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| Son of Aphrodite and Anchises. Led the Trojan survivors of the war between the Greeks and Trojans to Italy and thus became the legendary founder of the Roman people. |
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| Brother to Menelaus; husband of Clytemnestra; father of Electra; a leader in the Greeks' attack on the Trojans to recover Helen of Troy. Killed by his wife. |
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| Brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen of Troy. |
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| Wife of Agamemnon; plotted with her lover to kill Agamemnon when he returned from war with Troy. |
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| Daughter of Agamemnon that revenged his death by killing her mother, Clytemnestra. The Electra Complex derives from her obsession with her father and her killing of her mother. |
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| One of the bravest of the Greek warriors in Homer's Iliad, the story of the Greek and Trojan wars. He was also dull-witted so has become a prototype of the strong but dumb fighter. |
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| Greek goddess of love; her Roman name is Venus. |
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| Son of Zeus; the sun god or the god of light. He was also the god of prophecy, healing, and music and was the protector of the herds. |
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| Greek goddess of fertility, virginity, the hunt, childbirth, and the moon. |
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| Greek goddess of war and wisdom; Daughter of Zeus who sprang full-grown out of his head. |
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| Roman goddess of the dawn. Represents daybreak. |
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| Roman god of win and fertility. AKA Dionysus. Associated with fertility rites, orgies, and, eventually, by the Middle Ages, associated with Satanic rituals and witchcraft. |
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| Daughter of Priam. She prophesied the conquest of Troy by the Greeks and the destruction of Troy. She represents the idea of prophesying doom. |
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| In Greek mythology, a montrous dog that guarded the entrance to Hades. |
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| Roman fertility goddess. Associated with grain/cereal. Demeter to the Greeks |
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| In the Odyssey, lover to Odysseus. A "siren" or seductress. |
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| In Greek mythology, a nymph who was turned into a laurel tree. The tree is sacred to Apollo because he fell in love with her and chased her until she was turned into a tree to preserve her virginity. |
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| Greek fertility goddess. Associated with grain/cereal. Ceres to the Romans |
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| Queen of Carthage and lover to Aeneas. Their love ended tragically when he betreyed her. |
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| The part of Hades where the heroic and noble live. |
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| Greek philosopher who believed man should seek pleasure by attempting to achieve peace and tranquility of spirit through a simple life. His philosophy became corrupted by some who professed it: some believed he taught just to live for the day and for physical pleasure. |
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| Greek god of the underworld |
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| Greek goddess of the underworld. She became equated later with witchcraft and sorcery. |
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| Son of King Priam; great Trojan warrior. |
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| A beautiful Greek woman, wife of Menelaus. She was stolen by Paris. The Greeks went after her, thus starting the Trojan War. |
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| In Greek mythology, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She was sacrificed by Agamemnon in return for the victory over the Trojans in the Greek and Trojan War. |
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| Chief goddess of the Romans, wife of Jupiter. Goddess of childbirth and good counsel. |
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| River of oblivion/forgetfulness in Hades. |
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| Greek sorceress. Wife of Jason. She got mad at him for betreying her with another woman, so she killed his and her two sons to get revenge against Jason. |
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| Italian goddess of the arts and trade. Parallel to Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom. |
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| Greek goddess of the arts. |
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| Beautiful Greek youth, son of the river god. He fell in love with his own image when he saw it in a river/lake, and he died of anguish because he could not reach this beloved whom he worshipped. |
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| Roman god of the see. AKA Poseidon |
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| Greek god of the sea. AKA Neptune |
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| Greek warrior in the Trojan War and wanderer after the war. |
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| Wife of Odysseus; known for her faithfulness to him in his absence. |
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| Egyptian god of the underworld. Son of Isis. He experiences rebirht (and is succeeded mythologically by Dionysus and Jesus in this). |
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| Egyptian goddess of the underworld |
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| Beautiful Greek woman of many charms of "gifts." She was given a box filled with evil things and told never to open it, but she did. She becomes the source of all evils in the world; however, hope also dwelt in the box. (Analogous in biblical myth to Eve). |
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| Son of Priam. Steals Helen of Troy from her husband, Menelaus, thus starting the Greek and Trojan wars. |
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| Roman god of the underworld. |
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| Beautiful mortal girl loved by Cupid |
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| Goat-like creatures who lived in the forest with wood nymphs. Both were associated with lustfulness. Associated with Satanism as well. |
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| In Greek mythology, a blind Theban prophet who fortold many things, including the tragix end of Oedipus's story. |
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| Roman goddess of love. AKA Aphrodite |
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| Roman god of fie AKA Hephaestus |
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| Greek god of fire AKA Vulcan |
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| Greek king of the gods. AKA Jupiter |
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