Notable Men in Greek Myth
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| Son of Peleus and Thetis, leader of the Myrmidons, fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War, Dipped into the River Styx by his mother, killed by Paris | Achilles | Famed as a huntsman, turned into a stag after coming upon Diana (Artemis) bathing, killed by his own hounds | Actaeon | Known for his beauty, loved by Aphrodite, killed by a wild boar, flower bloom from his blood | Adonis
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| Central figure in Virgil's The Aenid, escaped from a burning Troy and goes to Italy, reverd as an ancestral hero of the Romans | Aeneas | Brother of Menelaus, leader of the expedition against Troy, sacrificed his own daughter to Artemis, killed in his bathtub | Agamemnon | Grandson of Sisyphus, hero of Corinth, catches Pegasus to help slay the Chimaera | Bellepharon
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| Boatman who ferries the dead across the River Styx, as payment a coin is placed in the mouth of the dead at burial | Charon | Built the Labyrinth at Crete for King Minos, imprisoned inside after its completion so he couldn't reveal its secrets, he and his son fashion wings to fly away, his son flies to close to the sun and dies | Daedalus | Became king, followed the directives of an oracle, drove up to the temple of Zeus in a wagon, tied the yoke of the wagon to a pillar i the temple with a knot named after him | Gordias
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| Oldest son of Priam, chief war hero for Troy, killed Patroclus, his body was dragged behind a chariot around the Trojan walls 3 times | Hector | Legendary strong man whose early exploits include the killing of two serpants that invaded his cradle and later his membership among the Argonauts. He kills his wife and children in a fit of madness and performs 12 labors to atone for his actions. | Hercules | Leader of the expedition of Greek heroes known as the Argonauts who seek the Golden Fleece at Colchis which he secures with the help of Medea. | Jason
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| King of Thebes and first husband to Jocasta, killed while on a trip by an unknown assailant | Laius | King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, husband to Helen | Menelaus | Son of Gordeus and King of Phrygia, the Gods grant him his wish that everything he touches turns to gold, but he begins to realize that this isn't such a great thing when even his food turns to gold | Midas
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| King of Crete, upset Poseidon by refusing to sacrifice a bull to him, and in return Poseidon has his wife fall in love with the bull resulting with a minotaur | Minos | Beautiful youth who sees his own reflection in a pool of water and falls in love with himself as punishment for ignoring the love of Echo, gradually pines away and nothing remains except the flower known as narcissus | Narcissus | King of Pylos and the oldest and wisest of counselors among the Greek leaders of Troy | Nestor
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| Hero of the Odyssey who takes 10 years to return to his home on Ithica after the 10 years of fighting in the Trojan War, he is considered one of the wisest of the Greek warriors and supposedly devised the Trojan horse strategy. | Odyssius | On his 10 year trip home, encountered the Lotus eaters, Polyphemus, Circe, Calypso, the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis | Odyssius | As a child, goes to the Oracle at Delphi and is told he will kill his father and marry his mother not knowing his parents in Corinth are his step-parents. Along the way he unknowingly meets Laius, his real father and kills him. | Oedipus
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| After killing his father, he goes to Thebes and saves the city from the sphinx by answering its riddle. They crown him king and he marries his mother. 20 years later they learn the truth. She commits suicide and he blinds himself. | Oedipus | Gets upset with his mother when she and her lover kill his father so he kills his mother, which is a crime against the Gods. He is stalked by the Furies but purified by Minerva | Orestes | Friend of Achilles and second in command of the Myrmidons, when Achilles withdraws from the fighting against the Trojans, he and the rest of the Myrmidons withdraw as well. | Patroclus
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| Son of Priam and Hecuba, he officiates a contest of beauty amond Hera, Aphrodite and Athena and chooses Athena. In thanks he is rewarded the most beautiful woman in the world. Shot Achilles with an arrow in the heel. | Paris | Great Greek hero who kills Medusa by reflecting her image in her shield back into her own eyes, he cuts off her head and presents it to Athena and rescues Andromeda from a sea monster and marries her. | Perseus | Given the chance to drive Apollo's Chariot of the Sun, but his reckless driving poses a threat to both Heaven and earth, killed by Zeus | Phaeton
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| King of Troy, during the Trojan War, goes to Achilles and pleas for the body of his son, Hector, according to legend he is killed during the sack of Troy by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles | Priam | An ancient Greek in Attica who has travelers fit the size of his bed if they are too short he stretches them, if they are too big he cuts them down to size. Killed by Theseus | Procrustes | Legendary King of Corinth for a variety of misdeeds on earth, he is punished by the Gods in Tartarus by being forced to roll a huge stone up a hill. | Sisyphus
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| Son of Zeus and King of Lydia, upsets the Gods because he stole a favorite dog of Zeus and killed his son and served him as a meal to the Gods. His punishment was stand chin deep in water with fruit branches just out of his reach. | Tantalus | Son of Odyssius, who is reunited with his father after 20 years. | Telemachus | Greek hero who is King of Athens, slayed the minotaur, and married Hippolyta. | Theseus
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| Blind prophet cursed by the Gods to be able to predict the future but have no one believe him, warned Oedipusthat the killer of former Theban king is Oedipus himself | Tiresus | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank)
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