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8 Greek Mythological Figures You’ll Date at Some Point in Your Life

Hardly any of us will stumble upon our soulmate right off the bat. We all have to battle it out in the trenches of bad first dates and inexplicably cancelled plans before we can even THINK about settling down with the one person we’ll be sharing our French fries with for eternity. Eventually we’ll find someone, sure, but first we must spend way too long trying to craft the perfect text only to receive a tepid “haha” in response nine hours later.

So odds are you’ll date a decent amount of people in your lifetime. Some of them will be great and some of them will be bad, but most of them will be one of the following figures straight out of Greek mythology.

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