Greek Myths
The Gods, the Titans, Heroes and Creatures of Ancient Greece
1 ______________ God of the sea, earthquakes, and horses; Trident, dolphin, or horse
2 ______________ Daughter of Poseidon and Gaia; Sea monster who takes the form of a whirlpool
3 ______________ Goddess of marriage and women; Wife and sister of Zeus; Peacock and pomegranate
4 ______________ King of Mycenae; Leader of the Achaeans in the Trojan War
5 ______________ Primordial matter from which the cosmos and the gods emerged
6 ______________ A multi-headed hound that guards the gates of the Underworld
7 ______________ King of Thebes; Murdered his father, married his mother
8 ______________ Trojan price and greatest fighter of Troy; Killed by Achilles
9 ______________ God of warfare, bloodlust, and slaughter; Vulture, burning torch, and spear
10 ______________ Goddess of strife and discord; Golden Apple of Discord
11 ______________ A Titan; Brother of Atlas; Stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals
12 ______________ God of wealth and the Underworld; Helm of Darkness and Cerebrus
13 ______________ Deification of the human soul; Goddess with butterfly wings
14 ______________ Greek hero of the Trojan War; Central character in Homer’s the Iliad
15 ______________ God of sleep; Brother of Thanatos (Death)
16 ______________ Deities of vengeance or the anger of the dead
17 ______________ God of technology, blacksmiths, artisans, and volcanoes; Hammer and anvil
18 ______________ Mother of the Gods
19 ______________ A Titan who supported the spheres of heaven upon his back
20 ______________ Chief of the Titans; Overthrown by his sons and imprisoned on Tartarus; Sickle
21 ______________ God of wine, ecstasy, and theatre; Also known as Bacchus; Grapes
22 ______________ A sea monster opposite Charybdis
23 ______________ Primal Greek Goddess of the earth; Mother of the Titans
24 ______________ A Gorgon; Beheaded by Perseus
25 ______________ King of Ithaca; Renowned for his cunning and resourcefulness
26 ______________ Trojan hero; Son of Anchises and Aphrodite; Known for skills in combat
27 ______________ Three dangerous bird-women; Seductresses who sang to mariners
28 ______________ Goddess of the hearth; Hearth and the pig
29 ______________ God of dreams and sleep; Poppy
30 ______________ Goddess of agriculture, grain, and the harvest; Mother of Persephone; Sheath of wheat
31 ______________ Personification of death; Often winged or robed
32 ______________ Goddess of forests and hills, childbirth, virginity, and the hunt; Bow and arrows, the moon
33 ______________ Goddess of the rainbow; Messenger of the Gods
34 ______________ God of shepherds, goats, and mountain wilds; Pipes
35 ______________ God of medicine, healing, and physicians; Son of Apollo; Serpent-entwined staff
36 ______________ The ferryman who carries the souls of the dead across the river Styx
37 ______________ Founder of Athens; Slayed the Minotaur
38 ______________ Goddess of youth; Cupbearer to the Gods; Married Heracles
39 ______________ Goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and art; Source of knowledge
40 ______________ Goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality; Doves, sparrows, and swans; Also called Cytherea
41 ______________ Winged horse; Carried the thunderbolts of Zeus
42 ______________ God of love and pleasure
43 ______________ Goddess of divine retribution, destiny, and inevitability
44 ______________ Race of giants with one eye in the center of their forehead; Polyphemus
45 ______________ Daughter of King Minos of Crete; Consort of Dionysos
46 ______________ Primordial God of the Sky; Father of the Titans
47 ______________ Goddess of wisdom, strength, strategy, justice, and war; Patron of Athens; Owl
48 ______________ Messenger of the Gods; God of thieves, travelers, and sports; Caduceus and winged sandals
49 ______________ God of the Sun; Drove the chariot of the Sun across the sky
50 ______________ Goddess of spring; Queen of the Underworld; Pomegranate and flowers
51 ______________ Beloved by Aphrodite; Figure of fertility cult; God of vegetation and re-birth
52 ______________ King of the Gods, thunder and the sky; Thunderbolts
53 ______________ Goddess of victory, strength, and speed
54 ______________ Mythic Greek hero; Defeated Medusa; Son of Zeus
55 ______________ Ancient god of the oceans; a Titan; Displaced by Poseidon
56 ______________ God of light, truth and prophecy, archery, medicine and healing, music, poetry, and the arts
57 ______________ Leader of the Argonauts; Quest for the Golden Fleece; Married the sorceress Medea
58 ______________ Son of Zeus and greatest Greek hero; Lion skin and club