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beats medusa saves andromeda wars over andromeda and turns everyone to stone with medusa's head claim: phineus' engagement to andromeda was annulled when she was sentenced to death. |
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| chained to a rock and perseus saves |
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compete with minerva tell stories: pluto/prosperina/ceres, arethusa/alpheus, triptolemus/lyncus beat minerva and she turns them into magpies |
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| pursued by alpheus, Diana helped her get away |
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| pursued arethusa but didn't get her |
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| gets seeds from Ceres to restore crops |
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| king who tried to kill Triptolemus, Ceres turns him into a lynx |
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weaves tapestry of Gods' raping mortals gets changed into a spider by Minerva |
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| has seven children and says their better than Latona/Leto's children. Artemis and Apollo, consequently, kill all her fourteen children and turns her to stone |
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| refused drink to Leto and she turned them into frogs. |
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| flute challenges Apollo, gets flayed and tears form river. |
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| marries to Boreas, sons end up having wings |
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married to Procris kills her with spear that can't miss his dog turns to stone |
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| suspicious wife gets hit by Cephalus' spear |
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betrayed her father Nisus for the king she loved, Minos and cut off the lock of her father's hair that held his power. gets changed into a bird. |
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| Scylla's dad who, having his hair taken, is turned into a bird and consequently turns her into a bird. |
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king who scorns Scylla for her trying to help him out (pietas) wife has minotaur child by a bull that he wouldn't sacrifice. |
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mino's wife, who has sex with the bull |
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kills minotaur with ariadne's help of spool father of hippolytus |
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gives Theseus a spool to find his way out of the labryinth He ditches her on an island later and Bacchus changes her into a constellation |
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| partridge in Daedalus story |
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former brilliant apprentice of Daedalus Daedalus threw him off a temple in descent was changed into partridge is happy at Icarus' death |
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kills boar with atalanta's help and everyone gets pissed cuz he gives her the hide. He kills them all. Althaea, his mom, burns log that's linked to his mortality and it kills him. |
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beloved of meleager good hunter she's a woman |
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| kills meleager and then kills self in grief |
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very distraught over his death diana turns them into guinea hens |
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shapechanging river god who tells theseus stories the girl he loved was thrown off a cliff and changed into an island competed with Herakles for Deianira's hand. Herakles ripped off one of his horns, limiting his ability to shapechange. |
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super pietas pair poor but give Jove and Mercury everything they have Jove and Mercury kill everyone else and make their place a temple gives them one wish and they wish to die at the same time they turn into trees when they die |
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chops down nymph tree and Ceres sicks hunger on him he sells his wife and everything for food ends up eating himself |
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| erysichthon's wife who gets sold and gets the power to change appearance so she can escape, then keep selling herself |
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| herakles wife who was almost raped by nessus, then ended up killing herakles with nessus' blood on accident because she thought it was a love potion. |
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the messenger who gives herakles the shirt with nessus blood on it herakles throws him off a cliff |
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mother of herakles juno tries to kill her in childbirth, but it doesn't work because she gets distracted by galanthis |
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distracts the god of child-bearing and juno turns him into weasel |
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| turned into a tree when she picked flowers from a nymph tree |
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| brother who rejects incestuous advances of byblis |
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| wants to incest all over caunus and, chasing him, trips and turns into a fountain |
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born a girl but the dad wanted to kill it if it was a girl cuz they were poor. the mom keeps it and raises it as a boy set to wed Ianthe later and the mom prays and iphis turns into a boy. |
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musician who had to save his wife from hell but failed when he looked back won't love women anymore, the lovers of bacchus kill him his head and lyre still sing and swim to lesbos happier because he's in hell with his wife. |
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| wife of orpheus in underworld |
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| boy lover of Orpheus whose horse is killed and in grief gets transformed into cypress tree |
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Jove's boylover that he deified |
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played discus with Apollo and Apollo kills him on accident his blood turns into hyacinth flowers |
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| father of myrrha who gets incest on him and then when he finds out its her, tries to kill her |
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incests her father cinryas when running away from his killing her, she turns into myrrh tree which later births adonis |
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beautiful man who venus loves venus tells him not to hunt because he'll get hurt when she's not there, he gets killed by boar she transforms him into anemone flower |
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venus helped him beat atalanta in footrace he forgets to sacrifice, venus makes them do it in a temple juno gets pissed and turns them into lions |
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lets Bacchus's friend Silenus go: so Bacchus gives him one wish he wishes to turn everything he touches into gold this wish sucks, so he reverses it by washing in specific waters becomes follower of Pan, and has to judge in contest with Apollo Says Pan wins and Apollo gives him ears of an ass |
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sad when daughter died and threw self off cliff gods turn him into hawk |
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goes to oracle of apollo and ship breaks and he drowns wife finds him on shore and kisses him, he turns into bird |
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| wife of ceyx, turns into bird when she sees him dead on beach |
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throws self off cliff when lover hesperia dies turned into bird |
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neptune rapes and gives her one wish she wishes to be turned into a man (Caeneus) so she won't be raped ever |
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| ulysses' argument for armor |
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persuaded Achilles to join fight brains behind war emphasizes that ajax was just a warrior, not strategian |
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| ajax's argument for armor |
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emphasizes role in battling Hector Achille's cousin |
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| turned into dog when she tries to avenge death of her children |
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loves Acis and loved by Polyphemus rejects Polyphemus |
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| Polyphemus kills him, and gets turned into river god |
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| kills Acis because he loves Galatea but he's ugly |
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river god, loves Scylla and tries to get Circe to help him with magic Circe falls in love with him |
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falls in love Glaucus poisons Scylla's pool and this turns her into the monster |
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| gets turned into a monster by Circe because Glaucus loves her |
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Apollo gave her a wish once she wished for eternal life but forgets youth he gives it to her and says if she loves him he will give her eternal youth she refuses, and when she meets Aeneas is a really old bitch |
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loves Canens the nymph Circe tries to seduce him, he refuses Circe turns him into a woodpecker |
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| nymph who, when Picus dies, cries until she melts into a puddle |
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| Numa's wife who, in grief, is tranformed into a fountain |
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in addition to all the shit with Phaedra, was restored to life and must live/hide in forest so people don't recognize him |
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grows horns and gets prophecy that he can rule Rome if he goes there goes, with a crown on his head, tells them a man with horns has the power to enslave them all, and takes his crown off He is hailed since he sacrificed the chance to rule by being an asshole |
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god of healing who transforms into snake and cures Rome of plague revives Hippolytus |
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tries to drive the chariot of his father, Helios not good at it and drives too close and burns stuff Jove strikes him with a thunderbolt and he dies |
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equivalent to Juliet listens at crack in wall |
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