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36 Cards in this Set
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who was zues?
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cheif of greek god and goddesses
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who was sirens
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creatures part women part bird lure sailors
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Aelous?
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Guardian of winds
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Lotus Eaters?
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flowers make them content/happy
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Eurlochus
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Trusted officer of odysseus
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Poseidon
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god of the sea, farther of the cyclops
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persephone
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wife of the ruler of the underworld
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apollo
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god;music, poetry and medicince
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scylla
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six headed sea monster who eat sailors
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circe
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goddess and enchatress-lives on Aeaea
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calypso
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sea goddess who lives on ogyia
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cicones
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allies of trojans who live at ismaros
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helio
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the sun god who pastures his cattle
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alcinous
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king of the phaecions
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tiresias
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blind prophet that odysseus battles
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cyclopes
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race of one eyed giants
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epic
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long narrative poem about a hero
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laertes
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odyssues's father
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penelope
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odysseus wife and queen
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paris
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prince of troy who kidnapped helen
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ithica
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island where odyssues is king
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hermes
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god of invention commerce, god messenger
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meneluas
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king who lost wife to paris
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charybidis
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dangerous whirlpool/femal sea monster
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polyphemus
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name cyclops and odysseues battles
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laestrygones
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cannibal inhabitants of a distant land
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what were the two parts of the contest to see who would be marry the queen
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shoot through the ends of battle axes and bend odyssues bow back
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what was the sign from zues something great has happened
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a crack of lightning
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who was the first victim of odyssues battle at the castle?
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antinous
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what god helps odyssues in the battle at the castle?
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athena
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what did athena do to odyssues
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made him so beautiful
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why cant odyssues raid the islond of trinacia and its cattle
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because they are immortial and bad luck now
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what are the two girst odyssey recieves from Aeolus?
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a fair west wind blowing the ships toward inthica and a great bag holding all the unfavorable stormy winders.
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what do laestrygones do to odysseys fleet
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shower them with boulders.
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what is the name of the first story
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iliad
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the war was based around what city
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troy
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