River of Hate in Hades.
Aegean Sea island whose people were skilled musicians, whose women were beautiful and noted for their debauchery, and where Sappho, a famous poetess was born.
Roman temple to all the gods, built by Agrippa in 27 BC during the reign of Augustus.
Aeolus' floating island home.
Aegean Sea Island to which Zeus abducted Europa, where Theseus killed the Minotaur, and where Daedalus built the Labyrinth.
Plain near Athens where the Greeks defeated the Persians in a battle that a fully armed Theseus is said to have helped win.
River of Lamentation (Wailing) in Hades.
Crete's highest mountain, where Zeus was allegedly secretly born and suckled by a she-goat, Amalthea.
Plain on which the Olympic Games originated in 776 BC.
Filthy stables from which Heracles (Hercules) had to remove 30 years of waste of the 3,000 cattle it held.
Southern Greek peninsula named for Pelops, who was killed and fed to the gods by Tantalus, his father.
Aegean island on which Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis.
Region of the underworld that was a place of peace and rest for the souls of virtuous people and others liked by the gods.
Kingdom, also called Illium, destroyed by an Achaean army after a 10-year siege, site of the ruins discovered and excavated in 1870-1890 by Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman turned amateur archaeologist.
Asian land where Medea was born and to which the Argonauts went to seek the Golden Fleece.
Mountain in Thessaly where Heracles threw himself to get relief from the poisoned shirt of Nessus and where he made his ow funeral pyre.
Nestor's kingdom in the Peloponnesus.
White marble temple on the Acropolis dedicated to Athena and to Erechteus, an early king of Athens.
Mountainous and sparsely populated area in the Greek Peloponnesus adopted by poets as a symbol of a peaceful, rustic life.
Ancient name for the Dardanelles, the strait joining the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara; named in honor of Helle, sister of Phrixus, who fell from the golden-fleeced ram into the water while flying over it.
Body of water called 'The Friendly Sea' in myth and today known as the Black Sea.
Floating rocky islands, also known as the Wandering Rocks, Cyanean Rocks, Clashing Rocks, or Clashing Islands, at either side of the mouth of the Bosporus, which the Argonautssuccessfully passed by following Phineus' instructions to send a dove first and then sail through while they drew apart.
Capital of Latium.
Very fertile park and parade ground enclosed by a bend in the Tiber River in Rome that the Romans dedicated to Mars.
Mountains, called Abyla in Africa and Calpe in Europe, forming the Strait of Gibraltar.
Capital of Crete where King Minos had his palace and Labyrinth.
River whose sands were turned to gold when Midas bathed in it.
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