Greek Mythology WORDS Flashcards
Bacchic
Happily drunken
labyrinth
a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.
Hyperborean
an inhabitant of the extreme north
Golden Apples
Golden Apples that Hera received at her wedding to Zeus
Fury
Wild or violent anger
Arachnid
Spider
Sisyphean
Endless or unavailing task
Achilles Heel
A weak point
Chronology
when something happened ordered in that way
Chimera
A fire-breathing monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head a goats body and a serpent’s tail
Harp
To talk or write persistently and tediously on a particular topic
Eros
Love or desire around a person
Pandora’s box
A box letting out all the bad things to the world
Hubris
big pride/self-confidence
Tantalize
torment or tease someone with something unattainable
Midas Touch
An uncanny ability to make money wherever you are
Herculean
someone of great strength
Narcissist
conceded
“The face that launched a thousand ships”
Helen of Troy-War mounted on her behalf
Titanic
of enomerse strength size or power
Promethean
creative
beware of greeks giving gifts
dont trust your enemy’s story of Trojen horse
Gorgon
An ugly women
Amazon
Fierce large groups of women warriors
Elysian
Heavenly utopia of food made for gods
Adonis
A very handsome young man