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| a term used for Greek people in the Illiad |
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| Greek hero of the Trojan war, central character of the Illiad, war between Achilles and Agamemnon |
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| In Euripides, The Bacchae, Artemis turns him into a stag and he is torn apart by his own hounds |
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| Between Turkey & Greece, name given by Aegeus when he throws himself over a cliff into the sea |
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| Father of Theseus, namesake of the Aegean sea after throwing himself into the sea |
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| In the Iliad, shield Athena carries, shows protection given by a highly religious authority |
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| Stayed behind during the Trojan war and marries Agamemnon's wife Klytaimestra, kills Agamemnon upon his return. Both Aegisthus and Klytaimesta and killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes when he returns from Athens |
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| Son of Aphrodite, Leader of Troy's Dardanian allies |
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| In the Odyssey, keeper of the winds, gives O a bag of 4 winds and his men open it thinking O is hiding something from them, they are then blown back to Aeolia |
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| a myth that explains cause and origin, or explains a name |
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| King of Argos, Trojan war between him and Achilles, wife Klytaimestra betrays him with Aegisthus, takes a lover called Cassandra, a Trojan princess to make Klytaimestra jealous |
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| Mother of Pentheus, in the Bacchae by Euripides she tears her son apart under the influence of a Bacchic frenzy |
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| Daughter of Cecrops/Kekrops, turned into a black marble statue after trying to interfere in the marriage of her sister Herse and Hermes |
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| Athletic contest connected to religious festivals |
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| Fought in Trojan war but kills himself once back in Greece b/c he lost a contest to Odysseus |
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| Ancient city of Latium, near Rome, appears in Ovid |
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| King of the Phaecians, like Odysseus and offers him his daighter Nausikaa's hand in marriage and to help guide him home |
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| Brother of Numitor who was the King of Alba Longa, Ovid |
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| Scene of recognition in tragedy, character makes a critical discovery |
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| The unveiling of the bride |
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| Where sacred objects were stored |
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| The moral lover of Aphrodite, in Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite |
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| Greek princess chained to a rock as sacrifice for a sea monster, saved by her future husband Perseus, in Ovid |
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| Perception of a god in human form or presenting human qualities such as jealousy |
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| Daughter of Oedipus and his mother/wife, seeks a proper burial for her brother, struggles against Creon with this, the tragedy ends with Creon's son killing himself because he is in love with Antigone, in Sophocles Antigone |
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| Mother of Odysseus, he sees her in the underworld and she tells him how she died of grief waiting for his return |
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| One of the evil suitors in Homer, wanted to kill Telemachos, was killed by O upon his return to Ithica |
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| Greek goddess of love and beauty, born from the genitals of Ouranous |
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| God of light & sun, truth & prophecy, Artemis is his twin sister, son of Leta and Zeus |
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| Great mortal weaver, claimed that her skills were better than Minerva's, goddess challenged her to a contest and was so jealous of the mortals tapestry that she destroyed it and put her into the loom, turning her into a spider |
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| Son of Zeus and Hera, god of bloodlust or slaughter |
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| Queen of the Phaecians, married to Alkinoos, they offer O their daughter Nausikaa's hand and to help guide him home |
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| City in Greece, Agamemnon is the King of Argos |
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| In Hesiod's, Theogony, Theseus uses her to help slay the minotaur and then leaves her on an island where she is rescued by Dionysus |
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| Noblemen in Ancient Greece |
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| Daughter of Zeus and Leta, twin bro Apollo, Godess of forests, childbirth, and the hunt, she is the huntress. |
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| Son of Aeneas, escaped to Latium, Iliad |
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| God of medicine and healing |
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| After remarrying to Ino, Ino plots to kills his twin sons, they are saved by a gold ram that is their mother Nephele, in Ovid |
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| Virgin patron of Athens, goddess of wisdom, peace & warfare, in the Odyssey she helps O along his journey and helps Telemachos as well |
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| "The" acropolis, best known in the world, every 4 years Athenians held the Panathenaea here (athletic competition) |
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| Built just below the temple of Apollo at Delphi as an offering to Apollo |
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| King of Mycenae, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, exiled after murdering his half brother then came to power in Mycenae |
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| subdivision in Greece containing Athens |
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| Banished Ovid to the Black Sea for publishing the Metamorphoses |
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| Place where Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis in order to get to Troy, infuriated Klytaimestra |
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| Sons of the Earth, indigenous people |
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| In Euripides, The Bacchae, her and her sisters (including Agave) spot Pentheus in a tree, Agave and the other sister tear him apart mistaking him for a wild animal in their frenzy |
