• King of Ithaka
• Goes to Trojan War
• Gets stuck on Ogygia, Island of Kalypso for 20 years
• Finally returns home to son and wife and defeats evil suitors.

• Son of Odysseus
• Wimp in the beginning
• Gains confidence as the story goes on 
• (Clear-minded Telemakhos)
• with Athena, goes out to find father
• helps him defeat Mother's evil suitors

• steal Klytemnestra from Agammenon
• helps her kill him
• is killed by her son, Orestes

• brother of Menelaos
• king of Mycenae
• is killed by wife and her lover
• meets Odysseus in underworld and tells him that women are not trustworthy
• stayed behind in Troy to make a sacrifice to Athena instead of leaving right away

• chose Odysseus and Telemakhos as her favored champions
• persuaded Zeus to help Odysseus
• epithet- grey-eyed goddess

Mentes

Mentor

• disguises Athena uses
• Ruler of Taphos
• Family friend

• leader of the suitors
• most powerful of them
• first to be killed by Odysseus

• second most important suitor
• set to marry Penelope

• King of Pylos
• knows little of Odysseus whereabouts and is little help to Tele.

• Trojan War Hero
• not very important
• is mentioned when Odysseus arrives in the underworld and was talking to Agamemnon.

• "Red Haired" King of Sparta
• husband of Helen (of Troy)
• doesn't stay to worship Athena with Agamem. and is stranded in Egypt.
• traps the Sea God, Proteus, who tells him how to get home from Egypt.
• Son of Atreus and Brother of Agamem.

• Wife of Menelaos and Queen of Sparta
• Causes Trojan War
• tries to trick soldiers inside the Wooden Horse by calling their names in the voices of their wives; Odysseus is able to prevent the men from calling out.

• Sea God; shape shifter
• captured by Menelaos, who was covered in seal skin.
• tells him how to return home

• tells Menelaos how to defeat Proteus
• ?daughter of Proteus?
• gave Menelaos the seal skins

• people who fought in the battle of Troy

• Son of Agamem.
• Avenges his death by killing his mother, Klytemenestra and her lover, Aigisthos
• Easily compared to Telemakhos

• father of Odysseus
• Odysseus is told by his mother in the underworld that he is alive, but is depressed and is living like a peasant.

• nurse of Odysseus and Telemakhos
• first to figure out that Odysseus is back in Ithaka, when she was washing his feet and saw a familiar scar.
• he threatens to kill her if she tells anyone that he has returned. 

• mother of Odysseus
• dies because she misses him so much
• she gives him news of Ithaka when he visits her in the underworld.

• Obsessed Enchantress 
• captures Odysseus and forces him to stay on her island, Ogygia, and love him.
• finally lets him leave with request of the Gods.

• sent by the Gods to talk to Kalypso
• persuades her to release Odysseus
• is amazed that Odysseus is miserable on Ogygia because it is paradise.

• Sea Nymph
• gives Odysseus a veil that will help him get to the Island of the Phaiakians.
• At first he does not trust her, but gives in quickly b/c he is about to drown.

• the people of the island that Odysseus first washes up on.

• King of the Phaiakians
• favors Odysseus and listens to his story.
• gives him passage home

• the villagers that Odysseus's sailors unfairly rade and kill.

• traps Odysseus and his sailors in his cave.
• starts to eat them
• Odysseus tricks him and stabs his eye to make him almost blind. 
• they escape but Polyphemus tells his father, Poseidon, who begins to punish Ody.

• King of Winds
• gives Odysseus a bag of winds to make his travels faster. 
• Ody's sailors open the bag and the winds take them back to Aiolos.
• Aiolos will not help them when they return b/c he thinks that they are cursed.

Kirke/ Circe

pronounced either way

• Sorceress who turns men into pigs.
• gives Ody food and stuff when he triumphs over her with his plant from Hermes, Molu.
• advises them not to go to Thrinakia

• falls of the roof at Aiaia and dies.
• Odysseus sees him in the Underworld and he asks Ody to go back and give him a funeral.

• the sailor that did not enter the house of Kirke
• he convinced the other sailors to rade eat the cows of Helios at Thrinakia.

• Land of the Cows of Helios

• Scylla: smaller multi dragon-headed monster that picks sailors off of passing boats andats them.
• Kharbydis: a large whirlpool that sucks in boats and then spits them back out.

• Women who tempt men to come on their island with their voices. 
• Odysseus is tied to a post so that he is able to hear their voices but not be able to go on the island

• loyal swineherd that offers shelter to Ody when he is disguised as a beggar.

