Gods & Goddesses
This god rules Mount Olympus and hurls thunderbolts.
Zeus
The clever king of Ithaca who devised the Trojan Horse and spent ten years trying to return home.
Odysseus
This three-headed dog guards the gates of the Underworld.
Cerberus
The story of a boy who flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.
Icarus
The god who rules the realm of the dead.
Hades
God of the sea and earthquakes who wields a trident.
Poseidon
This hero completed twelve labors, including slaying the Nemean Lion.
Hercules
Looking directly at this Gorgon turns the viewer to stone.
Medusa
This curious woman opened a jar that released all the evils into the world.
Pandora
Souls must cross this river to enter the Underworld; Charon is the ferryman.
River Styx
Messenger of the gods who wears winged sandals and carries a caduceus.
Hermes
Greatest warrior of the Trojan War; his only vulnerable spot was his heel.
Achilles
This multi-headed water serpent regrows two heads for every one cut off.
Hydra
This king was granted the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
King Midas
Goddess of spring who spends part of each year in the Underworld as its queen.
Persephone
God of wine, theater, and ecstasy whose followers were called maenads.
Dionysus
This hero entered the Labyrinth and slew the Minotaur with help from Ariadne's thread.
Theseus
This winged horse sprang from the blood of Medusa after Perseus slew her.
Pegasus
The Trojan War began after this prince abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus.
Paris
The paradise region of the Underworld reserved for heroes and the virtuous.
Elysian Fields
Nem
Athena
He led the Argonauts on a quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
Jason
A fire-breathing monster with a lion's body, a goat's head on its back, and a serpent for a tail.
Chimera
This hunter saw Artemis bathing, was turned into a stag, and was killed by his own hounds.
Actaeon
One of the three judges of the dead in the Underworld, along with Minos and Rhadamanthus.
Aeacus