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| "Youthful Bloom", Daughter of Zeus and Hera, Cupbearer to the Gods, Wife of Heracles on Olympus. |
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| Daughter of Cronus and Rhea, Goddess of the Hearth, Romans equated her with there Vesta |
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| Son of Minos and Pasiphace, Father of Idomeneus, The Greek Noah of the archetypal flood story |
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| Tyrant in Arcadia, Turned into a wolf by Zeus |
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| The first woman, She brought to mankind a jar of evil |
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| "After thinker", Prometheus' brother, accepted Pandora from Zeus |
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| Son of the Titan: Lapetus, Benefactor against Zeus |
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| One of the most vicious of the monsters that opposed Zeus, Was a dragon |
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| Brother of Priam, Beloved of Eos, Turned into a grasshopper |
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| Daughter of Hyperion and Theia, Amorous goddess of the "Dawn" |
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| Sun-God, Son of Hyperian and Theia, Father of Phaethon, Grandfather of Medea |
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| Moon goddess, Daughter of Hyperion and Theia |
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| Son of Helius and Clyvene, Drove chariot of the sun-god disastrously, struck down by Zeus |
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| "Memory". Titaness mate of Zeus, Mother of muses |
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| United with sister Rhea, Devoured all his sisters children except Zeus, Rules in a golden age among mortals |
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| Most beautiful, Called Cupid by Romans |
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| The male sky-god, Produced by Earth herself, Supreme god in patriarchal societies, subordinate in matriarchal societies |
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| The female godess of fertility and the Earth |
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| Roman that we get alot from, Wrote the Aeneid, Retold the Odysseus story |
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| Roman poet who wrote some 700 years after Hesiod, Provided another classic account of genesis, Different in important respects from that of Hesiod, Eclectic in his sources which include not only Hesiod byt many other writers |
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| 5th Century playwright who added 3rd character to his plays |
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| 5th century, Older than Euripides and Sophocles, Added 2nd character to plays |
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| The first to give literary espression to a systematic explanation of how the gods, the universe, and humankind came into being |
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| Almost certainly belongs to Asia minor on one of the islands off the coast, Possibly Anatolian and from Smyra |
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| Grew to maturity in the middle Bronze age, Reached its pinnacle of greatness in 1600-1400 BC, Power extended over the islands of the Aegean and mainland of Greece. |
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| Reached culmination in the late Hellodic period (1600-1100 BC) |
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| Laid the foundations of modern archaelogical work in the Mycanaen world, Went to Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns in 1870s confirming the reality of wealth, grandeur, and power of the cities, kings, and heroes of Minoan-Mycenaen saga |
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| Followed Schliemann at turn of century, unearthing the splendid and grand complex of the palace of Minos at Chossus in Crete |
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| Discovered the Mycenean palace at Pylos, His discovery settled once and for all the controversy over its site and established the plan of the palace with its well preserved megaron. |
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| Son of Zeus and Hera or Hera alone, Lame artisan god, husband of Aphrodite |
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| 1 of 4 children of Zeus and Hera, Goddess of Childbirth, Merged in identity with Hera |
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| Trojan prince carried off by Zeus to become cupbearer of the gods on Olympus |
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| Son of Zeus and Maia, Trickster god of thieves, who stole Apollo's cattle |
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| One of the Pleiades, Mother of Hermes |
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| Athenian Statesman accused of mutilation of the herms and desecration of the mysteries |
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| Phallic pillars topped by the head of Hermes |
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| Son of Hermes and Aphrodite, He became one with Salmacis and turned into a hermaphrodite |
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| Nymph of a fountain at Halicanassus who loved Hermaphroditus and became one with him |
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| Son of Semele and reborn from Zeus' thigh, Savior of Ariadne, god of the grape and the vine, vegetation, wine, intoxication, sex, irrationality, music, dancing, ecstasy |
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| Theban king, Son of Agenor, brother of Europa, and husband of Harmonia |
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| Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, Loved by Zeus and destroyed by his lightning and fire, Zeus saved there unborn child Dionysus |
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| "Sorrow", King of Thebes who opposes Dionysus and is killed by his mother Agave |
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| Male spirits of nature, part man, part goat, who follow Dionysus |
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| another name for Satyrs, particularly old ones |
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| Goatlike god of the forests who invented the pan-pipe and lost a contest with Apollo |
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| Nymph who became only a voice, She was pursued by Pan and rejected by Narcissus |
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| Son of Liriope and Cephisus, He rejected the love of many, died of unrequited love for his own reflection, was turned into a flower |
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| Daughter of Cronus and Rhea, Goddess of the ripe grain, vegetation, agriculture, and the Eleusinian Mysteries |
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| Goddess of the budding grain, Demeter's daughter, Abducted by Hades to be his wife |
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| King of Eleusis, Husband of Metaneira, Father of Demophoon |
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| Son of Celeus and Metaneira and nursed by Demeter |
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| Daughters of Zeus and Themis |
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| Son of Armenuis who died and came back to life to present the vision of the afterlife recorded by Plato |
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| The ferryman of the Underworld |
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| The hound of hades, offspring of Echinda and Typhoon |
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| Gloomy region in the Underworld, which becomes a place of punishment |
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| The darkness of Tartarus/Tartarus itself |
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| The Elysian fields, paradise in the realm of Hades |
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| Punished in the Underworld by being tantalized by water and fruit just beyond his reach |
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| Aeolus' son who outwitted death and for telling Zeus secret was punished in the underworld by rolling a huge stone up a hill forever |
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| King of the Lapiths and sinner in Tartarus, bound to a revolving wheel |
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| Dread daughters of Earth or Night, Avengers of blood guilt, and punishers of sinners in the underworld |
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| Archetypal poet, musician, and religious teacher who won his wife Eurydice back from Hades, Only to lose her again because he looked back to soon. |
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| Died from snake bite, Orpheus' wife |
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| Son of Zeus and Hera, God of War |
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