son of Peleus and Thetis; hero of the Iliad but actually absent from fighting for most of the story; returns after friend Patrocles is killed in his armor; kills Hector to break Troy

(525-456); born in Eleusis (suburb of Athens); fought at battle of Marathon (490); central event of life was Persia’s attempt to annex Greece;

a doer not a speaker; great Greek warrior – commits suicide when Thetis gives Achilles’s armor to Odyssseus

mother of Meleager; has firebrand that means he will live as long as it burns – she pulls it out so he dies b/c he killed her brother

son of Antiope and Zeus; raised in ignorance, founds Thebes w/twin Zethus – sang the walls into place

prophet who forsees disaster in Seven Against Thebes; husband of Eriphyle and father of Alcmaeon

daughter of Nycetus; impregnated by Zeus – father angry; he dies – charges his brother Lycus to punish   her; she gives birth on Mt. Cithaeron to Amphion and Zethus; together they get revenge on Lykos and Dirce and build Troy

ancient council of Athens; powers reduced through induction of democracy, remained as a court that heard murder trials

husband of Autonoe; chases Eurydice so she steps on snake and dies; must appease her shade to get his bees back

son of Pelops; brother of Thyestes; exiles him for seducing his wife – calls back for reconciliation and serves him a stew of his illegitimate children

gathering place of Greek troops to go to Troy; Iphaganaia sacrificed here to restart the winds

Greek prophet who interprets the eagle killing the pregnant bunny omen that the Greeks will be successful over Trojans; tells Ag he must sacrifice Iph to placate Apollo and restart the winds

Trojan priestess; taken by Agamemnon as booty from the war as concubine/slave – killed by     Clyt; had gifts of prophecy and that no one would believe here – from Apollo

Roman love poet; wrote little epic about marriage of Peleus and Thetis; Thetis rose up to see Argonaut Peleus and he fell in love

wife of Agamemnon; kills him in the Agamemnon because he sacrificed their daughter Iphaginia so winds would blow to Troy; killed by their Orestes as vengence

longest and most important cyclic epic which contained info from right before the Trojan War, begins with judgment of Paris; Proclus (5^th century) wrote Chrestomathia which summarizes all cyclic epics

constructed the hollow cow body for Pasiphae to get into to unite with the bull; built the labyrinth to house it

founder of the line and Dardania (city that preceeds Troy), son of Zeus

stand in for Achilles when isn’t fighting – but has boundaries; son of Tydeus

evil wife of Lycus; aunt of  Antiope; killed for tormenting her

Electra

Epigonoi –

Eriphyle – 

Eteocles –

Europa – 

Eurydice – 

Harmonia

Hector –

Hecuba –

Helen –

Hippodameia

Hippolytus

– son of Theseus and an Amazon; devoted to Artemis but won’t worship Aphrodite; she decides to destroy him

– makes stepmother Phaedra fall in love with him

– she commits suicide leaving note that he raped her – Theseus asks Poseiden to kill Hipp and he does

Hypsipyle –

Idomeneus – 

Jocasta – 

Labdacus

Laertes –

Laios – 

Laomedon –

Memnon –

can

Merope – 

Menelaus –

Minos – 

Minotaur – 

Neoptolemus – 

Odysseus

Oenomaus – 

Orestes –

Palamades –

Paris – 

Pasiphae – 

Peisistratus – 

Peleus –

Pelops – 

Penthesileia – 

Pentheus – 

Peripateia –

Phaedra –

Phoenix – 

Pindar –

Polybus – 

Polyneices – 

Priam – 

Proclus – 

Pylades – 

Scylla –

Semele –

Seneca – 

Sisyphus –

Six Labors of Theseus – 

Spartoi – 

Sphinx –

Telamon – 

Telegonus – 

Telegony – 

Thebaid –

Thebes – 

Thetis – 

Thyestes – 

Time (τϊμη)– 

Tithonus – 

Tydeus – 

Tyrannoi –