Who's Your Daddy?
Invulnerable, except his heel where his mother held him when she dipped him in the River Styx.
Who is Achilles?
This three-headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld.
What is Cerberus?
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 Plautus farce and was called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to . . . this Roman public square.
What is Forum?
Son of Zeus. Greatest of the Greek heroes. Known for his strength and masculinity.
Who is Hercules?
Hercules slayed this multi-headed serpent that grew two heads for every head that was cut off.
What is the Hydra?
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 Rude Mechanicals in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
A string helped this son of Poseidon escape the labyrinth after slaying the minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
An offended Athena transformed this beautiful woman into a snake-haired Gorgon.
Who is Medusa?
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)?
George Bernard 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 (that he had carved)?
Pollux was the son of Zeus and the mortal Leda. His fraternal twin brother Castor was mortal. They become this constellation and sign of the Zodiac.
Who are the Gemini Twins? What is Gemini?
Arachne was transformed into an arachnid for challenging Athena to this contest.
What is weaving?
Hubris is a recurring theme in the myths that refers to this deadly sin.
What is Pride (especially before the gods)?
In Doctor Faustus, playwright 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?
Bellerophon, a son of Poseidon, captured and rode this white, winged creature when he slew the Chimera.
What is Pegasus?
On his journey home, Odysseus has to sail between these two monsters.
Who are Scylla and Charybdis?
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?