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Classical Lit.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| zeus | jupiter;supreme ruler of land |
| poseidon | neptune;spear |
| here | juno;zeus's wife and sister;cow;peacock |
| ares | god of war;vulture;dog;mars |
| athena | minerva;goddess wisdom;owl;olive tree |
| apollo | phoebus;god of sun,music,laurel tree, dolphin |
| aphrodite | venus;goddess of love;dove;mertyl tree; |
| hestia | goddess of home and hearth;vesta |
| artemis | diana;deer;goddess of moon;cyprus tree |
| hephaestus | volkin;armour;god of fire;forge;ugly |
| hermes | mercury;messenger god;winged shoes; father-caduceus |
| hades | pluto;god of underworld;original,visibility helmet |
| cerberus | 3 headed dog; guarded underworld |
| pan | chief;hermes sonmischieveous; nature and flocks |
| demeter | growing things;goddess of agriculture;corn |
| dionysus | god of wine;rebellary;vacus |
| persephone | demeters daughter;hades wife;goddess of underworld |
| prometheus | gave fire to man;brother of atlas |
| iris | messenger goddess; goddess of rainbows |
| io | turned to cow;affair with zeus;gaurded by argus |
| europa | carried away to crete;had affair with zues as a bull;dreamed two contients possessed her |
| cyclops polyphemus | outsmarted by odysseus, plucked out his eyes;son poisedien |
| narcissus | echo was facinated by him;drowned;used to capture pershephone |
| hyacinth | died in apollos arms;hit with discuss;alas-onflower petals |
| adonisspends half the year w/ persephone;made him spend half.half | spends half the year w/ persephone;made him spend half/half |
| deadalus | made labyrinth |
| pyramus | Pyramus falls in love with Thisbe, but when she arrives at their meeting spot, she sees a tiger and runs away. When she returns, she sees her lover, Thisbe, dead and then kills herself. |
| thisbe | Thisbe falls in love with Pyramus. When he arrives at their meeting place, he finds her bloody shawl and kills himself. He does not realize that she dropped her shawl while running away from a tiger with blood in its mouth. |
| orpheus | Orpheus is a talented musician who goes down to the underworld to save his lover, Eurydice. Unfortunately, he breaks his agreement and turns around to make sure she is following behind him on the way back up. She vanishes. |
| Eurydice | Eurydice is Orpheus's lover. She dies, goes down to the underworld, and almost returns to the living--but Orpheus fails to properly bring her back up. ;looks at her |
| Ceyx | Ceyx is happily married to Alcyone, but he decides to take a journey that ends with his drowning. |
| Alcyone | Alcyone, married to Ceyx, sees his body floating in the water. When she dives in after him, she turns into a bird. |
| Pygmalion | Pygmalion falls in love with his own art, a sculpture of a woman. Just when he accepts the hopelessness of the situation, Venus pities him and turns the sculpture into a woman. |
| Galetea | Venus turns Pygmalion's sculpture into a real woman, Galetea. |
| Baucis | Baucis, married to Philemon, welcomes Jupiter and Mercury into their home and thus is saved from a terrible flood. |
| Philemon | Married to Baucis, Philemon welcomes Jupiter and Mercury into their home and is thus saved from a terrible flood. |
| Endymion | Endymion is a beautiful man who, thanks to Selene, is in a magical slumber in which he sleeps forever. |
| Daphne | A beautiful wood nymph, Daphne tries to outrun Apollo and turns into a laurel tree. |
| Phaethon | The son of Apollo, Phaethon asks his father to ride his chariot across the sky. He dies because the ride is too challenging. |
| Bellerophon | Son of Poseidon, Bellerophon tames Pegasus with a golden bridle. After killing his brother by accident, Bellerophon takes Pegasus on many adventures in order to cleanse himself. |
| perseus | golden rain;killed medusa |
| theseus | son of aegeus;offered to be the victim;slayed minotaur;athens |
| Atalanta | Raised by a she-bear, Atalanta is faster than all her suitors. She races them and is winning, but she loses because she is distracted by golden apples. |
| Hercules | One of the greatest Greek heroes, Hercules is known for his unmatched strength and amazing achievements. |
| Medea | Medea helps Jason get the golden fleece and marries him. But when he later marries someone else, she kills the new wife as well as the two sons she bore to Jason. |
| pegasus | flying horse |
| pelias | Pelias steals the crown from his brother and sends his nephew, Jason, on many adventures. Eventually, his own daughter kills him. |
| jason | Jason overcomes many obstacles, most notably winning the golden fleece, in order to win back the crown from his wicked uncle Pelias. He marries Medea but later marries another woman. |
| icarus | daedales son;flew to high and wings melted |
| achilles | greastest greek warrior;greeks;killed by paris |
| aeneas | helped hector;only trojan to survive |
| agamemnon | commander in chief;greek |
| andromache | hectors wife |
| hector | prince of troy; son prium |
| hecuba | queen of troy |
| helen | fell in love with paris;most beautiful women;married to menelaus |
| menelaus | king of sparta;helens first husband |
| patroclus | achilles beloved friend |
| paris | prince of troy;cause of war;kills achilles |
| priam | king of troy |
| proseilaus | achilles closest friend;first to die |
| Iphigenia | Sister of Orestes, Iphigenia almost dies as a human sacrifice(deer), but she is saved by Athena. She is finally reunited with her brother and lives happily. |
| sinon | tells trojans about horse; |
| odysseus | king of ithaca;idea of trojan horse |
| oedipus | Son of King Laius and Jocasta, Oedipus unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. ;plucks eyes out |
| antigone | guided her fatherwhen he was blind;buried polyneises-punished; |
| ismene | Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. |
| cecrops | first king of attica |
| cadmus | built thebes;slayed dragon;king of thebes;wife-harmonia |
| harmonia | wife of cadamus;necklace doomed house of thebes |
| king laius | Father of Oedipus, King Laius tries and fails to change the prophecy that his own son will kill him. |
| procris | neice of procne&philamela;killed by cephalus |
| philomela | beautiful nymph;tereus fell in love with her |
| procne | married to tereus;nightingale |
| niobe | 14 kids; turned to stone |
| clytemnestra | agemrons wife |
| cassandra | given to agamemnon as a girft from army |
| tantalus | boiled pelops |
| creusa | sister of procris;captured by apollo |
| ion | creusas son; |
| orestes | ended curse by killing mother; |
| creon | took over thrown from oedipus; |
| cephalus | grandson of the wind king, aeolus |
| asgard | home of gods |
| odin | ruler of asgard |
| frigga | queen of gods in asgard |
| thor | thunder god |
| balder | best of all gods |
| niflheim | underworld of asgard |
| freya | goddess of love and beauty in asgard |
| pindar | greatest lyric poet greece |
| plato | phiklosopher of 4th and 5th century |
| hesiod | a poor peasant farmer theology |
| homer | most factual author,wrote the odyssey |
| virgil | didnt believe myths, found human nature. |
| ovid | not used aqs factual base, only story |
| moschus | alexandrian poet |
| apuleius | a latin, wrote story od cupid and phsyche |
| euripides | most important author |
| aeschylus | tragic poet, contempory of pindar |
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