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mythology
greek ppl
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Undergraduate 1
07/01/2009

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Acropolis
Definition
The high point of the city
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Parthenon
Definition
The temple to athena; made of pentalic marble
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Parehenes
Definition
Statue made of jewles for eyes and gold
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Pentalic marble
Definition
used on high end buildings in Athens; glows bright
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Erechtheion
Definition
Never a king in athens yet this is a temple to him
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Carytids
Definition
The collums on the erechtheion that are in the shape of women
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Asclepion
Definition
The clinic
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Theater to Dionysius
Definition
plays were performed here; only 3 ppl to a play
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Dionysius
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the god of wine and theater
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Theater of Herodes Atticus
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Still used today; built by the romans 700 years after the theater of dionysius
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Hercules Childhood
Definition
Child of Zeus and Alcenena
Kills 2 snakes sent to kill him
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Alcenea
Definition
Zeus's mother
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Hercules pang
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kills his wife and 2 sons after driven mad by hera
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Theseus
Definition
comforts Hercules and brings him to athens
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Eurysheus
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King of mycene
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Nemean Lion
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impervious to weapons; hercules rips him in half
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Lernean Hydra
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9 heads; one is immortal; if you kill one 2 grow back
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Hide of Ceryneia
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Golden Horns; hoofs of bronze; took hercules a year to find
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phrixus
Definition
told to be offered as a sacrifice to zeus; child of a king
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Helen
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Phrixus's sister; falls off the flying creature and dies
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Apollonius
Definition
writes the argo nowtika
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Aeson
Definition
Father of jason and king; he is killed by his brother Pelias
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Jason
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Cast into the forest and raised by a centor; goes back to take his place as king; sent to find the golden fleece
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Chiron
Definition
The centor that raises jason
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Pelias
Definition
The uncle that kills aeson and sends jason on his journey
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Argus
Definition
Builder of the ship jason sails on
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Orpheus
Definition
the musician abord the ship
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Tiphys
Definition
The helmsman
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Lemons
Definition
The island with no men, only women
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Bear Island
Definition
the king invites jason and his crew to dinner and then try to kill them in thier sleep
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Bithynia
Definition
the place where hercules nephew is killed by water nymphs; hercules leaves for greece
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Berbyreces
Definition
The land where amycus is king
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Amycus
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King of Beryces; purposes a boxing match but looses and is killed
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Phineas
Definition
About to die of starvation but is saved by jason from the harpies
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Bosporus
Definition
means cow crossing
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symplesades
Definition
the rocks that crash together; carful timing is needed when passing this
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Charybdis and seylla
Definition
Charybdis is the whirlpool and seylla is the human eating creature
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Isle of Ares
Definition
Jason and the argonots kill the birds that can shoot thier wings here
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Aea
Definition
The king and father of Medea
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Medea
Definition
a witch that falls in love with jason; shows him how to sow the dragons teeth
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Minos
Definition
King of crete
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Pasaiphea
Definition
minos's wife that comes to love a bull and have its child
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The minator
Definition
the bull posidon gives to Minos so that he can sacrafice it back to him
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Theseus
Definition
chosen to kill the minator; falls in love with aviadne; kills the minator
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Aviadne
Definition
daughter of Minos and pasiphae; helps thesues kill the minatorus
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Daedalus
Definition
can build anything; he is an engineer
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Minatorus
Definition
child of the minator and pasiphae
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Eumaeus
Definition
A swine herder; assists odysseus in killing the suitors
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Melanthius
Definition
a goat hearder; betrays odysseus by giving weapons to the suitors
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Orious
Definition
His mother and father were childless; he grew from pee on the ground; he is a giant
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Tityus
Definition
a giant involved in a rape; he is sent to hell after bieng killed
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Syphistus
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Founder of corinth; tells zeus's secret and cheates thanilaus
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Tiresias
Definition
He is blind; lives half of his life as a woman; he is given profetic insight by zeus
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Thanitaus
Definition
God of death
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