Myth 2 Flashcards

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Whom did Heracles ask to build funeral pyre

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Philoctetes

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Raised Jason

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Chiron

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Sent Perseus on Quest

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Polydectes

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4
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Who aked jason to yoke fire breathing bulls

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Aeetes

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5
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Who poisoned Heracles with his blood

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Nessus

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What’s in common- Cassandra, Helenus, Paris

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Children of Priam and Hecuba

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Fastest runner among the greeks

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Ajax the Lesser

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Offspring of Demeter and Poseidon

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Ariaon

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9
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Founded Padua, spared by Greeks

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Antenor

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Did not pay for building of walls by Poseidon and Apollo

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Laomedon

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What’s in common- Ceyx, Tereus, Nisus

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Turned into birds

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12
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Trojan, Zeus’s cup bearer

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Ganymede

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13
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Harpy, gave birth to horses

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Podarges

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14
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What was the name of Achilles’s horses?

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Xanthus and Balius

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15
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Who was cursed by Ceres with hunger

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Erysichthon

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16
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Erysichthon was forced to sell what daughter for food

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Mestra

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17
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Refused to relinquish the rule of Thebes to his brother

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Eteocles

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18
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Persuaded by Athena, shot Menelaus, broke treated

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Pandarus

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19
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Where did leucippus die by Daphne

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Ladon River

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20
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Father in law of Heracles

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Oeneus

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21
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Turned the crow black

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Apollo

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22
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False dreams passed through this gate

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Ivory

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23
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Guarded the Titans in Tartarus

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Hecatonchires

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“Hounds of Zeus”

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Harpies

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**** turned the peasants of *** into ***because they would not let her drink
Leto, Lycia, Frogs
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Who's star is the dimmest of the Pleiades?
Merope
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Raised dead, Zeus killed
Asclepius
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On what Mt. did Actaeon find Artemis
Cithaeron
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Pretended to be Zeus, killed
Salmoneus
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Demeter anoited this child with Ambrosia and a fire
Demophoon
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Dog of Cephalus
Laelaps
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Killed son, Learchus after being driven mad by Hera
Athamas
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Roman equivalent of Rhea
Ops
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Clashing Rocks
Symplegades
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Orestes' Parents
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
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Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
Ismene
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Orthrus's owner
Geryon
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Brother of Medea, murdered
Absyrtus
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Birth name of Heracles
Alcides
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Wives of Heracles
Megara, Deianeira, Hebe
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Mortal parents of Theseus
Aethra and Aegeus
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Other Greek name of Proserpina
Kore
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Roman godess of the underworld
Libitina
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Graces
Aglaia, Euphrosyne, Thalia
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What's in common- Iphis, Caeneus, Tiresias
Changed gender
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Armor bearer of Achilles
Patroclus
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Tricked the Trojans into bringing the horse in
Sinon
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Thrown to death from the walls
Astyanax
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Assaulted cassandra in the temple of Athena
Ajax of Locris
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Grandfather of the Heraclids
King Thespius
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Roman god of the countryside
liber
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Could change into a woodpecker
Picus, child of Saturnus
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Actaeon was a member of the house of
Thebes
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What's in common- Niobe, Broteas, Pelops
Children of Tantalus
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Giant, wrestled with Heracles
Antaeus
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With whose rights was the Syrinx associated
Dionysus
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What was the souce of Nisus' power
Purple lock of hair
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What did Laius do to curse his house?
He kidnapped Chrysippus
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Parents of Oedipus
Laius and Jocasta
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Under whose tent did Odysseus hide gold
Palamedes
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Cratus is the personification of
Strength
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Parents of Nereus
Gaia and Pontus
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Godess called Cynthia
Artemis
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Orestes was pursued by what
Furies
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Cadmus's sister
Europa
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Usurped the throne of Iolcus from Aeson
Pelias
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Grace of good cheer
Thalia
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Where were Augeas's stables?
at Elis
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What creatures did both Heracles and Theseus fight
Centaurs
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Two brothers who died in the harness of their mother's chariot
Cleobis and Biton
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The Charities is another name for
Graces
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The nymph Galatea preferred --- to --- as a lover
Acis to Polyphemus
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The Danaids murdered the sons of ---
Aegyptus
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What's in common- Odysseus, Jason, Perseus
Helped by Athena
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Sthenoboea fell in love with ---
Bellerophon
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Husband of Sthenoboea, purified Bellerophon of murder
King Proteus
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What other lion did Hercules kill
Thespian lion
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Prince of--- given dragons by Demeter
Eleusis, Triptolemus
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Tantalus' great crime is in the house of
Mycenae
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Kills Odysseus
Telegonus
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Muse sang in ocmpetition with the Pierides
Calliope
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Child of Apollo, abandoned by Creusa
Ion
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Cephalus accidentally kills
Procris
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Saved by Venus after trying to reach the Sirens
Butes
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Saved the Greeks from Hector, when Achilles refused to fight
Patroclus
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Myrtilus murdered by
Pelops