Hercules Flashcards

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Aeacus

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Judge in underworld

Grandfather of Achilles father of Pilius

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Admete

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Daughter of eurystheus

Wanted Hippolytas belt

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Alcmena

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Hercules mother

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Alps

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Mountains Hercules journeyed through with oxen

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Amazons

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War like women who only use men to get offspring

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Amphitryon

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Alcemenas husband- general in army

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Apollo

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Ordered Hercules to hand himself over to eurystheus

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Arcadia

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Country with boar and also centaurs

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Athena/Minerva

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Helped hercules by protecting him

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Atlas

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Offered to tell Hesperides to give apples of Hercules would hold the sky

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Augeas Rex

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King of Elis

Location of Augean stables

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Busiris Rex

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King of Egyptians

Sacrificed humans

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Cacus

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Fire breathing

Stole 4 oxen while Hercules slept

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Centauri

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Half human half horse

Attacked Hercules over wine

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Cerberus

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3 headed dog in underworld

Dragged to Tiryns as 12 labor

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Cerynean stag

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Stag with golden horns and great swiftness

Captured by Hercules

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Charon

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Led sounds across rover Styx

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Creon Rex

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King of Thebes

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Crete

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Location of bull

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Deianeria

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Hercules 2nd wife

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Delphi

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Location of the oracle whom Hercules consulted

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Diomedes Rex

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Owned flesh eating horses
Hercules killed him an fed him to horses
Son of ares

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Elis

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Land of Augeas

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Elysian Fields

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Place for the blessed in the underworld

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Erginus Rex
King of minyans
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Erythea
Where Geryon lived
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Erymanthean boar
4th labor | Dragged out of ditch by Hercules
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Eurystheus
King of tiryns | Have Hercules 12 labors
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Eurytion
Guarded cattle
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Geryon
Man with 3 bodies
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Gibraltar
Location of pillars of Hercules
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Hades-Pluto
God of underworld
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Hera/Juno
Wishes to kill Hercules bc his mother was alcamena
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Hesione
Sacrificed to sea monster to save Troy | Saved by Hercules
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Hesperides
Nymphs who guarded golden apples | Daughters of atlas
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Hippolyte
Queen of amazons Wished to hand over girdle but amazons didn't agree Went to war with Hercules- fled
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Iphicles
Brother of Hercules
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Laomedon Rex
King of tiryns Angered Poseidon and Apollo Father of hesione
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Lethe
River of forgetfulness
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Lerna
Place in which the hydra lived | Swamp
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Ligures
Warlike people | Did not want Hercules to drive oxen through Liguria
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Linus
Hercules music teacher who was killed by him
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Megara
1st wife of Hercules | Daughter of creon
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Mercury/Hermes
Lead souls to orcus
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Minos
Judge in underworld
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Minyae
Neighbors of Thebes | Demanded 100 oxen
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Mycenae
?
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Nemea
Valley of nemean lion | Forest
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Orcus
Underworld
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Orthrus
2 headed dog | Brother of Cerberus
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Pholus
Centaur who helped Hercules | Does with poison arrow
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Pillars of Hercules
Strait of Gibraltar | $
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Poseidon/Neptune
Sent sea monster to Troy
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Persephone/Proserpina
Lived in underworld | Wife of Pluto
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Pythia
Woman who gave advice to those who came to the oracle
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Rhadamanthus
Judge in underworld | Fairness
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Rome
Not yet built
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Sol
Sun | Gave him boat
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Spain
Herculesed oxen through
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Stymphalus
Where birds with bronze beaks lived
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Styx
River in underworld
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Tartarus
Torture region in underworld
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Thebae and thebani
The home of Hercules as a kid
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Thrace
Land of diomedes
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Tiber
River be came to after traveling through alps
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Tiryns
Land of eurystheus
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Troy
Land of laomedon | Sea monster attacked
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Zeus/Jupiter
Father