Thar Be Monsters
This three-headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld.
What is Cerberus?
This tribe of warrior women lends its name to the world's largest river.
Who are the Amazons?
The home of the Olympian gods, except Hades, who dwelled in the underworld.
What is Mount Olympus?
Stephen Sondheim's first Broadway musical was based on a Pautus farce and was called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...this public square.
What is The Forum?
The answer to the Sphinx/s riddle was "man." What is the question?
What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?
Hercules slayed this mulit-headed serpent that grew two heads for every head that was cut.
What is Hydra?
Oedipus unknowingly fulfilled this prophecy
What is killing his father and marrying his mother?
Narcissus was a beautiful youth who fell in love with this.
What is his own reflection?
Shakespeare used this tragic Roman love story as the basis for Romeo and Juliet as well as a farce performed by the Rustics in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
An offended Athena transformed this beautiful woman into a snake-haired Gorgon.
Who is Medusa?
The master craftsman and artist Deadalus designed and built this structure to house the Minotaur.
What is the Labyrinth?
The month of January is named for Janus, the Roman god of transitions. He had this feature.
What is two faces? (one looked forward, the other backward)
Shaw's play and the musical My Fair Lady are based on the myth of Pygmalion who fell in love with this.
What is a statue he had carved?
Arachne was transformed into an arachnid for challenging Athena to this contest.
What is weaving?
Jason sailed with the Argonauts to retrieve this quest item in order to claim his throne.
What is the Golden Fleece?
Hubris is a recurring theme in the myths that refer to this deadly sin.
What is pride? (especially before the gods)
In Doctor Faustus, Marlowe said of this most-beautiful demigod,
"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium."
Who is Helen of Troy?
On his journey home, Odysseus has to sail between these two monsters.
What is Scylla and Charybdis?
Sisyphus had to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to have this happen when he reached the top.
What is the bolder rolled down again?
These twin brothers in Roman mythology were raised by wolves. One of them would go on to found a city named for him.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Eugene O'Neill wrote a collection of plays called Mourning Becomes Electra based on a classic Greek trilogy about this king.
Who is King Agamemnon?