Mythology Flashcards
(99 cards)
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hero of The Iliad
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Achilles
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an extremely beautiful boy loved by Aphrodite, any handsome young man
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Adonis
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hero of the Aeneid
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Aeneas
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Trojan hero who fled after the fall of Troy to Carthage
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Aeneas
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____ fell in love with ______ in Carthage, but committed suicide when she realized that he could not stay with him forever
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Dido, Aeneas
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Said to have founded Rome (the other story is of Romulus and Remus)
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Aeneas
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she, his wife (along with her love) killed Agamemnon after he returned from the Trojan War
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Clytemnestra
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Helen of Troy’s husband in Greece, brother to Agamemnon
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Menelaus
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daughter of King Oedipus, conflicted but buries her brother despite the King forbidding it, sentenced to death, play by Sophocles
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Antigone
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Mother of Eros and Aeneas
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Aphrodite
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He was worshiped at the Delphic Oracle, where a priestess gave forth his predictions
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Apollo
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Embarked on a quest for othe Golden Fleece (the wool of a flying ram)
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Jason and the Argonauts
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Hera sent this creature with 100 eyes to guard Io from Zeus because only some eyes would be closed to sleep at any one time, Hermes played music to put him to sleep and kill him
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Argus
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King Arthur’s greatest champion, love affair with Queen Guinevere ends Arthur’s kingdom
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Sir Lancelot
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Gave King Arthur Excalibur (in another version he pulled it from a stone), enchanted Merlin, and raised Lancelot after the death of his father
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Lady of the Lake
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this pure knight found the holy grail, could see it in all its spendor because of his purity and virtue, son of Sir Lancelot
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Sir Galahad
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other knight who found the holy grail, opera by Wagner
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Sir Percival
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knight of the round table, story in which he battles the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain
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Arthur’s evil half-sister, sorceress
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Morgan le Fay
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this magician was an advisor to King Arthur and his father Uther Pendragon
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Merlin
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legend says he created Stonehenge as a sepulcher of Pendragon
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Merlin
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King Arthur and this nephew kill each other in battle
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Mordred
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island where they carried King Arthur to after his death (or he still lives there), ruled by Morgan le Fay
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Avalon
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goddess who helped the Greeks during the Trojan Water and later Odysseus in the Odyssey
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Athena
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stables that Hercules cleaned out by diverting two rivers to flow through the stables, during the Labors of Hercules
Augean stables (favor was for King Augeas)
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Charles Perrault story, monster keeps his former wives behind a certain door and warns his new wife not to open it, 6 wives fail, but last passes the test
Bluebeard
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prophetess in Troy during Trojan War, her predictions about the Greeks coming were true but never believed. Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy but made people not believe her after she refused his amorous advances.
Cassandra
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3-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades, Hercules had to dognap him
Cerberus
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a concession or bribe
to give a sop to cerberus
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Roman God for Demeter
Ceres
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the boatman who carried souls of the dead across the River Styx into Hades, received a coin as payment
Charon
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monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon/serpent
chimera
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Jason (of the Argonauts) was raised by this centaur, became the constellation Sagittarius
Chiron
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sorceress who turned people into pigs, crew of Odysseus fell prey to her spells
Circe
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ingenious inventor, designer of the labyrinth, and one of the few to escape from it after imprisoned there, father of Icarus (made his wings)
Daedalus
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flattered the king too much so the king sat him under a sword suspended by a single hair
Damocles
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Daughter of Agamemnon, helped her brother Orestes kill their Mother Clymnestra and her lover (for killing Agamememnon)
Electra
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the place where souls of the good went after death, beautiful peaceful place with sunlight, fresh air, etc.
