Mythology Review

2. An early group of gods, Zeus fights them for control of the world. Atlas and Prometheus are examples
4. Brother of Menelaus, High King of the Greeks, leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War
6. A mountain that was the home of twelve of the most famous Greek gods
8. Brother of Europa and founder of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, he brought the alphabet to the new continent
11. God of the Sea, brother of Zeus
13. Hero who completed twelve labors and died from a centaur’s poisonous blood
15. husband and son of Gaia who imprisoned his children deep in the earth
16. Grown in the Garden of the Hesperides, Hercules had to retrieve them in his eleventh labor, Eris used one to cause trouble at a wedding
17. Goddess of wisdom, born from the head of Zeus with weapons and armor ready
20. Half-man half-horse, one of these creatures tricked Hercules’ lover into killing him
22. Goddess of love and beauty, born from the sea foam after her father was castrated
23. A Titan who brought fire to humans, he was chained to a rock while a vulture ate his liver daily

1. God of wine, theater, and religious ecstasy, he was the only god with a mortal parent
3. God of the Underworld, brother of Zeus
5. Father of Zeus who ate his other children to avoid the fate of an evil prophecy
7. Mortal woman whom Zeus transformed into a cow, she became a queen of Egypt
9. This warrior faced a choice of whether to live to an old age or die young and be famous forever
10. A Gorgon killed by the hero Perseus, whose eyes turned living things to stone
12. A mortal woman whom Zeus abducted by turning himself into a bull and swimming away with her
13. Prince of Troy killed in one-on-one combat with Achilles
14. Mother Earth, the first goddess and mother of the most ancient gods
18. Queen of the Gods, her jealousy over her husband’s infidelity is infamous
19. Most beautiful woman in the world, wife of Menelaus of Sparta, taken by Paris of Troy
21. Monster in Crete who ate youth from Athens every year. Killed by the hero Theseus