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52 Cards in this Set
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Aeaea
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the circe's island
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Alcinous
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King of the Phaiakians who welcomes Odysseus and hears his long tale. He presents Odysseus with great treasure and gives him secure passage to Ithaca.
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Antinous
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head suitor. plans to kill telemachus. first suitor to be killed.
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alter ego
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a reflection on a heros best or worst qualities
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Aphrodite
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godess of love
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Apollo
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sun god
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Ares
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god of war
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Artemis
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godess of the moon
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Athena
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godess of wisdom. guides Odysseus and Telemachus throughout the poem helping them find their way from place to place and defeat their adversaries. sometimes directly intervenes and enters battle or conflict in the form of a human.
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Calypso
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Nymph that captures Odysseues and trappes him on the island for several years before Hermes tells Zeus to make her let him go. so she has odysseus build a raft and he carries on.
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Charybdis
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wirlpools in the sea which errupt three times a day .the circe makes them pass on their way to the beast Scylla
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Chaos
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The beginning of all of greek gods and godesses
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Circones
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a tribe in ismarus who hold back odysseus
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Circe
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a witch of a land called Aeaea, Witch-like woman who at first turns Odysseus' men into pigs but is impressed when she cannot affect Odysseus. She lusts after him and he stays with her for a year. She tells him to go to the land of the dead and advises him to avoid the cattle of the sun.
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cronus
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greek titan god
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Cyclops
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one eyed monster
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Demeter
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god of harvest
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Dionysis
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god of wine
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epic
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long narritive poems that tell of the adventures of heroes who in some way embody the values of their civilizations
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Eros
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god of love
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Uranus
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greek god/son of chaos
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Eurmaeus
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the man who gives odysseues shelter when he returns to ithica
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Euryclea
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odysseus's nurse when he was a child, she recognizes him by a scar on his leg and she keeps his safe return a secret. she helps sort out the mad maids from the good ones.
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Eurylochus
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one of Odysseus's men. he is the one who persuades the other men to eat the cattle while odyssues is asleep
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Eurymachus
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second suitor. one ranking below antinous. second suitor to die
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Eurynome
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head maid and housekeeper
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gaea
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mother earth
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hades
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God of the underworld. son of cronus
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hectoncheries
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monters of 50 heads and 100 arms
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helios
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the sun god/ cattle is stolen
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Haphestus
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god of fire and blacksmithing
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Hera
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godess of marrige
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Hermes
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Messenger of the Gods. gets Calypso to let odysseus go off the island
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Hestia
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Godess of the Hearth
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Homer
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Author of the Odyssey. thaught to be a woman
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Homeric simile
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similes that compare heroic or epic events to simple and easily understandable everyday events
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Illiad
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Homers first book explaining the epic of war
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Ithica
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Homer"s home town
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Lotus Eaters
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men who give odysseus and his men lotus plants to make them forget about ithica and its addictive.
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Myth
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stories that help express ideas about life that cannot be expressed easily in realistic terms.
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Penelope
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Odysseus's wife who stays loyal to him while he was gone
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Persohone
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Queen of the underworld
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Phaeacia
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an island ruled by king Alcinous.
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Philoeteus
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cowherd odyseus's loyaal servant
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Posidon
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god of the sea. enemy of Odysseus
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rhapsodies
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historians and entertainers as well as the myth-makers of their time
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rhea
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daughter of tidus
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Scylla
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6headed beast each head with a triple row of fangs
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Sirens
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Nymphs whose beautiful singing lure in sailors to pull thier ships into the rocks
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Teiresias
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A famous blind prophet from the city of Thebes
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Thrinakia
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island where Helios keeps his cattle
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Zeus
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God of heaven and earth
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