MYTHICAL NAMES

1. MYTHICAL NAMES Hans Klaar Form 12

2. Aphrodite • is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Aphrodite_Syracuse.jpg

3. Cupid • 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

4. Pandora • was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts.

5. Socratic • was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher • Credited as one of the founders of Westerphilosophy, 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

6. Damocles • is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote concerning the Sword of Damocles, which was a late addition to classical Greek culture.

7. Cleopatra VII • Cleopatra VII PhilopatorLate 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 Hellenisticperiod. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin1.jpg

8. Hercules • 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_Pio-Clementino_Inv252.jpg

9. Sphinx • A sphinxis 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

10. Achilles • In Greek mythology, Achillespronouncedwas 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

11. Homer • In the Western classical tradition Homeris 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

12. MethuselahistheoldestpersonwhoseageismentionedintheHebrewBible. Extra-biblicaltraditionmaintainsthathedied on the 11th ofCheshvanoftheyear 1656 (AnnoMundi, afterCreation), at theageof 969, sevendaysbeforethebeginningoftheGreatFlood.

13. Triton • Tritonis 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". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tritonbrunnen_rom.JPG

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