• An arrogant man who challenges Ody to a boxing match because he thinks that Ody is a weakling.

• storyteller(poet) loses his wife.
• he goes into the underworld to save her but when he hesitates and looks back to see her she disappears.
• was killed by followers of Dionysus

• wants a perfect woman so he sculpts one for himself
• then he plays to Aphrodite (Venus) to make her a real woman.

• gets banished by his father
• then he founds the city of Thebes by killing the serpent and planting the teeth in the ground
• those teeth turn into new men
• at the end of his life, he and his wife turn into serpents.

• King of Crete
• Son of Europa

• Grandson of Cadmus
• goes hunting and sees Diana naked
• to punish him, she transforms him into a deer
• his friends unknowingly let the hunting dogs tear the "deer" to pieces.

• King of Thebes
• does not believe in the children that are half god/half human
• was a vocal opponent of the worship of Dionysus (Bacchus)
• killed by his own mother

• Son of Jove 
• kills Medusa and the sea monster
• Saves Andromeda and throws her out; showing off his father's place.

• Romeo

• rejects Echo
• falls in love with his own reflection and dies
• narcissistic = love of oneself

• A princess of Libya
• her mother bragged too much about her beauty so her father punished Andromeda
• saved by Perseus

• Wife of Tereus, Sister of Philomela
• came up with idea of killing her son and feeding him to her husband
• turns into a bird to runaway from her husband.

• Son of Helios
• to prove himself to his peers, demands to drive the Sun Chariot
• is killed in the process and burns most of the world

• shipmaster and priest of Bacchus
• tries to convince Pentheus to worship Bacchus

• inventor; invented the Labyrinth which is a maze that stores the Minotaur
• builds wings for himself and his son, Icarus, to escape
• the glue melts off Icarus's wings and he dies in the sea. 

• Wife of Deucalion; Daughter of Epimetheus
• one of the two survivors of the Great Flood
• narrow-minded

• woman who has an affair with Jove
• is tricked by Juno and is accidentally killed by Jove
• Mother of Bacchus

• Wife of Pyrrha; Son of Prometheus
• other survivor of Great Flood
• has open-mindedness that saves the world

• Juliet

• Son of Daedalus
• the glue from his wings melt off and he falls into the sea and dies.

• taken away by Jove disguised as a bull
• took her to Crete
• Mother of Minos w/ Jove

• huntress known for her speed
• marries the only man who beats her in a race

• daughter of Cadmus; mother of Acteon; aunt of Pentheus
• unknowingly rips off Pentheus's arms.

• Phrygian King
• Praises Bacchus and is given the golden touch.
• washes it away in a magical spring when it goes bad.
• is a bad musical critical so Apollo gives him ears of a donkey

• falls in love with her father, Cinyras
• tricks him into sleeping with her
• turns into a tree that weeps Myrrh
• gives birth to Adonis

• Husband of Aphrodite
• God of Fire and Metal Working
• thrown off of Mt. Olympus by Hera

• Wife of Hephaestus
• affair with Ares
• Goddess of love and beauty

• God of War
• affair with Aphrodite

• God of the Sky, Clouds, and Lightning
• cheats on his wife, Hera, a lot

• God of the Sea
• Brother to Zeus and Hades

• Goddess of the Hearth
• One of the three virgin goddesses

• God of the Underworld and Wealth
• Brother of Zeus and Poseidon

• Goddess of Marriage
• always trying to catch Zeus' mistresses

• Goddess of the Hunt
• another virgin goddess
• twin of Apollo
• daughter  of Jove and Latona

• God of Archery, Healing, and Art
• twin of Artemis
• Son of Jove and Latona

• Goddess of Wisdom and Strategy
• last of the virgin goddesses

• God of Thieves 
• Messenger of God
• has winged sandals that allow him to fly

• God of Wine
• usually connected to irrational feeling and emotion

• Naval of the world
• found in Delphi
• said to be the center of the world because Zeus sent one eagle from either side of the Earth and the met at this point

• the oracle at Delphi
• the original was picked by Apollo after he defeated the Python

• tries to test the godliness of the Jove by feeding him humans and killing him in his sleep.
• turned into a wolf by Jove
• exterior is changed but interior remains the same

• chased by Apollo
• runs away from him b/c she was shot by Cupid's stone arrow and wants to stay chased. 
• turns into a laurel tree and Apollo's tree is the laurel.

• daughter of a river god
• turned into a cow by Jove to hide her from Juno
• Hermes kills her guard named Argus by telling him the story of Pan and Syrinx and make him fall asleep
• eventually is changed back

• 100 eyed monster
• guarded Io when she was a cow
• was killed by Hermes when he fell asleep because of the Pan/Syrinx story
• Hermes put his eyes on the tail of the peacock.

