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| 3606898600 | Agamemnon | King who led the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War; to obtain fair winds, he sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia. Murdered by his wife Clytemnestra after returning home. | 0 | |
| 3606898601 | Ambrosia | the food of the gods; those that ate it became immortal. | 1 | |
| 3606898602 | Aurora | early morning or sunrise; from the Roman personification of Dawn or Eos. | 2 | |
| 3606899142 | Bacchanalian | pertaining to a wild, drunken party or celebration. from the Greek/Roman God of wine, Dionysus/Bacchus. | 3 | |
| 3606902300 | Brigadoon | a place that is idyllic, unaffected by time, or remote from reality;a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years in a musical (1947). | 4 | |
| 3606904489 | Cassandra | a person who continually predicts misfortune but often is not believed; from Greek legends, a daughter of Priam cursed by Apollo for not returning his love; he left her with the gift of prophecy but made it so no one would believe her. | 5 | |
| 3606905984 | Centaur | upper body of man, lower body of horse. |  | 6 |
| 3606906683 | Charon | boatman who carried souls across the river Styx and into the underworld Hades. |  | 7 |
| 3606907327 | Chimera | a horrible creature of the imagination, an absurd or impossible idea; wild fancy; a monster with a lion's head a goat's body, and a serpent's tail, breathes fire. |  | 8 |
| 3606919656 | Circe | powerful sorceress who turned people into pigs. | 9 | |
| 3606920125 | Daedalus | a symbol of inventiveness; in mythology, the designer of the Labyrinth and one of the few to escape from it; father of Icarus |  | 10 |
| 3606922957 | Damocles, sword of | an impending danger that causes anxiety; Damocles frequently expressed his awe at the power and happiness of the king. the King was tired of flattery and invited him to a banquet and seated him beneath a sword that was suspended from the ceiling by a single hair: demonstrating that kingship brought fears and worries as well as pleasure. |  | 11 |
| 3606925303 | Elysian Fields | Any place of supreme happiness and bliss; the place where souls of the good went after death; a peaceful, beautiful location, full of meadows, groves, sunlight, and fresh air. |  | 12 |
| 3606926373 | Godiva, Lady | English noblewoman of the 11th century. Once rode naked on horseback through England, covered only by her long hair. Her husband had imposed taxes on the people and agreed to lift them if she took the ride. |  | 13 |
| 3606928218 | Gordian knot | the "cut the ___ ____" - to quickly solve a complex problem; a knot tied by a Greek King, saying whoever could loose it would rule all of Asia. Alexander the Great undid it by cutting through it with his sword. |  | 14 |
| 3606930227 | Halycon | calm, peaceful, tranquil; Archaic bird supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm the water, identified with the kingfisher. |  | 15 |
| 3606938234 | Harpy | a predatory person or nagging woman; from legendary creature that's half woman half bird |  | 16 |
| 3606941801 | Hydra-Headed | having many centers or branches hard to bring under control; something bad you can't eradicate; from Hydra, the 9-headed serpent that was sacred to Hera. Killed by Hercules. |  | 17 |
| 3606943262 | Icarus | son of Daedalus; died while using wax wings to escape the Labyrinth but flew too close to the sun and fell to Earth. |  | 18 |
| 3606945077 | Iridescent | a play of colors producing rainbow effects; from Iris, goddess of the rainbow. |  | 19 |
| 3606945601 | Janus | Roman god of doors and gateways (beginnings); pictured w/ two faces looking in different directions, one old and one young. |  | 20 |
| 3606948076 | Jovial | good humored; from the word Jove, used to express surprise or agreement |  | 21 |
| 3606951432 | La Llorona | legend of Mexico in which a woman drowns her children to be with the man she loves. When he rejects her, she kills herself. Said to claim any children wandering near the river at night. |  | 22 |
| 3606957337 | Leda and the Swan | story about the rape of Leda, a queen of Sparta, by Zeus, who had taken the form of a swan. |  | 23 |
| 3606958780 | Lethargy | abnormal drowsiness or inertia; from the word Lethe, a river in Hades that caused drinkers to forget their past. |  | 24 |
| 3606962289 | Mercurial | suddenly cranky or possessing changeable moods; of or relating to the Roman god Mercury |  | 25 |
| 3606965485 | Minotaur | half man half bull born to the queen of Crete after she mated with a sacred bull. King Minos had Daedalus construct the Labyrinth to hide the creature. Theseus defeated the creature by unspooling a ball of thread as he moved through the Labyrinth; he killed the creature, using the thread to find his way out. |  | 26 |
| 3606971028 | Mnemonics | a device used to aid memory; the personification of memory, Mnemosyne, gave birth to the nine Muses, who supposedly gave good memory in story telling. |  | 27 |
