| Achelous | river in Boeotia and its river-god |
| Acheron | river in the underworld and its river-god |
| Achilles | hero of the Trojan wars, son of Peleus and Thetis |
| Acoetes | Lydian sailor, devotee of Bacchus |
| Actaeon | son of Aristeus and Autone, grandson of Cadmus |
| Adonis | son of Cinyrus, king of Cyprus; loved by Venus |
| Aeacus | king of Aegina; son of Jove by Europa, father of Peleus and Telamon |
| Aegeon | hundred-handed sea-god |
| Aegina | island in the Aegean Sea |
| Aeolus | god of the winds |
| Aetolia | mountainous region in west central Greece |
| Agave | daughter of Cadmus, mother of Pentheus |
| Alcmene | wife of Amphitryon, mother of Hercules |
| Alpheus | Greek river in the Peloponnese and its river-god |
| Amazons | race of warrior women in Thrace |
| Amphion | king of Thebes, son of Jove and Antiope |
| Anapis | river in Sicily and its river-god |
| Antaeus | African giant, son of Poseidon and Gaia, killed by Hercules |
| Antigone | daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy |
| Antiope | wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, and mother of Amphion |
| Apollo | the sun-god, son of Jove and Latina |
| Arcadia | mountainous province in the Peloponnese |
| Arcas | hero of Arcadia, son of Jove and Callisto |
| Arethusa | fountain near Syracuse in Sicily |
| Ascalaphus | son of Acheron and Orphne |
| Asopus | river in Boeotia and its river-god |
| Astraea | goddess of justice, daughter of Jove and Themis |
| Atalanta | daughter of Schoeneus, king of Boeotia |
| Athos | mountain in Macedonia |
| Atlas | king of Mauretania |
| Augustus | Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor |
| Auster | south wind |
| Autone | daughter of Cadmus, aunt of Pentheus |
| Avernus | lake in Italy, entrance to the underworld |
| Autolychus | son of Mercury and Chione, grandfather of Ulysses |
| Bacchus | god of wine |
| Boeotia | region of Greece, northwest of Athens |
| Boreas | north wind; son of the river-god Strymon |
| Busiris | king of Egypt, killed by Hercules |
| Cadmus | brother of Europa and son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia |
| Callisto | nymph loved by Jove |
| Calydon | town in Aetolia in west central Greece |
| Cayster | river in Lydia in Asia Minor |
| Cenaeum | northwest tip of the island of Euboea |
| Centaurs | race of creatures half man, half horse, in Thessaly in east central Greece |
| Cephisus | river in Phocis in central Greece and its river-god |
| Cerastae | race of horned people in Cyprus |
| Cerberus | watchdog of the underworld |
| Ceres | goddess of agriculture, sister of Jove |
| Chiron | a centaur, son of Saturn |
| Cinyras | king in Assyria and Cyprus, father of Adonis |
| Cithaeron | mountain between Attica and Boeotia |
| Clymene | wife of Merops, mother of Phaethon |
| Cupid | god of love, son of Venus |
| Cyane | fountain near Syracuse in Sicily and the nymph changed into it |
| Cybele | goddess worshipped as Mother of the Gods |
| Cyclades | islands in the Aegean Sea |
| Cyclops | race of one-eyed giant shepherds in Sicily |
| Cygnus | son of Neptune and Calyce |
| Cyllene | mountain in Arcadia |
| Cynthus | mountain on the island of Delos |
| Danae | daughter of Acrisius, mother (by Jove) of Perseus |
| Dejanira | daughter of Oeneus, king of Calydonia, and wife of Hercules |
| Delos | island in the Aegean Sea, birthplace of Apollo and Diana |
| Dia | island of Naxos |
| Diana | goddess of the hunt, the moon, virginity; sister of Apollo |
| Dindymus | mountain in Phrygia in Asia Minor |
| Diomed | son of Tydeus, king of Aetolia |
| Echo | wood nymph in love with Narcissus |
| Elis | district and town in Greece, named after a son of Poseidon |
| Enna | city in Sicily |
| Epidaurus | city in Argolis in the northeast Peloponnese |
| Eridanus | river sometimes associated with the Po or the Rhône |
| Erigone | daughter of Icarius of Sparta |
| Erisychthion | son of Triopas, king of Thessaly |
| Erymanthus | stream in Arcadia |
| Eryx | mountain in Sicily |
| Euboea | island in the Aegean Sea |
| Europa | daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor |
| Eurotas | river in Laconia in the southeastern Peloponnese |
| Eurus | east wind |
| Eurystheus | king of Argos who commanded the labours of Hercules |
| Galanthis | servant of Alcmene |
| Hector | son of Priam of Troy and Hecuba |
| Haemus | mountain range in Thrace |
| Hercules | son of Jove and Alcmene |
| Hermaphroditus | son of Mercury and Venus |
| Hippomenes | son of Megareus and husband of Atalanta |
| Hyades | group of stars associated with the season of spring rain |
| Hydra | water-snake with seven heads, killed by Hercules |
| Hyllus | son of Hercules by Dejanira |
| Hymen | god of marriage |
| Hypaepa | town in Lydia in Asia Minor |
| Icarus | son of Oebalus, king of Sparta |
| Ida | mountain in Crete |
| Ino | daughter of Cadmus |
| Itys | son of Tereus and Procne |
| Jove | Jupiter, highest of the gods, son of Saturn and Rhea |
| Juno | wife and sister of Jove |
| Lampetie | one of the Heliades, daughters of Helius (the sun) |
| Laomedon | king of Troy, father of Priam |
