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| a play of colors producing rainbow effects; from Iris, goddess of the rainbow |
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| wild enthusiasm or excitement, rage; fury, "run like fury"; any one of the three Furies |
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| handsome young man; Aphrodite loved him |
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| a physically perfect male; the God of music and light; known for his physical beauty |
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| marked by stately beauty; comes from the word Juno, the wife of Jupiter, the Goddess of light, birth, women, and marriage |
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| series of whistles - circus organ; from the Muse of eloquence or beautiful voice |
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| pertaining to a wild, drunken party of celebration |
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| early morning or sunrise; from the Roman personification of Dawn or Eos |
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| strong like Atlas - who carried the globe (world) on his shoulders |
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| a monster that had the head, arms, and chest of a man, and the body and legs of a horse |
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| a person who continually predicts misfortune but often is not believed; from a daughter of Priam cursed by Apollo for not returning his love; he left her with the gift of prophecy but made it so no one would believe her |
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| a predatory person or nagging woman; from harpy, a foul creature that was part woman, part bird |
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| suddenly cranky or changeable |
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| of or having to do with sexual passion or love |
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| a horrible creature of the imagination, an absurd or impossible idea; wild fancy; a monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail, supposed to breathe out fire |
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| eager "desire" to possess something; greed or avarice; Roman god of love (Greek name is Eros) |
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| a song of joy; a ritual epithet of Apollo the healer. In Homeric poems, an independent god of healing who took care of Hades when the latter was wounded. |
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| today, one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have |
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| anything pertaining to wind; god who was Keeper of Wind |
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| goddess of wisdom, the city, and arts; patron goddess of the city of Athens |
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| omniscient, all-seeing; from Argus, the 100-eyed monster that Hera had guarding lo |
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| a very ugly or terrible person, especially a repulsive woman; Medusa, any one of three sisters who have snakes for hair and faces so horrible that anyone who looked at them turned to stone |
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| calm, peaceful, tranquil - Archaic bird supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm the water, identified with the kingfisher |
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| calm, peaceful, tranquil - Archaic bird supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm the water, identified with the kingfisher |
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| very strong or of extraordinary power; from Hercules, Hera's glory, the son of Zeus. He performed the 12 labors imposed by Hera. |
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| having many centers or branches, hard to bring under control; something bad you cannot eradicate; from Hydra, the 9-headed serpent that was sacred to Hera. Hercules killed him in one of the 12 labors |
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| abnormal drowsiness or inertia; from the word Lethe, a river in Hades that caused drinkers to forget their past |
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| suited for war or a warrior; from Mars, the Roman God of War |
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| sorceress or enchantress; from Medea who helped Jason and the Argonauts capture the Golden Fleece; known for her revenge against Jason when he spurned her for the princess of Corinth |
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| a trusted counselor or guide |
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| a carrier of tidings, a newsboy, a messenger; messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence; the fabled inventor, wore winged hat and sandals |
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| a device used to aid memory; the personification of memory |
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| a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to relieve pain and induce sleep |
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| some creature of inspiration; the daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, divine singers that presided over thought in all its forms |
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| being in love with our own self-image |
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| just punishment, one who inflicts due punishment; goddess who punishes crime |
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| the sea personified, the Roman god associated with Poseidon, god of the water and oceans |
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| mournful woman whose children were slain by Apollo and Artemis because of her bragging; the gods pitied her and turned her into a rock that was always wet from weeping |
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| majestic in manner, superior to mundane affairs; |
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| something that opens the door for bad occurrences, opened by someone known for curiosity |
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| mountain that was sacred to arts and literature; any center of poetic or artistic activity |
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| poetic inspiration; named afte a winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa at her death, a stamp of his hoof caused Hippocrene, the fountain of the Muses |
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| a symbol of immortality or rebirth |
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| a symbol of immortality or rebirth |
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| a government by the wealthy |
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| life-bringing, creative, or courageously original |
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| taking many forms, versatile |
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| the human soul, self, the mind |
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| someone (usually a male) who tries to fashion someone into the person he desires |
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| a period of unrestrained revelry |
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| sluggish, gloomy, morose, inactive in winter months |
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| a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made known the oracles of Apollo and possessed the gift of prophecy |
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| originated from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, whose forge is said to be under the mountains |
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| to treat rubber with sulfur to increase strength and elasticity |
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| a powerful man; king of the gods, ruler of Mt. Olympus, vengeful hurler of thunderbolts |
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