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Mythology
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12th Grade
09/04/2018

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Gaea
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Earth Goddess, before the Titans. Gave birth to the Titans.
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Uranus[image]
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Sky God, before the Titans. Gave birth to the Titans.
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Kronos[image]
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Titan, God of Time. Defeated his father with a sickle.
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Hundred-Handed Giants[image]
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Children of Gaea and Uranus, thrown into tartarus by Uranus. Also oppressed by Kronos during his rule.
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Cyclopes[image]
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One-eyed children of Gaea and Uranus, thrown into Tartarus by Uranus. Also oppressed by Kronos during his rule.
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Tartarus
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Deep abyss used as a dungeon. Uranus put many lf his children here.
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Eros[image]
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God of love and attraction. Born out of chaos itself, no parent/s.
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Chaos[image]
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The void state preceding the creation of the universe.
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Titans
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Children of Gaea and Uranus. Defeated Uranus.
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Zeus[image]
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King of the Gods. Defeated Kronos.
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Rhea
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Mother of the gods. Sister and Wife of Kronos.
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Hera[image]
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Goddess of marriage. Zeus' wife.
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Poseidon[image]
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God of the sea. Zeus' older brother.
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Hades[image]
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God of the underworld and the dead. Zeus' older brother.
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Epimetheus
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Prometheus' brother. Gave all of Prometheus' creations gifts except for man.
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Prometheus
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Prometheus is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay.
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Hephaestus
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Hephaestus was the god of fire, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture. He was a smithing god, making all of the weapons for Olympus and acting as a blacksmith for the gods.
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Pandora
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Pandora, (Greek: “All-Gifts”) in Greek mythology, the first woman. Created by the Olympians to punish mankind.
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Demeter
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Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and presides over grains and the fertility of the earth. Mother of Persephone.
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Persephone
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Persephone was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld.
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Psyche
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Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros, god of love. originally mortal.
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Eros
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Greek god of sensual love and desire. Son of Aphrodite.
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Aphrodite
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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
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Zephyrus
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Greek god of the west wind.
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Daedalus
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Daedalus was a craftsman and artist in Greek mythology, who had a son named Icarus. Built the labyrinth to contain the Minotaur.
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Icarus
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Daedalus' son. Falls to his death after failing o heed his father's warning about the wings he invented for flight.
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Minos
Definition
First King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.
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Minotaur
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A monster with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. The Minotaur was the offspring of the Cretan Queen Pasiphae and a majestic bull.
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Narcissus
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Son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope, prophesized he would die if he "knew himself". Fell in love with himself in a reflection and died.
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Echo
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Helped nymphs escape from Hera, cursed to only repeat others. Fell for Narcissus.
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Theseus
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Theseus, son of Aegeus, king of Athens. Killed the Minotaur.
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Aegeus
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Father of Theseus, king of Athens.
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Ariadne
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Daughter of Minos, helped Theseus escape the maze after he agreed to marry her. He ditches her, comes back later and marries her sister.
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Corynetes
Definition
the club-bearer.
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Pityocamptes
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The second bandit to be killed by Theseus as the hero was traveling from Troezen to Athens, in the very same way that he had previously killed his own victims. (launching people with pine trees)
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Procrustes
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"The Stretcher". Killed by Theseus on his way to Troezen.
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Sciron
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Kicked Theseus off a cliff, killing him.
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