Greek Myths



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

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