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| Poseidon | He competed with Athena to name a city in Greece; he created many sea animals to scare the nymphs and please his wife Amphitrite; he created many land animals and finally horse as he tried to impress Demeter |
| Icarus | he did not follow the advice of his father Daedalus who invented wings for them to escape their tower prison; he flew too high and close to the sun, melting the wax in his wings; he fell to his death in the sea |
| Phaethon | he drove his father Helios' sun chariot first too close to the earth, scorching it and then too far away, freezing it; Zeus struck him down and he fell to his death |
| Arachne | she challenged Athena to a weaving contest after boasting about her great skill; Athena punished her by changing her into a spider which continues to weave webs today |
| Prometheus | he created humans and stole fire from Zeus to give to humans for protection and warmth; he was chained to a rock and had his liver eaten daily by a vulture |
| Pandora | she was the first woman and due to her extreme curiosity, she opened a sealed box, allowing evil things to enter the world; she only kept hope in the box |
| Persephone | she is the goddess of spring and the queen of the Underworld; because Hades kidnapped her and she ate pomegranate seeds in the Underworld, she spends half of the year with her husband (fall and winter) and half of the year with her mother, Demeter (spring and summer) |
| Echo | she talked so much that Hera punished her by allowing her to only repeat the words of others; she loved the young hunter Narcissus |
| Narcissus | he was a handsome young hunter who fell in love with his own reflection |
| Orion | he was a great hunter and friend of Artemis; he was chased by a scorpion and eventually became a constellation |
| Callisto | she was a love interest of Zeus whom Hera turned into a bear; she was later put into the stars as the constellation Ursa Major |
| Arcas | he was the young son of Callisto who almost killed his mother as she was turned into a bear; he was later put into the stars as the constellation Ursa Minor |
| Cassiopeia | she was a vain queen who was punished by spending eternity in the stars as a constellation hanging upside-down |
| Andromeda | she was the daughter of queen Cassiopeia who was rescued from a sea monster by Perseus (using Medusa's head); she and Perseus married and eventually became constellations in the night sky |
