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| Who were the first precursors to the Titans? |
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| What were the Titans often called? |
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| Who was the most important Titan? |
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| Where did the Roman believe Saturn went after Jupiter dethroned him? |
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| How does Hamilton describe the Golden Age? |
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| A time of perfect peace and happiness |
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| What are the other notable Titans? |
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| Ocean, Tethys, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Rhea, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus, and Atlas |
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| The river that surrounded the Earth |
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| The father of the moon, the dawn, and the sun. |
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| Why were the Olympians called the Olympians? |
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| Because they lived on Mt. Olympus |
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| Who was the god of memory? |
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| Where is the real life Mt. Olympus? |
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| How does the Iliad describe Mt. Olympus? |
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| High above the mountains of man |
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| Who guards the gates of Olympus? |
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| What was conspicuously not on Mt. Olympus? |
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| What realm did Zeus rule? |
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| How great was the strength of Zeus? |
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| Greater than that of all the other divinities put together |
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| Who writes that Zeus could pull down all the Olympians if he wished? |
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| Who dupes Zeus in the Iliad? |
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| Who is more powerful than Zeus? |
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| Why is Zeus represented as falling in love with woman after woman? |
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| Because when his worship spread to a new township that supreme ruler of their religion became Zeus and any wife that that divinity had was transferred to Zeus |
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| What did Zeus demand of mankind? |
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| Sacrifices and right action |
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| A sacred powerful breast plate (BONUS: sometimes said to be made of goatskin) |
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| Whose animal was the eagle? |
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| How did Zeus' oracle decipher his will? |
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| By reading the rustling of the oak leavees |
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| Whose oracle was at Dodona? |
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| Where was the land of the oak trees? |
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| What was Hera's relationship to Zeus? |
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| She was his sister and his wife |
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| What was under Hera's special care? |
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| Marriage, and married women |
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| What did Hera mostly occupy her time with? |
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| Taking revenge upon the women that Zeus had affairs with |
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| Did Hera ever give up her jealous easily? |
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| Whose side was Hera on during the Trojan war and why? |
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| The Greeks' side because she was upset with Paris for picking Aphrodite as the fairest |
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| In which story is Hera the beneficiary to men? |
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| Jason and the Argonauts (The Quest for the Golden Fleece) |
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| The goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia (Ilithyia) |
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| What was Hera' favourite city? |
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| Whose favourite city was Argos? |
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| What were Hera's sacred animals? |
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| Whose sacred animal was the cow? |
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| Whose sacred animals was the peacock? |
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| Who was the god most important to the Greeks on the side of the Aegean? |
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| Who venerated Poseidon most? |
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| The Greeks on the sides of the Aegean |
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| What were the occupations of the Greeks on the shore of the Aegean? |
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| Wife of Poseidon and granddaughter of the Titan Ocean |
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| Where was Poseidon most likely to be found? |
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| On Mt. Olympus or in his underwater palace |
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| Who gave mankind the first horse? |
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| What happened when Poseidon rode his golden car over the waters? |
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| The thunder of the waves sank into stillness and tranquil peace followed |
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| What was Poseidon always shown carrying? |
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| Meaning in Latin 3 teeth, it is a spear with three prongs |
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| What was Poseidon's sacred animal? |
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| The Underworld and Wealth |
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| What were the Latin names for Hades? |
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| Dis is the Latin word for rich |
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| What was the special ability of Hades' cap? |
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| It made the wearer invisible |
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| Who was queen of the Lower World? |
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| Who was Death? Give Greek and Latin names. |
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| Thanatos (Greek) and Orcus (Latin) |
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| Who was Athena the daughter of? |
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| Full grown and in full armour she sprang from Zeus' head |
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| What is the impression of Athena that the Iliad has? |
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| A ruthless and fierce battle-goddess |
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| How do most other sources than the Iliad view Athena? |
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| Warlike only to defend the State and the home from enemies |
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| What was Athena the goddess of? |
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| The City; civilized life - handicrafts and agriculture |
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| Who first gave mankind the bridle? |
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| Athena, who had invented it |
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| What did Zeus entrust to Athena? |
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| His aegis, his buckler and the thunderbolt |
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| What most often describes Athena? |
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| Gray-eyed or flashing eyed |
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| What was Athena sometimes called? |
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| What was Athena's temple called? |
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| Who was chief of the virgin goddesses? |
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| What was Athena's sacred city? |
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| What was Athena's sacred animal? |
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| What was Athena's sacred tree? |
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| What was Athena's sacred tree? |
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| Who created the olive tree? |
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| Clio, Calliope, Euterpe, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, and Urania |
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| Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne |
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| Megaera, Tisiphone, and Alecto |
