Mythology: Mortals Nichole

Deification of Romulus, a lesser known god. Part of the triumvirate that included Jupiter and Mars

Had either 12, 14, or 20 children of equal genders. She suggested she was better than Leto who only had two children. Leto's children slain all of her children with invisible arrows, cause her to cry forever and turned into a fountain.

Greatest hero of Athens, if not all Greece. His sone Aegeus and wife Aethra. Was one of the Argonauts, slew giants, fought Amazons. He slew the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne's thread. Forgot to tell his dad he didn't die, so his dad committed suicide.

Depicted in the constellation Gemini, these twins have the same mother Leda, but one had a mortal father and the other had Zeus as his father making him immortal. one was killed so the other begged his dad, Zeus, to share his mortality, so the brothers spent half their eternity in Hades

Mother of Castor and Clytemnestra fathered by Tyndareus of Sparta, mother of Helen and Pollux fathered by Zeus

Siege of Troy, soldiers sent to retrieve Helen. They couldn't get in.. so they took Athena's advice and built THIS to get in, hid in its belly, then jumped out and unlocked the gates

Daughter/sister of Oedipus, (because he had sex with his mother), accompanied him in his exile from Thebes

Version 1: Desired by Pan, but didn't return his feelings which caused the goat-god to have her torn to pieces only leaving her voice. Version 2: Loud-mouthed attendant of Hera who could never be quiet enough for Hera to catch Zeus cheating

A Lion in the front and a serpent in the Rear and a goat in between

2nd generation Titan, the son of Iapetus and Clymene. He was defeated in war and had to stand in the western part of the universe and hold up the sky for all eternity.

Mortal son of Apollo and Calliope, had two great loves: his music and his wife, Eurydice. Eurydice was fatally bitten by a snake, so he begged Hades for her return, his pleas didn't work but his music did. But he ruined it by looking at her as they ascended to Earth, making her return to the Underworld forever.

Dipped into the river Styx by his mother but was held by his heel making him vulnerable, Apollo/Paris shot him here with a poisoned arrow during the siege of Troy

Became immortal almost by accident. Son of Zeus, he ate their food on Olympus and became immortal. Not popular because he stole the 'ambrosia' and gave it to the mortals and gossiped about everything he heard on Mount Olympus. They sentenced him to remain in water up to his chin with grapes just out of his reach.

Daughter of Leda and Zeus, so beautiful that every man in Sparta was her suitor. All suitors agreed that Menelaus the King of Sparta should have her, but was carried of by Paris and started the Trojan War.. Paris was killed, she married his brother Deiphobus, and left him during the fall of Troy, returned to Sparta and lived with Menelaus.

Son of Zeus and Europa and King of Crete, he needed a bull for a sacrifice and Poseidon sent one, and it was to magnificent to slaughter so his wife Pasiphae fell in love with it and bore his child the Minotaur.

What walks first on four legs, then on two, then on three?
The answer is a man
This is called the Riddle of the _____________

A monster who had anywhere from 3 to 100 eyes. Killed by Hermes, after Zeus was jealous

Provided a "clew" or a ball of thread when Theseus had to pursue the Minotaur, he used the thread to unwind to find his way back out of the labyrinth.

The ferryman who took souls to the Underworld, though there were 5 different rivers to the Underworld

Most famous mortal in mythology thanks to Homer, who told his story in two epic tales. First book is the Iliad which details up into the Trojan War. Name has become a meaning for a 10 year wandering.