Odysseus, the Homeric hero of Troy and the eponymous hero of the
Odyssey
Achilles, the hero of the Iliad
Neoptolemus, Achilles's warrior son
Elpenor
Tiresias, Anticleia, Agamemnon, Ajax
Circe, a sorceress in the Odyssey
Styx, Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon: rivers in Hades
Lethe, a plain in Hades (Roman: the river of forgetfulness)
Elysium, Elysian Fields
Menelaus, the husband of Helen of Troy
Aidoneus, another name for Hades (Pluto)
Persephone
Orpheus, a musician, the inspiration for Orphism
Eurydice
Cerberus, the hound of hell
Charon, the ferryman of Hades
Furies
Eurynomos
Minos, Rhadymanthus, the Aeacus: judges in Hades
Hypnos, the god of sleep
Thanatos, the personification of death
Morpheus, the god of dreams
Tartarus
Tityus, punished in Tartarus by vultures feeding on his liver
Tantalus, punished in Tartarus by eternal hunger and thirst
Sisyphus, punished in Tartarus by being made to repeatedly roll a
rock uphill
Ixion, punished in Tartarus by being bound to a rolling wheel of
fire
Lapiths
centaurs
Heracles
Coronis
Asclepius
Epidaurus - Kos
psyche - soul
polyxenos
Homer (ninth century B.C.)
Virgil, Roman poet (70-19 B.C.)