Elysian Fields
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creature who is part man and part goat
satyr (roman name "faun")
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discovered Florida while searing for the Fountain of Youth
Juan Ponce De Leon
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Aesop fable where a ____gives up on grapes saying "those grapes are probably sour anyway"
"The Fox and the Grapes"
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Primal mother figure, gave birth to the sky, the mountains, and the sea, mother of the titans, wife of Uranus
Gaea / Gaia
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God of the sky, gave birth to the titans, husband of Gaea
Uranus
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God of time, husband to Rhea, father to Zeus, ate his children to stay in power
Cronus
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Mother of the gods, wife to Cronus, mother to Zeus
Rhea
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patron saint of England (and Boy Scouts), slayed the dragon
Saint George
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rode naked on horseback covered only by her long hair to get her husband Lord of Coventry to ease taxes
Lady Godiva
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Alexander the Great cutthis knot with his sword to quickly solve a complex problem
Gordian knot
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the cup used at the Last Supper, sought after by King Arthur and the knights of the round table
The Holy Grail
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enormously strong black man who worked on railroads and died from exhaustion after he outperformed a steam drill in a contest
John Henry
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12 seemingly impossible tasks given to Hercules such as cleaning the Augean stables and killing a 9-headed Hydra, done to atone for killing his 6 sons and to gain immortality
Labors of Hercules
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wand of Hermes, traditional symbol of physicians
caduceus
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Actual Native American Chief in the 16h century, husband to Minnehaha, urged peace with the European settlers, known in "The Song of ____" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hiawatha
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He was sent by King Mark to get her from Ireland to Britain, they drank a potion on the way back nd fell in love, the King banished him, he died and she couldn't make it in time, then died herself beside his corpse
Tristan and Isolde (Iseult)
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A Valkyrie, or woman servant of Odin, she loved the hero Siegfried after he saved her from a ring of fire, after she found out he deceived her, she had him killed and committed suicide
Brunhilde
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Roman god of doors/gateways (hence beginnings), 2 faces looking in opposite directions, January named after him
Janus
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queen of Sparta and mother of Helen of Troy, Zeus raped her as a Swan
Leda
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Robin Hood's righthand man, among the Merry Men, large and tall (at least 7 ft)
Little John
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location of the Loch Ness Monster ("Nessie")
Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland
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sorceress who fell in love with Jason but after he left her took revenge by murdering his new bride as well as all of the children she had borne him
Medea
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Roman god of sleep/dreams, "in the arms of _____" means asleep
Morpheus
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9 goddesses who presided over science and the arts, provide source of inspiration for writers
Muses
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beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and wasted away and died, spurned Echo's love
Narcissus
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this nymph pined after Narcissus, he ignored her for his own reflection in a pool
Echo
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Norse ruler of the gods, god of wisdom, poetry, farming, and war, Wednesday is named after him (using a form of his name in another language)
Odin
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Norse god of thunder, wields a hammer, Thursday is named after him, born in Asgard but banished to Earth by Odin
Thor
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palace in Asgard, the Norse heaven, reserved for souls of those who died heroic deaths
Valhalla
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Odin & Frigg live in and rule this realm, a section of which is Valhalla
Asgard
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These maidens bring the souls of slain warriors to Valhalla
Valkryies
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trickster Norse God, shapeshifter, competes with Thor to get the throne of Asgard, aids in the death of Baldr and is bound to a rock as punishment (causes earthquakes when he moves)
Loki
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Norse counterparts of the Fates, female deities who determine the course of events, 3 sisters who each control the past, present, and future
Norns
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great musician who could calm wildest animal or make stones rise up through music alone, married to Eurydice
Orpheus
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charmed Cerberus with a lyre
Orpheus
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went to the underworld to save his dead wife Eurydice, Hades agreed but only if he goes ahead of her on his way back up to Earth and doesn't look back, he does at the end, she vanishes forever
Orpheus
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Orpheus' wife, failed attempt to save her left her in the underworld forever
Eurydice
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Greek god of flocks, forests, meadows, and shepherds
Pan
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she was given a box by Zeus and told not to open it, she did anyway, releasing all the world's evils, but shut it before Hope could escape
Pandora
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location of the Delphic Oracle (also one of the places the Muses lived)
Mount Parnassus
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Tamed Pegasus with the help of a bridle given to him by Athena, killed the chimera, fell off of Pegasus to his death
Bellerophon
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Medusa was this type of creature (woman body with snakes for hair) that anyone looked at turned to stone, Medusa was the only 1 of the 3 that was mortal
Gorgon
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the king of Troy, father of Hector, Paris, and Cassandra, killed during the Trojan War
Priam
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Aeschylus wrote ___ Bound play, Percy Shelley wrote ____ Unbound poem
Prometheus
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a sculptor who fell in love with a statue, Venus made statue come to life
Pygmalion
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Meoamerican god (both Aztecs and Toltecs), symbol of death and resurrection, god of wind, usually represented as a plumed serpent (bird + snake)
Quetzalcoatl
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Montezuma thought that Hernando Cortez was this god
Quetzalcoatl
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Robin Hood's girlfriend
Maid Marian
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Robin Hood's priest
Friar Tuck
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Robin Hood's foe
Sheriff of Nottingham
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Twin brothers raised by a she-wolf and founded Rome
Romulus and Remus (Romulus killed Remus)
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story where dwarf promises a woman's first born child that she can't guess his name, she does, he goes crazy and destroys himself
Rumpelstiltskin
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horrible 6-headed monster who lived on a rock, across the strait of Messina from Charybdis
Scylla
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Whirlpool across the strait of Messina from Scylla
Charybdis
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king who offended Zeus and was punished in Hades to force an enormous boulder to the top of a steep hill, everytime the boulder neared the top, it would roll back down, and he would have to start over
Sisyphus
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winged monster with the head of a woman, body of a lion, guards the entrance to Thebes with the "4 legs, 2 legs, 3 legs" riddle, Oedipus passed and it killed itself
Sphinx (greek version, Egyptian version is a man's head and guards the pyramids)
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hero of Switzerland, famous for his skill as an archer, a tyrannical offricial forced him to shoot an apple off his son's head, shot the Austrial governor Gessler
William Tell
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killed the Minotaur in the labyrinth (with thread for Ariadne to get out), married the queen of the Amazons Hippolyta
Theseus
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defeated the troll under the bridge
"The Three Billy Goats Gruff"
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Greek and Roman god of the west wind, the most pleasant of the winds
Zephyr
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___ swam the Hellespont to visit ___ guided by a lamp she lit, when he drowned one day, she killed herself
Leander, Hero
