Match the names of the Gods with the meanings they denote.
| 1. Ares
| a. the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family
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| 2. Heracles
| b. a monster shaped half like a man and half like a bull, confined in the labyrinth built by Daedalus for Minos, and given a periodic tribute of youths and maidens as food until slain by Theseus
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| 3. Hades
| c. the embodiment of the Earth’s fertility at the same time the Queen of the Underworld,
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| 4. Minotar
| d. the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage
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| 5. Eileithyia
| e. the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes
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| 6. Hera
| f. the god of the sea and, as “Earth-Shaker”, of earthquakes
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| 7. Alkmene
| g. the underground god of the dead
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| 8. Hebe
| h. the legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra; the Ionian founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer
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| 9. Persephone
| i. the mother of Heracles; the tallest, most beautiful woman with wisdom surpassed by no person born of mortal parents
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| 10. Poseidon
| j. a mythical Greek hero renowned for his great strength and especially for performing Twelve labors imposed on him by Hera
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| 11. Theseus
| k. the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder
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| 12. Hestia
| l. the goddess of youth, the daughter of Zeus and Hera
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| 13. Zeus
| m. the mighty but hated man-slaying god of war and warriors
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| 14. Hephaestus
| n. the goddess of childbirth and labour pains
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Task II.
Match the words and word combinations with their definitions.
| 1. to impose a punishment
| a. a sudden uncontrollable attack a feeling of intense anger
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| 2. a funeral pyre
| b. the kingdom of the dead
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| 3. to strike one’s aegis
| c. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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| 4. a wooden club
| d. to give an account or representation of in words
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| 5. a fit of madness
| e. greatest in status or authority or power
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| 6. feat of stamina
| f. to cause a violent wind
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| 7. to be sovereign of something
| g. to hit against an armor plate that protects the chest
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| 8. the realm of the dead
| h. to carry out a notable achievement
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| 9. to accomplish exploits
| i. a notable achievement of enduring strength and energy
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| 10. to account for something
| j. to establish or apply by authority a severe, rough, or disastrous treatment
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| 11. to strike one’s tempests
| k. a stout stick that is larger at one end
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