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| Sister of Ariadne, Daughter of Minos, Wife of Theseus, Stepmother of Hippolytus |
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| Son of Europa and Zeus, and rules of Crete |
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| A Phoenician princess who was carried off by Jupiter in the form of a bull |
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| Minos' brother, who was also a powerful ruler of Crete |
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| Brother of Minos who was killed in the Iliad |
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Mother of Minotaur, Phaedra, Ariadne.
She fell in love with the bull as a punishment because Minos hadn't sacrificed the correct bull. |
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| Sister of Pasiphae. Mother of Medea |
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| Sister of Phaedra. She helped Theseus kill the Minotaur, and he took her away, but abandoned her. She later married Bacchus. |
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| The name of the island Ariadne was abandoned on. |
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| Name for Bacchus (who took Ariadne) used by Catullus. |
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| Inventor under Minos. He made a cow-contraption so that Pasiphae could have a child with a bull. He also designed the labyrinth to imprison it, and wings to fly away. |
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| Daedalus' son who flew to close to the sun and drowned. |
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| King of Athens, who killed the Minotaur and married Phaedra (among other things). |
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| Father of Theseus. Medea tried to kill Theseus when he returned to claim his heritage, but Aegeus saw his sword and stopped her. |
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| Son of Theseus and Antiope. He has renounced women and spends all his time hunting in the forest. |
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| aka Hippolyta. An Amazon, and Hippolytus' mother. |
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| Identified Theseus when to Aegeus when Medea was about to kill him. Identified Theseus as having been with Phaedra shortly before she accuses him. Age-old phallic symbol. |
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| In the Aeneid, she gets to marry Hippolytus after he's been brought back from the dead. |
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| Theseus' friend who went to the underworld to abduct Proserpina. |
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