Book II Names Flashcards

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Anchises

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Aeneas’ father

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Ascanius

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Aeneas’ son

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Calchas

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Prophet, Greek priest

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Cassandra

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Daughter of prism, coroebus’ wife

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Coroebus

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Cassandra’s husband, ally of priam

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Danaans

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Greeks

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Dardanians

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Trojans

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Diomedes

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Son of Tydeus; a Greek chieftain at Troy, stole the palladium with ulysses

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Hecuba

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Priam’s wife

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Laocoon

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Eaten by serpents

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Minerva

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Goddess of wisdom, sent snakes because they went to her temple

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Myrmidons

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Greeks, Achilles was their lord

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Neptune

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God of sea, Laocoon was priest for him

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Palladium

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Image of Minerva stolen by Ulysses and diomedes

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Panthus

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Trojan, priest of Apollo

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Penates

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Household gods

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Pergamum

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Diana as a moon goddess

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Polites

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Son of Priam, killed by Pyrrhus

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Priam

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King of Troy

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Pyrrhus

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Son of Achilles

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Sinon

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Greek infiltrator, tricked Trojans

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Tenedos

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Small island into Aegean Sea near Troy

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Tritonian

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Epithet of Minerva from lake tritonis in Libya

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Ulysses

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Greek chieftain, the Ithacan from the odyssey, stole palladium with diomedes

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Achilles

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Great warrior, killed hector, priam came to him as suppliant for the return of hectors body