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Mythic Geography Flashcards

1
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Birthplace: Caria

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Dionysus/Bacchus

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Birthplace: Crete

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Zeus/Jupiter

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Birthplace: Cyprus

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Aphrodite/Venus

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Birthplace: Delos

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Apollo and Artemis/Diana

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5
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Mt. Atlas

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Graeae (Fates)
Western Africa

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Mt. Ida, Turkey

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Paris and Ascanius

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Mt. Ida, Crete

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Zeus

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Mt. Olympus

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Northern Greece (Thessaly and MAcedon)

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9
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Staits: Bosporus - who?

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Io

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Staits: Hellespont (Dardanelles) what?

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Golden Fleece (Troy/Turkey)

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Staits: Gibralter - what?

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Pillars of Hercules (Spain-Africa)

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Staits: Messina - monsters

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Scylla and Charybis (Sicily-Italy)

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Staits: Cimmerian Bosporus (Kerch Strait) who?

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monsters and wild people (Scythia)

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14
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Iliad

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Greece to Troy

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15
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Odyssey

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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

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

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Argonautica

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Colchis
Danube
Straits of Messina (Scylla and Charybis)

18
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Aeneid

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Troy
Thrace
Delos
Crete
Actium
Sicily
Carthage
Cumae
Latium

19
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Sanct. Delphi

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Apollo
original center of the world-omphalos
Mt. Parnassus

20
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Sanct. Olympia

21
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Sanct. Nemea

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Zeus (Peloponnese)

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Sanct. Dodona

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Zeus (mid-Achaea)

23
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Entries to the Underworld

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Lake Avernus (Cumaen Sybil)

24
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Sauromatai Amazons

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Right of Scythia

25
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Cimmerian Bosporus - creature

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Gryphons (past Hellespont in Black Sea)

26
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Hyperborea

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Gorgons (north of Amazons)

27
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Ultima Thule

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Past Britain and Netherlands

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