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- King of the gods!
- Son of Kronos and Rea.
- Kronos had previously eaten all five of zeus' siblings (Hades, Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon)
- Zeus escaped the same fate because of his mother fooling Kronos into eating a stone wrapped in blankets instead.
- Zeus eventually defeated kronos and saved his siblings.
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- Queen of the gods
- Protector of women and family
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- Queen of the underworld
- Daughter of Demeter
- So beautiful Hades fell in love with her and abducted her
- Demeter was so agitated by this that she refused to let anything grow until she could see her precious daughter
- So Hades tricked her into eating the seeds of a pomegranate which bound her to the underworld
- she had to stay for 1/3 of every year forever. Which is our winter.
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- Daedalus' son
- died flying to close to the sun
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- Goddess of love and beauty
- born from sea foam
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- architect
- father of icarus
- built labyrinth and wings
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- the first spider
- challenged Athena to a weaving contest
- Arachne won but also affended Athena at the same time
- Athena turned her into a spider as a punishment
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- Goddess of fertility and the ground
- mother of Persephone
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- Narcissus wa in love with himself
- so many loved him but he never loved them back
- one of these women was a nymph named echo
- The goddess Nemesis heard the rejected girls prayers for revenge and cursed Narcissus to fall in love with his own reflection
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- nymph that fell in love with Narcissus
- was cursed by Hera to only be able to speak the last word someone said
- died by Narcissus side all that remained was her voice A.K.A echo
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- God of love
- son of Aphrodite
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- Goddess of wisdom and valour
- born out of Zeus' head
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- son of Zeus and Alcmene
- Hera's jealousy drove her to make Hercules crazy and kill his family
- to make up for his sins he does 12 labors
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- god of medicine, poetry, and light
- rides golden chariot to make sun rise and fall
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- giant beings with a single round eye in the middle of their foreheads
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- Father of Zeus
- tried to eat all his children scared they would kill him
- ate all except zeus because his wife Rea gave him a rock disguised as zeus
- killed by zeus
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- made mankind
- stole fire for mankind
- punishment= Zeus commanded that Prometheus be chained for eternity to a rock and an eagle would eat his liver each day and the liver would grow back every night until Hercules finally killed the bird
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Prometheus stole fire Zeus took vengeance by giving Pandora to Epimetheus (Prometheus' brother) Pandora had a box which she wasn't allowed to open driven by her curiosity Pandora opened the box= all evil escaped and spread all over the earth She quickly closed the lid, which only left one thing inside hope
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- wished that everything he touched could turn to gold
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- Titan sentenced to holding the earth forever on his shoulders as punishment for his participation on Kronos side during the battle that zeus won
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- Hades three headed watch dog
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- she was a gorgon
- and the only one who was mortal
- Her gaze could turn whoever she looked upon to stone
- killed by the hero Perseus with the help of Athena and Hermes
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- Polydectes sent Perseus on a quest to kill Medusa and bring back her head
- with help from Athena and Hermes he accomplished this task.
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- creatures that were part man part horse
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- The goddesses of music, poetry, the arts, and science
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- earth or mother earth
- born out of chaos
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- son of Apollo
- died while riding his father's golden chariot indifferent to his Apollo's warnings
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