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| 6642515777 | Achilles' heel | today one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have. Achilles was invulnerable except for his heel (achilles tendon) | 0 | |
| 6642519394 | Adonis | handsome young man; Aphrodite loved him | 1 | |
| 6642520937 | Apollo | a physically perfect male; the God of music and light; know for his physical beauty | 2 | |
| 6642524960 | Athena/Minerva | goddess of wisdom, the city, and arts; patron goddess of the city of Athens | 3 | |
| 6642718410 | Atlantean | strong like Atlas- who carried the globe (world) on his shoulders | 4 | |
| 6642529859 | Bacchanalian | (adj.) pertaining to a wild, drunken party or celebration from god of wine. Bacchus (Roman), Dionysus (Greek) | 5 | |
| 6642535987 | 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 | 6 | |
| 6642541879 | 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, supposed to breathe out fire | 7 | |
| 6642546212 | Gorgon | a very ugly or terrible person, especially a repulsive woman; Medusa, any one or 3 sisters have snaked for hair and faces so horrible that anyone who looked at them turned to stone | 8 | |
| 6642551021 | Halcyon | calm, peaceful, tranquil-- Archaic bur supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm the water, identified with the kingfisher (Latin< Greek halkyon) | 9 | |
| 6642557897 | Helen (of Troy) | Hellenistic; of or relating to Greece, or a Specialist of language or culture in Greece; symbol of a beautiful woman; from Helen of Troy, the daughter of Leda and Zeus-- the cause of the Trojan War | 10 | |
| 6642563584 | Herculean | very strong or of extraordinary power; from Hercules, Hera's glory, the son of Zeus. He performed the 12 labor imposed by Hera | 11 | |
| 6642569212 | Jovial | good humored; from the word Jove, used to express surprise or agreement (Jupiter) | 12 | |
| 6642571822 | Junoesque | marked by stately beauty; comes from the word Juno, the wife of Jupiter, the Goddess of light, birth, women, and marriage | 13 | |
| 6642576319 | Martial | suited for way or a warrior; from Mars, the Roman God of War | 14 | |
| 6642579086 | Medea | sorceress or enchantress; from Medea who helped Jason and the Argonauts capture the Golden Fleece; known form her revenge against Jason when he spurned her for the princess of Corinth | 15 | |
| 6642583878 | Mercurial | (adj.) suddenly cranky of changeable; Roman Mythology, of or relating to the god Mercury | 16 | |
| 6642588655 | Mercury/Hermes | a carrer or tidings, a newsboy, a messenger; messenger of the gods, conductor of should to the lower world, and god of eloquence; the fabled inventor, wore winged hat and sandals | 17 | |
| 6642593739 | Muse | some creature of inspiration; the daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, divine singers that presided over through in all its forms | 18 | |
| 6642597697 | Narcissism | being in love with our own 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 loved 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 | 19 | |
| 6642607813 | Neptune | the sea personified; the Roman god associated with Poseidon, god of the water and oceans | 20 | |
| 6642610403 | Odyssey | a long journey; named for Odysseus, the character in The Odyssey, by Homer. Odysseus makes his long journey back from the Trojan War, encountering several obstacles along the way | 21 | |
| 6642618509 | Olympian | majestic in manner, superior to mundane affairs' any participant in the ancient or modern Olympic games; named after 12 gods that were supposed to reside on Mount Olympus | 22 | |
| 6642626417 | Pandora's Box | something that opens the door for bad occurrences, opened by someone known for curiosity; 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 | 23 | |
| 6642635889 | Pegasus | poetic inspiration; named after a winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa at her death; a stamp of his hoof caused Hippocrene, the fountain of the Muses, to issue poetic inspiration form Mount Helicon | 24 | |
| 6642643879 | Phoenix | a symbol of immortality or rebirth; named after the Egyptian Mythology phonic, a long bird which lived in the Arabian desert and then consumed itself in fire, rising renewed from the flame to state another long life | 25 | |
| 6642650583 | Promethean | life-bringing, creative, or courageously original; named after a Titan who brought man the use of fire which he had stolen from heaven for their benefits | 26 | |
| 6642655719 | 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. He had the ability to change himself into whatever form he desired, using this power particularly when he wanted to elude those asking him questions | 27 | |
| 6642664883 | Psyche | the human soul, self, the mind; named after Psyche, a maiden who, after undergoing many hardships due to Aphrodite's jealousy, reunited with Cupid and was made immortal by Jupiter; she personified the should joined to the heart of love | 28 | |
| 6642674517 | Pygmalion | someone (usually male) who tried to fashion someone into the person he desires; form a myth adapted into a play by George Bernard Shaw; a woman-hating sculptor who makes a female figure of ivory who Aphrodite brings to life for him | 29 | |
| 6642682833 | Sibyl | a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made known the oracles of Apollo and possessed the gift of prophecy | 30 | |
| 6642686863 | Sisyphean | greedy and avaricious; from the shrewd and greedy king of Corinth, Sisyphus, who was doomed forever in Hades to roll uphill a heavy stone, which always rolled down again | 31 | |
| 6642701462 | Stygian | dark and gloomy; named after the river Styx, a river in the Underworld. The water is poisonous form human and cattle and said to break iron, metal and pottery, through it is said a horse's hoof is unharmed by it | 32 | |
| 6642706455 | Tantalize | from King Tantalus, who reigned on Mount Sipylus and was condemned to reside in a beautiful river with sumptuous fruits just out of reach and the water undrinkable, always tempting his as punishment | 33 | |
| 6642713815 | Zeus | a powerful man; king of the gods, ruler of Mount Olympus, vengeful hurler of thunderbolts | 34 |
