Greece Flashcards

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Argo

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Argonaut’s boat

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Orpheus

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On the Argos, musician; married to Eurydice who he sought in the underworld but lost because he turned around to look

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Who was on the Argos?

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Caster and Pollux, Orpheus, Hercules, Jason, Hylas

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4
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Gegenees

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6-armed monster occupied the same island as the Doliones

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5
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Doliones

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King Cyzicus; offered hospitality to the Argonauts who later mistakenly massacred them

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Cyzicus

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King who Jason killed on accident

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7
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Hylas

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Argonaut; kissed a nymph who dragged him under

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Aeëtes

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King of Colchis with Golden Fleece; Medea’s father

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9
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Absyrtus

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Jason or Medea killed him; Medea quartered him and sent the pieces in opposite directions to distract her father from her escape

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10
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Melos

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an island 100 miles from the Pireus; Athens killed all the men and enslaved the women and children because the island wouldn’t join in a military alliance against Sparta to whom many of the people on Melos were related

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