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| His weapon is the thunderbolt, his bird is the eagle, his providence is the sky |
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| He quested for the golden fleece and was helped by the witch, Medea |
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| His weapon is the trident, his animal is the horse; he causes earthquakes and rules the sea |
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| He rules the underworld and stole his bride from the goddess Demeter |
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| She is the goddess of love and beauty and her bird is the dove |
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| This Greek hero's weakness was in his heel |
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| He was the cleverest of the Greeks, and Athena protected him |
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| Husband to Helen and brother to Agammemnon |
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| This Trojan princess was cursed to know the future but no one would ever believe her. |
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| He was the blacksmith to the gods and volcanos were his workshops |
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| She thought she could challenge Athena to a weaving contest - she lost and was made into a spider |
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| They survived the great flood and repopulated the earth by throwing their mother's "bones" behind them. |
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| Her name means "soul" and she was loved, dumped, then loved again by Eros (Cupid) |
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| He was a son of Zeus, hated by Hera, who drove him mad so he killed his family |
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| The first woman, her curiosity let loose all the evils upon the earth. |
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| This Titan was a friend of man, and was punished by Zeus for it! |
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| One of the virgin goddesses, her providence was the moon, hunting, and protecting baby animals |
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| The god of wine, theatre, and fertility |
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| She was a virgin goddess and ruled over justified warfare, crafts, and wisdom. Her animal is the owl |
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| He was the brutal and cowardly god of war. |
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| Odysseus' patient and faithful wife |
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| The greatest of the Trojan warriors, his body was desecrated by Achilles |
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| He judge which goddess was the fairest, and was rewarded with another man's wife |
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| The three-headed dog of hell |
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| Messenger of the gods and he was quite the trickster |
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| Her husband gave her many reasons to be jealous; also she was the goddess of marriage and her bird was the peacock |
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| The most "Greek" of all the gods, he was the god of light, music, poetry, truth and the healing arts |
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| He warned Troy against "Greeks bearing gifts" he and his 2 sons were killed by a snake |
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| The one-eyed cyclops who was a son of Poseidon |
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| Leader of the Greek forces at Troy; he sacrificed his daughter so the winds would blow |
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| Their singing could lure a man to his death |
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| He survived the sack of Troy; his descendents will found the city of Rome |
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| Filthy and foul screaming bird-women; the Argonauts got rid of them |
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| His beautiful music could calm wild beasts; he lost his wife Eurydice on their wedding day and tried to bring her back from the underworld |
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