Creatures, Pairs, Collectives, and Sites
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| A monster with 100 eyes slain by Hermes, his eyes were put into the tail of the peacock by Hera, the name of Odysseus | Argus | Half horse-half man, the war of Lapiths against them is celebrated in one of the friezes of the Parthenon | Centaurs | Watchdog of the gates of Hades. often seen with 3 heads, a mane of serpents, and the tail of a serpent, Hercules, 12th labor is to bring him up from the Underworld | Cerberus
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| A sea monster that sucked in the sea and caused a terrible whirlpool, creating great danger for ships. Legend had it that it was half maiden and half fish and dogs. He was found with Sylla at the Straits of Messina | Charybdis | Fire breathing monster from Lycia that is lion headed, goat middled and serpent hinded. Atop Pegasus Belleraphon kills it with arrows from above | Chimera | Perhaps the best known of the Centaurs, he is instruced by Apollo and Diana and becomes the teacher of Asclepias. He also helps Pelius win the hand of Thetis (resulting in the birth of Achilles) and becomes Achilles' tutor | Chiron
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| A monster with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle | Griffin | the three hideous sisters - Stheno, Euryale and Medusa - with huge teeth, claws and snakes for hair; their look causes men to turn to stone. Medusa is beheaded by Perseus | Gorgons | A monster with nine heads, one of which was immortal, each of the other eight can grow back as two if cut off. Hercules kills it as one of the twelve labors | Hydra
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| Offspring of a bull and Pasiphae, the wife of King Minos it is half bull and half man. Minos keeps it in the labyrinth built by Daedalus and feeds it human sacrifices to exact tribute from the people of Athens (7 boys and 7 girls every nine years) | Minotaur | Fabulous lion which Hercules has to kill for his first of his twelve labors because the lion's skin cannot be penetrated by arrows or hurt by a club, he sqeezes it to death | Nemean Lion | Winged horse brought to life from the sea foam and blood of the slain Medusa, he is captured by Belleraphon who uses him to help him kill the Chimera. Belleraphon then tries to fly to Heaven aboard it but is thrown off & it becomes a constellation | Pegasus
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| A great bird which consumes itself in flames every 500 years and rises out of its own ashes for a new life | Phoenix | a cyclops who figures prominently in the Odyssey, he lived on Cicely where he captured Odysseus and twelve of his crew as food to eat. Odysseus blinds his one eye and escapes with his remaining men as they tie themselves to the bellies of sheep | Polyphemus | A great snake found near the the Oracle at Delphi on Mt. Parnassus, killed by Apollo | Python
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| A race of immortal creatures with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a goat | Satyrs | A sea nymph loved by Poseidon whose wife became jealous and turned her into a monster with dogs heads. She lives in the caves along the straits of Messina facing the whirlpool Charybdis. As ships come near her, she pulls men off and eats them. | Scylla | Early fire breathing monster who is father to the Sphinx and Chimaera | Typhon
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| Twin sons born by Leda after she was visited by Zeus in the guise of a swan. Zeus allows them to spend alternate days on earth and evenutally puts them into the sky as the constellation Gemini | Castor and Pollux | Minos locks both of them up after completion of the maze. They work on making wings with wax and feathers so they can escape. The son flies to close to the sun and the wax melts leading to his death. | Icarus and Daedalus | Dionysius of Syracuse had ordered one of them put to death. He asks his king for a few days to put his life in order and look after his families needs. His friend agreed to be held captive those days with ramifications that he die if he doesn't return. | Damon and Pythias
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| A priestess of Aphrodite who falls in love with the other who swims to Hellespont to visit her each night guided by a torch she holds up. During a storm one night the torch is extinguished and he drowns. Realizing this she throws herself into the sea. | Hero and Leander | A poor elderly couple who live in a ramshackle dwelling in Phyrgia in Asia Minor. Visited by Zeus and Hermes | Baucis and Philemon | Sons of Oedipus and Jacosta and brothers to Antigone. After Oedipus' banishment from Thebes, a civil war breaks out and they fight for opposing sides. | Eteocles and Polynices
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| The son of Apollo and Calliope is known as the greatest musician of ancient times, so impressive that his music could move inanimate objects. When his wife dies of snakebite, he convinces the Gods to allow him to go to the underworld and retrieve her. | Orpheus and Eurydice | A youthful sculptor who has little interest in women. He satisfies his own demand for beauty by creating a perfect woman in marble. Aphrodite, upset because he ignores living women, casts a spell and has him fall in love with his statue. | Pygmalian and Galatea | Two lovers whose families forbid their meeting but they agree to a meeting in the woods. After thinking each other dead, they kill themselves. | Pyramus and Thisbe
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| The son of Priem and Hecuba of Troy and the daughter of a Trojan priest, Calchas, who is defected to the Greeks. They are in love but she is given to the Greeks in an exchange for Trojan prisoners. She forgets him & falls in love with Diomedes | Troilus and Cressida | Three sister Goddesses who preside over birth, life and death of mankind, Clotho creates the thread of life; Lachesis measures the thread and determines its character; Atropos cuts the thread with shears | Fates | Merciless avenging spirits called upon to punish crimes especially crimes against ones relatives | Erinyes
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| Three Goddesses who are daughters of Zeus who enhance the quality of life through refinements: Aglaia refines brilliance; Euphrosyne refines joy; Thalia refines bloom | Graces | Winged monsters that are half woman and half bird with terribly long claws. They are known for snatching up people or taking the souls of living people | Harpies | Three sisters who guard the golden apples which Hera had received as a wedding gift. One of Hercules' 12 labors was to bring back some of the golden apples | Hesperides
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| A collective of 9 Goddesses with domain over various aspects of creativity and science. They are Calliope, Cleo, Erato, Euterp, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania. | Muses | Sea nymphs whose beautiful singing would charm sailors into jumping into the sea. As Odysseus' ship approaches, he stuffs his mens' ears with wax but he, himself is tied to the ship's mast so he can hear the beautiful music without killing himself. | Sirens | Fabled city written about by Plato, according to legend it was a huge island or continent west of the pillars of Hercules that flourished 9,000 years before the Greek civilization | Atlantis
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| These are a blessed and happy place found at the world's end, ruled by Rhadamanthis, a judge of the dead. Those who are favored by the Gods are brought to this place after death. | Elysian Fields | Originally the brother of Zeus and ruler of the Underworld | Hades | One of the rivers over which the dead travel on their way to Hades. It is the River of Forgetfulness. | Lethe
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| The home of the Gods | Mount Olympus | A shrine to Apollo at Delphi on the southern slope of Mt. Parnassus. The priestess, Pythia sits over a crevice in the rock and utters predictions that are often incomprehensible and interpreted by a Priest | Oracle at Delphi | A mountain in Greece sacred to Apollo and to the Muses | Mount Parnassus
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| A great temple constructed in a doric manor found on the acropolis in Athens and dedicated to the Goddess Athena | Parthenon | The river which flows through Hades | Styx | The outcropping of rock on either side of the mouth of the Mediterranean | Pillars of Hercules
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| An ancient city which fights a 10 year war with the Greeks after Paris abducts Helen | Troy | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank)
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