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20 Cards in this Set
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Earth
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Gaia
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A mountain range in the north eastern Greeece, believed to be home of the gods.
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Olympus
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The underworld
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Tattarus
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Love
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Eros
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The darkest characteristic of the underworld
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Erebos
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Region of brightness, the opposite of Erebos as Day is the opposite of Night
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Ether
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The sky
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Ouranus
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The river imagined to circle the earth
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Okeanos
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Translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
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Kyklopes
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Cut off his father's genitals
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Kronus
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Island
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Cyprus
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A pun on "laughter-loving".
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Philommedes
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Desire
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Himeros
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Ouranus pronounces a curse on his children, which will be fulfilled when Kronus is overthrown by his son Zeus
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Titans
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Poseidan, God of the sea
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Earthshaker
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Delphi, site of Appolo's famous oracle
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Pytho
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"Forethought"
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Epimetheus
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The son of Zeus and the greatest of the Greek heroes
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Herakles
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Second wife to Zeus. She bore the seasons, lawfulness, and justice of blooming peace
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Themis
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Goddess of childbirth
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Eileithyia
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