Water, Water Everywhere...
Down Under
Earth Gods/Creatures
Eat and Drink
Creation and Earliest Heroes
100
Trumpeter of the Sea, a son of Poseidon
Triton
100
King of the Underworld
Hades or Pluto
100
Merry son of Hermes, half god, half goat, who plays the pipes
Pan
100
Earth goddess of the corn
Demeter or Ceres
100
Greeks believed that this shapeless nothingness came before creation
Chaos
200
"The Sea" usually referred to in Greek/Roman mythology
Mediterranean
200
Queen of the Underworld
Persephone or Proserpine
200
Creatures trapped on an island who lured sailors to their deaths by means of enchanting songs
Sirens
200
Earth god of wine and theater
Dionysus and Bacchus
200
Mother Earth
Gaea or Gaia
300
Old Man of the Sea, had 50 daughters
Nereus
300
Underworld gatekeeper, a three-headed, dragon-tailed dog
Cerberus
300
Half-man, half-horse creatures, often savage
Centaurs
300
Maiden of the spring, Demeter's kidnapped daughter
Persephone
300
Monsters, but favorites of Zeus, these one-eyed "wonderful workers" forged his thunderbolts
Cyclops or Cyclopes
400
**DAILY DOUBLE** Water nymphs of springs, fountains, and brooks
Naiads
400
Place of blessedness in the underworld
Elysian Fields
400
Group name for Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos, the powerful trio who give to men at birth evil and good
Fates
400
Mother of Dionysus, died upon seeing Zeus in his divine form
Semele
400
He dies by falling in love with his own reflection and is memorialized by a flower bearing his name
Narcissus
500
A son/attendant of Poseidon with the ability to tell fortunes and changes shapes
Proteus
500
Aged boatman who ferries the dead across the Acheron River to entrance of Underworld
Charon
500
Special protectors of sailors, twin brothers and children of Leda
Castor and Pollux
500
Frenzied women who followed Dionysus, waving pinecone-tipped wands in ecstasy
Maenads or Bacchantes
500
Near-perfect mortal loved and fought over by goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone
Adonis
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