CLAS230 Classical Mythology
Department of Classics
Monmouth College

Geography List

You should know the significance of each of the following places and be able to find each place on a map. The words in BOLD CAPITALS are the places you should know. The other words are hints at the significance of the place.

AEGEAN SEA
Aegeus
ARCADIA
Hermes
Pan
ARGOLID
(MYCENAE, TIRYNS, and ARGOS)
Heracles
Hera
Perseus
Bellerophon
House of Atreus
Agamemnon
Menelaus
ATHENS
Athena (and Poseidon)
Theseus
Aegeus (and Medea)
CARTHAGE
Aeneas and Dido
CORINTH
Sisyphus
Jason and Medea
Oedipus
CRETE (and KNOSSOS)
Minos
Theseus
Daedalus and Labyrinth
Zeus
DELOS
Apollo and Artemis
CORINTH
Sisyphus
Jason and Medea
Oedipus
CRETE (and KNOSSOS)
Minos
Theseus
Daedalus and Labyrinth
Zeus
DELOS
Apollo and Artemis
DELPHI
Apollo
Dionysus
Oedipus
ELEUSIS
Demeter
EPHESUS
Artemis
HELLESPONT
Helle
ITHACA
Odysseus
LEMNOS
Hephaistos
Philoctetes
Jason and Argonauts
MT. OLYMPUS
abode of the gods
OLYMPIA
Zeus
Pelops
Heracles
PELOPONESSUS
Pelops
Labors of Heracles
ROME
Aeneas
Romulus and Remus
SOUNION
Poseidon
THEBES
Ares
Dionysus
Cadmus
Tiresias
Oedipus and his family
THESSALY
Jason
Admetus and Alcestis
THRACE
Ares
Orpheus
TROY
Trojan War
Achilles
Hector

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