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53 Cards in this Set
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King of the Greek Gods.
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zeus
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Assisted Hector in his final run around the walls of Troy.
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apollo
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Assisted Achilles in his final fight with Hector.
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athena
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Received the apple marked “For the Fairest.”
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Aphrodite
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Greek goddess of love.
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Aphrodite
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The Messenger of the Gods
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hermes
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Mother of Achilles
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Thetis
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His body did not decay
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hector
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Where the chorus enters
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parados
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Where the chorus stands
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orchestra
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First of the 5 parts of Greek drama
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Prologue
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Extended comparison
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homeric simile
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The first entrance of the chorus
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parados
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A period of dialogue in a Greek drama
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Episode
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A choral interlude between periods of dialogue in a Greek drama
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Stasimon
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When everybody leaves the stage
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exodos
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Overwhelming pride
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hubris
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The term meaning “god of the machine”
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deus ex machina
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Over what span of time does the action in a Greek drama usually take place
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24 hours
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The number of primary actors in a Greek drama
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3
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Achilles best friend
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Patroclus
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agamemnon's war prize
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chryseis
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ran off with paris
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helen
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helen's husband
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menelaus
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was taken away from achilles when agamemnon got angry
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briseis
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king of troy
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priam
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hector's wife
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andromache
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queen of troy
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hecuba
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armor-fondling pansy
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paris
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big ol' mama's boy
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achilles
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goddess of love from gilgamesh
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ishtar
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gilgamesh's mother
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ninsun
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that noah guy
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utnapishtim
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sent by ishtar to kill gilgamesh
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bull of heaven
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guardian of the cedar forest
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humbaba
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used to prove that gilgamesh had slept for 7 days
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bread
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what utnapishtim gave to gilgamesh
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a plant that will make him young
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stole gilgamesh's gift
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a serpant or snake
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country where medea is taking place
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corinth
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country where medea is planning to escape to
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athens
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why medea is so upset
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her husband left her
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reason why medea cant return home
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she tricked her neices into killing her brother
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goddess that is prominently mentioned
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Aphrodite
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how medea kills the princess and king
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she sent a poisoned dress and crown
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how medea escapes
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by a chariot drawn by dragons left to her by her grandfather Helios
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term for how medea escapes
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deus ex machina
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what medea is always afraid people will do to her
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laugh at her
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who wrote medea
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euripides
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main theme of lysistrata
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anti war
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who wrote lysistrata
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aristophanes
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what is unusual about the chorus
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there are two, old men and old women
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which god has glistening feet
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thetis
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means in the middle of the action
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medias res
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