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Enkidu
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| Companion and friend of Gilgamesh. Hairy-bodied and brawny, Enkidu was raised by animals. The gods punish Gilgamesh and Enkidu by giving Enkidu a slow, painful, inglorious death for killing the demon Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven. |
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| God of earth, wind, and air. A superior deity, Enlil is not very fond of humankind. Seems to encourage the journey to cedar moutain but it is he who rebukes Gilgamesh & Enkidu for killing Humbaba |
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Gilgamesh
(son of Ninsun and Lugalbanda) |
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| 5th King of Uruk, the strongest of men, and the personification of all human virtues. A brave warrior, fair judge, and ambitious builder, Gilgamesh surrounds the city of Uruk with magnificent walls and erects its glorious ziggurats, or temple towers. Two-thirds god and one-third mortal, Gilgamesh is undone by grief when his beloved companion Enkidu dies, and by despair at the prospect of his own extinction. He travels to the ends of the Earth in search of answers to the mysteries of life and death. |
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| The goddess of love and fertility, as well as the goddess of war. Ishtar together with Anu is frequently called the Queen of Heaven. Capricious and mercurial, sometimes she is a nurturing mother figure, and other times she is spiteful and cruel. She is the patroness of Uruk, where she has a temple. |
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| Guardian of the cedar forest who opposes Gilgamesh & Enkidu,after pleading for his life they kill him |
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| The sun god, brother of Ishtar, patron of Gilgamesh. Shamash is a wise judge and lawgiver. |
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| Is where the Epic of Gilgamesh originates. It was originally written on Sumerian clay tablets, circa 2700 BC using a type of script called "Cuneiform" which when translated means "wedge-shaped". The story began as five individual narrative poems, and by the old Babylonian period, many additional stories and poems were compiled. It was later reconstructed by Sin-leqe-unninni of Babylon (circa 2000BC) into the twelve tablets we have today. Scholars believe that the events surrounding the Epic occurred somewhere around 3500 BC. |
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Utnapishtim
( he who saw life) |
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| Gilgamesh's dad, wise king & preist |
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| City that Gilgamesh was the 5th king of. Had great temples to Anu and Ishtar |
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Son of Zeus & Hera,disliked by both parents. God of war
considered murderous,cowardly. Had an affair with Aphrodite |
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Chaos was the original void of existence (although sometimes described as being a confusing, shapeless entity which was later ordered, creating the cosmos.
Gaea, the Earth, emerged from the Chaos, and gave birth to Ouranos, the Heaven, with whom she bore the first gods, The Titans.
The word is derived from the greek 'Khaos', which means "gaping void". |
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| Goddess of agriculture (grain & corn) mother of persephone |
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| Goddess of earth,mother of titans. Husband was Ouranos (heaven). Mated with her son Uranus |
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Son of Uranus & Gaia, husband Rhea (his sister) father of Zeus whom dethroned him. God of harvests
Kronos castrated and dethroned his father (Uranus) |
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| mother of Apollo & Artrmis, father was Zeus |
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Persephone
(Queen of hades) |
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| Zeus' &Demeter's daughter & goddess of springtime,fertility. Wife of Hades (Pluto) he abducted her and took her to the underworld |
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| 1st wife of Zeus, ruled over cunning, wisdom,knowledge |
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| Goddess of memory, mother of the 9 muses, Zeus is the father. |
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| Goddess over song,poetry,arts,science. Daughters of Zesus & Mnemosyne |
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| Husband of gaia,personfication of Heaven,father of the Titans. Casterated abd dethroned by Kronos his son. |
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| artificial woman created by the gods,given box instructed no to open. She did open and plagued mankind. She was sent to punish man for Prometheus' theft of fire |
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Perses
was the Titan god of destruction.
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| Hesoid's no good brother,whom the works and days is addressed. A son of the Titan Crius and Eurybia, and husband of Asteria. By whom he became the father of Hecate his one and only child--by the goddess Asteria ("the Starry One"). |
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| the priestess of apollo at delphi who transmitted the oracles |
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| Sea God,one of the protogenoi, the "first-born". The father of Ceto, Nereus, Thaumus, Phorcus, and Eurybia. |
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| Stole fire from heaven for man,punished by Zeus. |
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Rhea
(daughter of Uranus and Gaea, wife of her brother the Titan Cronus
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| Mother of Zeus. Goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation. She was called the Mother of the gods because she gave birth to the Olympians. |
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Tithones
husband of Dawn=Eos |
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| He was a Mortal, Eos changed him into a grasshoper to age forever |
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| Chief of gods,son os Cronus and Rhea,husband of Hera |
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Tantalus
(son Zues)
kids where Niobe and Pelops,cut phelops into pieces and fed to Gods |
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king who for his crimes was condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink, and with fruit hanging above him that receded when he reached for it.
