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Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love and beauty. She was known to the
Romans as
Venus. There were actually two different Aphrodites, one was the daughter
of Uranus, the
other the daughter of Zeus and Dione. The first, called Aphrodite Urania,
was the goddess
of spiritual love. The second, Aphrodite Pandemos, was the goddess of
physical attraction. Aphrodite is the more famous of the two |
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a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants,
gardens and male genitalia.
His Roman equivalent was Mutunus Tutunus. He was best noted for his huge,
permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. Cursed by Hera
while in Aphrodite’s womb. |
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he made a statue of a girl in ivory that other girls could not even look
at due to it’s
immense beauty and asked Aphrodite to give him a wife like that of the
statue, She gave the statue life… and from this union Paphos was born, from whom the city,
sacred to Aphrodite, received its name. |
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Myrrha’s father is the king Cinyras of Cyprus, and she is able to sleep
with him by disguising herself as a new concubine.
Myrrha was turned into a tree (a myrrh). Adonis was born from its trunk. |
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He is an annually renewed, ever-youthful vegetation god, a
life-death-rebirth deity whose
nature is tied to the calendar. His name is often applied in modern times
to handsome youths. |
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Later she is joined by her son and consort Attis, who incurred her
jealousy. He, in an ecstasy, castrated himself, and subsequently died. Grieving, Cybele
resurrected him. This tale is told by Catullus in carmen 63. The evergreen pine and ivy were
sacred to Attis. |
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he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (and in Roman mythology,
the lover of Venus).presented him with the infant Aeneas. However, he made the mistake
of bragging about his liaison with Aphrodite, and as a result Zeus, the king of the
gods, hit him with a
thunderbolt which left him lame. |
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His mother was Hera. He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Like other mythic
smiths but unlike most
other gods, Hephaestus was lame, |
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a blind bard named Demodocus sings of the quarrel between Odysseus and
Achilles atTroy, a light song about a tryst between Ares and Aphrodite. Odysseus
asks Demodocus to sing of the Trojan horse and the sack of Troy, but as he listens, he
again breaks down. King Alcinous again notices and stops the music. He asks Odysseus at last
to tell him who he is, where he is from, and where he is going. |
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had sex with zeus
Semele dies after Hera convinces her to see Zeus in his true form
mother of Dionysus |
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saved by Hermes and sown into Zeus' thigh
as infant taken to the nymph
God of vegetation, making and drinking wine |
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Orphic form of Dionysus
Persephone was his mother
Hera rouoses the titans against zagreus |
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female followers of Dionysus
hunt down animals and men
killed Penethus |
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male followers of Dionysus
very frisky |
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impulisive and lecherous and spirited god
son of a nymph and Hermes
invented the Panpipes |
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Icarius given the secret of wine by Dionysus
people of Attica, thinking that wine
was a poison, kill Icaruis
Erigone hangs herself upon hearing
Icarius death |
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ancient king of Thebes
killed by the maenads
denied the godness of Dionysus |
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a maenad follower of Dionysus
killed her son Pentheus
daughter of Cadmus |
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leader of the argonauts
sent on a quest to find the golden fleece
ship was the Argo |
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King of Iolcus
Sends Jason to get the Golden Fleece
Is told to beware “man with one sandal” |
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driven from Iolcus by Pelias
wife of Jason
Shes flees to Cornith with Jason |
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where the golden fleece was
Aeetes gives the fleece to Jason if he
completes a series of impossible taxes
Medea helps Jason get the fleece |
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king of Colchis
daughter is Madea
loses the golden fleece to jason |
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group of heroes
assemblied by Jason to get the golden fleece
sail of the Argos |
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son of Aeetes
killed by his sister Madea |
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blind prophet
tormented by Harpies
tells the argonauts how to pass through the Stymphalades |
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bronze giant
lives of Crete
circles Crete 3 times daily throwing stones at intruders |
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daughter of Creon
killed by Medea
a wife of Jason |
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half mortal half god
driven mad by Hera and kills his first family
has to serve bondage to Eucystheus |
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mother of Heracles
went to thebes |
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Heracles gets the loin's hide
Heracles fashions a club to kill it
first of Heracless labors |
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Deer had golden horns and was sacred to Artemis
Heracles chases the deer for a year before capturing it
Heracles blames Eucystheus for the abduction |
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Promised Heracles' 10 percent of Cattle if Heracles' could clean the stables in 1 day
Heracles diverts the Alpheus to clean the stables
Augeas doesn't keep his promise |
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Bull that Minos refused to sacrfice to Poseidon
Heracles is sent to retrieve the bull
the bull is freed and later found by Thesus |
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was giant who Heracles was required to capture
Hera sent gadflies to scatter the cattle
lives of the island Erytheia |
