Greek Gods Flashcards

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Cronos

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Father of the gods gave his name to time married rhea swallowed his (children Hestia Demeter and Hera—(female) hades Poseidon —(male))

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Uranus

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The first one crono’s father killed by his son prophesied that his son cronos would also be killed by one of his children

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Rhea

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Goddess of the earth saved Zeus from cronos helped zeus prepare drink that forced Chronos to vomit up his other children

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Zeus

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Father God god of the sky

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Hera

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Mother Goddess tricked by Zeus into marriage

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Poseidon

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God of the sea (seas and rivers)

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Hades

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God of the underworld/dead

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Demeter

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Goddess of all useful fruits grasses and grains

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Persephone

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Demeter’s daughter unhappily married to Hades

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Hephaestus

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God of Goldsmith’s jewelers blacksmiths masons and carpenters son of Zeus and Hera Broke his leg when Zeus threw him over the walls of Olympus wore a golden leg-iorn

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Athene

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Goddess of wisdom battle goddess believed to have been born from Zeus his head (headache)

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of love married (unhappily) to Hephaestus

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Ares

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Tall handsome crew loved fighting for his own sake flirted with Aphrodite had no manners no learning and the worst of taste

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Apollo

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God of music poetry medicine archery and young unmarried men son of Zeus and Leto

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Artemis

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Goddess of hunting in unmarried girls (if any mortal happen to see her without clothes she used to change him into a stag and hunted him to death)

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Daphne

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Chased by abollo changed into a laurel tree

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Hermes

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Goddess of merchants Bank or Steve’s fortunetellers and and heralds born in Arcadia son of Zeus and Maia, invented the alphabet

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Hestia

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Goddess of the home

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Dionysus

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Son of Zeus and Semele (mortal woman) Hestia offered him her seat on the counsel just to keep the peace

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Heracles

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Olympian porter

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Eris

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Goddess of quarrels

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Iris

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Nemesis kept a list for the Olympians of proud mortals do to be punished

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Hebe

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Goddess of youth who married Hercules

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Ganymede

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Zeus’s handsome young cup bearer

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Three fates

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(Clotho Lachesis Atropos) oldest goddesses inexistence too old for anybody to remember where they came from the fates decided how long each mortal should live spinning a linen thread to measure exactly so many inches and feet for months and years and snipping it off with a pair of shears they also know but seldom reveal what would be the fate of each Olympian god

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Cyclopes

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Zeus’s ugly cousins freed by him to help defeat the Titans

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Hundred-handed ones

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Zeus’s ugly cousins freed by him to help defeat the Titans

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Titans

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Cronos’s half brothers huge twisted dark creatures taller than trees whom he kept pent up in the mountains until there was fighting to be done

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Pan

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Young goat God he said that it was his shout that made the Titans flea that is where we get the word “Panic”

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Olympians

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The 12 most important gods and goddesses of ancient Greece all members of the same family

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Mount Olympus

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The highest mountain in Greece