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| Founded Rome with his brother Remus, ended up kidding Remus |
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| Govt ruled by elected leaders that represent the people |
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General who ended the Roman civil war
Officers killed him to prevent him from seizing too much power |
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Julius Caesar's nephew Octavian
Ended the Republic, started the Empire
King in all but name |
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| Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron ages of man. Jupiter wiped mankind out after the iron age because how how bad people were |
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| Survived the flood, created new humans by throwing rocks behind them |
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| Shot Apollo with an arrow because Apollo said he was a lesser archer |
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| Nymph chased by Apollo, was turned into a laurel tree to escape |
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Woman who Jupiter pursued, and was turned into a cow to hide from Juno
Given to Juno, and guarded by Argus, and then forced to wander until Jupiter turned her back into a human |
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Io's guard, had eyes all over his body
Slain by Hermes |
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| Myth of causation or origination |
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Son of Apollo, asked to drive his sun chariot, and lost control
Created the Sahara desert |
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Was impregnated by Jupiter and cast out of the huntresses by Diana
Gave birth to to Arcas, was transformed into a bear by Juno, and was almost killed by him
Turned into Ursa Major and Minor, can never rest in the ocean |
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Stumbled upon Diana bathing, and she turned him into a stag
Was killed by his own hounds |
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Cursed by Venus to fall in love with that which couldn't love him back (his reflection)
Turned into a flower |
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Nymph cursed by Juno to only repeat what she heard last (couldn't speak on her own).
Fell in love with Narcissus |
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| Romeo and Juliet, except killed by lions, not poison |
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| Salmacis and Hermaphroditus |
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| Salmacis was a water nymph who loved Hermaphroditus, when he ignored her she embraced him and wished they could be one |
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Son of Danae and Zeus, killed Medusa and used her head to rescue Andromeda from a sea monster
Pegasus was born when Medusa died |
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| Muses tell the story in a contest, takes place in Sicily |
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| Turned into a spider by Minerva after a weaving contest |
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| Bragged that she was better than Leto for having more children, and Artemis and Apollo took revenge for the insult by killing her children |
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| Challenged Apollo to a music contest and Apollo flayed him alive and he turned into a river |
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| Married to Procne, but wanted her sister Philomela. He took Philomela captive, and cut out her tongue so she couldn't tell anyone. Philomela told her sister by weaving the message into a tapestry and Procne kills her son and serves him to Tereus. All three are turned into birds |
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| Pelias is afraid of the man with one sandal and so sends him to find the Golden Fleece. Jason returns with Medea and Media tricks Pelias' daughters into killing him by cutting him until he bleeds out |
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Great inventor who designed the Labyrinth in Crete, imprisoned there with his son.
Built wings to fly out, Icarus flew too close to the sun and died when the wax melted off his wings |
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| Boar sent by Artemis to ravage the countryside. Atalanta was the only one who wounded it, and Meleager killed it but insisted the honors go to Atalanta. His uncles got angry and he killed his uncles, only to have his mother kill him by burning the log tied to his life |
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| Old couple who were hospitable when Zeus and Hermes visited in disguise. Wished to be keepers of a temple, and to die together |
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| Killed the centaur Nessus, but was killed when he wore a shirt given to him by Deianeira which was covered is Nessus' blood (she though it would make him love her) |
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Euydice died soon after their wedding, Orpheus sang in the underworld and got her back, but looked behind him before they made it out and lost her
Killed by the Bacchae |
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Beautiful Trojan prince
Zeus carried him off as an eagle to be a cup-bearer to the gods (replaced Hebe) |
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Carved a statue of a woman and fell in love with her
Venus made her real |
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| In love with Acis, Polyphemus killed him in order to have a better chance with her |
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Venus was in love with him
Diana sent a boar to kill him during a hunt (revenge for Hippolytus) |
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Said she wouldn't marry until someone beat her in a footrace
Hippomenes had three golden apples from Venus, and Atalanta lost because she chased them
Turned into lions |
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| Asks for the golden touch, and eventually gives it back because it was a huge mistake. Declares Pan the winner in a music contest and Apollo gives him donkey ears |
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| Competes with Apollo in a contest. Midas declares him the winner |
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| Parents of Achilles, He raped her after she shifted into the form of a lion to avoid him |
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| Her husband sailed away and died at sea. Morpheus came to her in a dream in his form to tell her, and she threw herself into the sea. Transformed into a bird |
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| A literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art |
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| Woman who asked to be transformed into a man. Has impermeable skin and fights the centaurs at Pirithous's wedding. Turned into a bird |
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| Greek warrior with impermeable skin, Killed by Paris |
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| Trojan prince who started the war. Killed Achilles with Apollo's help |
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| Compete for Achilles's armor, Ulysses wins and Ajax commits suicide. Transformed into a flower |
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| Loses her son when he is sold out, and her daughter when she is sacrificed. Former Queen of Troy |
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| Her son Memnon is killed and Jupiter turns him into a flock of birds when he is burned |
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| Religious behavior, and devotion to your family, country, and the gods |
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| He was in love with her, but Circe was in love with him. Circe transformed her into a sea monster |
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| Escaped Troy when the Greeks won, went on to become the founder of Rome |
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| Queen who is building Carthage. Loves Aeneas and kills herself once he leaves |
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| Prophetess who asks Apollo for immortality, but forgot to ask for youth to go with it. Helps Aeneas speak with his dead father |
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| Lover of Venus, father of Aeneas |
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| The god of gardens and seasons disguises himself as an old woman to get close to her, and tell her about the dangers of rejecting suitors. She then accepts his advances |
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| Philosopher, argues for vegetarianism and talks about how everything is always changing |
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| Son of Apollo, brings Hippolytus back from the dead |
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