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Characters in Ovid
Characters in Ovid's Metamorphoses
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ABARIS | Companion to Phineus; killed by Perseus at Andromeda’s wedding |
| ACHELOUS | Shapeshifter, wrestled Hercules; father of the Sirens; deity of the Achelous River; his broken horn became the cornucopia |
| ACHILLES | Son of Peleus & Thetis; near-invulnerable Greek warrior of the Trojan War; crushes Cycnus to death |
| ACIS | Son of Faunus & a river nymph, Symaethis; lover of Galatea (deity), crushed by a boulder by Polyphemus; became a rive |
| ACMON | Companion to Diomedes; transformed into a seabird for insulting Venus |
| ACOETES | Bacchus' alias with Pentheus, supposedly a Tyrrhenian man from Lydia |
| ACTAEON | Grandson of Cadmus; accidentally saw Diana naked & was transformed into a stag as a punishment |
| ADONIS | Son of King Cinyras & his daughter Myrrh; beloved by Venus & Proserpina; died during a boar hunt; became an anemone |
| AEACUS | Son of Jupiter & nymph Aegina; father of Telamon, Peleus, & Phocus; king of Aegina;became one of the judges in the Underworld |
| AEËTES | Son of Sol, father of Medea, king of Colchis |
| AEGEUS | Son of Pandion, Medea, father of Theseus |
| AENEAS | Son of Venus & Anchises; survivor of Trojan War; founder of Rome |
| AESACUS | Son of King Priam; mourning the death of his lover he was transformed into a bird |
| AESCULPIUS | God of medicine & healing; son of Apollo & Coronis |
| AESON | Father of Jason & king of Iolcus, Thessaly; was usurped the throne from his brother Pelias |
| AGAMEMONON | Son of Atreus; king of Mycene; led the Greeks in the Trojan War; sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia |
| AGLAULUS | One of the three daughters of Cecrops; her jealousy stood between her sister Herse and Mercury; turned to stone |
| AJAX THE GREAT | Grandson of Aeacus & son of Telamon; Greek hero in the Trojan War, second only to Achilles |
| AJAX THE LESSER | Son of Oïleus; Greek hero in Trojan War; raped Trojan prophetess & princess Cassandra at the temple of Apollo |
| ALCEMENE | Queen of Tiryns, wife of Amphitryon, and mother of Hercules by Jupiter |
| ALCYONE | Daughter of Aelous & wife of Ceyx; with her husband, became a “halcyon bird” |
| ALTHAEA | Daughter of Thestius, wife of Oeneus, & mother of Meleager; had a burning brand that determined her son’s lifespan |
| ANAXARETE | Cyprian maid who refused her suitor, Iphis; unmoved, even as he committed suicide, Venus turned her to stone |
| ANDROMEDA | Daughter of Cepheus & Cassiopeia; chained to a rock as a sacrifice for her mother's bragging, but was saved by Perseus |
| ANIUS | Priest of Apollo and king of Delos; father of Oeno, Spermo, Elais (daughters) & Andros, Mykonos, Thasos (sons) |
| APOLLO | God of poetry, music, healing, and divination; son of Jupiter & Leda/Latona |
| AUILO | The Northern wind (Gk. equivalent, Boreas) |
| ARACHNE | Daughter of Idmon; won a weaving contest against Athena Minerva & was into a spider |
| ARCAS | Son of Jupiter & nymph Callisto; transformed a bear & then into a constellation |
| ARETHUSA | Nymph and spring; fled from the river god Alpheus to Syracuse, Sicily |
| ARGUS | Monster with a hundred eyes; the garden protector of Io |
| ATALANTA (huntress) | Arcadian huntress, participant in the Calydonian Boar Hunt, a possible Argonaut |
| ATALANTA (princess) | Daughter of the Boeotian King Schoeneus |
| ATHAMAS | Son of Aeolus and husband of Ino (daughter of Cadmus) |
| ATHIS | Indian demigod, one of Phineus' warriors at Perseus' wedding |
