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| taken by Zeus in the form of a bull |
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| King of Thebes, brother of Europa, goes in search for her, founder of Thebes |
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| King of Thebes, grandson of Cadmus, killed by the maenads |
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| King of Thebes, father of Oedipus, told by oracle that his son will one day kill him so he sent him away to die |
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| King of Thebes, raised as a prince after being sent away by his father, kills Laius (father) and marries Jocasta (mother), saves Thebes by answering Sphinx riddle |
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| King of Thebes and son of Oedipus |
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| King of Thebes, brother of Jocasta |
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| originally married to Laius but marries son Oedipus, kills herself when she finds out |
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| finds Oedipus after he has been wondering Greece, cursed by Oedipus again after telling him his plan to overthrow his brother as ruler of Thebes |
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| Oedipus has been wondering Greece as a blind beggar, sees Polynices (son) and curses him for wanting to take the thrown from his other son Eteocles |
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| Antigone (Oedipus' daughter) takes Polynices' body and performs the burial ritual. Locked up by Creon and kills herself in the tomb, Creon's son and wife then kill themselves |
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| taken by Zeus in the form of a swan, then produces Helen and Clytemnestra |
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| Children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon |
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| Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia |
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| sacrifices Iphigenia (daughter) before going to war, later murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus |
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| cheats on Agamemnon with Aegisthus for sacrificing daughter Iphigenia |
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| who Clytemnestra cheats on and later kills Agamemnon with |
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| acquitted by Athena in Athens |
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| Wedding of Peleus and Thetis |
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| Eris not invited to wedding, throws apple of discord, fought over by Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite |
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| must judge between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Picks Aphrodite and receives Helen, beginning the Trojan War |
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| begins when Paris must choose who the most beautiful goddess is, picks Aphrodite and receives Helen, stealing Menelaus' wife |
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Priam and Hekabe - king and queen of Troy
Paris and Hector - their sons
Cassandra - their daughter
Andromache - wife of Hector
Astyanax - infant son of Hector and Andromache, thrown from the walls of Troy in the aftermath
Aeneas - warrior: son of Aphrodite and Anchises
Sarpedon - Trojan ally, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus
Aphrodite - mother of Aeneas
Apollo - offended by Greeks desecration of his temple |
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Agamemnon - king of Mycenae
Menelaus - king of Sparta
Helen - queen of Sparta
Nestor - king of Pylos
Diomedes - king of Argos, wounds Ares and Aphrodite
Odysseus - king of Ithaca; known for his craftiness
Greater and Lesser Ajax - greater commits suicide, lesser captures and rapes Cassandra
Achilles - greatest of Greek warriors, killed by Paris
Patroclus - warrior, companion of Achilles, killed by Hector |
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| son of Thetis and Peleus, dipped in River Styx to become immortal, given to Chiron for his education, discovered in Scyros by Odysseus and Diomedes |
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| Achilles girl taken by Agamemnon, prays that the greeks will lose the war |
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| wounds Aphrodite and Ares in battle, but can't turn battle in favor of Greeks |
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| wears Achilles armor but is told he must fight defensively, killed by Hector |
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| great Trojan warrior, killed by Achilles, body drug around in chariot |
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| trojans hide in wooden horse, come out at night and ransack city. killing men and enslaving women |
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| Survivors of Trojan Horse |
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| Andrimache, Hekabe, and Cassandra are enslaved; Cassandra murdered upon arrival in Greece; Aneas |
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1. end up at island of Polyphemus. Cyclops lives there, blind cyclops and escape cave
2. island of the wind god, soldiers open bag of wind thinking its treasure
3. island of cannibals - escapes with one ship
4. island of Aeaea - men turned into animals
5. island of Sirens - beautiful singing, lured into trap and devoured
6. encounter Scylla - 6 headed, 12 footed monster to avoid Charybdis whirlpool
7. island of Helios - men all killed for eating cattle
8. island of Calypso - stays for 7 years until Hermes convinces her to let him go
9. island of Phaeacians - washes up on island, help him back home to Ithica
10. finally makes it back to Ithica, kills every man who was going after his wife |
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| Zeus appears in shower of gold while locked away in a dungeon |
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| son of Danae and Zeus, locked in box for having the prophecy that he will kill his father. Told to get the head of Medusa, receives help from Athena (shield and helmet of invisibility) and Hermes (sword and winged sandals) |
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| Perseus wife, after rescuing her town from a sea monster |
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