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The Definition Of The Greek Word Psyche?

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Your Soul, Consciousness

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Definition Of The Greek Word Narcissistic

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Self Centered

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Definition Of The Greek Word Promethean?

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A Risk Taker, Daring

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Definition Of The Greek Word Labyrinth?

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A Maze, Tricky

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Definition Of The Greek Phrase Pandoras Box?

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A Source Of Trouble

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Definition Of The Greek Word Arachnid?

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Spider

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Definition Of The Greek Word Harp?

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Tedious Talking, Being Annoying

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Definition Of The Greek Phrase Achille’s Heel?

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A Spot Of Vulnerability

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Definition Of The Greek Phrase Elysian Field?

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Paradise, Heaven

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Definition Of The Greek Word Gorgon?

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Unattractive, Fierce, Dangerous

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Definition Of The Greek Word Titanic?

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Having Great Power, Fierce

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Definition Of The Greek Phrase Midas Touch?

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The Ability To Make Money, Wealth

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Definition Of The Greek Word Tantalize?

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Tempt, Tempting

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Definition Of The Greek Word Herculean?

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To Have Great Strength

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Definition Of The Greek Word Nemesis?

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Enemy

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Why Is Zeus Associated With Lightning?

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Because If You Control The Skies, You Control The World.

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Who Were Zeus Parents?

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Cronus And Rhea

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What Did Cronus Do To His Children As They Were Born?

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He Decided To Eat Each of Them Right After They Were Born So That They Would Not Be Able To Eventually Overthrow Him.

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How Did Rhea Trick Cronus?

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When Zeus Was Born She Hid Zeus In A Cave, And Instead Brought A Rock Wrapped In A Blanket For Cronus To Eat Instead Of Zeus.

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How Is Zeus Similar To His Father?

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Zeus Will Also Eventually Be Worried About His Position / Power Being Threatened By His Children. Both Are Also Gods.

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What Mistake Does Epimetheus Make, And How Does Prometheus Fix It?

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Epimetheus Forgets To Save A Gift For the Last Animal, Man, So Prometheus Gives Man The Form Of The Gods, Walking Upright, Intelligence, And Most Important Steals Fire And Gives It To Them.

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How Does Zeus Punish Prometheus?

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Zeus, Angered By Prometheus Stealing Fire For Man, Chains Prometheus To A Rock Where He Would Be Trapped For Centuries.

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Who Is Pandora, And What Does Her Name Mean?

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She Was The First Ever Woman, And She Was Created By The Gods And Was Given Gifts. Her Name Means “All Gifted”.

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What Does Prometheus Warn Epimetheus To Never Do?

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He Warns Epimetheus To Never Accept Gifts From Zeus, But Heedless As Ever Epimetheus Accepts Zeus Gift, Being Pandora As A Wife.