| ATLAS | Titan, son of Iapetus, transformed into the North-West-African Atlas Mountains for the Titans against the Olympian gods; holds Uranus (the sky) on his shoulders |
| AURORA | Goddess of dawn & wife of Tithonus (Roman, Eos) |
| AUTOLCUS | Son of Mercury & Chione; grandfather of Ulysses through his daughter, Anticlea |
| BACCHUS | God of wine, son of Jupiter & Semele (Gk. equivalent, Dionysus) |
| BATTUS | Old shepherd who saw Mercury stealing Apollo’s cattle, sold him out for a higher reward, & was turned into a touchstone |
| BAUCIS | Wife of Philemon, showed hospitality to Jupiter & Mercury; transformed into a linden tree by Jupiter |
| BOREAS | The North wind (Roman name, Aquilo) |
| BYBLIS | Daughter of Miletus; fell incestuously but futilely in love with Caunus; tried to kill herself but was transformed into a nymph |
| CADMUS | Son of Agenor, King of Tyre, brother of Europa, husband of Venus' daughter Harmonia, & founder of Thebes; transformed into snake with his wife |
| CAENEUS/CAENIS | Born the daughter of the Lapith, Elatus; was transformed into an invulnerable, male hero by Neptune after an assault |
| CALCHAS | Son of Thestor; seer & prophet for the Greek army during the Trojan War |
| CALLIOPE | Muse of epic poetry, mother of Orpheus |
| CALLISTO | Nymph & daughter of Lycaon; follower of Diana & raped by Jupiter; transformed into a bear, nearly killed in her new form by her son; turned into a constellation |
| CANENS | Nymph, wife of King Picus; after he was transformed by Circe, she searched in vain for him, eventually melting away into thin air by a river in a final lament |
| CASSANDRA | Daughter of Priam & Hecuba of Troy, priestess of Apollo, gifted with the ability to predict the future but cursed so nobody would ever believe her prophecies |
| CAUNUS | Son of Miletus, brother of Byblis; subject of Byblis’ incestuous passion, he fled the city, settled in Lycia, married the Naiad Pronoe & had a son named Aegialusto |
| CECROPS | Mythical founder Athens often depicted with his lower body as a snake CEPHALUS |
| CERES | Goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, & motherly relationships (Gk. equivalent, Demeter) |
| CEYX | Husband of Alcyone & king of Thrace who died in a shipwreck & was transformed, with his wife, into halycons or kingfishers |
| CHARICLO | Water-nymph; wife of the wise centaur Chiron; the mother of Ocyrhoe, a prophetess |
| CHARYBDIS | Daughter of Neptune & Gaia; once a naiad, but transformed into a monster maelstrom by the Strait of Messina, opposite of the sea monster Scylla |
| CHIONE | Daughter of Daedalion, bears Apollo & Mercury twins, Philammon & Autolycus; is killed by Diana for boasting that her beauty surpassed the goddess' |
| CHIRON | Centaur, son of Philyra & Saturnus; known for his wisdom; immortal but asked for death after being hit by one of Hercules' arrows poisoned by the Lernaean Hydra's blood |
| CINYRAS | Son of Pygmalion's daughter Paphos, father of Myrrha & Adonis, & king of Cyprus; incestuous relations with Myrrha resulted in Adonis |
| CIPUS | Legendary Roman commander who sprouts horns & voluntarily exiles himself to prevent himself from becoming king |
| CIRCE | Daughter of Sol & Perse, a witch (goddess or nymph) skilled in magic, known for transforming those who offend her into animals |
| CLYMENE | Daughter of Tethys, the wife of the Ethiopian King Merops, the mother of Phaethon & the Heliades by Sol |
| CORONE | Daughter of Coroneus of Phocis; attacked by Neptune but delivered by Minerva, who transformed her into a crow |
| CUPID | God of desire & erotic love, son of Mars & Venus (Gk. equivalent, Eros) |
| CYANE | Sicilian naiad who tried to stop Pluto (Dis) from abducting Proserpina (Persephone), resulting in her transformation into a pool of water |
