Mythic Geography Flashcards

1
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Birthplace: Caria

A

Dionysus/Bacchus

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2
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Birthplace: Crete

A

Zeus/Jupiter

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3
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Birthplace: Cyprus

A

Aphrodite/Venus

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4
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Birthplace: Delos

A

Apollo and Artemis/Diana

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5
Q

Mt. Atlas

A

Graeae (Fates)
Western Africa

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6
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Mt. Ida, Turkey

A

Paris and Ascanius

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7
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Mt. Ida, Crete

A

Zeus

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8
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Mt. Olympus

A

Northern Greece (Thessaly and MAcedon)

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9
Q

Staits: Bosporus - who?

A

Io

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10
Q

Staits: Hellespont (Dardanelles) what?

A

Golden Fleece (Troy/Turkey)

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11
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Staits: Gibralter - what?

A

Pillars of Hercules (Spain-Africa)

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12
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Staits: Messina - monsters

A

Scylla and Charybis (Sicily-Italy)

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13
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Staits: Cimmerian Bosporus (Kerch Strait) who?

A

monsters and wild people (Scythia)

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14
Q

Iliad

A

Greece to Troy

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15
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Odyssey

A

Troy to Sicily (Cyclopes)
To Corfu (Nausicaa)
To Strait of Messina (Scylla and Charybis)
To Ithaca

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16
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Labours of Hercules

A

Peloponnese (Nemea)
Thrace (Mares of Diomedes)
Pillars of Hercules (cattle of Geryon)

17
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Argonautica

A

Colchis
Danube
Straits of Messina (Scylla and Charybis)

18
Q

Aeneid

A

Troy
Thrace
Delos
Crete
Actium
Sicily
Carthage
Cumae
Latium

19
Q

Sanct. Delphi

A

Apollo
original center of the world-omphalos
Mt. Parnassus

20
Q

Sanct. Olympia

A

Zeus

21
Q

Sanct. Nemea

A

Zeus (Peloponnese)

22
Q

Sanct. Dodona

A

Zeus (mid-Achaea)

23
Q

Entries to the Underworld

A

Lake Avernus (Cumaen Sybil)

24
Q

Sauromatai Amazons

A

Right of Scythia

25
Q

Cimmerian Bosporus - creature

A

Gryphons (past Hellespont in Black Sea)

26
Q

Hyperborea

A

Gorgons (north of Amazons)

27
Q

Ultima Thule

A

Past Britain and Netherlands