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| protective garment decorated with a Gorgon's head and fringed with snakes; worn my Athena |
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| a wand with two entwined serpents topped with a pair of wings: associated with ..... |
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| horn of plenty, associated with Hades |
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| The audience knows more than character |
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| hospitality; reciprocal duties of host and stranger/guest |
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| a tragic mistake in action, a bad decision |
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| to being a poem or play "in the midst of things" |
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| stone at Delphi representing the navel of earth. Cronus swalled it instead of Zues |
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| a staff topped with a pinecone or bunch of ivy, associated with Dionysus and his followers |
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| Venus; Goddes of love; Sceptre, myrtle tree, dove, scallop shell, mirror |
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| Apollo; God of light, music, prophecy, arts; lyre, laurel, bow, dolphin, crow |
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| Mars; God of war; spear, armor, vulture, dog |
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| Diana; Goddess of hunt, childbirth, protects children; bow, deer, cypress tree, moon |
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| Minerva; Goddess of wisdon, war, crafts, protects cities; aegis, helmet, spear, shield, owl, olive tree |
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| Ceres; Goddess of fertility, agriculture, harfest; wheat, corn, stalks of grain, torch, sickle |
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| Bacchus; God of wine, intoxication, creative ecstasy; thyros, grapes, ivy, drinking vessel, panther |
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| Pluto; underworlk; cornucopia, cerberus, sceptre, helmet of invisibility |
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| Vulcan; lame god, god of metallurgy, force and fire; axe, smith's hammer, anvil, tongs, fire |
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| Juno; marraige, sisters and wife of Zues; peacock, sceptre, diadem, cow, throne |
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| Mercury; messenger of Zues, delivers dead to underworld, god of commerce and trade; cadeceus, winged helmet, sandals and boots |
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| Vesta; Goddess of hearth and home; fire, hearth |
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| Neptune; sea, earthquakes; trident, fish, bull, horse |
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| Jupiter; sky, thunder, ruler of gods and olympus; thunderbolt, eagle oak tree, throne |
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| Proserpina; daughter of Demeter; brought down to underworld with Hades |
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| beautiful voice; epic poetry; writing tablet |
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| Proclaim/Celebrate; history; scroll |
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| songstress; tragedy; tragic mask |
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| flourishing/festivity; comedy; comic mask |
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| Lovely; love poetry; lyre |
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| Delight/Giver of pleasure; music; flute |
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Kronos Rules
No women
no one ages painfully
work is easy
spirits still roam earth dispensing wealth and justice |
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created by olympians
women and men make children, who take 100 years to mature and then die quickly
unintelligent, quarrelsome and neglect to worship gods
zeus gets angry and exterminates them |
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created by zeus from ash trees
fight and do not eat
everything bronze
kill each other off and descend to Hades |
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demi-gods
fashioned by zeus
died fighting in the great wars: thebes and troy
after death they go to teh isles of the blest |
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Terrible pain and vexation
bonds b/t parents and children , siblings, friends, guests and hosts are all broke,
poeple will take justice in their own hands
wrongdoers and men of violence with earn praise and pwer
envy will be universal
shame and nemesis
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| Titan-Cyclopes-Hecatoncheres |
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| Hestia-Demeter-Hera-Hades-Poseidon-Zeus |
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| Athene(metis) - Apollo (leto) - Artemis(Leto)- Hermes(Maia) - Aphrodite (Diane) |
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| human in appearance; horse's tail and ears; lust and cowards; animalistic aspects of human nature |
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| one of three monstrous shake-haired sisters, depicted in Archaic art as round-headed with bulging eyes, tonques, tusks, and wings; symbol on the aegis used by Athene |
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| one of three monstrous shake-haired sisters, depicted in Archaic art as round-headed with bulging eyes, tonques, tusks, and wings; symbol on the aegis used by Athene |
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| a cyclops, one -eyed whom Odysseus blinded |
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| Born from Uranus's blood, goddesses of blood vengeance, daughters of night |
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| wise old centour who tutored several famous heroes including jason and Achilles |
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| three headed watchdog of Hades |
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| three headed watchdog of Hades |
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| a monster/human/bull; produced by Poseidons sacred bulll; confined to Labyrinthe and slain by Thesus |
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| halfman/horse; symbol of humanities divided nature |
