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| small island; birthplace of apollo because hera decrees that nowhere that sees the light of day shall receive the children of zeus and leto |
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| son of zeus and semele (princess of thebes); born from zeus' thigh; represents masculine aspect of plants and animal fertility; god of wine, ecstasy, and irrational |
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| female followers of dionysus; dance, play music, and carry the thyrsus |
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| male follower of dionysus; depicted as bestial, with horses ears, tails and raging boners |
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| called the pythia; prophetess who sits in a tripod in a temple where she was inspired by apollo to give prophecies |
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| sister of apollo; associated with hunting, protection of wild animals/places and death in childbirth and the moon |
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| associated with volcanic activity, and the island of lemnos; god of the art of technology of smiths; physically disfigured |
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| god of war and bloodlust; affair with aphrodite |
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| sky god, king of gods, ultimate judge; protector of xenia |
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| goddess of marriage, women's fertility and fertility of crops and cattle; sister/wife of zeus |
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| god of the sea and underworld; associated with fresh water springs, horses, and bulls; symbol is the trident |
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| goddess of hearth; oldest child of chronus and rhea; symbolic center of the house and the protector of communities |
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| son of zeus and maia; messenger of zeus; god of messengers, merchants, travelers and thieves; leads souls to the underworld |
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| winged sandals, caduecus (wand of entwined snakes), travelers, lyre, fire, pipes |
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| personification of desire; son of aphrodite and ares |
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| daughter of zeus and metis (titain); goddess of practical knowledge, weaving, carpentry, law and strategy |
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| owl, olive tree, aegis of zeus (breastplate) |
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| brother of zeus; god of underworld; name means invisible; imagined as a greedy god who will not let souls leave the underworld |
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| offspring of zeus and mnemosyne; represent each aspect of performances |
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| trojan prince; mortal who was chosen to be zeus' divine cup bearer |
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| under the rule of cronus; no misery, disease or violence; food available without labor; long life and gentile death; dead become spirits on earth |
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| people would remain young for 100 years then become old very fast; violent people who refused to worship the gods |
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| strong and violent people; destroyed themselves through fighting; went to Hades in afterlife |
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| the age of heroes who fought at thebes and troy; some heroes spend afterlife on the isles of the blessed |
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