Mythology Flashcards
Achilles
Dipped in river Styx, Trojan war hero.
Jason
Leader of the argonauts, goes on quest for the Golden Fleece.
Ithaca
Home of Odysseus
Perseus
Kills Medusa; rescues Andromeda
Theseus
Defeats Minotaur
Heracles (Hercules)
Super strong; 12 labors; kills hydra
Athens
Most famous city in Greece
Crete
Island; king Minos; labyrinth
Odysseus (Ulysses)
Trojan horse; The Odyssey; twenty years away from home
Labyrinth
Built by Daedalus; imprisoned Minotaur
Mount Olympus
Home of the gods.
River Styx
River to get to the Underworld. Gods swear lathes on it
Midas
Golden touch; ass ears
Delphi
Spiritual center of Greece
Troy
Place of the Trojan war.
Agamemnon
Famous war hero of the Trojan war.
Pandora
Greek version of Eve; curse to mankind
Daedalus
Inventor of labyrinth; wax wings
Helen
The mythological cause of the Trojan war
Menelaus
Husband if Helen; a king
Hades/Tartarus
The underworld
Andromeda
Perseus’ wife; chained to a cliff
Telemachus
Son of Odysseus
Pygmalion
Falls in love with his statue
Danaë
Mother of Perseus; imprisoned by father
Echo
Distracted Hera so that Zeus could have an affair
Arachne
Weaver; challenged Athena and was turned into a spider
Icarus
Son of Daedalus; flew to close to the son
Narcissus
Fell in love with his own reflection
Sisyphus
Has to roll a rock up a hill over and over as a punishment
Tantalus
Can’t eat or drink; when he reaches for food it is just out of reach and when he goes down for a drink the water level drops
Penelope
Odysseus’ wife; faithful, weaver
Amazons
Famous female warriors; tall and strong. Cut off their dominant side boob
Atlas
Holds up the sky/heavens; turned into a mountain by Perseus
Cronus
Leader of the titans; time
Helios
Sun Titan
Prometheus
Creator of humans; stole fire from Mount Olympus; was punished by being chained to a cliff and having the birds peck at his liver
Rhea
Wife of Cronus
Hyperion
Sun Titan
Persephone
Queen of the underworld; reason for the seasons
Gaea
Mother Earth
Cerberus
Three headed dog
Circe
Goddess/ witch
Furies
Avenge murders within a family
Pegasus
Famous winged horse; sprang from the neck of Medusa
Calypso
Sea nymph; Odysseus lived with her as her sex slave
The Odyssey
Epic poem about Odysseus’ ten year trip home after the war
Medusa
Serpent hair; turns you to stone if you look at her; was once beautiful nut Athena turned her into a gorgon; was killed by Odysseus
Muses
Immortal; art inspiration
Teiresias
Blind prophet; in many stories
Graces
Give good human traits
Uranus
Starry skies
Fates
Three of them, one holds thread, one measures, one cuts. Determine how long you will live.
Polyphemus
Cyclopedia guy
Charon
Drives the boat to the underworld
Harpies
Bird ladies
Chimaera
Goat, lion and serpent
Scylla
Multi headed female monster
Hydra
Multi headed creature, when you cut one off another grows back, one head is immortal, killed by Heracles.
Anthropomorphic
Giving human traits to non human things such as gods having affairs
Minotaur
Half man, half bull; in the labyrinth in Crete
Cyclopes
One eyed monster
Charybdis
Whirlpool minster, sucks down water twice a day
Sirens
Lure in sailors to their death by singing
Satyr
Half man, half goat
Centaur
Half man, half horse
Homer
Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
The Iliad
Epic poem about the ten year Trojan war
Chaos
Nothingness
Nymphs
Female, different depending on their region. Example: sea nymph