A number of terms come to English by way of Greek gods and goddesses. Narcissists — people who are obsessed with their looks — are named after Narcissus, a handsome youth in Greek mythology who refused all offers of love. Aphrodite punished him for his indifference by having him fall in love with his own reflection in a forest pool. Unable to possess his reflection, Narcissus pined away and was changed into the flower that now bears his name.

Speaking of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, ever heard of an aphrodisiac?

Psychology, the science of the mind, gets its name from Psyche, a beautiful girl who was desired by Eros, the god of love. He forbade her to look at him because he was a god, but when she disobeyed him by lighting a lamp in the dark, he abandoned her. She was worshipped as the personification of the human soul.

A few other words that derived from Greek gods include east (named after Eos, the goddess of dawn), west (after Hesperus, the god of evening), night and nocturnal (both after Nyx, the god of night), museum (named after the Muses), and atlas, the name of a collection of maps as well of the first vertebra of the neck (the spot where the mythological giant's burden rests).