| CYÁNEË (or Cyanee) | Nymph, daughter of river god Maeander; mother of twins, Caunus & Byblis; married Miletus, son of Apollo & Deione, who founded city of Miletus |
| CYBELE | Phrygian goddess, Mother of the gods, depicted with a turreted crown |
| CYGNUS (Son of Sthenelous) | Friend & relative of Phaethon, he lamented Phateon’s death & was turned into a swan & then into a constellation |
| CYGNUS (Sone of Apollo) | A spoiled youth, given tamed animals by Phylius; denied a bull, he tried to kill himself & was transformed into a swan |
| CYGNUS (Son of Neptune) | Trojan hero, invulnerable because he was the son of Neptunus, but still mortal: Achilles suffocated him with his helmet. |
| CYLLARUS | Centaur fatally wounded in battle with Lapiths; died in the arms of his beloved centaur wife, Hylonome, who took her own life shortly afterwards to join him in death |
| CYPARISSUS | Loved by Apollo; accidentally killed a pet deer; asked Apollo to let his tears fall forever; was turned into cypress tree with sap droplets on the trunk |
| DAEDLION | Brother of Ceyx; grief-stricken by death of his daughter Chione, he tries to throw himself off Mount Parnassus but is transformed into a hawk by Apollo |
| DAEDALUS | Architect, inventor, the father of Icarus; built the Labyrinth, constructed wings made of feathers & wax for him to escape from Crete |
| DAPHNE | Nymph, daughter of Peneus; transformed into a laurel to escape the amorous god Apollo |
| DEÏANIRA | Daughter of Oeneus, sister of Meleager, wife of Hercules. Famous for unwittingly killing Hercules with the Shirt of Nessus. |
| DEUCALION | Son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha, survivor of the Great Deluge |
| DIANA | Goddess of the hunt, associated with the Moon, daughter of Jupiter & Latona, sister of Apollo (Gk. equivalent, Artemis) |
| DIOMEDES (Thracian king) | Son of Mars & Cyrene & king of Thrace; owned man-eating horses & was killed by Hercules |
| DIOMEDES (Greek hero) | Son of Tydeus, friend of Ulysses; hero in the Trojan War, wounded Venus when she interfered in the battle; refused help to Turnus |
| DIS | God of the underworld; Pluto (Gk. equivalent, Hades) |
| DRYOPR | Daughter of King Eurytus of Oechalia, half-sister of Iolë; plucked a sacred plant & was transformed into a lotus tree |
| EGERIA | Nymph, wife of Numa, the second king of Rome; following Numa's death, she melted into tears of sorrow & becaming a spring |
| ECHO | Nymph who fell in love with Narcissuswas rejected, could only repeat others, not talk for herself, & eventually faded away until only her voice was left |
| ERYSICHTHON | King of Thessaly punished with insatiable hunger for killing a dryad nymph by cutting a sacred tree; eventually, he ate himself to death |
| EUROPA | Phoenician princess, mother of Minos by Jupiter; abducted by Jupiter while he was in the form of a bull |
| EURYDICE | Wife of Orpheus who was killed by a snakebite, prompting Orpheus to try to bing her back from the Underworld |
| EURYTUS, SON OF ACTOR | A chieftain at the court of King Cepheus; killed by Perseus while in the service of Phineus |
| EURYTUS OF OECHALIA | The father of Iole & Dryope, a king ruled Oechalia, Euboea, & was connected to Hercules |
| EURYTUS, The CENTAUR | Centaur who tried to kidnap Hippodame at her & Pirithous’ wedding but was killed by Theseus in the attempt |
| GALANTHIS | One of Alcmene's maids; she interfered with Hera's plan to hinder the birth of Heracles & was changed into a weasel as punishment |
| GALATEA (deity) | The nereid (sea-nymph) who was loved by the Cyclopes Polyphemus but who loved Acis |
