GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Call to Adventure

Step 1 (first)

Supernatural Aid

Step 2

Threshold Guardians

Step 3

Threshold (Beginning of Transformation)

Step 4

Helper/Mentor

Step 5

Challenges and Temptations

Step 6

Helper pt. 2

Step 7

Abyss (Death and Rebirth)

Step 8

Transformation

Step 9

Atonement

Step 10

Return (Gift of the Goddess)

Step 11 (final)

Admeto’s wife, dies in his place

Alcestis

King of Thessaly, Alcestis dies in his place (Apollo befriended him)

Admeto

Heracles’s foster father

Amphitryon

Heracles’s first wife, daughter of Creon (former king of Thebes)

Megara

son of Zeus and Alcmena

Heracles

Heracles’s mother

Alcmena

tyrant (unlawful) king of Thebes

Lycus

the king of Greece who sent Heracles to complete his labors

Eurystheus

Heracles’s second wife

Deianeira

Heracles and Deianeira’s son

Hyllus

centaur, blood, love spell

Nessus

beautiful woman that Heracles captures because he loves her, later Hyllus’s wife

Iole

daughter of Creon, king of Corinth, and the woman Jason wants to remarry with

Glauce

king of Athens, offers Medea sanctuary, Medea’s second husband, father of Theseus

Aegeus

Theseus’s grandfather, king of Troezen

Pittheus

mother of Theseus, daughter of Pittheus

Aethra

son of Aegeus and Aethra, said to be the son of Poseidon

Theseus

Theseus Labor #1: kills people with club

Periphetes

Theseus Labor #2: bends pine trees and kills people with them

Isthmus

Theseus Labor #3: female robber and murderer

Crommyon sow/Phaea

Theseus Labor #4: would tell strangers to wash his feet and then kick them off cliff

Sciron

Theseus Labor #5: Theseus killed _____ while wrestling

Cercyon

Theseus Labor #6: would chop people up to fit into his beds

Procrustes

Perseus’s mother, impregnated by Zeus through golden shower

Danae

son of Theseus

Hippolytus

wife of Theseus who falls in love with her step-son Hippolytus

Phaidra

Heracles Labor #1

Nemean Lion

Heracles Labor #2

Hydra of Lerna

Heracles Labor #3

Capture Ceryneian deer (alive)

Heracles Labor #4

Erymanthean Boar

Heracles Labor #5

Clean stables of Augeas

Heracles Labor #6

The Stymphalian Birds

Heracles Labor #7

Capture a giant bull

Heracles Labor #8

Mares of Diomedes

Heracles Labor #9

Fetch garment from Amazon queen

Heracles Labor #10

Cattle of Geryon

Heracles Labor #11

Apples of Hesperides

Heracles Labor #12

Get Cerberus from the underworld