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Who were the first precursors to the Titans? |
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What were the Titans often called? |
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Who was the most important Titan? |
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Where did the Roman believe Saturn went after Jupiter dethroned him? |
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How does Hamilton describe the Golden Age? |
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A time of perfect peace and happiness |
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What are the other notable Titans? |
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Ocean, Tethys, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Rhea, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus, and Atlas |
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The river that surrounded the Earth |
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The father of the moon, the dawn, and the sun. |
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Why were the Olympians called the Olympians? |
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Because they lived on Mt. Olympus |
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Who was the god of memory? |
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Where is the real life Mt. Olympus? |
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How does the Iliad describe Mt. Olympus? |
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High above the mountains of man |
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Who guards the gates of Olympus? |
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What was conspicuously not on Mt. Olympus? |
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What realm did Zeus rule? |
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How great was the strength of Zeus? |
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Greater than that of all the other divinities put together |
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Who writes that Zeus could pull down all the Olympians if he wished? |
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Who dupes Zeus in the Iliad? |
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Who is more powerful than Zeus? |
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Why is Zeus represented as falling in love with woman after woman? |
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Because when his worship spread to a new township that supreme ruler of their religion became Zeus and any wife that that divinity had was transferred to Zeus |
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What did Zeus demand of mankind? |
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Sacrifices and right action |
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A sacred powerful breast plate (BONUS: sometimes said to be made of goatskin) |
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Whose animal was the eagle? |
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How did Zeus' oracle decipher his will? |
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By reading the rustling of the oak leavees |
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Whose oracle was at Dodona? |
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Where was the land of the oak trees? |
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What was Hera's relationship to Zeus? |
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She was his sister and his wife |
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What was under Hera's special care? |
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Marriage, and married women |
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What did Hera mostly occupy her time with? |
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Taking revenge upon the women that Zeus had affairs with |
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Did Hera ever give up her jealous easily? |
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Whose side was Hera on during the Trojan war and why? |
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The Greeks' side because she was upset with Paris for picking Aphrodite as the fairest |
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In which story is Hera the beneficiary to men? |
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Jason and the Argonauts (The Quest for the Golden Fleece) |
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The goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia (Ilithyia) |
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What was Hera' favourite city? |
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Whose favourite city was Argos? |
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What were Hera's sacred animals? |
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Whose sacred animal was the cow? |
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Whose sacred animals was the peacock? |
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Who was the god most important to the Greeks on the side of the Aegean? |
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Who venerated Poseidon most? |
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The Greeks on the sides of the Aegean |
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What were the occupations of the Greeks on the shore of the Aegean? |
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Wife of Poseidon and granddaughter of the Titan Ocean |
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Where was Poseidon most likely to be found? |
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On Mt. Olympus or in his underwater palace |
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Who gave mankind the first horse? |
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What happened when Poseidon rode his golden car over the waters? |
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The thunder of the waves sank into stillness and tranquil peace followed |
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What was Poseidon always shown carrying? |
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Meaning in Latin 3 teeth, it is a spear with three prongs |
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What was Poseidon's sacred animal? |
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The Underworld and Wealth |
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What were the Latin names for Hades? |
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Dis is the Latin word for rich |
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What was the special ability of Hades' cap? |
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It made the wearer invisible |
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Who was queen of the Lower World? |
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Who was Death? Give Greek and Latin names. |
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Thanatos (Greek) and Orcus (Latin) |
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Who was Athena the daughter of? |
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Full grown and in full armour she sprang from Zeus' head |
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What is the impression of Athena that the Iliad has? |
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A ruthless and fierce battle-goddess |
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How do most other sources than the Iliad view Athena? |
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Warlike only to defend the State and the home from enemies |
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What was Athena the goddess of? |
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The City; civilized life - handicrafts and agriculture |
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Who first gave mankind the bridle? |
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Athena, who had invented it |
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What did Zeus entrust to Athena? |
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His aegis, his buckler and the thunderbolt |
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What most often describes Athena? |
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Gray-eyed or flashing eyed |
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What was Athena sometimes called? |
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What was Athena's temple called? |
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Who was chief of the virgin goddesses? |
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What was Athena's sacred city? |
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What was Athena's sacred animal? |
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What was Athena's sacred tree? |
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What was Athena's sacred tree? |
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Who created the olive tree? |
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Clio, Calliope, Euterpe, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, and Urania |
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Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne |
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Megaera, Tisiphone, and Alecto |