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Pelops
The son of Tantalus and father of Atreus.
Thyestes and Atreus |
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| Marries Hippodamia princess of Pisa, beats king Oenumas @ chariot race with help from , Myrtilosking Oenomaus against king Oenomaus against king Oenomaus against king Oenomaus |
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| Charioteer who help Hippodamia &Pelops kill the king, thought in return that he would get the princess but they killed him to. He in turn put a curse on their family |
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Hippodamia
daughter of King Oenomaus of Pisa |
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| mother of Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Pittheus and Menelaus, Alacathous by Pelops. |
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| Married to king of Mycene,Artreus but sleep with Thysestes (his brother)She stole Artreus golden lamb , gave to thysestes and tricked Artreus into giving the thrown to the holder of the golden lamb. |
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Atreus
(father of Agamemnon & Menelaus)
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| A king of Mycenae, brother of Thyestes the son of Pelops. Punishes Theysetes by killing his sons and feeding them to him. |
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| WasbetwAween Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia. The result of an incestuous relationship between Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia. |
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| Son of Thyestes and Pelopia (his own sister) killed Agamemmnon and lover of Clytaemnestra |
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Iphigenia
(daughter of Clymenestra & Agamemnon) |
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The daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, who was offered as a sacrifice by Agamemnon but rescued by Artemis. She later became a priestess.
The sacrifice of Iphigenia turned Clytemnestras love for her husband turn into hate, and she revenged her daughter by killing Agamemnon on his return from Troy. |
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Electra (bright-one)
(the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra,) |
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| One of the seven daughters of Atlas called Pleiades. transformd into constellations. Saved the life of her young brother Orestes by sending him away when their father was murdered |
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Cassandra
(daughter of Priam & Hecuba) |
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| Propht who know one believed. was loved by the god Apollo, who promised her the power of prophecy if she would comply with his desires. She accepted the proposal, received the gift, and then refused the god her favours. Apollo revenged himself by ordaining that her prophecies should never be believed. She accurately predicted such events as the fall of Troy and the death of Agamemnon |
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Achilles
(greatest greek warrior) |
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| He killed Hector @ Troy and Paris slained him. Son of Peleus & Thetis, |
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Actaeon
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| Hunter who suprised Artemis bathing she changed him to a stag ang he was killed by his own dogs. |
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Agamemnon
(king of Mycenae) |
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| Son of Atreus, brother of Menelaus,leader of greeks against Troy,slain on his return home by Clytemnestra & Aegisthus.By Clytemnestra, Agamemnon had a son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigeneia (Iphianassa), Electra |
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Ajax
(great greek fighter at troy) |
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| Son of Telqmon,when Achilles died Odysseus was honored with his armor not ajax so he killed himself |
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Alcinous
(king of the Phaeacians (on the legendary island of Scheria) |
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| he entertained Odysseus, who had been cast by a storm onto the shore of the island |
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| Leader of the suitors of Penelope, killed by Odysseys. Accused of being the harshest suitor |
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| Godess of Love and beauty,daughter of Zeus and Dione. Mother of Eros. Wife of Hephaestus |
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| God of Beauty,poetry,music,healing taught man medicine. God of truth cant tell a lie. son of Zeus and Leto. Twin sister Artemis. Famous for Oracale at Delphi |
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| in Homer's Odyssey, the wife of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians. |
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| Goddess of the Moon & hunting,turned Actaeon into a stag for seeing her bath in river( he was killed by his dogs) twin of Apollo the daughter of Zeus and Leto |
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| Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare womanly arts, the daughter of Zeus and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. She helps Odyddeus & telemachus throughout their epic she often appears as a Mentor an old friend |
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| Falls in love with Odysseus and holds him prisoner for 7 yrs until Zeus sends Hermes to tell her she must release him |
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| Transforms Odysseus cres into swine when they land on her island. Odysseus resist her poers and becomes her lover living in luxutry with her for a yr |
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Clytemnestra
(wife of Agamemnon)
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| she slays husband with aid from Aegisthus, her son Orestes kills her |
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| mother by Zues and Aphrodite |
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Eris
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| the personification of strife. She was called the daughter of Nyx (Night) by Hesiod, but she was sister and companion of Ares (the Roman Mars) in Homer’s version. Eris is best known for her part in starting the Trojan War. When she alone of the gods was not invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, she threw among the guests a golden apple inscribed “For the most beautiful.” Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each claimed it, and Zeus assigned the decision to Paris, |
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| Eumaeus 1 was Odysseus' loyal servant and swineherd, a man of sound principles, who never forgot the immortals. He received Odysseus in his hut when after his wanderings Odysseus returned to Ithaca, and later he helped his master to get rid of the SUITORS OF PENELOPE, who were pestering the palace. |
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Eurycelia
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she was the first person to recognize him after he returned home from the Trojan War, after he entered his own house as a guest of Penelope, disguised as a beggar. Euryclea bathed him and recognized him by a scar on his leg, which he had received from a boar while hunting with his grandfather Autolycus. Odysseus stopped her from telling Penelope or anyone else of his true identity.
