Greek Gods Flashcards

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God of Planting, Harvesting, Growing

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Demeter

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God of the Underworld

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Hades

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Zeus’s sister / wife

Queen of Intriguers

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Hera

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Freed siblings

Leader

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Zeus

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Father of Gods

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Cronos

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God of the Sea
Married Amphitrite
Liked Demeter, made horses

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Poseidon

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Daughter of Metis and Zeus
Cut out of Zeus's head by Hephaestus  
Taught man how to use tools
Best loved god in pantheon 
Arachne story
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Athene(Athena)

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Made by Hephaestus from clay in the likeliness of Aphrodite

Opened gift from Hermes

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Pandora

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Twelfth God
God of Liars, Thieves, Gamblers, Treaties, Travelers
Messenger God
Stole Cows from Apollo

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Hermes

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Stared at Reflection in water for eternity

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Narcissus

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Most beloved dryad

Cursed by Hera

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Echo

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God of love and beauty
Rose from oranos’s body in the sea
Married Hephaestus

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Aphrodite

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Smith God
Ugly
Lived in broken mountain

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Hephaestus

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Goddess of the moon

Silver bow and arrow

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Artemis

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God of the sun
Beautiful
God of music, poetry, math, medicine
Marsyas (play instrument upside down)

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Apollo

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Played lyre and sang

Eurydice(wife) died, went to underworld to save

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Orpheus

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Cupid, son of Aphrodite

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Eros

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Tried to see Eros

Turned into owl?

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Psyche

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Young Titan, questioned Zeus often

Gave man fire

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Prometheus

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Unmarried young sculptor

Married sculpture of Aphrodite that Aphrodite brought to life

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Pygmalion

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Sculpture Aphrodite brought to life

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Galatea

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King who loved gold, turned everything he touched to gold

Donkey ears

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Midas

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God of Wine

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Dianysus

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God of war

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Ares

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God of hygiene

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Hygea

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Strongest mortal

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Heracles(Hercules)

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Zeus’s sister

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Hestia

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Cronos’s wife

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Rhea

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Danae and Zeus’s Son

Cut off medusa’s head

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Perseus

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Have one eye and tooth

Helped Perseus

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The gray sisters

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Medusa is one

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Gorgon sisters

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Hades’s wife for half the year

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Persephone

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Goat

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Pan

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God of healing

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Esclipius