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| What was the special position of Aglaia? |
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| What was the special position of Euphrosyne? |
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| What was the special position of Thalia? |
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| In Homer and Hesiod, who does Aglaia marry? |
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| Who wrote the story of Aglaia's marriage? |
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| How many Muses are there? |
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| What happens when one hears the song of the servants of the Muses? |
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| One forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles |
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| What are the positions of the Muses? |
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| Astronomy, history, tragedies, comedies, epic poetry, lyric poetry, love poetry, songs to the gods, dance |
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| Who was the Muse of astronomy? |
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| Who was the Muse of history? |
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| Who was the Muse of epic poetry? |
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| Who was the Muse of love poetry? |
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| Who was the Muse of lyric poetry? |
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| Who was the Muse of dance? |
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| Who was the Muse of songs to the gods? |
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| Who was the Muse of comedy? |
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| Who was the Muse of tragedies? |
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| What were the Muses mountains? |
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| Helicon, Piera, Parnassas, and Olympus |
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| Who were the Muses sometimes the companions of? |
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| What two 'august' forms sat next to Zeus? |
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| How would one translate Nemesis? |
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| How would one try to translate Aidos? |
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| The feeling that a rich man gets in the presence of one lets fortunate than he, not compassion but the feeling that difference between them is not deserved. |
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| When will Aidos and Nemesis leave Earth? |
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| When mankind is completely wicked |
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| In what way will Nemesis and Aidos leave Earth? |
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| Veiled in white raiment to the home of the immortals |
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| Lord and Ruler of the Sea (Mediterranean) and the Friendly Sea (Black Sea). Also underground rivers |
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| Who was the god of the Euxine sea? |
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| Who was the god of the Mediterranean sea? |
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| The titan who ruled over the river Ocean |
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| What was the river Ocean? |
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| The great river that encircled the Earth |
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| Who were the nymphs of the river Ocean? |
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| The daughters of Ocean and Tethys, the Oceanids |
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| Who were the gods of all the rivers on Earth? |
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| The sons of Ocean and Tethys |
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| A son of Mother Earth, meaning Deep Sea. Father of Nereus. |
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| Means the "Old man of the Sea". God of the Mediterranean. Father of the Nereids. Father of Thetis and Amphitrite |
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| Nymphs of the Mediterranean |
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| Who was the nymph Thetis? |
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| A nereid. Mother of Achilles |
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| The wife of Poseidon; a nereid |
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| Who was the trumpeter of the Sea? |
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| What was Triton's trumpet made of? |
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| Poseidon's son. A god of the sea who had the power of foretelling and changing shape |
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| Water nymphs who dwelt in brooks, springs and fountains |
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| Who were the mortals who became sea gods? |
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| Leucothea, Palaemon and Gaucus |
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| If one were in the Odyssey, where would you go to go to the Underworld? |
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| Over the edge of the world across Ocean |
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| If you were reading the works of later poets, where would you find the entrance to the Underworld? |
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| Through various caves and caverns. |
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| What were the two divisions of the Underworld? |
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| Which was deeper Tartarus or Erebus? |
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| Where was the prison of the sons of the Earth? |
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| Where do the dead pass as soon as they die? |
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| According to Homer, what was the Underworld like? |
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| Shadowy and vague. The ghosts' existence is a miserable dream. |
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| Who presents the Underworld most clearly? |
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| What is the name of the river of woe? |
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| What is the name of the river of lament? |
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| Who drives the boat across the river Styx? |
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| Describe the path to the Underworld. |
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| The river Acheron, the river Cocytus, Charon, Cerberus, judgement by Minos, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus, |
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| What are the names of all the rivers in the Underworld? |
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| Acheron, Cocytus, Styx, Phlegethon, and Lethe |
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| Who are the judges of those who enter the Underworld? |
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| Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus |
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| Which writer describes Pluto's palace? |
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| If you were to look out of the windows of Pluto's palace what would you see? |
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| Wide wastes, meadows of asphodel,palid and ghostly flowers |
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| The punishers of evil doers |
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| Alecto, Megaea, and Tisiphone |
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| Where do dreams come from? |
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| The lower world through one of two gates |
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| Which gate do true dreams go through? |
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| Which gate do false dreams come from? |
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| What manner of being was Pan? |
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| Half goat half man, with goats horns and goat hooves |
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| Goatherders and shepherds |
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| What place did Pan love best? |
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| What instrument did Pan play? |
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| Where did the word 'panic' come from? |
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| Travellers hearing the noises in the nighttime they thought it was Pan |
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| Why did Silenus ride a donkey? |
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| Because he was usually too drunk to walk. |
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| Who were the children of Leda? |
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| Castor, Pollux, Helen, and Clymenestra |
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| What were Castor and Pollux the gods of? |
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| Of the children of Leda, which were immortal at birth? |
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| Of Leda's children which were mortal? |
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