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Iolcus

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Located at the foot of Mount Pelion
Bronze Age city
Modern name is Volos

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Thessaly

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Widest plain in Greece

Northernmost mainland

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Apollonius of Rhodes

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Writer whose account of the voyage that is usually followed.
Literary version is called Argonautica

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Jason

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Descendant of Aeolus

King of Magnesia

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Colchis

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A distant town that the ram flew over

Where Aeetes ruled

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Pelias

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Grew up to be arrogant and intolerant

Wanted to be the supreme power over Thessaly instead of his brother, Neleus

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Chiron

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Wise centaur
Named the son of Aeson, Jason
Taught him civilized life

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Symplegades

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“Clashing rocks”
Argonauts were warned about these dangers waters
Let a dove pass through first

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Medea

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Kings daughter

Agent of hera’s plan to destroy pelias

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Talus

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Bronze giant who threw boulders at the argonauts

Zeus formerly gave to Europa after he abducted her in the form of a bull

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Aetolia

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North of the entrance of Corinth

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Calydon

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Capital of Aetolia

King was Oeneus

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Meleager

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King Oeneus and Althaea bore this child
When the log is consumed he will die … Three fates appeared 7 days after he was born and told him so… Also that he would be handsome and brave

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Atlanta

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Famous female athlete
From Arcadia
Joined the boar hunt

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Argo

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Name of the boat that the argonauts sailed on

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Thyestes

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Father of Aegisthus

One of Pelops’ sons

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Atreus

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Father of Menelaus and Agamemnon

One of the sons of Pelops

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Leda

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Who tyndareus married

Beautiful
Zeus appeared to her as a swan. Had sex with him and her husband that same night and bore four kids

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Helen

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Fathered by Zeus and Leda

Semi divine

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Clytemnestra

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Birthed by Leda and Tyndareus

Mortal

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Tyndareus

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King of Sparta
Sympathetic to the causes of thyestes and helped him created an army
Married Leda

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Oath of Tyndareus

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Created by Odysseus

Was finding suitors to marry a Helen
He was too poor… Odysseus had a solution… This was the solution

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Peleus

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Was born on the island of Aegina

Father = Aeacus

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Ajax

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Father was Telamon (Peleus’ brother)

Suitor of Helen and one the the greatest heroes of the Trojan War

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Hecabe

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Who King Priam married

Bore hector…. The greatest fighter of the Trojans

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Aulis

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Port where all of Helens former suitors assembled after the oath was invoked

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Calchas

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Prophet of the expedition

Declared that the Greeks would never take Troy without the help of Achilles

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Iphigenia

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Agamemnon’s daughter

Was killed by him to save the expedition

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Philoctetes

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A snake bit him on the foot

Part of the crew

They left him on the island of Lemnos because it was getting worse and worse

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“Helen on the wall”

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What the first years of the Trojan war were referred to as

Are talked about briefly throughout the Iliad

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Chryseis

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Daughter of Chryses
Who Achilles had captured in the raid

Had to end up giving her up and took Achilles prize

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Briseis

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Achilles prize

Agamemnon stole her after he had to give his up

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Andromache

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Hectors wife

Was left when he returned to war

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Neoptolemus

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Achilles son
“Young fighter”
In order to win, he would have to join the army

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Laocoon

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Priest of Poseidon

Suspected that the horse had warriors inside

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Polyxena

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The youngest of Priams daughters

Her throat was cut over her fathers tomb by Neoptolemus

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Nostoi

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“Homecomings”

A genre of ancient epic told of the returns of the heroes from Troy and all that happened to them

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Oresteia

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Aeschylus’ dramatic trilogy

“Story of Orestes”

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Orestes

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Agamemnon’s son

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Electra

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Clytemnestra and (Agamemnon’s) daughter

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Furies

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The persecuting spirits of the murdered kin

Force Orestes into madness

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Eumenides

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“The kindly ones”

The furies new name

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Lotus Eaters

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Make their inhabitants consume a drug that makes men forgetful of their home and their purpose

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Cyclopes

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“Round eyes”

Cannibals

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Polyphemus

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A cyclops

The one that was blinded by Odysseus and his crew

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Laestrygonians

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Cannibals

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Circe

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Live on Aeaea

Where the woman lived who turned them into pigs after drinking her poison

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Sirens

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Their song…. No man can resist

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Charybdis

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On one side of the strait

This side is the whirlpool that sucks everything down in its path

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Scylla

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On the other side of the strait

A monster. A scary looking monster

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Calypso

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Lived on Orygia

Lived with Odysseus for 7 years
A beautiful nymph that loved him and offered him immortality if he married her

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Phaeacians

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The land that Odysseus almost reached but Poseidon sent a storm to throw him off because he blinded his son

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Nausicaa

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Daughter of the Phaeacian king

Athena appears to her in a dream and says that she will find her husband if she goes to wash her clothes.
Leads them to Odysseus

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Telemachus

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Odysseus’ only son

In trouble from the suitors

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Euryclea

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The old nurse of Odysseus and Penelope

She recognizes him by the scar on the beggars thigh

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Numina

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“Nodders”

Spirits that can inhabit almost any object or serve almost any function

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Janus

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One of the best known numina

Represented as a man with two faces… One looking forward and one looking back.

