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Apollos parents

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Zeus and Leto

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Ares parents

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Zeus and Hera

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Artemis parents

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Zeus and Leto

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Athena parents

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Zeus and Metis

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Demeter parents

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Cronus and Rhea

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Dionysus parents

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Zeus and Semele (daughter of Cadmus and harmonia)

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Hades parents

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Cronus and Rhea

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Hephaestus parents

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Zeus and Hera

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Hera parents

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Cronus and Rhea

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Hermes parents

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Zeus and Maia

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Hestia parents

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Cronus and Rhea

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Poseidon parents

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Cronus and Rhea

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Zeus parents

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Cronus and Rhea

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God of the heavens and father o the Titans

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Uranus

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Personification of sleep

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Hypnos

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God of love and attraction

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Eros

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The nothingness from which all else sprung

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Chaos

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Mother Earth and of Titans

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Gaia

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God of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld

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Tartarus

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God of death, brother of Hypnos

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Thanatos

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3 vicious sisters

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Medusa
Euryale
Stheno

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Vicious sisters parents

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Phorcys and Ceto

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Who killed medusa

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Perseus
Athenas mirrored shield
Gold winged sandals from Hermes
Sword from Hephaestus 
Hades helm of invisibility 
Pegasus and Chysaor appeared
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Pegasus parents

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Poseidon and Medusa

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Chysaor parents

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Poseidon and Medusa

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Pegasus story

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Captured by Bellerophon near fountain in Peirene with help from Athena and Poseidon. They defeat the chimera.
Trying to reach mount O, he falls off and Zeus turns P into constellation

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3 great heroes pre Heracles

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Bellerophon, Cadmus and Perseus

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Chimera

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Fire-breathing hybrid
Lion with goat head on its back, tail with snakes head
Typhon and Echidna
Siblings- Cerberus, Lernaean Hydra

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Who is Typhon

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Most fearsome monster of Greek mythology, last son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus
A giant, torso of man, legs viper coils, head 100 snakes, red eyes, breathed fire, hundreds of wings, hands 100 serpents

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Aphrodites parents

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Uranus (primal Greek god, father sky, son and husband of Gaia) Cronus cut off his genitals, or Zeus and Dione

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Who is Echidna?

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Monster, half woman half snake, live in a cave
Mother of monsters
Orthrus, Cerberus, Hydra, Chimera, Sphinx, Nemean lion

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What is the Lernaean Hydra

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Serpentine water monster
Entrance to Underworld 
Killed by Heracles
Regrows heads
Poisonous breath and blood so virulent its scent was deadly
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Sphinx

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Head of human, haunches of a lion, wings of a bird, serpent headed tail
Asks riddle to allow pass into Thebes

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Who is Echidna?

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Monster, half woman half snake, live in a cave
Mother of monsters
Orthrus, Cerberus, Hydra, Chimera, Sphinx, Nemean lion

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What is the Lernaean Hydra

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Serpentine water monster
Entrance to Underworld 
Killed by Heracles
Regrows heads
Poisonous breath and blood so virulent its scent was deadly
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Sphinx

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Head of human, haunches of a lion, wings of a bird, serpent headed tail
Asks riddle to allow pass into Thebes

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