| GALATEA (statue) | A statue carved out of ivory by Pygmalion; brought to life after Pygmalion sacrificed to Venus & requested it |
| GANYMEDE | Son of the Dardanian King Tros, brother of Ilus; abducted by the gods to serve as Jupiter’s cupbearer on Olympus |
| GLAUCUS | Boeotic fisherman, transformed into a sea god after eating a magical herb; fell in love with the nymph, Scylla |
| HECUBA | The wife & queen of King Priam of Troy; mother of Hector, paris, Cassandra, Polyxena, Polydorus; transformed into a dog |
| HERCULES | Demigod, son of Jupiter & Alcmene; famous for his strength & the Twelve Labors; killed unwittingly by Deïanira & the Shirt of Nessus (Gk. equivalent, Heracles) |
| HERMAPHRODITUS | Son of Mercury (Hermes) & Venus (Aphrodite); born male, he was transformed into an androgynous being when he was fused with the nymph Salmacis |
| HERSE | One of the three daughters of Cecrops; desired by Mercury, she attracts the jealousy of her sister Aglauros, who ends up as a black rock |
| HERSILIA | Wife & queen of Romulus; deified as Hora |
| HESPERIA | Loved by Aesacus, she dies after being bitten by a venomous snake while fleeing from his pursuit |
| HIPPODAME | Daughter of Adrastos & wife of Theseus |
| HIPPOLYTUS | Son of Theseus & an Amazon Queen; stepson of Phaedra; resisted Phaedra’s attempts at seduction, was lied about, cursed by Theseus, killed by horses from Poseidon |
| HIPPONMENES | Son of Megareus, descendant of Neptunus; raced & won over Atalanta with the help of Venus; later, both were transformed into lions |
| HYACINTHUS | A beautiful young man loved by Apollo; accidentally struck by a discus, he died & Apollo made the hyacinth in his memory |
| HYLONOME | Female centaur present at the battle against the Lapiths; losing her husband, the centaur Cyllarus, & heartbroken, she committed suicide to join him in death |
| IANTHE | Cretan young woman who was engaged to Iphis (i.e., the Cretan who was transformed by Isis into a male so they could marry) |
| ICARUS | Son of Daedalus; trying to escape Crete, he flew too close to the sun on wax & feather wings; the wax melted, he fell to his death in the sea |
| IDMON | Father of Arachne |
| ILIA | Daughter of Numitor, descendant of Aeneas; mother (by Mars) of Romulus & Remus, the founders of Rome; alternative name is Rhea Silvia |
| INACHUS | River deity in Argolis, father of Io |
| INO | Daughter of Cadmus & Harmonia; foster-mother to Bacchus (Dionysus), persecuted by Juno; deified as Leucothea |
| IO | Nymph, daughter of Inachus; raped by Jupiter; in jealousy, Juno transformed Io into a cow |
| IPHIGENIA | Daughter of Agamemnon & Clytemnestra; sacrificed by father for favorable winds for the ships at the start of the Trojan War |
| IPHIS (Cretan, Book 9) | Daughter of Telethusa & Ligdus; raised as male, fell in love with the young woman, Ianthe; prayed to Isis & was transformed into a man |
| IPHIS (Cyprian, Book 14) | Young man in Cyprus, rejected by Anaxarete whom he loved, he committed suicide |
| IRIS | Goddess of the rainbow, daughter of Thaumas; the messenger of Juno |
| ISIS | Egyptian goddess recognized by the Greeks & Romans; in Ovid, identified with the re-transformed Io |
| ITYS | Son of Procne & Tereus; fed to Tereus by his mother in revenge for Tereus' raping her sister, Philomela, & for cutting out her tongue |
| IXION | Father of Pirithous, king of Lapiths in Thessaly; at a banquet of Olympian, tried to rape his hostess, Juno; bound in Tartarus to an ever-spinning wheel of fire |
| JASON | Son of King Aeson of Iolcus, Thessaly; sent to Colchis for the golden fleece by his uncle Pelias, who usurped the throne; travelled with the Argonauts on the Argo |
