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English Arts Language Eighth Grade - Mrs. Poo > Greak Mythology (Describing Names/Places) > Flashcards

Greak Mythology (Describing Names/Places) Flashcards

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Describe The Following Name: Zeus (Roman Name/RN: Jupiter/ Jove)

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King of Gods/ God of Thunder and Lighting

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Describe The Following Name: Poseidon (RN: Neptune)

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Brother of Zeus/ God of the Ocean (Carries a trident)

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Describe The Following Name: Hera (RN: Juno)

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Wife and Sister of Zeus/ Queen of gods/guardian of marriage/ very jealous of Zeus’s other wives (especially mortal woman)

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Describe The Following Name: Athena (RN: Minerva)

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Daughter of Zeus
- Born of Zeus’s headache
-Goddess of Wisdom and War
-Athens, Greece was named for her

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Describe The Following Name: Apollo

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Son of Zeus and Letos/Twin Brother of Artemis
- God of poetry/music/medicine/ and light (sun god)

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Describe The Following Name: Artemis (RN: Diana)

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Daughter of Zeus and Letos/Twin Sister of Apollo
-Goddess of hunting
- Goddes of the moon
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Describe The Following Name: Ares (RN: Mars)

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Son of Zeus (Terrible god of War)

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Describe The Following Name: Hephaestus (RN: Vulcan)

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Son of Zeus and Hera
- Goddess of fire
- Lame blacksmith

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Describe The Following Name: Aphrodite (RN: Venus)

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Wife of Hephaestus
- Goddess of love and beauty
- Born from the blood of Chrono/ Sea Foam

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Describe The Following Name: Eros/Cupid

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The Son of Aphrodite
- shoots arrows causing people to fall in love with each other

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Describe The Following Name: Hermes (RN: Mercury)

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Zeus’s Son
- Messenger of the Gods
- God of Science and Invention

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Describe The Following Name: Hestia (RN: Vesta)

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Zeus’s Sister
- Goddess of hearth and home

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Describe The Following Name: Demeter (RN: Ceres)

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Zeus’s Sister
- Goddess of agriculture

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Describe The Following Name: Hades

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Zeus’s Brother
- Lord of the dead/underworld

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Describe The Following Name: Pan

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God of wood and fields
- half man half goat: Faun
- very musical (earth god)

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Describe The Following Name: Dionysus

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God of wine/revelry/dancing
- granted Midas the golden touch

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Describe The Following Name: Silenus

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Teacher/tutor of Dionysus

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Describe The Following Name: Penelope

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A nymph of the woods (mortal)

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Describe The Following Name: Syrinx

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A nymph who did not return Pan’s love

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Describe The Following Name: Tmolus

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Mountain-God
- Judge the music contest between Apollo and Pan

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Describe The Following Place: Mt. Olympus

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Home of the gods

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Describe The Following Place: Phrygia

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A Country on earth/The Kingdom of Midas

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Describe The Following Place: Pactolus

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A cleansing river where Midas had gone too, to get rid of his golden touch.

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Describe The Following Place: Delos

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The rocky island were Artemis and Apollo were born.

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Describe The Following Names: Cronos

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Leader of the Titans
- ate his five children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon
- later gets killed by his sixth child Zeus

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Describe The Following Names: Rhea

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Crono’s Sister and Wife

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Describe The Following Names: Atlas

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A banished Titan
- Punished by being made to hold the world

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Describe The Following Names: Prometheus

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Conquered Titan
-created Man
- stole fire from the gods and gave it to man

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Describe The Following Names: Epimetheus

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Conquered Titan
-Prometheus’s brother
- Helped create life on earth (animals and plants)

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Describe The Following Names: Eros

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God of Life (breathed life into objects)

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Describe The Following Names: Arachne

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mortal skilled weaver but conceited
- challenged Athene to a weaving contest and won/lost
- got turned into a spider after being killed/punishment

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Describe The Following Names: Gordius

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King of Phrygia
- made King when he was the first to ride in a wagon
- made a Gordius note to honour his appointment as King of Phrygia
- Father of Midas

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Describe The Following Names: Cybele

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Gordius’s wife
- Queen of Phrygia
- Mother of Mida

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Describe The Following Names: Midas

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Son of Gordius and Cybele
- The new ruler of Phrygia
- The one who had the golden touch

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Describe The Following Names: Letos

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Mother of Apollo and Artemis/ Mistress of Zeus
- A titan

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Describe The Following Names: Alcmene

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Mortal daughter of the King of Mycenae
- Mother of Hercules
- Got tricked by Zeus to have intercourse with her

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Describe The Following Names: Hesperides

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Titan daughters of Atlas
- their duty was to guard the golden apples

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Describe The Following Names: Hercules

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Hercules - son of Alcmene and Zeus
- had to perform twelve difficult tasks to get rid of himself of the guilt he had from being driven by Hera to kill his family.

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