Ch. 5 Gods/Goddesses Flashcards
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Apollo
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God of light and music, a great archer
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Aphrodite
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goddess of love and beauty
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Artemis
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goddess of the hunt and wild animals
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Athena
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goddess of wisdom and warfare
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Demeter
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goddess of grain and agriculture
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Dionysos
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God of wine
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Gorgons
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demons with the body of a woman in the wings of a bird
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Hera
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goddess of marriage
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Herakles
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greatest Greek hero performed 12 great labors, established the Olympic Games
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Laocöon
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A character from the Aeneid, a Trojan priest who is strangled, along with his two sons, while sacrificing at an altar
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Hermes
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Messenger of the gods, guide of travelers
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Lapith
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Northern Greek tribe
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Medusa
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A Gorgon with a hideous face and snake hair, she turned anyone who gazed at her to stone
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Nike
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winged goddess of victory
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Zeus
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King of the gods
