Remember the Titans
The personification of the Earth. She was the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess
Gaia
This was the weapon of choice for Zeus, the king of the gods and ruler on Mount Olympus.
What is lighting bolts?
1. Charon was the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across this is the border into Hades.
What is the River Stix?
1. Invulnerable, except his heel where his mother held him when she dipped him in the River Styx.
Who is Achilles?
1. This tribe of warrior women lends its name to the world’s largest river.
What is Amazon?
1. This three-headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld.
What is Cerberus?
1. The home of the Olympian gods, except Hades who dwelled in the underworld.
What is Mount Olympus?
1. 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.
What is the Forum?
Father Time who maintained the course and cycles of seasons and the periods of time.
Who is Cronos?
2. This is the name of the underworld and the god who ruled there.
Who is Hades?
2. Eros, Greek god of love and desire, is also known by this Roman name.
Who is Cupid?
2. Son of Zeus. Greatest of the Greek heroes. Known for his strength and masculinity.
Who is Hercules?
2. Oedipus unknowingly fulfilled this prophecy.
What is killed his father and married his mother
2. Hercules slayed this multi-headed serpent that grew two heads for every head that was cut off.
What is the Hydra?
2. Narcissus was a beautiful youth who fell in love with this.
What is his own reflection?
2. 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.
Who are 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.
Who is Atlas?
3. This goddess of wisdom sprang from Zeus’s head, fully grown and in armor. What a headache.
Who is Athena?
3. Triton, the son of Poseidon, was half-man and half-fish and the first of these mythical beings.
What is a merman?
3. A string, called a clue, helped this son of Poseidon escape the labyrinth after slaying the minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
3. The master craftsman and artist Daedalus designed and built this structure to house the Minotaur.
What is the Labyrinth?
3. An offended Athena transformed this beautiful woman into a snake-haired Gorgon.
Who is Medusa?
3. The month of January is named for Janus, the Roman god of transitions. He had this feature.
What is two face: One facing forward and one facing backwards?
3. Shaw’s play and the musical My Fair Lady are based on the myth of Pygmalion who fell in love with this.
What is a Statue He Had Carved?
4. Prometheus was punished for this act.
What is giving man fire?
4. Goddess of love and beauty. That’s quite an aphrodisiac.
Who is Aphrodite?
4. The nine goddesses of inspiration, both in the arts and sciences.
Who are the muses?
4. Pollux was the son of Zeus and the mortal Leda. His fraternal twin brother Castor was mortal. They become this constellation and sign of the Zodiac.
Who are the Gemini Twins
4. Jason sailed with the Argonauts to retrieve this quest item in order to claim his throne.
What is the Golden Fleece
4. Arachne was transformed into an arachnid for challenging Athena to this contest.
What is Weaving?
4. Hubris is a recurring theme in the myths that refers to this deadly sin.
What is Pride, especially before the gods?
4. 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."
Who is Helen of Troy?
5. This Portland, Oregon–based athletic shoe, apparel, and sports equipment company is named after the goddess of victory.
What is Nike?
5. Poseidon is the god of the seas, water, and of this animal, which he created from the foam as waves touched the shore.
What is a horse?
5. Because Persephone ate six pomegranate pips while in Hades, she spent six months in the underworld and six months in the upper world, explaining these yearly climate changes.
What is winter and fall when she is in Hades and Spring and summer when she is on the earth?
5. Bellerophon, a son of Poseidon, captured and rode this white, winged creature when he slew the Chimera.
What is Pegasus?
5. Sisyphus had to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to have this happen when he reached the top
What is the rock rolled back down?
5. On his journey home, Odysseus has to sail between these two monsters
Who are Scylla and Charybdis?
5. These twin brothers in Roman mythology were raised by wolves. One of them would go on to found a city named for him.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
5. Eugene O’Neill wrote a collection of plays called Mourning Becomes Electra based on a classic Greek trilogy about this king.
Who is King Agamemnon?