Thar Be Monsters
This three-headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld.
Cerberus
The home of the Olympian gods, except Hades who dwelled in the underworld.
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.
The Forum
Hercules slayed this multi-headed serpent that grew two heads for every head that was cut off.
Hydra
Narcissus was a beautiful youth who fell in love with this.
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.
Pyramus and Thisbe
An offended Athena transformed this beautiful woman into a snake-haired Gorgon.
Medusa
The month of January is named for Janus, the Roman god of transitions. He had this feature.
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.
A Statue he carved
Arachne was transformed into an arachnid for challenging Athena to this contest.
Weaving
Hubris is a recurring theme in the myths that refers to this deadly sin
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."
Helen of Troy
On his journey home, Odysseus has to sail between these two monsters.
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.
Romulus and Remus
Eugene O’Neill wrote a collection of plays called Mourning Becomes Electra based on a classic Greek trilogy about this king
King Agamemnon