Remember the Titans
The personification of the Earth. She was the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess.
Gaia/Terra
This was the weapon of choice for Zeus, the king of the gods and ruler on Mount Olympus.
Lightning bolt
Charon was the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead across this is the border into Hades.
The River Styx
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
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
Father Time who maintained the course and cycles of seasons and the periods of time.
Chronos/Saturn
This is the name of the underworld and the god who ruled there.
Hades
Eros, Greek god of love and desire, is also known by this Roman name.
Cupid
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
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
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
Triton, the son of Poseidon, was half-man and half-fish and the first of these mythical beings.
Merman / Sirens
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.
The Labyrinth
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 had carved
Prometheus was punished for this act.
Stealing fire and giving it to man
Goddess of love and beauty. That’s quite an aphrodisiac.
Aphrodite/Venus
The nine goddesses of inspiration, both in the arts and sciences.
The Muses
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.
The Gemini Twins
Jason sailed with the Argonauts to retrieve this quest item in order to claim his throne.
The Golden Fleece
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
This 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
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.
The seasons
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
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