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| promoted a yearly festival in Athens called Panathenaea. He is famous for killing the monster in King Minos' labyrinth. |
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| This body of water got its name according to legend when Aegeus, Theseus's father fell from a rock into the sea due to grief over assumed loss of his son. |
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A fortified hill or citadel in the midst of a city. |
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Known as the Heraclidae, they were banished to Thessaly by the Pelopidae. They couldn't quarrel with the Pelopidae for 100 years. |
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| Ruled Thebes. Ordered their son put to death after hearing from an oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother. |
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| He was King Laius' son. Was recused and raised by the King of Corinth. Fulfilled the oracle by unknowningly killing his real father and marrying his mother. |
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Blinded and banished himself after learning his fate. Left his sons Eteocles and Polynices to rule Thebes |
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| Oedipus' son. Fought with his brother, Eteocles, over control of Thebes with the help of King Adrastus of Argos. The brothers were both killed. |
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| He waited until the brothers' descendants were old enough to fight, then he attacked Thebes, conquered it, and placed Polynices's son, Thersander, on the throne. |
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King and queen of Troy, near Asia Minor.
Ruling family during the Trojan War. |
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Believing an oracle that his son Paris would bring destruction on the city, had him abandoned in the forest. |
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Was raised by hunters and when he won the athletic games in Troy was welcomed home by his parents, Priam and Hecuba, despite the oracle's prophecy. |
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| Paris went to visit King Menelaus of Sparta and stole his wife Helen and returned to Troy. |
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| Sent word to his friends and relatives to prepare for war against the trojans and to meet him at Aulis, a seaport. |
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Menelaus' brother, was king of Mycenae and was chosen chief of the Greek army. |
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| Bore the prophecy from birth that he would be the greatest warrior of his age and die young, wounded in the heel. |
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