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Mythology

Mythology 2025-12-09 (Season 42)

LEGENDS

Legend says that for military aid, Robert Bruce gave half of a symbol of Scotland's monarchy to the King of Munster, who turned it into this

Mythology 2025-07-21 (Season 41)

MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES

A 17th c. English translation of the "Aeneid" rhymes "my soul remains" & "perpetual pains" with this 2-word place

Mythology 2024-11-20 (Season 41)

FIGURES OF MYTH

Ovid says he "toppled, beating wild with naked arms the unsustaining air... shrieking for succour from his sire"

Mythology 2023-06-12 (Season 39)

WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY

The name of this woman, the product of an incestuous union, means "against birth"

Mythology 2023-02-02 (Season 39)

MYTHOLOGY

Poseidon carried off the maiden Theophane & turned her into a ewe; their offspring was the source of this mythical object

Mythology 2022-06-13 (Season 38)

TV LEGENDS

Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors

Mythology 2021-11-15 (Season 38)

MYTHS & LEGENDS

This legendary place has been identified as being in Caerleon, Wales & in Winchester, England

Mythology 2021-10-13 (Season 38)

SPORTS LEGENDS

When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken"

Mythology 2021-09-29 (Season 38)

MYTHOLOGY

The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being

Mythology 2021-09-27 (Season 38)

ROCK LEGENDS

A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975

Mythology 2021-04-28 (Season 37)

HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS

This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture"

Mythology 2019-07-03 (Season 35)

MYTHOLOGY

In Homer there's only one of these, from the Greek for "terrible"; later they became 3 scary sisters

Mythology 2018-10-10 (Season 35)

MYTHOLOGICAL HEROES

The second half of his service to Eurystheus took him to 6 different places, like Crete, Thrace & the Underworld

Mythology 2018-04-27 (Season 34)

LEGENDARY PEOPLE

Leodegrance, king of Cameliard, gave the newlyweds a piece of furniture on the marriage of this daughter

Mythology 2018-03-16 (Season 34)

MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS

Hesiod said it fawns on all who enter "with actions of... tail & both ears", but when people try to exit it "eats them up"

Mythology 2018-02-28 (Season 34)

WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY

Poet & translator Anne Carson addresses her: "Your name in Greek means something like 'against birth'"

Mythology 2017-05-02 (Season 33)

MYTHOLOGY

This woman was created & given to Epimetheus as punishment for his brother's actions

Mythology 2017-02-06 (Season 33)

MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES

With depths of up to 30,000 feet, ocean trenches make up a zone named for this brother of Poseidon & his domain

Mythology 2016-12-02 (Season 33)

MODERN MYTHOLOGY

A purported image of this subject of legend was published in the Daily Mail newspaper on April 21, 1934

Mythology 2016-09-29 (Season 33)

MYTHOLOGY

Banished from Athens, this inventor found trouble on Crete too, but escaped

Mythology 2016-02-24 (Season 32)

LEGENDARY WOMEN

Early British literature refers to her as "the first lady of the island"

Mythology 2015-02-16 (Season 31)

MYTHOLOGY

The ancient Greeks derived the name of this evil sorceress from a verb meaning "to plot"

Mythology 2013-01-07 (Season 29)

AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS

A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can"

Mythology 2010-07-20 (Season 26)

LEGENDARY PUBLIC SERVANTS

In 1929 he became a special agent with the Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau, Chicago Division

Mythology 2010-06-14 (Season 26)

MOONS & MYTHOLOGY

This planet is named for a Roman god; its only moons are named for the sons of his Greek counterpart

Mythology 2010-03-17 (Season 26)

LEGENDARY WOMEN

In various tales, she is abducted by Melwas, Meleagant & Mordred

Mythology 2010-03-12 (Season 26)

FILM LEGENDS

His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic

Mythology 2009-04-20 (Season 25)

AMERICAN LEGENDS

Chippewa legend says Nanabojo grew angry at this person for tearing up trees & beat him to death with a fish

Mythology 2009-01-23 (Season 25)

MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES

This prized object was the coat of the winged ram that flew Phrixus to safety

Mythology 2008-07-14 (Season 24)

MYTHS

Seen here with 2 other troubled mythic figures, he's theman on the leftwho can never quite reach the fruit

Mythology 2007-07-10 (Season 23)

MYTHICAL HEROES

In a play by Euripides, he goes mad & thinks he's tearing down the walls of Mycenae but destroys his own house

Mythology 2007-05-22 (Season 23)

SPORTS LEGENDS

Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship

Mythology 2005-05-26 (Season 21)

MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS

Its name is from the Greek for "to bind", which in turn may come from the Egyptian shesep-ankh, "living image"

Mythology 2004-05-25 (Season 20)

MYTHS & LEGENDS

At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread

Mythology 2004-04-29 (Season 20)

MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES

His name means "The Glory of" a certain goddess, & he built shrines to that goddess

Mythology 2004-03-12 (Season 20)

MYTHOLOGY

The current medals for the Summer Olympics feature this goddess on them

Mythology 2004-01-29 (Season 20)

MYTHOLOGY

They were the 2 parents of a son who ended up half man, half woman

Mythology 2003-10-28 (Season 20)

LEGENDARY RULERS

He's been written about by Aneirin in "The Gododdin" around 600 A.D. & by Fay Sampson in the "Daughter of Tintagel" series

Mythology 2001-04-02 (Season 17)

GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY

The English names of this god's 2 companions are Panic & Fear

Mythology 2000-12-18 (Season 17)

SPORTS LEGENDS

If Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak had gone one more game in 1941, this company would have given him a $10,000 contract

Mythology 2000-11-24 (Season 17)

AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY

The great creator said these animals couldn't eat the fish of the river, so they fed on the land at night

Mythology 2000-04-21 (Season 16)

SPORTS LEGENDS

Retired since 1977, he said, "All I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm"

Mythology 1996-09-30 (Season 13)

GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL GROUPS

2 groups, 1 of 9 & 1 of 3, that include a member named Thalia

Mythology 1996-05-03 (Season 12)

MYTHOLOGY

King Agamemnon was killed on his return to Greece after ignoring the warnings of this woman, his slave

Mythology 1994-10-26 (Season 11)

MYTHOLOGY

This prize was inscribed "for the fairest"

Mythology 1994-01-14 (Season 10)

LEGENDS

According to Sir Thomas Malory, the name of this object means "cut-steel"

Mythology 1992-03-27 (Season 8)

MYTHS & LEGENDS

One legend says he was the Earl of Huntingdon & lived from 1160 to 1247

Mythology 1992-01-06 (Season 8)

MYTHOLOGY

Jupiter made Chiron, the wisest & most just of all centaurs, this constellation

Mythology 1991-01-23 (Season 7)

MYTHOLOGY

The Oracle at Delphi was believed to be speaking the words of this god

Mythology 1989-10-05 (Season 6)

MYTHOLOGY

In Greek mythology, he was the most famous son of Hypnos, the god of sleep