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35 Cards in this Set
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Anthhropomorphism
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An interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics (personifying the gods)
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Icor
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blood of the gods
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home of the gods
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mount olympus
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number of major olympians
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12
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Zeus
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Jupiter/Jove
SKY, GODS, MAN Thunderbolt, eagle, oak traits- mighty, foolish, punisher |
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Aegis
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breastplate
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Hera
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Juno
Women/marriage/childbirth wife of Zeus cow, peacock |
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Argus
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hundred-eyed spy
Hera's bodyguard |
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Poseidon
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Neptune
sea (associated with horses too) dolphin, trident, horse anger- storms, floods, earthquakes |
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Hades
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Pluto
death, the underworld |
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River Styx
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formed boundary between Earth and the Underworld
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Charon
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underworld spirit who ferried the dead to the underworld (coin for charon)
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Cerberus
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FLUFFY
3 headed dog who guarded hades' gates, 3 heads, snakes tail, lion's claws |
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Elysian Fields
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"paradise of the heroes"
lots of luxuries |
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Tartarus
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underworld of eternal torment
for the worst sinners |
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Demeter
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Ceres
god of harvest and fertility |
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Persephone
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Demeter's daughter
abducted by Hades to the underworld ate a pomegranate seed- meant she had to spend what would become winter in the underworld |
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Hestia
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Vesta
"hearth and the home" no stories written about her sanctity of the home? |
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Muses
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9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (goddess of memory)
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Calliope
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epic poetry
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Erato
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love poetry
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Clio
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patra!
history |
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Polyhymnia
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religious song
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Thalia
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comedy
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Euterpe
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music and lyrics!
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Melpomene
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Tragedy
melodramatic! |
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Terpsichore
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dancing and choral singing
chore- chorus! |
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Urania
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astrology and astronomy
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Three Fates
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destiny and fate
Moria |
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Clotho
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spins the thread of life
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Lachesis
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allots the length of the yarn
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Atropos
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snips the thread
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Sisyphus
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commited murder, tattled on Xeus
rolled boulder up a hill, only to have in roll back down over and over again |
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Tantalus
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stole ambrosia from hte gods- stood in a pool where water receded at his grasp
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Ixion
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Zeus bound him to a winged wheel and spun in the air
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