The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4) (45 page)

Jupiter
the Roman king of the gods; also called Jupiter Optimus Maximus (the best and the greatest). Greek form: Zeus

Kampê
a monster with the upper body of a snake-haired woman and the lower body of a drakon; appointed by the Titan Kronos to guard the Cyclopes of Tartarus. Zeus slew her and freed the giants from their prison to aid him in his war against the Titans.

katobleps
a cow monster whose name means ‘down-looker’ (
katoblepones
, pl.). They were accidentally imported to Venice from Africa. They eat poisonous roots that grow by the canals and have a poisonous gaze and poisonous breath.

Katoptris
Piper’s dagger

Kerkopes
a pair of chimpanzee-like dwarfs who steal shiny things and create chaos

Khione
the Greek goddess of snow; daughter of Boreas

Koios
one of the twelve Titans; Titan lord of the north

Krios
one of the twelve Titans; Titan lord of the south

Kronos
the youngest of the twelve Titans; the son of Ouranos and Gaia; the father of Zeus. He killed his father at his mother’s bidding. Titan lord of fate, harvest, justice and time. Roman form: Saturn

Labyrinth
an underground maze originally built on the island
of Crete by the craftsman Daedalus to hold the Minotaur (part man, part bull)

Laistrygonian giant
a monstrous cannibal from the far north

Lar
a house god, ancestral spirit (
Lares
, pl.)

legionnaire
Roman soldier

lemures
Roman term for angry ghosts

Leto
daughter of the Titan Koios; mother of Artemis and Apollo with Zeus; goddess of motherhood

Lotus Hotel
a casino in Las Vegas where Percy, Annabeth and Grover lost valuable time during their quest after eating enchanted lotus blossoms

Mansion of Night
Nyx’s palace

manticore
a creature with a human head, a lion’s body and a scorpion’s tail

Mars
the Roman god of war; also called Mars Ultor. Patron of the empire; divine father of Romulus and Remus. Greek form: Ares

Medea
a follower of Hecate and one of the great sorceresses of the ancient world

Mercury
Roman messenger of the gods; god of trade, profit and commerce. Greek form: Hermes

Minerva
the Roman goddess of wisdom. Greek form: Athena

Minos
king of Crete; son of Zeus; every year he made King Aegus pick seven boys and seven girls to be sent to the Labyrinth, where they would be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death he became a judge in the Underworld.

Minotaur
a monster with the head of a bull on the body of a man

Mist
a magic force that disguises things from mortals

Mount Tamalpais
the site in the Bay Area (northern California) where the Titans built a palace

naiads
water nymphs

Necromanteion
the Oracle of Death, or House of Hades in Greek; a multilevel temple where people went to consult with the dead

Neptune
the Roman god of the sea. Greek form: Poseidon

New Rome
a community near Camp Jupiter where demigods can live together in peace, without interference from mortals or monsters

Notus
Greek god of the South Wind. Roman form: Auster

numina montanum
Roman mountain god (
montana
, pl.). Greek form:
ourae

nymph
a female nature deity who animates nature

nymphaeum
a shrine to nymphs

Nyx
goddess of night; one of the ancient, firstborn elemental gods

Odysseus
legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer’s epic poem
The Odyssey
. Roman form: Ulysses

Ogygia
the island home – and prison – of the nymph Calypso

ourae
Greek for mountain god. Roman form:
numina montanum

Ouranos
father of the Titans

Pasiphaë
the wife of Minos, cursed to fall in love with his prize bull and give birth to the Minotaur (part man, part bull); mistress of magical herbal arts

Pegasus
in Greek mythology, a winged divine horse; sired by Poseidon in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa; the brother of Chrysaor

Periclymenus
an Argonaut, the son of two demigods, and the grandson of Poseidon, who granted him the ability to change into various animals

peristyle
entrance to an emperor’s private residence

Persephone
the Greek queen of the Underworld; wife of Hades; daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Roman form: Proserpine

phalanx
a compact body of heavily armed troops

Phlegethon
the River of Fire that flows from Hades’s realm down into Tartarus; it keeps the wicked alive so they can endure the torments of the Field of Punishment

pilum
(
pila
, pl.) a javelin used by the Roman army

Pluto
the Roman god of death and riches. Greek form: Hades

Polybotes
the giant son of Gaia, the Earth Mother

Polyphemus
the gigantic one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa; one of the Cyclopes

