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Adonis

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Referred in sports, youthful and handsom

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Achilles

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Couldn’t be hurt except heal

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King Aegeus

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Jumped into sea, son forgot to change sails

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of beauty and love; married ugly

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Apollo

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God of music & arts

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Arachne

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Poor girl, Athena’s student; spider

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Ares

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God of war

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Artemis

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Goddess of the hunt

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Athena

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Goddess of wisdom & crafts

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Cerberus

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3 headed dog

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Daedalus & Icarus

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Architect. Built wings. Icarus flew too close to the sun

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Demeter

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Goddess of fertility; mother of Persephone

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Dionysus

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God of wine

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The fates

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3 sisters; thread of life

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The furies

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Goddess of vengeance

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Hades

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God of the underworld

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Hephaestus

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Married to Aphrodite; ugly

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Hera

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Queen of te gods; created Milky Way

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Hermes

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Messenger god

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Hestia

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Eternal chasity; virgin

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Icarus

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Flew too close to te sun

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Jason and the Golden Fleece

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Defeated monster like Hercules

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Medusa

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Was pretty then cursed to snake hair

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Kind Midas

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Everything turned to gold

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King Minos

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King of Crete

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Minotaur

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Head of a bull body of a man

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The Muses

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Goddess of dancing, music, and being creative

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Narcissus

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In love with himself

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Nike

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Goddess of victory and speed

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Odysseus and the cyclops

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Brave and smart

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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About music, eternal love, has to be in the underworld

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Pandora

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1st woman made of clay, box of evil

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Pegasus

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White flying horse

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Persephone

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Pretty, seasons, flowers

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Poseidon

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God of the seas

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Prometheus

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Made people out of clay, liver

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Psyche and Eros

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Beauty and the beast; love conquers all

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Pygmalion and Galatea

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Turned a statue into a real woman

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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Was cursed. Couldn’t eat or drink; tried feeding his son to the gods

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Sisyphus

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Pushed a rock up a mountain and never got to the top

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Theseus and the Minotaur

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Killed the Minotaur in the labarybth

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Zeus

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Controls lightning and thunder

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