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mythology-greek locations
greek location identifications
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11th Grade
08/24/2011

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Term

Mt. Olympus

 

home of the ______

Definition
gods
Term

Mt. Parnassus

 

sacred to?

and where ______ and ______ landed after the ______ ______ receded.

Definition

the Muses, Apollo, and Dionysus

 

Deucalion and Pyrrha

 

Flood waters

Term

Mt. Pelion (Pelium)

 

home of?

Definition
Chiron, centaur-mentor
Term

Mt. Oeta (Oiti)

 

where who died?

Definition

 

Herakles

Term

Mt. Ida

 

where _____ swooped down to grab _______;

______ lived with ______;

________ was seduced by _______;

gods watched progress of _______ War;

where Trojan _______ tended their _______ and were often _________ by deities

Definition

Zeus, Ganymede

Oenone, Paris

Anchises, Aphrodite

Trojan

princes, flocks, seduced

Term

Aegean Sea

 

named after father of ________ of Athens

Definition
Theseus
Term

Black Sea (Euxine)

 

associate with the ________ and _______ War

Definition
Argonauts, Trojan
Term

Ionian Sea

 

named after ___, one of ______ lovers whom he hid as a ________ from ______

Definition

Io

Zeus'

heifer

Hera

Term

Mediterranean Sea

 

known as the ______ _____

Definition
Great Sea
Term

Hellespont

 

named for ______, sister of _______

Definition
Helles, Phrixus
Term

Bosphorus Strait

 

means "_________"

Definition
ford of the cow
Term

Thrace

 

first stop of ________ and his men after the Trojan War ended

Definition
Odysseus
Term

Asia Minor

 

modern-day ________

Definition
Turkey
Term

Pontus

 

home of the ________

Definition
Amazons
Term

Aegina

 

________ named after one of ______ lovers

Definition

island

Zeus'

Term

Cythera (Kithira)

 

center of ___________ worship

Definition
Aphrodite
Term

Crete

 

the origin and center of _______ civilization;

where _____ was raised;

and _______ set up house

Definition

Minoan

Zeus

Europa

Term

Delos

 

birth place of _______ and ________

Definition
Apollo and Artemis
Term

Ithaca

 

home of _______

Definition
Odysseus
Term

Lesbos

 

home of ________ women with a reputation for ____________

Definition
beautiful, debauchery
Term

Lemnos

 

sacred to __________; home of the ________ women

Definition

Hephaestus

stinky

Term

Naxos

 

chief island of _______; where ______ was left behind by _______

Definition

Dionysus

Ariande

Theseus

Term

Rhodes

 

island named after ________ sonsort ________; site of the huge _________

Definition

Helios'

Rhodes

Colossus

Term

Athens

 

the first _________; home of the ________, the most famous complex of Greek _______

Definition

democracy

Parthenon

temples

Term

Calydon

 

site of the famous _______ hunt

Definition
boar
Term

Corinth

 

one of the ________ and most ______ Greek city-states

Definition
oldest, powerful
Term

Delphi

 

most important _______ of the ancient Greek world; dedicated to ______, _________, and the ______

Definition

oracle

Apollo, Dionysus, Muses

Term

Dodona

 

oracle of ______

Definition
Zeus
Term

Eleusis

 

site of the most important and mysterious of Greek _______ in honor of _______

Definition

festivals

Demeter

Term

Iolcus

 

home of _______

Definition
Jason
Term

Knossos

 

main city of the island of ______ where King _______ ruled; home of the _________ and __________

Definition

Crete

Minos

Minotaur

labyrinth

Term

Mycenae

 

city-state of __________, he leader of the Greek forces against _____

Definition

Agamemnon

Troy

Term

Olympia

 

site of the first ________ games in honor of ______

Definition
Olympic, Zeus
Term

Sparta

 

a ____-oriented __________; city-state of _______, the husband of ______

Definition

war

oligarchy

Menelaus

Helen

Term

Thebes

 

birthplac of __________ and ________

Definition
Herakles and Oedipus
Term

Troy

 

location of long ____ over a _________ women

Definition

war

beautiful

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