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Exam 3 Flashcards

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12 Labors of Hercules

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  1. Nemean Lion
  2. Lernean Hydra
  3. Cerynaean Stag
  4. Erymanthian Boar
  5. Augean Stables
  6. Stymphalian Birds
  7. Cretan Bull
  8. Mares of Diomedes
  9. Amazon’s Girdle
  10. Geryon’s Cattle
  11. Apples of the Hesperides
  12. Cerberus
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Nemean Lion

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Killed by Hercules and then has its skin removed using its own claw.

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Lernean Hydra

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Multi-headed serpent that regenerates two heads for every one cut off. Hercules cuts off each head and cauterizes the stump. Heracles buries the last head.

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Cerynaean Stag

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Stag with golden antlers that Hercules chased for a year

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Erymanthian Boar

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Captured by Heracles and delivered to the King of Tiryns

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Augean Stables

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Hercules cleans out the stable for Augeas’s sacred cattle. He does this by diverting a river through the stable

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Stymphalian Birds

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March birds with bronze feathers. Chased by Hercules with clappers or a sling shot

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Cretan Bull

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Captured from Crete and given to the King of Tiryns

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Mares of Diomedes

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Man eatting horse who Heracles feeds his owner, Diomedes, to

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Amazon’s Girdle

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Stolen from the queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta

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Geryon’s Cattle

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Geryon was a three-bodied man who was killed by Hercules so he could steal his cattle.

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Apples of the Hesperides

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Heracles kills the serpent gaurding the garden of Hesperides and takes the golden apples

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Cerberus

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Taken from Hades and brought to Eurystheus to complete his labors

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10 Parerga

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  1. Freeing Prometheus
  2. Achelous and the Cornucopia
  3. Slaying Antaeus, son of Earth
  4. Wrestling the Tripod from Apollo
  5. Slaying Cacus, thief in Italy
  6. Freeing Hesione, invades Troy
  7. Slays priests of Egyptian Busiris
  8. Defeats Alcyoneus in Gigantomachy
  9. Joins Argonauts in quest for Golden Fleece
  10. Serves Queen Omphale
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Peloponnesus

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Island of pelops

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Argolid

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State in eastern Peloponnesus

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Argos

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City that contains the argive herion

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Inachus

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Father of Io, first king of Argos

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Io

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Raped by Zeus and then turned into a cow

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Argos (Beast)

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100 eyed servant of Hera

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Isis

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Egyptian Goddess of health

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Epaphus

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Son of Zeus and Io

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Libya

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Daughter of Epaphus, raped by Poseidon

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Belus

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Son of Libya and Poseidon, king of Egypt

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Ba’al

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Semitic honorific similar to lord

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Hyksos

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Multiracial people from the middle east who took over the nile delta

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Aegyptus

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Son of Belus, father of the 50 sons

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Danaus

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Father of the 50 daughters, commanded his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night

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Hypermnestra

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The daughter who refused to kill her husband becauce he honored her wish to stay a virgin

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Acrisius

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Warned that he will one day be killed by his daughter’s son so he locks her away. Eventual Zeus impregnants her so Acrisius lockes the child in a chest. This child, Perseus, grows up to be a hero and acidentily kills Acrisius with a discus.

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Danae

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Mother of Perseus, daughter of Acrisius

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Perseus

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Slays Medusa and uses her head to turn Atlas to stone

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Graiai

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Three sisters who share one eye and tooth who tell Perseus where medusa is and how to kill her

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Gorgons

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Three sister with snakes for hair

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Medusa

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Raped by Poseidon and given snakes for hair by Athena

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Pegasus

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Offspring of Medusa and Poseidon

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Andromeda

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Sacrificed to a sea monster by her mother but saved by Perseus who she later marries

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Casssiopeia

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Mother of Andromeda, punished to sit in a chair in the sky

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Apotripaic

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A way to turn away evil

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Gorgoneion

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Protective amulet with the head of a gorgon on it. Worn by Zeus and Athena

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Cetus

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Sea monster Andromeda was to be sacrificed to. Slayed by Perseus

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Mycenae

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Ancient city in Greece named after the sword of Perseus or a mushroom he picked there

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Boetia

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Cow-land

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Cadmus

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Founder/king of Thebes

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Europa

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Rode bull-Zeus and was abducted

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Serpent of Ares

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Cadmus kills a giant serpent and burries it teeth. The ground where they are burried produces men who fight until 5 remain and thus is Thebes

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Spartoi

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The men who came from the teeth of the Serpent of Ares

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Dirce

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Wife of Lykos, king of Thebes. Destroyed by a bull for mistreating her niece and turned into a spring by Dionysos

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Jocasta

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Mother of Oedipus

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Oedipus

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Son of Laius and Jocasta. Accidentily kills his father and marries his mother

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Sphinx

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Guards Thebes and asks riddles

