3174488204 | The Trojan War | war between Greeks and Trojans; fought in the city of Troy; official cause was the Judgment of Paris | 0 | |
3174488205 | Paris | a prince who had to choose whether Aphrodite, Hera, or Athena was the fairest; chose Aphrodite because she promised that he would have the fairest mortal woman for himself | 1 | |
3174488206 | Helen | the fairest mortal woman | 2 | |
3174488207 | Menelaus | husband of Helen; king of Sparta | 3 | |
3174488208 | Agamemnon | Menelaus' brother; leads war against Trojans to take back Helen | 4 | |
3174488209 | Odysseus | Greek king of Ithaca; endures 10-year journey home after Trojan War | 5 | |
3174488210 | Ithaca | city that Odysseus and his family live in | 6 | |
3174488211 | Penelope | Odysseus' wife | 7 | |
3174488212 | Achilles | greatest fighter of the Greeks in the Trojan War; invincible because he was dipped in the River Styx except for his heels | 8 | |
3174488213 | Priam | the King of Troy during Trojan War | 9 | |
3174488214 | Hecuba | wife of King Priam; delivered 19 children | 10 | |
3174488215 | Chryseis | enslaved as a war prize by Agamemnon; eventually given back because of a plague sent by Apollo (father of Agamemnon's wife) | 11 | |
3174488216 | Ajax | great fighter of the Greeks during Trojan War; cousin of Achilles | 12 | |
3174488217 | Diomedes | king of Argos; hero of Trojan War for Greeks | 13 | |
3174488218 | Hector | Trojan prince; greatest fighter for the Trojans | 14 | |
3174488219 | Andromache | wife of Hector; captured by Greeks after the fall of Troy | 15 | |
3174488220 | Cassandra | princess of Troy; daughter of Priam and Hecuba; could see the future and warned the Trojans not to bring the horse into the city but no one believed her | 16 | |
3174488221 | Circe | goddess of magic and witchcraft; turned people into animals | 17 | |
3174488222 | Aeneas | Trojan War hero on Trojan side | 18 | |
3174488223 | Cadmus | founder and first king of Thebes | 19 | |
3174488224 | Harmonia | goddess of concord and harmony; given a cursed necklace that brought bad fortune to the wearer | 20 | |
3174488225 | Royal House of Thebes | Oedipus heads to Thebes rather than back to Corinth to avoid the oracle's prophecy | 21 | |
3174488226 | Laius | Oedipus' father | 22 | |
3174488227 | Jocasta | Oedipus' mother | 23 | |
3174488228 | Oedipus | Greek King of Thebes; killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta | 24 | |
3174488229 | Polybus | King of Corinth | 25 | |
3174488230 | Corinth | City where Oedipus lived | 26 | |
3174488231 | Sphinx | human/lion mythical creature | 27 | |
3174488232 | Creon | Ruler of Thebes during life of Oedipus | 28 | |
3174488233 | Delphi | site of Delphic oracle (fortune teller); told Oedipus he would kill his father and marry his mother | 29 | |
3174488234 | Polynieces | son of Oedipus | 30 | |
3174488235 | Eteocles | King of Thebes; son of Oedipus | 31 | |
3174488236 | Ismene | half-sister of Oedipus | 32 | |
3174488237 | Antigone | sister/daughter of Oedipus and his mother | 33 | |
3174488238 | Titans | - 6 sons and 6 daughters of Uranus and Gaea - The parents of the gods - Zeus (god) overthrows his father Kronos (Titan) | 34 | |
3174488240 | Aegis | Zeus' shield | 35 | |
3174488242 | Trident | three pronged staff carried by Poseidon | 36 | |
3174488251 | Graces | 3 Goddesses of play, amusement, rest, happiness and relaxation (Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia/Cleta) | 37 | |
3174488252 | Muses | Godesses of inspiration in literature, science, and the arts | 38 | |
3174488253 | Proteus | -God of deep sea; subject of Poseidon -Could tell future | 39 | |
3174488254 | Naiads | nymphs of small bodies of water (rivers and springs) | 40 | |
3174488257 | Demeter | Goddess of agriculture and harvest | 41 | |
3174488258 | Persephone | Goddess of Spring and nature | 42 | |
3174488259 | Pandora | first human woman created by the gods; opened her box to let evil into the world but leaving hope too | 43 | |
3174488260 | Dionysus | God of wine | 44 | |
3174488261 | Tartarus | Area of Underworld of eternal punishment | 45 | |
3174488262 | Cerberus | 3-headed watchdog to the Underworld | 46 | |
3174488263 | Acheron | One of the rivers in Underworld; river of woe | 47 | |
3174488264 | Charon | God in the Underworld who ferried souls across the River Styx | 48 | |
3174488265 | Styx | A river at the entrance to the Underworld; river of unbreakable oaths | 49 | |
3174488266 | Lethe | Name of one of the five rivers in Underworld; literally means forgetfulness | 50 | |
3174488267 | Pan | God of flocks, shepherds, and nature | 51 | |
3174488268 | Satyrs | Goat-like male companions of Dionysus | 52 | |
3174488269 | Aeolus | -God of Winds -Gave bag of winds to Odysseus | 53 | |
3174488270 | Gorgons | Three monsters of Greek Mythology; only one was mortal-Medusa | 54 | |
3174488271 | Graiae | Old, grey women who shared one eye and one tooth among the three of them | 55 |
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