Character | Appearances |
Achilles | Homer: Iliad; Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses |
Aegeus | Euripides: Medea; Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Aegisthus | Homer: The Odyssey; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy, The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon |
Aeneas | Vergil: The Aeneid; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses |
Agamemnon | Homer: The Iliad; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Ajax; Euripides: Hecuba, Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon, Troades, Thyestes |
Ajax | Homer: The Iliad; Sophocles: Ajax |
Alcestis | Euripides: Alcestis |
Amphitryon | Euripides: Heracles; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens |
Andromache | Homer: The Iliad; Euripides: Andromache, The Trojan Women; Seneca the Younger: Troades |
Antigone | Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes; Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae |
Atreus | Seneca the Younger: Thyestes |
Bacchus (also known as Dionysus) | Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Bacchae; Aristophanes: The Frogs |
Beowulf | Anonymous: Beowulf |
Cassandra | Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy; Euripides: The Trojan Women; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon |
Circe | Homer: The Odyssey; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica |
Clytemnestra | Homer: The Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy, The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon |
Creon of Corinth | Euripides: Medea; Seneca the Younger: Medea |
Creon of Thebes | Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Oedipus |
Danaus | Aeschylus: The Suppliants |
Deianeira | Sophocles: The Trachiniae; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses |
Demophon | Euripides: Heracleidae |
Dido | Vergil: The Aeneid; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses |
Dionysus (also known as Bacchus) | Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Bacchae; Aristophanes: The Frogs |
Electra | Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra, Orestes; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon |
Enkidu | Anonymous: Gilgamesh |
Erinyes (Furies) | Hesiod: Theogony; Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy, The Eumenides, Oresteia Trilogy; Euripides: Orestes |
Eteocles | Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae |
Gilgamesh | Anonymous: Gilgamesh |
Glauce | Euripides: Medea; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Medea |
Grendel | Anonymous: Beowulf |
Hector | Homer: The Iliad |
Hecuba | Euripides: Hecuba, The Trojan Women; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Troades |
Helen | Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Trojan Women, Helen; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses |
Heracles/Hercules | Hesiod: Theogony; Sophocles: The Trachiniae, Philoctetes; Euripides: Alcestis, Heracleidae, Heracles; Aristophanes: The Birds, The Frogs; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens |
Hermione | Euripides: Andromache, Orestes; Ovid: Heroides |
Hippolytus | Euripides: Hippolytus; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Phaedra |
Ion | Euripides: Ion |
Iphigenia | Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris |
Ismene | Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus |
Jason | Euripides: Medea; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Medea |
Jocasta | Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Oedipus, Phoenissae |
Medea | Euripides: Medea; Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Medea |
Megara | Euripides: Heracles; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens |
Menelaus | Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey; Sophocles: Ajax; Euripides: Andromache, The Trojan Women, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Thyestes |
Neoptolemus | Sophocles: Philoctetes; Euripides: Andromache |
Odysseus/Ulysses | Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey; Sophocles: Ajax, Philoctetes; Euripides: Hecuba, Cyclops; Vergil: The Aeneid; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Troades |
Oedipus | Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae, Oedipus |
Orestes | Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy, The Eumenides, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Andromache, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Agamemnon |
Paris | Homer: The Iliad; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses |
Peleus | Euripides: Andromache; Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Penelope | Homer: The Odyssey; Ovid: Heroides |
Perseus | Hesiod: Theogony; Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Phaedra | Euripides: Hippolytus; Ovid: Heroides; Seneca the Younger: Phaedra |
Philoctetes | Sophocles: Philoctetes |
Polymestor | Euripides: Hecuba; Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Polynices | Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Seneca the Younger: Phoenissae |
Polyphemus | Homer: The Odyssey; Euripides: Cyclops |
Polyxena | Euripides: Hecuba; Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Priam | Homer: The Iliad; Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Prometheus | Hesiod: Works and Days, Theogony; Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Aristophanes: The Birds |
Pylades | Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers, Oresteia Trilogy; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes |
Semele | Hesiod: Theogony; Euripides: The Bacchae |
Telemachus | Homer: The Odyssey |
Theseus | Hesiod: Theogony; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: Hippolytus, The Suppliants, Heracles; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Hercules Furens, Phaedra |
Thyestes | Seneca the Younger: Thyestes |
Tiresias | Homer: The Odyssey; Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King; Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Ovid: Metamorphoses; Seneca the Younger: Oedipus |
Xerxes | Aeschylus: The Persians |
