Greece Flashcards
1
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Chair of Forgetfulness
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Made of Obsidian. Binds the arms of the person with red snakes; Theseus was bound there for trying to steal Persephone; Heracles rescued him
2
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Theseus’ best friend
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Pirithous
3
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Ethra
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Theseus’ mother.
4
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Pirithous
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Theseus’ best friend; king of the Lapiths
5
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Chthonic
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deities of the underworld
6
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Asclepius
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god of medicine; fetus inside Coronis when Artemis killed her; Apollo took the fetus from inside Coronis’ dead body
7
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mercedem
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reward
8
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Myrtis
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450; poet who competed with Pindar
9
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Anyte
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300 BC poet; the female Homer; epigrams, country settings, epidictic poems (for display), funerary, dedicatory
10
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Olympias Callias the Chalcidian
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made Athenian citizens on the motion of Demosthenes; his special agent
