Mythology Flashcards
Achilles
Mother dipped him in river Styx
Antigone
Daughter of Oedipus
Apollo
God of truth
Ares
*Mars
Acheron
River souls have to cross to get into Hades
Aeschylus
First known Greek play-write
Charon
Ferryman who helps souls cross river (Acheron) into Hades
Charybdis
Whirlpool Odysseus avoids
Clotho
One of the three fates
Corinth
City where Oedipus grew up
Creon
Jocasta’s brother
Delphi
Where the Oracle is located
Demeter
- Goddess of the seasons
- Queen of Hades
Dionysus
God of fertility and wine
Eris
Goddess of discord
Eteocles
- son of Oedipus
- Polyneices’s brother
Hades
God of the underworld
Hephaestus
Forged Zeus’s thunderbolts
Iphigenia
Agemimnon’s daughter who was sacrificed to make the wind blow
Ithaca
Island Odysseus ruled
Jocasta
Oedipus’s wife
Laius
- King of Thebes
- Oedipus’s father
Leda
Raped by a swan (Zeus)
Lethe
River of forgetfulness