| JUNO | Sister & wife of Jupiter (Gk. equivalent, Hera) |
| JUPITER | King of the gods; god of sky & thunder (Gk. equivalent, Zeus) |
| LAOMEDON | Father of Priam; King of Troy; breaks agreement with Apollo & Neptune after they built walls around Troy |
| LATONA | Daughter of Titans Coeus & Phoebe; mother of Apollo & Diana, whom she gave birth to in Delos (Gk. equivalent, Leto) |
| LATREUS | Centaur who killed Halesus but was shortly after killed by Caeneus |
| LETHAEA | Wife of Olenus; boasted she was more beautiful than any god, was turned to stone; her husband chose to share her fate |
| LEUCOTHEA | Name of the deified form of Ino, who was transformed into a sea goddess |
| LICHAS | Deïanira's servant who brought Hercules the poisoned Shirt of Nessus |
| LYACAON | King of Arcadia; killed, cooked, & served his son, Nyctimus, to Jupiter; Jupiter transformed Lycaon into a wolf & restored Nyctimus to life |
| MACAREUS (1, Book 12) | One of the Lapiths at the wedding of Pirithous & Hippodamia; killed the Centaur Erigdupus |
| MACAREUS (2, Book 14) | Son of Neritus, from Nericus; one of Ulysses' men; encountered Aeneas; was turned into a pig by Circe |
| MARS | God of war (Gk. equivalent, Ares) |
| MEDEA | Daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis; helped Jason with the tasks her father set him; married Jason; when he divorced her, she went insane, killed her sons, & married Aegeus |
| MEDUSA | Most famous Gorgon; a monster that turned people to stone if they beheld her; killed by Perseus; from her blood sprang Pegasus, the winged horse |
| MELEAGER | Foster son of King Oeneus of Calydon, son of Althaea by Mars; host of the Calydonian boar hunt; life force connected to a piece of wood |
| MEMNON | Son of Aurora & Tithonus, king of Ethiopia, allied with Troy; refused to fight Nestor, killed by Achilles |
| MERCURY | God of commerce, thieves, travelers, trickery, etc.; messenger of the gods, especially of Jupiter; son of the Pleiade Maia & Jupiter (Gk. equivalent, Hermes) |
| MIDAS | King of Phrygia; received gift of golden touch from Bacchus; later given donkey’s ears after (mis)judging a music contest |
| MINERVA | Virgin goddess of the war, art, wisdom, & science, daughter of Jupiter, protector of Athens (Gk. equivalent, Athena) |
| MINOS | Son of Jupiter & Europa, king of Crete, husband of Pasiphaë, father of Ariadne; after death, a judge of the dead in the underworld |
| MINOTAUR | A cannibalistic monster, half bull & half man; the issue of Queen Pasiphaë's affair with a bull; killed by Theseus in the Labyrinth |
| MOPHEUS | God of dreams |
| MYRRHA | Granddaughter of Pygmalion, daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus, mother of Adonis by Cinyras; tricked into incest, she fled; was later turned into a myrrh tree |
| MYSCELUS | Son of Alemon & founder of Crotona after a vision from the spirit of Hercules & trial by the citizens of his home city |
| NARCISSUS | Son of Liriope; fell in love with his own reflection, wasted away until death; changed into a flower of the same name |
| NEPTUNE | God of the sea and waters, brother of Jupiter (Gk. equivalent, Poseidon) |
| NESSUS | Famous centaur; mortally wounded by Hercules; deceives Hercules' wife, Deïanira, into using his tainted blood to kill Hercules |
| NESTOR | Son of Neleus & king of Pylos; elderly warrior who offers advice during Trojan War & the odyssey afterwards |
| NIOBE | Daughter of Tantalus, wife of Amphion of Thebes; boasted she had more children than Latona/Leto; Diana & Apollo killed all her children; she wept until she was turned to stone |
| NUMA | King of Rome after Romulus |