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Jupiter

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Numen of the bright sky

Similar to Zeus

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Juno

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Numen who presided over women as members of the family and was easily equated with Hera

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Ceres

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Numen of wheat

Similar to Demeter

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Diana

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Spirit of wood
Associated with women and childbirth

The roman Artemis

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Mercury

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Similar to Hermes

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Vulcan

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Identified with Hephaestus

God if volcanic and other forms of destructive fire

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Neptune

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Numen of water

Associated with Poseidon

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Mars

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The Greek ares

Related with the wolf
May have protected the flocks

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Minerva

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Numen of handcrafts

Associated with Athena

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Venus

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Numen of fresh water
E
I.e. Springs

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Heracles

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Belonged to the earliest foreign cult at Rome

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Lares

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Protective spirit of the dead

Became protector of all kinds of places

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Penates

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Protected a households things

Particularly it’s food

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Vesta

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Similar to hestia

Protects the hearth and the home

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Pietas

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Duties

Devotion to the state and it’s gods

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Dido

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Land

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Iulus

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Founded the town of alba longa

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Romulus and Remus

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Descendants of Aeneas

Born in alba longa

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Turnus

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King of the nearby Rutulians

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Neoptolemus

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“young fighter”
Achilles son
It was said by Colchas that he would need to join the army in order to defeat the Trojans.

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Laocoon

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Suspected that the wooden horse had warriors inside.
Priest of Poseidon.
Was eaten by two serpents for disrespecting a sacrifice made to Athena.

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Polyxena

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Youngest of Priam’s daughters.

Was carried by Neoptolemus to Achilles tomb and her throat was cut over his body.

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Nostoi

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A genre of ancient epic told of the returns of the heroes from Troy and all that happened to them.
“homecomings”

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Oresteia

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Trilogy written by Aeschylus.

Tells of Agamemnon’s return to Argos, his murder by Clytemnestra, and Orestes’ revenge.

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Orestes

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Agamemnon’s son.
Taken as a child to be raised near Delphi.
Comes back to avenge the death of his father (means to kill his mother)

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Electra

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Clytemnestra’s daughter.

Teams up with Orestes to help kill their mother.

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Furies

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Persecuting spirits of the murdered kin.

Come to bring madness upon Orestes.

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Eumenides

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The “Furies” new name.
Decided upon by Athena.
“the kindly ones”

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Lotus Eaters

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The local inhabitants here consume a drug that makes them forget their home and their purpose

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Cyclopes

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“round eyes”

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Polyphemus

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a Cyclops
“much renowned”
Lived in a cave

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Aeolus

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the wind King
Spends his days dining with his six sons and six daughters who are all married to one another.
Gives Odysseus the bag of wind

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Laestrygonians

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Cannibals

Eat all of the ships and the people who parked their ships on the harbor. So all except for Odysseus and his crew

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Circe

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“hawk”
daughter of Helius
beautiful woman who sung a song and made the men drink a drink and then tapped them with her wand and turned them into pigs.
Odysseus defied her magic thanks the the herb Hermes gave him

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Sirens

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whose song no man can resist

All needed to plug their ears to survive

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Charybdis

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one side of the evil strait.

This side contained the whirlpool that happened three times a day.

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Scylla

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One side of the evil strait

This side had the monster that had 6 heads and 12 feet

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Calypso

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Odysseus spent 7 years with her.

Beautiful nymph who fell in love with him and offered him eternal life if he would marry her

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Phaeacians

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Where King Alcinous ruled

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Nausicaa

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Daughter of King Alcinous.
Went to go wash her clothes so that she could find her husband (was told this would work through a dream she had of Athena)

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Telemachus

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Odysseus’ son

Was in trouble by the suitors (throne)

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Argus

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Odysseus’ dog
Was old
Saw Odysseus and dropped dead due to the excitement

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Antinous

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The leader of the Suitors

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Euryclea

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The old nurse who washed the “beggars’” feet and realized it was Odysseus

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Penelope

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Odysseus’ wife

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Rhea Silvia

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Virgin

Compared to Danae

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Sabines

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People that lived in the hills

Women were attacked in a festival

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Tarpeia

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Daughter of a roman commander

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Apotheosis

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“Process of becoming a god”

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Horatii and the Curiatii

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The Romans agreed to end their dispute between alba longa and this is what it was called

Duel between three brothers on each side

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Tarquin the Proud

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Seventh and last king of Rome

Tullias

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Lucretia

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Wife of Tarquin Collatinus

Spun wool with her lady servants

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Brutus

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Founder of the roman republic

Leader in the conspiracy to murder Julius Caesar

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Horatius

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Showed a model of bravery for every good roman after he swam back in full armor

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Scaevola

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Mucius’ nickname

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Cincinnatus

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Ex-consul

Was chosen to be dictator

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