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Summaries of other characters

The following are a series of stories from the mythology that would be useful for adding flavor text (in no particular order):

Pygmalion and Galatea - Pygmalion was a sculptor in Cyprus who carved a statue of a beautiful woman, he asked Aphrodite to make her real.  Aphrodite sent cupid who turned the statue into a real woman (Galatea) who married Pygmalion.

Orpheus - Orpheus was the son of a Thracian king, Oeagrus, and a muse, Calliope.  Apollo gave him a lyre and taught him how to play it.  He was the Argonaut who helped Jason escape the sirens (using his lyre).  Orpheus nearly saved his dead wife from the underworld after convincing Hades and Persiphone with his music to let her live again.  After forsaking the gods, he was killed by followers of Dionysus.

Eros - The son of Ares and Aphrodite, Eros is more commonly known by his latin name 'Cupid'.  Eros was ordered by jealous Aphrodite to make a mortal woman, Psyche, fall in love with the ugliest creature on earth.  He instead accidentally scratched himself with the tip of his arrow and fell in love with Psyche.

Daphne - Eros gained revenge against Apollo for insulting him by striking him with an arrow that caused him to fall in love with nymph, Daphne.  He also struck Daphne with an arrow causing her to despise Apollo.  After being chased by Apollo, Daphne asked river god, Peneus, to turn her into a tree.  Apollo vowed to tend to the tree.

Chaos - The  beginning of the universe as it is known in greek mythology, Gaia and several others were born from the chaos.