| A | B |
|---|
| Chaos | gaping void in the beginning |
| Tartarus | underworld |
| Eros | love |
| Titans | children of Uranus and Gea |
| Cyclops | one-eyed children of Uranus and Gea |
| Uranus | the sky |
| Gea | mother earth |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty, born from castrated parts of Uranus |
| Cronus | son of Uranus and Gea who castrates Uranus and loses in the Titanomachy |
| Prometheus | "fore-thought"; created humans |
| Epimetheus | "after-thought" |
| Rheia | sister-wife of Cronus |
| Hestia | goddess of the hearth and home |
| Demeter | goddess of grain |
| Hera | wife of Zeus |
| Hades | god of the underworld |
| Poseidon | god of the sea |
| ambrosia | food of the gods |
| nectar | drink of the gods |
| Cerberus | three-headed dog; guards entrance to Hades |
| Hephaestus | god of fire; blacksmith |
| Pandora | first woman; means "all gifts" |
| Persephone | daughter of Demeter; married to Pluto |
| Hecate | a goddess of the underworld; associated with Demeter |
| pomegranate seeds | eaten by Persephone in the underworld |
| Olympos | home of the gods |
| Ares | god of war |
| Hebe | daughter of Hera; ousted from job as cupbearer |
| Muses | goddesses of artistic inspiration |
| Leto | mother of Apollo and Artemis |
| Delos | island where Leto gives birth |
| tripod | Apollo travels on the sea on this |
| Delphi | city founded by Apollo; populated by Cretans |
| Pytho | "rotting place"; place where dead dragon lay in Delphi |
| Castalian Spring | spring in Delphi that imparts wisdom |
| Pan | satyr; yelled loudly |
| Cheiron | centaur |
| Echo | nymph who loved Narcissus |
| panspipes | reed pipes made by Pan |
| Hermes | messenger god; made the lyre; stole cattle of Apollo |
| Athena | born from the head of Zeus; goddess of wisdom |
| Selene | goddess of the moon |
| Endymion | shepherd loved by Selene |
| Actaion | hunter who sees Artemis bathing--turned into stag and killed by his own hunting dogs |
| Deucalion and Pyrrha | survived the flood; repopulated the earth |
| bones of your mother | stones of the earth thrown over Decalion's and Pyrrha's shoulders to repopulate the earth |
| Furies | goddesses of vengeance |
| Mount Parnassus | home of the Muses at Delphi; place where Deucalion and Pyrrha land |
| Athens | city named for Athena |
| acropolis | location of Parthenon in Athens |
| Poseidon and Athena | competed for control of Athens |
| horse | offered to Athens by Poseidon |
| olive tree | given to Athens by Athena |
| Heracles (Hercules) | hero who completes twelve labors |
| Zeus and Alcmena | parents of Hercules |
| Iphicles | brother of Hercules |
| twin serpents | strangled by baby Hercules in his crib |
| Megara | Hercules' first wife |
| Eurystheus | king who directs the Twelve Labors |
| Nemean Lion | Hercules strangles it; hide too tough to penetrate |
| Hydra | Hercules' cuts off head, but two grow back; cauterizes the wound to stop the heads from growing back |
| stables of Augeas | stables with giant horses that were never cleaned; Hercules diverts a river to clean them |
| Stymphalian birds | birds with brazen feathers; Hercules scares them of with rattle |
| girdle of Hippolyta | Hercules gets this from Hippolyta |
| golden apples of the Hersperides | taken from Atlas after Hercules temporarily holds up the sky |
| Deianeira | wife of Hercules |
| Nessos the centaur | attacks Deianeira; gives poisonous vial of his blood to her |
| death of Hercules | skin melts off because of blood of Nessos |
| Europa | carried off to Crete by Zeus in form of bull; gave birth to King Minos |
| Cadmos | founder of Thebes; developed the alphabet |
| Semele | mother of Dionysus; burned to death by Zeus' godliness |
| Dionysus (Bacchus) | god of wine and vegetation; kidnapped by pirates |
| Io | turned into a cow; guarded by Argus |
| Argus | has one hundred eyes |
| peacock | tail contains the eye of Argus |
| Midas | given ass's ears by Apollo; golden touch |
