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Theseus parents

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Aegeus and Aethra

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Theseus alleged second father

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Poseidon

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What does aegeus leave for theseus under a boulder

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Sword and a pair of sandals

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Make people wash their feet then kicks them off a cliff to a man-eating turtle

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Sciron

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Beats people with golden club

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Periphites

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Ties people to two trees and flings them to their death

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Sinis (pine bender)

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Inn keeper who stretches people to fit bed

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Procrustes (stretcher)

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What did ariadne do

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Tells thesus to use yarn to find his way out the labyrinth and accompanies him to athens

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King of eleusis who forces travelers to wrestle him

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Cerycon

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Who killed androgeos

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Marathonian bull

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7
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Where was the minotaur put

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Labyrinth on the island of crete

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Pig of the old woman Phaea which runs wild

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Commyonian Sow

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Son of minos (king of crete)

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Androgeos

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Daughter of minos

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Ariadne

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What happens to ariadne

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Gets left at the island of Naxos and marries Dionysus

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What did aegeus request from theseus

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Put up a white sail if he was successful against the minotaur

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What really happened when theseus returned?

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Theseus forgets to take the black sails down

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What did meleager do during the calydonian boar hunt

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He killed his 2 uncles in order to give the hide to Atalanta

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Aeson

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King of Iolcus

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8
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Meleager parents

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Oeneus and althea

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What did the fates do when meleager is born

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Gives althea a log and tells her that he will live as long as the log stays intact

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What did atalanta do

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Wounded the boar first

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Aesons brother

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Pelias

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What does althea do in reaction

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Burns meleager’s log to kill him

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Jason parents
Aeson and Polymede
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Centaur that raised jason
Chiron
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What happens when jason returns to iolcus
He loses a shoe helping an old lady (hera in disguise)
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What happened to Iolcus
Pelias takes over, in which aeson sends jason to be raised by chiron
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What does king aeetes make jason do
Sow the ground with fire breathing bulls, plant teeth of a dragon, fight the men who grow from these teeth
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What does pelias tell jason
To get the golden fleece
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What is the golden fleece
A flying golden ram that was flown to Colchis by Phrixus and his sister Helle
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Jason’s crew
Argo
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King of Colchis
King Aeetes
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What happens to jason in Corinth
Falls inlove with the princess
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Daughter of aeetes
Medea
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What happens to Medea
She gets divorce and kills Glauce and her own children
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What does Medea do
She helps jason get the golden fleece and kills her brother to help them escape
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Medea brother
Apsyrtus
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Princess of Corinth
Glauce
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How does jason die
A piece of the ship falls on him
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Who encountered Cytissorus, Phrontis, Melas, and Argus shipwrecked, and brought them on the voyage to Colchis?
Argonauts / Jason
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Who was carried to Colchis by a flying ram with a golden fleece?
Phrixus
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After forcing fire-breathing bulls into submission, who yoked them to a plow and used them to sow a field with dragon's teeth?
Jason
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What king was fated to die if strangers carried of the golden fleece?
Aeetes
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What son of Arestor built the ship which allowed Jason to sail to Colchis?
Argus
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Who successfully sailed through the symplegades in route to Colchis on his journey to obtain the Golden Fleece?
Jason
20
What creature was wounded first by Atalanta and Amphiaraus before Meleager killed it?
Calydonian Boar
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Who killed his uncles Toxeus & Plexippus in a dispute over the hyde of the Calydonian Boar?
Meleager
21
What maiden was temporarily condemned to the island of Naxos after she was abandoned by Theseus?
Ariadne
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Whose life did Atropos declare would last as long as a firebrand?
Meleager
22
Who found joy in watching the recoil of a bent pine tree fling passersby to their death?
Sinis / Pityocamptes
22
The inhabitants of Delos, commemorating the visit of Theseus danced in intricate patterns in order to imitate the windings of what Cretan structure?
labyrinth
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Who admired Heracles so much that he choose the perilous land route across the Isthmus of Corinth, in hopes of facing similar challenges?
Theseus
24
Who neglected his father's request to change the color of his black sail upon returning to Athens, causing his father to leap to his death?
Theseus
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What daughter of Minos did Theseus abandon on Naxos after she helped him escape the Labyrinth?
Ariadne
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What bandit was accustomed to making strangers fit his bed, until Theseus ended his life in the same manner?
Procrustes
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What Isthmian outlaw killed by Theseus would kick strangers off a cliff where they would become victim to a giant turtle below?
Sceiron
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What two tokens of his birth did Theseus have to find under a rock?
a sword & sandals
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Who gave birth to a son who grew up to be strong enough to move a heavy stone and claim the sword and sandals under it?
Aethra
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What sort of animal was the beast called Phaea, which Theseus killed at Crommyon?
boar / pig / sow

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