The World of Man

Golden mean

The desirable middle between two extremes

Hubris (hybris)

Extreme or excessive pride

Áte

Moral blindness.

Areté

Possessing excellent ability or an excellent personality trait 

Cronus

The leader of the Titans

Golden race

The first mortals who lived without hard work, pain, or sadness

Zeus

A sky and thunder god who rules as king of the gods

Silver race

The second race of mortals who remained children for many years and had poor judgement

Bronze race

The third race of mortals who were incredibly strong and violent

Iron race

The current race of mortals

Prometheus

A Titan responsible for creating or aiding humanity in its earliest days

Epimetheus

The inept and foolish brother of Prometheus

Hephaestus

The Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, and volcanoe

Athena

An ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft

Fire

Stolen from Zeus by Prometheus

Sacrifice

An act or offering made to a deity

Mt. Caucasus

Prometheus was chained to these cliffs for 30,000 year

Hermes

The herald of the gods and the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators

Eagle

Ate Prometheus' liver every night

Thetis

A sea nymph and a goddess of water

Heracles

The greatest of the Greek heroes

Pandora

The first human woman who opened a jar releasing all the evils of humanity

Lycaon

A king of Arcadia who killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus

Deluge

Sent by Zeus to punish mortals

Boreas

The Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter

Zephyrus

The god and personification of the West wind

Iris

The personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods

Poseidon

One of the twelve Olympians who presided over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses

Deucalion

Saved from the deluge by building a chest

Pyrrha

Wife of Deucalion

Mt. Parnassus

The ark of Deucalion comes to rest on its slopes

Themis

The goddess and personification of justice, divine order, law, and custom

Stone race

Race of man created by Deucalion and Pyrrha

Arachne

Challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was transformed into a spider

Lydia

An Iron Age kingdom situated in modern-day Turkey

Niobe

Was punished by Leto, who sent Apollo and Artemis to slay all of her childre

Thebes

A city Central Greece which Niobe was queen of

Teiresias

A blind prophet of Apollo

Leto

A childhood goddess and the mother of Apollo and Artemis

Phoebus Apollo

A god of archery, music, dance, truth, prophecy, healing, and diseases

Artemis

The goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, transitions, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity

Erysichthon

No matter how much he ate and drank, he could never satisfy his hunger or his thirst

Thessaly

A region of Greece which was the home of Erysichthon

Demeter

The Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture who punished Erysichthon

Famine

A widespread scarcity of food

Midas

Whatever he touched was changed into gold

Dionysus

The god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre

Silenus (Seilenus)

A companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus

Pan

The god of the wild, shepherds, flocks, and rustic music

Mt. Tmolus

Scene of a musical contest between Pan and Apollo that was heard by King Midas

Athens

The capital and largest city of Greece

Daedalus

A skillful architect and craftsman

Perdix

The nephew of Daedalus who was transformed into the bird when his uncle murdered him in jealousy

Crete

Where Daedalus was held captive

Minos

A king of Crete who imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icaru

Minotaur

A mythical creature with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

Sicily

An island in the central Mediterranean Sea

King Cocalus

Daedalus was in his court

Phaëthon

The son of Helios who drove Helios' chariot

Helios

The god who personifies the Sun

Promise on River Styx

The greatest and most dread oath for the blessed god

Gaea

The personification of Earth

Pygmalion

A sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved

Aphrodite

An ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, and procreation

Cyprus

Island associated with the goddess Aphrodite

Galatea

The statue carved by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life

Narcissus

Fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water

Hera

The goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth

Echo

A mountain nymph whose ability to speak was cursed, leaving her able only to repeat the last words spoken to her

Nemesis

The goddess who personified retribution for the sin of hubris

Orpheus

A legendary musician who descended into the underworld to recover his lost wife

Thrace

A geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe

Eurydice

The wife of Orpheus

Underworld

The supernatural world of the dead

Tantalus

Was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches

Ixion

Bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity

Sisyphus

The gods forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity.

Furies

Chthonic goddesses of vengeance

Hades

God of the dead and riches and the King of the underworld

Persephone

The queen of the underworld

Maenads

The female followers of Dionysus

Calydon

Artemis sent a monstrous boar here, which was hunted by Meleager and numerous other heroes

King Oeneus

King of Calydon and father of Meleager

Althaea

The queen of Calydon who is infamous for murdering her son Meleager

Fates

A trio of goddesses that shape the destiny of each human

Clotho

The first of the Three Fates, who spins the thread of human life

Lachesis

The middle of the Three Fates who is the measurer of the thread spun by Clotho

Atropos

The third of the Three Fate who chose the manner of death and ended the life of mortals by cutting their thread

Meleager

Killed the Calydonian boar

Jason

The Leader of the Argonauts

Castor

The mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta

Polydeuces

The divine son of Zeus

Theseus

A divine hero in Greek mythology, famous for slaying the Minotaur

Atalanta

Maiden huntress who joined the Calydonian boar hunt

Plexippus and Toxeus

Were angry that the prize of the boar's hide had been given to a woman by his nephew, who then killed them

Delphi

The seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world

Hippomenes

The husband of Atalanta

Rhea

A mother goddess