gods/doddesses Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Uranus

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The first one, Cronos’ father killed by his sun, prophesiedthat his son would also be killed by one of his children

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Cronos

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Father of Gods, gave his name to time, married Rhea, swallows Hestia, Demeter,and Hera

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Rhea

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Goddess of earth, saved Zeus from cronos, helped zeuspreparedrink that forced cronos to vomit up his other children

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Zeus

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Father-god, God of the sky.

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Hera

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Mother-goddess, tricked by zeus into marriage

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poseiden

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god of the seas/ river and lakes #water

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Hades

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God of the under world/ dead

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Demeter

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Goddess of all useful fruits, grasses, and grains

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Persephone

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Demeter’s daughter, unhappily married to Hades

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Hephaestus

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god of goldsmiths, jewelers, blacksmiths ,masons and carpenters, son of Zeus and Hera, broke his leg when Zeus threw him over the walls of Olympus, wore a golden leg iron.

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Athene

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Goddess of wisdom, Battle goddess, believed to have been born from Zeus’ head

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of Love, married unhappily to Hephaestus

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Ares

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Tall, handsome, cruel, loved fighting for its own sake, flirted with Aphrodite, and no manners, no learning, and the worst taste.

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Apollo

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God of music, poetry, medicine, archery, and young unmarried men. Son of Zeus and Leto

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Artemis

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Goddess of hunting and of unmarried girls, of any mortal happened to see her without clothes, she used to change him into a stag and hunt him to death.

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Daphne

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Chased by Apollo, changed into a laurel tree.

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Hermes

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God of merchants, bankers, thieves, fortune-tellers, and heralds, born in Arcadia, son of Zeus and Maia, invented the alphabet.

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Hestia

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Goddess of the home

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Dionysus

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Son of Zeus and Semele, (mortal woman), Hestia offered him her seat on the council (thirteen Olympians would have been an unlucky number) just to keep the peace.

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Heracles

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Olympian porter

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Eris

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Goddess of quarrells

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Iris

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Hera’s messenger who used to run along the rainbow.

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Nemesis

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Kept a list for the Olympians of proud mortals due to be punished

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Hebe

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Goddess of youth who married Heracles.

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Ganymede
Zeus's handsome, young cup bearer
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Three Fates
(Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos) Oldest goddesses in existence, too old for anybody to remember where they came from. The fates decided how long each mortal should live: spinning a linen thread, to measure exactly so many;; inches and feet for months and years, and then snipping it off with a pair of shears. They also know, but seldom revealed, what would be the fate of each Olympian God.
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Cyclopes
Zeus's ugly cousins, freed by him to help defeat the titans
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Hundred-handed ones
Zues's ugly cousins, freed by him to help defeat the Titans.
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Titans
Cronos's half brothers, huge, twisted, dark creatures taller than trees, whom he kept pent up in the maintains until there was fighting to be done.
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Pan
Young goat-got. He said that it was his shout that made the Titans flee. That is where we get the word panic
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Olympians
The twelve most important gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. All members of he same family.
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Mount Olympus
The highest mountain in Greece.