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| Son of Aeson, captures the Golden Fleece with the aid of Medea; asks Medea to rejuvenate his father; at the Calydonian boar hunt. |
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| Enchantress daughter of Aeetes, loves Jason, aid him to get Golden Fleece; rejuvenates Aeson; kills Pelias; her flight; marries Aegeus; tries to kill Theseus. |
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| The goal of Jason’s quest with the Argonauts. |
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| Prince of Thessaly, brother of Pelias, father of Jason; too old to rejoice Jason’s return; made young again by Medea. |
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| King of Thessaly, half-brother of Aeson, he sent Jason on the quest for the Golden Fleece, killed by his daughter at Medea’s urging. |
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| Son of Aegeus and Aethra, he spent his childhood with his mother in Troezen and when grown up set off for Athens, overcoming a number of challenged on the way at the court of Aegeus; defeats the Minotaur; called on to help at the Calydonian boar hunt; aims his spear at the boar; at Achelous’ banquet; at the wedding-banquet of Pirithous; at the battle between the Lapiths and centaurs; father of Hippolytus; succeeds his father. “A great national hero” |
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| Husband of Pasiphae, son of Europa and Jupiter, father of Androgeos and Ariadne, threatens war against Athens; rejects Scylla’s love; confines the Minotaur in the labyrinth; no longer paid tribute by Athens; Jupiter cannot grant him immortality. |
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| Repopulates Aegina; ants changed into Aeacus’s new subjects. |
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| An Athenian Prince, husband of Procris, his marriage; seeks help for Athens from Aegina; his tragic marriage with Procris; his spear. |
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| Daughter of Erechtheus, wife of Cephalus, her marriage to Cephalus; the course of her marriage ending in her accidental death at the hands of her husband. |
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