mythology Flashcards
Atlas
A picture of Atlas holding the world on his shoulders
Calliope
The patroness of epic poetry, lives on, in lower case, as the name for a musical instrument resembling an organ.
Cereal
Demeter’s Roman name (sort of)
Cerebral
The gate of Hades guarded by Cerberus.
Chaos
The first thing that came to be, the primeval matter from which sprang Darkness and Night.
Chronology
From Cronus, son of Earth and Sky and the father of many of the gods, we derive a cluster of words that happened to do with time.
Herculean
A task that is extremely hard to achieve.
Iris
The name of both the flower and the part of the eye is a lower-case version of Iris, goddess of the rainbow.
Music
Came from Mueses, the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
Nemesis
Someone that continuously beats you. Nemesis was the goddess of retributive justice.
Odyssey
A long journey or voyage marked by strange turn of events.
Panic
Came from Pan when he would dart behind bushes.
Phobia
Came from Phobos, son of Ares.
Psyche
Came from a beautiful princess
Siren
Creatures that were mythological creatures in Homer’s Oddessy.