Porphyrion
the king of the giants in Greek and Roman mythology

Poseidon
the Greek god of the sea; son of the Titans Kronos and Rhea, and brother of Zeus and Hades. Roman form: Neptune

praetor
an elected Roman magistrate and commander of the army

Proserpine
Roman queen of the Underworld. Greek form: Persephone

Psyche
a young mortal woman who fell in love with Eros and was forced by his mother, Aphrodite, to earn her way back to him

quoits
a game in which players toss hoops at a stake

Riptide
the name of Percy Jackson’s sword;
Anaklusmos
in Greek

River Acheron
the fifth river of the Underworld; the river of pain; the ultimate punishment for the souls of the damned

River Lethe
one of several rivers in the Underworld; drinking from it will make someone forget his identity

Romulus
and Remus
the twin sons of Mars and the priestess Rhea Silvia. They were thrown into the River Tiber by their
human father, Amulius, and were rescued and raised by a she-wolf. Upon reaching adulthood, they founded Rome.

Saturn
the Roman god of agriculture; the son of Uranus and Gaia, and the father of Jupiter. Greek form: Kronos

satyr
a Greek forest god, part goat and part man. Roman equivalent: faun

Scipio
Reyna’s pegasus

Sciron
an infamous robber who ambushed passers-by and forced them to wash his feet as a toll. When they knelt, he kicked his victims into the sea, where they were eaten by a giant turtle.

scorpion ballista
a Roman missile siege weapon that launched a large projectile at a distant target

Senatus Populusque Romanus
(
SPQR
) meaning ‘The Senate and People of Rome’, refers to the government of the Roman Republic and is used as an official emblem of Rome

shadow-travel
a form of transportation that allows creatures of the Underworld and children of Hades to travel to any desired place on earth or in the Underworld, although it makes the user extremely fatigued

Sibylline Books
a collection of prophecies in rhyme written in Greek. Tarquinius Superbus, a king of Rome, bought them from a prophetess named Sibyl and consulted them in times of great danger.

spatha
a heavy sword used by Roman cavalry

Spes
goddess of hope; the Feast of Spes, the Day of Hope, falls on August 1

stela
(
stelae
, pl.) an inscribed stone used as a monument

Stygian iron
a magical metal, forged in the River Styx, capable of absorbing the very essence of monsters and injuring mortals,
gods, Titans and Giants. It has a significant effect on ghosts and creatures from the Underworld.

Tantalus
In Greek mythology, this king was such a good friend of the gods that he was allowed to dine at their table – until he spilled their secrets on earth. He was sent to the Underworld, where his curse was to be stuck in a pool of water under a fruit tree, but never to be able to drink or eat.

Tartarus
husband of Gaia; spirit of the abyss; father of the giants

telkhine
a sea demon with flippers instead of hands, and a dog’s head

Tempest
Jason’s friend; a storm spirit in the form of a horse

Terminus
the Roman god of boundaries and landmarks

Terra
the Roman goddess of the Earth. Greek form: Gaia

Thanatos
the Greek god of death; servant of Hades. Roman form: Letus

Theseus
a king of Athens who was known for many exploits, including killing the Minotaur

Three Fates
In Greek mythology, even before there were gods, there were the Fates: Clotho, who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, the measurer, who determines how long a life will be; and Atropos, who cuts the thread of life with her shears.

Tiber River
the third-longest river in Italy. Rome was founded on its banks. In Ancient Rome, executed criminals were thrown into the river.

Tiberius
was emperor of Rome from 14–37
CE
. He was one of Rome’s greatest generals, but he came to be remembered as a reclusive and sombre ruler who never really wanted to be emperor.

Titans
a race of powerful Greek deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, who ruled during the Golden Age and were overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Olympians

Triptolemus
god of farming; he aided Demeter when she was searching for her daughter, Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades

trireme
an Ancient Greek or Roman warship, having three tiers of oars on each side

Trojan Horse
a tale from the Trojan War about a huge wooden horse that the Greeks built and left near Troy with a select force of men inside. After the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy, the Greeks emerged at night, let the rest of their army into Troy, and destroyed it, decisively ending the war.

Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband, Menelaus, king of Sparta.

venti
air spirits

Venus
the Roman goddess of love and beauty. She was married to Vulcan, but she loved Mars, the god of war. Greek form: Aphrodite

Vulcan
the Roman god of fire and crafts and of blacksmiths; the son of Jupiter and Juno, and married to Venus. Greek form: Hephaestus

Wolf House
where Percy Jackson was trained as a Roman demigod by Lupa

Zephyros
Greek god of the West Wind. Roman form: Favonius

Zeus
Greek god of the sky and king of the gods. Roman form: Jupiter