Word Routes 1
The word that describes a line in song. Derived from the god Apollo.
What is a lyric?
The monsters, born in two sets of three, to Gaia and Uranus, who Uranus later imprisoned in Tartarus.
Who are the Cyclopes and the Hecatonchaires?
Dragon like creatures with wings whose looks could turn a man to stone. There were three of them.
What are the Gorgons?
Nothingness or the void
What is Chaos?
The monsters called such because of their one round eye. Influenced the development of words to later describe modes of transport favored by Queen.
What is a Cyclops?
The feeling you get when you hear the most famous satyr running through the woods.
What is panic?
The original usurper who killed is father then swallowed his children.
Who is Cronus?
A half man, half horse creature; the most famous of whom is called Chiron
What is a centaur?
The desiccated age; a time when apathy, war, self-interest, and violence reigned.
What is The Iron Age?
The study of the earth. Derived from Gaia (Gaea) or Mother Earth, mother of the Titans and Monsters.
What is geology?
A mortal enemy or foe. Derived from the Greek god of "Righteous Anger".
What is nemesis?
The wife of Cronus and a fellow Titan. She conspired with her youngest, Zeus, to trick her husband.
Who is Rhea?
A half man, half goat creature. The most famous is Pan, son of Hermes, who played the pipes and chased wood nymphs.
What is a satyr?
His Roman name is Saturn and his symbol is the sickle or scythe, a present from his mother.
Who is Cronus?
The word that means memory device. Derived from the Titan of Memory and the mother of the 9 Muses.
What is a mneumonic?
The effect of light reflecting and refracting into all the colors of the rainbow; Derived from the goddess of the rainbow
What is iridescent?
Punished by Zeus for rebelling against him during the Titanomachy, his punishment is that he must forever hold up the world on his shoulders.
Who is Atlas?
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos who together are an entity to whom even Zeus is vulnerable.
Who are the Fates?
The era when work became necessary and the people sometimes forgot to pay homage to the gods.
What is the Silver Age?
A society governed by the wealthy. Derived from the greek god of wealth, minerals, and precious gems (and one other major realm)....
What is a plutocracy?
The word describing how armed forces will walk to the battlefield; derived from the god of war.
What is march?
The son of the Titan, Iapetus, who offered the essential counsel to Zeus that led to him finally winning the Titanomachy war.
Who is Prometheus?
The ferryman who transports the souls of the dead across the river Acheron, the river of Lamentation. He will only take souls upon whose lips passage money was placed when they were buried.
Who is Charon?
The most brazen of the ages; Men made weapons and used them. kings replaced gods in terms of worship.
What is the Bronze Age?
The word that describes how our solar system rotates around the one focal point of the sun. Derived from the second generation Titan, son of Hyperion, whose sister was Selene, deity of the Moon.
What is heliocentric?