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Apollo

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AOC: music, healing, prophecy Attr.: kithara, bow, laurel

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Zeus

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AOC: the sky, kingship Attr.: beard, eagle, thunderbolt

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Prometheus

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AOC: technology, man Attr.: fire, eagle, caring for man

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Heracles

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AOC: strength, spreading culture Attr: lion skin, club

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Poseidon

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AOC: the sea, horses, earthquakes Attr: trident, beard

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Athena

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AOC: wisdom, war Attr: helmet, owl

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Aphrodite

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AOC: love, desire, fertility Attr: cupids, doves

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Demeter

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AOC: agriculture Attr: grain sheaf, crown of wheat

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Furies/Erinyes/Eumenides

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AOC: the punishment of murderers of family members Attr: snakes, whips

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Artemis (twin sister of Apollo)

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AOC: hunting, childbirth, virginity Attr: bow and arrow, hunting dog, stag, moon

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Hades

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God of the underworld Attr: keys, helmet, black sheep, pomegranate seed

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Dionysus

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God of Wine honored at the Great Dionysia festival in Athens where tragedies were performed.

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Psyche (Wife of Eros/Cupid)

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Goddess of the soul Attr: Butterfly wings, anima

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Agamemnon

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Kills his daughter to sacrifice to Artemis and is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and his cousin Aegisthus.

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Pandora

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The first mortal woman created by the gods as a punishment for Prometheus after he steals fire from Zeus for mankind.

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Theseus (National Hero of Athens)

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Slayer of the Minotaur and not the best boyfriend and father

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Deucalion

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Survived the Flood in Greek Mythology

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Bellerophon

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Tamed Pegasus and killed the Chimaera

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Pygmalion

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The sculptor who married his sculpture came alive by praying to Aphrodite. He killed Sychaeus due to his wealth.

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Tantalus

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Cut up is son Pelops and tried to get the gods to eat him, he was punished in the underworld with eternal hunger and thirst.

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Orestes

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Avenges his father by killing his mother, suffers punishment from the Furies

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Thyestes (Son of Pelops)

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Seduces Atreus’s wife and as revenge, Atreus kills Thyestes’ sons and feeds them to him

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Atreus (Son of Pelops)

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Won the city of Mycenae and killed Thyestes’ sons and fed them to him

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Pelops (Son of Tantalus & Father of Thyestes and Atreus)

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Served to the gods by his father but his body was restored by the Fates and his left shoulder, eaten by Demeter, was replaced with ivory

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Myrrha (Mother of Adonis)

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Was turned into a tree after having sex with her father and gave birth to Adonis as a tree

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Adonis (Son/Brother of Myrrha)

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Mortal lover of Aphrodite

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Critical Thinking

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Not having the answer before asking the question

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Idealism

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The belief is that categories exist ‘out there’ independent of language and human beings. Sometimes these categories are referred to as ‘natural’

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Textualism

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Because categories and even mythic figures are constructed by language, it is better to try to understand categories and mythic figures as subject to limited change over time rather than imperfect copies of an ideal hero or category.

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Humanism

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The assertion that human beings are the same now as in the ancient world and therefore understandable

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Historicism

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The idea that human beings had fundamentally different ideas of how the world worked in the past and their motives cannot always be understood.

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Aetiological/Etiological Myth

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A myth that explains the origins of a historical practice or event

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Ethnicity

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A socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a myth of common ancestry

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Gender

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The range of characteristics pertaining to and differentiating between masculinity and femininity

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Allegory

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A narrative that conveys hidden meanings through symbols, figures, actions, imagery, and events which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

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Theodicy

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The defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil

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Eleusis

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A deme/village of Athens home of the Eleusinian Mysteries, an initiation ceremony dealing with the Eleusinian triad and an afterlife

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Theatre of Dionysus

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The main theater in Athens during the fifth century and the location of the altar to Dionysos Eleutherios.

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Delphi

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Panhellenic Sanctuary and sacred precinct of Apollo. Site of the Delphic oracle overseen by the Pythia. The setting of the first half of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo

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Areopagus

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A hill in Athens where the council of former Archons met and set policy.

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Homer

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The author of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns

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Pseudo-Apollodorus

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The author of the Library of Greek Mythology

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Berossus

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The author of The History of Babylonia

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Ovid

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The author of The Metamorphoses

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Euripides

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The author of 90+ tragedies including Medea and Orestes rarely won 1st prize in the dramatic contests. May have been bribed to change the ending of the Medea myth

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Plato

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Founder of the academy where Aristotle was educated and the follower of Socrates

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Apuleius

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Author of the Metamorphoses (Cupid and Psyche)

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Aristotle

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Philosopher and tutor of Alexander the Great

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Seneca

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Author of Thyestes

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Aeschylus

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Author of the Oresteia trilogy

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