Hier is 'n lys van sommige van die belangrike karakters wat in klassieke letterkunde voorkom (veral dié wat in verskeie verskillende werke verskyn) en die toneelstukke en gedigte waarin hulle verskyn.
Oor die algemeen het ek nie ingesluit nie. die gode (bv. Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Poseidon, ens.) wat in baie werke voorkom, gewoonlik in relatief klein rolle, behalwe waar hulle as hoofkarakters in 'n werk gebruik word (bv. Dionysus, Prometheus, ens.). Ek het ook nie die meer minderjarige karakters ingesluit nie. Die soekfasiliteit kan gebruik word om die voorkoms van ander karakters wat nie hier gelys is nie te beperk.
Jy kan ook jou muis oor die karakter se naam (die helderder groen skakels) beweeg om baie vinnige inligting oor daardie figuur te sien in mitologie.
| Akilles | Homerus: “Die Ilias” Euripides: “Iphigenia by Aulis” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Aegeus | Euripides: “Medea” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Sien ook: Sciron: The Ancient Greek Robber and a Warlord |
| Aegisthus | Homer: “The Odyssey” Aeschylus: “Agamemnon” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Aeschylus: “The Libation Bearers” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Sophocles: “Electra” Euripides: “Electra” Seneca the Younger: “Agamemnon” |
| Aeneas | Ovidius: “Die Aeneïs” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Agamemnon | Homer: “The Ilias” Aeschylus: “Agamemnon” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Sophocles: “Ajax” Euripides: “Hecuba” Euripides: “Iphigenia at Aulis” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Agamemnon” Seneca the Younger: “Troades” Seneca the Younger: “Thyestes” |
| Ajax | Homer: “The Ilias” Sophocles: “Ajax” |
| Alcestis | Euripides: “Alcestis” |
| Amphitryon | Euripides: “Heracles” Seneca the Younger: “Hercules Furens” |
| Andromache | Homer: “Die Ilias” Euripides: “Andromache” Euripides: “The Trojan Women” Seneca the Younger: “Troades” |
| Antigone | Aeschylus: “Sewe teen Thebes” Sophocles: “Antigone” Sophocles: “Oedipus at Colonus” Euripides: “The Phoenician Women” Seneca the Younger: “Phoenissae” |
| Atreus | Seneca die Jongere: “Thyestes” |
| Bacchus (ook bekend as Dionysus) | Hesiod: “Theogony” Euripides: “The Bacchae” Aristophanes: “The Frogs ” |
| Beowulf | Anoniem: “Beowulf” |
| Cassandra | Aeschylus: “Agamemnon” ( “OresteiaTrilogy” ) Euripides: “The Trojan Women” Seneca the Younger: “Agamemnon” |
| Circe | Homer: “The Odyssey” Apollonius van Rhodes: “The Argonautica” |
| Klytemnestra | Homerus: “The Odyssey” Hesiod: “Theogony” Aeschylus: “Agamemnon” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Aeschylus: “The Libation Bearers” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Sophocles: “Electra” Euripides: “Electra” Seneca die Jongere: “Agamemnon” |
| Kreon van Korinthe | Euripides: “Medea” Seneca the Younger: “Medea” |
| Creon of Thebe | Sophocles: “ Antigone” Sophocles: “Oedipus the King” Sophocles: “Oedipus at Colonus” Euripides : “The Phoenician Women” Seneca the Younger: “Oedipus” |
| Danaus | Aeschylus: “The Suppliants” |
| Deianeira | Sophocles: “The Trachiniae” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Demofoon | Euripides: “Heracleidae” |
| Dido | Vergil: “Die Aeneïs” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorfose” |
| Dionysus (ook bekend as Bacchus) | Hesiod: “Theogony” Euripides: “The Bacchae” Aristofanes: “DieFrogs” |
| Electra | Aeschylus: “The Libation Bearers” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Sophocles: “Electra” Euripides: “Electra” Euripides: “ Orestes” Seneca the Younger: “Agamemnon” |
| Enkidu | Anoniem: “Gilgamesh” |
| Erinyes (Furies) | Hesiod: “Theogony” Aeschylus: “The Libation Bearers” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Aeschylus: “The Eumenides” ( “Oresteia Trilogy ” ) Euripides: “Orestes” |
| Eteocles | Aeschylus: “Seven Against Thebes” Euripides: “The Phoenician Women” Seneca the Younger: “Phoenissae” |
| Gilgamesh | Anoniem: “Gilgamesh” |
| Glauce | Euripides: “Medea” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Medea” |
| Grendel | Anoniem: “Beowulf” |
| Hector | Homeros: “Die Ilias” |
| Hecuba | Euripides: “Hecuba” Euripides: “The Trojan Women” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Troades” |
