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Jason

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Golden Fleece, Argonauts

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Odysseus

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(Ulysses). Trojan horse, Odessey hero

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Perseus

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Medusa killer

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Theseus

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Minotaur killer

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Heracles

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(Hercules). 12 labors

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Athens

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Named after Athena, Greece city

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Crete

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Minoan civilization, King MInos, island, home of the labyrinth

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Delphi

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Spiritual center of Greece, and oracle home.

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Ithaca

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Home of Odysseus

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Labyrinth

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Maze, where the Minotaur is

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Mount Olympus

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Home of the Gods

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Styx

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River to the underworld, Gods swear oaths on it.

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Hades

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The underworld

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Tartarus

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Criminal home in the under world

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Troy

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Trojan War

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Agamemnon

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Greek king from the Trojan war

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Daedalus

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Make inventor

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Helen

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Of Troy, The face that launched 1000 ships, taken by Paris

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Menelaus

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Greek King From war, Husband of Helen

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Midas

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Golden Touch, ass ears

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Pandora

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Box/jar letting evil into the world (eve)

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Persephone

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Queen of underworld (abducted), pomegranate eater

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Andromeda

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wife of Perseus, chained to cliff

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Telemachus

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Son of Odysseus

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Pygmalion

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Statue lover

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Danae

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Perseus’ mom, gold shower lap, Zeus got her pregnant

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Echo

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Repeats everything and she is a nymph

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Arachne

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weaver, spider woman

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Icarus

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Flew to close to the sun. (Wax melt)

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narcissus

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Fell in love w/ himself

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Sisyphus

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Rock up the hill

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Tantalus

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Close to food and water but can’t get any

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Penelope

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wife of Odysseus

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Amazons

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Warrior woman, cut of right breast to shoot arrows better

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Cerberus

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3 headed watch dog of the underworld

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Circe

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Witch Goddess, turns men into animals

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Furies

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3, snake hair, got revenge on people for killing family members

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Pegasus

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Winged horse, born from Madusas neck

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Calypso

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Beautiful Goddess, hold Odysseus captive

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Medusa

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Once pretty, gorgon, snake hair, turns people to stone

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Muses

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Inspire arts

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Teiresias

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Blind prophet

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Graces

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Bestow grace on humans (beauty)

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Fates

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3, spin, measure, cut

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Charon

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Fairy man of the underworld

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Polyphemus

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Cyclops from the odyssey, son of Poseidon

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Chimeras

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Goat, lion, dragon

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Gorgons

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3, snake hair, turn people to stone

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Harpies

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Bird, woman, drive people insane

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Hydra

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Water creature, chop off one head two grow back. One head was immortal

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Scylla

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6 headed monster, ate 6 of Odysseus’ men

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Charybdis

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Underwater, suck water down 3 times a day creating a whirlpool.

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Minotaur

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In the labyrinth, half man/bull

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Cyclopes

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One eyed monster

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Centaurs

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Half man half horse

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Sirens

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Beautiful voice, Lour sailors to their death

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satyrs

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Half man half goat

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Nymphs

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Magical creatures associated with nature

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Homer

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Author of the Odyssey

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The Iliad

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Epic poem, Trojan war

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the Odessey

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Epic poem, journey Home

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Chaos

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Nothingness

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Anthropomorphic

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extreme personification

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Hubris

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Pride (a lot)

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Bard

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Storyteller

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Epic

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Long story about a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular civilization

War
Journey
Good and Evil

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Polytheism

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Belief in many Gods

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Monotheism

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Belief in one God

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Matriarchal

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Society, female dominated

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Patriarchal

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Society, male dominated

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Achilles

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Trotan Washington, Vulnerable heel, Styx dip

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