Mythology Flashcards by Seth Baugh | Brainscape

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Achilles

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Mother dipped him in river Styx

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Antigone

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Daughter of Oedipus

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Apollo

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God of truth

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Ares

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*Mars

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Acheron

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River souls have to cross to get into Hades

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Aeschylus

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First known Greek play-write

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Charon

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Ferryman who helps souls cross river (Acheron) into Hades

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Charybdis

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Whirlpool Odysseus avoids

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Clotho

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One of the three fates

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Corinth

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City where Oedipus grew up

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Creon

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Jocasta’s brother

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Delphi

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Where the Oracle is located

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Demeter

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Goddess of the seasons

- Queen of Hades

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Dionysus

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God of fertility and wine

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Eris

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Goddess of discord

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Eteocles

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son of Oedipus

- Polyneices’s brother

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Hades

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God of the underworld

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Hephaestus

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Forged Zeus’s thunderbolts

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Iphigenia

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Agemimnon’s daughter who was sacrificed to make the wind blow

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Ithaca

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Island Odysseus ruled

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Jocasta

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Oedipus’s wife

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Laius

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King of Thebes

- Oedipus’s father

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Leda

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Raped by a swan (Zeus)

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Lethe

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River of forgetfulness

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Leto

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Mother of Apollo & Achimus

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Menelaus

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Helen’s husband

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Mentor

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Trained Telemicus

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Minos

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wife of Theseus

- raped by bull (Zeus)

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Minotaur

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Half bull / half man

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Mnemosyne

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Goddess of memory

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Nike

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God of victory

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Oedipus

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king if Thebes

- kills father, sleeps with mother

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Peleus

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Achilles’s father

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Plato

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Philosopher
Aristotle’s student
Socrates’s teacher

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Polyneices

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Son of Oedipus

- Eteocles’s brother

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Polyphemus

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Cyclops