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Gilgamesh

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Great king over the Sumerian city of Uruk.
Born 2/3 divine and 1/3 mortal = destined to die
Best friend was Enkidu

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Hero

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Someone who stands out from others.

Someone distinguished by prominence, bravery, or merit.

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Enkidu

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Primitive man who had long hair like a woman.
He lived in the wild like an animal.
His best friend was Gilgamesh.

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Humbaba

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Guardian of the forest in the land of the living.

Who Enkudi feared.

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Utnapishtim

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“He saw life”
Who Gilgamesh went to search for.
Him and his wife were the only ones to survive the flood…. The gods transported them across the sea so that they could enjoy everlasting life.

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“Heroic nudity”

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What striking male nudity is called in Greek art.

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Heracles

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Greatest of Greek Heroes
Called Hercules by Romans
Similar to Gilgamesh

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Alcmena

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Birthed by Electryon and Anaxo
Daughter
Had nine brothers

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Eurystheus

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Birthed by Sthenelus and Menippe

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Amphitryon

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Birthed by Alcaeus

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Electryon

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King of Mycenae

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Megara

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Daughter of Creon
Was given to Heracles by her father
Was later killed with her children by Heracles

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Nemean Lion

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First encounter with Heracles’ twelve labors

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Hydra

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Second of Heracles’ 12 labors
Enormous serpent
Many heads
Lived near swamps of Lerna

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Lerna

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Where Hydra lived

Swamp

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Ceryneian Deer

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Female magical animal
Gold antlers and brazen hooves
Belonged to Artemis

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Erymanthian Boar

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Heracles’ 4th labor
Lived on mount erymanthus in Arcadia
Heracles was to capture it

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Chiron

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Wise centaur
“Handy”
Immortal
Heracles’ poisoned arrows wounded him…. Paradoxical if nothing should kill him

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Augeas

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Son of Helius

Never cleaned the stables

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Stymphalian Birds

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Arrow firing wings
Amor-piercing beaks
6th labor of Heracles

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Cretan bull

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7th labor of Heracles was to capture it

Great animal that was summoned by the sea by Minos

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Horses of Diomedes

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Son of ares
Needed to capture
8th labor of Heracles
Dined on human flesh

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Admetus

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Who apollo was forced to serve under for a year thanks to Zeus.
Treated him well
Offered to let someone else take his place in death
King over a town in Thessaly

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Girdle of Hippolyta

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Belt
“Horse-tamer”
Amazing Queen
9th labor of Heracles

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Cattle of Geryon

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Needed to capture
10th labor of Heracles
Monster who had three bodies joined at the waist.
Had a demonic two headed dog–> orthus

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Cacus

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Three headed fire breathing monster
Stole cattle and hid them in a cave
Dealt with Heracles

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Apples of the Hesperides

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11th labor of Heracles
Apples grew on the tree that Zeus gave Hera for a wedding present
Ladon guarded over it= 100 headed serpent

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Busiris

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Son of Poseidon
Killed by Heracles
Dealt with the foreigners

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Cerberus

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Many headed guard dog
12th labor of Heracles
Needed to bring it back from he underworld

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Iole

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Prize in an archery contest
Won by Heracles
Father was eurytus 
Did not want to give her up in fear of Heracles killing her and her future children 
Heracles was still seeing with Deianira
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Omphale

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Queen of Lydia

Liked Heracles

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Deianira

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Killed Heracles
Heard of her when Heracles was in the underworld
He was told that he needed to marry her.
Was being offered in a wrestling match

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Achelous

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Also wanted Deianira
River god represented as a bull
Wrestled with Heracles for the girl

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Nessus

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Centaur
Ferried travelers for a small fee
His fluids ended up killing Heracles by the doing of Deianira and Heracles’ past life

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Heraclids

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All the children that Heracles left behind

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Theseus

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Athens greatest hero

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Cecrops

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Mortal

Many think Athens descended from him

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Erichthomius

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Early king of Athens
Succeeded cecrops
Birthed by Athena and Hephaestus

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Pandion

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Son of erichthonius

Bore two daughters

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Aegeus

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Erechtheus married creusa and bore four sons including him
Had the upper hand when over all of his brothers when their father died except for the fact that he couldn’t bore a son for an heir to the throne

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Aethra

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Pittheus’ daughter

Was sent to have sexual relations with aegeus because he knew his child would be a glorious one

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Procrustes

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Who Theseus killed in the last of his six tasks
Housed travelers
Had the two beds

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Amazonomachy

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“Battle with the amazons”

Was provoked by the abduction of antiope… Queen of the amazons

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Hippolytus

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Birthed by queen antiope
Son
“Breaker of horses”

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Phaedra

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Daughter of Minos

Theseus second wife after antiope

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Bellerophon

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Corinthian hero
Was caused of making advances to kings wife
King could not kill his guest friend so he sent him away by sea

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Pirithous

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Son of ixion

King of Lapiths

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Lapiths

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Thessalian tribe

Ruled over by pirithous

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Centaurs

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Half men half horse

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Centauromachy

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War between Lapiths and the centaurs

Marriage with the centaurs tackling the bride started it

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Pissistratus

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Sponsored the composition, Theseis

Famous leader of Athens

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Europa

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Daughter of Agenor

Zeus fell in love with her and came to her in the form of a bull

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Minos

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Zeus and Europa’s children
(Some of)
Became king if Crete

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Pasiphae

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Daughter of Helius
Married to Minos

Bore children: Ariadne, Phaedra, and the prince Androgeus

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Daedalus

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The greatest craftsman of all time

Pasiphae asked him for help

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Minotaur

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“The bull of Minos”

Man eating monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man

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Icarus

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Daedalus’ son
Imprisoned by the Minos into a labyrinth that his dad built. Was imprisoned with his dad….. Was for revenge of something Theseus did.

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Cocalus

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King of Camicus

On the coast if Sicily

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Labyrinth

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Complex maze that Daedalus designed.
In the center… Minos imprisoned the Minotaur.
Never could find a way out… People would just die because of the Minotaur.

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Antigone

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Daughter of Oedipus and the queen

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Ismene

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Daughter of Oedipus and the queen

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Polynices

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Son of Oedipus and the queen

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Eteocles

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Son of Oedipus and the queen

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Adrastus

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King of Argos
Learned that he must “yoke his daughters to a boar and a lion”

One of the seven heroes

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Amphiaraus

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One of the seven heroes
Arranged to marry eriphyle
Seer of the first rank
Realized that all of adrastsus’ team would die

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Eriphyle

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Adrastus’ sister

Was arranged to marry by the king amphiaraus

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Epigoni

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The sons of the original 7 heroes

Set out for a second expedition

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Oedipus

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“Swollen foot”
Birth parents: Laius and Jocasta
Adopted : polybus and merope

Would kill his birth father and marry his birth mother

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Jocasta

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Descendant of sparti

Married Laius

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Laius

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Son of Labdacus
Married Jocasta
Became king of Thebes

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Sparti

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“Sown men”
The five men who survived after Cadmus threw stones.
Principle aristocratic families of Thebes

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Boeotia

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Thebes was its principle city

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