Adonis, Amazons, Andromeda, Antigone, Argonauts, Calypso, Cassandra, Charon, Circe, Daedalus, Daphne, Dido, Dryads, Electra, Europa, Eurydice, Helen of Troy, Hero, Icarus, Leander, Medea, Midas, Naiads, Narcissus, Pandora, Penelope, Phaedra, Plutus, Psyche, Pygmalion, Sisyphus, and Tantalus {Greek and Roman people}.
Oracle {Delphi, myth} was for Apollo.
protectors of suppliants {Eumenides} {Fates}.
just pursuers and punishers of sinners {Fury} {Furies} {Enrinyes}: Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megara.
Bellerophon rode a winged horse {Pegasus}, to kill the Chimera.
Aphrodite loved a beautiful youth {Adonis}.
Adventurers {Argonauts} sailed to get Golden Fleece under Jason, in the ship Argo.
Boatman {Charon} ferries the dead across River Acheron.
Labyrinth architect {Daedalus} flew out of the labyrinth on manmade wings.
Greek son {Deucalion} of Prometheus and his wife Pyrrha were the only survivors of the flood. He cast behind him his mother's bones, stones of Earth. These became human beings. Hellen was their daughter, and she had sons: Ion, Aeolus, Dorus, and Achaeus. Thus, Hellenes began, with the four tribes Ionians, Aeolians, Dorians, and Achaeans.
Daedulus' son {Icarus} soared too close to Sun, as he flew on waxed feathers, and drowned.
Leader {Jason} of Argonauts married Medea.
He {Leander} loved Hero.
Bacchus granted a wish that everything he touched turned to gold to a king {Midas}.
King of Crete {Minos} was at Cnossus, his capital.
A youth {Narcissus} scorned maidens, and gods punished him by making him love himself, so he pined away and became a flower at death.
His father Laius, King of Thebes, ordered him {Oedipus} killed when he was a baby. A peasant found him, and he grew up to slay his father unknowingly, solve the riddle of the Sphinx, marry his mother, and become king of Thebes. Gods revealed his unknowing misdeeds to him after Thebes suffered famine and pestilence, and he tore out his eyes.
Agamemnon's son {Orestes} killed his mother and her lover, because they had killed his father. Furies pursued him until Athena pardoned him.
Gods killed mighty hunter {Orion} and placed him as star constellation.
Great musician and singer {Orpheus} sailed with Argonauts and saved them from the Sirens. He went to Hades to get back Eurydice but failed when he gazed back at her.
He {Perseus} killed Medusa and married Andromeda.
Roman allegorical figure {Plutus} represents wealth.
Sculptor {Pygmalion} created statue and fell in love with it.
Man {Sisyphus} forever rolls stone up hill in Hades, because he betrayed oath to Zeus.
Man {Tantalus} sits in pool in Hades but cannot drink or reach the fruits near him to eat.
Odysseus' son {Telemachus}.
Athens' king {Theseus} killed Minotaur, established democracy in Athens, and married Phaedra.
women warriors {Amazons} from Caucasus.
Perseus saved a daughter {Andromeda} of Cassiopeia from a sea serpent.
Oedipus' daughter {Antigone} buried her brother in defiance of Creon, and Creon put her to death.
Minos' daughter {Ariadne} gave a thread to Theseus, so that he could go in and out of the labyrinth.
Nymph {Calypso} loved Odysseus.
Agamemnon received as gift prophet {Cassandra} from Troy. Her fate was that no one believed her.
Witch {Circe} turned men into beasts. She did not get Odysseus but then helped him get to Hell.
Maiden {Daphne} loved by Apollo changed into laurel tree.
Founder {Dido} of Carthage loved Aeneas.
tree nymph {dryad}|.
Agamemnon's daughter and Orestes' sister {Electra}.
Zeus, in the guise of bull, carried off a woman {Europa}.
Wife {Eurydice} of Orpheus, who had gone to Hades to recover her, had to return to Hades because she looked back.
The three Graces {Graces}, Splendor, Mirth, and Good Cheer, represent grace and beauty.
Paris, Priam's son, carried off the wife of Agamemnon {Helen}, causing Trojan War.
Leander swam the Hellespont to her {Hero} every night, until he perished.
Priestess {Medea} of Golden Fleece in Colchis helped Jason get it and married him.
The nine daughters {Muses} of Zeus and Mnemosyne are: Erato {goddess, lyrics}, Euterpe {goddess, music}, Thalia {goddess, comedy}, Melpomene {goddess, tragedy}, Terpsichore {goddess, dance and choral song}, Urania {goddess, astronomy}, Clio {goddess, historical and heroic poetry}, Polyhymnia {goddess, hymn}, and Calliope {goddess, epic}. Calliope's son was Orpheus.
water nymph {naiad}|.
After the Golden Age, gods created the first woman {Pandora} from man. She opened a forbidden box, letting out all bad things, but she also let out Hope. Alternatively, she opened treasure box letting all good things escape, except that Hope remained.
wife of Odysseus {Penelope}.
Pluto carried a daughter {Persephone} of Demeter to Underworld, but she can return to Earth's surface every spring and so is maiden of Spring.
Theseus' wife {Phaedra} loved her stepson Hippolytus and killed herself.
Pluto carried a daughter {Proserpine} of Ceres to underworld.
Singers {siren}| lured sailors to their deaths on an island.
muse of dance {Terpsichore}.
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