Mythological Creatures
What children of Poseidon/Neptune were giants with only one eye?
Who are the Cyclopes?
Pegasus was born from the blood of this monster.
Who is Medusa?
Neptune/Poseidon was known as the god of this.
What is the sea?
This monster could turn men to stone with her gaze.
Who is Medusa.
Jason's men were known as these:
Who are the Argonauts?
This female monster had a lion's head, a goat's body, and a Serpent's tail.
What was the Chimera
In Greek and Roman mythology these creatures tortured the dead on their journey to the underworld.
Who are the Harpies?
This many headed monster was the offspring of Typhon.
What is the Hydra?
This monster smell bad. It had a woman's face, sharp claws, and wings.
What is a Harpy?
The Bellerophon rode Pegasus to kill this monster.
What is the Chimera?
This divine hero killed the Hydra and was considered the god of strength.
Who is Heracles/ Hercules?
This son of Pasaphaë guarded the Minoan labyrinth in Crete.
What is the Minotaur.
He ferried the dead across the river Styx to Hades
Who is Charon?
This creature had no major roles in Greek mythology. It was a bird type creature half eagle and half lion.
What is a Griffin?
He was a titan condemned to have his liver eaten everyday by a giant eagle.
Who is Prometheus?
He was the ROMAN god of the sky and thunder.
Who is Juppiter?
He was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology.
Who is Typhon?
Ancient Greeks thought natural disasters and severe weather were the work of these.
Who are the Giants?
This creature, often referred to as the hound of Hades, was a mythological multi-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld
What is Cerberus?
This merman, Neptune's son and now its largest moon, was the herald of the sea.
Who is Triton?
Artemis was the goddess of this.
What is the hunt?
This sailor-hungry six headed monster lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.
Who was Scylla?
He grew at a very fast rate. he became one of Greece's finest hunters. A constellation is named for his belt of three stars.
Who was Orion?