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| Son of Peleus and Thetis; raised by the centaur Chiron; he was killed in the Trojan war by Paris; during the war his cousin Patroclus was killed by Hector, so he killed Hector in return; he was the leader of the Myrmidons |
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| He was turned into a stag by Artemis when he saw her bathing; he was then torn apart by his own hunting dogs |
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| His wife Alcestis died in his place, but she was returned from the Underworld by Hercules when he defeated Thanantos (death) in a wrestling match |
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| the king in possession of the Golden Fleece; his daughter was Medea and his sun was Absyrtus |
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| King of Athens and father of Theseus; he jumped off a cliff when he saw Theseus' ship return from Crete bearing its black sail |
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| Son of Aphrodite and Anchises; he fought for Troy in the Trojan war, he took the surviving Trojans and settled in Italy founding the Roman people |
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| The King of the Winds; he gave Odysseus a bag of winds to return home to Ithaca with, but Odysseus' men opened the bag and let the winds out, shooting them out to sea |
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| Menalaus' older brother, he led the Greeks at Troy; sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis because Artemis refused to let the Greek ships sail until a sacrifice was made; he was later killed by his unfaithful wife Clytemnestra |
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| Aeneas' father, he was crippled by the gods because he let it be known he had an affair with Aphrodite |
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| Medea's brother, she cut him up and threw him into the sea when she was escaping with Jason, which distracted the chasing ships |
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| Challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was turned into a spider |
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| She fell in love with Theseus, but he abandoned her on an island, where Dionysus found her and married her |
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| The fastest woman to live, in order to marry her, a man had to defeat her in a foot rate; Hippomenes won in a race when he used golden apples obtained from Aphrodite to distract her; later, when he did not give Aphrodite thanks, they were turned into a pair of lions |
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| killed the Chimera and tamed Pegasus with Athena's help |
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| The Prophet of the Greeks at Troy |
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| she kept Odysseus on her island for y years; she finnaly released him when Zues sent Hermes to her |
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| Daughter of Priam, she was a prophet; her predictions were always true but she was cursed so that nobody would every believe her |
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| The guard dog of the Underworld |
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| the ferryman on the river Styx |
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| The teacher of Anchises, Heracles, Jason, and other notable heroes |
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| A witch who turned Odysseus' men into pigs |
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| A nymph who was chased by Apollo; she was turned by her father into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's advances |
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| She was seduced by Zeus in the form of a white bull |
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| Orpheus' wife; she died on their wedding day due to a snake bite |
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| son of Priam and Hecuba; Troy's greatest warrior |
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| Mother of Hector and Paris; queen of Troy |
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| Daughter of Zeus; the most beautiful woman in the Greek world; the Trojan war was fought over her |
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| Son of Zeus and Alemena; he killed a snake as a baby; 12 labors and other various adventures; he was deified |
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| Zeus had an affair with her and she was turned into a cow for it; she was guarded by Argos, a 100-eyed creature; Hermes killed Argos and set Io free |
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| He tried to rape Hera, but he raped a cloud girl; the product was the centuar race; he was eternally tied to a wheel of fire |
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| Sent to find the Golden Fleece; married Medea; he died when the bow of his ship, the Argo, fell on his head |
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| Daughter of Aeetes, wife of Jason; she ended up turning against him when he left her for another girl; she killed the other woman and her own children in revenge |
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| The only mortal gorgon; killed by Perseus |
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| Brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen |
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| Given the power to turn anything into gold by touching it, which he soon regretted; he got rid of the power and later his ears were turned into donkey ears |
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| King of Crete, he controlled the Labyrinth, which was inhabited by the Minotaur |
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| He fell in love with his own reflection after rejecting the love of Echo |
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| She boasted that her 14 children were better than Apollo and Artemis, and so the twin deites killed them |
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| Married Penelope, father of Telemachus; he was kept away from his homeland, Ithaca, for 20 years due to the Trojan war and other misfortunes; he came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse |
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| One of the greatest mortal musicians; he travelled to the Underworld to get his wife Eurydice back from the dead, but when he looked back at her on his way up, she was forever confined to the world of the dead |
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| She opened a box and released all evils into the world; the only thing left in the box was hope |
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| Son of Priam and Hecuba; he was forced to choose between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite for which goddess was to receive the Golden Apple "for the fairest"; he stole Helen from Menelaus and caused the Trojan war, he killed Achilles |
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| Son of Zeus and Danae; he killed Medusa and brought the head to the king who sent him on a mission, turning him to stone; he married Andromeda |
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| Son of Helios, he recklessly rode the chariot of fire in the sky until he was killed by Zeus |
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| King of Troy, husband of Hecuba, and father of Hector and Paris |
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| She Married Cupid, her beauty offended Aphrodite |
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| Trapped in the Underworld, eternally pushing a rock up a hill |
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| Son of Aegeus; he was the hero of Athens; he killed the Minotaur |
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