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| Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides bades on the story of King Pentheus and his murder by his mother Agave as punishment from Dionysus b/c Pentheus prohibited worship of Dionysus |
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| another word for Maenad, or worshipper of Dionysus |
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| Dionysus, God of wine, ecstasy, madness and otherness, term often used in Rome |
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| In Ovid, founder of the city of Thebes, planted the Spartoi |
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| a short heralds staff first used by Iris, messenger of Hera, Iris gave the staff to Hermes |
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| given a gift for interpreting the flight of birds from Apollo, tells greeks that Chryseis must be returned to her father for Apollo to stop the plague, leads to trojan war b/c of battle between Achilles and Agamemnon |
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| A trojan princess that Agamemnon takes back to flaunt in front of Klytaimestra b/c he has heard rumor of her infidelity |
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| Mortal son of Leta and Zeus, immortal brother Pollux, sister Helen of Troy |
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| Mythical king of Athens, has 3 daughters Aglauros (turned to black marble), and Herse (marries Hermes) |
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| Part human part horse, liminal beings |
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| death spirits, in Theogony |
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| The nothingness out of which the first existence appeared |
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| Goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, sometimes considered the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, sometimes called the Graces |
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| a giant whirlpool that tries to swallow O's ship |
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| assembly of the oldest and wisest men of Argos |
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| pertaining to beneath the earth of the underworld |
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| Man that grows horns in Ovid, has the chance to be the king of Rome but exiles himself saying that they don't need a king |
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| In the Odyssey she turns O's men into pigs and O is warned by Hermes to eat some herb so as not to fall under her magic and not to go to bed with her for she would steal his manhood |
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| Any theory that has to do with the origin of the universe |
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| Ruler of Thebes in Oedipus and Oedipus thinks that Creon is conspiring against him. In Antigone he doesnt wish to give her brother a proper burial, resulting in his son killing himself |
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| Largest Greek island, center of Minoan civilization, including Knosses |
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| Crete is birthplace of Zeus, he is widely praised, he was widely worshipped there & one theory says that Zeus was a great king of Crete and this progessed into him being a deity |
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| God of erotic love and beauty, same as Eros |
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| A group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea |
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| In Homer, O discovers the cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon and kills him, he has to suffer the wrath of poseidon |
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| Place where Aphrodite was born |
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| meter associated with epic poetry |
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| “cunning worker”, said to have created the labyrinth |
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| anything that is cunningly devised, such as a labyrinth |
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| Cupid shot Apollo w/ an arrow and he fell in love with her, she turned into a tree |
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| Birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, located in the Cyclades islands |
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| Home of Apollo, major worship site of Apollo, site of Omphalos stone |
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| Earth mother, goddess of Grain & Fertility, bringer of seasons, capable of destroying all life on Earth & almost does when her daughter Persephone is abducted |
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| Minstrel who sings at the palace of Alkinoos in the Odyssey |
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| The first man, him & his wife were only survivors of Zeus's flood |
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| Different word for Artemis |
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| poetry designed to give instruction |
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| Greek goddess of moral justice |
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| One of the Thirty Tyrants elected to rule the city of Athens after the end of the Peloponnesian War |
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| Great fighter of the Achaeans, fought great w/ Ajax, close companion of O |
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| A large religious festival held in Athens to honor Dionysus |
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| God of wine, madness and ecstasy |
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| falls in love with Narcissus in Ovid |
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| graphic, dramatic description of a visual work of art |
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| daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaimesta, plots w/ her brother Orestes to kill their mother Klytaimestra |
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| initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis, very secretive |
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| site of the Eleusinian mysteries |
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| one of Odysseus's men, very young, got drunk on Circe's island, fell asleep on the roof and in the morning he fell to his death on the roof |
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| Personification of hope, last item in Pandora's box |
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| final resting place of the souls of the heroic |
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| Goddess of dawn in greek mythology, Aurora in Latin |
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| where a young greek man would go to train |
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| a young man of age in ancient greece |
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| ancient greek poems that related the story of the trojan war |
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| detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines |
