Greek Mythology Review

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  1. 5. Monster in Crete who ate youth from Athens every year. Killed by the hero Theseus
  2. 7. Grown in the Garden of the Hesperides, Hercules had to retrieve them in his eleventh labor, Eris used one to cause trouble at a wedding
  3. 9. Brother of Menelaus, High King of the Greeks, leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War
  4. 13. Priestess who was given the gift of prophesy but who was cursed never to be believed
  5. 17. Queen of the Underworld, Goddess of Spring, daughter of Demeter, whose kidnapping lead to the creation of the four seasons.
  6. 18. Half-man half-horse, one of these creatures tricked Hercules’ lover into killing him
  7. 19. A princess that was saved by the hero Perseus from being sacrificed to a sea monster
  8. 22. Clever Greek who came up with the idea of the Trojan horse and whose journey home from Troy is the subject of a great epic
  9. 24. hero who flees the fall of Troy carrying his father and whose descendants go on to help found the city of Rome
  10. 26. This warrior faced a choice of whether to live to an old age or die young and be famous forever
  11. 28. Goddess of love and beauty, born from the sea foam after her father was castrated
  12. 29. Most beautiful woman in the world, wife of Menelaus of Sparta, taken by Paris of Troy
  13. 30. creatures who beautiful singing often lured sailors to their deaths
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  1. 1. Hero who retrieved the famous Golden Fleece, sailed with men known as the Argonauts
  2. 2. Titan who held up the sky and aided Hercules by retrieving an apple from the Garden of the Hesperides while Hercules held the sky
  3. 3. Father of Zeus who ate his other children to avoid the fate of an evil prophecy
  4. 4. lover of Aeneas and Queen of Carthage, her anger sows the seeds for later wars between Carthage and Rome
  5. 6. wife of Agamemnon who murders him when he returns from the Trojan War for sacrificing their daughter
  6. 8. King of Troy who secretly approached Achilles to retrieve the body of Hector
  7. 10. Goddesses who avenged familial murder, including Orestes’ murder of his mother
  8. 11. Sorceress from Colchis who helped Jason retrieve the Golden Fleece and dismembered her brother’s body to slow her father’s chase down as they fled
  9. 12. Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who kills his mother and is driven mad by the Furies
  10. 14. Goddess of wisdom, born from the head of Zeus with weapons and armor ready
  11. 15. Hero who killed Medusa and saved the princess Andromeda from a sea monster
  12. 16. Three sisters who spun the thread of human life, measured it out, and then cut it to end the life of the person
  13. 20. Type of monster one-eyed monster, whose blinding by Odysseus offended Poseidon
  14. 21. First established by Athena in the trial to determine the fate of Orestes
  15. 23. Prince of Troy killed in one-on-one combat with Achilles who dragged his body behind his chariot
  16. 25. blind prophet from Thebes, gave advice to Odysseus in the Underworld
  17. 27. Hero who completed twelve labors and died from a centaur’s poisonous blood