Mythology Characters?

[sarah =]]

I need a brief description for the following characters:

-Freya
-Sisyphus
-Orion
-Narcissus
-Arachne
-Pygmalion
-Atalanta
-Icarus

You don't have to answer for all of them, if you only have one, thats fine. Thanks!

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Freyja is a major goddess in Germanic paganism where she is portrayed as a goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Blonde, blue-eyed, and beautiful, Freyja is described as the fairest of all goddesses, and people prayed to her for happiness in love. She was also called on to assist childbirths
and prayed to for good seasons. Freyja was also associated with war, battle, death, magic, prophecy, and wealth. She is cited as receiving half of the dead lost in battle in her hall Fólkvangr, whereas Odin would receive the other half at Valhalla.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya

Sisyphus was a character in Greek mythology. He was a king punished in the Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and repeat this throughout eternity. Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce, but was avaricious and deceitful, violating the laws of hospitality by killing travelers and guests. He took pleasure in killing his guests because that would allow him to maintain his position at the top. Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men. He seduced his niece, took his brother's throne and betrayed Zeus's secrets (specifically, Zeus' rape of Aegina, the daughter of the river god Asopus).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Orion was a giant huntsman of Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. Odysseus sees him hunting in the underworld with a bronze club, a great slayer of animals; he is also mentioned as a constellation, as the lover of the Goddess Dawn, as slain by Artemis, and as the most handsome of the earthborn. Orion was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, daughter of Minos, King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(mythology)

In Greek mythology, Narcissus The Self-Admirer, was a hero of the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. Narcissus would cursed to one day know the pain of unrequited love. This curse was fulfilled when Narcissus became entranced by his reflection in the pool and tried to seduce the beautiful boy, not realizing it was himself he was looking at. He only realized that it was his reflection after trying to kiss it. Narcissus took his sword and killed himself from sorrow. His corpse then turned into a flower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)

The fable of Arachne is a late addition to Greco-Roman mythology. Arachne's name simply means "spider". Arachne was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous wool dyer in Tyrian purple. She was a fine weaver in Hypaepa of Lydia and discovered the use of linen as well as nets. Pliny reports that she had a son named Closter who discovered the spindle for spinning wool. She was as skillful as the finest artist of the day and much praise was given to her in Hypaepa, where she had her workshop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne

Pygmalion is a legendary sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has made. Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. After seeing the Propoetides prostituting themselves, he is 'not interested in women', but his statue is so realistic that he falls in love with it. He offers the statue presents and eventually prays to Aphrodite. She takes pity on him and brings the statue to life. They marry and have a son, Paphos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)

Atalanta is a character from ancient Greek mythology. Her father, Schoeneus wanted a son so badly that when Atalanta was born, he left her in the middle of the woods to die. Artemis sent a "she-bear" to suckle her and eventually a group of hunters raised her. Years later, a beast called the Calydonian Boar was stalking the land. King Oeneus sent his son Meleager to gather up heroes to hunt the Boar. Among many others, Meleager chose Atalanta, who by now was a young woman and a fierce huntress, with whom he fell in love and she loved him, though she did not show it and continued to refuse marriage offers from him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta

Icarus is a character in Greek Mythology. Icarus' father fashioned a pair of wings for himself and his son, made of feathers and wax. Before they took off from the prison, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as the wax would melt, nor too close to the sea, as the feathers would become sodden. Overcome by the sublime feeling that flying gave him, Icarus soared through the sky joyfully, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted his wings. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

Atalanta participated in the hunt and struck the first wound, though Meleager killed the boar. Since she had caused the first drop of blood to be shed, Meleager awarded her the hide. According to one account of the hunt, the two centaurs, Hylaeus and Rhaecus, tried to go to sleep with Atalanta but she killed them or that Meleager killed them. Also during the hunt, Eurypylus and Iphicles insulted her, and Meleager killed them also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta

Icarus is a character in Greek Mythology, whose father, fashioned a pair of wings for himself and his son, made of feathers and wax. Before they took off from the prison, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as the wax would melt, nor too close to the sea, as the feathers would become sodden. Overcome by the sublime feeling that flying gave him, Icarus soared through the sky joyfully, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted his wings. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus