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Greek Mythology (LSU)
for final exam Richard Warga
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Undergraduate 1
05/10/2010

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Odysseus
Definition
11 of his 12 ships were sank by Laestrygonians, last one sank by zeuss
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Pelops
Definition
Father of Arteus and Thyestes
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Tantalus
Definition
Father of Pelops
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Pelops
Definition
Fell in love with a married Hippodamia
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Hippodamia
Definition
Mother of atreus and Thyestes
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Laestrygonians
Definition
a band of cannibals
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Calypso
Definition
a beautiful goddess that fell in lust with Odysseus, offered him eternal life and youth
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Patroclus
Definition
achilles' best friend
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Orestes
Definition
acquitted of his trial grand jury style by athena,
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Achilles
Definition
allowed patroclus to wear his armor but warned him to stay away fom hector, sad when best friend died
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Zeus
Definition
allows his son Sarpedon to die to avoid conflict with other gods
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Sisyphus
Definition
also sent to tartarus to push rock up hill for all e eternity
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Achilles
Definition
asks his mother for new armor to go into battle again, kills hector and drags his body around the walls and takes it back home, eventually gives body back because of guilt trip and is later killed by paris
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Thetis
Definition
baptized achilles in river styx
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Achilles
Definition
baptized in the rive styx but was held by heel-his only weakness
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Thetis
Definition
beautiful goddess fated by zeus to marry peleus
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priam
Definition
begs hector to come inside walls of troy before achilles gets him
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Sirens
Definition
bird like women who sing beautifully
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Pelops
Definition
bribed King's chariot driver, Myrtilus, to rig the race so he could have his bride
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Pelops
Definition
brought back to life by the gods after his father's attempt at trickery
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Patroclus
Definition
came up with the idea to make trojans withdraw, he'd wear achilles' armor into war
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Odysseus
Definition
came up with trojan horse idea
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Achilles
Definition
choice of two fates, short and glorious of long and boring life
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Tantalus
Definition
chopped his son into bite sized pieces to try to fool the gods
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Pelops
Definition
chopped into bite size pieces by dad and fed to the gods
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Clytemnestra
Definition
chops up husband with anaxe in the hot bath
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Paris
Definition
chose aphrodite as most beautiful goddess and thus invoked the wrath of thena and hera
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ajax
Definition
committed suicide on his own sword
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ajax
Definition
contendor for the armor of achilles that could not speak well
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priam
Definition
convinces achilles to let him give hector proper burial
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Myrtilus
Definition
cursed Pelop's children
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Strife
Definition
does not get an invitiation to Peleus and Thetis' wedding so she throws a golden apple into the wedding feast with a note attached saying it is for the most beautiful
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Myrtilus
Definition
driver of king's chariot who put a wax pin in place of lnch pin to rig race
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Atreus
Definition
exiled but is allowed by the gods to have his throne back
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Hecuba
Definition
exposed herself to make hector come back into the walls of troy
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Zeus
Definition
fates Thetis to marry Peleus
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Atreus
Definition
father of agamemnon and menelaus
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Priam
Definition
father of hector and paris
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Zeus
Definition
father of helen, clytemnestra and sarpedon(son)
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Aeneas
Definition
founded rome and the romans
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Odysseus
Definition
from ithaca, was gone 30 years, took ten years to get back from ttroy
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hermes
Definition
gave odysseus pig poison cure
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Charybdis
Definition
giant whirlpool that would pull ships down and sink them
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Cassandra
Definition
given the gift of prophecy by apollo but cursed so that no one would believe her
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Hecuba
Definition
given to Odysseus as a slave to carry home
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Aeolus
Definition
god of the winds, gave odysseus wind bag to help him but would not help twice
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Patroclus
Definition
got too excited and ran into hector and was killed
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Achilles
Definition
got zeus to make the greeks lose until agamemnon apologized
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Achilles
Definition
greatest warrior in the lands
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Hecuba
Definition
had a dream that she gave birth to a torch that burned the city down, which meant that one of her kids would be the end of the city
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Odysseus
Definition
had to choose between scylla and charybdis, charybdis would kill all his men, scylla only 6 so he chose scylla
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Odysseus
Definition
had to drag men away from the lotus tree fruit
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Agamemnon
Definition
had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in place of a deer to satisfy artemis
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Hector
Definition
his son was thrown off a cliff and killed and his wife was taken as a slave to the greeks
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Aeneas
Definition
his story is called the aeneid
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ithaca
Definition
home town of odysseus and penelope
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Tantalus

 