| NYCTIMENE | A woman from Lesbos transformed by Minerva into an owl after she had was raped by her father |
| OCYRHOË | Daughter of Chiron & Chariclo; possessed the gift of prophecy & told Chiron his fate; transformed into a mare |
| OLENUS (1, Book Book 12) | Father of Tectaphus, the Lapith; his son fought the centaurs |
| OLENUS (2, Book 10) | Husband to Lethaea, who claimed to be more beautiful than any goddess; he chose to be turned to stone with his wife |
| OPS | Sister & wife of Saturn; by him, the mother of Jupiter & the Olympian gods (Gk. equivalent, Rhea) |
| ORITHYIA | Daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens’ carried off by Boreas, the North Wind |
| ORPHEUS | Son of Apollo & the Muse Calliope; legendary musician, poet, and prophet; went to Underworld to try & retrieve wife, Eurydice |
| PAN | Rustic God of shepherds & the forest; with a goat's beard, horns, & legs |
| PAPHOS | The daughter of Pygmalion & Galatea, mother of Cinyras, & grandmother of Myrrha & Adonis |
| PARIS | Son of Hecuba & Priam of Troy; seduced & abducted Helen of Sparta (later Helen of Troy) with Venus' help |
| PEGASUS | Winged horse, born from the blood of Medusa; its clops made the spring Hippocrene by Helicon well up |
| PELEUS | Son of Aeacus, brother of Telamon, half-brother of Phocus, & father of Achilles |
| PELIAS | Brother of Aeson, from whom he usurped the throne of Iolcus; sent Aeson's son, Jason, to get the golden fleece |
| PENTHEUS | Son of Echion, king of Thebes; rejects & arrests Bacchus; torn apart by Maenads |
| PERDIX | Nephew of Daedalus; master craftsman, invented saw & compass; slain by a jealous]ous Daedalus |
| PERSEUS | Son of Danaë & Jupiter; ordered to slay the gorgon Medusa; used invisibility hat, winged sandals, & a sword from Mercury & was helped by Minerva |
| PHAEDRA | Daughter of Pasiphaë & Minos; fell in love with her stepson, Hippolytus; ended her own life |
| PHAETON | Son of Sol &d Clymene; disastrously drove the chariot of the Sun |
| PHILEMON | Husband of Baucis; offered hospitality to Jupiter & Mercury; transformed into an oak tree |
| PHILOMELA | Daughter of Pandion, sister of Procne; raped by Tereus, had tongue cut out; communicated her assault through a tapestry; transformed into a bird |
| PHINEAS (1, Book 5) | Brother of Cepheus, betrothed to Andromeda before Perseus; turned to stone by Perseus with Gorgon head |
| PHINEAS (2, Book 7) | Blind king & seer of Salmydessus, Thrace; plagued by Harpies who steal/ taint his food; saved by Zetes &Calais |
| PHOCUS | Son of Aeacus & nymph Psamanthe; received Cephalos kindly; was murdered by his half-brothers Peleus & Telamon |
| PICUS | Son of Saturn, King of Laurentum near Rome; transformed into a woodpecker by Circe |
| PIRITHOUS | Son of Ixion, friend of Theseus, & king of the Lapiths; doomed to the Chair of Forgetfulness in the Underworld |
| POLYDETES | King of Seriphus, he ordered Perseus to kill the gorgon Medusa to get him away from his mother, Danaë, whom Polydectes wanted |
| POYYDORUS | Son of Queen Hecuba & King Priam of Troy, murdered by Polymestor during the period of the Trojan War |
| POLYMESTOR | King of Thrace; murders Polydorus, Priam’s & Hecuba’s son, to steal the gold entrusted to him |
| POLYPHEMUS | Cyclopes, son of Neptune; involved in a love triangle with Galatea & Acis |
| PLOYXENA | Daughter of Queen Hecuba & King Priam of Troy, killed at the tomb of Achilles |
| POMONA | Italic nymph, Roman goddess of fruitful abundance & plenty |
| PRIAM | Son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba; father of Hector, Paris, Cassandra, Creusa, Polyxena; last king of Troy |
