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| story about rape of Leda(queen of sparta) by Zeus (who took the form of a swan), |
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| a river flowing through hades, souls of dead forced to drink water (which made them forget stuff) |
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| little girl in red hood is almost eaten by a wolf who swallowed her grandma and played like her, a huntsman saves them both |
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| Roman name for Ares, god of war, fourth planet from sun, name mars because its color red reminds of blood |
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| a sorceress who fell in love with Jason and helped him get the golden fleece, but when Jason married another woman, Medea killed his young bride and his children |
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| Monster of gorgons, who turned people to stone w/ a look, perceus killed medusa by reflected her vision from his shiny shield |
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| Roman name for Hermes, messanger of gods, planet nearest sun, swiftly moves in orbit |
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| Magician who advised Arthur |
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| King who was granted a wish from god Dionysus, wished everything he touched turned to gold, washed in a river and lost it, a person who easily acquires riches is referred to have a Midas Touch |
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| Roman name for Athena, goddess of wisdom |
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| monster, half man half bull, born to queen of Crete, Pasiphae, after she mated with a sacred bull, king Minos asked Daedulus to create labyrnth to hide the bull, Athenians sent young to be eaten, 7 men, 7 women, theseus killed the bulled and used thread to get out |
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| Roman god of sleep, arms of Morpheus means they are asleep, narcotic morphine was named after Morpheus |
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| Nine goddesses of mythology, especially associated with Poetry, greek/roman writers usually asked aid of muses for their composition |
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| beautiful youth who fell inlove with his own reflection in a pool, unable to stop staring at himself, he wasted away and died, someone who is consumed with themself |
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| God of vengence, nemesis = avenger, one's nemesis will bring on one's destruction or downfall |
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| god who ruled the sea, eighth planet from the sun |
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| villian in story of Robin hood |
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| female spirits, lived in forests, bodies of water, other places outdoors, nymph is a beautiful, or seductive woman |
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| god of wisdom, poetry, farming, and war, wensday is named after Odin |
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| greek hero of trojan war, odysseus helped bring the downfall of troy by coming up with the trojan horse, took 10 years to get home |
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| a tragic king who unknowling killed his father and married his mother, saved thebes from sphyinx, a plauge hit, had to kill the murderer of the king, discovered that he was the killer, Oedipus blinded himself |
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| legendary home gods, actual mountain in greece, hgihest in the country |
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| Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother of electra, killed by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, oretheus and electra killed them both to avenge |
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| Orpheus was a musician and eurydice was his wife, his wife died, went to hades to get her back, he did, but looked back and she vanished, torn to bits by followers of bacchus god of wine |
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| greek god of flocks forests, meadows, and shepherds, had horns and feet of goat,pan frolicked about the landscape, playing delightful tunes, pan, scary noises at night, panic |
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| to open pandoras box is to create a situation that will cause great grief, zeus gave to pandora, first woman, she opened, then all the misery came out |
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| prince of troy abducted Helen of sparta, sparked Troy war, killed Achilles by peircing heel |
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| mountain in greece where the muses lived, delphic oracles on slopes, Known to home music and poetry |
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| winged horse, tamed by Bellerophon with help of bridle given by Athena, flying horse of muses, symbol of high flying poetic imaginations |
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| penelope remained true to her husband for tens years he spent fighting in trojan war, for it took him 10 years to return, Odyseeus returned and killed the pursers |
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| hero who killed medusa, hermes and athena helped him by giving him winged shoes, polished shield, and a magical sword, used shield as a mirror and cut her head off w/ shoes |
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| periodically burned itself to death and emerged from ashes as a new phoniex, rebirth of phoniex happened every 500 hundred years |
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| roman name for hades, god of the underworld, most distant planet in solar system |
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| king of troy, father of hector and paris, killed him at end of trojan war |
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| giant who was a thief and murderer, would capture travelrs and tie them to an iron bed,if they were longer than the bed, he would hack off the limbs so they fit, a procrustean is a method that relentlessly tries to shape a person and argument or an idea |
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| titan who stole fire from gods and gave it to humans, as punishment for the theft zeus ordered prometheus chained to a rock, and sent a eagle to gnaw at the titans liver, promethus did not give up, and rescued by hercules |
