God of the gods, lead the effort to destroy the Titans; had a bagillion children by multiple women; god of sky and thunder; lightening is the symbol commonly associated with him

An Italian Renaissance politician and writer, his political philosophy is “the ends justify the means” and believed that one should pursue a goal by any means necessary.

Mother of Zeus; duped Zeus’ father into swallowing a rock instead of Zeus

A literary allusion fromThe Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, this allusion stands for a burdensome, ongoing problem.

Father to Zeus, King of the Titans who swallowed all of his children alive (except Zeus) to prevent them from supplanting his throne

Zeus'; jealous wife/sister; almost succeeded in a coup with her siblings to bring down Zeus; goddess of women and marriage

Sea creatures—half woman, half bird—w ho lured sailors to their deaths on the rocky shores by singing a beautiful, irresistible song

Mythical six-headed sea monster with numerous tentacles that posed an inescapable threat to sailors trying to pass through its cave

A well-known inventor in Greek mythology. He designed the inescapable labyrinth for the minotaur and wings used to fly.

An old mental hospital in London. Mad, wildly chaotic, raucous and noisy.

Encountered and overcame many dangerous obstacles on his journey home to his wife from the Trojan wars, including (but not limited to) the Cyclops, the goddess Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens.

A literary term that refers to a beautiful, unreachable place in which the person is out of touch with reality.

Demi-god who went on a quest to kill Medusa, was given a pair of winged sandals by Athena, stole the Graeae sisters’ one eyeball for a hot minute as leverage to demand from them the location of the nymphs so he could get some sweet weapons. Beheaded Medusa and used her head as a weapon to save his mother from marrying the king.

An epic poem written entirely in terza rima about a tour through the different levels of hell

An extensive epic poem about Satan’s fall from Heaven and Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

This is the poem that the albatross allusion comes from. A lyrical ballad about an old sailor telling his story (about shooting an albatross, which inadvertently causes everyone on the ship to die, and then the dead sailors all turning into zombies) to man on his way to a wedding.