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Achilles

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Dipped in river Styx, Trojan war hero.

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Jason

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Leader of the argonauts, goes on quest for the Golden Fleece.

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Ithaca

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Home of Odysseus

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Perseus

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Kills Medusa; rescues Andromeda

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Theseus

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Defeats Minotaur

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Heracles (Hercules)

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Super strong; 12 labors; kills hydra

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Athens

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Most famous city in Greece

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Crete

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Island; king Minos; labyrinth

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Odysseus (Ulysses)

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Trojan horse; The Odyssey; twenty years away from home

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Labyrinth

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Built by Daedalus; imprisoned Minotaur

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Mount Olympus

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Home of the gods.

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River Styx

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River to get to the Underworld. Gods swear lathes on it

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Midas

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Golden touch; ass ears

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Delphi

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Spiritual center of Greece

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Troy

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Place of the Trojan war.

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Agamemnon

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Famous war hero of the Trojan war.

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Pandora

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Greek version of Eve; curse to mankind

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Daedalus

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Inventor of labyrinth; wax wings

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Helen

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The mythological cause of the Trojan war

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Menelaus

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Husband if Helen; a king

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Hades/Tartarus

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The underworld

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Andromeda

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Perseus’ wife; chained to a cliff

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Telemachus

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Son of Odysseus

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Pygmalion

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Falls in love with his statue

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Danaë

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Mother of Perseus; imprisoned by father

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Echo

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Distracted Hera so that Zeus could have an affair

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Arachne

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Weaver; challenged Athena and was turned into a spider

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Icarus

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Son of Daedalus; flew to close to the son

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Narcissus

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Fell in love with his own reflection

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Sisyphus

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Has to roll a rock up a hill over and over as a punishment

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Tantalus

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Can’t eat or drink; when he reaches for food it is just out of reach and when he goes down for a drink the water level drops

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Penelope

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Odysseus’ wife; faithful, weaver

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Amazons

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Famous female warriors; tall and strong. Cut off their dominant side boob

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Atlas

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Holds up the sky/heavens; turned into a mountain by Perseus

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Cronus

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Leader of the titans; time

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Helios

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Sun Titan

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Prometheus

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Creator of humans; stole fire from Mount Olympus; was punished by being chained to a cliff and having the birds peck at his liver

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Rhea

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Wife of Cronus

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Hyperion

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Sun Titan

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Persephone

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Queen of the underworld; reason for the seasons

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Gaea

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Mother Earth

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Cerberus

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Three headed dog

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Circe

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Goddess/ witch

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Furies

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Avenge murders within a family

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Pegasus

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Famous winged horse; sprang from the neck of Medusa

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Calypso

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Sea nymph; Odysseus lived with her as her sex slave

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The Odyssey

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Epic poem about Odysseus’ ten year trip home after the war

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Medusa

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Serpent hair; turns you to stone if you look at her; was once beautiful nut Athena turned her into a gorgon; was killed by Odysseus

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Muses

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Immortal; art inspiration

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Teiresias

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Blind prophet; in many stories

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Graces

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Give good human traits

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Uranus

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Starry skies

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Fates

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Three of them, one holds thread, one measures, one cuts. Determine how long you will live.

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Polyphemus

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Cyclopedia guy

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Charon

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Drives the boat to the underworld

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Harpies

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Bird ladies

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Chimaera

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Goat, lion and serpent

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Scylla

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Multi headed female monster

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Hydra

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Multi headed creature, when you cut one off another grows back, one head is immortal, killed by Heracles.

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Anthropomorphic

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Giving human traits to non human things such as gods having affairs

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Minotaur

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Half man, half bull; in the labyrinth in Crete

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Cyclopes

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One eyed monster

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Charybdis

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Whirlpool minster, sucks down water twice a day

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Sirens

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Lure in sailors to their death by singing

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Satyr

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Half man, half goat

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Centaur

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Half man, half horse

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Homer

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Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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The Iliad

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Epic poem about the ten year Trojan war

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Chaos

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Nothingness

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Nymphs

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Female, different depending on their region. Example: sea nymph

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