Mythology 2 Flashcards
Hero of the Trojan War and central character in the Iliad; arrow shot through his heel killed him
Achilles
an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love; the god of beauty and desire; central figure in various mystery religions; ever-youthful vegetation god, a life-death-rebirth deity whose nature is tied to the calendar; his religion belong to women
Adonis
Hero of Virgil’s and the end; The first true hero of Rome; a Trojan prince, the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, who escaped the sack of Troy and sailed to Italy via Carthage and Sicily. After seven years, he and his followers established themselves near the site of the future Rome
Aeneas
Three mythic characters; ruler of winds; first was son of Hellen and founder of Aeolian race; third was son of Poseidon; third was a son of Hippotes and mentioned in the Iliad
Aeolus
a king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, upon his return from Troy
Agamemnon
a Greek hero in the Trojan War who rescued the body of Achilles and killed himself out of jealousy when Odysseus was awarded the armor of Achilles
Ajax
Nation of all-female warriors; placed near the Black Sea
Amazons
the food or drink of the Greek gods (or demigods), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumed it; brought to the gods in Olympus by doves
Ambrosia
sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon
Amphitrite
Ruler of men; princess and dragon motif; an Ethiopian princess, the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, by whom she had been rescued from a sea monster
Andromeda
used to signify the core, kernel, or crux of an argument, or a small matter that could lead to a bigger dispute; a golden apple inscribed “For the fairest” It was claimed by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, to whom Paris awarded it, thus beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
apple of discord
A band of heroes; in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece; name comes from the Argo ship
Argonauts
a primordial giant whose epithet, “Panoptes”, “all-seeing”, led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred, eyes; inspired the name of many newspapers
Argus
the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere; the titan of astronomy and navigation; condemned to support the sky on his shoulders
Atlas
housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned until Hercules came along; he routed rivers to clean out the filth
Augean stables
