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Not morally superior, an ordinary human that lives an extraordinary life.

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Hero

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Every human follows a path that is pre-determined

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Fate

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God that gave people hope

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Prometheus

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King of Lydia, richest person in the world, invented money.

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Croesus

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A world traveler. Didn’t think that Croesus was not the happiest person in the world. “Call no man happy, until they are dead.

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Solon

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His son’s fate was to die by a man-made weapon

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Croesus

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Killed Croesus’s son. Who and how?

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Adrastus, boar charged Croesus’s son and Adrastus tried to protect him but killed him instead.

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Means glory of Hera

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Heracles

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Heracles’s mother.

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Alcmena

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Sent the goddess of childbirth to clutch her knees in front of Alcmena’s house to try to prevent her from giving birth to Heracles

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Hera

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Heracle’s first task when he was 16

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Slay a lion

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Hera drove him crazy which led him to kill his own children

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Heracles

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How did Heracles skin the Lion of Nemeo

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with its own claw

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A dragon thats when its head was cut off he grew two more.

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Hydra

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What did Hera send to harass Heracles while fighting the Hydra, what happened when he killed it?

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a giant crab, it became the constalation Cancer

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Had 30,000 cattle, made Heracles clean the stable

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King of Augeus

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location of the Golden Apples

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Hesperides

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Heracles ran into this God on his way to Hesperides and tricked him back into doing the task the God assigned to him.

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Atlas

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Watch dog of the world of the dead.

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Cerberus

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Heracles’s second wife

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Deianira

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a Centaur that tried to rape Deianira

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Nessus

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convinced Deianira to take some of his blood because it was a love potion

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Nessus

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When Heracles was coming back from an adventure he tried to bring back a …. which made Deianira jealous.

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Concubine

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Put poision blood on Heracles’s robe thinking it was a love potion.

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Deianira

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King of Ioclus
Pelias
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Pelias's nephew
Jason
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Who actually raised Jason
Chiron
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Who is the only hero that Hera helps
Jason
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Who is the old woman that Jason helps across a stream?
Hera
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Warned about a man with one shoe. Who was warned and who was the man?
Pelias was awarned and the man was Jason
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What did Pelias ask Jason to get in order for him to have the thrown?
The Golden Fleece
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A big ship for 50 men
Argo
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Name of Jason's men on the Argo
Argonauts
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Who was distracted by Nymphs when the Argonauts stopped for water
Hylas and Heracles
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Blind man that Jason helped on his way. Could see the future.
Phineus
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What was Phineus harassed by?
Harpies
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Where did Phineus advise that Jason should let a dove pass through before the Argo went through?
The Clashing Rocks
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Where were Jason and the Argonauts going?
Colchis
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What did jason have to do with fire breathing bulls?
put a plow on it
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King of Colchis's daughter
Medea
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Who made Medea fall in love with Jason?
Aphrodite
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Who showed Jason where the Golden Fleece was
Medea
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What family member of Medea's did Jason and the Argonauts take
her brother
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Giant that Jason ran into in Crete on his journey back
Talos
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substance flowing through Talos
Ichor
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who brought Jason's dad back to life?
Medea
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Who killed Pelias's dad and how?
Pelias, Medea tricked him by giving him wrong ingredients
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Who lifted Jason's guilt for killing his own blood?
a king in Corinth
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Who killed the king of Corinth's daughter
Medea
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Who was suppposed to marry the King of Corinths daughter and become king?
Jason
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Play that Jason and Medea's relationship is about?
Euripedes
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King of Athens
Aegeus
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Slept with the king of a different kingdoms daughter and got her pregnant
Aegeus
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Aegeus's son
Theseus
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Had to lift a rock outside of his city and get a sword before he could go back to Athens
Theseus
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Theseus tied this pine bender to a tree and killed him
Sinis
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Invited people into his house to stay in his bed but people had to fit in bed exactly. Theseus cut him.
Procrustes
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Theseus's wife
Medea
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Who tried to poison Theseus
Medea
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Where did a ship with black sails come from
Crete
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Who was the king of Crete
Minos
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Wanted to sacrifice a perfect bull to Posideon but instead sacrificed not a great one
Minos
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Who made Minos's wife fall in love with a bull?
Posideon
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Minos's wife
Pasiphae
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made a hollow cow so Minos's wife could mate with the bull.
Daedalus
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Offspring of Pasiphae and the bull
Minotaur
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Who made the Labyrinth
Daedalus
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Tried to fly away with wings made of feathers and bee wax
Daedalus
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Daedalus's son that fell becasue flew to close to the sun
Icarus
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Volunteered to replace one of the 7 boys to kill the minotaur
Theseus
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Gave Theseus a navigational aid
Ariadne
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Minos's daughter
Ariadne
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Who did Theseus accidentally leave on an island on his way back Athens?
Ariadne
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What else did Theseus forget to change on his way back to Athens?
To change the sails to white
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Sea named after Aegeus
Aegean Sea
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Perseus's Grandfather who trapped his daughter in a cell because Oracle said his grandson would kill him
Acrisius
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Acrisius's daughter/ Perseus's mom
Danae
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Who dripped through Danae's cell
Zeus
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Who did Acrisius ship off
Danae and Perseus
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What did a king ask for Perseus to get
a Gorgon's head
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Gorgon that Perseus killed
Madusa
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Who came to help Perseus
Hermes gave him a sword and Athenahelped
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Gorgon's sisters had one eye and one tooth
Graeae
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3 instruments that Perseus used to fight gorgon
- cap of invisibility - winged sandals - bag to hold her head
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Who held her shield so Perseus could look at Madusa
Athena
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what was the offspring of Madusa and Posideon
Pegasus
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Perseus's wife. Found her on his way back chained to a cliff by her own father.
Andromeda
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Rude to Perseus so he turned this god to stone.
Atlas
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Who has the head of Madusa in the middle of their breast plate?
Athena
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Who died from Perseus throwing a discuss at them?
Acrisius
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King of Thebes. Cursed by another king for raping their daughter. Killed by his own son as told by a prophecy.
Laius
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Laius's wife. Married her own son after Laius died.
Jocasta
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Son of Laius and Jocasta. Thought he was adopted. destined to kill his dad and marry his mom. Was left in exposure as a child after having his feet stabbed.
Oedipus
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Where did Oedipus think he was from?
Corinth
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A riddler that Oedipus killed.
The sphinx
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Oedipus's daughter that hlped him through exile
Antigone
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Oedipus's two sons that switched off being king every year. Caused a civil war and both died.
Eteocles and Polynices
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The final family member to be kin god Oedipus. Had Antigone trapped in a cave. His son fell on his own sword.
Creon

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