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| god who served poseidon, proteus was a shapeshifter, person who can take diff. forms was called a protean |
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| a beautiful girl who visited each night in the dark by cupid, who told her she must not try to see him, when she did try, while he was asleep, she accidently dropped oil from her lamp on him and he awoke and fled, venus gave her difficult tasks, jupiter made her immortal, boom they married |
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| a sculptor who first hated woman, but fell in love with a staute he made of a woman, prayed to venus that she find him a woman like the statue, instead venus made statue come to life |
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| legendary robber of middle ages in England, stole from the rich and gave to the poor, excellent archer, lived in sherwood forest with fair Maid Marian |
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| twin brothers raised by a she-wolf and founded the city of rome, Romulus became incensed at Remus and killed him, romans made romulus into a god |
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| Knights of the Round Table |
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| fellowship of knights of king arthur, had a quest for the holy grail |
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| Roman name for a titan, father of zeus, saturn fled from mt. olympus after he defeated titans, saturn named saturday, |
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| part man partgoad, constatnly drunk and chasing nymphs, companions of Dionysus |
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| Scylla was a six headed mosnter who lived on a rock, Charybdis was a whirlpool on the other side of this rock, when ships passed close to scyallas rock in order to avoid Charybdis, she would sieze and devour the sailors, Aeneas, jason, and odysseus passed her, caught between scylla and charybdis is to be forced to choose between two unpleasent options |
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| actual forest in England, home of robin hood and his companions |
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| evil creatures who lived on a rocky island, singing in beautiful voices that lure sailors to shipwreak and death, Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears in order to espace sirens fatal song |
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| King who offended Zeus and was punished in Hades by being forced to roll an enormous boulder to top of a steep hill, when it was close to the top, it would roll down and he would have to start over |
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| beautiful princess cast into deep sleep through a jealous fairy's curse, sleeping beauty awakened by kiss of a prince |
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| head of a woman, body of a lion, riddle, what creatures walk on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon and three legs in the evening, humans |
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| one of the rivers in hades the charon ferried souls of the dead on |
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| a king who offened the gods, tortured with everlasting thirst and hunder in hades, something is tantalizing if it is desireable but unattainable |
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| legendary hero of switzerland, famous for skill as an archer, tyrannical offical asked him to shoot an arrow of his sons head |
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| hero of the city of athens, killed procrustes and minotaur, made war on amazons and marry wueen Hippolyta |
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| god of thunder, wielded a hammer |
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| a blind prophet who revealed the truth of the crimes of Oedipus, tiresias spent part of his life as a man and part of it as a woman, he knew the act of love from both points of view, asked by jupiter and juno who enjoyed sex more, he said woman did, enraged juno tha tshe blinded tiresias |
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| gods who ruled the universe until they were overthrown by zeus, titanic means great or large as a titan |
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| two lovers, tristan brought Iseult from ireland to britain, to be the bride of his uncle King Mark, they drank a potion that made them two eternally in love with eachother, banished when King heard of their love, Iseult came after tristan but he died, and she died by him |
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| horse odysseus came up with, won the trojan war |
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| sparked by Paris stealing helen from the greeks, troys lose, ruins of troy now where turkey is |
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| repulsive dwarfs who lived in caves or other hidden places, steal children and property, hated noise |
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| sparked by Paris stealing helen from the greeks, troys lose, ruins of troy now where turkey is |
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| mythical animal resembling a small horse with a long striaght horn, legs of a deer and tail of a lion |
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| norse heaven, reserved for those who died heroic deaths |
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| roman goddesses of love and beauty, second planet from venus |
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| god of fire and metal working, blacksmith of gods, suffered bodily deformites and lameness, married to venus goddess of beauty and love, son of jupiter, vulcanization - process ofr strengthing rubber |
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| god of west wind, considered the most pleasent winds |
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| chief of gods, defeated titans, used bolts of thunder to hurl anger, frequently decended to earth to couple with woman who caught his eye |
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| band of the sky along the sun and moon, most of the plants move on, divided into 12 parts, each part named for nearby constellation, important in astrology |
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