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1
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Whom did Heracles ask to build funeral pyre

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Philoctetes

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2
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Raised Jason

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Chiron

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Sent Perseus on Quest

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Polydectes

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Who aked jason to yoke fire breathing bulls

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Aeetes

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5
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Who poisoned Heracles with his blood

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Nessus

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What’s in common- Cassandra, Helenus, Paris

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Children of Priam and Hecuba

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Fastest runner among the greeks

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Ajax the Lesser

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Offspring of Demeter and Poseidon

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Ariaon

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9
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Founded Padua, spared by Greeks

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Antenor

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Did not pay for building of walls by Poseidon and Apollo

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Laomedon

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What’s in common- Ceyx, Tereus, Nisus

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Turned into birds

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Trojan, Zeus’s cup bearer

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Ganymede

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13
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Harpy, gave birth to horses

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Podarges

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14
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What was the name of Achilles’s horses?

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Xanthus and Balius

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15
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Who was cursed by Ceres with hunger

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Erysichthon

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16
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Erysichthon was forced to sell what daughter for food

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Mestra

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17
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Refused to relinquish the rule of Thebes to his brother

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Eteocles

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18
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Persuaded by Athena, shot Menelaus, broke treated

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Pandarus

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19
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Where did leucippus die by Daphne

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Ladon River

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20
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Father in law of Heracles

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Oeneus

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21
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Turned the crow black

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Apollo

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22
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False dreams passed through this gate

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Ivory

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23
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Guarded the Titans in Tartarus

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Hecatonchires

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24
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“Hounds of Zeus”

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Harpies

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25
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** turned the peasants of ** into **because they would not let her drink

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Leto, Lycia, Frogs

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26
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Who’s star is the dimmest of the Pleiades?

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Merope

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27
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Raised dead, Zeus killed

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Asclepius

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28
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On what Mt. did Actaeon find Artemis

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Cithaeron

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29
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Pretended to be Zeus, killed

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Salmoneus

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30
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Demeter anoited this child with Ambrosia and a fire

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Demophoon

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31
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Dog of Cephalus

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Laelaps

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32
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Killed son, Learchus after being driven mad by Hera

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Athamas

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33
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Roman equivalent of Rhea

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Ops

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34
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Clashing Rocks

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Symplegades

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35
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Orestes’ Parents

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Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

36
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Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta

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Ismene

37
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Orthrus’s owner

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Geryon

38
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Brother of Medea, murdered

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Absyrtus

39
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Birth name of Heracles

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Alcides

40
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Wives of Heracles

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Megara, Deianeira, Hebe

41
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Mortal parents of Theseus

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Aethra and Aegeus

42
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Other Greek name of Proserpina

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Kore

43
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Roman godess of the underworld

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Libitina

44
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Graces

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Aglaia, Euphrosyne, Thalia

45
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What’s in common- Iphis, Caeneus, Tiresias

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Changed gender

46
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Armor bearer of Achilles

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Patroclus

47
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Tricked the Trojans into bringing the horse in

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Sinon

48
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Thrown to death from the walls

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Astyanax

49
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Assaulted cassandra in the temple of Athena

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Ajax of Locris

50
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Grandfather of the Heraclids

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King Thespius

51
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Roman god of the countryside

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liber

52
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Could change into a woodpecker

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Picus, child of Saturnus

53
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Actaeon was a member of the house of

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Thebes

54
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What’s in common- Niobe, Broteas, Pelops

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Children of Tantalus

55
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Giant, wrestled with Heracles

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Antaeus

56
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With whose rights was the Syrinx associated

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Dionysus

57
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What was the souce of Nisus’ power

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Purple lock of hair

58
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What did Laius do to curse his house?

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He kidnapped Chrysippus

59
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Parents of Oedipus

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Laius and Jocasta

60
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Under whose tent did Odysseus hide gold

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Palamedes

61
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Cratus is the personification of

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Strength

62
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Parents of Nereus

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Gaia and Pontus

63
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Godess called Cynthia

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Artemis

64
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Orestes was pursued by what

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Furies

65
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Cadmus’s sister

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Europa

66
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Usurped the throne of Iolcus from Aeson

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Pelias

67
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Grace of good cheer

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Thalia

68
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Where were Augeas’s stables?

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at Elis

69
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What creatures did both Heracles and Theseus fight

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Centaurs

70
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Two brothers who died in the harness of their mother’s chariot

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Cleobis and Biton

71
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The Charities is another name for

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Graces

72
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The nymph Galatea preferred — to — as a lover

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Acis to Polyphemus

73
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The Danaids murdered the sons of —

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Aegyptus

74
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What’s in common- Odysseus, Jason, Perseus

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Helped by Athena

75
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Sthenoboea fell in love with —

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Bellerophon

76
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Husband of Sthenoboea, purified Bellerophon of murder

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King Proteus

77
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What other lion did Hercules kill

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Thespian lion

78
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Prince of— given dragons by Demeter

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Eleusis, Triptolemus

79
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Tantalus’ great crime is in the house of

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Mycenae

80
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Kills Odysseus

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Telegonus

81
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Muse sang in ocmpetition with the Pierides

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Calliope

82
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Child of Apollo, abandoned by Creusa

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Ion

83
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Cephalus accidentally kills

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Procris

84
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Saved by Venus after trying to reach the Sirens

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Butes

85
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Saved the Greeks from Hector, when Achilles refused to fight

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Patroclus

86
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Myrtilus murdered by

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Pelops

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