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Unit 3 Flashcards

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1
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turned stories into poems and songs

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Nine Muses

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2
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muse of heroic poetry

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Calliope

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3
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Callipe’s mortal son

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Orpheus

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4
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avenging furies of the underworld

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Erinyes

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mother of Muses; goddess of memory

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Mnemosyne

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slopes where the Muses range and played music

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Mount Parnassus

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island where Opheus’ body was found

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Lesbos

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of a sickly, yellow color

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sallow

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Why and on what condition did Hades agree to release Euridice from the underworld?

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Persephone, queen of the underworld and Hades’ wife, persuaded Hades to allow Euridice to return to the world of the living. Hades agreed to let Euridice out of the underworld providing Orpheus not look back at her before they reached the realm of the living.

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10
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Identify the marked location.

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Mt. Parnassus

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Identify the marked location.

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Thrace

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father of the centaurs; King of Lapith people

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Ixion

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15
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temperaments, moods

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dispositions

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affliction

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scourge

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to go beyond the limit, power, or capacity of

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surpass

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Why were Hades and the Three Fates upset with Asclepius?

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Asclepius could bring the dead back to life. This upset the Three Fates because they felt as if they were measuring and clipping the threads of life for no reason. Hades was angry because he thought he was being cheated out of dead souls who would otherwise join his underworld.

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god of nature

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Pan

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20
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nymph who fell in love with Narcissus

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Echo

21
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loved himself so much he died

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Narcissus

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nymph; was turned into a laurel tree

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Daphne

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highest honor a hero could receive

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laurel wreath

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fascinated

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spellbound

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sorrowful, mournful, sad

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plaintive

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to urgently beg

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beseech

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Why was Daphne turned into a laurel tree?

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As Daphne ran away from Apollo she asked her father the river-god Ladon to save her,. He had no time to rise out of the riverbed so he turned her toes into the roots and her arms into the branches of a laurel tree. Daphne said she would rather be an unmoving tree than the bride of Apollo.

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the gentle dawn; mother of the Four Winds

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Eos

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the sun

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Helios

30
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Helios’ mortal son

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Paëthon

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the moon

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Selene

32
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creature that is half horse, half man

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centaur

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hedonistic woodland creature with goat’s features

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satyr

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withered, dried up

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wizened

35
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the 12 principal constellations

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zodiac

36
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What happened to the earth when Paëthon drove too high or too low?

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When the chariot raced too close to the earth, the ground cracked from the heat, and the rivers and lakes dried up. When it raced too high, the earth froze and turned to ice.

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curiosity led her to release miseries from her jar

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Pandora

38
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Prometheus’ son, father of a new race of men

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Deucalion

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a stronger race of mortals; better able to endure miseries

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Deucalion’s Race

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the North Wind; icy and wild

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Boreas

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the South Wind; foggy and heavy

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Notus

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the West Wind; gentle and pleasant

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Zephyr

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the East Wind; least important

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Eurus

44
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Identify the marked location.

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Mt. Pelion

45
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unable to be satisfied

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insatiable

46
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What was the new race of mortals called? How was this race better than the previous one?

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The new race of mortals was called Deucalion’s Race. They were made of stone and harder than the previous race, made of clay. The new mortals also better withstood stings of Pandora’s miseries, which continued to torment them.

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