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apples gave immortality
Heracle's tricked Atlas into getting the apples for him
Heracle's tricks Atlas into holding the earth again |
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oldest daughter of Creon
Heracle's first wife
killed by Heracles |
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had three heads
only one head was immortal
Heracle dipped his arrows in the hydra's blood |
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Heracles' captured the boar
Heracles chases the board into the snow
when he brings it back Eurystheus is scared of it |
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Heracles sent to kill the birds
birds had arrow firing wings that could pierce bronze
Heracles clashes cymbals to scare the birds and shoots them when they emerge |
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the mares only ate human flesh
Heracles tames them by feeding them Diomedes |
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Heracles was sent to get her girdle
On the way Heracels is attacked by the Amazons
Heracles ends up killing her |
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fire breathing monster
son of vulcan
steals some of the Geryon cattle from Heracles |
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Final Labour of Heracles
he has to capture without using weapons
Hades freed it to so Heracles could complete his labors |
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second wife of Heracles
gives him a poison cloak she got from Nessus
daughter of Althaea |
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suitor for Deianira
defeated by Heracles
river god Heracles ripped off his horns |
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tried to kidnap Deianira
Heracles shoots him with an arrow
gives Deianira a shirt covered in his blood and says its a love potion |
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son of Heracles
marries Iole
cant return “until the third fruit” |
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wife of Hyllus
Heracles claimed her and she refused
Deianira becomes jealous and Heracles wears the shirt of Nessus |
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holds Heracles in slavery
makes Heracles wear women's clothing
Queen of Lydia |
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two highway who try to rob Heracles
Heracles binds them to a pole
turned in monkeys by zeus |
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| Where Heracles and Deranira live |
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are the armed men who rose from the teeth of the dragon of Ares that had
been sown by Cadmus. Most of them slew each other, but some survived. A new phalanx of
SPARTI came to life when, much later, half of the teeth that had been given by Athena
to King Aeetes of Colchis, were sown by Jason, captain of the ARGONAUTS |
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the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope. When children, they were left to die
on Mount Cithaeron
but were found and brought up by a shepherd. Amphion became a great singer and
musician, Zethus a hunter and herdsman. (In Euripides’ lost Antiope the
two young men
debate which has more advantages, the quiet or the active life; the
passage is often
mentioned in ancient literature.) After rejoining their mother, they
built and fortified Thebes, huge blocks of stone forming themselves into walls at the sound
of Amphion’s lyre. Amphion later married Niobe and killed himself after the loss of his wife
and children. |
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Apollo's oracle played a leading role in his reign. When Apollo warned
Laius that his son
would kill him, Laius was determined that this was not to be. When his
son, Oedipus, was born, King Laius tied his feet together and left him to die on a mountain. Having done this,
King Laius' fear was gone. Many years later while on vacation, King Laius
was killed by Oedipus, who had survived. This was a result of him becoming engaged in a
fight with Oedipus, not knowing who he was. Therefore, Apollo's truth was fulfilled |
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As Oedipus travels he comes to the place where three roads meet, Davlia.
Here he encounters a chariot, driven by his (unrecognized) birth-father, King
Laius. They fight over who has the right to go first and Oedipus kills Laius in self defense,
unwittingly fulfilling part of the prophecy. As Oedipus travels he comes to the place where three roads meet, Davlia.
Here he encounters a chariot, driven by his (unrecognized) birth-father, King
Laius. They fight over who has the right to go first and Oedipus kills Laius in self defense,
unwittingly fulfilling part
of the prophecy. |
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is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between King
Oedipus of Thebes and his mother Jocasta… king creon’s son kills himself bc he loved her.. his
mother soon followed. |
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Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the raid that initiated the
mythic tale of the Seven Against Thebes, though she knew he would die. Persuaded by a necklace. Eriphyle is seen in Hades in Vergil's Aeneid, still bearing wounds inflicted by her son. |
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Antiope flees back to the cave where Amphion and Zethus were born, now
living there as young men. They disbelieve her claim to be their mother and refuse her
pleas for sanctuary, but when Dirce comes to find Antiope and orders her to be killed, the twins are convinced by the shepherd who raised them that Antiope is their mother.
They kill Dirce by tying her to the horns of a bull. |
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| Wife and mother of Oedipus by Laius, |
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son of Oedipus. However, because of a curse from their father, the two
brothers did not share the rule peacefully. They kill each other. |
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son of Oedipus. However, because of a curse from their father, the two
brothers did not share the rule peacefully. They kill each other. |
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| was a legendary king of Argos during the war of the Seven Against Thebes. |
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are the sons of the Argive heroes who had fought and been killed in the
first Theban war. The second Theban war, also called the war of the Epigoni, occurred
ten years later, when the Epigoni, wishing to avenge the death of their fathers, attacked
Thebes. |
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