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Index of Important Characters

CharacterAppearances
AchillesHomer: Iliad; Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses
AegeusEuripides: Medea; Ovid: Metamorphoses
AegisthusHomer: The Odyssey; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy, The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon
AeneasVergil: The Aeneid; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses
AgamemnonHomer: The Iliad; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Ajax; Euripides: Hecuba, Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon, Troades, Thyestes
AjaxHomer: The Iliad; Sophocles: Ajax
AlcestisEuripides: Alcestis
AmphitryonEuripides: Heracles; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens
AndromacheHomer: The Iliad; Euripides: Andromache, The Trojan Women; Seneca the Younger: Troades
AntigoneAeschylus: Seven Against Thebes; Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae
AtreusSeneca the Younger: Thyestes
Bacchus (also known as Dionysus)Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Bacchae; Aristophanes: The Frogs
BeowulfAnonymous: Beowulf
CassandraAeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy; Euripides: The Trojan Women; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon
CirceHomer: The Odyssey; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica
ClytemnestraHomer: The Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy, The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon
Creon of CorinthEuripides: Medea; Seneca the Younger: Medea
Creon of ThebesSophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Oedipus
DanausAeschylus: The Suppliants
DeianeiraSophocles: The Trachiniae; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses
DemophonEuripides: Heracleidae
DidoVergil: The Aeneid; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses
Dionysus (also known as Bacchus)Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Bacchae; Aristophanes: The Frogs
ElectraAeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra, Orestes; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon
EnkiduAnonymous: Gilgamesh
Erinyes (Furies)Hesiod: Theogony; Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy, The Eumenides, Oresteia Trilogy; Euripides: Orestes
EteoclesAeschylus: Seven Against Thebes; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae
GilgameshAnonymous: Gilgamesh
GlauceEuripides: Medea; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Medea
GrendelAnonymous: Beowulf
HectorHomer: The Iliad
HecubaEuripides: Hecuba, The Trojan Women; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Troades
HelenHomer: The Iliad, The Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Trojan Women, Helen; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses
Heracles/HerculesHesiod: Theogony; Sophocles: The Trachiniae, Philoctetes; Euripides: Alcestis, Heracleidae, Heracles; Aristophanes: The Birds, The Frogs; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens
HermioneEuripides: Andromache, Orestes; Ovid: Heroides
HippolytusEuripides: Hippolytus; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Phaedra
IonEuripides: Ion
IphigeniaEuripides: Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris
IsmeneSophocles: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
JasonEuripides: Medea; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Medea
JocastaSophocles: Oedipus the King; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Oedipus, Phoenissae
MedeaEuripides: Medea; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Medea
MegaraEuripides: Heracles; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens
MenelausHomer: The Iliad, The Odyssey; Sophocles: Ajax; Euripides: Andromache, The Trojan Women, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Thyestes
NeoptolemusSophocles: Philoctetes; Euripides: Andromache
Odysseus/UlyssesHomer: The Iliad, The Odyssey; Sophocles: Ajax, Philoctetes; Euripides: Hecuba, Cyclops; Vergil: The Aeneid; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Troades
OedipusSophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae, Oedipus
OrestesAeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy, The Eumenides, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Andromache, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon
ParisHomer: The Iliad; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses
PeleusEuripides: Andromache; Ovid: Metamorphoses
PenelopeHomer: The Odyssey; Ovid: Heroides
PerseusHesiod: Theogony; Ovid: Metamorphoses
PhaedraEuripides: Hippolytus; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Phaedra
PhiloctetesSophocles: Philoctetes
PolymestorEuripides: Hecuba; Ovid: Metamorphoses
PolynicesAeschylus: Seven Against Thebes; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae
PolyphemusHomer: The Odyssey; Euripides: Cyclops
PolyxenaEuripides: Hecuba; Ovid: Metamorphoses
PriamHomer: The Iliad; Ovid: Metamorphoses
PrometheusHesiod: Works and Days, Theogony; Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Aristophanes: The Birds
PyladesAeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes
SemeleHesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Bacchae
TelemachusHomer: The Odyssey
TheseusHesiod: Theogony; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: Hippolytus, The Suppliants, Heracles; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens, Phaedra
ThyestesSeneca the Younger: Thyestes
TiresiasHomer: The Odyssey; Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Oedipus
XerxesAeschylus: The Persians
Timeless Myths

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