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| 7 headed monster that ravages Argos and salin by Heracles |
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| in the Odyssey, a female monster who (with Charybds) guarded a water passage |
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| female creature/bird/women; songs lured passing sailors to shipwreck to death |
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| only mortal Gorgon, turned men to stone, with Athene's help, Perseus beheaded her |
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| winged horse sprang from blood of medussa |
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| dark abyss beneath hades realm where Zeus wicked suffered torture |
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| where Zeus imprisoned the Titans |
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| origionally called Pytho, shirne of Apollo on the slopes of Mt. Parnassus, location of the delphic oracle |
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| region ruled by Ag. capital was Mycenae |
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oldest child of Oceanus and Tethys, aided Zeus in battle with Tytans;
River in Underworld marking boundary b/t life and death |
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| an oracle to the dead and sanctuary to hades and persephone at the mouth of the Acheron River in Epirus |
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| City of Priam and Hecuba that the Greeks, under Agamemnon destroyed. Guarding the trade routes b/t the Med and Black Sea |
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| Ship that the Argonauts sailed on to go to the Fleece |
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| Blind Theban prophet who temporarily been changed into a women giving him experience to settle quarrel b/t Hera and Zeus over which sex has the greater capacity for sexual pleasure. Hera blinded him and Zeus have him longlife and insight |
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| a sea nymph married to Peleus, by whome she had Achilles |
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| mortal to whome gods married Thetis after Zeus learned that if he had a son by Thetis, the boy would be stronger. After Achilled birth, when Peleus showed the first sign of aging, Thetis deserted him |
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| according to Hesiod; first women whose name reads as "all gifted" or "giver of all" |
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| tribe of female warriors who lived apart from men |
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| minor goddess embodying female sexuality who held Odysseus capture for 7 years on islend of Ogygia |
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| In Odyssey, enchantress who turned the hero's men into swine, instructed Odysseus on way to Hades kingdon and warned him of Scylla dn Charbyds |
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Son of Daedalus who flew from Crete on artificial wings
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sorceress daughter of Aectes and wife of Jason who she enabled to obtain the Golden Fleece
When he abandoned her, she killed their children |
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| king of the Lapiths who accompanied his friend Theseus into the underword to abduct persephone, for which sacrilege he was condemned to being bound forever in an iron chain |
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| Son of Zeus and Danae, beheaded Medusa, we Andromed and found Mycenae |
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| Greek Adventurer who led 50 Argonauts on a quest across Black Sea for Golden Fleece, married Medae, helped kill father, divorced her |
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| Son of Aegeus and King of Athens, won fame by slaying Minotaur, married Phaedra, daughter of Minos |
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| wife of orpheus, tried to retreive from hades |
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| archytepal poet and singer who desceded into Hades to rescue wife, Eurydice, later sufferet sparagmos, lyre transformed into constellation |
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| Daughter of icarus of Sparta, model of the Loyal and prudent wife |
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husband of penelope, celebrated for his prudences, ingenuity, and resourcefullness among the greed forces at troy
endurance and adaptability that determining return to Ithaca |
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| Son of Atreus, younger brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen, King of Sparta |
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| wife of hector, Troys leading defendor, and mother of Astyanax |
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| daughter of Zeus and Leda; Sister of Clyt, wife of menelaus, Father made each of her suiters swear to uphold her marraige to whichever husband she selected, an oath that bound many Greek heroes afer Paris took her to troy |
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| son of Priam and hecuba and chief defender of Troy, abandoned by patron Apollo and slain by achilles |
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| trojan Prince, son of Praim and brother of Hector, selected Aphrodite as most beautiful goddess , abducted Helen, sealed Troys doom |
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| son of sea nymph Thetis and mortal Peleus, most formidable Greek warrior at Troy-Illiad by Homer |
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leading female character in Oresteia, daughter of Z and Leda, sister of Helen, wife of Ag., mistres of Aegisthus, mother of Iphigenia, Electra, an Orestes
murdered Ag, slained by orestes |
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| daughter of priam and Hecuba, Apollo's virgirn prophet; part of Ag booty from Troy, brought to Argos where Clyt murdered her |
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son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus, commander in Chief of Greek Expidition against Troy
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| daugher of Ag and Clyt whome her father sacrified at Aulis to prevent the Greek's expedition Troy from being dissbanded |
