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Son of Aethra and Aegeus/Poseidon; national hero of the Athenians. |
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| First king in Athens; brought civilization to the Athenian people; depicted as half-man, half-snake. |
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| Half-man, half-snake product of the spilled semen of Hephaestus; and early king of Athens. |
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| Son of Hersê, a daughter of Cecrops, and Hermes; his marriage with Procris was fraught with suspicion and ended in disaster. |
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| Daughter of Erechtheus, and early king of Athens, and wife of Cephalus; her marriage with Cephalus was fraught with suspicion and ended in disaster. |
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| The magical dog who always caught what it was chasing; given as a gift to Procris by Minos, king of Crete; ended in a paradoxical pursuit with the magical fox that could never be caught. |
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| Daughter of Pandion, and early king of Athens, and wife of Tereus; killed her own son Itys to avenge Tereus's rape and mutilation of her sister Philomela. |
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Daughter of Pandion, an early king of Athens, and sister of Procnê; she was raped and mutilated by Tereus, Procnê's husband. |
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| King of Thessaly; given Procnê as his wife by Pandion; his rape and mutilation of her sister Philomela led to the death of his son Itys by Procnê. |
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| Son of Tereus and Procnê; killed by his mother in revenge for Tereus's rape and mutilation of Philomela, Procnê's sister. |
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| An early king of Athens; best known for his children: Procris, Orithyia, and Cecrops II, the latter of whom is the grandfather of Aegeus, father of Theseus. |
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| Son of Pandion II and father of Theseus; sonless, he traveled to Delphi; stopping in Troezen on the way back, he impregnated Aethra, daughter of the king, their son was Theseus. |
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| Mother of Theseus and daughter of Pittheus, the King of Troezen, who, understanding the meaning of Delphi's obscure oracle to Aegeus, connived to have her impregnated by him. |
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| Villain overcome by Theseus on his way from Troezen to Athens; murdered his victims by putting them on a bed that never fit. |
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| Battle of the Athenians and the invading Amazons; battle provoked by Theseus's abduction of their Queen Antiopê; later comes to symbolize Athens's victory over the Persians. |
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| Son of Theseus by Antiopê, Queen of the Amazons; falsely accused by Phaedra, Theseus's new wife, of having attempted to rape her, he is killed by Poseidon, who answers Theseus's prayer. |
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Wife of Theseus and stepmother to Hippolytus; inflicted with a shameful lust for Hippolytus and rebuffed by him, she kills herself, leaving behind a letter falsely accusing Hippolytus of having tried to rape her. |
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| Parallel to the Hippolytus false-accusation motif; having rebuffed the wife of the king at Corinth, the king tries to kill him. |
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King in Thessaly, opponent of Theseus who, like Enkidu and Gilgamesh, becomes his companion in a number of adventures.
Wanted Persephone
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| Thessalian people, whose king Pirithoüs, is a companion of Theseus; involved in a famous battle against the Centaurs that erupts at a wedding: the "Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapiths" (aka the Centauromachy). |
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| Race of half-man half-horse creatures; offspring of Ixion; mostly dangerous and wild, some are good. |
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Democratic tyrant of late 6th century Athens; responsible for promoting the myths of Theseus and identifying them with democratic ideology. |
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