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What was the special position of Aglaia? |
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What was the special position of Euphrosyne? |
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What was the special position of Thalia? |
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In Homer and Hesiod, who does Aglaia marry? |
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Who wrote the story of Aglaia's marriage? |
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How many Muses are there? |
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What happens when one hears the song of the servants of the Muses? |
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One forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles |
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What are the positions of the Muses? |
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Astronomy, history, tragedies, comedies, epic poetry, lyric poetry, love poetry, songs to the gods, dance |
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Who was the Muse of astronomy? |
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Who was the Muse of history? |
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Who was the Muse of epic poetry? |
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Who was the Muse of love poetry? |
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Who was the Muse of lyric poetry? |
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Who was the Muse of dance? |
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Who was the Muse of songs to the gods? |
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Who was the Muse of comedy? |
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Who was the Muse of tragedies? |
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What were the Muses mountains? |
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Helicon, Piera, Parnassas, and Olympus |
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Who were the Muses sometimes the companions of? |
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What two 'august' forms sat next to Zeus? |
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How would one translate Nemesis? |
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How would one try to translate Aidos? |
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The feeling that a rich man gets in the presence of one lets fortunate than he, not compassion but the feeling that difference between them is not deserved. |
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When will Aidos and Nemesis leave Earth? |
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When mankind is completely wicked |
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In what way will Nemesis and Aidos leave Earth? |
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Veiled in white raiment to the home of the immortals |
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Lord and Ruler of the Sea (Mediterranean) and the Friendly Sea (Black Sea). Also underground rivers |
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Who was the god of the Euxine sea? |
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Who was the god of the Mediterranean sea? |
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The titan who ruled over the river Ocean |
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What was the river Ocean? |
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The great river that encircled the Earth |
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Who were the nymphs of the river Ocean? |
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The daughters of Ocean and Tethys, the Oceanids |
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Who were the gods of all the rivers on Earth? |
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The sons of Ocean and Tethys |
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A son of Mother Earth, meaning Deep Sea. Father of Nereus. |
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Means the "Old man of the Sea". God of the Mediterranean. Father of the Nereids. Father of Thetis and Amphitrite |
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Nymphs of the Mediterranean |
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Who was the nymph Thetis? |
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A nereid. Mother of Achilles |
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The wife of Poseidon; a nereid |
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Who was the trumpeter of the Sea? |
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What was Triton's trumpet made of? |
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Poseidon's son. A god of the sea who had the power of foretelling and changing shape |
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Water nymphs who dwelt in brooks, springs and fountains |
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Who were the mortals who became sea gods? |
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Leucothea, Palaemon and Gaucus |
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If one were in the Odyssey, where would you go to go to the Underworld? |
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Over the edge of the world across Ocean |
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If you were reading the works of later poets, where would you find the entrance to the Underworld? |
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Through various caves and caverns. |
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What were the two divisions of the Underworld? |
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Which was deeper Tartarus or Erebus? |
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Where was the prison of the sons of the Earth? |
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Where do the dead pass as soon as they die? |
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According to Homer, what was the Underworld like? |
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Shadowy and vague. The ghosts' existence is a miserable dream. |
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Who presents the Underworld most clearly? |
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What is the name of the river of woe? |
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What is the name of the river of lament? |
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Who drives the boat across the river Styx? |
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Describe the path to the Underworld. |
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The river Acheron, the river Cocytus, Charon, Cerberus, judgement by Minos, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus, |
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What are the names of all the rivers in the Underworld? |
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Acheron, Cocytus, Styx, Phlegethon, and Lethe |
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Who are the judges of those who enter the Underworld? |
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Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus |
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Which writer describes Pluto's palace? |
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If you were to look out of the windows of Pluto's palace what would you see? |
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Wide wastes, meadows of asphodel,palid and ghostly flowers |
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The punishers of evil doers |
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Alecto, Megaea, and Tisiphone |
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Where do dreams come from? |
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The lower world through one of two gates |
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Which gate do true dreams go through? |
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Which gate do false dreams come from? |
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What manner of being was Pan? |
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Half goat half man, with goats horns and goat hooves |
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Goatherders and shepherds |
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What place did Pan love best? |
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What instrument did Pan play? |
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Where did the word 'panic' come from? |
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Travellers hearing the noises in the nighttime they thought it was Pan |
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Why did Silenus ride a donkey? |
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Because he was usually too drunk to walk. |
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Who were the children of Leda? |
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Castor, Pollux, Helen, and Clymenestra |
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What were Castor and Pollux the gods of? |
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Of the children of Leda, which were immortal at birth? |
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Of Leda's children which were mortal? |
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