| A | B |
|---|
| arachnid | small eight-legged insect -- Arachne - Roman girl who beat Minerva in a weaving contest and was turned into a spider |
| tantalize | to torture by keeping something out of reach -- Tantalus - was punished by being placed in water in Hades and having food and drinking water kept out of reach |
| fatalism | belief that fate controls everything -- Fates - three Greek goddeses who controlled human life |
| jovial | joyful, friendly -- Jove - Roman king of gods |
| martial | warlike -- Mars - Roman god of war |
| cereal | plant that produces grain -- Ceres - Roman goddess of agriculture |
| museum | building where historical items and art are kept -- Muses - 9 sister goddesses of fine arts |
| protean | taking on many forms -- Proteus - Greek sea god who changes shape |
| rhadamanthine | harsh, strict judgment -- Rhadamanthus - Greek judge of the dead in Hades |
| bacchanalia | wild, drunken party -- Bacchus (Baccus) - Roman god of wine |
| Pandora's Box | fatal curiosity -- Pandora - first human woman who was a gift to the Greek gods - brought trouble to humans |
| erotic | arouses sexual desire -- Eros - Greek god of love |
| aphrodisiac | intensifies sexual desire -- Aphrodite - goddess of love and beauty |
| narcissistic | love of oneself -- Narcissus - boy who fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water |
| task of Sisyphus | never-ending chore -- Sisyphus - king punished by rolling a boulder up a hill forever |
| procrustean | designed to produce strict conformity -- Procrusteus - son who captured travellers, put them in a bad and made them fit |
| chronology | list of events in order -- Chronos - Father Time |
| labyrinthine | maze or maze-like -- labyrinth - maze |
| titanic | having great power, size -- Titan - Greek giants born of sky and earth |
| lethean | forgetful -- Lethe - river in Hades that had water that caused those who drank from it to forget the past |
| hydra-headed | many sided problem -- Hydra - woman with serpents in hair |
| herculean | of great strength -- Hercules - strong Greek hero |
| promethean | boldly creative -- Prometheus - Titan who gave man fire |
