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Mt. Olympus

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Home of the Olympian gods

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Ambrosia

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Food or drink of the gods

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Nectar

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Food of the gods

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Ichor

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Blood of the gods

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Pantheon

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Council of the 12 Olympian gods

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Omnipotent

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Having unlimited powrr

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Omniscient

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Knowing everything

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Metamorphosis

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Transformation

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Gigantomachy

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Representation of battles between Olympian gods and Giants

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Dyaus

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Sky/day conceived as a divine entity, the heaven

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Storm god

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Zeus

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Argive Heraion

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Hera’s sanctuary

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Eileithyia

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Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery

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Hebe

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Virgin form of Hera / young version

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Kanathos

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Where Hera regains her virginity annually

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Iris

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Goddess of rainbow

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Thalassa

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Sea /ocean

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Mt. Helicon

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Poseidon’s sanctuary

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Pegasus

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Winged horse, made by Poseidon

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Hippocrene

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Spring on Mt. Helicon

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Persephone

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Daughter of Demeter

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Telesterion

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Devoted place to Demeter

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Triptolemus

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Young Athenian who was given seeds to spread around the world

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Eternal return

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Explaining the cycle of the seasons

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Hyperboreans

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People who lived way up north

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Ephebe

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Any male who attained the age of puberty (Apollo’s Roman name)

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Pythia

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Temple of Apollo in Delphi

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Tripod

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Stool in Delphi on which Pythia sat to produce her oracles

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Potnia Theron

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Mistress of the animals

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Leto (latona)

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Mother of Apollo and Artemis

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Mt. Cynthus

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Birthplace of Apollo and Artemis / the floating Island

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Métis

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Goddess of wisdom / Athena’s mother

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Xoanon

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Wooden cult image of archaic Greece

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Erechtheion

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Pillar columns in the shape of women

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Parthenon

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Temple to Athena

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Aegis

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Magical breastplate / shield of Zeus

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Gorgoneion

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Severed head of Medusa / amulet showing Gorgon head

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Apotropaic

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Type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences

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Hearth

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Hestia

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Megaron

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Open porch / vestibule / large hall with hearth and throne

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Pylos

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Palace of Nestor

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Herm

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Sacred object of stone connected to Hermes

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Arcadia

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Birthplace of Hermes

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Pleiades

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7 daughters of Titan atlas

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Tricker god

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Dione

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Goddess of love

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Vegetation god

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Mystery cult

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Idea of merging mortal with divinity by eating what represented gods under Dionysus

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Sparagmos

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Rip to pieces

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Omophagy

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To eat raw food

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Bacchus

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Estogic god of drunkness

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Maenad

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Female worshippers of Dionysus

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Satyr

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Silenus

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Companion and tutor of Dionysus

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Thyrsus

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Staff with vine leaves

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Syncretism

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Union / fusion of different religions and cultures

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Euhemerism

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Theory that gods arose out of the deification of historical heroes / like Hercules

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Allegory

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Fictional narrative that gives moral meanings

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Panhellenic festive

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Collective term for four separate sport festivals in ancient Greek

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Olympic Games

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You should know this

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Panathenaea

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Annual festivities in ancient Athens to honor Athena

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Votive

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Expressing a vow, wish, or desire

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Cult

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Self explanatory

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Attribute

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Objects to show which god it is

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Epithet

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Describing the name of person or thing

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Invoke

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To call on aid or protection

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Demigod

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Percy Jackson

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Divinity, deity

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Foundation myth

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How a place come to be

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Peloponnese

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Island of Pelops

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Iconography

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Images /symbols to represent religion

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Kylix

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Drinking cup

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Contrapposto

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Standing figure shifting weight on one leg

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Apollo Belvedere

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Apollo as a standing archer having just shot an arrow

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Orientation

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Arrangement

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Pediment

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Triangle shape on the temples / roof

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Pergamon altar

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Homepage image on CLVC

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Orion

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3 belt star guy

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Hecate

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Goddess of sorcery and magic

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Asclepius

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Hero and god of medicine

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Hades (Pluto)

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Cerberus

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3 headed dog

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Styx

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River between dead and living, river of hatred

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Acheron

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River of woe, entrance to hades

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Charon

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Ferryman of underworld

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Vergil’s Aeneid

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Book of ideas of destiny, journey, and the strengths of Rome

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Aeneas

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Trojan hero, son of aphrochite and Anchises, cousin of Hector

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Sibyl of Cumae

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Priestess and prophet of Apollo’s oracles

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Golden Bough

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Belief that all mankind evolved intellectually and psychologically from superstitious belief

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Avernus

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Believed to be the entrance to the underworld

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Katabasis

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Journey to the underworld

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Minos

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King of Crete, one of the judges of the dead

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Rhadamanthys

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Judge of the dead

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Aeacus

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One of the judges of the dead

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Tartarus

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Lowest part of the underworld

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Tantalus

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Fed the gods his son, forced to be in a pool of water but unable to drink it

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Sisyphus

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Attempted to trick death by hiding in a closet, forever rolling of boulder up the hill

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Tityus

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Tried to rape Leto, chained to a rock and have vultures eat out his liver

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Ixion

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Tried to rape Hera, forced to be tied to a burning wheel constantly spinning

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Danaids

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50 daughter who killed their husbands on their wedding night, forced to fill a bucket with holes at the bottom

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Elysian Fields

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Heaven to Greeks , mainly for heroes

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Isle of the blessed

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People who go to be reincarnated

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