AP List of terms for mythology and Biblical allusions:
Bible and Mythology Resources for Students and Teachers
Web Sites:
Oxford Classical Mythology Online
www.classicalmythology.org
The online companion guide to Classical Mythology, 7th edition, by Mark P. O. Morford and Robert J. Lenardon is
an excellent glossary that students and teachers can use directly from the Web. It can also be printed and
photocopied.
Mythweb
www.mythweb.com/index.html
This searchable encyclopedia of Greek mythology is a thorough source of information for teachers and students.
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
www.fact-index.com/l/li/list_of_biblical_figures.html
For biblical sources, I prefer this encyclopedic resource, which provides detailed and multi-perspective entries on
important biblical terms.
Mythology Terms:
I assign the following terms for students to present in the pageant and then review for the first mythology test. The
rest of the year we continue to use the glossaries to look up relevant terms that come up in the reading and class
discussions.
Classical Mythology
Achilles
Cassandra
Elysian Fields
Adonis
Cerberus
fauns
Aeneas
Ceres/Demeter Golden Fleece
Ares/Mars
chimera
Hades
Argus
Circe
Holy Grail
Athena/Minerva Daedalus
Hector
Atlas
Damocles
Chronos
Augean stables Delphic oracle Hera/Juno
Bacchus/Dionysus Electra
Hermes
Hiawatha
Pan
Scylla and Charybdis
Judgment of Paris Pandora’s Box Sisyphus
Jupiter/Zeus
Paris
Tiresias
Laocoon
Parnassus
Titan
Leda
Prometheus
Vesta
Midas
Proteus
Zephyr
Nemesis
Pygmalion
Venus/Aphrodite
Odin
Romulus
Remus
Bible
Abraham and Isaac
Annunciation
Ararat Jacob’s Ladder
Armageddon
Babel
Babylon
burning bush
Bathsheeba
Damascus
Esther
golden calf
Promised Land
Jeremiah
Job
Leviathan
Lot’s wife
Lazarus
Methuselah
olive branch
pearls before swine
plagues of Egypt
Prodigal Son
Queen of Sheba
Ruth
four horsemen
Jesus and money changers
Jonah