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