Greece Flashcards
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Leonidas
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kings of Sparta; the first and second
2
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Leontiades
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Polemarch of Thebes; helped the Spartans seize the Cadmea where women were celebrating the Thesmophoria
3
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Orestes
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kills his mother Clytemnestra; brother of Electra
4
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Pademos Aphrodite
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Aphrodite of the People
5
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Pandora
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the first woman; Pandora was the origin of the damnable race of women—a plague which men must live with.
6
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Patroclus
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Alexander’s dearest friend
7
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Penthesileia
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Amazon queen; Achilles falls in love with her as he stabs and kills her; he stabs her while she’s pleading for mercy; at the moment he wins, he loses
8
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Sappho
A
630-570
9
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Selene
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goddess of the moon; sister of Eos
10
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Eos
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goddess of the dawn
