Actaeon stumbled upon Artemis bathing while he was hunting. She was mad that he saw her naked and turned him into a stag. His own hounds turned on him and tore him to pieces. 

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Roman name: Venus

Goddess of love, beauty and fertility Married to Hephaestus

Animal: dove, swan

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Roman name: Apollo

God of prophesy, music, and the sun

Twin of Artemis

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Mortal weaver who was better then Athena. She challenged the goddess and won. Athena was angry at loosing to a mortal and made Arachne regret challenging her. Arachne grew depressed and committed suicide. Athena felt pity for the girl and brought her back to life as a spider so that she could do what she loved. 

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Roman name: Mars

God of war (warlike frenzy)

Animal: mean dogs

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Guarded Io for Hera. Killed by Hermes. Hera cut off all of his 100 eyes and put them on her favorite bird, the peacock. 

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Roman name: Diana

Goddess of the hunt, single women, and the moon

Twin of Apollo

Animal: deer, stag

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Roman name: Minerva

Goddess of crafts, domestic arts, those of war, wisdom Animal: owl

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The couple that gave Zeus and Hermes hospitality. When given one wish, they requested that they would die together. At the time of their death, they were changed into intertwined trees. 

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-Pegasus

- Chimera

-tried to fly to Mt. Olympus 

Seduced by Zeus. 

Had a son, Arcas

Hera turned her into a bear

Many years later her son went hunting

Callisto rushed to embrace him forgetting her bear form

Arcas shot and arrow at her

Zeus intervened and put both Callisto and Arcas into the stars as bears

A Greek demi-goddess, sometimes regarded as one of the Pleiades. More often she was thought of as the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx, son of Eosphorus and the king of Thessaly. They were very happy together, but then Ceyx perished in a shipwreck and Alcyone threw herself into the sea. Out of compassion, the gods changed them into the halcyon birds

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Roman name: Ceres

Goddess of agriculture

Mother of Persephone

Roman name: Bacchus

God of wine

Zeus took the form of a beautiful white bull and encountered Europa at the seashore. By appearing to be very tame, he coaxed her to climb onto his back and then swam off with her across the sea to Crete. In Crete, Europa had three sons by Zeus -- Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys. Zeus also gave her three gifts: the bronze man, Talos, to act as her guardian; a dog, Laelaps, which never failed of its quarry; and a javelin which never missed its mark. Europa afterwards married Asterius, the king of Crete.

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Roman name: Pluto

God of the dead

-watches over shades

-owns all gems and minerals in the earth

Roman name: Vulcan

God of fire, crafts and blacksmiths.

Married to Aphrodite

Animal: quail

Roman name: Juno

Goddess of marriage

Married to Zeus

Animal: cow

Roman name: Mercury

Messenger for the gods and guide of dead souls to the Underworld

Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.

Succumbing to Leander's soft words, and to his argument that Aphrodite, as goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. This routine lasted through the warm summer. But one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander in the sea and the breezes blew out Hero's light, and Leander lost his way, and was drowned. Hero threw herself from the tower in grief and died as well.

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-discus

-flowers out of blood

-apollos love

-Hera

-Delos

-Artemis and Apollo

After Athena first played the flute she had invented, she threw it away because it made her cheeks look puffy when she played it. A satyr named Marsyas found it. He played so well on it he challenged Apollo to a music playing contest to see who made prettier music. Apollo won the contest and wanted to punish Marsyas for thinking he played better than him. Apollo chased him and when he caught him, in a cave near Calaenae in Phrygia, cut off his skin'. The satyr's blood turned into the river Marsyas.

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Roman name: Neptune

God of the sea, earthquakes and horses

One of the three main brothers

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Roman name: Jupiter

God of weather, supreme god of the Olympians

Married to Hera

Animal: eagle

Island that grew to the sea floor

Birth place of Artemis and Apollo