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| Io | Turned into cow by Zeus to hide their affair from Hera. Wanders all over Europe, tormented by gadfly, until Prometheus tells her to go to Egypt. She is turned back into a girl there and has Zeus' baby. |
| Argos | 100-eyed giant sent to guard Io by Hera. Hermes puts all his eyes to sleep at one time and kills him. Hera puts his eyes on the peacock, her sacred bird. |
| Europa | Kidnapped by Zeus (bull), taken to Crete where she has 3 sons with Zeus. |
| Cadmus | Brother of Europa, sent to find her. Founds the city of Thebes, kills dragon sacred to Ares, has to serve Ares for 8 years and marries Harmonia, Ares and Aphrodite's daughter. |
| Achteon | Grandson of Cadmus, a hunter devoted to Artemis. He sees Artemis bathing in a grove and she turns him into a deer and sets his dogs on him. The dogs rip him apart. |
| Semele | Daughter of Cadmus, mother of Dionysus, asks to see Zeus in his natural form and is disintegrated from the pure light of it |
| Dionysus | Son of Zeus and Semele, god of wine, returns to Thebes for worship, but is rejected. Drives the women of Thebes into the mountains and has Pentheus destroyed for his arrogance. |
| Pentheus | Grandson of Cadmus, king of Thebes, rejects Dionysus as a god and ripped apart by Dionysus' followers, including his mother Agave. |
| Laius | King of Thebes, exposes baby Oedipus because of a prophecy and is killed by him on |
| Jocasta | Queen of Thebes, wife of Laius, wife and mother of Oedipus, Mother of Antigone, Eteocles, Polyneices, and Ismene, kills herself when she realizes she married her son. |
| Oedipus | Is exposed as an infant because of a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother; raised by king and queen of Corinth; fulfills prophecy despite trying to avoid it and gouges out his own eyes when discovers the truth. |
| Sphynx | Part lion, part woman, part eagle creature who asks travelers on the road to Thebes a riddle and then eats them when they get it wrong. |
| Eteocles & Polyneices | Sons of Oedipus who agree to share rule of Thebes, but ultimately fight a civil war and destroy each other. |
| Creon | King of Thebes, brother of Jocasta, father of Haemon, comes to power after Oedipus' sons kill each other and makes it illegal to bury Polyneices, has Antigone imprisoned for disobeying. |
| Haemon | Son of Creon, engaged to Antigone, begs his father to spare Antigone, and kills himself after her death. |
| Antigone | Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, buries her brother despite the order of Creon and hangs herself after being condemned to starve in a cave. |