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| accepted the gift of Pandora's box from the gods |
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| poetry that praises, specifically athletic acomplishments |
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| a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula |
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| final initiation rite in the Eleusinian Mysteries, understanding |
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| Greek temple on acropolis built by Erechtheus |
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| King of Athens, built the Erechtheion |
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| Legendary king of Athens, half snake half man |
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| cthonic deities that represented the anger of the dead |
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| Greek goddess of strife and discord |
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| when capitalized it is the winged cupid, when spelled eros it is raw sexual drive |
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| son of Oedipus, was a king of Thebes after his father was exiled, passed the throne to his uncle Creon |
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| O's swineherd & old friend before the Trojan war, first person he recognizes upon his return to ithica, O is disguised & Eumaios doesn't recognize him but still treats him well |
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| The furies become the Eumenides after Orestes is aquitted of his crime against his father, athena says they can help rule athens and they become protectors of the city |
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| one of the founders of the Eleusinian mysteries; first priests of Demeter, son of Poseidon and Chione |
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| Ovid wrote of the abduction of Europa by Zeus in the form of a white bull |
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| daughter of Apollo, wife of Orpheus, in Ovid she is bit by a snake and goes to the underworld, Orpheus goes to save her but isnt allowed to look back at her, they almost make it out when he turns around to look at her and Eurydice vanished from his sight forever |
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| O's nurse, recognizes the scar on his foot |
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| primal greek goddess personifying the earth, cthonic deity |
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| She is a statue that King Pygmalion has made and he falls in love with her. Aphrodite brings her to life and they are married |
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| Divine hero, Trojan Prince |
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| One of the Nereides, Glauke fell in love with Jason, whom she married, and was later killed by the jealous Medea. |
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| Terrifying female creature in greek lit, ie: medusa |
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| goddesses of charm, beauty & creativity |
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| god of the underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon |
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| Trojan Queen, wife of Priam, mothre of Hektor |
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| cthonic goddess of magic, witches |
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| the hundred handed monsters |
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| greatest fighter for troy in the trojan wars, son of hekabe and priam |
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| of Troy, her abduction by Paris led to the Trojan war, daughter of Zeus and Leta |
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| personification of the sun, Titan |
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| patriarch of the Hellenes, his name also means Greek |
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| god of technology, he was lame b/c of his injury, was married to Aphrodite but she had an affair with Ares |
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| goddess of women and marriage, wife and older sister of Zeus |
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| greatest of greek heros, son of zeus aka hercules |
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| sculptures w/ the head of Hermes placed at boundaries, roads and crossing for protection |
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| son of Aphrodite & Hermes, was a handsome boy until the nymph Salmacis wrapped herself around him and they merged as one |
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| guide to the underworld, messenger of the gods, patron of boundaries and roads |
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| in greek, a demi god that displays courage and self sacrifice in the face of danger |
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| most famous daughter of cecrops, married Hermes, her sister Aglauros tried to interfere and was turned to stone |
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| virgin goddess of the earth |
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| priest or teacher of the mysteries |
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| marriage between a god and a goddess |
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| son of aphrodite and ares (hymn to aphrodite) represents sexual desire or unrequited love |
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| daughter of king Oenomaus, Pelops wanted to marry her & her father didn't want him to in fear of being killed by his son in law, he has a chariot race and Pelops if is the only one of her 13 suitors to ever survive it, the king dies and Pelops gets to marry her but they will be cursed along w/ their descendants |
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| a collection of ancient greek hymn celebrating individual gods |
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| shared thinking or knowledge between two or more people, in the Odyssey it refers to the strength of O & P's marital bond |
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| the seasons, goddesses of the season, seen in the Theogony |
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| He is the son of Daedalus and is commonly known for his attempt to escape Crete by flight, which ended in a fall to his death. |
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| An epic poem set during the trojan war that tells of the battles between king agamemnon and achilles |
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| goddess that saves O after Poseidon stirs up a storm to kill him, she gives him a veil to keep him safe after his ship wrecks, in her mortal life she was the sister of Autonoe and Agave, second wife of Athamas |
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| in Ovid, Zeus notices her and lusts after her, Zeus seduced her into the fields then turned her into a cow to avoid being caught by Hera |
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| daughter of Agamemnon, he had to sacrifice her to Artemis to continue to Troy, infuriated Klytaimestra |
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| messenger of Hera, first use of Caduceus, she gives it to Hermes |
