Transcript mythical names

Hans Klaar
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Aphrodite
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 is the Greek goddess of love, beauty,
pleasure, and procreation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Aphrodite_Syracuse.
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Cupid
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 is the god of desire, affection and
erotic love.
 He is the son of the goddess
Venus and the god Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cupido4b.jpg
Pandora
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 was the first woman. As Hesiod
related it, each god helped create her
by giving her unique gifts.
Socratic
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 was a classical Greek
Athenian philosopher
 Credited as one of the
founders of Wester
philosophy, he is an
enigmatic figure known
chiefly through the accounts
of later classical writers,
especially the writings of his
students Plato and
Xenophon, and the plays of
his contemporary
Aristophanes
Damocles
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 is a figure featured in a
single moral anecdote
concerning the Sword of
Damocles, which was a
late addition to classical
Greek culture.
Cleopatra VII
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 Cleopatra VII Philopator
Late 69 BC –was the last
pharaoh of Ancient
Egypt.
 She was a member of the
Ptolemaic dynasty, a
family of Greek origin
that ruled Egypt after
Alexander the Great's
death during the
Hellenistic period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin1.jpg
Hercules
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 Hercules is the Roman name
for Greek demigod Heracles,
son of Zeus and the mortal
Alcmene. Early Roman sources
suggest that the imported
Greek hero supplanted a
mythic Italic shepherd called
"Recaranus" or "Garanus",
famous for his strength who
dedicated the Ara Maxima that
became associated with the
earliest Roman cult of Hercules.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heracles_PioClementino_Inv252.jpg
Sphinx
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 A sphinx is a mythical
creature with a lion's body
and a human head or a cat
head.
 The sphinx, in Greek
tradition, has the
haunches of a lion, the
wings of a great bird, and
the face of a woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Sphinx_of_Giza
_-_20080716a.jpg
Achilles
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 In Greek mythology,
Achilles pronounced was a
Greek hero of the Trojan
War
 As he died because of a
small wound on his heel,
the term Achilles' heel has
come to mean a person's
principal weakness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leon_Benouville_The
_Wrath_of_Achilles.jpg
Homer
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 In the Western classical
tradition Homer is the author
of the Iliad and the Odyssey,
and is revered as the greatest
ancient Greek epic poet.
These epics lie at the
beginning of the Western
canon of literature, and have
had an enormous influence
on the history of literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homer_British_
Museum.jpg
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 Methuselah is the oldest
person whose age is
mentioned in the Hebrew
Bible. Extra-biblical
tradition maintains that he
died on the 11th of
Cheshvan of the year 1656
(Anno Mundi, after
Creation), at the age of 969,
seven days before the
beginning of the Great
Flood.
Triton
 Triton is a mythological
Greek god, the messenger
of the big sea. He is the son
of Poseidon, god of the sea,
and Amphitrite, goddess of
the sea, whose herald he is.
He is usually represented
as a merman, having the
upper body of a human and
the tail of a fish, "sea-hued",
according to Ovid "his
shoulders barnacled with
sea-shells".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tritonbrunnen
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