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| mount olympus is in the mountain range that separates these two regions |
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| these three children lived on mount olympus |
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| this god's symbols are the eagle, the oak, and thunderbolts |
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| this gods realms are King of the Gods and Ruler of Mankind |
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| this gods symbols are the trident, dolphins, and horses |
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| this gods realms are horses, earthquakes, and the god of the sea |
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| this gods symbols are the lyre, arrows, and the sun chariot |
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| this gods realms are the sun, music, poetry, and medicine |
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| this gods symbols are the winged cap, winged sandals, and caduceus; winged staff with two serpents twined around it |
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| this gods realms are commerce, theft, and he is the messenger of the gods |
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| this god's symbols are the sword, shield, dog and vultures |
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| this gods symbols are the anvil and the forge |
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| this gods realms are fire and workers in metal! |
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| Pomegranate, peacock, cuckoo |
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| Queen of the gods, wife of Jove, patroness of married women |
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| sheaf of wheat, poppies, cornucopia |
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| goddess of moon and hunting, patroness of maidens |
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| breastplate with the image of medusa, owl, shield, olive tree |
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| goddess of wisdom, war, weaving |
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| goddess of love and beauty |
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| goddess of hearth and home |
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| father of Jupiter, god of agriculture among the Romans |
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| god of wine, drama, revelry |
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| Cerberus, cypress, bident |
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| god of the underworld, minerals, wealth |
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| Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Thalia; attendants to Aphrodite |
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| Moirae/Parcae; Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos; children of Night |
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| Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone; arose from Uranus' castrated genitals |
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| calliope, epic poetry, writing tablet; Clio- history, scrolls; Erato- lyric poetry, Cithara; Euterpe-music, Aulos; Melpomene- Tragedy, Tragic Mask; Polyhymnia-sacred poetry, veil; Terpsichore- dance and song, lyre; Thalia- comedy, comic mask; Urania- astronomy, globe and compass |
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| lived in a tree and died when the tree died |
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| spirits of mountains and grottoes |
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| Boreas/north, Notus/south, Eurus/east, Zephyrus/west |
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| spirits of mountains and grottoes |
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| horae; goddesses of seasons and natural time; guard Olympus, stars and constellations |
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| Young men with tiny horns (Matthew Tatem) lived in woods and played music |
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| goatlike ears, short tails, tiny horns, followers of silenus |
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| half bird, half woman, power of song |
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| three maidens who guard the tree of golden apples, daughters of atlas |
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| seven daughters of Atlas, pursued by Orion, jupiter changed them into doves, then stars |
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| the vast, seething confusion at the beginning of the world |
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| chaos resolved itself into these first two gods |
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| The twelve beautiful children of Gaea and Uranus |
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| Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires |
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| the two kinds of monsters born to Gaea and Uranus |
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| This Titan slew his father with a sharp sickle and became the chief of the gods |
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| This goddess became Cronos's wife |
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| He swallowed three daughters (vesta, ceres, juno) and three suns (pluto, neptune, jupiter) |
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| He freed the hundred-handed and the Cyclops and his siblings |
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| the god of the underworld |
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| the goddess of hearth and home |
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| the goddess of agriculture |
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| this Titan's name means "forethought" |
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| This Titan's name means "afterthought" |
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| This titan helped mankind by giving mortals the gift of FIRE |
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| Was punished by Jupiter by being bound to the Caucasus mountains, and each day an eagle consumed part of his liver |
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| This pair of mortals survived the great flood |
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| Jupiter sought to wipe out mankind with this disaster |
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| Deucalion and Pyrrha repopulated the earth by throwing this over their shoulders |
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| the mother of Apollo and Diana |
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| Jupiter wooed this princess in the form of a bull and carried her off to Crete |
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| she had three famous sons, Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon |
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| Escaped wearing wax wings |
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| Europas brother and the founder of Thebes |
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| destined to kill his father and marry his mother |
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| out of anger Juno changed this skank into a bear, who later became the constellation, the Great Bear |
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| Jupiter and Mercury sought shelter at the house of this devout husband and wife |
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| This goddess turned Arachne into a spider after she challenged her to a contest of weaving |
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| Venus gave up all her ordinary pursuits to spend time with this youth hunting in the woods |
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| this god said, "i am your husband. this house and all that is in it are yours, but on one condition-- that you may never attempt to see my face" |
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| Venus ordered this maiden to sort out the heap of different seeds in her temple's storehouse by nightfall |
