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Immortals

Olympian deities

Twelve Olympians

The Twelve Olympians or younger gods, also known as the Dodekatheon , in Greek mythology, were the principal Greek Godss of the Greek pantheon , residing atop Mount Olympus, having supplanted the Titan or older gods in the greek mythogical narrative....

Primordial deities

Greek primordial gods

The Ancient Greece Greeks proposed many different ideas about Primordialism deities in their Greek mythology, which would later be largely adapted by the Romans....

Titans

Titan (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the Titans ; were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary golden age. Their role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Twelve Olympians, effected a mythological paradigm shift that the Greeks borrowed from the Ancient Near East....

• Themis
  Themis
  
  Themis is an Greek mythology. She is described as "of good counsel", and was the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom. Themis means "law of nature" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the verb t?????, t?themi, to put....
  
• Cronus
  Cronus
  
  Cronus or Kronos, , was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titan , divine descendants of Gaia , the earth, and Uranus , the sky....
  
• Atlas
  Atlas (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Atlas was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klym?ne :...
  
• Oceanus
  Oceanus
  
  Oceanus was believed to be the World Ocean in classical antiquity, which the Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece considered to be an enormous river encircling the world....
  
• Tethys
  Tethys (mythology)
  
  File:Tethys mosaic 83d40m Phillopolis mid4th century -p2fx.2.jpgIn Greek mythology, Tethys , daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titan ess and Greek sea gods sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry but no longer venerated in cult....
  
• Hyperion
  Hyperion (mythology)
  
  Hyperion is one of the twelve Titan gods of Ancient Greece, which were later supplanted by the Olympians. He was the son of Gaia and Uranus , and was referred to in early mythological writings as Helios Hyperion, 'Sun High-one'....
  
• Theia
  Theia
  
  In Greek mythology, Theia, goddess or divine, , also called Euryphaessa, wide-shining, was a Titan . The name Theia alone means simply, "goddess"; Theia Euryphaessa brings overtones of extent and brightness....
  
• Coeus
  Coeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Coeus was one of the Titan , the giant sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia ; his equivalent in Latin poetry?though he scarcely makes an appearance in Roman mythology? was Polus, the embodiment of the celestrial axis around which the heavens revolve....
  
• Phoebe
  Phoebe (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology "golden-wreathed" Phoebe , in her very name simply the feminine counterpart of Phoebus, was one of the original Titan , one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia ....
  
• Rhea
  Rhea (mythology)
  
  This page is about the Greek mythological figure. For the bird, see Rhea .Rhea was the Titan daughter of Ouranos , the sky, and Gaia , the earth, in Classical Greece mythology....
  
• Crius
  Crius
  
  In Greek mythology, Crius was one of the Titan in the list given in Hesiod's Theogony, a son of Uranus and Gaia . The least individualized among them, he was overthrown in the Titanomachy....
  
• Iapetus
  Iapetus (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Iapetus, also Iapetos or Japetus , was a Titan , the son of Uranus and Gaia , and father of Atlas , Prometheus, Epimetheus , and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race....
  
• Prometheus
  Prometheus
  
  In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to human beings for their use....
  
• Helios
  Helios
  
  Helios is the god of sun.In Greek mythology the sun was personified as Helios . Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion , while Hesiod and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia or Euryphaessa and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn....
  

The Hundred-Handed Ones (Hecatoncheires)

• Briareus (or Aegaeon) (?????e??)
• Gyes
• Cottus
  Cottus
  
  Cottus may mean:*Cottus, one of the Hecatonchires of Greek mythology*Cottus , a genus of sculpin fish....
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Cyclopes

Cyclops

In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, a cyclops , is a member of a primordial race of giant , each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead....

• Arges
  Arges
  
  * In Greek mythology, Arges was one of the Cyclops. He was elsewhere called Acmonides or Pyraemon.* Arges is the name of several geographic locations in Romania...
  
• Brontes
  Brontes
  
  * For the Greek mythological figure Brontes, see Cyclops.* For the 19th-century England writers, see Bront? - Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront?, and Anne Bront?....
  
• Steropes
• Polyphemus
  Polyphemus
  
  Polyphemus , the gigantic one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa, is a character in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclops. His name means "famous". Polyphemus plays a pivotal role in Homer's Odyssey....
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River gods

• Achelous
  Achelous
  
  In Greek mythology, Achelous was the patron deity of the "silver-swirling" Acheloos River, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its own river spirit....
   (??????? or ??e???? in contemporary Greek)
• Acheron
  Acheron
  
  The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. It flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, Preveza, near Parga....
  
• Acis
  ACIS
  
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• Alpheus (??fe???)
• Asopus
  Asopus
  
  Asopus or As?pos is the name of five different rivers in Greece and Turkey and also in Greek mythology the name of the God of those rivers....
   (?s?p??)
• Cladeus
• Eurotas
  Eurotas
  
  In Greek mythology, Eurotas was a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparta by Clete. He was the brother of Lacedaemon, who was also the husband of his daughter Sparta, according to Pausanias ....
   (????ta?)
• Peneus
  Peneus
  
  In Greek mythology, Peneus was a river god, one of the three-thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys . The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Cyrene, Daphne, and Stilbe...
   (???e???)
• Styx
  Styx
  
  Styx may refer to:* Styx , the river that forms the boundary between the Greek underworld and the world of the living, as well as a goddess and a nymph that represent the river....
  
