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- Hesperides – Mythopedia
The Hesperides were goddesses or nymphs associated with the evening and the West They guarded the golden apples of Hera, located in the famous Garden of the Hesperides in the Far West
- Ladon – Mythopedia
Ladon was a formidable serpent or dragon, tasked with guarding the golden apples hidden in the Garden of the Hesperides When Heracles came to steal the apples for his eleventh labor, he first had to find a way around the imposing Ladon
- Medusa – Mythopedia
Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies
- Perseus – Mythopedia
Perseus, son of Zeus, was a Greek hero from Argos He is best remembered for killing Medusa, rescuing Andromeda, and founding the city of Mycenae
- Atlas – Mythopedia
Atlas was a Greek Titan famed for his prodigious strength and endurance, condemned to shoulder the heavens for eternity He once passed the burden of holding up the world to the hero Hercules, but was tricked into taking it back
- Graeae – Mythopedia
The Graeae were three sisters who lived in a remote corner of the world, sharing a single eye and a single tooth among them They were best known for (reluctantly) helping Perseus in his quest to slay Medusa
- Nereids – Mythopedia
The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis
- Hyades – Mythopedia
The Hyades, daughters of the Titan Atlas, were goddesses who were placed in the night sky as a cluster of stars They were associated above all with the rainy season It was said that they made into stars after dying of grief for their dead brother, or, alternatively, as a reward for nursing Dionysus
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