ANCIENT GREEK HEROES

NAME DEPICTION DESCRIPTION FAMOUS MYTH PATRON DEITY ENEMY DEITY

THE GREATEST WARRIOR OF THE
APOLLO, WHO
TROJAN WAR, INVULNERABLE THETIS, A SEA
ACHILLES THE ILIAD SUPPORTED THE
EXCEPT FOR HIS HEEL, WHICH GODDESS
TROJANS
WAS HIS ONLY WEAKNESS.

THE KING OF ITHACA WHO

ATHENA, THE POSEIDON, THE
TAKES TEN YEARS TO RETURN
GODDESS OF GOD OF THE SEA
ODYSSEUS HOME AFTER THE TROJAN WAR, THE ODYSSEY
WISDOM AND WHO HATES
ENCOUNTERING VARIOUS
WAR ODYSSEUS
OBSTACLES ON THE WAY.
THE LEADER OF THE
AEETES, THE KING
ARGONAUTS, A GROUP OF HERA, THE
JASON AND THE OF COLCHIS WHO
JASON HEROES WHO SAILED ON THE QUEEN OF THE
ARGONAUTS GUARDED THE
ARGO TO FIND THE GOLDEN GODS
GOLDEN FLEECE
FLEECE.
A DEMIGOD AND HERO WHO HERA, WHO HATED
ZEUS, THE KING
PERFORMED TWELVE LABORS TO THE TWELVE HERACLES
OF THE GODS
HERACLES REDEEM HIMSELF FOR KILLING LABORS OF BECAUSE HE WAS
AND FATHER OF
HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN IN A FIT HERACLES BORN OF ZEUS'S
HERACLES
OF MADNESS. INFIDELITY

POSEIDON, WHO
A HERO AND KING OF ATHENS WAS THE FATHER
ATHENA, WHO
WHO SLAYS THE MINOTAUR AND THESEUS AND OF THE MINOTAUR
THESEUS AIDED THESEUS
PARTICIPATES IN VARIOUS THE MINOTAUR AND CAUSED
IN HIS QUESTS
OTHER ADVENTURES. THESEUS TROUBLE
ON HIS JOURNEYS
 ZEUS, WHO IS MEDUSA, THE
A HERO WHO SLAYS THE
PERSEUS'S MONSTROUS
GORGON MEDUSA AND USES HER PERSEUS AND
PERSEUS FATHER AND GORGON WHO
HEAD TO TURN ENEMIES TO MEDUSA
AIDS HIM IN HIS TURNS PEOPLE TO
STONE.
QUESTS STONE
APOLLO AND
A TROJAN PRINCE AND WARRIOR ACHILLES, WHO
ZEUS, WHO
HECTOR WHO FIGHTS FOR HIS CITY THE ILIAD KILLS HECTOR IN A
SUPPORT HECTOR
DURING THE TROJAN WAR. ONE-ON-ONE DUEL
IN BATTLE
ARTEMIS, WHO
DEMANDS THAT
THE KING OF MYCENAE AND
ZEUS, WHO AIDS AGAMEMNON
AGAMEMN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE THE ILIAD AND
AGAMEMNON IN SACRIFICE HIS
ON GREEKS DURING THE TROJAN THE ORESTEIA
BATTLE DAUGHTER
WAR.
IPHIGENIA IN THE
ORESTEIA