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| myths that explain origin |
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| poet who wrote the genesis of the gods "Theogony" |
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| sun god, Colossus of Rhodes modeled after him |
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| son of Helios, wanted to drive chariot of the sun, lost control and was killed by Jupiter |
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| moon goddess, falls in love with Endymion and negates duties, Endymion put into eternal sleep |
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| goddess of dawn, falls in love with Tithonus, asks for his immortality but forgets youthfulness |
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| fight for power between Zeus and Cronus, Zeus wins |
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| sisters and brothers: Hestia, Hera, Demeter, Poseidon and Hades; Hecatonchires; Cyclopes; and Themis and Prometheus |
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| Cronus' army (titanomachy) |
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| 10 brothers and sisters and Atlas |
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| fight for power between Olympians and Giants (led by Tiphan) |
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| 100 snake heads and legs, leads the Giants in the fight for power against Zeus, condemned to live under a volcano |
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| first age of man when Cronus ruled, spirit age |
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| humans created by Zeus but become corrupt and destroyed |
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| Zeus creates terrible warlike race who become arrogant and don't worship gods |
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| valiant mortal Heroes created by Zeus went to "Islands of the Blessed" when they died |
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| humans created by Zeus, miserable time of nothing but work and toil |
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| brings fire to man and gives bones to Zeus, chained to a mountain to have eagle repeatedly eat liver |
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| first woman, releases all evil in world |
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| Zeus wants her but Hera sends Argus (100 eyes that never sleep at the same time) to guard him, seduced by Zeus in the form of a cloud, turned into a cow |
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| must repopulate earth after flood, throw rocks over head to create people |
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| Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, Hephaestus, Ares, Athena, Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, and Aphrodite |
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| goddess of hearth - family and home, remained a virgin, symbol: hearth, cult site: home |
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| King of gods, husband of Hera, symbols: eagle, oak tree; cult site: Olympia; 40 ft. statue of Zeus 7 wonder of world |
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| queen of gods, symbol: peacock, cult site: argos |
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| blacksmith of the gods, symbol: forge, fire; married to Aphrodite; cult site: Athens |
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| god of war, symbol: shield and spear |
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| three goddesses who measure lifespan on a string |
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| immortal, perfect beauty, ichor-blood, special diet-special diet (ambrosia and nectar |
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| Cerberus - three headed dog; Hydra - multi headed water monster, Chimaera - body of a lion, tail of a snake, goat coming from spine; Sphinx - lion body head of a woman; Nemean Lion - impenetrable skin |
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| the sea, produced by Ge and then produced Nereus |
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| the old man of the sea, mer-man, produces 50 daughters - the Nereids |
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| apple thrown into wedding party of Peleus and Thetis by Eris for not being invited to wedding party, fought over by Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite leading to Trojan War |
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| a sea nymph who was in love with Acis bout loved by the cyclopes Polyphemus |
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| in love with Galatea but did not have the love returned, distraught he killed Acis with the top of a mountain |
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| god of the sea, married to Amphitrite; Symbol: trident, cult: Isthmia |
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| lover of Poseidon who had body turned into serpents by Amphitrite by throwing herbs into her bathing water |
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| daughter of Poseidon, turned into monster for taking over the land with her waves |
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| goddess of wisdom, remains a virgin, symbol: owl, aegis (protective collar), daughter of Zeus, cult sites: Athens |
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| Zeus swallowed wife before birth of Athena, head split open by Hephaestus |
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| goddess of sex, symbols: dove, bron for the sea, cult sites: Corinth, Cyrus, Cythera, married to Haphysus, magiv belt aphrodisiac |
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| challenged Athena to a weave-off, killed herself when she won but revived and turned into a spider |
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| Aphrodite's lover gored by a boar, turned into anemone |
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| female poet, son of Aphrodite, homosexual love |
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| Aphrodite's lover gored by a boar, turned into anemone |
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