Review for Myth Unit

List the 12 Labors of Hercules, with a brief description?

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Which two of the 12 Labors of Hercules didn't count and why?

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• A maze is a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find

• Minotaur

• Titan that gave the humans fire

• Prometheus

• Slayed the minotaur

• Ariadne

• Cretan princess and the daughter of King Minos of Crete

• Theseus

• Half boar, half human

• Labyrinth

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• the Ancient Greek goddess of the harvest  

• Hermes

• Goddess of Spring

• Poseidon

• God of the seas

• Titan

• Messenger of the gods

• Demeter

•  any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and their descendants                   

• Persephone

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• son of Acheron and Orphne 

• Eurystheus

• a many-headed serpent or monster in Greek mythology that Hercules slew,

• Ceres

• king of Tiryns     

• Hydra

• Goddess of agriculture, fertility, grains, the harvest, motherhood, the earth, and cultivated crops

• Hercules

• son of Jupiter, and the mortal Alcmena, famous for his strength

• Ascalaphus

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• She wore her father Ares' zoster

• Hippolyta

• a wedding gift to Hera from Gaia, and they were protected by a great serpent called Ladon.

• Crete

• King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick 7 boys , 7 girls

• Minos

•   the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world

• Golden Apples

• larger than a bull, with golden antlers like a stag, hooves of bronze or brass, and a "dappled hide

• Hind

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• the Sun was put in a chariot, and everyday God Helios would drive the chariot all along the sky 

• Chariot

• the god and personification of the Sun.

• Helios

•  the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun-god Helios in Greek mythology

• Clymene

• often referred to as the hound of Hades, is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Under

• Phaethon

• one of the elder Okeanides and the Titan goddess of fame and renown

• Cerberus

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• is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that makes up the cosmos)

• Fates

• he is the queen of the twelve Olympians and Mount Olympus, sister, and wife of Zeus              

• Zeus

• a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently represented as a trio of goddesses.

• Hades

•  the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus 

• Underworld

•  the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous

• Hera

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• a mountain nymph, or oread    

• Styx

•  a river that forms the boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the Underworld

• Echo

• a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy

• Atlas

• Th giant mountain where the gods live  

• Athens

• an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft

• Olympus

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• a "dappled hide" that "excelled in the swiftness of foot," and snorted fire

• Hercules

•  the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth

• Hades

• the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter, and the mortal Alcmena.

• Narcissus

• a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia

• Hera

•  the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea     

• Hind

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