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What Does Pandora Release Into The World And What Is The Only Thing She Keeps In The Box?
She Opens The Box And Releases Multiple Bad Things Like Disease, War, Greed, And Many More. The Only Thing She Is Able To Keep In The Box Is "Hope".
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When Pyramus And Thisbes' Parents Forbid Them From Meeting Or Talking To Each Other, How Do They Communicate?
They Find A Loose Brick In The Wall Seperating Their Houses, And When Nobody Is Around Take It Out And Whisper To Each Other.
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Why Do Pyramus And Thisbe Go Through Different gates To Leave, And Where Do They Plan To Meet?
They Leave Through Different Gates Because if The Guards Saw Two Young People Leaving Together, They Would Be Suspicous. They Planned To Meet At The Tomb Of Ninus.
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What Makes Thisbe Run Away From Their Meeting Spot And Drop Her Scarf?
She Runs Away Because She Encounters A Lioness Which Wasn't Actually Interested, But She Still Runs Away Anyway And Drops Her Scarf.
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What Does Pyramus Find When He Goes To Ninus' Tomb? What Does He Assume?
Pyramus Arrives To The Meeting Place, Only To Not Find Thisbe, And Find Her Scarf That She Was Wearing In Blood, And Assumes Thisbe Died And Decides To Kill Himself.
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What Does Thisbe Come Back To Find Under The Tree Next To The Tomb?
Thisbe Come's Back To Find A Dying Pyramus, And She Also Decides To Kill Herself With The Sword Pyramus Used.
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What Two Things Happen After Pyramus And Thisbe Die?
1: Pyramus And Thisbe's Parents Decide To Bury Them Together 2: The Gods Change The Color Of The Berries On The Tree Where Pyramus And Thisbe Died To Red, So They Are Not Forgotten.
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Definition Of The Greek Word Olympian?
Relates To Either The Most Important Of The Greek Gods, Or Mt. Olympus.
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Definition Of The Greek Word Hades?
The Greek Mythology's Life After Death. Consists Of Both Tartarus (Hell) And The Elysian Fields (Heaven) And More
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Definition Of The Greek Word / Phrase Mount Olympus?
The Home Of The Gods
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Definition Of The Greek Word Tartarus?
Hell
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Apollo And Daphne
Apollo falls in love with Daphne, but she wishes to remain a maiden. As Apollo chases her, Daphne’s father, a river god, takes pity on her and turns her into a laurel tree.
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Prometheus
Prometheus steals fire from the gods for mankind. Zeus is furious and has him chained to the Caucasus mountains where an eagle tears out his liver each day and it regenerates each night. Eventually, Hercules frees him.
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Persephone, Demeter, And Hades
Persephone, daughter of Demeter (goddess of the harvest), is kidnapped by Hades to the Underworld. Her mother mourns her absence by making the earth cold and barren. Persephone is eventually released, but each year she must return to Hades for one month for each pomegranate seed she ate. During this time the Earth suffers through winter.
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Cupid And Psyche
Cupid and Psyche fall in love and marry, but he will only visit her at night, and she is not allowed to see him. One night, she drips candle wax on him while trying to peek. Psyche is sent away, but eventually, they are reunited.
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Theseus And The Minotaur
Theseus, to prove himself, convinces his father to let him fight the Minotaur, a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. He kills it with the help of Ariadne. Theseus forgets to hoist the white sail of victory on his journey home, so his father kills himself.
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Daedalus and the flight of Icarus
Icarus and his father, Daedalus, try to escape King Minos’s labyrinth on the island of Crete by constructing wings made of feathers and wax. Despite his father’s warnings, Icarus flies too close to the sun, causing his wax to melt. He plummets to his watery death. (Icarian Sea)
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Echo & Narcissus
Echo, a nymph who angered Hera, can only repeat the last words someone utters. She falls in love with Narcissus, a beautiful man who also falls in love with himself. Echo wastes away except for her voice. Narcissus wastes away staring at his own reflection in a pool and becomes a white and purple flower. (Narcissistic)
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King Midas
As a reward for a good deed, King Midas requests the golden touch. He immediately regrets this destructive gift when he can’t eat, sleep, or hug his daughter. He begs to be returned to normal, and he is after a visit to the River Pactolus.
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Death Of Achilles
Achilles’ mother dipped her baby in the waters of immortality, but she held him by his heel. No arrow or weapon could harm him until Paris shoots him in the heel during the Trojan War.
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Pyramus And Thisbe
These young neighbors are deeply in love and plan to run away together. Their secret meeting goes terribly wrong when Pyramus arrives and, spotting Thisbe’s bloody veil thinks a lion has devoured her. He kills himself, and when she discovers what has happened, she joins him in death. The berries on the mulberry tree remain red in their memory.
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Perseus And Medusa
Athena transforms Medusa into a gorgon, a woman with snakes for hair who can turn men into stone with a glance. Medusa is later killed by Perseus who is aided by winged sandals from Hermes and a shield, invisible helmet, and bag from Athena.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus, the son of Apollo and Caliope, ventured down to the Kingdom of the Dead to retrieve his dead wife, Eurydice. Hades agreed to free Eurydice on one condition – Orpheus was not to look back at his wife on the walk to Earth. When they were almost home, Orpheus looked back and lost his wife forever
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Tantalus
Because Tantalus abuses his privilege of sharing the food of the gods, Zeus punishes him in Hades. Although parched and famished, Tantalus is not allowed to reach the fruit or water that surrounds him. (Tantalizing)
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Sisyphus
Sisyphus is known for being devious and tricky guests to his home as well as the gods. As punishment, he is forced to roll a giant boulder up a hill every day for eternity
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Athena And Arachne
Arachne is a skilled but vain weaver who claims to be superior to Athena. They begin a weaving competition during which Arachne mocks the gods. Athena turns Arachne into a creature able to spin thread forever - the first spider! (Arachnid)
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12 Labors Of Hercules
Hera hated Hercules because he was one of Zeus’s (many) illegitimate children. Hera caused Hercules to go mad and kill his wife in children. To atone for his sins, Hercules has to complete 12 labors. Examples of his labors include: -defeating the Nemean Lion -killing the Hydra -cleaning a giant stable in a single day

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