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.
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