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62 Cards in this Set
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Herakles |
12 Labours son of zeus hera made him kill his wife and children made a god |
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Perseus |
son of zeus prophesied to kill his grandfather goes on adventures killed medusa |
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Theseus |
culture hero of Athens journey to Athens killed minataur |
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Odysseus |
Greek trojan war journey home met many monsters |
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Aeneas |
trojan son of Aphrodite found the roman people journey from troy to rome lived on |
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Achilles |
son of thetis greek trojan war great warrior died in war- shot in achilles |
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Oedipus |
prophesied to kill his father incest- married his mother greek king of thebes stabbed himself in the eye |
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Zeus |
king of the gods sky and lighting defeated the titans and began the olympians |
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Hera |
wife/sister of zeus goddess of women and marriage |
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Hades |
god of the underworld |
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Apollo |
god of- sun,prophecy, archery, plagues, medicine and music/lyre |
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Hermes |
messenger of the gods |
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Aphrodite |
goddess of love |
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Athena |
goddess of wisdom and crafts |
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Artemis |
apollo's twin sister hunt, forest and hills, archery |
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Poseidon |
god of the sea |
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Demeter |
goddess of corn, grain and harvest |
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Eros |
love and passion |
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Hephaistos |
god of blacksmith |
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Ares |
god war |
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Dionysus |
god of wine and crazed pleasure (drunk) |
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Cyclops |
one eye son of Poseidon Odyssey |
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Minotaur |
half man half bull son of Pasiphae and cretan bull |
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Python |
sent to earth by hera snake apollo fights it at delphi |
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Cerberus |
3 headed dog guards the underworld |
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Hydra |
3 headed serpent killed by Hercules- 2nd labour |
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Nemean Lion |
killed by Hercules- 1st labour |
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Medusa |
snakes for hair, eyes turned people to stone killed by Perseus |
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Harpies |
women/bird snatched people |
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scylla |
sea monster odyssey |
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sirens |
monsters took on shape of women and lured men then killed them |
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Sychaeus |
Dido's husband/uncle |
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Pygmalion |
Dido's brother |
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Tyre |
where Dido was from/fled |
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Carthage |
Dido's new kingdom |
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Clymenstra |
Agamenon's wife killed him when he return from war cheated on him |
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Penelope |
Odysseus' wife waited 20 years for him ignored many suitors stayed faithful till he returned |
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Cephalus |
husband of Procris approached by Venus, refuses (loves Procris) dies- suicide |
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Procris |
wife of Cephalus constantly suspects her husband of cheating dies- husabnd accidentally kills her |
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Phaedra |
Thesus' wife Hippolytus' stepwife makes advances to Hippolytus |
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Hippolytus |
Thesus' son dies- innocent of Phaedra's advances |
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Exogamy |
marrying outside group |
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Endogamy |
marrying inside group |
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homosociality |
close relationship between the same sex |
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Hyacinth |
Mortal boy lover of Apollo |
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Pygmalion (ovid) |
carves ivory statue falls inlove with it comes alive- so they get married and have daughter |
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Paphos |
daughter of Pygmalion and statue mother of Cinyra |
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Cinyra |
son of Paphos father of Myrrha tricked into having sex with daughter |
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Myrrha |
falls inlove with father tricks him into having sex with her runs away fro 9 months turned into Myrrha tree gives birth to Adonis |
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Pasiphae |
Mino's wife falls inlove with creatan bull has minataur |
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Caenis |
female poseidon 'ravishes' her she chooses to change into a man |
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Caeneus |
man was once a female |
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telemachus |
son of penelope and odysseus |
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katabasis |
trip to underworld |
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Hermaphroditus |
son of Herms and aphrodite transgender |
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Salamacis |
nymph falls inlove with hermaphroditus |
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nekyia |
consultation with the dead |
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patroklos |
achilles' companion killed by hector |
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eurydice |
orpheus' wife |
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eleusis |
place where demeter goes to nurse the infant prince- ELEUSIAN MYSTERIES |
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pandora |
first woman- all things evil, lies, cheats etc |
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Prometheus |
first man, found fire cheating zeus of his power- was punished by zeus with the invention of pandora |
