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GREEK GODS Flashcards

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Possesses superhuman strength, cleverness, confidence; is helped and harmed by interfering gods; embodies ideals and values that a culture admires

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Hero

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Main character who has supernatural abilities, changed with a quest, tested, has mythical beings, human helpers, goes to supernatural world, cycle reaches a low point, a resurrection, restitution

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Hero cycle

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Wrote the Iliad and the odyssey

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Homer

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Long narrative poem about a hero

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Epic

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Journey, war, good vs evil

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Epic themes

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King of Olympus

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Zeus

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Queen of Olympus

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Hera

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Lord of Sea

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Poseidon

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Lord of underworld

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Hades

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Arrogance leading to ones own downfall

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Hubris

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Goddess of wisdom/war

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Athena

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God of Music/Prophecy

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Apollo

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Goddess of the Hunt

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Artemis

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Goddess of the home

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Hestia

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God of love

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Eros

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Shepherd god

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Pan

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Messenger god

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Hermes

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God of war

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Ares

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Goddess of grain

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Demeter

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Goddess of love/beauty

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Aphrodite

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God of metalwork

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Hephaestus

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God of wine

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Dionysus

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Mother Earth

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Gaea

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Heaven

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Uranus

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Sun

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Hyperion

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Lesser deity of mythology, inhabited sea, rivers,wood,attends a superior deity

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Nymph

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Son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax

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Icarus

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Carries earth on shoulders

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Atlas

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Titan of Wisdom

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Metis

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Spin, measure, and cut; they determine life span

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The fates

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Give beauty and other graces to mortal women

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The graces

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A powerful, winged horse

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Pegasus

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Goddess/queen of underworld, wife of hades

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Persephone

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Associated with Poseidon, stirs up tsunamis and sea storms

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Trident

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Punish crimes

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The furries

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Pit beneath the earth used as a dungeon, souls were judged after death and wicked received punishment

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Tartarus

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Gap between heaven and earth

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Chaos

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Creator of man

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Prometheus

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Afterthought

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Epimetheus

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King of titans/time

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Cronus

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Giant one- eyed beings

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Cyclopes

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raised Zues

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Olympus

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mother of first gods

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Rhea

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goddess of the underworld, ally of Zues

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Styx

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King who turned everything to gold with his hand

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Midas

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ferryman of Hades who carried souls of deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the land of the living from the dead

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Charon

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3 headed guard dog of Hades, prevented ghosts from leaving underworld

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Cerberus

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half man, half horse

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Centaur

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half man, half bull

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Minotaur

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princess, daughter of King Acrisius of Argos, mother of Perseus by Zeus.

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Danae

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refers to women, mothers and grandmothers being in charge

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Matriarchal

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male head of family or community

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Patriarchal

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1st woman created by gods, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth to punish humanity for Prometheus’ theft of the secret fire. She opened a jar and released evils of humanity and only kept hope in

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Pandora

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towers up center of earth, where gods live and hold court, mountain or heaven

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Mount Olympus

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giving God human human like qualities

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Anthropomorphic

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multiple gods, each god controlled an aspect of the environment

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polytheism

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one supreme god

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monotheism

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Zeus’ father, shown in underworld, knee deep in water trying to drink but water vanishes or fruit is beyond reach

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Tantalus

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god of Hades claimed him, hauled to Hades for an eternity of hard labor, when he rolled a boulder up a hill it would roll back down again

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Sisyphus

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son of Zeus and Alcmene, a hero of great strength who won immortality by performing 12 labors

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Hercules

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a cruel woman with snakes for hair; one look at her turned a person to stone

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Medusa

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a nymph who loved her own voice and spent time with Zeus

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Echo

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son of a river god known by beauty, fell in love with his reflection and died

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Narcissus

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was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue

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Pygmalion

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builder of Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete, craftsman, inventor

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Daedalus

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sacred religious sanctuary, oracles were told here, center of Greek world

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Delphi

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a nation of all female warriors

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Amazons

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Greek hero of Trojan war and central character and warrior of Illiad shot in heel by Paris

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Achilles

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Odysseus’ wife

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Penelope

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Odysseus’ son

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Telemachus

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most powerful of all the Cyclopians; son of Poseidon

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Polyphemus

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Female monster who sucks in water and creates a whirlpool

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Charybdis

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Female monster with six serpent heads

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Scylla

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Titan god of he son

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Helios

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witch/nymph who wanted Odysseus as her husband

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Calypso

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Terrible goddess with lovely hair, who spoke in the language of men; daughter of Helios

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Circe

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Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of King Menelaus

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Helen

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bird women who lured sailors to their deaths

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Sirens

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