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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

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King of minyans

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Erythea

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Where Geryon lived

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Erymanthean boar

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4th labor

Dragged out of ditch by Hercules

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Eurystheus

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King of tiryns

Have Hercules 12 labors

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Eurytion

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Guarded cattle

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Geryon

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Man with 3 bodies

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Gibraltar

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Location of pillars of Hercules

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Hades-Pluto

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God of underworld

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Hera/Juno

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Wishes to kill Hercules bc his mother was alcamena

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Hesione

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Sacrificed to sea monster to save Troy

Saved by Hercules

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Hesperides

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Nymphs who guarded golden apples

Daughters of atlas

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Hippolyte

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Queen of amazons
Wished to hand over girdle but amazons didn’t agree
Went to war with Hercules- fled

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Iphicles

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Brother of Hercules

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Laomedon Rex

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King of tiryns
Angered Poseidon and Apollo
Father of hesione

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Lethe

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River of forgetfulness

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Lerna

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Place in which the hydra lived

Swamp

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Ligures

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Warlike people

Did not want Hercules to drive oxen through Liguria

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Linus

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Hercules music teacher who was killed by him

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Megara

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1st wife of Hercules

Daughter of creon

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Mercury/Hermes

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Lead souls to orcus

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Minos

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Judge in underworld

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Minyae

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Neighbors of Thebes

Demanded 100 oxen

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Mycenae

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?

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Nemea

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Valley of nemean lion

Forest

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Orcus

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Underworld

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Orthrus

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2 headed dog

Brother of Cerberus

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Pholus

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Centaur who helped Hercules

Does with poison arrow

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Pillars of Hercules

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Strait of Gibraltar

$

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Poseidon/Neptune

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Sent sea monster to Troy

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Persephone/Proserpina

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Lived in underworld

Wife of Pluto

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Pythia

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Woman who gave advice to those who came to the oracle

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Rhadamanthus

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Judge in underworld

Fairness

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Rome

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Not yet built

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Sol

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Sun

Gave him boat

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Spain

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Herculesed oxen through

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Stymphalus

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Where birds with bronze beaks lived

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Styx

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River in underworld

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Tartarus

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Torture region in underworld

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Thebae and thebani

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The home of Hercules as a kid

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Thrace

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Land of diomedes

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Tiber

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River be came to after traveling through alps

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Tiryns

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Land of eurystheus

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Troy

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Land of laomedon

Sea monster attacked

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Zeus/Jupiter

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Father

Latin III Semester 1 (2 decks)

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