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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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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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Dipped into the river Styx by his mother but was held by his heel making him vulnerable, Apollo/Paris shot him here with a poisoned arrow during the siege of Troy
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achilles
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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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Depicted in the constellation Gemini, these twins have the same mother Leda, but one had a mortal father and the other had Zeus as his father making him immortal. one was killed so the other begged his dad, Zeus, to share his mortality, so the brothers spent half their eternity in Hades
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castor and pollux
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Single most influential Greek, first great playwright, wrote the Oresteia detailing the horrors that befell the House of Atreus. He was the grandson of Tantalus, father of Agamemnon, and grandfather of Orestes. Influenced dramas like Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
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aeschylus
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A Lion in the front and a serpent in the Rear and a goat in between
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chimera
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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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Version 1: Desired by Pan, but didn't return his feelings which caused the goat-god to have her torn to pieces only leaving her voice. Version 2: Loud-mouthed attendant of Hera who could never be quiet enough for Hera to catch Zeus cheating
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echo
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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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Most inventive, literally, creating robots and the labyrinth that housed the Minotaur, also made wings for his son Icarus out of feathers and wax, which obviously was an issue to cause Icarus' death when he flew to close to the sun
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daedalus
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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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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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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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Became immortal almost by accident. Son of Zeus, he ate their food on Olympus and became immortal. Not popular because he stole the 'ambrosia' and gave it to the mortals and gossiped about everything he heard on Mount Olympus. They sentenced him to remain in water up to his chin with grapes just out of his reach.
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tantalus
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Greatest hero of Athens, if not all Greece. His sone Aegeus and wife Aethra. Was one of the Argonauts, slew giants, fought Amazons. He slew the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne's thread. Forgot to tell his dad he didn't die, so his dad committed suicide.
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theseus
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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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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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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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When the warrior Jason needed to bring back the Golden Fleece of Colchis he assembled this group of heroes that included Hercules, Orpheus, and Argos
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argonauts
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