Who\'s Who in Greek Mythology.txt

Central Character of the Iliad, the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War, who was initially hidden by his mother because she knew he was fated to die in the war

Mortal hunter who accidentally saw Artemis, the chaste Greek goddess of the hunt, naked in her bath and was then by her hand turned into a stag and chased and killed by his own dogs

Handsome young man with whom both Aphrodite and Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, fell in love; he was killed by Ares in the form of a wild boar

Clytemnestra's lover who helped her get revenge on her husband Agamemnon for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia

Trojan prince, Aphrodite and Anchises' son, who escaped the burning city of Troy and fled to Italy, where he became the founder of the Roman race.

Keeper of the winds on the island of Aeolia, where they are kept chained up in a huge cavern

King of Mycenae and Argos who led the Greek forces in the Trojan War— he sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in order to gain a favorable wind after his forces were halted by the absence of winds in retaliation for his boast that he was as skilled a hunter as Artemis

Giant Greek warrior who killed himself after unsuccessfully fighting Odysseus for the armor of Achilles awarded to Odysseus after Achilles' death

Warrior who was drowned by Poseidon for offending Athena by boasting about how his escape from the ship Athena had sunk with a thunderbolt

Woman who volunteered to die in place of her husband Admetus

Race of warlike women who lived in the Black Sea region of Asia Minor

Ocean's daughter or granddaughter, a Nereid, who was the goddess of the sea and the wife of Poseidon

Alcmene's husband who returned the day after Zeus, disguised as her husband, had already impregnated his wife

Aeneas' father whom he carried on his back or shoulders as they escaped the burning Troy but who died before they reached Italy

Hector's wife who following the fall of Troy becomes Neoptolemeus' concubine, later bearing him three children

Ethiopian princess, daughter of Cassiopeia and Cepheus, who was chained to a rocky cliff and rescued from the sea monster Cetus by Perseus, later her husband, who turned the monster into a rock by showing it the head of Medusa

Posiedon's gigantic son who being invincible as long as he was in contact with his mother Gaea, the earth, challenged all passers-by to wrestle with him, killing all but one

Oedipus' faithful daughter who served as his guide during his exile; she was buried alive by Creon after she symbolically buried the body of her brother, Polyneices, by sprinkling dirt over it

Amazons' queen whom Theseus allegedly abducted and took to Athens, where she bore him a son, Hippolytus

Mortal Lydian woman, proud of her weaving ability, who challenged Athena to a weaving contest and after winning was changed by Athena into a spider so that she could spend the ret of her life weaving

49 famous Greek heroes who accompanied Jason in the quest for the golden fleece

King Minos of Crete's daughter who married Dionysus after being abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos even though she had helped him escape from the Labyrinth

Hector and Andromache 's child whom Neoptolemus killed during the sack of Troy by throwing him from the city's walls onto the rocks below, thus executing Hector's last male heir to the throne of Troy

Huntress who promised to marry the suitor who could outrun her and was finally defeated by Hippomenes with the help of Aphrodite

Titan condemned to hold the sky or heavens on his shoulders for all eternity for leading the Titans against the gods

King of Elis whom Heracles killed for reneging on an agreement to grant him one tenth of the cattle he had cleaned as the fifth of his labors

Famous thief who had learned from his father Hermes the skill of making objects invisible or changing their appearance so that they were unrecognizable

Killer of the Chimera who was thrown from Pegasus and blinded while attempting to ride to Mount Olympus

The North Wind, the most violent of the 4 winds of the world

Mortal who founded and became king of Thebes by following Athena's instructions to sow, or plant, the teeth of the dragon he just killed

Famous soothsayer who advised Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease Artemis in order to get a favorable wind for the Greek fleet

Nymph that Hera changed into a bear to punish for the offense of becoming Zeus' lover or Zeus changed her into a bear to protect her from Hera

Priam's daughter, also called Alexandra, to whom Apollo gave the gift of prophecy but were prophecies were never believed because of a curse he placed on her after she refused his amorous advances

Andromeda's mother who boasted that her daughter wasa more beautiful than the Nereids, Posieden's attendants, leading him to send Cetus, a sea monster, to ravage Ethiopia only to have it killed by Perseus

Old boatman who ferried the souls of the dead