A | B |
Pyramus | lover of Thisbe; stained mulberry fruit |
Thisbe | lover of Pyramus; committed suicide |
Orpheus | Legendary musical ability; trained by Apollo;went to the underworld |
Eurudice | daughter of Apollo; wife of orpheus |
Daphne | nymph; associated with bodies of water; turned into a tree to avoid Apollo |
Arachne | talented weaver; turned into a spider by Athena |
Narcissus | fell in love with his own reflection |
Daedalus | Father of Icarus; built the labyrinth of the Minotaur |
Icarus | used wax wings too close to the sun; son of Daedalus |
Echo | cursed by Hera to only repeat the words of others |
Psyche | goddess of the soul; married Cupid |
Ariadne | helped Theseus escape the Labyrinth. |
Europa | Mother of king Minos; had an affair with Zeus in bull form |
Prosperina | LAT queen of the underworld; wife of Pluto |
Midas | cursed to have a golden touch |
Deucalion | repopulated the earth with Pyrrha by throwing stones after the great flood |
Pyrrha | Wife of Deucalion; created women by throwing stones after the flood |
Maenads | female followers of Dionysus |
Phaethon | crashed the chariot of the sun |
Baucis | wife of Philemon; welcomed Zeus and Hermes |
Philemon | Attempted to slay a goose for Jupiter and Mercury |
Niobe | daughter of Tantalus; wife of Amphion;turned to stone |
Actaeon | A hunter who is ironically turned into a deer for looking at Artemis's naked body |
Minos | first king of Crete |
Adonis | mortal lover of Aphrodite |
Hyacinth | lover of Apollo; flowers grew from his blood |
Atalanta | virgin huntress; favorite of Artemis |
Hippomenes | husband of Atalanta |