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| Godess of love and beauty[all the boys wanted her because she was "hot" |
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Youngest, prettyiest daughter of the king . |
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| Sweetest and mildest of winds, the westwind . |
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| killed himself when he thought that thisbe was killed/eaten by the lionist . |
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killed herself once pyrmus killed himself |
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| the lion the chewed up thisbes coat so it made it look like he ate her . |
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| hero of the story. When Jason arrives in Colchis to retrieve the Fleece, the daughter of the king, Medea, falls in love with him. Jason abandons her and marries a princess later for political gain. In revenge, Medea kills Jason's new wife and her own children, whom Medea had by Jason. |
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The king in which the golden fleece was given to. |
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| Hercules is renowned for his incredible strength and bravery, but he lacks intelligence and self-control. Most of his adventures begin with a horrible mistake that he makes and then attempts to fix |
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| A son of one of the Muses, Orpheus is the greatest mortal musician who has ever lived. His most famous exploit is his journey to Hades to retrieve his dead wife, Eurydice. He loses her forever by ignoring Hades' orders and turning to make sure she is behind him. Orpheus also travels on the Argo and protects Jason and the others from the Sirens. He is killed by a pack of roving Maenads, and his head floats to Lesbos, where it becomes a magical icon. |
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| Zeus's wife and sister, Hera is a very powerful goddess known mostly for her jealousy. She is often vicious and spiteful, |
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| A strange island where only women lived. |
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| Winged monster with face of old woman. |
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son of agenor. blinded by zeus. |
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| personified godess of the rainbow. messengers of gods to mandkind. |
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| Along with Circe, Medea is one of two famous sorceresses in Greek myth. Medea selflessly helps Jason defeat her own father and obtain the Golden Fleece. After Jason turns on her, she kills his new wife and then her own children. |
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| This son of Helius (Apollo in some accounts) and Clymene (Rhode or Prote in some accounts) drove his father's chariot recklessly until Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt |
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| He is son of Hyperion and Theia and a sun god |
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| This winged horse sprang from Medusa when Perseus beheaded her; he had been fathered by Poseidon. |
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| Iobates gave Bellerophon a series of impossible tasks to perform: kill the Chimaera, subdue the Solymi, fight against the Amazons, and defend himself against the best soldiers of Lycia |
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| Born from the head of Zeus, she was goddess of wisdom, war, arts and crafts-a virginal goddess-She beat Poseidon in a contest for this honor by causing an olive tree to grow after Poseidon had created the first horse or caused a spring to gush forth by hitting a rock with his trident |
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| she was a lion in her forepart and a goat in the middle, with a serpent's tail. Bellerophon, at the behest of Iobates, killed the Chimaera by swooping down on it atop Pegasus and throwing spears at the monster |
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| These gigantic twins tried to depose Zeus by piling Mount Ossa on top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on top of Mount Ossa. Zeus defeated them with the help of Apollo, who shot them with his arrows. They are sometimes called the Aloads after their father, Aloeus, although their mother |
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| He and his brother, Otos, were the giant sons of Aloeus. |
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| This son of Zeus and Hera, and god of war, was not popular with the Greeks who saw him as a "butcher." He had a long-term affair with Aphrodite-with whom he produced Eros, Deimos (Panic), Phobus (Fear), and Harmonia-but was trapped in bed with Aphrodite by her husband, Hephaestus |
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| She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin of Apollo. One of the twelve Olympians, she was born on the island of Delos. As goddess of childbirth, nature, and the hunt, she carried a bow and arrows, which she used to avenge misdeeds, particularly crimes against her mother |
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| He was a skilled craftsman who learned his art from Athena. Banished from his hometown of Athens after he murdered Perdix, his nephew, he went to Crete, where he worked for King Minos and his wife, Pasiphaë He constructed the Labyrinth which housed the Minotaur |
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| He entertained Dionysus in his home in Attica, so the god gave him the gift of wine. When Icarius shared the wine with his countrymen, they thought they had been poisoned and they killed him. When Erigone, his daughter, found his corpse, she hanged herself |
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| The legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and the Phoenician princess Europa. Minos and his two brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, were raised in the royal palace of Cnossus. Minos married Pasiphae, daughter of the sun-god Helios. Some of their children were Phaedra, Ariadne, and Andregeos |
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| The river god Alpheus fell in love with Arethusa, who was in the retinue of Artemis. Arethusa fled to Ortygia, where she was changed into a spring. Alpheus, however, made his way beneath the sea and united his waters with those of the spring |
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| The wife of Orpheus, she was bitten by a snake on her wedding day and died. Orpheus charmed Hades and Persephone with his music, so they allowed him to lead Eurydice out of the Underworld provided that he not look behind on the way out. Orpheus became worried that Eurydice was not following, so he turned to see her -- Eurydice slipped away from him and died a second time |
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| Although this son of Cronus and Rhea is ruler of the Underworld, he is not considered one of the Olympian gods, because he does not live on Olympus |
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| The MAENADS or Bacchants are women sacred to Dionysus 2 and maddened by his inspiring power |
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| Ceyx, the king of Thessaly, was the son of Lucifer, the light bringer, the star that brings in the day. His wife, Alcyone, |
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| the protector and special counselor of the state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister (but also the wife) of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Juventas, Mars, and Vulcan. Her Greek equivalent is Hera |
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