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78 Cards in this Set
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aegis
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Athena/Zeus shield
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Aeneas
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Trojan refugee prince
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Atlantis
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lost underwater city
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centaur
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man-horse
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Chimera
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lion-snake-goat
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Danaids
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sea nymphs
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Daphne
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Apollo tried to rape her
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Echo
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Hera stole her voice
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Europa
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Bull/Zeus abducted her
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Ge/Gaea
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mother Earth
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Graces
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incarnations of kindness
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Harpy
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clawed bird-woman
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Hecate
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Goddess of black magic
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Hydra
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9-headed dragon
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Iris
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Goddess of the rainbow
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ichor
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god's blood
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Medea
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Jason's murderous girlfiend
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Metis
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Athena's mother
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Midas
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king with golden touch
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Narcissus
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youth turned to flower
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Niobe
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had 7 sons/daughters
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Oceanus
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Titan god of seas
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Orion
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mythical hunter
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Pan
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man-goat god
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Priam
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king of Troy
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psyche
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girl (soul) loved Cupid
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satyr
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man-goat mortal
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sisyphus
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tortured boulder roller
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Sphinx
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lion-woman Oedipus beat
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zephyr
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West wind god
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Actaeon
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saw Diana bathing
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Adonis
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beautiful man Aphrodite loved
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Aeolus
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king of the winds
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Agamemnon
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Greek leader at Troy
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Amphitrite
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Poseidon's wife
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Augean Stables
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Hercules' 5th labor
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Briseis
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Achilles slave girl
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caduceus
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Hermes' snake staff
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Calliope
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Muse of epic poetry
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Calypso
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Nymph who love Odysseus
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Cassandra
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Trojan princess with prophecy
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Castor/Pollux
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Spartan twins
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Circe
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Odysseus' witch girlfriend
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Deucalion/Pyrrha
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Rock throwing human makers
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Hecuba
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Trojan queen, became dog
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Helle
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Hellesponte namesake, fell off ram
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Iphigenia
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Agamemnon's sacrificed daughter
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Io
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Zeus' cow girlfriend
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Janus
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Roman god of doors
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Leda
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Swan-Zeus' Spartan girlfriend
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Lethe
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Hades' river of forgetfulness
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Lotus-Eaters
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Odysseus' drug takers
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maenad
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frenzied follower of Dionysus
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Menelaus
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Agamemnon's bro/Helen's husband
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Mnemosyne
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Titan goddess of memory
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Nemesis
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incarnation of cruelty
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Pan/Syrinx
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turned girl into a spring
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Patroclus
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Achilles' "best friend"
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Pythia/Sibyl
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Oracles of Apollo
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Phrixus
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Rode Aries to Colchis
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Bauchis/Philemon
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nice old couple (trees)
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Phaethon
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Helios' son/chariot crasher
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Scylla/Charydbis
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Odysseus' twin dangers
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Achates
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Aeneas' shield-bearer
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Ajax
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giant hero in Trojan war
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Anchises
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Aeneas' father
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Antigone
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Oedipus' daughter, buried Polynieces
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Cadmus
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founded Thebes, married Harmonia
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Dido
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Aeneas' Carthaginian princess-gf
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Eris
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goddess of discord, threw apple
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Halcyon
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ceyx' wife, became kingfisher
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Jocasta/Laius
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Oedipus mom/dad
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Laocoon
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Trojan seer, attacked horse
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Nisus/Euryalus
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failed Trojan spies
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Palladium
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Trojan statue of Athena
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Philomela/Procne
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sisters, became nightengale
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Tiresias
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transgender undead prophet
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Turnus
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Aeneas' Rutulian enemy
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