Helen / Phoenician Women / Orestes
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Antigone
In Greek mythology, Antigone is a Theban princess, and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She is the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes. Her mother is Jocasta. In another variation of the myth, her mother is Euryganeia. She is a sister of Po...
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Oedipus
Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family.The story of Oedipus is the subje...
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Eteokles (son Of Oedipus)
In Greek mythology, Eteocles was a king of Thebes, the son of Oedipus and Euryganeia. Oedipus killed his father Laius and married his mother. Eteocles was succeeded by his uncle, Creon....
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Menelaus
In Greek mythology, Menelaus (Ancient Greek: Μενέλαος, Menelaos) was a king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War. He was the son of Atreus and Aerope, brother of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and, accordin...
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Orestes
In Greek mythology, Orestes (Greek: Ὀρέστης) was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. When his father returned from the Trojan War, he was murdered by Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. Orestes went into exile and swore to get revenge. After he reac...
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Pylades
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Electra
In Greek mythology, Electra (Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) was an Argive princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of t...
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Castor
In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux or Polydeuces were twin brothers, together known as the Dioscuri. Their mother was Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, who seduced or rape...
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Polynices (son Of Oedipus)
In Greek mythology, Polynices was the son of Oedipus and Jocasta. His wife was Argea....
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Tiresias
In Greek mythology, Tiresias (/taɪˈriːsiəs/; Greek: Τειρεσίας, Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo...
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Creon
Creon is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus. He had four sons and three daughters with his wife, Eurydice (sometimes known as Henioche). Creon and his sister, Jocasta, were descendants of Cadmus and of t...
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Apollo (greek God)
The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste ...
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Theoclymenus (king Of Egypt)
King of Egypt in Euripides play Helen...
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Jocasta (greek Mythology)
In Greek mythology, Jocasta was a daughter of Menoeceus, a descendant of the Spartoi, and Queen consort of Thebes. She was the wife of first Laius, then of their son Oedipus, and both mother and grandmother of Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene. She...
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Menoeceus (son Of Creon)
In Greek mythology, Menoeceus was the son of Creon king of Thebes, named after his grandfather...
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Hermione (daughter Of Menelaus)
In Greek mythology, Hermione was the only child of King Menelaus of Sparta and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione was betrothed to Orestes by Tyndareus, her grandfather. However, during the Trojan War, Menelaus promised her to Neop...
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Helen Of Troy
In Greek mythology, Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Leda and sister of Castor, Pollux, and Clytemnestra. She was wed to king Menelaus of Sparta, but later kidnapped by Trojan Paris, thus sparking the Trojan War, earning her the metonymous epithet "The f...
