Greek Mythology WORDS Flashcards

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Bacchic

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Happily drunken

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labyrinth

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a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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Hyperborean

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an inhabitant of the extreme north

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Golden Apples

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Golden Apples that Hera received at her wedding to Zeus

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Fury

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Wild or violent anger

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Arachnid

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Spider

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Sisyphean

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Endless or unavailing task

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Achilles Heel

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A weak point

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Chronology

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when something happened ordered in that way

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Chimera

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A fire-breathing monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head a goats body and a serpent’s tail

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Harp

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To talk or write persistently and tediously on a particular topic

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Eros

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Love or desire around a person

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Pandora’s box

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A box letting out all the bad things to the world

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Hubris

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big pride/self-confidence

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Tantalize

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torment or tease someone with something unattainable

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Midas Touch

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An uncanny ability to make money wherever you are

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Herculean

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someone of great strength

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Narcissist

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conceded

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“The face that launched a thousand ships”

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Helen of Troy-War mounted on her behalf

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Titanic

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of enomerse strength size or power

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Promethean

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creative

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beware of greeks giving gifts

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dont trust your enemy’s story of Trojen horse

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Gorgon

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An ugly women

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Amazon

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Fierce large groups of women warriors

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Elysian

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Heavenly utopia of food made for gods

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Adonis

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A very handsome young man