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| the leading suitor of Penelope in The Odyssey. He was a treacherous figure, convincing his would-be wife that her son, Telemachus, would be safe when he himself had plotted his death. Eurymachus was duly killed by Telemachus's father, Odysseus, on his long-awaited return. |
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| God of the underworld,brother of Zeus & Poseidon, son of Cronos. Married to Persephone who he abducted |
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Hector
(eldest son of Priam & Hecuba) |
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| slayed Patroclus and was slained by Achillies. Chief warrior of the Trojan army. In Homer's Iliad he is notable not only for his military prowess but also for his nobility of character. He was a favorite of Apollo, who helped him slay Achilles' friend Patroclus in combat; in reprisal, Achilles killed Hector in battle and dragged his naked body around the walls of Troy |
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Helen
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| Sister of Clytemnestra,wife of Menelaus, Abducted by Paris and taken to Troy, this started the Trojan war |
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Hera
Olympian
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| Protector of marriage,esp married women |
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Menelaus
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| Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon,husband of Helen |
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Nausicaa
(daughter of Alcinous & Arete=king and queen of Phaeacians) |
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| She discovers Odysseus on the beach of Scheria amd out of affection for him ensures his warm reception at her parents palace. |
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Neoptolemeus
(son of Achilles) |
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| also named Pyrrhus,killed the Trojan king Priam |
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| Known as a clever speaker,Telemachus visits him to ask about his father Odysseus |
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Odysseus
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| Struggled to return home to Ithica after the Trojan war,most renowed for his cunning. He was a favorite of the goddess Athena,who often sent him divine aid but he was a bitter enemy of Poseidon |
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Orestes
(son of Agamemnon & Clytemnestra) |
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| killed his parents, siblings where Iphigenia,electra |
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Paris
(son of Priam king of Troy brother is Hector) |
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| Gave the golden apple that Eris threw in the middle of the table to Aphrodite because she promised him the most beautiful women in the world, Helen. He abducts Helen taking her to Troy. He killed Achilles |
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| Great friend of Achilles and wore his armor and was slain by Hector |
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| father of Achilles,married to thetis |
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| Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus, spends her days in the palace pining for her husband who left for Troy twenty years earlier. She is flighty and excitable, dodged the suitors who wanted to run Ithica |
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Poseidon
(god of the sea and brother of Zeus) |
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| He hates Odysseus for blinding his son the Cyclopes Polyphemus and constantly hampers his journay home. |
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| Husband of Hecuba, ransomed Hectors (his son) body form Achilles. Slain By Neoptopemus |
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| Odysseus came to hos island , he imprisoned them and tried to eat them but odysseus vlinds him and manages to escape. This angers Poseidon Polyphemus's dad. |
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Telemachus
(son of Odysseus) |
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| Natural obstacle to suitors,often assisated by athena while he is looking for his father |
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| Mother od Achilles married to Peleus |
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Dactylic Hexameter is a very important meter in Greek and Latin poetry. It is especially associated with epic poetry, and so is referred to as "heroic". The very words "dactylic hexameter" often stand for epic poetry.
The short version of what dactylic hexameter means is that it is a line of poetry composed of 6 (hexa-) feet, each made up of dactyls. |
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