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Greek Mythology
Illiad and Odyssey notecards for Bedtelyon's final
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Literature
9th Grade
01/24/2011

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Parthenon
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The perfect Doric temple to honor Athena
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Athena
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Goddess of war and wisdom
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Cyclades
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Name of the chain of small islands scattered in the Aegean Sea
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Turkey
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Name of modern contry where Troy was
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Linear B
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Language of Mycenae
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Mycenae
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Home of Agamemnon
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Cronos
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Rhea's husband, devoured her children to prevent a prophecy from coming true
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Rhea
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Mother of the gods
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Aeolus
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God of the winds
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Lotus Eaters
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These people offered Odysseus' men a plant which made them lethargic and forgetful of home
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Patroclus
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Name of Achilles' best friend who died wearing his armour
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Paris
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Youngest son of Prium and Hecuba
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Hecuba
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Prium's wife
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Prium
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King of Troy, father of 50 children
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Hades
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Persephone reluctantly marriewd this god of the underworld
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Persephone
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Daughter of Demeter
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Demeter
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Goddess of agriculture and the harvest
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Apollo
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god of manly beauty, music, poetry, and eventually, the sun
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Hermes
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The messenger god, also god of thieves, gypsies, magicians, and lawyers
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Oceanus
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Name of body of water that ran all around the dish shaped Greek world
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Cyclopian
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Correct adjective to describe the mighty stone walls of Mycenae
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Name of the man who excavated on the island Crete and found the ancient Minoan ruins
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Cyclops
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Name of a set of children banished to the underworld where they worked in the forge
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Titans
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Collective name for the giant children
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Gaia
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Mother earth
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Ouranos
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Father sky
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Scylla and Charylodis
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"The rock and the hard place"
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Caypso
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Beautiful goddess who promised Odysseus immortality if he would remain with her
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Homer
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The Greek bard who is given credit for composing the epics
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Sirens
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Their lovely voices lured most men to crash their ships on rocks
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Cosmos
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Correct name for the order that emerged from chaos
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Chaos
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The great confusion from which the universe emerged
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Daedandelles
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other name for the strait
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Hellesont
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One name for the striahgt that was the real issue in the Trojan War
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Crete
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Name of the large whale-shaped island in the Mediterranean that was home to the Minoans
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Delphi
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Island home of the most famous of the Greek oracles
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Linear A
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Undeciphered language of Crete
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Icarus
Definition
His father built the famous maze, then made wings of wax to free them both from prison
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Poseidon
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The cyclops' fathers name, God of the sea
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Polyphemus
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The Cyclops' name
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Myrmidons
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Name of Deleus's soldiers, faithful followers
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Deleus
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Achilles' father
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Thetis
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Achilles' mother
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Achilles
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The prediction was made that without this warrior the Greeks could not win the war. His mother did not want him to go. She was a favorite of the gods.
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Ariadne
Definition
Beautiful daughter of the king of Crete, she fell in love with a visiting Greek prince, and left to supposedly marry him
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Illiad
Definition
Greek Epic about the Trojan War
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Ilos
Definition
Ancient king who gaves his name to the region around Troy
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Tros
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An ancient king who gave his name to the city of Troy
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Circe
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Name of the witch who turned Odysseus' men into swine
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Argos
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Odysseus' dog
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Mentor
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Telemachus's teacher
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Athens
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Name of the goddess who protected and helped father and son
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Telemachus
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Odysseus' son
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Dionysius
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The god who found Ariadne and cared for her deeply
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Naxos
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The island wher Theseus abandoned Ariadne
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Heinrich Schlieman
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The man who first looked for Troy, then believed he had found the home of Agamemnon on main land Greece
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Laocoon
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Name of Appolos priest who had tried to rape Cassandra
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Apollo
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The god who put a curse on Cassandra
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Cassandra
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Hector's sister, doomed to tell the truth and not be believed
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Hector
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Oldest son of the King and Queen of Troy; Troy's greatest hero
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Ithica
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Odysseus's home island
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Mary
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Mary Renault Novels
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"The Bull from the Sea" and "The King Must Die"
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Mary Renault
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Author of a series of historical fiction works about Theseus
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Labyrinh
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Correct name of the maze Daedaleus built
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Daedaleus
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Master craftsman who built a maze to contain the minotaur
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Minotaur
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Offspring of Pasiphae and a bull
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Pasiphae
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Wife on Minos and mother of Minotaur
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Minos
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As a punishment from Poseidon, his wife had an affair with a bull
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Menelaus
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King of Sparta
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Iphigenia
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Daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, she was sacraficed for wind
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Agamemnon
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King of Mycenae
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Clytemnestra
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Helens sister, who married the king of Mycenae
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Helen
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Chose to marry King of Sparta
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Penelope
Definition
Odysseus's faithful wife
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