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According to the Iliad, the sone of Anchises and Aphrodite was the greatest Trojan Leader, according the Vergil in the Aeneid he was the founder of Rome.
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aeneas
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Son of Laius, the King of Thebes and the Queen Jocasta. There was a prophecy that he would slay his father and marry his mother. So they ordered a shepherd to pierce his feet and leave him on a mountain cliff to die. Obviously he didn't, he grew up, had a ruckus with a traveler (his father) killed him. He answered the Riddle of a magical being, if he got it wrong he would have been destroyed. The people were so happy he destroyed this magical being so they awarded him the Queen (aka mom). They married, had 4 kids, Jocasta hung herself and this man gorged his eyes out and was guided by Antigone as he wandered blindly around the world.
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oedipus
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This mortal pursues mortals that are evil and had committed sins and injustices. Her name has come to mean any antagonist now.
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nemesis
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Created by Zeus as the first mortal woman, origin of virtually every anti-feminist belief. He created her because he was mad at Prometheus for gifting mankind with fire. He gave her a box and said never to open it but 'because she's a woman' her curiosity caused her to open it and release all the woes of the word. One thing remained in the corner of the box. Hope.
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pandora
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Twin sons of Mars and a vestal virgin, Rhea Silvia (not the goddess). Babies were seen as a threat and were floated down the Tiber River in a basket. Instead of drowning the babes were rescued by a she-wolf Palatine Hill. Grew up, founded a city, one built a wall, brother smack talked his wall, one brother killed the other, it became Rome.
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romulus and remus
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Mother of Castor and Clytemnestra fathered by Tyndareus of Sparta, mother of Helen and Pollux fathered by Zeus
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leda
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Beautiful and beloved by Aphrodite and Persephone, and was killed by a wild boar, to share Zeus made him live six months in the underworld then six months on Earth
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adonis
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Daughter/sister of Oedipus, (because he had sex with his mother), accompanied him in his exile from Thebes
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antigone
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Siege of Troy, soldiers sent to retrieve Helen. They couldn't get in.. so they took Athena's advice and built THIS to get in, hid in its belly, then jumped out and unlocked the gates
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trojan horse
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The ferryman who took souls to the Underworld, though there were 5 different rivers to the Underworld
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charon
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2nd generation Titan, the son of Iapetus and Clymene. He was defeated in war and had to stand in the western part of the universe and hold up the sky for all eternity.
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atlas
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What walks first on four legs, then on two, then on three?
The answer is a man
This is called the Riddle of the _____________
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sphinx
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A monster who had anywhere from 3 to 100 eyes. Killed by Hermes, after Zeus was jealous
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argus
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Daughter of Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia bragged she was prettier than Poseidon's daughters so he changed her to rock in the ocean, but Perseus arrived to rescue her before the sea monster killed her.
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andromeda
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Most famous mortal in mythology thanks to Homer, who told his story in two epic tales. First book is the Iliad which details up into the Trojan War. Name has become a meaning for a 10 year wandering.
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odysseus
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Fierce warrior that slew the Chimera and defeated the Amazons had many adventures aboard his winged horse
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bellerophon
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Neither Hero or god, this man was the first to set down the tales of monsters, mortals, and gods. Wrote Iliad and Odysseus/Ulysses. Homer could have been a blind singer, a woman hiding under a pseudonym or was never really a person because Homer is Greek for poet.
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homer
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Mortal son of Apollo and Calliope, had two great loves: his music and his wife, Eurydice. Eurydice was fatally bitten by a snake, so he begged Hades for her return, his pleas didn't work but his music did. But he ruined it by looking at her as they ascended to Earth, making her return to the Underworld forever.
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orpheus
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Had either 12, 14, or 20 children of equal genders. She suggested she was better than Leto who only had two children. Leto's children slain all of her children with invisible arrows, cause her to cry forever and turned into a fountain.
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niobe
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Daughter of Leda and Zeus, so beautiful that every man in Sparta was her suitor. All suitors agreed that Menelaus the King of Sparta should have her, but was carried of by Paris and started the Trojan War.. Paris was killed, she married his brother Deiphobus, and left him during the fall of Troy, returned to Sparta and lived with Menelaus.
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helen
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