Definition
human that partied with the gods
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Thyestes
Definition
invited back after exile for a feast in his honor, is fed his sons dipped in their own blood
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Atreus
Definition
invites brother back to share in kingly duties after exile but feeds his brother's own kids to him, dipped in their blood
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Achilles
Definition
is allowed proper burial and then a contest started to give away his armor
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Zeus
Definition
is asked who is the most beautiful out of Hera, Aphrodites and Athena but goes to the prince of troy to settle it
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Odysseus
Definition
isle of phaeacia was his last stop before returning to ithaca
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Paris
Definition
killed achilles
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Hector
Definition
killed patroclus
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priam
Definition
killed unceremoniously at the alter by the greeks
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Agamemnon
Definition
leader of the greeks who caused a plaque on the greek army by stealing a priest's daughter in the battle of troy
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Aegistus
Definition
lives with clytemnestra while agamemnon is fighting in troy
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Menelaus
Definition
married helen and survived the war to bring her home...they lived happily
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Clytemnestra
Definition
married to agamemnon but plots with Aegisthus to kill him
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Hector
Definition
married to andromache
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Helen
Definition
married to menelaus but aphrodite made her fall in love with paris whom she ran away with
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Agamemnon
Definition
marries clytemnestra
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themis
Definition
morally correct behavior
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Thetis
Definition
mother of achilles, to avoid him having to fight she dressed him as a gil on an obscure island...the solddiers did man trials and found him out though
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Clytemnestra
Definition
mother of iphigenia and orestees
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Cassandra
Definition
murdered by clytemnestra
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Clytemnestra
Definition
murdered by her son orestes
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Aegistus
Definition
murdered by orestes
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Clytemnestra
Definition
murdered cassandra
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Aegisthus
Definition
murders atreus
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Aegisthus
Definition
name means goat strength, so of thyestes and his daughter
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Penelope
Definition
one of her hands told on her so she had to host a contest to find a proper suitor, held contest of axes
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Odysseus
Definition
only one to survive his journey
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Atreus
Definition
originally has golden fleece so is set to become king of the kingdom
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Odysseus
Definition
plugs his men's ears with wax when they neared the sirens and had them tie him to the mast, that way he could hear the songs but wouldn't be allowed to go to them
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Odysseus
Definition
pretended to be crazy to avoid fighting in troy but steered around his kid proving that he was not crazy
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Nausicaa
Definition
princess on isle of Phaeacia, discovered odysseus and took him to get clean clothes
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Hippodamia
Definition
princess who marries Pelops
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tiresias
Definition
prophet in the underworld who gave odysseus advice about his journey
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Hecuba
Definition
queen of troy
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Leda
Definition
raped by zeus in form of a swan, mother of helen and clytemnestra
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Zeus
Definition
rapes leda while in the form of a duck
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Odysseus
Definition
received a bag of wind from Aeolus that would lead them straight to ithaca, the men figured must be something important in the bag, maybe gold, and opened it so they were blown away from ithaca's shores
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Odysseus
Definition
received achilles armor after he died
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ajax
Definition
recovered the body of achilles for the greeks
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Odysseus
Definition
returned to his palace as a beggar and won the contest of axes, then killed all 100 of his wife's potential suitors, he was saved from the townspeople by athena
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ajax
Definition
second best warrior greek warrior
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circe
Definition
second most famous witch, turned odysseus's men into pigs
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circe
Definition
seduced odysseus for a year
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Thyestes
Definition
sent into exile because Zeus exposed his adultery
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Iphigenia
Definition
sent to marry achilles but was sacrificed as was planned
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Tantalus
Definition
sent to tartarus where he would be forever hungry and thirsty, wind blew fruit on trees out of range and water receeded when he neared
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Odysseus
Definition
ship was attacked by town that thought they were pirates, they raided the town but he saved the priest's place and family so priest gave him 12 big jars of wine
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Thyestes
Definition
sleeps with his daughter to have a son, Aegisthus
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Odysseus
Definition
slept with calypso and refused eternal life and youth from her, stayed with her for 7 years all the while praying to zeus for her to free him, so zeus got him a raft and poseidon wrecked it
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Thyestes
Definition
slept with his brother's wife to get golden fleece to be crowned ruler of kingdom
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Thyestes
Definition
son of Pelops and Hippodamia brother of A
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Atreus
Definition
son of Pelops and brother of T
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Hector
Definition
son of Priam and Hecuba
greatest warrior in troy
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Paris
Definition
son of Priam and Hecuba, they tried to get rid of him by exposure but he was found by a bear and kept alive
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Orestes
Definition
son of agamemnon and clytemnestra
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Achilles
Definition
son of peleus and thetis (goddess)
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Pelops
Definition
son of tantalus
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Sarpedon
Definition
son of zeus who died in combat as was his fate
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Helen
Definition
suffered no consequence from the war she started
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Aeneas
Definition
the sole survivor of troy
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Myrtilus
Definition
thrown off cliff for trying to sleep with Hippodamia
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Pelops
Definition
throws Myrtilus off a cliff
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Athena
Definition
told hector to throw his spear at achilles
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Cassandra
Definition
took agamemnon as a slave and warned him not to go into his place
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Odysseus
Definition
took hecuba as his slave
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Odysseus
Definition
trapped by polyphemus, cyclops, so he got him drunk with the wine from the priest, told cyclops his name was Uttis (nobody) when cyclops was waking up, he and his men stuck a big woodejn stake in his eye and proceeded to sneak out under the belly of the sheep...one mistake...told his real name to cyclops as he left, cyclops was poseidon's son
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Sisyphus
Definition
tried to cheat death by asking his wife not to do proper burial rites and convincing Hades to let him go talk to her
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Helen
Definition
twin sister of clytemnestra, most beautiful woman
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Clytemnestra
Definition
twin sister of helen
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Zeus
Definition
wanted to make love to thetis but her son's fate was to be greater than his father
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Achilles
Definition
was going to behead agamemnon but athena told him not to, so he asked his mom to make the greeks pay
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Orestes
Definition
was out of town when his father was murdered but oracle told him to avenge his father, kills his mother and her lover
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Odysseus
Definition
was seduced by circe for a year before deciding it was time to get home, but before that he has to go to underworld and seek Tiresias to learn details to help him get home
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Penelope
Definition
wife of odysseus
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Hector
Definition
would not retreat from achilles and was killed
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Penelope
Definition
wove a funeral robe to avoid remarriage but secretly unraveled it at night
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Euripides
Definition
wrote a play detailing the females called trojan women
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