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Mythology
English I honors
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9th Grade
09/23/2010

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Icarus
Definition

son of Daedalus

was put into labyrinth with father

escaped with him using the wings that his father made out of feathers and wax

died because flew too high

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King Minos
Definition

son of Zeus and Europa

King of Crete

Powerful, just ruler

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Labyrinth
Definition
Created by Daedalus on the reques of King Minos
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Amazons
Definition

a mythological group of female Greek warriors


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Anteia
Definition
A daughter of the Lycian king Iobates, and wife of Proetus of Argos, by whom she became the mother of Maera
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Chimaera
Definition

fire-breathing monster

head - lion, hind - dragon, middle - goat

killed by Bellerophon

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Proetus
Definition

tiwn brother of Acrisius

Hercules came to him to cleanse himself of his sorrow

his wife fell in love with Hercules

sent Hercules to king Lucian to be killed

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Pegasus
Definition

winged horse

sprung from the blood of the Gorgon

captured by Bellerophon

when B tried to ride Pegasus to Olympus, P threw B off

lives in the stables of Olympus

carries Zeus's thunder bolts

 

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Glaucus

 

Definition

father of Bellerophon

fed his horses human flesh

was eaten by his horses

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Bellerophon
Definition

son of Glaucus

Wanted Pegasus

got Pegasus

Anteia got rejected by him (wife of Proteus)

was sent to die to Lucian king

L sent B to slay Chimaera

was sent against Solymi and the Amazons

tried to ride Pegasus to Olympus

was thrown off

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Solymi
Definition
slain by Bellerophon
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Clymene
Definition

mother of Phaethon

father of P: the Sun God

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Sun God
Definition
father of Phaethon
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Eurynome
Definition
mother of Bellerophon
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Iphicles
Definition
half brother of Hercules
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