| Helen | Homer: “The Ilias” Homer: “The Odyssey” Hesiod: “Theogony” Euripides: “The Trojan Women” Euripides: “ Helen” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Heracles/Hercules
| Hesiod: “Theogony” Sophocles: “The Trachiniae” Sophocles: “Philoctetes” Euripides: “Alcestis” Euripides: “Heracleidae” Euripides: “Heracles” Aristophanes: “The Birds” Aristophanes: “The Frogs” Apollonius van Rhodes: “The Argonautica” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Hercules Furens” |
| Hermione | Euripides: “Andromache” Euripides: “Orestes ” Ovidius: “Heroides” |
| Hippolytus | Euripides: “Hippolytus” Ovidius: “Heroides” Seneca the Younger: “Phaedra” |
| Ioon | Euripides: “Ion” |
| Iphigenia | Euripides: “Iphigenia at Aulis” Euripides: “Iphigenia in Tauris” |
| Ismene | Sophocles: “Antigone” Sophocles: “Oedipus at Colonus” |
| Jason | Euripides : “Medea” Apollonius van Rhodes: “The Argonautica” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Medea” |
| Jocasta | Sophocles: “Oedipus the King” Euripides: “The Phoenician Women” Seneca the Younger: “Oedipus” Seneca the Younger: “Phoenissae” |
| Medea | Euripides: “Medea” Apollonius van Rhodes : “The Argonautica” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Medea” |
| Megara | Euripides: “Heracles” Seneca the Younger: “Hercules Furens” Sien ook: Hoe word die vryers beskryf in The Odyssey: Alles wat jy moet weet |
| Menelaus | Homer: “Die Ilias ” Homer: “The Odyssey” Sophocles: “Ajax” Euripides: “Andromache” Euripides: “The Trojan Women” Euripides: “Helen” Euripides: “Orestes” Euripides: “Iphigenia at Aulis” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Thyestes” |
| Neoptolemus | Sophocles: “Philoctetes ” Euripides: “Andromache” |
| Odysseus/Ulysses | Homer: “ The Ilias” Homer: “The Odyssey” Sophocles: “Ajax” Sophocles: “Philoctetes” Euripides: “Hecuba” Euripides: “Cyclops” Vergil: “The Aeneid” Ovid: “Heroides” Seneca the Younger: “Troades” |
| Oedipus | Sophocles: “Oedipus the King” Sophocles: “Oedipus at Colonus ” Euripides: “The Phoenician Women” Seneca the Younger: “Phoenissae” Seneca die Jongere: “Oedipus” |
| Orestes | Aeschylus: “The Libation Bearers” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Aeschylus: “The Eumenides” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Sophocles: “ Electra” Euripides: “Andromache” Euripides: “Electra” Euripides: “Iphigenia in Tauris” Euripides: “Orestes” Ovidius: “Heroides” Seneca the Younger: “Agamemnon” |
| Parys | Homer: “The Ilias” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Peleus | Euripides: “Andromache” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Penelope | Homer: “The Odyssey” Ovidius: “Heroides” |
| Perseus | Hesiod: “Theogony” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Phaedra | Euripides: “Hippolytus” Ovidius: “Heroides” Seneca the Younger: “Phaedra” |
| Philoctetes | Sophocles: “Philoctetes” |
| Polymestor | Euripides: “Hecuba” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Polinices | Aeschylus: “Sewe teen Thebes” Sophokles: “Oedipus by Colonus” Euripides: “Die Fenisiese Vroue” Seneca the Younger: “Phoenissae” |
| Polyphemus | Homer: “The Odyssey” Euripides: “Cyclops” |
| Polyxena | Euripides: “Hecuba” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Priam | Homer: “Die Ilias” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” |
| Prometheus | Hesiod: “Werke en Dae” Hesiod: “Theogony” Aeschylus: “Prometheus Bound” Aristophanes: “The Birds” |
| Pylades | Aeschylus: “The Libation Bearers” ( “Oresteia Trilogy” ) Sophocles: “Electra” Euripides: “Electra” Euripides: “Iphigenia in Tauris” Euripides: “Orestes” |
| Semele | Hesiod: “Theogony” Euripides: “The Bacchee” |
| Telemachus | Homerus: “The Odyssey” |
| Theseus | Hesiod: “Theogony” Sophocles: “Oedipus at Colonus” Euripides: “Hippolytus” Euripides: “The Suppliants” Euripides: “Heracles” Ovidius: “Heroides” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Hercules Furens” Seneca the Younger: “Phaedra” |
| Thyestes | Seneca die Jongere: “Thyestes” |
| Tiresias | Homerus: “The Odyssey” Sophocles: “Antigone” Sophocles: “Oedipus the King” Euripides: “The Phoenician Women” Ovidius: “Metamorphoses” Seneca the Younger: “Oedipus” |
| Xerxes | Aeschylus: “DiePerse” |