2. inventor who created the Labyrinth where the Minotaur lived

3. in early mythology, the resting place of heroes; the later mythology, where good people went in the afterlife

4. a long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation, e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

5. god of love and desire; son of Aphrodite

6. "and you, Brutus?" famous last words of Julius Caesar as the Senate members assassinated him; Brutus was supposed to be a friend of his, but had a hand in the killing

7. "and the rest" - usually seen at the end of a list of things, instead of listing everything

8. "from the library of" - used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner: ex libris Mark Twain.

9. "the end"

10. a mural painted directly onto wet plaster (fresco means "fresh" in Italian)

11. the golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts

12. female monsters who had snakes for hair and whose horrifying gaze could turn a man to stone if he looked at them (Medusa was one of the Gorgons)

13. god of the Underworld/Tartarus

14. Carthaginian general who attacked Italy by crossing the Italian Alps in the 2nd Punic War; he was eventually defeated by Scipio at the Battle of Zama

15. prince of Troy who was killed by Achilles in the Iliad; Achilles tied Hector's dead body to the back of his chariot and dragged it around the city walls three times

16. queen of Sparta who was promised to Paris by Aphrodite for choosing her (Aphrodite) as the fairest goddess; Helen was already married to Menelaus (the king of Sparta) and her kidnapping/elopement began the Trojan War

17. god of fire and metal-working; married to Aphrodite/Venus

18. goddess of marriage; married to Zeus; queen of the gods

19. mortal son of Zeus; had to complete 12 labors to regain favor with the gods after killing his family; when he died, he became a god

20. the messenger god; god of thieves and travelers; son of Zeus; invented the lyre; escorted people to the Underworld when they died

21. goddess of the hearth

22. blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

23. "that is" - used for further explanation: 'in other words...'

24. Icarus was the son of Daedalus who flew too close to the sun with the wings his father made him from wax and feathers, and fell to his death

25. the 15th of March, the day in 44 BC when Julius Caesar was assassinated

26. epic poem written by Homer that tells part of the story of the Trojan War

27. leader of the quest for the Golden Fleece; sailed with the Argonauts

28. another name for Zeus/Jupiter

29. good-humored, jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)

30. maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete, where the Minotaur (half man, half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned

31. doctor of medicine

32. a modern day race of 26.2 miles; from Marathon in Greece, the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 bc; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (26 miles) with the news.

33. "my fault"

34. half-man, half-bull who lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus

35. a picture made from small bits of glass or pottery

36. home of the Greek gods; highest mountain in Greece

37. volcano that erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum

38. the 9 goddesses who looked after the arts and inspired men in those arts (poetry, history, drama, etc.)

39. goddess of victory

40. king of Ithaca who came up with the idea of using the Trojan horse to defeat the city of Troy; the Odyssey (an epic by Homer) tells the story of Odysseus trying to find his way home from the Trojan War

41. Eurydice died on their wedding day. Orpheus went down to the Underworld to bring her back. Hades agreed, on the condition that Eurydice would follow behind Orpheus on their way up to the mortal world and he couldn't check to make sure she was behind him until they had left the Underworld; he looked behind him just as they were about to exit the Underworld and lost her forever.

42. the three goddesses who determine a person's life: when he will be born, how long he will live, and when he will die; one sister spins the thread of life, the second measures out a certain length, and the third cuts it at the end of the person's life

43. spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family members

44. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus, kind of Ithaca, trying to find his way home from the Trojan War