Absyrtus: Medea's brother, killed and dismembered by her
Bacchus: The Roman god of wine.
Centaurs: half man and half horse - Notorious is their bestial behavior on the wedding
of Pirithous, king of the Lapiths. They violated the female guests and attempted to abduct the bride.
Cytherea: Venus
Hecate: the goddess of hell and of sorcery
Hector: Hector was the mightiest warrior on the side of Troy during the Trojan War,
and he led many of the attacks against the Greek troops.
Hecuba: The daughter of Dymas, wife of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Paris and Hector.
After the fall of Troy, she was taken captive by the Achaeans and enslaved.
Herod: the king of Jewry, represented as a swaggering tyrant in old dramatic performances
Hesperides: The Hesperides are nymphs who live in a beautiful garden, situated
                              in the Arcadian Mountains (Greece) or, alternatively, at the western extreme
                              of the Mediterranean, near Mt. Atlas (hence they are sometimes considered daughters of Atlas).
                              In this garden grows the tree with the golden apples which Gaia had given as a present
                              to Hera on her wedding to Zeus. This garden is guarded by Ladon, a dragon with a
                              hundred heads. The only one who succeeded in obtaining some of the apples was Hercules,
                              who tricked Atlas to get them for him. Thus Hercules completed the eleventh of his Twelve Labors.
Hydra: the many-headed serpent killed by Hercules
Hyrcania: an ancient country on the Caspian Sea
Icarus: (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus, who, with wings made by his father,
flew too close to the sun and plunged to his death.
Jove: Jupiter, the supreme god of the Romans.
Lucrece: From Shakespeare's The Rape Of Lucrece, Lucrece draws on the story described in
both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BCE, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the
king of Rome, raped Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, one of the king's aristocratic retainers.
Lupercal: a Roman festival in honor of the god Pan
Medea: the celebrated sorceress of antiquity
Neptune: the god of the ocean and the seas
Nereides: Greco-Roman, were animistic spirits of the sea, considered feminine personalities.
They were assigned the guardianship of the oceans by the great gods and invoked by seafarers.
Also, they were attendants to Poseidon.
Nestor: oldest of the Greek heroes, excelled in wisdom, eloquence, and bravery
Niobe: She boasted that her six sons and six daughters made her superior to Latona, mother of
Apollo and Diana, for which she was punished by seeing them put to death by the arrows of these two
gods. While weeping, she was changed into a stone, but her tears continued to flow from the rock.
Queen Mab: the queen of the fairies
Phrygia: The name of a large region in Asia Minor. The Phrygians were Trojan allies.
Priam: The king of Troy.
Proteus: a water god who had the ability of assuming whatever shape he pleased
Pyramus and Thisbe: As told by the Ovid, This story is similar to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
                              It takes place in ancient Babylon, where these two children grew up in a one-room
                              house that was connected to the other. Over the years, they fell in love with each
                              other, but could only talk through a hole in their wall because their parents refused
                              them to see each other. Finally, Pyramus got fed up with his parents and so did Thisbe.
                              They decided to run off one night and elope. Pyramus gave Thisbe the location of the
                              place they would meet, and they agreed. Thisbe was the first to arrive at the first
                              Mulberry bush outside of the city, but as she was waiting, a lioness walked by with
                              her jaws covered in blood from a previous kill that day. Thisbe, frightened at her sight,
                              ran non-stop to the nearest cave. Soon after, Pyramus walked by and saw a cloak, his love
                              gift to her, covered in blood and torn to pieces with the footprints of the lioness left
                              behind. He immediately thought that his only love had been killed by a hungry lion, and
                              unsheathed his sword (her love gift to him), letting the cold, hard steel pierce his broken
                              heart. Thisbe, bringing courage to her heart, ran back and found her only love lying on the
                              ground next to the blood-covered Mulberry bush with his sword impaling his chest. She gasped
                              in horror as she asked the still breathing Pyramus what happened. Barely able to stay awake,
                              he told her what happened and she cried in sorrow. She took Pyramus' blood-stained sword and
                              asked him to wait for her while she brought the blade into her own soft flesh. Thus they died
                              together, in love and peace. This is why the berries on the Mulberry bush are red, instead of
                              their original white, in commemoration of the two young lovers and their great sacrifice.
Sinon: name of the Greek who persuaded the Trojans to carry the wooden horse into Troy
Tarquin: From Shakespeare's The Rape Of Lucrece, Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BCE, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome, raped Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, one of the king's aristocratic retainers.
Tereus: Philomel and Procne were the daughters of King Pandion of Athens. Procne was married
to King Tereus of Thrace (one of the sons of Ares), and had a son by him, Itys. Tereus conceived an illicit passion for Philomel. He contrived to get her sent to Thrace; he raped her, and then cut her tongue out and imprisoned her so that she could tell no one of his crime. However, Philomela wove a tapestry which revealed the facts of the matter to Procne. In order to get revenge, Procne killed Itys and cooked him, so that Tereus ate his own son for dinner. When Tereus discovered the ghastly trick, he pursued the two women, trying to kill them. Before the chase could end, all three were turned into birds--Tereus into a hoopoe, Procne into a swallow, and Philomel into a nightingale. (Hence the nightingale is often called a "Philomel" in poetry.)
Termagent: an imaginary Muslim God, represented as a violent character in old Miracle and Morality plays
Titan: In Greek mythology, the Titans are a race of godlike giants who were considered to be the
personifications of the forces of nature.
Ulysses: ancient Greek king of Ithaca, fought in Trojan war and famous for long, adventurous voyages
(renowned for his cleverness and guile)