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| daughter and half sister of Oedipus |
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| Son of Tereus and Procne, after Tereus raped Procne's sister Philomela, Procne killed Itys and fed it to Tereus as revenge |
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| wife and mother of Odysseus |
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| an event that led to the trojan war, contest between Aphrodite, Athena and Hera, Paris would judge & give the fairest a golden apple |
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| claimed ancestry to Aeneas of Troy, leader of the Roman Republic |
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| Roman equivalent of Zeus, king of the gods, god of sky and thunder |
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| Goddess that falls in love with O and won't let him leave |
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| King of Elusis, takes Demeter into his home to be a nurse for his son Demaphoon |
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| Renown or glory, what O and every other greek hero seeks |
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| Wife of Agamemnon, betrays him w/ Aegisthus while he is away at war, killed by her son Orestes |
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| labyrinth, largest site on Crete, excavated by Sir Arthur Evans |
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| ritualistic, drunken procession |
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| another name for Persephone, daughter of Demeter and queen of the underworld |
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| in Ovid they were born from rainwater, otherwise, they were spirits that guarded over the infancy of Zeus |
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| leader and youngest of the first gen of titans |
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| ancient greek drink used at the height of eleusinian mysteries, made mainly of water and barley |
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| designed and built by Daedalus to hold the Minotaur on Crete |
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| elderly father in law of Penelope, O's father |
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| a race of powerful giants that turn O's men into dinner, only O's ship makes it out of the harbor as all the others were sunk |
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| divine hero and key person in the founding myth of Thebes |
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| daughter of Thestius, mother of Helen of Troy, Klytaimestra, Pollux & Castor by Zeus, who seduced her then raped her in the form of a swan |
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| daughter of the Titans, Zeus if the father of her twins Apollo & Artemis |
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| a place in which one's sense of identity begins to disolve |
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| linear script used in ancient Crete |
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| early mycenaean form of greek used for writing, deciphered by sir arthur evans |
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| a dangerous race of people that live off of Lotus plants that are narcotic & addictive, O's crew had to avoid these people |
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| king of arcadia, tested zeus by feeding him a dish of a slaughtered child, zeus turned him into a wolf & killed his 50 sons |
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| a gorgon, or cthonic female monster |
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| great hall of the Mycenaean palace complexes |
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| King of Sparta, husband of Helen (helen was abducted by Paris & became Helen of Troy) |
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| manhood, or a liquid representing such ie: semen, blood |
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| Trojan war hero that Athena is disguised as when she goes to see Telemachos in the first book of the Odyssey |
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| When O left he had Mentor look after his son Telemachos |
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| Roman Equivalent of Hermes |
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| 2nd great wife of Zeus, mother of Athena, posed a threat to Zeus to he ate her and gained Metis (in the sense of knowledge), Metis was pregnant w/ Athena and she was born from Zeus's head |
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| a parthenon is an example of metopes |
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| pollution or a stain, ie: Oedipus was the miasma of his city |
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| mythical king of crete, after his death became a judge of the dead in hades |
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| part man part bull as described by Ovid, killed by theseus |
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| greek goddess of fate and destiny |
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| goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of literature of art |
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| an initiate to the first degree of the mysteries |
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| saw his own reflection and fell in love with himself, echo then fell in love with him |
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| fought in the tojan war, friend of O, but is made fun of in the Iliad and The Odyssey |
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| taunted Leto b/c she only had 2 kids while Niobe had 14, Leto then send Apollo and Artemis to kill all of her kids |
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| king of alba long until he was overthrown by his brother Amulis, Amulis murdered his sons then was murdered by Numitors grandsons and Numitor was king again |
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| beautiful female spirits typically followers of a divine beings ie: artemis, apollo, dionysus |
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| protagonist of the Odyssey, fought at troy and is now trying to find his way back to Ithaca |
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| mythical greek king of thebes that fulfilled a prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother bringing disaster on his city and family |
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| father of Hippodamia, killed 13 of his suitors before losing a chariot race that resulted in death for him and his daughter married Pelops |
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| world ocean, personified as a Titan |
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| sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, site of the Olympics, temple of Zeus is here |
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| 12 principal gods of the greek pantheon residing upon mt olympus |
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| eating of raw flesh, typically during cult worship |