| PROCNE | Pandion’s daughter, Tereus’ wife, Philomela’s sister, Itys’ mother; feeds Itys to Tereus after he has raped Philomela & cut out her tongue; transformed into a bird |
| PROCRIS | Daughter of Erechteus of Athens; accidentally by her husband, Cephalus, with a hunting spear which never misses because he mistook her for a boar |
| PROSERPINA | Daughter of Ceres & Jupiter; kidnapped by Pluto, spends half the year with Ceres on earth, half with Pluto in the Underworld (Gk. equivalent, Persephone) |
| PYGMALION | Sculptor from Cyptrus, father of Paphos; sculpts a beautiful woman out of ivory, falls in love the statue, & prays to Venus to bring it to life |
| PYRAMUS | Young man from Babylon & Thisbe’s forbidden love; they meet through a wall, die tragically, & give the mulberry its color |
| PYRENEUS | King of Thrace, a tyrant who tries to trap the Muses; dies after leaping from a tower |
| PYRRHA | Daughter of Epimetheus (the brother of Prometheus) & wife of her cousin Deucalion |
| PYTHAGORUS | Ionian philosopher & mathematician from Samos; taught about the changeability of all things, vegetarianism, & the Phoenix |
| QUIRINUS | The name of the deified form of Romulus |
| ROMULUS | The founder of Rome, son of Ilia & Mars; took the name Quirinus upon his deification |
| SATURNUS | Roman god of time, generation, abundance, & wealth; brother & husband of Ops, father of Jupiter & his siblings (Gk. equivalent, Cronus) |
| SCYLLA (sea bird) | Daughter of King Nisus of Megara; loved Minos & betrayed her city to him; transformed into a sea bird pursued by her father who was transformed into a sea eagle |
| SCYLLA (sea monster) | Transformed by Circe into a terrifying sea monster by the Strait of Messina with fierce dogs below her waist, snapping at sailors passing by |
| SEMELE | Daughter of Cadmus & Harmonia, mother of Bacchus by Jupiter; killed by the seeing the full splendour of Jupiter |
| SIBYL | Prophetess in Cumae |
| SILENUS | Companion of Dionysus, offered hospitality by Midas |
| SOL | Roman god of the Sun, the son of Hyperion; trusted his chariot to Phaethon; witnessed adultery of Venus & Mars (& informed Vulcan) |
| SYRINX | Arcadian nymph transformed into hollow water reeds to hide from the amorous Pan |
| TELAMON | Son of Aecus, brother of Peleus, half-brother of Phocus, an Argonaut, & father of Ajax |
| TEREUS | Son of Mars, father of Itys, husband of Procne, & king of Thrace; raped Philomela, cut out her tongue; later, was turned into a bird |
| THEMIS | Goddess of law, justice, & prophecy; a Titan daughter of Uranus (the sky) & Gaia (the earth); associated with oroacles |
| THESEUS | Son of Aethra & Aegeus, famous for killing the Minotaur & other exploits |
| THETIS | Nymph, daughter of Nereus, & mother of Achilles |
| THISBE | Pyramus' forbidden love; they meet through a wall, die tragically, & give the mulberry its color |
| TIRESIAS | Blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance; was transformed into a woman for seven years |
| TISIPHONE | One of the Erinyes, along with Alecto & Megaera |
| TRITON | Sea god, son of Neptune |
| ULYSSES | King of Ithaca, son of Laërtes & Anticlea (Gk. equivalent, Odysseus) |
| URANIA | The muse of astronomy |
| VENUS | Goddess of love (Gk. equivalent, Aphrodite) |
| VERTUMNUS | Roman god of seasons, change, plant growth, gardens, & fruit trees; seduces Pomona |
| VESTA | Goddess of hearth, home, & family; her sacred is connected to the safety of Rome (Gk. equivalent, Hestia) |
| VIRIBIUS | Name of the deified form of Hippolytus |
| VULCAN | God of forging & fire, son of Jupiter & Juno, husband of Venus (Gk. equivalent, Hephaestus) |
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