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Adonis
- -god of beauty and desire
- -fought between aphrodite and persephone
- -1/3 year with each, 1/3 with aphrodite
-someone described as adonis is someone who's attractive & youthful
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Perseus
- -greek hero who is abandoned by grandpa b/c he is destined to kill him
- -kills medusa
- -accidentally kills grandfather
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cupid & psyche
- -aphrodite hates psyche b/c she's so beautiful
- -sends cupid to kill her but he falls in love
- -psyche's jealous sisters try to get her to kill cupid
- -cupid escapes
- -sisters try to jump off cliff but die
- -aphrodite makes psyche do many missions but gods help her
- -finally reunited with cupid
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orpheus & eurydice
- -eurydice is killed at wedding by vipers
- -orpheus plays sad songs that stir hades and persephone
- -they allow eurydice to live once more if he walked in front of her without looking back
- -he looks back and eurydice disappears
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arachne & minerva
- -arachne boasts her weaving is better than athena's
- -they compete & arachne's weaving insults the gods & was more beautiful
- -athena ripped arachne's work and turned her into a spider
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sisyphus
- -sisyphus betrayed zeus
- -zeus orders Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in tartaurus
- -Sisyphus tricks Thanatos and traps him
- -Ares frees Thanatos and he punishes Sisyphus by making him endlessly roll boulder up a hill
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Dido & Aeneas
- -Dido, queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, Trojan hero, fall in love
- -King Iarbas complains to Jupiter for her rejection
- -Mercury sends Aeneas away
- -Dido curses him, proclaims hate between Carthage and Troy, and kills herself
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Paris & Golden Apple
- -Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena fight over golden apple b/c the apple is for the fairest one
- -Paris, king of Troy, is judge
- -Aphrodite offers him world's most beautiful woman, Helen -> Trojan War
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Demeter & Persephone
- -Hades steals Persephone
- -Demeter won't allow harvest
- -Persephone eats pomegranate seeds so she must spend 1/3 of each year in underworld
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Daedalus & Icarus
- -Daedalus & Icarus fly to escape tower
- -Icarus flies too high & sun melts wax, causing him to drown
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Prometheus & Io
- -Promestheus is chained to boulder where eagle eats his liver everyday
- -Io tells him how she turned into a cow to avoid Hera's punishment
- -Promestheus promises she will become a human again and mother to heroes
- -> Hercules releases Promestheus
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Echo & Narcissus
- -Echo distracted Hera while Zeus played with nymphs
- -Hera forces her to repeat other words
- -Echo falls in love with Narcissus but he only loves himself
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Pygmalion & Galatea
- -Pygmalion carved Galatea & fell in love with it
- -Aphrodite turns Galatea to human
-Pygmalion Effect is prophesy where if you think something will happen, you unconsciously make it happen
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Midas Touch (sig.)
Having a Midas Touch means to be successful or rich
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Theseus
- -Theseus overcame obstacles during travel to see father, King Aegeus
- -killed Minotaur in labyrinth & left Anadne on island
- -accidentally forgot to put up white sails -> father kills himself
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agamemnon, orestes, electra
- -when agammemnon was away, his wife Clytemnestra had affair with aegisthus
- -they kill agamenon
- -orestes hides with electra's help
- -orestes dilemma: whether to kill mother
- -kills her & followed by furies, goddesses of revenge
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medea
- -helped Jason get Golden Fleece & willingly killed brother
- -married and had many children but he left her for glauce
- -she killed Glauce and her children
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hero & leander
- -hero fell in love with leander & swam acroos Hellespont every night to see her
- -leander drowns in storm
- -hero kills herself
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