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92 Cards in this Set
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Achaea
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Greece
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Achaeans
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Greeks
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Achilles
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commander of the Myrmidons, Achaean allies, at Troy
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Actoris
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maid of Penelope
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Aeaea
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island home of Circe
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Aegisthus
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seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon, killed by Orestes
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Aeolus
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1. master of the winds
2. Father of Cretheus |
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Aethon
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name assumed by Odysseus, disguised as a beggar
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Agamemnon
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king of Mycenae, husband of Clytemnestra, murdered by her and Aegisthus
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Ajax
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1. Great Ajax: defeated by Odysseus in the contest for Achilles' armor
2. Little Ajax falls off cliff |
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Alcinous
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king of Phaeacians, husband of Arete
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Amphimedon
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suitor killed by Telemachus; in the underworld his ghost reports the death of all the suitors to the ghost of Agamemnon
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Amphinomus
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a suitor killed by Telemachus, and a favorite of Penelope
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Anticleia
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mother of Odysseus
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Antinous
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one of the two leading suitors
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Antiphates
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king of Laestrygonians (giants)
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Aphrodite
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goddes of love, daughter of Zeus
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Apollo
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son of Zeus, patron of the arts (music and poetry, god of archery
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Ares
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son of Zeus, god of war, lover of Aphrodite
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Arete
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queen of Phaeacia
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Argives
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alternate name for Achaeans
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Argos
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Odysseus' dog
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Arnaeus
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true name of Irus
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Athena
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goddess, daughter of Zeus, defender of Achaeans. Patron of human ingenuity and resourcefulness
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Athens
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the great city of Arechtheus and Athena, in Attica, in east-central Greece
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Autolycus
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Odysseus' grandfather (named him)
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Calypso
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goddess-nymph
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Charybdis
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monster in form of whirlpool across from Scylla
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Cicones
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Trojan allies
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Circe
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goddess and enchantress of Aeaea who changes men to pigs
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Clashing Rocks
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lethal rocks near Scylla and Charybdis
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Clytemnestra
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wife of Agamemnon
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Ctesippus
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suitor killed by Philoetius
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Cyclops
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one-eyed cannibals
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Danaans
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alternative name for Achaeans
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Demodocus
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blind singer of Phaeacians
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Diocles
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king of Phera
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Eidothea
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sea-nymph
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Elpenor
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fell off Circe's roof
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Etoneus
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attendant of Menelaus
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Eumaeus
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swineherd
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Eupithes
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father of Antinous, killed by Laertes
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Eurycleia
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Odysseus' old jurse
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Eurylochus
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kin of Odysseus, second in command
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Eurymachus
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one of the two leading suitors
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Halitherses
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Ithacan elder, prophet
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Helen
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Menelaus' wife, taken from Sparta to cause the Trojan War
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Helios
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the sun god
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Hephaestus
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god of fire
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Heracles
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(Hercules) divides time between the underworld and Olympus
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Hermes
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messenger of the gods, giant killer, guides dead souls to the underworld
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Ilium
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Troy
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Ino
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was a mortal, now a sea-nymph
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Irus
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nickname of Arnaeus
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Ismarus
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home of the Cicones
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Laertes
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Odysseus' father
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Laestrygonians
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clan of giant cannibals
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Laodamas
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Phaeacian, son of Alcinous and Arete
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Leodes
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prophet suitor killed by Odysseus
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Lotus-Eaters
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legendary people visited by Odysseus, they live on a plant whose fruit induces stupor and forgetfulness of home
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Medon
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herald of Odysseus in Ithaca
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Melanthius
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goatherd
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Melantho
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maid of Penelope
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Menelaus
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king of Lacedaemon
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Mentes
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king of Taphians, name taken by Athena in Ithaca
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Mentor
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Ithacan friend of Odysseus, impersonated by Athena
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Muse
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goddess, presides over literature and the arts and the source of artistic inspiration
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Mycenae
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1. legendery heroin
2. Agamemnon's capital |
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Nausicaa
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daughter of Alcinous and Arete
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Nestor
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king of Pylians, oldest of Achaean chieftains
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Ogygia
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island home of Calypso
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Olympus
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home of the gods
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Orestes
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Agamemnon's son, kills Aegisthus
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Penelope
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Odysseus' wife
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Phaeacians
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people of Alcinous and Arete
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Phaeacia
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kingdom of the Phaeacians
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Pharos
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island off the mouth of the Nile where Menelaus subdued Proteus
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Phemius
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Ithacan bard
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Philoetius
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loyal cowherd
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Piraeus
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Ithacan friend of Telemachus
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Pisistratus
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sone of Nestor who accompanies Telemachus to Sparta
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Polyphemus
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Cyclops blinded by Odysseus, son of Podeidon
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Proteus
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Old Man of the Sea, servant of Poseidon
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Scylla
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man-eating monster that lives in a cliffside cavern opposite Charybdis
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Sirens
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enchantress of the sea, her song can tempt a sailor to his ruin
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Sparta
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home of Menelaus and Helen
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Telemachus
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Odysseus' son
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Telepylus
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city of the Laestrygonians
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Theoclymenus
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Argive seer of prophetic lineage
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Tiresias
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blind seer of Thebes
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Trojans
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people of the Troad and their allies arrayed against the Achaeans in the Trojan War
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Zeus
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king of the gods, protector of suppliants, punisher of injustice, sender of omens, controls weather and governs the universe
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