| A | B |
|---|
| Hermes | caduceus, inventor of lyre |
| Apollo | music (lyre) medicine |
| Daphne | becomes laurel tree |
| Peneus | river god, Daphne's father |
| Echo | changed to a voice |
| Narcissus | changed to a yellow flower |
| Pygmalion | sculptor |
| Galatea | humanized work of art |
| Paphos | son of Galatea |
| Cyprus | island sacred to Venus |
| Pyramus and Thisbe | changed the color of mulberries |
| Baucis | changed to a linden tree |
| Philemon | changed to an oak |
| Zeus | god of hospitality |
| Io | changed into a cow by Hera |
| Argus | a giant with 100 eyes |
| Bosphorus | cow crossing |
| Europa | brought to Crete by Zeus as a bull |
| Minos, Rhadamanthos | judges in the Underworld |
| Cupid | arrows of lead and gold |
| Psyche | angered Aphrodite, loved Cupid |
| Pleasure | Child of Cupid and Psyche |
| Arachne | famous weaver who hanged herself |
| Atalanta | runner who changed into a lion |
| Hippomenes | used golden apples to win his wife |
| Midas | changed his human ears to donkey ears |
| Silenus | companion of Dionysus |
| Dionysus | gave Midas golden touch |
| Pactolus | river where Midas washed |
| Bellerophon | tried to fly to mount Olympus on Pegasus |
| Pegasus | horse from Poseidon and Medusa's blood |
| Icarus | fell when the wax which kept his wings together melted |
| Daedalus | built labyrinth |
| Minotaur | half human, half bull |
| Agave | helped to kill her son while in a Bacchic frenzy |
| Lycaon | violated the rule of hospitality and changed into a wolf |
| Tereus | raped, maimed and kidnapped his wife's sister |
| Procne | fed her son to his father in punishment for abuse to her sister |
| Philomela | expert weaver who told of her brother-in-laws violence in her tapestry |
| Itys | son of Tereus and Procne |
| Ixion | lashed to a fiery wheel as punishment |
| Sisyphus | pushed a large rock up a long hill for eternity |
| Orpheus | lyre playing allowed him access to the underworld |
| Eurydice | died on her wedding day, almost rescued from death |
| Bacchantes | Killed both Pentheus and Orpheus |
| Muses | divinities of the arts, buried Orpheus |
| Calliope | muse of Epic Poetry |
| Oedipus | killed his father, married mother |
| Laius | king of Thebes, murdered by son |
| Jocasta | Queen of Thebes, married her son |
| Atreus | killed three of his brother's sons and fed them to him |
| Thyestes | had an affair with his brother's wife |
| Aerope | woman loved by Atreus and Thyestes |
| Tantalus | son of Zeus, fed his son Pelops to the gods |
| Pelops | killed his wife's father in a chariot race |
| Niobe | mother of 14, insulted Leto and lost her children |
| Aegisthus | seized the throne of Atreus for his father |
| Agamemnon | married Clytemnestra, ruled Mycenae |
| Menelaus | married Helen, fought at Troy for her return |
| Helen | queen of Sparta, taken to Troy by Paris |
| Hecuba | queen of Troy, feared son would destroy Troy |
| Priam | king of Troy, refused to return Helen to her husband |
| Paris | son of Trojan rulers, who was destined to destroy Troy. |
| Iphigenia | daughter of Agamemnon sacrificed |
| Cassandra | slave of Agamemnon, daughter of Priam |
| Clytemnestra | killed her husband Agamemnon |
| Orestes | son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, killed his mother and her lover |
| Electra | daughter of Agamemnon anf Clytemnestra |
| Hermione | daughter of Helen, married cousin Orestes |
