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| a story provided to explain the origin of a ritual, custom or institution |
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| Aidoneus/Hades/All-Receiver/Pluto |
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| god of the underworld, brother of Zeus |
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| father of Medea, king of Colchis |
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| son of Trojan Anchises and Aphrodite, fought in Trojan war and survived. In Roman myth, he is the founder of the Roman race |
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| mother of Herakles by Zeus |
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| etymologically, to say something in another way |
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| husband of Alkmene and mortal step-father of Herakles |
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| Aphrodite/Kythereia or Cytherea/ Cyprian/Venus |
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| goddess of sexual desire; common epithets include "golden"; her birds are doves and sparrows |
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| Apollo/Phoibos/Delphinios: |
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| god of prophecy, music, and plague; called far-shooter, birds are crows; attributes are long hair, lyre and quiver, bow and arrows |
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| god of battle (physical aspect), a son of Zeus |
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| goddess of the hunt; protector of children and young animals; one of three eternal virgin goddesses; twin sister of Apollo by Zeus and Leto |
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| Trojancow-herd on Mt. Ida, father to Aineias by Aphrodite |
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| Athena/Athene/Tritogenia/Minerva: |
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| goddess of strategy and crafts; daughter of Zeus and Metis (cunning); one of three eternal virgin goddesses; bird is owl; patron goddess of Athens |
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| an attribute is an object that is particularly associated with a certain god or hero. Attributes often allow us to identiy figures in pictorial representations. An example of an attribute is the lion skin typically worn by Herakles. |
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| born or descended from those born of the earth, typically a specific place on the earth such as Athens |
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| infinite space; one of the four spontaneously arising entities in Hesiod's Theogony. |
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| son of Gaia and Ouranos, father of Zeus |
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| associated with the earth |
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| sister of Zeus, Mother of Persephone by Zeus, goddess of grain and the harvest. A major festival in her honor was celebrated at Athenian-controlled Eleusis. |
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| son of king Keleos and queen Metaneira of Eleusis, nursed by Demeter in the Hymn to Demeter |
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| god of wine and theater; son of Zeus and Semele; typically accompanied by Satyrs and Maenads. A major festival ws celebrated in his honor at Athens |
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| site of a famous oracle of Zeus |
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| a story provided to explain the origin of a ritual, custom or institution. |
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| a city which came under Athenian control sometime in the seventh century BC at which a major festival of Demeter was celebrated. |
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| a characteristic word or phrase frequently applied to a particular god or hero. "Grey-eyed," for example, is an epithet of the goddess Athena |
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| avengers of kindred bloodshed, who were born from the droplets of blood that were sed when Kronos castrated Ouranos in Hesiods Theogony |
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| Lust personified who becomes and attendant of Aphrodite,one of the four spontaneously arising entities in Hesiods theogony |
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| one of the four spontaneously arising entities in Hesiods Theogony. She produces the largest number of offspring. |
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| young shepherd abducted by Zeus, who became his immortal cup-bearer on Olympus. |
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| war between the Olympian gods and the race of giants who, with the furies, were born from the blood of Ouranos' castration in Hesiods Theogony |
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| Hades/Aidoneus/All-Receiver/Pluto |
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| god of the Underworld, brother of Zeus |
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| born parthenogenically (without a father) from Gaia; father of Kronos |
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| goddess of the crossroads, associated with witchcraft. |
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| Hephaistos/Hephaestus/Ambidexter/Vulcan |
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"Lame one," god of the forge and metalworking, married to Aphrodite |
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| "golden-sandaled," goddess of Argos, sister and consort of Zeus; daughter of Kronos and Rhea |
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| son of Zeus [Ampritrion] and Alkmene |
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| Hermes/Argeiphontes/Mercury |
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| god of shepherds and thieves; trickster and thief par excellence; son of Zeus and Maia |
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| Poet active in the late 8th BC in Boiotia, who claims to have met muses on Mt. Helikon in the Theogony |
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| goddess of hearth, daughter of Kronos and Rhea |
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| maidservant to the queen of Eleusis who makes Demeter smile by making lewd gestures and/or telling lewd soories in the Hymn to Demeter |
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| guard dog of the underworld |
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| minor goddess, daughter of Helios, witch and lover of Odysseus in the odyssey |
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| Kore/Proserpina/ Persephone |
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| daughter of Zeus and Demeter; goddess of the underworld; wife of Hades |
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| "father of gods and men," patron god of kings, celebrated in a panhellenic festival at Olympia. There was an oracle of Zeus at Dodona |
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| special drink that Demeter requests in the Hymn to Demeter |
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| a titan and mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus |
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| mother of Hermes by Zeus; daughter of Atlas, her name means mother/nurse |
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| daughter of Aietes, granddaughter of Helios, and consort of Jason. She is a witch like her aunt Circe. |
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| queen of Eleusis, mother of Demophoon |
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| nine daughters of Zeus and Memory (Mnemosyne), met Hesiod of Mt. Helikon |
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| origin of English "myth." In the Iliad, a mythos is often an authoritative speech. |
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| the first and most famous of Herakles' labors |
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| island birthplace of Artemis |
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| the first woman created by Zeus as a punishment for men in Hesiod's Theogony |
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| hero of Olympia, who won Hippodameia by defeating her father in a chariot race, beloved by Poseidon in Pindar's Olympian 1 |
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| god of the sea; often called the "earth-shaker." |
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| a titan who established the rules of sacrifice for mortals, gave them fire. Zeus chained him to a rock where his liver was repeatedly eaten by an eagle in Hesiods Theogony |
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| serpent defeated by Apollo at Delphi in the Hymn to Apollo |
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| sister and consort of Kronos, mother of many of the Olympian gods |
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| river of the underworld by which the gods swear unbreakable oaths in Hesiods Theogony |
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| the deepest part of the underworld |
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| story of the genealogy of gods. A poem by Hesion dealing with the origins of the gods has been given this name |
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| the battle btween the race of titans and the Olympian gods as related in Hesiod's Theogony |
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| a shepherd beloved by Dawn, who was made immortal but not granted agelessness |
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| son of Tartaros and Gaia in Hesiods Theogony |
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| "father of gods and men," patron god of kinds, celebrated in a panhellenic festival at olympia. There was an oracle of Zeus at Dodona. |
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