| A | B |
|---|
| Chaos | disorder |
| Uranus | father Heaven |
| Gaia | Mother Earth |
| Cyclops | one-eyed monster |
| Rhea | mother of Zeus |
| Atlas | had to hold up the world |
| Prometheus | gave fire to man; name means "forethought." |
| Epimetheus | names means "afterthought" |
| Pandora | let the evils into the world |
| Zeus | head of the Olympian Gods |
| Hera | goddess of marriage |
| Poseidon | god of the sea |
| Hades | god of the underworld |
| Demeter | "Mother Nature"; goddess of the harvest |
| Persephone | goddess of springtime |
| Apollo | god of the sun, light, truth |
| Hermes | messenger of the gods |
| the Cadeusus | controls the living and the dead |
| Cronus | powerful god of the Titan |
| Artemis | goddess of the hunt |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty |
| Eros | god of love |
| Hephaestus | blacksmith of the gods |
| Ares | god of war |
| Pan | god of shepards |
| Athena | godess of war and wisdom |
| Dionysus | god of wine |
| Hestia | goddess of the hearth |
| the underworld | place of the dead |
| Styx | river dividing the world and underworld |
| Charon | drove the ferry over the river Styx |
| Cerberus | 3 headed dog that guarded the underworld |
| Perseus | killed the medusa; saved Andromeda |
| Medusa | gorgon with snakes for hair |
| Theseus | Athenian youth who killed the minotaur |
| Minotaur | half-man, half-bull; guarded the labyrinth |
| Echo | nymph who lost the power to begin a conversation |
| Narcissus | handsome youth who fell in love with himself |
| Achilles | Greek warrior whose only vulnerable spot was a tendon on his foot |
| Janus | Roman god of doors |
| Tantalus | punished in underworld; food and drink was always in sight but never reachable |
| Sisyphis | punished in underworld; had to push boulder up a hill only to have it come down again |
| Orpheus | skilled musician |
| Eurydice | stepped on a poisonous snake and died |
| Daedalus | clever crafter - created the labyrinth |
| Icarus | flew too close to the sun |
| Clothos | wove the thread of life |
| Lachesis | cared for the woven threads |
| Atropos | Cut the thread of life |
| Muses | patrons of the arts |
