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Theseus | Freed the Athenians from its obligations to Crete |
Aeneas | Trojan prince who escaped the war and later went to Italy |
Medusa | Gorgon with snakes for hair |
Circe | Enchantress who lured men and turned them into swine |
Agamemnon | King of Mycenae, Greek leader in the Trojan War |
Homer | Greek poet, wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
Jason | Commander of the Argonauts |
Amazons | Warlike tribe of women |
Minotaur | Half man, half bull creature, inhabited the labyrinth |
Vergil | Roman poet, author of the Aeneid |
Romulus | Founder of the city of Rome |
Atlas | Carried the world on his shoulders |
Minos | Cretan king who demanded sacrificial victims from Athens |
Helen | Queen of Sparta, her abduction led to Trojan war |
Ariadne | Princess of Crete who provided Theseus with the key to the labyrinth |
Golden Fleece | Prize of Jason and the Argonauts |
Dido | Queen of Carthage, fell in love with a hero who deserted her |
Polyphemus | One eyed cyclops |
Hercules | Hero, had to perform twelve labors |
Perseus | Conquered a hideous monster by looking at her reflection on his shield |
Penelope | Hero's wife, waited twenty years for his return |
Odysseus | King of Ithaca, wandered twenty years after Trojan War |
Daedalus | Created the labyrinth, later flew away from Crete |
Achilles | Main Greek hero of Trojan War, killed by arrow in his heel |
Pegasus | Winged horse, reportedly tamed by Perseus |