| 3606972857 | Morphine | a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to relieve pain and induce sleep; Morpheus was the Roman god of sleep and dreams that could easily change form or shape. |  | 28 |
| 3606974539 | Muse | some creature of inspiration; the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, divine singers that presided over thought in all its forms. | | 29 |
| 3606975878 | Narcissism | being in love with one's self-image; named for Narcissus, a handsome young man who despised love. Echo, a nymph who was in love with him, was rejected and decreed, " Let he who loves not others, love himself." Hearing this, he fell in love with his image, while gazing in a pond, and drowned himself trying to capture it. |  | 30 |
| 3606978203 | Niobe | mournful woman; from mythical woman whose children were slain by Apollo and Artemis because of her bragging; the gods pitied her and turned her into a rock that was always wet from weeping. | 31 | |
| 3606980205 | Nymph | a beautiful or seductive woman; in myth, a female spirit who lived in forests or bodies of water. | 32 | |
| 3606984138 | Orpheus and Eurydice | Orpheus was a great musician; when his wife, Eurydice, died, he traveled to Hades and asked that his wife be allowed to return to earth. Hades was moved and granted his request on the condition that Orpheus not look back at Eurydice until they left the underworld. Orpheus led Eurydice up from Hades, but at the last moment, he turned to look at her and she vanished forever. |  | 33 |
| 3606987275 | Paean | a song of joy; a ritual epithet of Apollo the healer. In Homeric poems, an independent god of healing who took care of Hades when he was wounded. |  | 34 |
| 3606988869 | Pan | Greek god of flocks, forest, meadows, and shepherds; had the horns and feet of a goat. His musical instrument a set of reed pipes, the "pipes of Pan". Fright at nighttime noises was called "panic". |  | 35 |
| 3606991701 | Pandora's Box | something that opens the door for bad occurrences; named for Pandora who was the first mortal, sent by Zeus, to punish man for Prometheus' theft of fire. For her curiosity in opening the box, Zeus gave her all human ills in the world, leaving only hope at the bottom. |  | 36 |
| 3606994141 | Phoenix | a symbol of immortality or rebirth; named after the Egyptian legend, a bird that lived and then consumed itself in fire, only to rise from the ashes and start another long life . |  | 37 |
| 3606995968 | Promethean | life bringing, creative, or courageously original; named after a Titan who brought man the use of fire that he had stolen from Heaven for their benefit. |  | 38 |
| 3606996778 | Protean | taking many forms, versatile; named after Proteus, a god of the sea, charged with tending the flocks of the sea creatures belonging to Poseidon. Had the ability to change himself into whatever form he desired, using this power particularly when he wanted to elude those asking him questions. |  | 39 |
| 3606999548 | Pyrrhic victory | a too costly victory; from Pyrrhus, a Greek king who defeated the Romans but suffered extremely heavy losses in the fight. |  | 40 |
| 3607000779 | Saturnalia | a period of unrestrained revelry; named after the ancient Roman festival of Saturn, with feasting and revelry in honor of the winter solstice. |  | 41 |
| 3607002250 | Saturnine | sluggish, gloomy, morose; inactive in winter months; named after the god Saturn and assoc. with the god of the Underworld. |  | 42 |
| 3607005097 | Satyr/faun | Greek/Roman creatures who were part man, part goat; companions of Dionysus, famous for being constantly drunk and chasing nymphs. |  | 43 |
| 3607008225 | Sibyl | a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made known the oracles of Apollo and possessed the gift of prophecy. |  | 44 |
| 3607009880 | Sirens | a beautiful tempting woman, a "siren song" is an irresistible distraction; evil creatures that lived on a rocky island that lure sailors to death. |  | 45 |
| 3607011960 | Sisyphean | greedy and avaricious; a difficult, but ultimately useless task; from the shrewd and greedy king Sisyphus, who was doomed in Hades to forever roll a stone uphill that always rolled down again. |  | 46 |
| 3607013465 | Stentorian | having a loud voice; after Stentor in the Iliad who could shout as loud as 50 men. |  | 47 |
| 3607014494 | Stygian | dark and gloomy; named after Styx, a river in the underworld. |  | 48 |
| 3607014851 | Tantalize | to tempt with something desirable but unattainable; King Tantalus, who was condemned to reside in a river with fruit just out of reach always tempting him, as a punishment for excessive pride. |  | 49 |
| 3607017523 | Tiresias | the blind prophet that revealed the truth to Oedipus. Spent part of his life as a man and part as a woman so he understood love from both sides. |  | 50 |
