The Sky-Father, who took many of his monstrous children and shut them up in dark places under the earth.
Who is Uranus?
100
The supreme deity of the ancient Greeks, raised by a she-goat, who wielded a thunderbolt as a weapon.
Who is Zeus?
100
A pious man who escaped Zeus's wrathful flood with the help of Prometheus.
Who is Deucalion?
100
A musician who lost his young bride to a snake bite, follows her to the underworld and wins her return, only to look back and lose her again.
Who is Orpheus?
100
The prince of Troy who is prophesied to be his country's downfall. A known thief and a bad guest to Menelaus.
Who is Paris?
200
The Earth-Mother, who bore giants, cyclopes, and the hundred handed.
Who is Gaia?
200
The queen of the Greek gods, the patron of marriage, and overall a very jealous woman.
Who is Hera?
200
The daughter of the harvest goddess and the initially unwilling queen of the underworld. Her residence in the underworld is the reason the seasons exist.
Who is Persephone?
200
The son of Zeus and a mortal woman who, in a fit of madness, kills his family. He redeems himself by doing twelve labors.
Who is Heracles?
200
A Trojan prince who escaped Troy's destruction, sailed to Carthage where he broke the queen's heart, and found his way to Italy.
Who is Aeneas?
300
The youngest of the Titans, who maimed his father and took his place as ruler over the whole world.
Who is Cronus?
300
A Titan who saw the secrets of time, assisted the Olympians against the Titans, and brought sacred fire to humans to make up for their other shortcomings.
Who is Prometheus?
300
Zeus's brother, the dark ruler of the underworld, who abducts the woman he wants to marry.
Who is Hades?
300
The son of the king of Thebes who was fated to kill his father and marry his mother.
Who is Oedipus?
300
A hero of the Trojan war who took an extra ten years to find his way home. He finds that his home has been overrun by suitors seeking his wife's hand in marriage. He kills them all.
Who is Odysseus?
400
The last children of Uranus, who were larger than mortal men and endowed with beauty and majesty.
Who are the Titans?
400
Created the animals with many gifts and left nothing for humans.
Who is Epimetheus?
400
A beautiful young man who falls in love with his own reflection in a pool and withered away staring at it.
Who is Narcissus?
400
Dipped at childbirth in the river Styx, this hero of the Trojan war had only one physical vulnerability.
Who is Achilles?
400
A nymph that promises Odysseus eternal youth if he would only stay with her.
Who is Calypso?
500
The children of Cronus and Rhea, who were swallowed by their father so that they wouldn't overthrow him as prophesied.
Who are the Olympians?
500
Formed by Hephaestus to be irresistibly beautiful, this woman opened a box she wasn't supposed to open and unleashed the sorrows of mankind.
Who is Pandora?
500
A nymph who once angered Hera by talking too much and was cursed to repeat the last words of others.
Who is Echo?
500
The loveliest of mortal women and wife to Menelaus. She was carried away to Troy, an event that precipitated the Trojan war.
Who is Helen?
500
A Titan who is punished by Zeus after the War in Heaven to stand at the western edge of the world and bear the weight of the sky on his shoulders.