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Rhea |
Wife of Kronos; Mother of Hestia, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Zeus. Tired of seeing her children eaten by Kronos she helped Zeus hide and grow strong enough to fight back against him. |
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Tartarus |
One of the 3 immortal beings born from Chaos. Ruled the deepest part of the underworld. |
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Eros (Aphrodite Son) |
God of Love / "Love itself". Fell in love with Psyche after scratching himself with a love arrow. |
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Titans |
Kronos, Prometheus, Atlas, Typhon were some of the main Titans. Followed Kronos, lost to the gods in the ten year war and banished to Tartarus. |
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Chaos |
The emptiness called Chaos. Emerged from Chaos was the 3 immortals, Gaea, Tartarus, and Eros. |
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Zeus |
God of the Sky/King of Gods. Son of Rhea and Kronos, who he overthrew. |
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Hera |
Wife of Zeus, jealous of his affairs, punishes Echo for lying to her by making her repeat last words spoken to her. |
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Poseidon |
God of the Seas. Part of the Big 3 Gods. Father of Theseus. |
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Hades |
God of the Underworld, kidnaps Persephone as his wife and keeps her for 6 months of every year as she ate 6 pomegranate seeds while in the underworld. |
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Prometheus |
Created Man and all loving creatures, Man which he loved of all his creations. Tricked Zeus and has Fire taken from man which he steals back, and is punished by Zeus to be bound to a mountain and a vulture eats his liver every day. |
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Epimetheus |
Brother of Prometheus. Gave all living things created by Prometheus a gift, except man. Married Pandora who was dangerous but immediately fell in love with her. |
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Pandora |
Created by Hephaestus on Zeus's orders as a punishment for Mankind. Beautiful, with a deceitful nature and a box full of evils and hope. Pandora opens box and let's evil out and hope is kept in the box. |
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Hephaestus |
Son of Zeus. Blacksmith of the Gods. Creates Pandora |
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Demeter |
Mother of Persephone, when she was upset winter came to earth. Persephone goes to underworld for 6 months so winter is during those 6 months as Demeter is angry. |
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Persephone |
Daughter of Zeus & Demeter. Kidnapped by Hades and spends 6 months in the underworld every year due to eating 6 pomegranate seeds while she was captive. |
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Psyche |
As beautiful as Aphrodite, who grew jealous of Psyche so has Eros make her fall in love with something bad. Eros falls in love with Psyche and ends up leaving her as she cannot accept love yet as she had to see him in person. |
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Eros |
One of the 3 immortal beings. Created from Chaos. Eros is Love. |
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Aphrodite |
Goddess of Love/Beauty. Jealous of those who challenge her beauty. Sympathetic to interesting people like Echo. |
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Zephyrus |
God of the West Wind. Loved Apollo. |
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Daedalus |
Inventor of wheel plow loom etc. Father of Perdix who he pushed over a building. (he was saved by Aphrodite transforming him.) Builds the labyrinth for Minos and is trapped in it with son Icarus. Makes wings to try to escape, his son Icarus dies while flying with him. |
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Icarus |
Son of Daedulus. Brilliant inventor like his father. Flew too close to the sun while trying to escape the labyrinth and died. |
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Minos |
King of Crete. Has Daedulus create Labyrinth for which he has 7 males and females from King Aegeus send to be eaten by minotaur. Son of Zeus. |
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Minotaur |
Born to Queen Pasiphae. Put in Labyrinth by Minos and gets 7 males and females to feed on every year. Killed by Theseus. |
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Narcissus |
Incredibly Handsome, fell in love with a reflection in a pool of water and never moved from it due to Aphrodite making him fall in love with the reflection. |
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Echo |
Good friends with Aphrodite, lies for Zeus and gets punished by Hera by making her repeat last words spoken to her. Loves Narcissus but he pays her no attention. |
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Orpheus |
Son of Apollo and Calliope; Plays lyre beautifully. Fell in love/married Eurydice. She was killed and he traveled to the underworld to retrieve her, but due to being impatient, he lost her. |
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Eurydice |
Fell in love/married Orpheus. Ran away from Aristeus and was killed by a nest of snakes she stepped over by leg bites. |
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Aristeus |
King of Athens, Apollos son. A hunter. Wanted to see Orpheus's wife so he followed her and caused her to run into and be killed by snakes. He left her there. |
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Midas |
King, Loved gold most in the world. Apollo granted him a wish that was to turn anything he touched to gold. He turned his daughter to gold. He forgave his servant for telling of his donkey ears because the god Apollo forgave him. |
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Apollo |
God of Music; Punished Midas and taught him a lesson. Son of Zeus. |
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Theseus |
Poor, raised by King Aegeus. Battled different challenges with different styles of fight. Defeated the Minotaur. Son of Poseidon. |
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Aegeus |
Athenian King, father or Aegeus. Threw himself off a cliff when Theseus didn't raise a white flag on his return. |
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Ariadne |
Daughter of Minos, Has ball of thread that shows way out of the labyrinth made by Daedalus. Fell in love with Theseus and ran away with him but he did not love her. |
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Corynetes |
Son of Hephaestus; Killed travelers with his bronze club. Tricked by Theseus into giving him his club, Theseus bashed his head with it. |
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Pilocamptes |
Bandit; Killed travelers by having them help bend pine trees to the ground and letting go, flinging the other into the air killing them when they land. Theseus kills him in the same manner. |
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Procrutes |
Terrorized victims by tying them to a bed and stretching them or cutting them forcing them to fit the size of the bed. Theseus terrorized him in the same manner. |
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Sciron |
Killed travelers by pushing them off a cliff so they'd be eaten by a monsterous sea turtle. Theseus pushes him off the cliff and kills him the same way. |
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Perseus |
Son of Danae and Zeus, cast out by Acrisius. Polydectes wanted Medusa's head so he went and retrieved it with help from Hermes and Athena. Later turned Polydectes to stone and killed Acrisius via disc. Married to Andromeda |
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Danae |
Imprisoned by Acrisius due to prophecy her son would kill him. Mother of Perseus by Zeus and later unwillingly taken as partner by Polydectes. Perseus stopped him. |
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Acrisius |
A King, imprisoned Danae due to prophecy her son would kill him. Sent Perseus and her far away. Perseus ended up killing him |
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Medusa |
Snake Headed Gorgon; anything that looks her in the eyes turns to stone. Killed by Perseus. |
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Gray sisters |
Share one eye between them. Blackmailed by Perseus into giving him information to further his journey. |
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Andromeda |
Wife of Perseus. Was imprisoned by Poseidon after her mother called her more beautiful than the Nereids and was to be eaten by a sea monster. Perseus saved her. |
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Athena |
Goddess of Wisdom; Helped Perseus by giving him her shield to defend against Medusa's eyes. |
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Hermes |
Messenger of the Gods; Helped Perseus by giving him his winged sandals for flying/escaping. |
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