The Roman
Name Game
Name Game
Roman Counterpart of Apollo.
Who is Apollo?
The Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell reimagines this classic Greek tragedy.
What is Orpheus and Eurydice?
This goddess drove Heracles into a fit of temporary madness, causing him to kill his wife and children and leading to his twelve labors as penance.
Who is Hera?
The last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, a brilliant diplomat and linguist who utilized strategic alliances with Rome's most powerful men to maintain Egyptian independence and secure her place in cultural mythos.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
This word for a book of maps is named after the Titan condemned to hold up the celestial spheres
What is atlas?
Greek counterpart of Minerva.
Who is Athena?
Suzanne Collins has acknowledged that The Hunger Games was heavily inspired by this greek myth.
What is Theseus and the Minotaur?
During his eleventh labor, Heracles temporarily took over this Titan's heavy burden of holding up the celestial sphere on his shoulders.
Who is Atlas?
Conqueror whose vast empire stretched from Greece to India, directly triggering the Hellenistic period and blending Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian cultures.
Who is Alexander the Great?
A breakfast staple in your kitchen cabinet, this word comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and grain
What is cereal?
Roman counterpart of Dionysus.
Who is Bacchus?
The 2014 Disney movie Maleficent and the original Sleeping Beauty draw heavy narrative structures from the myth of this goddess of luck and fate, who was left out of an important feast.
What is Discordia (roman) or Eris (greek)?
Heracles wore the impenetrable hide of this first beast he ever slew as his signature cloak and hood for the rest of his adventures.
What is the Nemean Lion?
Polymath whose writings on science, logic, poetics, and politics laid the literal framework for Western intellectual history.
Who is Aristotle?
Meaning self-love or extreme vanity, this word comes from a handsome youth who fell in love with his own reflection
What is narcissism?
Greek counterpart of Ceres.
Who is Demeter?
This 1993 Steven Spielberg sci-fi blockbuster functions as a modern-day cautionary tale of Promethean hubris, where humans steal the "fire" of genetic recreation only to be consumed by it.
What is Jurassic Park?
For his second labor, Heracles had to slay this multi-headed water serpent, whose heads would regrow in pairs unless the stump was cauterized.
What is the Lernaean Hydra?
Student of Socrates who founded the Academy and authored The Republic, shaping political theory and metaphysics for millennia.
Who is Plato?
This term for a bitter or unbeatable rival—or ultimate retribution—is named after the Greek goddess of divine vengeance
What is nemesis?
Roman counterpart of Hestia.
Who is Vesta?
The name of this artificial intelligence system from the Matrix franchise is shared with the Greek god of dreams, fitting for a program that maintains a simulated dream world for humanity.
Who is Morpheus?
Heracles accomplished his fifth labor by diverting the Alpheus and Peneus rivers to flush out these notoriously filthy structures in a single day.
What are the Augean stables?
Athenian statesman who led Athens during its Golden Age, fostering democracy, philosophy, and the arts while commissioning the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
Derived from a Greek king punished in the Underworld with eternal hunger and thirst just out of reach, this verb means to torment someone with desire
What is tantalize?