Apollo
Hyperboreans, mythical tribe in extreme north
Boreas, ruler of the North and the North wind
Dionysus
Bacchus, another name for Dionysus (usually Roman)
Zeus
Semele, Dionysus's mother
Hera
Hermes
Ino, Semele's sister (Leucothea)
Athamas
Orchomenos, King Minyas
Nysa
Ampelus, Dionysus's first lover, the origin of wine grapes
Icarius, the first viniculturist
Cybele, eastern fertility goddess
King Lycurgus of Thrace and his son Dryas
Satyrs, half-human and half-goat, part of Dionysus's entourage
Silens / Silenus, humanoid creatures with horse tail and
hooves
Maenads, Bacchants or Bacchae, female followers of Dionysus
Tyrrhenian pirates
Midas
Phrygia
Ariadne
Naxos
Lemnos
Oedipus, king of Thebes
Jocasta, his wife and mother
Creon, ruler of Thebes after Oedipus
Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy
Achilles, Greek hero of the siege of Troy
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta (and sister of
Oedipus)
Orestes, son and slayer of Agamemnon
Pentheus, king of Thebes
Agave, his mother and Semele's sister
Cadmus, founder of Thebes; Agave's father
Tiresias, prophet of Apollo
kantharos
symposium/a
enthousiasmos
ekstasis
thyrsus
timbrel
dithyramb
choryphaeus
sparagmos - omophagia
Great (City) Dionysia
satyr play
Tragedy = "tragos" (goat) + "oide" (song)
catharsis
comedy = "komos" (parade of revelers) + "oide"
hubris
orchestra, skene, proskenion, parados, diazoma
Epidaurus visit the
site
Thespis, the first Greek tragic dramatist (about 534 B.C.)
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.)
Peisistratos
Exekias
bie
metis
Gilgamesh
Uruk
Enkidu
Aruru
Perseus
Herakles
Achilles
Odysseus
time
kleos
Andromeda
Amazons
Alcestis
Admetus
Ariadne
Atalanta
Agave
Medea
Clytemnestra
Cassandra
Iphigeneia
Antigone
Nausicaa, princess of Phaeacia
Penelope, wife of Odysseus
Iphigeneia
Psyche