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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Nemesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to learn about Nemesis, the spirit of divine retribution and a symbol of justice.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Nyx

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to learn about Nyx, the goddess of the night, who meets the goddess of the day to transition from day to night.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Selene

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Selene, the goddess of the moon, the night and the months, and see her pictures.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Styx

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Styx, who personified the sacred river of the gods that separated the world of the living from the world of the dead.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Minotaur

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to learn more about Minotaur, a cannibalistic monster who had the body of a man and the head of a bull.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Geek Heroes: Daedalus

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Daedalus, the most famous architect, painter, sculptor, and inventor of Ancient Athens.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Centaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the Centaurs, the half- horse creatures of ancient Greece and the spirits of the storm, who were generally lawless, aggressive creatures.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Cerberus

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Cerberus, Hades' monster dog and the guard of the Underworld, who had three heads and snakes on his tail and mane. He guarding the entrance to the underworld to prevent the dead from exiting.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Cyclopes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the Cyclopes, mythological giants with only one round eye in their forehead. See why they only have one eye.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Giants

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the Giants of Ancient Greece, huge, frightful monsters who tried to attach the Olympian gods.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Graeae

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the Graeae, three old sisters who shared one tooth and one eye and responsible for the guard of the Gorgons.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Sphinx

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the frightful Sphinx, his riddle, and who solved it.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Typhon (Typhoeus)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Typhon, a terrifying part man part beast monster whose mission was to destroy the earth and cause problems for Zeus.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Satyrs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Satyrs, half-man and half-goat mythological creatures, whose leader was Pan.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Myth of Hercules: 12 Labors in 8 Bits

For Students 9th - 10th
Hercules, stricken with a temporary curse of madness, has just committed the most unspeakable crime imaginable. Seeking to atone for the deaths of his family, Hercules must complete twelve impossible tasks that pit him against invincible...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Myth of Pandora's Box

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Iseult Gillespie explores the mystery of Pandora's box.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Myth of Arachne

For Students 9th - 10th
Iseult Gillespie shares how one such unnerving transformation befell the spinner Arachne.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Hermes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Hermes, the Greek god of the trade, the god of eloquence, and a luck-bringing messenger of the gods. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles,...
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Website
Emory University

Emory University: Odyssey Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Odyssey Online is a resource for both students and teachers as they explore world mythology in reading, writing, history, and art classes. Providing sections on Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and African mythology, Odyssey uses...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Medea (Euripides)

For Students 9th - 10th
MIT offers an online version of the classical play "Medea" by the Greek playwright Euripides.
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Website
Mythweb

Mythweb: The Labors of Hercules (Heracles)

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the twelve labors of Hercules, delightfully told with comic illustrations in slideshow format.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Mythic Mask or Puppet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create your own masks and puppets and bring the mythic creatures to life.
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eBook
Starfall

Starfall: The Woman Runner

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A read-aloud of the Greek myth The Woman Runner.
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World History Encyclopedia

World History Encyclopedia: Alcestis

For Students 9th - 10th
Reference page on Alcestis, mythical queen of Thessaly in Classical Greek mythology. Page includes links to further reading, timeline and illustrations.

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