Greek Mythology

Achilles

best fighter of the Greeks who slain the Trojan Hero with a weak point at the heel

Amazons

warrior women who were hunters and fighters

Aphrodite

goddess of love (Venus)

Argo

ship that took Jason to Colchis 

Asia

wife of Prometheus 

Atlas

titan who supported the heavens and carried the earth behind his back

Charon

ferried the dead across the river Styx

Cyclops

build Olympus for the gods 

Danae

mother of perseus, got captured by her father to prevent the prophecy that her children will kill him  

Demeter

goddess of agriculture (Ceres)

Dinoysus

god of wine (Bacchus)

Echo

could only speak the words others had

Elysian Fields

paradise for the heroes

Eros

god of love (cupid)

Eurydice

wife of Orpheus who died 

The Fates

three sisters who controls the fate of people

Furies

female spirits who tormented evil-doers

Gorgons

monstrous sisters with snakes for hair ex. Medusa who has the power to turn people into stones

Hades

god of the dead 

Harpies

birds with faces of women that steals food and punish people

Helen

the most beautiful woman whose abduction by Paris of Troy created the Trojan war 

Hercules

son of Zeus whom Hera was jealous of, later kills the Hydra as one of the Twelve Labors

Homer

blind bard/ Ancient Greek poet who told the stories of the Trojan War and Odysseus

Hydra

many-headed monster 

Icarus

son of Daedalus who escapes prison using wings made of feathers and wax it melts when he got close to the sun, falling to his death

Medea

helps Jason survive tasks set by his father 

Midas

turn whatever he touches into gold

Nana

impregnated by an almond

Narcissus

a handsome youth who fell in love with his own reflection 

Nemesis

goddess of indignation and retribution

Nymphs

minor nature goddesses which populated the cosmos, protecting nature

Odysseus

King of an island off the western coast who fought in the Trojan War

Oedipus

unintentionally kills his father and married his mother, answered the Sphinx’s riddles correctly 

Orpheus

attempted to rescue his dead wife from the underworld 

Pan

god of shepherding 

Persephone

goddess queen of the underworld 

Phaethon

son of Helios who begged his father to let him drive the chariot of the sun but lost control since he was inexperienced and was struck down by Zeus 

The Phoenix

golden-red bird that dies in flames and is reborn from its ashes

Plato

Greek Philosopher 

Prometheus

A titan who gave fire to humans 

Psyche

Goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros 

Satyr

half-man, half-goat, followers of Dionysus

The Sirens

three sea spirits that lured passing sailors with their siren-song to their death

Sisyphus

sinner condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder uphill then watching it roll back down again

The Sphinx

a monster with the winged body of a lion  and the breast and upper part of a woman who kills people who answers her riddles incorrectly 

Styx

goddess of the underworld river Styx

Tantalus

offended the gods and had to stand in a pool that would lower as he reaches to clear his thirst

Titans

sons of the goddess Earth (Gaea)

Trojan

a kingdom on the western coast 

Trojan Horse

huge wooden horses left by the Greeks with hero’s hidden inside

Trojan War

nine-year conflict between Greeks and the Trojans

Zeus

od of the Olympians, thunder