This many-headed creature would grow back two heads each time one head was cut off. It is was successfully defeated by Hercules in his second labor.
What is the Hydra?
100
This musician loved his wife Eurydice so much that he was given permission by the gods to retrieve her from the Underworld.
Who is Orpheus?
100
This woman's abduction triggered the nine year Trojan war
Who is Helen?
100
Chased by Apollo who had fallen in love with her, this nymph was changed into a laurel tree.
Who is Daphne?
100
This character was punished by Zeus for supporting the Titans by having to hold up the western edge of the sky.
Who is Atlas?
200
The creature as which Zeus disguised himself when he was wooing Europa.
What is a bull?
200
The love affair between these two ended badly when the man left Carthage to continue on to Rome, and the abandoned woman angrily cast a spell, making Carthage and Rome everlasting enemies.
Who are Dido and Aeneas?
200
This man was the commander of the Greeks who attacked Troy.
Who is Agamemnon?
200
This huntress was uninterested in marriage and agreed to marry only if her suitors could outrun her in a footrace. Aphrodite gave Hippomenes three golden apples to slow the huntress down, so he could win the race and marry her.
Who is Atalanta?
200
This Titan who gave fire to mankind was punished by being chained to a rock where an eagle would eat out his liver every day.
Who is Prometheus?
300
Fire-breathing monster with the body of a goat, head of a lion and tail of a serpent.
What is the Chimera?
300
This love affair between these two ended badly when a storm blew out the light that the man used to guide him as he swam across the river each night to visit his beloved and he drowned.
Who are Hero and Leander?
300
The greatest warrior of Homer's "Iliad" and hero of the Trojan war, killed by Paris who shot him in the heel.
Who is Achilles?
300
This talented weaver challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts to a contest, and was turned into a spider.
Who is Arachne?
300
This character, who served up his son to the gods for dinner was punished by standing forever in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree, with the water and the fruit always just out of his reach.
Who is Tantalus?
400
This hero was given the task of plowing a field with fire-breathing oxen.
Who is Jason?
400
This elderly couple treated Jupiter and Mercury kindly when the gods were disguised as two old men. They were saved from a flood and were granted one wish which was to stay together until death and then die together.
Who are Baucis and Philemon?
400
Trojan prince and greatest warrior for Troy in the Trojan war, he was killed by Achilles.
Who is Hector?
400
This proud mother was punished for her arrogance by the death of her children and, weeping constantly, was turned to stone
Who is Niobe?
400
This king was punished for his deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, repeating this action for eternity.
Who is Sisyphus?
500
These creatures were man-eating and had to be frightened into the air by a rattle so that Hercules could shoot them with poisonous arrows during his sixth labor.
What are the Stymphalian birds?
500
The love affair between these two ended badly when their parents' enmity led them to meet in secret at a tomb and through a series of misunderstandings they each killed themselves.
Who are Pyramus and Thisbe?
500
King of Troy
Who is Priam?
500
This king gave hospitality to the drunken satyr Silenus and was granted his wish to be able to turn anything he touched into gold.
Who is Midas?
500
The punishment of the fifty daughters of Danaus who murdered their husbands (fifty brothers) on their wedding night.