| A | B |
|---|
| King Aigeus | king of Athens; father of Theseus; leaves his sword and shoes under a rock for Theseus; jumps into the sea when he sees the black sail of Theseus' ship |
| Theseus | kills minotaur |
| Procrustes | stretched or cut off travelers to fit his bed |
| Medea | wife of Aegeus; tries to kill Theseus |
| Crete | home of the minotaur |
| Labyrinth | maze built by Daedalus to house the minotaur |
| Ariadne | daughter of Minos; falls in love with Theseus |
| Minotaur | half-man, half-bull |
| Pasphae | wife of Minos; mother of minotaur |
| Icarus | son of Daedalus; flies too close to the son and dies |
| Perithoos | friend of Theseus; attempts to remove Persephone from the underworld |
| Meleager (Meleagros) | killed when his mother put the brand into the fire |
| Atalanta | fastest woman; marries Malanion (Hippomenes) because he delayed her during the race with the golden apples |
| Peleus and Thetis | parents of Achilles; their wedding feast starts Torojan War |
| Phaethon | son of Helios; lost control of the sun and scorched the earth creating the Sahara |
| Acrisius | Perseus' grandfather; imprisons Danae in a tower; killed by Perseus' discus |
| Danae | mother of Perseus |
| Zeus | impregnates Danae as a shower of gold |
| Dictys | rescues Perseus and Danae from the sea chest |
| Polydectes | brother of Dictys; king of the island; turned to stone by head of Medusa |
| Medusa | gorgon with snakes for hair |
| Gorgons | Medusa's sisters |
| Graeae | sisters of gorgons; have one eye and one tooth to share |
| Pegasus | grew from the blood of Medusa |
| Cassiopeia | boasted she was more beautiful than the Nereids (sea nymphs); Poseiden sends sea monster to ravage the land |
| Andromeda | tied up as sacrifice to sea monster; saved and married by Perseus |
| Atlas | turned to stone by head of Medusa |
| Orpheus | lyre player; fails to bring Eurydice out of the underworld |
| Eurydice | bitten by snake on wedding day |
| Perseus | cuts off head of Medusa |
| Bellerophon | tries to fly Pegasus up to Mt. Olympos |
| Cupid | in love with Psyche |
| Psyche | spills hot oil on Cupid |
