Oia

○○○ 12 Olympians ⪢⪢
Zeus, Poseidon, Aid, Ares, Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Dionysus #Greece #bookmark #front
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○○○ 12 Major Dieties ⪢⪢
Jupiter, Neptune, Pluton, Mars, February, Mercury, Volcano, Juno, Minerva, Venus, Diana and Bacchus #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Aegean Sea ⪢⪢
Ancient Greece was born on the shores of the _____ about 4,000 years ago. #Greece
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○○○ antiquity ⪢⪢
#Greece
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○○○ Ariadne ⪢⪢
On his way, he meets _____ , the daughter of Minos, who falls in love with him. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Athens ⪢⪢
_____ and the Aegean Sea that surrounds it is the country's core. #Greece #grammar
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○○○ barrier ⪢⪢
The Rhodope and Pindus mountains form natural _____s with its northern neighbors. #Greece
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○○○ border ⪢⪢
It _____s Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. #Greece
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◎◎◎ Cancer ⪢⪢
The sign of _____ is depicted by a crab. #Greece
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○○○ coastline ⪢⪢
The Aegean, Mediterranean and Ionian seas surround Greece giving it one of the world's longest _____s. #Greece
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○○○ Cyprus ⪢⪢
Travelers would change boats in various ports as they moved up the coasts of Lebanon, _____ and the islands of the southern Aegean. #Greece
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○○○ Daedalus ⪢⪢
Minos, in a rage, locks up the designer of the maze, _____ . #Greece
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○○○ Delos ⪢⪢
The island of Delos was one of the most important places in the ancient Greek world. #place #Greece
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○○○ Demeter ⪢⪢
Every year, before the ancient Greeks sowed their seeds of grain, they celebrated _____ , the goddess of agriculture. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Etruscan ⪢⪢
￫ assimilation #Greece
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○○○ Eurydice ⪢⪢
Orpheus lived with his wife _____ who loved him very deeply. #Greece
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○○○ Friday ⪢⪢
And Friday. Well, the only planet left is Venus, goddess of love. The Anglo-Saxen goddess of love was Frigg and this is her day. #bookmark #Greece
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○○○ Galatea ⪢⪢
_____ , the statue of Pygmalion, was alive. #Greece
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• Greek Mythology
#listening
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○○○ Hades ⪢⪢
So one day, when Persephone was picking flowers, the earth opened beneath her feet and _____ came out of the earth with his chariot and black horses. #Greece
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○○○ Helios ⪢⪢
And she asked _____ , Sun God, if he knew what had happened to Persephone. #bookmark #Greece
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○○○ Hercules ⪢⪢
#Greece
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○○○ Hestia ⪢⪢
_____ drank too much and got tired, so she lied down for a carefree nap. #Greece
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○○○ Icarus ⪢⪢
But he too escapes along with his ill-fated son, _____ , on waxen wings. #Greece
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○○○ Iliad ⪢⪢
Their heroism was often turned into legend thanks to literary works like "The _____". #Greece
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○○○ Minos ⪢⪢
The Minoan Civilization named after _____ , the legendary king of Crete, was also called the Aegean Civilization. #Greece
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○○○ Minotaur ⪢⪢
The great legend tells of a monstrous figure, the _____ , half-man, half-bull, born of the union of a while bull with Pasiphae, king minos's wife. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Monday ⪢⪢
Monday is moon day. Roman mythology had the moon goddess Luna which is why French has Lundi, Spanish Lunes, but here English substituted its own old English word for moon, Mona. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ myth ⪢⪢
Before science and psychology provided answers about our world, people used _____ to explain strange things in nature; the creation of the world and human actions and emotions. Different cultures had different stories to try to explain things.
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○○○ mythology ⪢⪢
Most myths have supernatural beings or events. Greek _____ is the most popular and influential but many cultures around the world had their own tales and stories.
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○○○ Oia ⪢⪢
_____ is the postcard image of the Greek isles. #place #Greece
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Songs in Easy English

○○○ Orpheus ⪢⪢
Once upon a time there lived a great musician in Greece called _____ . #Greece
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○○○ Parthenon ⪢⪢
Plus, they developed three types of columns and incorporated them to structures like the _____ . #Greece
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○○○ Polyphemus ⪢⪢
_____ is the son of Poseidon, God of the sea, and a sea nymph known as Thoosa. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Priapus ⪢⪢
_____ was wandering back and forth looking for a sexual encounter. #Greece
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○○○ Rhea ⪢⪢
_____ invited the eternal gods, satyrs and nymphs to her feast. #Greece
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○○○ Saturday ⪢⪢
In Latin Saturday was dies Saturni, day of Saturn, god of agriculture. English stuck with that idea for Saturday. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Selenus ⪢⪢
_____ , the god of drunkenness showed up uninvited. #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Sparta ⪢⪢
#Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Sunday ⪢⪢
In ancient Latin Sunday was Dies Solis for the Sun God but in the Christian era it was renamed Domonicas for lord's day. Most of the Romance languages use a desendant of that but in English and Germanic languages it is still named for the sun. #Greece #fr
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○○○ Theseus ⪢⪢
Eventually _____ , the son of the king of Athens, decides to kill the Minotaur. #Greece
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○○○ Thor ⪢⪢
In ancient Rome Jupiter or Jove, the sky god of thunder, a pretty good match for Thor. #bookmark #Greece
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○○○ Tuesday ⪢⪢
Tuesday is Mars day. But the Anglo-saxons had their own sky god of war named Tiw or Tyr in Norse Mythology known as the one-handed war god (due to his hand having been bitten off by a wolf). #Greece #bookmark
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○○○ Wednesday ⪢⪢
The reason that _ is spelled so funny is because it's actually Woden's day. Woden was the big guy of Germanic mythology and the creator of the universe and master of hunting and war while the Roman god Mercury was a mere messenger to the gods. #bookmark
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