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"soul" - mental, emotional, psychological make-up of human beings
last major myth, beautiful women married Love and ascended to join Gods, human soul destined to achieve divine immortality |
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| Daughter of Cadmus and harmonia, sister of Afave, mother of Dionysus, consumed in Zeus's lighteining when she was demanded to see him in his true form. Dionysis later rescued her from Hades and escorted her to heaven |
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| Cupid; God of love and sexual desire, he was represented as an unbegotten primal force (Hesiod) or as the son of Ares and Aphrodite (Homer) |
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| Proserpina; Daughter of Zues and Demeter, personified as grain harvest. |
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| Titan brother of Prometheus whom Zeus ordered to hold up the broad vault of the sky |
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| A brother of Prometheus who, on man's behalf, accepted teh Olympian gods' gift of pandora; name means "afterthough" |
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| A titan cousin of Zeus and son of Iapetus and Clemene, punished by Zeus for befriending humanity. Prometheus's theft of fire signified his enlightenment of primitive men, rescuing them from the mental darkness of ignorance and savagery. After suffering for millenia the repeated tearing out of his liver by eagle, Prometheus was eventually reconciled to his enemy and ascended to Olympus, where he was honored as the divine fire-bearer |
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| in Odyssey, one-eyed giants who lived in caves on Sicily |
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| creature with the head of a women, body of a lion, and winds of an eagle , infamous for killing anyone who tried but failed to sovle its riddles |
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| Founded by Cadmus and home of Oedipus and family |
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| Founded by Cadmus and home of Oedipus and family |
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| Ecstatic worshipers of Dioysys (Bacchus) |
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| Where Oedipus traveled to beat the Sphinx to get rid of the plague |
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| Female worshipers of Dionysus, commonly called Bacchea, who dressed in fawn skins and carriet a thyrsus while performing ecstatic dances |
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| The three Fates, pictured as ancient women who spun, wove, and cut off the individual threads signifying human living; Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis and they were daughters of Zeus and Themis |
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| Son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, and foun der of Rome, killed his brother Remus for criticizing the inadequacy of the walls he had built around Rome |
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| son of mars and Vestal Virgin, brother of Romulus |
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| Son of Menoetuis and beloved friend of Achilles, whom me accompanied to Troy. His death galvanized Achilles to return to the war |
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| Aged king of Pylos, famous for his sagacity, who advised the Greek expedition to Troy |
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| son of Aphrodite and anchises, a mortal Trojan prince and the hero of Virgil's aeneid. After Troy's fall he journeyeyd to Italy, where he founded a dynasty that eventually produced Romulus and Remus, legendary founders of rome |
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| IN the Aeneid, daugher of Priam ,killed in the fall of troy. In Medea, daughter of Corinth's king, Jason's intended bride |
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| Son of Aeneus by the Trojan princess Creusa. also called Iulus |
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| trojan prince, father of the hero aeneus by aphrodite |
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| Queen and founder of Carthage, she befriended the shipwrecked Aeneus and was later deserted by him at Jupiter's command |
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| A son of Poseidon and Tyro who usurped the kingdom of his brother Aeson, father of Jason |
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| Greek word for ruler. In sohpocles theban plays, Jocasta's brother, In media, king of corinth |
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| father by jocasta of ismene, antigone, king of Thebes, his myth demonstrates human inability to circumvent the gods' will |
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| Dauther of Oedipus and Jocasta, she was her blindd father's guide in Sophacles |
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| father of Oedipus and husband of Jocasta, brought a curse on his family by eloping wiht Chrysippus, the son of his host, Pelops |
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| a nymph beloved of Apollo, changed into a laurel tree, |
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| wood nymph cured by Hera, she wasted away to a mere voice in the unrequited love of Narcissus |
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| a princess of Tyre whom Zeus, in form of a bull, kidnpaped and took to crete, where she became the mother of minos and Rhadamanthus |
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| trojan shepard boy with whom Zeus fell in love and in the shape of an eagle, carriet off to heaven where he became cupbearer of the gods |
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| A youth whom both Apollos and Sephyrus loved; when apollos and Hyacinthus were throwing the discus, the jealous sephyrus interfered, striking the boy with the discus and killing him, after which he was changed into the flower bearing his name |
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| a young priestess of hero in Argos whom Seus raped and whom Hera vindictively changed into a heifer and drove mad with a gadfly |
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| A beautifu youth belove by echo but who, refusing to love anyone else, fell in love with his own image |
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