Names Flashcards

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Thetis

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Nymph. Would bear the man how would be greater than his father

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Prometheus

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God. Knew the name of the woman, and wouldn’t tell Zeus.

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Peleus

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Man. Married Thetis. Father of Achilles

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Eris

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Goddess. Goddess of Discord/ Disharmony. Not invited to the wedding of Thetis and Peleus. Made the golden apple

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Athena. Aphrodite. Hera.

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Three goddesses whom claimed the golden apple

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Achilles

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Man. Son of Peleus and Thetis

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River Styx

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Underworld. Achilles is dipped in it and becomes invulnerable

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Helen

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The most beautiful girl in the world

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Agamemnon

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King of Mycenae

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Odysseus

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Kind of Ithica

Polytropos = man of many turns

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Ajax

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King of Salamis

Strongest warrior

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Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Ajax.

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Suitors of Helen whom lost

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Menelaus

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Chosen to marry Helen
Brother of Agamemnon
Became king of Sparta

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Paris

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Prince of Troy

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Cassandra

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Sister of Paris

Prophet (by Apollo, no one believes her)

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Aulis

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Greek fleet assembled here

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Iphigenia

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Agamemnon’s daughter

Sacrificed for good winds

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Clytemnestra

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Agamemnon’s wife

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Athena

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Saved Iphigenia at the last minute

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Homer

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Writer

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Illiad

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Written by Homer about the Trojan war

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Wrath

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First word of the Iliad

Wrath of Achilles

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Patroclus

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Achilles’ best friend

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Hector

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Greatest of the Trojan warriors

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Andromache

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Hector’s wife

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Astyanax

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Hector’s son

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Priam

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Hector’s father

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Hecuba

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Hector’s mother

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Philoctetes

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Keeper of the now and arrow of Hercules

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Sinon

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Lone Greek left behind to tell the story of the horse to the Trojans

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Aeneas

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Escapes Troy as it burns

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Iulus / Ascanius

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Son of Aeneas

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Anchises

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Father of Aeneas

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Creusa

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Wife of Aeneas

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Vergil

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Tells the story of Aeneas in the epic the Aeneid