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Mythology
Ms.Bedtalyons Honners 4th and 6th myth cards
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Language - English
9th Grade
01/22/2011

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Achilles
Definition
He loves war, his mother told him don't go to war. so she desguises him as a girl and sends him away to a island with woman only.
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Aegean
Definition
The sea between Greece and Turkey
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Aeolus
Definition
King of the winds. (he helped Odysseus by makin a strong wind for his ship to sail.)
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Acropolis
Definition
High hill that is seen from anywhere in Athens.
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Agememnon
Definition
King, leader of the greeks in the trojan war.
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Apollo
Definition
God of music,poetry, and manly beauty.
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Aphrodite
Definition
Goddess of beauty,Zeus's daughter.
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Ares
Definition
God of war,dull and clunck,messes with Aphrodite.
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Argos
Definition
Odysseus' faithful dog
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Ariadne
Definition
immortal wife of the wine-god Dionysos
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Aarow
Definition
Ms.Bedtalyons cat
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Artemis
Definition
Goddess of hunt and moon,hates men,sworn not to marry.
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Athena
Definition
Goddess of war and wisdom. Daughter was born from Zeus's headache.
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Atlas
Definition
He was punished to hold the world up.
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Callicrates
Definition
Architect of the Parthenon.
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Calypso
Definition
Woman who was fond of Odysseus and offered him immortality if he would stay with her.
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Cassandra
Definition
She was raped by Laocoon and was cursed to always tell the truth and no one would listen to her.
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Chaos
Definition
Random swirling forces of nothingness.
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Charybids
Definition
The deadly whirlpool
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Circe
Definition
She could turn man to pigs by giving them amberhoney mixed with wine.
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Clytemnestra
Definition
wife of Agamemnon,She took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon was away at war
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Cosmos
Definition
Form or shape
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Crete
Definition
island in Mediterranean Sea.
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Cronus
Definition
Son of Ouranos,titan. wanted to kill his father to rule world.
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Cyclades
Definition
String of islands in the Agean sea.
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Cyclops
Definition
usually cannibals,found on Sicily.
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Deadalus
Definition
Architect of the labyrinth. He was imprisoned beacuse he knew the way through the maze.
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Delphi
Definition
ancient town and seat of the most important Greek temple and oracle of Apollo
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Demeter
Definition
Goddess of harvest and Seasons
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Dionysius
Definition
God of party and wine. he takes Hestia's place in olympus.
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Egypt
Definition
Country in africa.
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Eris
Definition
Goddess of discord. she has the apple of discord as well.(she the blonde chick in Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy.)
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Sir Arthur Evans
Definition
British archaeologist who excavated the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos in Crete and uncovered evidence of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization, which he named Minoan
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Gaia
Definition
mother earth
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Hades
Definition
God of the underworld
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Hector
Definition
Oldest son of priam
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Hecuba
Definition
Wife of Priam(had 50 kids)
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Helen
Definition
Most Beautiful girl in the world who falls in love with Paris.(was queen of Sparta)
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Helios
Definition
He drove a chariot daily from east to west across the sky
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Hephaestus
Definition
Ugly,god of forge,metalwork
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Hera
Definition
Wife of Zeus.
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Hercules
Definition
one of the most famous Greco-Roman legendary heroes
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Hermes
Definition
Messenger god.
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Icarus
Definition
Son of Daedalus, he fell into sea from flying to high with the wax and feather wings.
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Ictinus
Definition
Architect of the Parthenon.
Term
Illiad
Definition
One of homers famous Epics.
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Ilos
Definition
Gave his name to Ithica
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Iphigenia
Definition
Daughter who was sacrificed by Agememnon
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Ithica
Definition
Island that Odysseus ruled.
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Homer
Definition
Creater of the Odyssey and illiad
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