Study Guide Flashcards
Adonis
Referred in sports, youthful and handsom
Achilles
Couldn’t be hurt except heal
King Aegeus
Jumped into sea, son forgot to change sails
Aphrodite
Goddess of beauty and love; married ugly
Apollo
God of music & arts
Arachne
Poor girl, Athena’s student; spider
Ares
God of war
Artemis
Goddess of the hunt
Athena
Goddess of wisdom & crafts
Cerberus
3 headed dog
Daedalus & Icarus
Architect. Built wings. Icarus flew too close to the sun
Demeter
Goddess of fertility; mother of Persephone
Dionysus
God of wine
The fates
3 sisters; thread of life
The furies
Goddess of vengeance
Hades
God of the underworld
Hephaestus
Married to Aphrodite; ugly
Hera
Queen of te gods; created Milky Way
Hermes
Messenger god
Hestia
Eternal chasity; virgin
Icarus
Flew too close to te sun
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Defeated monster like Hercules
Medusa
Was pretty then cursed to snake hair
Kind Midas
Everything turned to gold
King Minos
King of Crete
Minotaur
Head of a bull body of a man
The Muses
Goddess of dancing, music, and being creative
Narcissus
In love with himself
Nike
Goddess of victory and speed
Odysseus and the cyclops
Brave and smart
Orpheus and Eurydice
About music, eternal love, has to be in the underworld
Pandora
1st woman made of clay, box of evil
Pegasus
White flying horse
Persephone
Pretty, seasons, flowers
Poseidon
God of the seas
Prometheus
Made people out of clay, liver
Psyche and Eros
Beauty and the beast; love conquers all
Pygmalion and Galatea
Turned a statue into a real woman
Pyramus and Thisbe
Was cursed. Couldn’t eat or drink; tried feeding his son to the gods
Sisyphus
Pushed a rock up a mountain and never got to the top
Theseus and the Minotaur
Killed the Minotaur in the labarybth
Zeus
Controls lightning and thunder
