Admete daughter of Eurystheus
Aethiopes peoples from northern Africa
Alcmene Heracles’s mother
Amphitryon Heracles’s stepfather and husband to Alcmene
Amymone river in the Argolid
Aphrodite goddess of love
Apollo archer god, associated with music, song and healing
Ares god of war
Aretos father-in-law of Nesaia
Artemis moon goddess associated with childbirth, noted for her virginity and vengefulness
Artemisius (Mount) mountain in Attica, sacred to Artemis
Athena goddess of wisdom and warfare
Celadon river in Arcadia
Ceryneia region in the northern Peloponnese
Ceryneian Hind a white deer with golden antlers and bronze hooves, sacred to Artemis
Charis high priestess of Hera
Cleonae Mycenaean town
Copreus herald to King Eurystheus
Creon king of Thebes and father of Megara
Creontiades son of Heracles and Megara
Cyclops one-eyed giant
Deicoon youngest son of Heracles and Megara
Demeter goddess of agriculture
Echidna half-woman, half-snake, known as the ‘Mother of Monsters’
Electryon former king of Mycenae and Tiryns; grandfather of Heracles
Elatos priest at the oracle on Mount Parnassus
Eperitus friend of Odysseus
Erginus king of Orchomenus
Eurycleia Ithacan maid
Eurystheus king of Mycenae and Tiryns; cousin of Heracles
Gaea earth goddess
Hades god of the Underworld
Hephaistos god of fire; blacksmith to the gods of Olympus
Hera queen of the gods, married to Zeus
Heracles son of Zeus
Iolaus nephew and squire of Heracles
Iphicles twin brother of Heracles and adviser to King Eurystheus
Ithaca island in the Ionian Sea
Ladon river in Arcadia
Leontius Nemean farmer, killed by the Nemean Lion
Lernea swamp in the Argolid
Lernean Hydra many-headed serpent, offspring of Echidna and Typhon
Megara wife of Heracles and daughter of Creon
Molorchus Nemean farmer
Mycenae city in north-eastern Peloponnese
Myrine child, rescued by Heracles on Mount Parnassus
Ncippe mother of Eurystheus
Nemea region north of Mycenae
Nemean Lion monster, offspring of Echidna and Typhon
Nesaia widow, rescued by Heracles on Mount Parnassus
Nestor king of Pylos
Odysseus king of Ithaca
Omeros Ithacan bard
Orchomenus city in Boeotia, northern Greece
Parnassus (Mount) mountain in central Greece and home of the Pythian oracle
Penelope queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus
Perseus famed hero; father of Electryon and Sthenelus
Phaedra Theban housemaid
Polycaste wife of Telemachus and daughter of Nestor
Poseidon god of the sea
Pyrasos Tirynian soldier
Python giant serpent, guardian of the Pythian oracle
Pythoness high priestess of the Pythian oracle
Sthenelus brother of Electryon; father of Eurystheus
Telemachus son of Odysseus and Penelope
Thaleia daughter of Molorchus, kidnapped by the Nemean Lion
Thebes city in Boeotia, northern Greece
Therimachus eldest son of Heracles and Megara
Thrasios Tirynian soldier
Thespius king of Thespiae in Boeotia
Tiryns city in north-eastern Peloponnese
Tretus (Mount) mountain where the Nemean Lion had its lair
Troy chief city of Ilium
Tydeus commander of the Tirynian guard
Zeus the king of the gods