Mythology Vocab Flashcards
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Hospitalities
Welcoming stranger in a warm manner
Legend
an old story that possesses roots of fact in it
Mythical, Myths
A story that is not justified or believable
Oracle
a god’s temple where the future is told or advice is given
people
Nectar
Drink for the gods
Ambrosia
food for the gods
Resurrection
Rising from the dead
Inspiration
the act or power of moving the intellect or emotions
Human nature
Things that all humans
Tyranny
ruled over harshly, dictatorship
Slighted
left alone
Thwarted
kept from accomplishing something
Lyre
Musical Instrument
Viper
Snake
Inanimate
Non-living
Animate
Living
Personification
the giving to inanimate objects human attributes
Epithets
Glorified adjectives
Divinties
Gods
Dieties
Gods
Contemporary
ONe who lives at the same time as you do
The Odyssey
The SECOND written record of ancient greeks
The Iliad
The FIRST written record of ancient greeks
Supernatural
a belief in something beyond the normal that cannot be proven factually
superstition
a belief in something that cannot be proven
Reason
using your mind to think out things, one looks for facts and truth to explain things
Immortal
A god, a state where u live forever
Mortal
He can die
Omnipresent
present everywhere, in reference to gods and goddesses
Omniscient
all-knowing, in reference to gods and goddesses
Omnipotent
all-powerful, in reference to gods and goddesses
Primitive
Crude, an early age of the world
Primeval
When things first began back when man first appeared on Earth
Prehistoric
A time before history was written down
