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1
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Stoa Poekile

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A building on which the Amazonamachy was painted on (amongst others). The Amazons were dressed as Persians

2
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Return to Argos

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Perseus

3
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Skyros

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Where Theseus died, and where Odysseus exposed Achilles. Also where Neoptolemus (son of Achilles) was living before joining the Trojan war.

4
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Thespius

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Fifty daughters that Herakles has sex with

5
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Aeaea

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The island of Circe

6
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King of Athens

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Aegeus

7
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Ithica

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Where Odysseus is from

8
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Ogygia

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Where Odysseus is detained by Callypso

9
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Crete

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The location of the Minotaur; Theseus travels here

This is also where Rheia hid Zeus as a baby, and where Zeus was raised (in a cave)

10
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Attica

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The area around Athens. Theseus was said to have organized it (local Athenian hero).

11
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King of Argos

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Acrisius

12
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King of Uruk

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Gilgamesh

13
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King of Troezen

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Pittheus

14
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Areopagus

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Meaning the “hill of Ares”. The location of the Amazonamachy instigated by Theseus by taking Hippolyta.

Also the location of the first trial by jury for homicide with Orestes

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Naxos

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The island that Theseus leaves Ariadne on. Liminal space of Ariadne.

16
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Aulis

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Where the Greeks gather before heading to Troy

17
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Corinth

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Jason and Medea have two sons here

Polybus and Merope adopted Oedipus here

18
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Pylos

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Where Athena sends Telemachus to go to ask Nestor about Odysseus

19
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Thrinakia

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Island with Helios’ sheep

20
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Seriphos

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Perseus

21
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Laestrygonian shore

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Where most of Odysseus’ men were killed by giants

22
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Ethiopia

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Cassiopeia and Cepheus (Andromeda’s parents)

23
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King of Tiryns and Mycenae

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Perseus

24
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Mt. Ida

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Where Paris was raised after Hecuba’s prophecy.

25
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Athens to Troezen

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The road that Theseus made safer

26
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Iolcus, Thessaly

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Home of Jason (as well as Aeolus, Aeson, and Pelias)

27
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Colchis

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Where the Golden Fleece lies; it is up to Jason to retrieve it

The royal family includes the descendants of Helios

28
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Scheria

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Island of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians

29
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Aegean Sea

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Location of King Aegeus’ suicide

30
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Sparta

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Helen from Sparta. Theseus attempts to marry her (Pirithous attempts to marry Persephone) and they become trapped in the underworld.

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Thebes

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Cadmus and the autochthonous family

Labdacus’ family and Oedipus’ true family

32
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Phthia, Thessaly

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Peleus

33
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Statue of Pallas Athena

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Troy

34
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Lemnos

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The place where Philoktetes was left alone for over 10 years due to a snake bite.

The island was volcanic, and sacred to Hephaestus. Hephaestus has a cult site on it.

35
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Where do Menelaus and Helen end up living together?

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In Sparta

36
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Myecenaean cities? (heroes x2)

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Menelaus and Nestor

37
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Mt. Helikon

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Home of the 9 muses

38
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Mekone

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Prometheus acting as sacrificial priest in Theogony and Works and Days (Hesiod).

This is where the first sacrificial feast occurred.

39
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Epidauros

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Where Athenian tragedies, such as Prometheus Bound were held - great acoustics in open air

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41
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Where was Leda the queen of?

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Sparta

42
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Thrace

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Sacred island of Hephaestus - where he pretends to flee to when he sets the trap for Aphrodite and Ares

43
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Delos

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A floating island. Delos agrees to let Leto give birth on their island as long as a temple is built for Apollo there.

She gives birth clinging to a palm tree.

The name Delos means “bright” or “shining”.

44
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Letoon

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The Temple built in honour of Apollo at Delos

45
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Pytho

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Delphi

46
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Telphusa

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A river that denied Apollo, and did not allow him to build his temple there

47
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Acropolis

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The hill that the Parthenon is on in Athens

48
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Sacred temple for Hephaestus?

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Hephaesteion, Athens

49
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Mt. Nysa

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Where Dionysus was raised, by nymphs, as a goat

50
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Phyrgia

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Where Cybele, the mother-goddess was from (see Dionysus)

51
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Styx, Acheron

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Rivers that the dead must cross before reaching the underworld.

Charon is the ferryman

52
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Elysium

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A paradise, full of light and music, opposite to Tartarus

53
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Tartarus

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The “cellar of Hades”, where the worst sinners go

54
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Thebes, Corinth, Delphi

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Oedipus

55
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Colonus

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Sacred to the Furies

The place of death of Oedipus, as predicted by the oracle at Delphi

56
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Thracia

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The home of Tereus, who takes Procne, an Athenian princess as his wife.

Thracia is not in Greece, it is considered foreign

57
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Avernus

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Orpheus cannot look back at Eurydice until he has passed Avernus

58
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Lesbos

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An island associated with love. The river Hebrus takes Orpheus’ head and lyre here. This is where Sappho is from.

59
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Phaeacia

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Where Cadmus is from (not Greek) before he establishes Thebes, after slaying a dragon and sowing the teeth

60
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River Lethe

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Where Anchises was found in the Isles of the Blessed

61
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Gate of Ivory

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Also known as the gate of false dreams: where Aeneas exits out of the underworld from

62
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Latium

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Where Rome is now (Amata, Latinus and Lavinia)

63
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Arcadia

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Evander - a king allied with Aeneas

64
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Sacred to the Furies

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Colonus, where Oedipus will die