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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mount Aetna | volcano in the north-east Sicily |
| amphitrite | wife of posiden |
| aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty |
| apollo | god of the sun, poetry, music, prophecy, and healing |
| arachne | lost a weaving contest to athena and changed into a spider |
| athena | goddess of wisdom, of weaving and other household hearts, and of warfare |
| attica | southern region in greece |
| baucis | old peasent woman who entertained zeus and hermes |
| clymene | mother of phaethon |
| cronos | father of the gods |
| cyclops | a race of giants, children of oranos, each having one eye in the middle of their forehead |
| daedelus | skilled workman who constructed the labyrinth in crete; with his son icarus he escaped from imprisonment by using wings he built feathers fastened by waxed |
| demeter | goddes |
| mount Aetna | volcano in the north-east Sicily |
| amphitrite | wife of posiden |
| aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty |
| apollo | god of the sun, poetry, music, prophecy, and healing |
| arachne | lost a weaving contest to athena and changed into a spider |
| athena | goddess of wisdom, of weaving and other household hearts, and of warfare |
| attica | southern region in greece |
| baucis | old peasent woman who entertained zeus and hermes |
| clymene | mother of phaethon |
| cronos | father of the gods |
| cyclops | a race of giants, children of oranos, each having one eye in the middle of their forehead |
| daedelus | skilled workman who constructed the labyrinth in crete; with his son icarus he escaped from imprisonment by using wings he built feathers fastened by waxed |
| demeter | goddess of agriculture and harvest` |
| eros (a.k.a. cupid) | son of Aphrodite |
| hades | god of the underworld |
| hera | wife of zeus, goddess of women and marriage, queen of the gods |
| hermes | messenger of the gods and guid of dead soles to the underworld; god of travel thieves, business, invention, and cunning |
| icarus sea | named for icarus the son of daedalus who drowned in it |
| oranus | "first one" ancestor of the gods |
| pan | satyr,god of flocks, forrest,and sheperds |
| phaethon | son of clymene you tried unsuccessfully to drive the sun chariot |
| philmon | old peasseant man who entertained zeus and hermes |
| poseidon | god of the sea |
| rhea | goddess of the earth |
| styx | river in the underworld that souls must cross to reach hades |
| titan | any of the first born of oranos |
| zeus | king of the gods and humans, lord of the skies |
| demigod | half human half god |
| hero | a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character |
| minotaur | king minos' monster,half man half bull |
| prophesied | foretelling |
| begets | to procreate |
| nectar | food or drink of the gods |
| tumult | violent noisy commotion |
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