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| "Never was there a maiden who could run with such swiftness" |
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| This youth threw three golden apples in atalanta's path in order to distract her and win the foot race |
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| This sculptor distrusted women and made a statue of an ivory maiden |
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| Pygmalion called his ivory statue of a maiden this name |
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| Whenever this maiden hung a lanter upon the tower of the temple, this youth would swim the Hellespont to be with her |
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| Although communication was forbidden to these two youths, they found a crack in the fall through which they whispered to eachother |
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| This goddess transformed rude country folk into frogs because they would not allow her to drink from a tree-shaded pool |
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| Zephyrus, jealous that this youth preferred Apollo, blew an arrow back toward the youth and killed him |
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| Idas was prepared to fight Apollo to death in order to keep this maiden |
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| Jupiter killed these two sons of Apollo, one a fool-heary charioteer, the other a famous physician, with thunderbolts |
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| because he killed the Cyclopes, the makers of Jupiter's thunderbolts, in anger, Apollo had to serve this mortal for one year |
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| Hercules wrestled Death for this woman, and brought her back to her husband, Admetus |
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| The only youth with whom Diana fell in love |
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| in the stars, his dog Sirius follows him |
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| this giant pursued the Pleiades until they called on Jupiter for help |
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| This woman said that people should revere her instead of Latona, since she had seven times as many children |
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| This hero fell in love with the maiden Atalanta, rnowned for her skill in hunting, and gave her a boar's skin |
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| Because she ate six pomegranate seeds, she had to return to Hades six months every year |
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| The crops withered and died while this goddess searched for her daughter |
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| He established the culture of the vine and taught its use |
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| She was changed into a beautiful heifer to escape Juno's anger |
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| He judged a music contest between Pan and Apollo; when he picked Pan, Apollo turned his ears into an ass's |
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| She was changed from a beautiful nymph into a laurel tree |
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| even in death, this nymph was faithful to Apollo. As a flower, she turned her head toward the sun |
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| this nymph could only repeat what someone else said to her |
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| He caught a glimpse of his sexy image in the water and thought some nymph was hiding from him |
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| This son of the king of Troy was turned into a grasshopper |
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| this goddess desired to keep her husband forever but forgot to ask for eternal youth |
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| From these two devoted lovers descended the kingfishers |
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| Those who had made war against Jupiter were banished to this realms uttermost gulfs |
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| the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope |
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| She was stung by a serpent and died in her husbands arms |
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| this god commanded "as you leave Hades, do not look behind you" |
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| this hero sought out the three Gray sisters in order to get three things for his quest |
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| freed a woman from the sea monster and claimed her as his wife. |
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| killed the Minotaur and saved the Athenian youths and maidens |
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| Ariadne was abandoned by this hero on the island of Naxos |
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| this hero killed the Chimera |
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| this hero was condemned to die and his friend, Damon, offered to be a hostage while he went home to settle his affairs |
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| The tyrant Dionysius was so astonished and admired by the loyalty of these two friends that he asked to be admitted to their friendship |
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| Juno sent madness upon this hero and he killed his own children |
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| Linus gave this hero lessons in singing and playing the Lyre |
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| this hero freed Prometheus from his chains |
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| this ship had a marvelous figurehead, made out of sacred oak, that could speak |
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| Chiron the centaur educated this hero |
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| Pelias sent this hero on a quest for the Golden Fleece |
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| 3 goddesses came to this hero and asked him to decide which of them was the fairest and deserved the golden apple |
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| He killed Achilles with a poison arrow |
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| He came up with the stratagem of the wooden horse |
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| Telemachus was this hero's son |
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| Circe changed this hero's companions into swine |
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| He killed the host of suitors who had besieged his wife, Penelope |
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| The Sibyl told this hero that the descent to Avernus was easy, but to return to upper air was difficult |
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| Dido, the queen of Carthage, fell in love with this hero |
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| This hero is the son of Anchises and Venus |
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| because of a disagreement over the name of a city, this brother was killed |
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| He was snatched up to heaven in a fiery chariot by his father Mars |
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| When they grew up, the two resolved to found a city on the banks of the Tiber river |
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| the romans sometimes called this man Quirinus |
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| This god was the guardian of gates |
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| This god was usually represented with two faces |
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| His name is connected with the Latin word for "sowing" |
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| During this gods reign in Italy, a Golden Age occurred |
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