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1
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Who/what created the gods

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The universe

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Who were the first “parents”

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Heaven and earth

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Who were heaven and earths children

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The titans

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Who were the titans’ children

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The gods

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The Titans were often called the ________________

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Elder Gods

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Zeus is the son of ______________

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Cronus

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What was the Romans’ name for Zeus

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Jupiter

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Zeus’s sister and wife. She was the protecter of marriage.

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Hera (Juno)

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Zeus’s brother. Ruler of the sea. He gave the first horse to a man. Storm and calm were under his control

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Poseidon (Neptune)

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Zeus’s brother (the third brother among the Olympians). The God of Wealth, of the precious metals hidden in the earth. The king of the dead and he owned an invisibility helmet

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Hades (Pluto)

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The daughter of Zeus alone. No mother bore her full-grown and in full armor, she sprinkler miss head. Zeus’s favorite child. Chief of the three virgin goddesses. Goddess of wisdom and war

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Pallas Athena (Minevera)

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Son of Zeus and Leto. The god of light and truth

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Phoebus Apollo

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Apollo’s twin sister, daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was one of the three main goddesses of Olympus. She was the lady of wild things, huntsman and chief to the gods, and goddess of the moon

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Artemis (Diana)

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Daughter of Zeus and Dione or said to have sprung from the foam of the sea. The goddess of love and beauty.

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Aphrodite (Venus)

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Son of Zeus and Maia. God of commerce and market.

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Hermes (Mercury)

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The son of Zeus and Hera. The god of war.

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Ares (Mars)

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Sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and Hera, sometimes of Hera alone, who bore him in the retaliation for Zeus’s having brought forth Athena. The God of Fire

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Hephaestus (Vulcan and Mulciber)

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Zeus’s sister. And one of the three virgin goddesses. Goddess of the Hearth, the symbol of the home, around which the newborn child must be carried before it could be received into the family.

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Hestia (Vesta)

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The God of Love

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Eros (Cupid)

20
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The daughter of Zeus and Hera. The goddess of youth

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Hebe

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The goddess of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods, in the Illiad on the messenger.

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Iris

22
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Who were the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome

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The Graces: Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer)

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Who were the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne

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The Muses (9 of them)

Clio (history)
Urania (astronomy) 
Melpomene (tragedy) 
Thalia (comedy)
Terpsichore (dance)
Calliope (epic poetry) 
Erato (love poetry)
Polyhymnia (songs to the gods)
Euterpe (lyric poetry)
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what do they all have in common

Poseidon
Ocean
Pontus
Nereus
Triton
Proteus
The Nadias
Leucothea
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They were all the Gods of the Waters

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The Goddess of the Corn. Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. One of the supreme deities of the earth.

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Demeter (Ceres)

26
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The God of the Vine. One of the supreme deities of the earth. (The wine god)

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Dionysus

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Hermes’e son. He was goatherds’ God and the shepherds God, also the Woodland nymphs when they danced. He was part animal, with the goats horn and goats hooves instead of feet

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Pan

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Sometimes said to be Pan’s son; sometime his brother, a son of Hermes. He was a jovial fat old man who usually rode on an ass because he was too drunk to walk.

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Silenus

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The sons of Leda. They were a very famous pair brothers who in most accounts were said to live half of their time on earth and half of their time in heaven

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Castor and Pollux

30
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The wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta. She had two mortal children to him (Castor and Clytemnestra) and two immortal children with Zeus (Pollux and Helen)

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Leda

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Creatures of part pan park horse. They walked on two legs but they often had horses’ hooves instead of feet, sometimes horses’ ears, and always horses’s tails.

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The Sileni

32
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They were half man half horse, and for the most part more like beasts than men. One of them was Chiron.

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The Centaurs

33
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Earth dwellers. There were 3, and 2 of them were immortal. They were dragon like creatures with wings, whose look turned men to stone. Phorcys was their father.

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The Gorgons

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The Gorgons’s sisters. Three gray woman who had but one eye between them

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The Graiae

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They had enchanting voices and their singing lured sailors to their death. It was not known what they look like, for no one who saw them ever returned

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The Sirens

36
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Not assigned to either heaven or earth. Give to men at birth evil and good to have

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The Fates

37
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They were never worshiped in temples, but only in the home, where some of the food at each meal was offered to them. Every Roman family had one _________ who was the spirit of an ancestor, and several _________, gods of the hearth and guardians of the storehouse.

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Lar(es) and Penates

38
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Originally one of the Numina, the protector of the Sowers and the Seed. Husband to Ops, a Harvest Helper.

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Saturn

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Originally one of the Numina, “the god of good beginnings”. His statue stood with two faces, one old and one young.

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Janus

40
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Saturn’s grandson. He was a sort of Roman Pan, a rustic God. He was a prophet too, and spoke to men in their dreams

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Faunus

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The name of the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome.

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Quirinus

42
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The spirits of the good dead in Hades. Sometimes they were regarded as divine and worshiped

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The Manes

43
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They were the spirits of the wicked dead and were greatly feared

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The Lemures or Larvae

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She was sometimes regarded as a Roman Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, but usually the name is used as an epithet of both Juno and Diana.

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Lucina

45
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They began as Numina, as powers protecting orchards and gardens. They were later personified and a story was told about how they fell in love with each other.

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Pomona and Vertumnus

46
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Mankind’s best friends;

Who were the “Two Great Gods Of Earth”?

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Demeter and Dionysus

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