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| ancient stone that marks the center on the universe at Delphi, literally means navel |
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| Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the curse of the house of Atreus |
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| son of agamemnon, kills his mother and eventually breaks the curse of Atreus |
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| of the heavens or the sky |
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| father sky, son and husband of Gaia |
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| observance of Athena's bday, greatest festival in athens |
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| first woman, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts, she opened a jar releasing all of the evils of the earth but hope which remained in the pithos |
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| least important daughter of cecrops |
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| at Delphi and Olympia, had a space for people to gather and an altar for the main act of sacrifice |
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| all the gods collectively |
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| Prince of Troy, abducts Menelaus's wife Helen, Agamemnon & Menelaus go to troy to get her back starting the trojan war |
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| asexual reproduction found in females, ie: Gaia |
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| temple at the top of the athenian acropolis, most important structure of classical Greece |
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| a virgin, epithet of several greek goddesses esp. Athena |
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| daughter of Helios, mother of the Minotaur |
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| Older men loving younger boys or children |
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| song of nestor who is the king of pylos, nestor sends his son to accompany Telemachos to sparta in the Odyssey |
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| father of Achilles, greek hero |
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| war between sparta and athens, sparta won |
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| large peninsula region in southern greece |
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| Father Tantalus cut him up served him to the gods, demeter ate his shoulder, Hephaistos gave him an ivory shoulder, he courted Hippodamia despite her father & beat him in a chariot race led to Oenomaus's death |
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| king of Thebes, killed by his mother Agave in a frezy caused by Dionysus in the Bacchae |
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| any woven garmet, specifically a robe |
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| turning point of a tragedy |
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| daughter of Demeter and Zeus, queen of the underworld during her time down there |
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| Titan god of destruction, father of Hekate |
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| founder if the Mycenae, provided founding myths in the cult of the 12 olympians, killed Medusa |
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| son of Helios, flew chariot too close to the sun |
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| land where odysseus washes ashore, king alkinoos queen arete, they love O and treat him well |
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| centered on the masculine point of view |
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| poet who performs songs at O's house in Ithaca, helps O conceal sounds of dying suitors w/ wedding songs, is spared the horrible death of the suitors |
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| Princess of Athens, raped by her sisters husband Tereus, she told Procne and she killed her son by Tereus Itys and fed him to Tereus |
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| Circe turned him into a woodpecker |
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| Immortal brother of Castor, sons of Leta and Zeus |
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| literally many skills, an epithet used by Homer for O |
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| Son of Oedipus and his mother Jocasta, kings of thebes after Oedipus was exiled and as a result of their fathers curse they didnt share power equally and died as a result |
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| only Roman goddess, associated w/ flowering and change of season |
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| in the Odyssey he is O's nemesis, makes his journey hard as possible, brother of Zeus and Hades |
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| Minoan Goddess, taken on by Artemis |
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| the first or principal man, Augustus gave himself this title because he didn't want to be called king but wanted all of the power |
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| sister of Philomela, princes of Athens, her husband Tereus raped Philomela so Procne kills her son Itys and feed him to Teresus |
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| Titan son who stole fore from Zeus and gave it to mortals, Zeus gave him an endless punishment of being bound to a rock while an eagle eats his liver and every day the process repeats |
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| momumental gateway that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens |
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| Roman equiv of Persephone |
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| spirits or deities that escort people to the afterlife, they don't judge they just provide safe passage |
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| In Ovid, a tale of star crossed lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, made fun of in A midsummer nights dream, they were forbade to be together from their parents, Pyramus thinks Thisbe has been eaten by a lion but she escaped, he kills himself, upon finding his body she too kills herself and they are buried together |
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| wife of Deucalion, they were the only two suriviors after the great flood of Zeus |
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| Delphi, the place where the snake will rot |
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| the snake that is killed and will rot |
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| One of the vestal virgins of Rome |
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| Mother of the Gods, Titaness daughter, mother of the Olympian Gods |
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| Mythical mother of Remus and Romulus, the founders of Rome |
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| One of the vestal virgins of Rome |
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| nymph falls in love with Hermaphroditus, she jumps on him and they become one, a hermaphrodite |
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| modern day burlesque, include drinking and overt sexuaity |
