Remember the Titans
This Portland, Oregon–based athletic shoe, apparel, and sports equipment company is named after the goddess of victory
Nike
This was the weapon of choice for Zeus, the king of the gods and ruler on Mount Olympus.
Lightening bolt
A demigod and invulnerable, except his heel where his mother held him when she dipped him in the River Styx.
Achilles
This three-headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld.
Cerberus
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
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 is 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
Hercules slayed this multi-headed serpent that grew two heads for every head that was cut off.
Hydra
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 & Thisbe
The personification of the Earth. She was the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess
Gaia/Terra
Goddess of love and beauty. That’s quite an aphrodisiac.
Aphrodite/Venus
A string, called a clue, helped this son of Poseidon escape the labyrinth after slaying the minotaur.
Theseus
An offended Athena transformed this beautiful woman into a snake-haired Gorgon.
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
This goddess of wisdom sprang from Zeus’s head, fully grown and in armor. What a headache.
Athena/Minerva
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
Arachne was transformed into an arachnid for challenging Athena to this contest
weaving
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
Father Time who maintained the course and cycles of seasons and the periods of time
Chronos/Saturn
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
On his journey home, Odysseus has to sail between these two monsters.
Scylla and Charybdis
Eugene O’Neill wrote a collection of plays called Mourning Becomes Electra based on a classic Greek trilogy about this king
King Agamemnon