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| - Son of king Louis of Thebes, prophet told king to kill his son or son would kill him, he sent son away, prophet told Oedipus he would kill his father, ran away from step parents, killed his real father, king Louis and married his mom and became king of Thebes after defeating the sphinx by answering the puzzle |
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| - Wife of Odysseus, while Odysseus was away she wove and unraveled the weaving each night to prolong marrying suitors |
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| - Son of Laertes and ruler of Ithaca, one of the most prominent Greek leaders in the Trojan War. Originator of Trojan horse got Achilles armor after his death. |
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| - Wife of king Louis and later wife of her son Oedipus, killed herself upon finding that she married her son |
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| - Son of Helios, or Apollo. He rode the chariot of his father without permission and lost control, burned the chariot and charred pieces fell to Africa, this is supposedly the reason why Africans had dark skin. |
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| - Mightiest Greek warrior in the Trojan war, his mother Thetis held him by the heals and dipped him in the river Styx, thus making all of his body invulnerable with the exception of his heal. He was the hero in Iliad. |
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| - Leader of the Argonauts sent by King Pelias to complete impossible task of getting the Golden Fleece, he assembled a team of heroes and brought back the fleece. He encountered Scylla and Charybdis |
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| - Sent adrift with his mom Danae, picked up by Polydectes. Was sent to behead Medusa, and succeeded. |
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| - famous for killing Minotaur, son of king Aegeus, Ariadne fell in love with him and helped him kill Minotaur. |
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| - Young man who rejected many girls, killed by his reflection, Nemesis caused him to fall in love with his reflection and he died. |
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| - Mortal and great weaver, she claimed to be better than Athena, the Goddess of weaving and challenged her to competition. She wove of infidelities of the gods. Athena punished her by making her a spider. |
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