| Leda | wife of the Spartan king Tyndarus, mother (by Jove) of Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux |
| Lerna | forest and marsh near Argos in the northeastern Peloponnese |
| Leto | mother of Apollo and Diana by Jove |
| Lichas | attendant of Hercules |
| Lucina | goddess of childbirth |
| Lycaon | king of Arcadia |
| Lycaeus | mountain in Arcadia |
| Lydia | region on the coast of west Asia Minor |
| Lycormas | river in Aetolia in west central Greece |
| Lyrnessus | town near Troy |
| Macareus | companion of Ulysses |
| Maenalus | mountain in Arcadia |
| Manto | prophetess, daughter of Tiresias |
| Mars | god of war, son of Jupiter and Juno |
| Meander | river in Lydia |
| Medusa | snake-haired daughter of Phorcus who turned beholders to stone |
| Megareus | son of Neptune, husband of Atalanta |
| Melantho | sea nymph, daughter of Neptune |
| Melas | river in Thrace |
| Meleager | son of Oeneus, king of Calydonia |
| Merops | king of Ethiopia, husband of Clymene |
| Midas | king of Phrygia who could change all he touched to gold |
| Mimas | mountain range in Ionia |
| Minerva | goddess of arts and sciences, daughter of Jove |
| Mnemosyne | mother of the muses |
| Molossos | king whose sons were changed into birds |
| Mygdonia | region of Lydia |
| Myrrha | daughter of Cinyras, changed into a myrrh tree |
| Mysia | country in Asia Minor |
| Narcissus | son of the river-god Cephisus |
| Naxos | island in the Aegean Sea associated with the cult of Bacchus |
| Nemea | city in Argolis in the northeastern Peloponnese |
| Neptune | god of the sea, brother of Jove |
| Nereids | sea-deities, granddaughters of Oceanus |
| Nessus | centaur killed by Hercules |
| Niobe | daughter of Tantalus, wife of Amphion, king of Thebes |
| Ninus | founder of Nineveh, inventor of the art of war |
| Oechalia | city on the Aegean island of Euboea |
| Oeta | mountain in Thessaly |
| Olympus | dwelling-place of the gods, a mountain between Macedonia and Thessaly |
| Orchomenos | city in Arcadia |
| Orontes | river in Syria |
| Orphne | ‘darkness’, a nymph of the underworld |
| Ortygia | island of Delos |
| Ossa | mountain in Thessaly |
| Othrys | mountain in Thessaly |
| Pachynnus | southeastern promontory of Sicily |
| Pactolus | river in Lydia whose sands were gold |
| Palici | sons of Jove and the nymph Aetna |
| Pallas | Minerva |
| Pan | goat-like Arcadian god of woods, music |
| Panchaia | fabulous island east of Arabia |
| Pandion | king of Athens, father of Procne and Philomela |
| Parnassus | mountain in Phocis in central Greece sacred to Apollo |
| Peleus | son of Aeacus, father of Achilles |
| Pelorus | northeastern promontory of Sicily |
| Peneus | river in Thessaly and its river-god |
| Pentheus | king of Thebes, grandson of Cadmus |
| Phaethon | son of Apollo and Clymene |
| Phaethusa | one of the Heliades, daughters of Helius, the sun |
| Phasis | river in Colchis on the Black Sea and its river-god |
| Philoctetes | son of Poeas, keeper of the the bow and arrow of Hercules, punished with lameness for revealing the place of Hercules’ death |
| Philomela | daughter of Pandion, sister of Procne |
| Phlegethon | fiery river of the underworld |
| Pindus | mountain in Thessaly |
| Pleiades | seven daughters of Atlas placed as stars in the sky |
| Pluto | king of the underworld, brother of Jove |
| Procne | daughter of Pandion, sister of Philomela |
| Prometheus | son of Iapetus, a Titan, one of the sons of earth and sky |
| Propoetides | Cyprian girls who denied the divinity of Venus and were turned to stone |
| Proserpina | goddess of the underworld, daughter of Jove and Ceres |
| Proteus | sea-god able to change his form |
| Psophis | city in Arcadia |
| Pygmalion | grandson of the Phoenician king Agenor, in love with a statue |
| Pygmies | race of dwarfs in Africa or India |
| Pyramus | Babylonian youth in love with Thisbe |
| Rhodope | mountain range in Thrace |
| Sabaea | town in Arabia |
| Salmacis | nymph in love with Hermaphroditus, and the spring she was changed into |
| Sardis | capital city of Lydia |
| Saturn | son of heaven and earth, father of Jove |
| Semele | daughter of Cadmus, mother of Bacchus |
| Scythia | region of southeastern Europe and Asia, north of the Black Sea |
| Sperchius | river in Thessaly |
| Stymphalus | district of Arcadia |
| Styx | river in the underworld |
| Tagus | river in Spain |
| Tanais | the river Don |
| Tantalus | son of Jove, father of Pelops and Niobe |
| Taurus | mountain in Cicilia in Asia Minor |
| Tereus | king of Thrace, husband of Procne |
| Tethys | daughter of heaven and earth, wife of Ocean |
| Thessaly | region of east central Greece, on the Aegean Sea |
| Thebes | chief city of Boeotia |
| Thetis | sea nymph, mother of Achilles |
| Thisbe | Babylonian girl loved by Pyramus |
| Thrace | country in the east Balkan peninsula |
| Tiresias | blind Theban prophet |
| Tmolus | mountain in Lydia |
| Troy | city in northwest Asia Minor |
| Typhoeus | giant struck by lightning |
| Venus | god of love, daughter of Jove and Dione |
| Vulcan | god of fire, son of Jove and Juno, husband of Venus |
| Xanthus | river near Troy |
| Zephyr | west wind |