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15 Cards in this Set
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Zeus (Dios/Dia/Diwe/Jupiter) |
- king of realm - suppliants/hospitality - punishes Prometheus, Lycaon, & mankind in general - lightning bolt, eagle, aegis holder, oak, appears bearded - son of Cronus & rhea |
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Poseidon (Neptune) |
- king of realm/sea - horses, trident - son of Cronus & rhea - wife: amphitrite - son: triton - punishes Odysseus for bling his son Polyphemus |
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Hades (Pluto) |
- king of realm/underworld - death/unseen - earth/chthonic god - son of Cronus & rhea - invisibility cap - wealth - abducted Persephone
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Hera (Juno) |
- queen - childbirth - marriage - Zeus’s sister/wife - crown, scepter - peacock - punishes Io & Callisto |
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Hestia (Vesta/Hearth) |
- daughter of Zeus & rhea - goddess of home/hearth - virgin (refused apollo & Poseidon) /fire - suppliants/hospitality/guests |
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Demeter (Ceres/Deo) |
- earth/agriculture/grain - fertility/abundance - establish laws - torch (to look for daughter Persephone) - daughter of Zeus & Rhea - punishes erysichthon - eleusinian mysteries / thesmophoria (women only)
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Dionysus (Bacchus/Diwonuso) |
- son of Zeus & Semele (mortal) - strange birth: Zeus ate heart & birth from thigh - death/earth/fertility - god of wine & drinking, madness, theater & afterlife - vine leaves, animal skins, thyrsus - beard or without beard - punished Pentheus & sailors (nonbelievers) |
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Apollo (Farshooter, Phoebus) |
- son of Zeus & Lito - Artemis’ twin - bow & arrow - lyre & music - god of archery, light, truth, healing, prophecy, music, sun - long blonde hair, beardless - appears on ship to sailors as a dolphin - sends plague - punished/skinned marsyas |
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Artemis (Diana) |
- Apollo’s twin sis/daughter of Zeus & Lito - moon/dogs/wild animals - bow & arrow/hunting/countryside - virgin - childbirth/children - punished Actaeon, Orion, & Niobe |
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Haphaestus (Vulcan/Lemnian) |
- child of Hera (sometimes Zeus) - yeeted off Olympus (limp/disabled) - crafts/fire (forge)/metal working - working in shop (cyclops, golden women) - resolving conflicts w/ parents - entrapping his wife for cheating - makes pandora |
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Aphrodite (Venus/Cytherea/Cypris) |
- marriage/sex, love, beauty, protecting sailors - doves & swallows, myrtle & roses, three graces, seasons - strange birth: sea foam from Ouranos’ genitals - sea - daughter of Zeus & Dione - accompanied by son Eros/Cupid - falls in love with Anchises, disguised self as mortal girl, refuses to give him immortality but promises a son - cheated on husband Hephaestus w/ Anchises, Hermes, & ares |
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Ares (Mars/Curse) |
- war/weapons/armora - son of Zeus & Hera - Thrace - Italian god of war & agriculture |
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Persephone (Proserpina/Kore/Maiden) |
- daughter of Zeus & Demeter - queen of underworld - death/marriage - earth - fertility - abducted by hades |
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Hermes (Mercury/Cyllenean/Argus Slayer) |
- leader of death - lyre, traveler hat, winged sandals, caduceus - messenger of gods, merchants/highway men/thieves |
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Athena (Minerva/Pallas Athena) |
- daughter of Zeus & metis - virginity, spear/helmit/aegis - owl/olives - war/protecting city, wisdom, crafts/weaving - strange birth: from Zeus’s head - punished Arachne & Tiresias |
