Important Names And Terms Flashcards
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Mt. Olympus
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Home of the Olympian gods
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Ambrosia
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Food or drink of the gods
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Nectar
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Food of the gods
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Ichor
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Blood of the gods
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Pantheon
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Council of the 12 Olympian gods
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Omnipotent
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Having unlimited powrr
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Omniscient
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Knowing everything
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Metamorphosis
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Transformation
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Gigantomachy
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Representation of battles between Olympian gods and Giants
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Dyaus
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Sky/day conceived as a divine entity, the heaven
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Storm god
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Zeus
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Argive Heraion
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Hera’s sanctuary
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Eileithyia
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Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery
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Hebe
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Virgin form of Hera / young version
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Kanathos
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Where Hera regains her virginity annually
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Iris
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Goddess of rainbow
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Thalassa
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Sea /ocean
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Mt. Helicon
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Poseidon’s sanctuary
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Pegasus
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Winged horse, made by Poseidon
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Hippocrene
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Spring on Mt. Helicon
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Persephone
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Daughter of Demeter
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Telesterion
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Devoted place to Demeter
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Triptolemus
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Young Athenian who was given seeds to spread around the world
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Eternal return
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Explaining the cycle of the seasons
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Hyperboreans
People who lived way up north
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Ephebe
Any male who attained the age of puberty (Apollo's Roman name)
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Pythia
Temple of Apollo in Delphi
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Tripod
Stool in Delphi on which Pythia sat to produce her oracles
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Potnia Theron
Mistress of the animals
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Leto (latona)
Mother of Apollo and Artemis
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Mt. Cynthus
Birthplace of Apollo and Artemis / the floating Island
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Métis
Goddess of wisdom / Athena’s mother
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Xoanon
Wooden cult image of archaic Greece
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Erechtheion
Pillar columns in the shape of women
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Parthenon
Temple to Athena
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Aegis
Magical breastplate / shield of Zeus
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Gorgoneion
Severed head of Medusa / amulet showing Gorgon head
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Apotropaic
Type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences
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Hearth
Hestia
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Megaron
Open porch / vestibule / large hall with hearth and throne
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Pylos
Palace of Nestor
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Herm
Sacred object of stone connected to Hermes
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Arcadia
Birthplace of Hermes
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Pleiades
7 daughters of Titan atlas
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Tricker god
Hermes
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Dione
Goddess of love
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Vegetation god
Dionysus
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Mystery cult
Idea of merging mortal with divinity by eating what represented gods under Dionysus
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Sparagmos
Rip to pieces
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Omophagy
To eat raw food
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Bacchus
Estogic god of drunkness
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Maenad
Female worshippers of Dionysus
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Satyr
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Silenus
Companion and tutor of Dionysus
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Thyrsus
Staff with vine leaves
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Syncretism
Union / fusion of different religions and cultures
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Euhemerism
Theory that gods arose out of the deification of historical heroes / like Hercules
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Allegory
Fictional narrative that gives moral meanings
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Panhellenic festive
Collective term for four separate sport festivals in ancient Greek
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Olympic Games
You should know this
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Panathenaea
Annual festivities in ancient Athens to honor Athena
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Votive
Expressing a vow, wish, or desire
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Cult
Self explanatory
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Attribute
Objects to show which god it is
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Epithet
Describing the name of person or thing
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Invoke
To call on aid or protection
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Demigod
Percy Jackson
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Divinity, deity
God
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Foundation myth
How a place come to be
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Peloponnese
Island of Pelops
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Iconography
Images /symbols to represent religion
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Kylix
Drinking cup
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Contrapposto
Standing figure shifting weight on one leg
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Apollo Belvedere
Apollo as a standing archer having just shot an arrow
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Orientation
Arrangement
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Pediment
Triangle shape on the temples / roof
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Pergamon altar
Homepage image on CLVC
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Orion
3 belt star guy
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Hecate
Goddess of sorcery and magic
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Asclepius
Hero and god of medicine
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Hades (Pluto)
Unseen
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Cerberus
3 headed dog
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Styx
River between dead and living, river of hatred
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Acheron
River of woe, entrance to hades
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Charon
Ferryman of underworld
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Vergil's Aeneid
Book of ideas of destiny, journey, and the strengths of Rome
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Aeneas
Trojan hero, son of aphrochite and Anchises, cousin of Hector
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Sibyl of Cumae
Priestess and prophet of Apollo’s oracles
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Golden Bough
Belief that all mankind evolved intellectually and psychologically from superstitious belief
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Avernus
Believed to be the entrance to the underworld
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Katabasis
Journey to the underworld
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Minos
King of Crete, one of the judges of the dead
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Rhadamanthys
Judge of the dead
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Aeacus
One of the judges of the dead
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Tartarus
Lowest part of the underworld
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Tantalus
Fed the gods his son, forced to be in a pool of water but unable to drink it
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Sisyphus
Attempted to trick death by hiding in a closet, forever rolling of boulder up the hill
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Tityus
Tried to rape Leto, chained to a rock and have vultures eat out his liver
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Ixion
Tried to rape Hera, forced to be tied to a burning wheel constantly spinning
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Danaids
50 daughter who killed their husbands on their wedding night, forced to fill a bucket with holes at the bottom
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Elysian Fields
Heaven to Greeks , mainly for heroes
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Isle of the blessed
People who go to be reincarnated
