WORDS FROM CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY I
From The Word's the Thing
Dr. Louis D. Appel

The answers to the clues below come from Greek and Roman mythology.

1. Weak point or vulnerable spot
2. Especially handsome young man
3. The food of the gods
4. Drug that supposedly inspires romantic feelings
5. Institution for the promotion of learning
6. Unhealthy attachment of a son for his mother
7. Unhealthy attachment of a daughter for her father
8. When opened, a source of many problems
9. Extreme self-love, to the exclusion of others
10. Requiring super-human strength - as a task
11. A venerable and wise old man
12. A long, wandering, adventurous journey
13. Changeable or fickle (two answers)
14. Sleepwalker
15. One having a very loud voice
16. Describing an interminable and laborious task
17. Faithful, unquestioning follower
18. Tease or torment by rousing desire and then frustrating it
19. Someone or something that is particularly hard to deal with or overcome
20. A trick or stratagem to cause a target to willingly invite an enemy into their midst.

Answers:

1. Achilles' heel
2. Adonis
3. Ambrosia
4. Aphrodisiac 
5. Atheneum
6. Oedipus complex
7. Electra complex
8. Pandora's box
9. Narcissism
10. Herculean
11. Nestor
12. Odyssey
13. Protean / Mercurial
14. Somnambulist
15. Stentor
16. Sisyphean
17. Myrmidon
18. Tantalize
19. Nemesis 
20. Trojan Horse 

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