| A | B |
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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 |
