Mythological Dictionary Page #4

Sisyphean

Sisyphus was a famous resident of Hades who was condemned to roll an enormous rock up a hill only to...

Sphinx

The sphinx terrorized Thebes before the arrival of Oedipus (see Oedipal Complex). She was a hybrid c...

Stentorian

Stentor was the herald of the Greek army at Troy, who could speak with the power of fifty men. Today...

Stygian

Across the river Styx, the "hateful" river that circles the realm of the underworld, the ferryman Ch...

Syringe

Syrinx ("pan-pipes") rejected the god Pan and was turned into a bed of reeds from which he fashioned...

Tantalize

Tantalus, who through hybris tried to feed the gods human flesh, is punished by being in a state of ...

Tartarean

Tartarus is the region in the realm of Hades reserved for the punishment of sinners, among whom are ...

Terpsichorean

From Terpsichore, one of the nine muses comes the adjective, terpsichorean, which refers to her spec...

Titan

Titan or titanic. The twelve Titans, the second generation of gods, born of Ge and Uranus, were of ...

Typhoon

Zeus' struggle with the dragon Typhon (also named Typhaon or Typhoeus) was the most serious battle t...

Venereal

Venereal or venery or veneration. Venus was the powerful Roman goddess of love, equated with the Gr...

Volcanic

volcanic or volcano or volcanism or volcanize or volcanology, etc. (each of these words may also be...

Wheel of Fortune

Fors or Fortuna was an Italic fertility goddess who controlled the cycles of the seasons and became ...

Zephyr

Zephyrus is the west wind (see Aurora Borealis), which signals the return of spring. Today a zephyr ...