Remember the Titans
The personification of the Earth. She was the ancestral mother of all life: the Mother Earth goddess.
Gaia/Terra
This was the weapon of choice for Zeus, the king of the gos and ruler on Mount Olympus.
Lightning Bolt
Invulnerable, except his heel where his mother held him when she dipped him in the river Styx.
Achilles
This tribe of warrior women lends its name to the world's largest river.
The Amazon
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
Chronos/Saturn
This was the name of the underworld and the god who ruled there.
Hades
Son of Zeus. Greatest of the Greek heroes. Known for his strength and masculinity.
Hercules
Oedipus unknowingly fulfilled this prophecy.
Kill his father and marry his mother
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
Condemned to hold up the sky after losing the last Titan Battle, the name of this Titan also refers to a collection of maps.
Atlas
This goddess of wisdom sprang from Zeus's head, fully grown and in armor. What a headache!
Athena/Minerva
A string, called a clue, helped this son of Poseidon escape the labyrinth after slaying the minotaur.
Theseus
The master craftsman and artist Daedalus designed and built this structure to house the Minotaur.
Labyrinth
Shaw's play and the musical "My Fair Lady" are based on the myth of Pygmalion who fell in love with this object.
A statue he had carved
Prometheus was punished for this act.
Stealing fire and giving it to man
Goddess of love and beauty.
Aphrodite/Venus
Pollux was the son of Zeus and the mortal Leda. His fraternal twin brother Castor was mortal. They become this constellation and the sign of the Zodiac.
The Gemini Twins
Jason sailed with the Argonauts to retrieve this quest item in order to claim his trone.
Golden Fleece
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
The Portland, Oregon-based athletic shoe, apparel, and sports equipment company is named after the goddess of victory.
Nike
Poseidon is the god of the seas, water, and of this animal, which he created from the foam as waves touched the shore.
The Horse
Bellerophon, a son of Poseidon, captured and rode this white, winged creature when he slew the Chimera.
Pegasus
Sisyphus had to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to have this happen when he reached the top.
The bolder rolled down again
Eugene O'Neill wrote a collection of plays called "Mourning Becomes Electra" based on a classic Greek trilogy about this king.
King Agamemnon