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| Midas | a name synonymous with being rich |
| Midas | has the blessing/curse of a golden touch |
| Silenus | fat old drunkard, companion of Bacchus |
| Apollo | punishes Midas with donkey ears for poor judgement |
| Coronis | killed for rejecting the love of Apollo |
| Apollo | changes raven feathers from white to black |
| Chiron | kind, wise Centaur who tutors children |
| Aesculapius | known as the universal benefactor and great physician/healer |
| Danaids | group of women who killed their husbands |
| Danaids | must forever try to carry water in leaking jars |
| Hypermnestra | shows compassion and saves the life of young Lynceus |
| Glaucus | fisherman who become a sea god, half-man and half-fish |
| Scylla | nymph turned into a monster with serpents' and dogs' heads |
| Circe | enchantress who falls in love with Glaucus |
| Erysichthon | cuts down the sacred tree of Ceres |
| Erysichthon | attacked by Famine, starves until devouring himself |
| Erysichthon | has daughter with power to assume different shapes |
| Pomona | the only Roman nymph who did not love the wild woodland |
| Vertumnus | disguises himself as an old woman to win his true love |
| Pomona | persuaded to love after hearing the story of hard-hearted Anarexete |
| Amalthea | goat/goat-owner with the Horn of Plenty (cornucopia) |
| Amazons | a nation of warrior women |
| Amymone | a Danaid saved and honored by Poseidon from a satyr's attack |
| Antiope | Princess of Thebes, mother of Amphion and Zethus |
| Dirce | two brothers kill her by tying her hair to a bull |
| Arachne | hangs herself after losing a weaving contest to Minerva |
| Arachne | saved from death by being turned into a spider |
| Arion | a poet/musician saved by dolphins from sailors who plan to kill him |
| Aristaeus | a beekeeper whose bees mysteriously die |
| Proteus | shape-shipfting god captured by Aristaeus |
| Aurora | Goddess of the Dawn |
| Tithonus | grows old, but never dies, a "dry husk of a man" |
| Memnon | honored with a statue that plays harp music when touched by the sun's rays at dawn |
| Cydippe | a priestess of Hera, she longs to see a statue of the goddess of Argo |
| Biton | son who pleases his mother and is rewarded with a peaceful death by Hera |
| Chiron | immortal Centaur injured by Hercules, allowed to die by Zeus |
| Clytie | loved the sun god so much that she turned into a sunflower |
| Dryope | turned into a tree for picking lotus blossoms |
| Epimenedes | shepherd boy who sleeps for 57 years, becomes an Athenian hero |
| Erechthonius | half-man, half-serpent, becomes King of Athens |
| Leander | swam across the Hellespont each night to see his love, but drowns |
| Hero | a priestess of Aphrodite, she set a blazing torch each night for her love to find her |
| Hyades | the rainy stars, six daughters of Atlas who help raise Dionysus |
| Ibycus | attacked by robbers, avenged by cranes |
| Leto | loved and abandoned by Zeus, she transforms the island of Delos |
| Leto | Titan mother of Olympians Apollo and Artemis |
| Linus | young son of Apollo, raised by shepherds, killed by dogs |
| Marpessa | chooses the love of a mortal over Apollo |
| Idas | Argonaut who challenges Apollo for the love of Marpessa |
| Marsyas | flute-playing satyr who loses a challenge to Apollo |
| Melampus | soothsayer who can understand the language of animals |
| Aepytus | long-lost son of Merope, becomes king of Messenia |
| Myrmidons | ants transformed into followers/soldiers of Achilles |
| Nisus | king whose safety rests on a purple lock of hair |
| Scylla | princess madly in love with Minos, transformed into a bird |
| Orion | a mighty hunter and companion of Artemis, killed tragically, placed in the sky as a constellation |
| Pleiades | seven daughters of Atlas, always pursued but never captured by Orion even as stars |
| Rhoecus | falls in love with an oak tree |
| Rhoecus | blinded by a dryad for harming a messenger bee |
| Salmoneus | magician who rode in a chariot and claimed to be Zeus the Thunderer |
| Sisyphus | King of Corinth, punished in Hades by continuously having to roll a rock uphill |
| Tyro | abandons her twin sons born of Poseidon, later rejected by her husband |
| Pelias | son of Tyro and Poseidon, tries to kill Jason by sending him after the Golden Fleece |
| Callisto | loved by Zeus, turned into a bear by Hera |
| Callisto | Made into a constellation, the Great Bear, by Zeus |
