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Details Title Mythology Description Greek and Roman Mythological Gods Total Cards 48 Subject Classics Created 10/28/2009

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Term Zeus	Definition Father of Gods and Men
Term Hera	Definition Wife of Zeus, Queen of Heaven
Term Poseidon	Definition Brother of Zeus, God of the Sea
Term Hephaestus	Definition Son of Zeus and Hera, God of Fire
Term Ares	Definition God of War
Term Apollo	Definition God of Prophecy, Intellect, Music, and Medicine
Term Artemis	Definition Goddess of Chastity and the Moon
Term Demeter	Definition Earth Mother, Goddess of Fertility
Term Aphrodite	Definition Goddess of Beauty, Love, and Marriage
Term Athena	Definition Goddess of Wisdom
Term Hermes	Definition Messenger of the Gods, God of Cleverness
Term Dionysus	Definition God of Wine and the Emotions
Term Jupiter	Definition Zeus
Term Juno	Definition Hera
Term Neptune	Definition Poseidon
Term Vulcan	Definition Hephaestus
Term Mars	Definition Ares
Term Apollo	Definition Apollo
Term Diana	Definition Artemis
Term Ceres	Definition Demeter
Term Venus	Definition Aphrodite
Term Minerva	Definition Athena
Term Mercury	Definition Hermes
Term Bacchus	Definition Dionysus
Term pilaster	Definition fake column
Term caryatid	Definition women as column
Term patricians	Definition aristocrats
Term plebians	Definition common people
Term aeneid	Definition virgil
Term pietas	Definition duty, reason
Term themes of the aeneid	Definition duty vs desire, cost of an empire, fate
Term lucretius	Definition author of on the nature of things
Term epictetus	Definition wrote the enchiridion
Term prophet	Definition one who speaks for another
Term aegean culture	Definition love of art and nature, minoan and mycenaeans
Term heroic age	Definition historical time after trojan war
Term ethos	Definition music affects human behavior
Term orpheus	Definition greek father of songs
Term column	Definition .
Term architrave	Definition .
Term solon	Definition greek statesman, father of democracy
Term sappho	Definition greek female poet
Term themes from the iliad	Definition honor, glory of war, fate, impermanence of human life
Term praxitiles	Definition sculpted hermes and aphrodite, first to sculpt female nude form
Term polykleitos	Definition wrote the canon
Term entasis	Definition bulge in columns
Term euripes	Definition wrote the bacchae
Term erechtheum	Definition had the caryatids

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