Heroes and Hades and Creatures… Oh, My!
 Underworld
 Three parts: Fields of
Punishment, Isle of the Blest, and
Elysium
 Tartarus
 Lowest region; wicked sent there
 Charon
 Mans the ferry on the River Styx
 River Styx
 River of Hades that the souls of
the dead cross on their journey
from the realm of the living
 People swear oaths on the river
when making a promise
 River Lethe
 River of forgetfulness the souls
drink from when arriving in the
Underworld
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 Kindly Ones
 AKA Furies
 Winged women with serpent hair who punish
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people
 Cerberus
 3-headed dog that guards the entrance of the
Underworld
 Sisyphus
 King that disrespected Zeus
 As punishment, he was sent to Tartarus to roll a
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boulder up a hill…
 Only to have it roll down again… and the process
repeats and repeats and repeats…
 Erebus
 Son of Chaos and the personification of darkness
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 Fates
 3 sisters of destiny and life
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 One spins the thread of life, one measures it, and one
cuts it
 Circe
 Enchantress who lives on an island, where she tricks
sailors and changes them into beasts
 Procrustes
 Known as “the stretcher”
 Stretches or cuts off legs of victims to make
them fit on a bed
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 Echidna
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 Mother of all the monsters
 Chimera
 Female monster with the head of a lion, the body of a
goat, and the tail of a serpent
 Harpies
 Winged women with sharp claws who snatch food,
objects, or people
 Titan
 Early gods from which Olympian gods were originated
 Overthrown by the Olympians
 Perseus & Medusa
 Hero who killed Medusa (the woman with
the snake hair and one of the Gorgons)
 Jason & the Golden Fleece
 Hero who sailed with the Argonauts to get
the Golden Fleece (a ram’s fleece guarded
by a dragon that never sleeps)
 Theseus & the Minotaur
 Hero who killed the Minotaur (the half-
man half-bull who lived in the labyrinth)
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 Centaur
 Half-man half-horse (kind of wild)
 Chiron
 Centaur who trained heroes
 Satyr
 Half-man half-goat
 Nymph
 Beautiful female (minor) deities of nature
 Naiad
 A nymph of water, streams, and fountains
 Nereid
 Sea nymph
 Garden of Hesperides
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 Garden where Hera’s golden apples are kept; guarded by a dragon
 Zephyr
 West wind personified
 Ichor
 Blood of the gods (usually gold-colored)
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 Oracle at Delphi
 Answers Qs/gives prophecies
 Argus
 100-eyed monster
 Cyclopes
 1-eyed giant
 Sphinx
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 Creature that kills people who cannot answer her riddles
 Eventually is killed b/c someone solved her riddle
 “What walks on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on
three in the evening?”
 The name also refers to other monsters that have the body of
a lion, the head and bust of a woman, and wings