Creon king of Thebes, successor to Oedipus.
Oedipus Abandoned at birth and raised by the king of Corinth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
Leda a queen of Sparta and the mother, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Helen and Pollux.
Crete an island in the Mediterranean off the southeastern coast of Greece.
Achilles famed warrior, hero of Homer's Iliad.
Tantalus a king punished in Hades by having to stand in water that recedes when he bends to drink it and beneath fruit that ascends when he reaches to eat it.
Sisyphus a cruel king condemned in Hades to the eternal, frustrating effort of rolling a huge stone uphill, only to have it always roll down again.