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| male companions of pan and Dionysus, perpetual erections, maenads beat them off with a thyrsus |
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| Dionysus's mom, lover of Zeus, killed by Zeus's thunderbolt |
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| building dedicated to the greek city state of Delphi |
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| Most famous for excavating Troy and Knosses |
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| the island of the sirens, in the Odyssey they sing a lovely song that promises to reveal the future trying to lure O's crew in to Siren Island. |
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| king that was cursed & had to roll a boulder up a hill everyday and watch it fall back down, in Ovid, Orpheus's song he sang to get Eurydice back from the underworld was so beautiful that Sisyphus sat on his rock and listened |
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| background for the platform stage, backdrop |
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| six headed monster who in the odyssey swallows one man for each head, ate 6 of O's men but was still the better choice then Charybdis |
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| a living animal or human would be sacrificed to Dionysus by being torn apart, followed my Omophagia |
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| ancestors of the Spartans, Cadmus sowed them from dragons teeth and threw a rock at them when they were grown out of fear, they thought one of the others had done it & fought each other to the death until only 5 remained |
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| The sphinx guarded the entrance to thebes and asked all the famous riddle, she devoured everyone that couldn't answer it, Oedipus answers the riddle and the Sphinx dies |
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| In the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, dedicated by the Athenians, built with money won during the Persian war |
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| river that formed the boundary between Earth & the underworld, circles the underworld 9 times |
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| Greek and Roman mythology coming together |
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| Tantalos cut up & boiled his son Pelops & fed him to the gods, none ate but Demeter who accidentally ate a piece of his shoulder but Hephistos made him an ivory one and Dememter presented it, Tantalos was sent to the deepest underworld Tartarus where he would continually reach for fruit that would retreat and water that would recede |
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| The Theban poet O meets in the underworld, he tells them that Poseidon is punishing them for blinding his son the cyclops, he tells O's fate that he will return home |
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| Brave son of O, was an infant when he left, but now a young man who thinks his father to be dead until Athena tells him he isn't, he goes in search of news of his father |
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| big room for the Eleusinian mysteries where they were shown the secrets of Demeter |
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| Husband of Procne, he rapes Procne's sister Philomela and she weaves the story and send it to Procne who kills her son with Tereus and feeds it to him |
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| where the audience of a greek tragedy sat to view the performance |
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| a poem by Hesiod describing the origin and genealogy of the gods of the ancient greek |
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| In the O, he is the son of a famous profit that Telemachos meets on Pylos, he is fleeing persecution and Telemachos allows his to come on his ship w/ him |
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| Legendary founder-King of Athens, slew the Minotaur w/ the help of Ariadne, he used her then left her on an island off of Crete where she was rescued by Dionysus |
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| a sea nymph, of of the 50 Nereids |
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| the woman of Thisbe & Pyramus, star crossed lovers who were forbidden to do so by their families, they plan to meet in the woods, Pyramus thinks Thisbe is eaten by a lion & slays himself, Thisbe finds him then kills herself w/ the same sword, they are buried together |
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| Son of Pelops (king of Olympia), him & twin brother Atreus were exiled for desiring the throne of Olympia, they rose to power in Mycenaea |
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| great battle of the gods, Titans (older gods) vs Olympians (newer gods) |
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| A race of powerful older gods that ruled during the golden age, they were overthrown by the Olympians led by Zeus in the Titanomachy |
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| lover of the Titan God of dawn Eos, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite Eos asks for Tithonus to be immortal but forgets to ask for eternal youth, |
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| goat, song, meaning tragedy |
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| one of the original priests of Demeter, taught people how to sow & plow fields |
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| Greeks built a giant horse & filled it w/ troops, the presented it to Troy as a gift, at night the greek army entered and destroyed the city of Troy |
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| in Euripides, Orestes, he was trying to get the death penalty for Orestes for killing his mother b/c she was the daughter of Tyndareus, his wife was seduced by Zeus & had Castor, Pollux, Helen and Klytaimestra |
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| final son of Gaia, deadliest greek monster, his hands had a hundred dragon heads each, he was sent by Gaia to kill Zeus b/c he had imprisoned the Titans, Zeus defeats Typhoeus |
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| Roman god of change of season and plant growth, in Ovid he tricked Pomona by disguising himself as an elderly woman then warning her of the dangers of rejecting a suitor, the only tale in Ovid that was purely Latin |
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| Roman goddess of hearth, home and family |
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| sacred virgins of rome, female priestesses of Vesta, required not to have sex, only female priests in Roman religion |
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| Roman equiv of Hephaistos |
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| hospitality, courtesy, especially shown to travelers |
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| statues built with money that athletics had to pay during the Olympics if they took drugs or violated rules |
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| King of the Gods, ruler of mt olypmus, god of sky and thunder, |
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