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MYTHICAL NAMES. Hans Klaar Form 12. Aphrodite. is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Aphrodite_Syracuse.jpg. Cupid. is the god of desire, affection and erotic love. He is the son of the goddess Venus and the god Mars. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MYTHICAL NAMES
Hans KlaarForm 12
is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
Aphrodite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Aphrodite_Syracuse.jpg
is the god of desire, affection and erotic love.
He is the son of the goddess Venus and the god Mars
Cupid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cupido4b.jpg
was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts.
Pandora
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
Socratic
is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote concerning the Sword of Damocles, which was a late addition to classical Greek culture.
Damocles
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.
Cleopatra VII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin1.jpg
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.
Hercules
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heracles_Pio-Clementino_Inv252.jpg
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.
Sphinx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Sphinx_of_Giza_-_20080716a.jpg
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.
Achilles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leon_Benouville_The_Wrath_of_Achilles.jpg
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.
Homer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homer_British_Museum.jpg
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 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".
Triton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tritonbrunnen_rom.JPG
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