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
Hyperion
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Lesser deity of mythology, inhabited sea, rivers,wood,attends a superior deity
Nymph
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Son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax
Icarus
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Carries earth on shoulders
Atlas
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Titan of Wisdom
Metis
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Spin, measure, and cut; they determine life span
The fates
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Give beauty and other graces to mortal women
The graces
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A powerful, winged horse
Pegasus
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Goddess/queen of underworld, wife of hades
Persephone
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Associated with Poseidon, stirs up tsunamis and sea storms
Trident
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Punish crimes
The furries
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Pit beneath the earth used as a dungeon, souls were judged after death and wicked received punishment
Tartarus
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Gap between heaven and earth
Chaos
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Creator of man
Prometheus
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Afterthought
Epimetheus
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King of titans/time
Cronus
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Giant one- eyed beings
Cyclopes
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raised Zues
Olympus
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mother of first gods
Rhea
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goddess of the underworld, ally of Zues
Styx
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King who turned everything to gold with his hand
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
Charon
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3 headed guard dog of Hades, prevented ghosts from leaving underworld
Cerberus
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half man, half horse
Centaur
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half man, half bull
Minotaur
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princess, daughter of King Acrisius of Argos, mother of Perseus by Zeus.
Danae
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refers to women, mothers and grandmothers being in charge
Matriarchal
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male head of family or community
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
Pandora
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towers up center of earth, where gods live and hold court, mountain or heaven
Mount Olympus
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giving God human human like qualities
Anthropomorphic
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multiple gods, each god controlled an aspect of the environment
polytheism
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one supreme god
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
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
Sisyphus
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son of Zeus and Alcmene, a hero of great strength who won immortality by performing 12 labors
Hercules
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a cruel woman with snakes for hair; one look at her turned a person to stone
Medusa
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a nymph who loved her own voice and spent time with Zeus
Echo
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son of a river god known by beauty, fell in love with his reflection and died
Narcissus
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was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue
Pygmalion
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builder of Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete, craftsman, inventor
Daedalus
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sacred religious sanctuary, oracles were told here, center of Greek world
Delphi
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a nation of all female warriors
Amazons
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Greek hero of Trojan war and central character and warrior of Illiad shot in heel by Paris
Achilles
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Odysseus' wife
Penelope
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Odysseus' son
Telemachus
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most powerful of all the Cyclopians; son of Poseidon
Polyphemus
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Female monster who sucks in water and creates a whirlpool
Charybdis
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Female monster with six serpent heads
Scylla
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Titan god of he son
Helios
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witch/nymph who wanted Odysseus as her husband
Calypso
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Terrible goddess with lovely hair, who spoke in the language of men; daughter of Helios
Circe
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Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of King Menelaus
Helen
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bird women who lured sailors to their deaths
Sirens
