| Greek Hero | Associated with | Legend |
| Achilles, Akhilleus | heel | Strongest of the Greek heroes in the Trojan war. After his lover Patrocles was slain by Hector, Achilles killed Hector and desecrated his corpse. This angered god Apollon, who killed Achilles by shooting an arrow into his heel - the only spot on his body where he could be wounded. |
| Adonis | beau | captivated both Aphrodite and Persephone with his beauty |
| Agamemnon | Mycenae | King of Mycenae, leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War |
| Aias (Ajax) | Salamis very tall, large | in Trojan War second strongest Greek hero after Achilleus |
| Atlas | carries world | carries the world on his shoulder; relieved by Heracles, petrified by Perseus, who showed him the face of Medusa |
| Bellerophon | Corinth | was given the task to fight the Chimaera, the Amazons, caught Pegasus |
| Cassandra | prophecy | daughter of King Priamus of Troy, had the gift of prophecy, predicted the fall of Troy; nobody believed her |
| Ganymede | Troy beau | son of Tros, abducted by Zeus because of his beauty |
| Hector | Troy | Trojan hero, son of Priamus. Hector killed Patrocles, the lover of Achilles; Achilles then took revenge by killing Hector. |
| Helena, Helen | Sparta, Troy | wife of King Menelaus of Sparta; her abduction by Paris to Troy started the Trojan War |
| Heracles (Hercules) | strongman | Greek demi-god (son of Zeus); had to accomplish 12 labors : fight the Nemean lion, the Lernacean hydra, the Erythmean boar, the hind of Ceryneia, the Stymphalian birds, clean the stables of Augeias, fight the Cretan bull, tame the horses of Diomedes, acquire the belt of the Amazon queen, search for the cattle of Gereon, acquire the apples of Hesperides, fight with Cerberus. He also relieved Atlas from his burden for a while, fought the Centaurs and Apollo. |
| Icarus | Icaria, wings, hybris | son of Daedalus, Athenian prisoner-of-war on Crete who flees captivity by flying with feathers glued to arm with beeswax. Icarus was over-confident, came too close to the sun; the beeswax melted, he plunged into the sea. |
| Jason | Iolcos | set out with the Argonauts on a series of adventures; acquired the Golden Fleece from Colchis |
| Laocoon | Troy, serpent | Priest of Troy, warned Trojans not to take wooden horse into the city, was killed by sea serpent |
| Midas | Lydia, gold | acquired the Golden Touch - everything he touched turned into gold; then tried hard to get rid of it. |
| Minos | Crete | legendary king of Crete, his palace being Knossos, father of the Minotaur |
| Narcissus | beau | fell in love with his own mirror image |
| Nestor | Pylos, wise | oldest of the Greek heroes fighting the Trojans |
| Odysseus (Ulysses) | tricky | Greek hero in the Trojan War, conceived the wooden horse; on his way back to Ithaca he had to live through many adventurous situations - he met the Cyclops, Circe, the sirens, the Ployphem, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso, visited Nausicaa etc. Back in Ithaca he slew the suitors who had cast their eyes on his wife Penelope |
| Oedipus | Thebes mother-lover | son of the ruler of Thebes, abandoned as a child because of a prophecy, he grew up not knowing his identity. As an adult he returned to Thebes, killed his father and married his mother. |
| Orestes | Mycenae | son of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae. When Agamemnon was killed by his wife Clytemnestra, Orestes took revenge by killing his mother. |
| Orpheus | lyre, singer | when his love Eurydice died, Orpheus descended into the underworld and sang that beautiful, that Hades released Eurydice from the underworld |
| Pandora | box / jar | first woman, had a jar or box containing plagues |
| Paris | apple | Trojan prince, son of Priamus, abducted Helena and thus started the Trojan War.
In another situation he was asked by Aphrodite, Artemis and Athene to select the most beautiful among them by tossing a golden apple to her. |
| Penelope | Ithaca | Odysseus' wife; despite having many suitors, she remained faithful during her husbands' 20 years of absence. |
| Perseus | Seriphus winged shoes | King of Seriphus, obtained cap of invisibility, winged shoes, sickle and bag, killed Medusa, relieved Atlas from his pains by turning him into stone |
| Priamus (Priam) | Troy | legendary king of Troy, father of Hector, Cassandra, Paris |
| Prometheus | stole fire from Mt. Olympus and gave it to the humans; was chained to a rock, was visited daily by a bird who picked out a part of his liver (which would regrow) | |
| Sisyphus | Corinth, rock | punished by Hades, had to roll a rock up a mountain. It would roll down again and he would have to repeat his back-breaking labour. |
| Stentor | voice | Greek hero in the Trojan War. His voice could be heard over a wide distance |
| Tantalus | Sipylus | King of Sipylus (Asia Minor). Was invited by Gods to dine with them; betrayed their trust by telling their secrets. Was punished, chained to a rock, with the water level just out of reach and grapes above his head, just out of reach. He would suffer eternal hunger and thirst. |
| Theseus | Athens | hero who went to Crete, entered the labyrinth, slew the Minotaur, liberated the virgin |
Note : The list is NOT intended to be complete and contains only the major heroes.