gymnastic physical exercise or education.
Uranus, Cronus (Ouranos, Kronos) in Greek mythology (told in Hesiod's Theogony), Cronus was a Titan who, with his brothers and sisters, was imprisoned in Tartarus (the part of the Underworld where guilty souls are punished) by his father Uranus (the Heavens). Cronos escaped and castrated his father, with the help of his mother Ge (the Earth), to become the ruler of the Titans; this is the "retaliation" Socrates refers to.
mystery in ancient Greece, a religious ceremony or doctrine revealed only to the initiated.
Hephaestus in Greek mythology, the god of fire and metalworking, the lame blacksmith god, son of Hera (alone, according to Hesiod; other versions call him the son of Zeus and Hera).
Hera the queen of heaven and the gods, the sister and wife of Zeus, and goddess of women and marriage.
Zeus chief deity of the Olympian gods, son of Cronus, brother and husband of Hera.
lots objects used in deciding a matter by chance.
Pandarus a character in Homer's Iliad: a leader of the Lycians in the Trojan War.
Proteus a minor sea-god in Greek mythology: he can change his form or appearance at will. In the Odyssey, he appears as a seer who changes shape to avoid answering questions.
Thetis one of the Nereids (sea-goddesses or sea-nymphs) and the mother of Achilles (whose father was a human man, Peleus); Thetis dipped the infant Achilles in the River Styx in order to make him immortal like the gods, but the heel by which she held him was not affected and so became the site of his mortal wound.
Agamemnon in myth, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus; he was king of Mycenae and the leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War.
Apollo an Olympian god, son of Zeus, brother of Artemis; he was a god of light, prophecy, healing, music, and archery, and a protector of herds. The shrine at Delphi was sacred to Apollo, and the oracle there was his.
Phoebus originally a sun-god, Phoebus became another name (as here) for Apollo.