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Creon

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Offered the Kingship of Thebes and Jocasta’s hand to anyone who could solve the riddle of the Sphinx

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Polynices

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Son of Oedipus and Jocasta. Was cursed by his father to fight his brother for full control of Thebes. Both brothers eventually died

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Antigone

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Daughter of Oedipus who wishes she was never born into a cursed family

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Sophocles

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Author of Oedipus the King

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Teiresias

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A prophet summoned by Oedipus who tells him that he is the murderer. Oedipus then asssumes that he has been paid off by Creon to say this

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Heracles

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Son of Zeus and Alcmene. Hero who completed 12 trials

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Alcmene

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Slept with Zeus who disguised himself as her husband. Gave birth to Heracles

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Iphicles

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Son of Alcmene and Amphytryon

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Megara

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Oldest daughter of Creon. Promised to Heracles after he defended Thebes. Had two kids who were killed by Heracles in a temporary madness.

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Lycus

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Tried to kill Megara and her children but is stopped by Heracles

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Eurystheus

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Competed against Hercules to become a hero

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Tiryns

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The birthplace of Hercules

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Iolaus

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Heracles’s nephen who helped him with the second labor

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Cornucopia

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Made from the horn of Achelous, river god wrestled by Hercules

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Deianeira

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Hercules’ second wife and his murderer via a poisoned shirt

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Nessus

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Centaur killed by Hercules who bloody shirt killed Hercules

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Omphale

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Owned Hercules for a year because he killed someone who wasnt his wife

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Mt Oeta

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Where Hercules died

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Hebe

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First wife of Hercules

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Apotheosis

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Glorification to a divine level

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Sir Arthur Evans

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Founder of Minoan civilization

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Minos

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King of Crete and judge of the underworld

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Minoan

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Named after Minos

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Rhadamanthys

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Judge of the Underworld

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Asterius

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King of Crete and husband to Europa

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Talos

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Bronze robot who protected Europa from pirates

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Laelaps

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Greek mythological dog who never failed to catch her prey

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Pasiphae

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Wife of Minos. Has sex with a cow and gives birth to the minotaur

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Daedalus

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Created the labyrinth and the wooden cow Pasiphae used to have sex with a bull

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Minotaur

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Half-man, half-bull off spring of Pasiphae and the bull

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Theseus

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Chosen to be on of the Minotaur’s victims but kills the monster and escapes the labyrinth instead

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Ariadne

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Minos’ eldest daughter who helps Theseus out of the labyrinth. She gives him a string that he can follow once he has killed the Minotaur

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Dia

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Island north of Crete

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Naxos

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Often associated with the myth of Ariadne and Theseus because they used their money and influence to wrongly include themselves

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Icarus

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Son of Daedalus who flew too close to the son with his bronze wings

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Autochthonous

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The mortals who sprung from the ground in a new land

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Cecrops

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Half-man, half-fish king of Athens

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Erectheus

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King of Athens

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Erichthonoius

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Raised by Athena and seen as half-man, half-snake or in a basket with a snake

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Pandion

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Son of Erichthonoius and father of Erechtheus, Procne, and Pholmela

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Procne

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Wife of King Tereus and daughter of Pandion

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Philomela

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Raped by Tereus and had her tounge torn out. Wove a tapestry about his crime so her sister could punish him.

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Cephalus

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Kidnapped by a goddess and convinced his wife was unloyal. After his wife exiled herself for being seduced by him in a disguise he acidently killed her while hunting

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Eos

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The goddess who kidnapped Cephalus and made him doubt his wife

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Procris

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Wife of Cephalus who failed the fidelity test and gets accidentally killed by her husband

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Aegeus

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Father of Theseus who left before he was born leaving him sandals and a sword

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Troezen

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Father of Aethra who helped decipher Aegeus’ prophecy

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Sinis

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Killed people at the entrance to the underworld by letting to trees pull them apart. Theseus killed him in the same fashion

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Phaea

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Killed the Crommyonian Sow

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Sciron

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Bandit who forced travelers to wash his feet while he faces off a cliff. He would then kick them off the cliff. Theseus pushed him off the cliff

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Procrustes

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Offered beds to passers and would make them fit the bed by streching them or cutting them up. Theseus killed him with his own axe

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Lapiths and Centaurs

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After impressing eachother in battle Pirithous, prince of Lapiths, befriended Theseus. At his wedding the Centaurs got drunk and tried to steal his bride but the Lapiths defeated them

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Marathon

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A battle between Athens and Persia caused a runner to run 140 miles in a single day and then the Athenians marched 25 miles in a day

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Attica

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Theseus lead the political unification of Attica and Athens

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Hippolytus

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Son of Theseus and lover of Phaedra

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Phaedra

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Second wife of Theseus and lover of Hippolytus

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Foundation Myths

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Creation myths but for places

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