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Lesson 4 Flashcards

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1
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Hera’s secret garden in the west

A

Garden of Hesperides

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Zeus’ bride; he turned her into a white cow

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Io

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Hera’s watchman with 100 eyes

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Argus

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reminder of Argus with 100 eyes on her tail

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peacock

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cow ford

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Bosporus

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country where Io was worshipped as Queen

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Egypt

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gods of smiths and fire; Aphrodite’s husband

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Hephaestus

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island Hephaestus landed on

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Lemnos

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sea-goddess; nursed Hephaestus to health

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Thetis

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metal smiths; Hephaestus’ helper

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Cyclopes

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never-ending life

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immortality

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12
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large, annoying fly that bites livestock

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gadfly

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causing great pain or anguish

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tormenting

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14
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a narrow waterway connecting two bodies of water

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strait

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shallow place in a stream where one can cross

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ford

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to no avail; for nothing

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in vain

17
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metalworker; makes or repairs metal objects

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smiths

18
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a furnace for heating metal

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forges

19
Q

device that when compressed forces air into a fire

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bellows

20
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noise, racket, commotion

A

din

21
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Identify and give the significance of the marked location.

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Arcadia - location of the Inachos river, dried up by Zeus’ thunderbolt

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Identify and give the significance of the marked location.

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Lemnos - island where Hephaestus fell, was crippled, and was nursed back to health

23
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Identify and give the significance of the marked location.

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Asia Minor - Asian side of the Bosporus

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Identify and give the significance of the marked location.

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Bosporus - where Io, as a cow, leapt to escape the gadfly

25
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Describe Hephaestus’ workshop, its location, and how one could tell that he was working.

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Hephaestus’ workshop was on Mt. Olympus and his forges were inside volcanoes. He had bellows and hammers and two thinking robots to help him. When he was working, sparks flew out of the mountains and the noise of the hammers could be heard for miles.

Memoria Press Greek Myths (31 decks)

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