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| King/Founder of Orchomenus in Boeotia. Leuconoe, Arsippe and Alcithoe, followers of Minevra, reject Bacchus; changed into bats by Bacchus. |
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| A young Babylonian boy in love with Thisbe, kills himself believing Thisbe dead, his blood dyes the mulberry fruit red-black. “Romeo” |
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| A young Babylonian girl in love with Pyramus; kills herself in grief at Pyramus’ death. “Juliet” |
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| God of war, son of Jupiter and Juno, his affair with Venus; ancestor of Tereus; his sacred field in Colchris; ancestor of Meleager; his armour; changes Romulus into a god, father of Quirinus. |
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| Goddess of love, wife of Vulcan, mother of Cupid, personification of sexual love; affair with Mars; revenge of the Sun, mother of Hermaphroditus; intercedes for Ino and her child with Neptune; worshipped as fish, sends Cupid to engender love between Pluto and Proserpina; Procris compared with her; argues for rejuvenation of Anchises; invoked by Byblis; at the marriage of Iphis; anger at the Cerastae; anger at the Propoetides; her festival on Cyprus; grants Pygmalion’s desire; praised by Pygmalion; love affair with Adonis’s death; mother of Aeneas, doves sacred to her; wounded by Diomedes, taunted by Acmon, watches Aeneas triumphant; obtains deification for Aeneas; rejected by Pomona; her shrine at Salamisl; seeks deification for Julius Ceaser and brings it about. |
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| A spring in Caria; its nymph pursues Hermaphroditus. |
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| Son of Mercury and Venus desired by Salmacis; joined with Salmacis. |
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| Son of Jupiter and Danae, husband of Andromeda, confrontation with Atlas, rescues Andromeda and wins her hand; tells of the killing of Medusa; the riot at his weeing-feast. |
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| A mythological king, son of Iapetus and Clymene, father of the Pleiads; mountain in northern Africa personified as a giant who held up the sky; refuses hospitality of Perseus; changed into a mountain by Perseus. |
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| Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia rescued and married by Perseus; supports her husband. |
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| The most famous of the Gorgons, daughter of Phorcys, mother of Pegasus her head as Perseus’ weapon; her head changes seawed into coral, killed by Perseus, raped by Neptun, her hair changed into snakes. |
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