women warriors {Amazons} from Caucasus.
Perseus saved a daughter {Andromeda} of Cassiopeia from a sea serpent.
Oedipus' daughter {Antigone} buried her brother in defiance of Creon, and Creon put her to death.
Minos' daughter {Ariadne} gave a thread to Theseus, so that he could go in and out of the labyrinth.
Nymph {Calypso} loved Odysseus.
Agamemnon received as gift prophet {Cassandra} from Troy. Her fate was that no one believed her.
Witch {Circe} turned men into beasts. She did not get Odysseus but then helped him get to Hell.
Maiden {Daphne} loved by Apollo changed into laurel tree.
Founder {Dido} of Carthage loved Aeneas.
tree nymph {dryad}|.
Agamemnon's daughter and Orestes' sister {Electra}.
Zeus, in the guise of bull, carried off a woman {Europa}.
Wife {Eurydice} of Orpheus, who had gone to Hades to recover her, had to return to Hades because she looked back.
The three Graces {Graces}, Splendor, Mirth, and Good Cheer, represent grace and beauty.
Paris, Priam's son, carried off the wife of Agamemnon {Helen}, causing Trojan War.
Leander swam the Hellespont to her {Hero} every night, until he perished.
Priestess {Medea} of Golden Fleece in Colchis helped Jason get it and married him.
The nine daughters {Muses} of Zeus and Mnemosyne are: Erato {goddess, lyrics}, Euterpe {goddess, music}, Thalia {goddess, comedy}, Melpomene {goddess, tragedy}, Terpsichore {goddess, dance and choral song}, Urania {goddess, astronomy}, Clio {goddess, historical and heroic poetry}, Polyhymnia {goddess, hymn}, and Calliope {goddess, epic}. Calliope's son was Orpheus.
water nymph {naiad}|.
After the Golden Age, gods created the first woman {Pandora} from man. She opened a forbidden box, letting out all bad things, but she also let out Hope. Alternatively, she opened treasure box letting all good things escape, except that Hope remained.
wife of Odysseus {Penelope}.
Pluto carried a daughter {Persephone} of Demeter to Underworld, but she can return to Earth's surface every spring and so is maiden of Spring.
Theseus' wife {Phaedra} loved her stepson Hippolytus and killed herself.
Pluto carried a daughter {Proserpine} of Ceres to underworld.
Singers {siren}| lured sailors to their deaths on an island.
muse of dance {Terpsichore}.
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