The Olympians
Famous Greek Heros
Mythical Beasts
Places & Realms
Modern Tellings
100

This Olympian is the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses.

Poseidon

100

This Trojan War hero was killed by an arrow to his only vulnerable spot.

Achilles

100

This monster was born from Pasiphae and a divine bull

Minotaur

100

This mountain served as the divine home of the Olympians.

Mount Olympus

100

In Disney’s Hercules, this god serves as comic relief rather than a fearsome ruler.

Hades

200

This goddess was born fully armored from Zeus’s head.

Athena


200

This hero beheaded Medusa without looking directly at her.

Perseus

200

This serpent regenerated two heads for every one cut off.

Lernaean Hydra

200

This river of the Underworld was sworn upon even by the gods.

River Styx

200

In Percy Jackson, the Olympians are portrayed as living in this modern location.

New York City (Mount Olympus above it)?

300

This Olympian was sometimes excluded from the Twelve due to his role

Hades

300

This Athenian hero slew the Minotaur using Ariadne’s thread.

Theseus

300

This monster guarded golden apples in a garden at the edge of the world.

Ladon

300

Drinking from this river erased memories of mortal life.

River Lethe?

300

The musical EPIC: The Musical primarily adapts this hero’s journey

Odysseus

400

This Olympian’s prophetic powers originally came from Gaia before being claimed by him.

Apollo

400

This hero was purified of murder by King Creon.

Amphitryon

400

Cerberus shares the same monstrous parents, Echidna and Typhon, with this two-headed watchdog.

Orthrus

400

This island was home to Circe, where men were turned into beasts.

Aeaea

400

How is hades protrayed in hadestown?

An industrial, capitalist tycoon ruling an underworld factory town, driven by greed and control

500

This Olympian is sometimes replaced in the Twelve by Hestia in earlier traditions.

Dionysus

500

Name 7 of Heracles Labors

  • Slay the Nemean Lion: An invincible lion whose skin Heracles brought back.
  • Slay the Lernaean Hydra: A multi-headed, venomous serpent killed with the help of his nephew, Iolaus.
  • Capture the Ceryneian Hind: A swift deer with golden horns sacred to Artemis.
  • Capture the Erymanthian Boar: A fearsome, large boar brought back alive.
  • Clean the Augean Stables: Cleaned thousands of cattle's stables in one day by diverting rivers.
  • Slay the Stymphalian Birds: Man-eating birds with bronze beaks and metallic feathers.
  • Capture the Cretan Bull: The bull that was destroying Crete.
  • Steal the Mares of Diomedes: Captured the man-eating horses of King Diomedes.
  • Obtain the Belt of Hippolyta: Acquired the girdle of the Amazon queen.
  • Obtain the Cattle of Geryon: Stole the cattle from the three-bodied giant.
  • Steal the Golden Apples of the Hesperides: Procured the apples guarded by a dragon and the Hesperides.
  • Capture Cerberus: Brought the three-headed hound of Hades back from the underworld
500

This sea monster was sent to destroy Troy before being slain by Heracles.

Trojan Cetus

500

This mythical land lay beyond the North Wind, a paradise untouched by sorrow.

Hyperborea

500

In God of War (2005), this creature is depicted as a mindless enemy, while in myth it is a complex guardian punished by Athena

Medusa