• dryad who is chased by Pan
• refuses his advances and asks the other gods for help
• turns into reeds and Pan uses them to create the reedpipes

• God of Nature and Wild Places/ Things
• only mentioned during the Story of Jove and Io and also the music competition with Apollo where he loses
• is a satyr

• has been both man and woman
• chosen to by Jove and Juno to be their judge
• Juno gets angry with his decision and makes him blind
• Jove feels bad and gives him the "sight" of the future.
• also part of Oedipus Rex

• Nymph that was punished by Juno so that she could only repeat the last things that someone says
• falls in love with Narcissus but is rejected
• her body dies in a cave but her voice becomes the "echo"

• very rich woman who has 14 children
• tells the people of her town that they should not worship Latona because she only has 2 children and that they should worship her
• Apollo and Artemis (Niobe's children) kill all of her children because they disrespected their mother
• when all of her sons die, her husband kills himself
• when all of her daughters die, she turns to marble and is carried by the winds up to the mountains where she still cries.

• Lover of Zeus; Mother of Artemis and Apollo
• banished from all places by Juno
• takes refuge on the island of Delos
• her children kills Niobe's children because Niobe has disrespected her

• Brother of Niobe
• cut to pieces by his father
• Gods put him back together
• unable to find the piece for his shoulder so they fill it in with marble

• satyr that was beaten by Apollo at playing the flute
• Apollo skinned him alive, exposing all the nerves
• Many cried for his pain; these tears created the water for the clearest of the Phrygian rivers

• King of Athens; father of Procne and Philomela
• lets Tereus take Philomela to Thrace to visit Procne
• asks him to take good care of her

• Husband of Procne; King of Thrace
• goes to recieve Philomela so that he can bring her to Thrace
• instead he locks her in a cottage and rapes her multiple times
• when she threatens to tell everyone, he cuts off her tongue
• unknowingly eats pieces of his son Itys.
• turns into a fighting bird to chase after Philomela and Procne

• Daughter of Pandion; Sister of Procne
• is captured, raped, and gets her tongue ripped out by Tereus
• is found by Procne, who is disguised as a follower of Bacchus
• helps Procne feed Itys to Tereus
• turns into a bird

• Son of Procne and Tereus
• is killed by his mother b/c he looks so much like his father
• fed to Tereus

• father of Scylla; king of Lelegian Shores
• has one lock of purple hair that he must keep if he wants to keep his kingdom
• turns into an osprey

• Daughter of Nisus; falls in love with Minos
• to help Minos win war, gives him her father's purple lock
• denied by Minos because of her disloyalty to her own country
• swims after a Cretan ship and clings to it; attacked by the osprey and loses hold
• turns into Ciris (bird; word means shearer)

• king of Crete
• traps the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus in the Labyrinth
• denies Scylla
• tried to sacrifice Ariadne to the Minotaur
• one of the judges of the dead

• Nephew of Daedalus; sent by mother to be his apprentice
• creates first compass and saw
• is pushed off of a high point from Daedalus
• turns into a patridge (bird that only likes lows places)

• loves the stag
• accidentally kills the stag
• turned into a Cypress tree (tree of mourning)

• loved by Apollo; lived in Sparta
• hit in the face by a discus that Apollo throws and dies
• turned in to the Hyacinth flower (sacred to Spartans)

• God of Love
• Represented as a flying, blindfolded, baby
• part of the story of Daphne and Apollo

• ferryman that takes dead to the underworld
• 3 headed dog that guards the gate to the underworld

• King of Thebes; Father of Oedipus
• killed before the play begins
• hears prophecy and tries to kill his child by leaving him on the side of a mountain

• Wife and Mother of Oedipus..ew
• Queen of Thebes
• hangs herself in the end
• doesn't want Oedipus to keep trying to find out who killed Lauis

• King of Thebes (after Lauis)
• Husband and Son to Jocasta
• thinks that Merope and Polybus are his parents
• real parents: Jocasta and Lauis
• defeats the Sphinx
• kills Lauis
• stabs eyes out with Jocasta's pin

• Queen of Corinth; Adoptive Mother of Oedipus
• is given Oedipus by a sheperd when he is a baby

• Husband of Merope; Adoptive Father of Oedipus
• King of Corinth
• given Oedipus by a sheperd

• Brother of Jocasta
• Takes throne in the end of the play
• is accused of killing Laius by Oedipus

• deformed daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
• Oedipus asks Creon to take care of her when he banishes himself