| A | B |
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| Hercules | son of Jupiter and Alcmene, performed 12 labors to atone for his crimes |
| Perseus | son of Jupiter, rescued Andromeda (chained to a rock) from a sea monster |
| Theseus | killed the Minotaur and saved the Athenian youths |
| Bellerophon | killed the monster Chimera |
| Midas | everything he touched turned to gold |
| Daedalus | inventor who put wings on his son Icarus; flew out of the labyrinth he invented |
| Phaethon | son of Apollo, drove Apollo's chariot but could not control the horses |
| Ulysses (Odysseus) | wandered for 10 years after the Trojan War before he could return home to Ithaca |
| Oedipus | accidently killed his father, answered the riddles of the Sphinx; king of Thebes, married his mother not knowing who she was |
| Tantalus | punished in underworld, could not reach food to eat or water to drink |
| Sisyphus | punished in underworld, continuously rolled a rock uphill, but the rock always fell back |
| Ixion | chained to a wheel forever rolling |
| Phrixis | rescued with Helle by a ram; hung its golden fleece in Colchis |
| Hesperides | guardians of the golden apples |
| Charon | ferryman who led souls across the river to the underworld |
| Sibyl | prophetess who guided Aeneas in the underworld |
| Bacchantes | frenzied women followers of Bacchus |
| Castor and Pollux | one mortal, the other immortal twins who came to the aid of Romans in trouble |
| Pandora | opened a wedding box and let loose evils and diseases |
| Circe | changed Ulysses' men into swine |
| Jason | found the golden fleece |
| Pyramus and Thisbe | two young lovers; Romeo/Juliet story |
| Pygmalion | sculptor who fell in love with his statue |
| Orpheus | went to the underworld to retrieve his dead bride Eurydice, but lost her when he looked back for her |
| Echo | nymph who became just a voice and pined away for Narcissus, a narcissistic youth |
| Baucis and Philemon | hospitable old couple who befriended Jupiter and Mercury; became trees |
| Europa | carried away by Jupiter transformed as a bull |
| Psyche | forbidden to see her lover (Cupid), disobeyed and regretted |
| Medea | helped Jason get the golden fleece |
| Adonis | handsome youth loved by Venus; killed by a boar |
| Atalanta | fleet-footed daughter of a king, defeated by Hippomenes with the help of Venus' apples |
| Helen | Greek wife of Menelaus, most beautiful woman in the world, abducted by Paris, cause of Trojan War |
| Pyrrha and Deucalion | couple who survived the flood which destroyed mankind |
| Callisto | loved by Jupiter, changed into a bear by jealous Juno, almost killed by her son Arcas, became Ursa Maior |
| Arachne | talented weaver changed into a spider by Minerva because of hubris |
| Niobe | had 7 sons and 7 daughters, all killed because of her hubris |
| Daphne | loved by Apollo; changed into a laurel tree to reject his advances |