• Emanopsus

Nymph

Nymph

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of mythological entities in human form. They were typically associated with a particular location or landform....
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• Adrasteia
  Adrasteia
  
  In Greek mythology, Adrasteia was a nymph who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant Zeus, in secret, to protect him from his father Cronus in the Dictaean cave....
   (?d??ste?a)
• Clytie
  Clytie
  
  Clytia was a water nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology. She was loved by Apollo....
  
• Crataeis
  Crataeis
  
  In Greek mythology, Crataeis was a nymph. According to Homer Odyssey, Circe tells Odysseus that Crataeis is the mother and father of Scylla, the sea monster. In Book XII, Homer writes:...
  
• Daphne
  Daphne
  
  According to Greek mythology, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne , daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly, or of Ladon River in Arcadia. The pursuit of a local nymph by an Twelve Olympians, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuati...
   (??f??)
• Dryad
  Dryad
  
  Dryads are Tree nymphs in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies 'oak,' from an Indo-European root *derew- 'tree' or 'wood'. Thus dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general....
  s (?????-????de? in plural)
• Hamadryad
  Hamadryad
  
  Hamadryads are Greek mythology beings that live in trees. They are a specific species of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a specific tree....
  s (?µad????-?µad???de? in plural)
• Metope
  Metope (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Metope was a river nymph, the daughter of the river Ladon river. Her waters were near the town of Stymphalia in the Peloponnesus....
   (?et?p?)
• Naiads (?a??de?)
• Cleochareia
  Cleochareia
  
  In Greek mythology, Cleochareia was a Naiads, a river nymph. She was married to King Lelex of Laconia and her father was the river god Eurotas....
  
• Nereids (?????de?)
• Amphitrite
  Amphitrite
  
  In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite was a sea-goddess. Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea....
   (?µf?t??t?)
• Arethusa
  Arethusa (mythology)
  
  Arethusa means "the waterer". She was a nymph and daughter of Nereus , and later became a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily, Sicily....
   (??et??sa)
• Oceanid
  Oceanid
  
  In Greek Mythology and Roman mythology, the Oceanids were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys . One of these many daughters was also said to have been the consort of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite....
  s (O?ea??de?)
• Eidyia
  Eidyia
  
  In Greek mythology, Eidyia was a nymph who was queen to Aeetes, king of Colchis. Mother of Medea and Apsyrtus, she was also the youngest of the Oceanides. Some sources called her the goddess of knowledge....
  
• Oread
  Oread
  
  In Greek mythology, an Oread or Orestiad was a type of nymph that lived in mountains, valleys, ravines. They differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelia, etc....
  s
• Echo
  Echo (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Echo was an Oread who loved her own voice. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and visited them on Earth often. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs....
  

Giants

• Agrius
  Agrius
  
  Agrius was in Greek mythology a son of Parthaon, king of Calydon in Aetolia, and Euryte; he was the brother of Oeneus , Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope....
  
• Alcyoneus
  Alcyoneus
  
  Alcyoneus or Alkyoneus was the eldest of the Thrace Gigantes of Greek mythology. He was born in full armor with a spear in his hand. He was the most prominent of the Gigantes who led a major rebellion against the Olympian Gods, and was said to be immortal in his homeland, Pallene....
  
• Aloadae
  Aloadae
  
  File:Gustave_Dor?_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_65_.jpgIn Greek mythology, the Aloadae were Otus and Ephialtes , sons of Iphimedeia, queen of Aloeus, by Poseidon, whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping seawater into her bosom....
  
• Otus
• Orion
  Orion (mythology)
  
  Orion was a giant hunting of Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the Orion .Ancient sources tell several different stories about Orion....
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• Ephialtes (?f???t??)
• Antaeus
  Antaeus
  
  Antaeus in Greek mythology and Berber mythology was a giant of ancient Libya, the son of Poseidon and Gaia , whose wife was Tinjis. He was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground , but once lifted into the air he became as weak as water....
   (??ta???)
• Argus
  ARGUS
  
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• Enceladus
  Enceladus (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Enceladus was one of the Gigantes, the enormous children of Gaia fertilized by the blood of castrated Ouranos. With the other Gigantes, Enceladus appeared in one particular region—either Phlegra, the "burning plain" in Thrace, or Pallene....
   (?????ad??)
• Tityos
  Tityos
  
  Tityos was a giant from Greek mythology. He was the son of Elara; his father was Zeus. Zeus hid Elara from his wife, Hera, by placing her deep beneath the earth....
  

Other deities

• Achilles
  Achilles
  
  In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
   Ascendant hero
• Adephagia
  Adephagia
  
  Adephagia in Greek mythology was the goddess and personification of gluttony. She is only mentioned in one source, as having a temple on the island of Sicily at which she was worshipped alongside of Demeter....
   Goddess of gluttony
• Aeolus
  Aeolus
  
  Aeolus , Latinized as ?olus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which....
   (Aiolos) God of the winds
• Agdistis
  Agdistis
  
  Agdistis was a deity of Greek mythology, Roman mythology and Anatolian mythology, possessing both male and female genitalia, con?nected with the Phrygian worship of Attis and Cybele....
   hermaphroditic demon
• Alastor
  Alastor
  
  Alastor can refer to a number of people and concepts related to Greek mythology:*Alastor was an epithet of the Greek mythology Zeus, according to Hesychius of Alexandria and the Etymologicum Magnum, which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically, familial bloodshed....
   God/demon of family feuds
• Alectrona
  Alectrona
  
  Alectrona was an early Greek mythology , who became a daughter of Helios once myths of Classical antiquity came along. Her center of worship was at Rhodes, which is also the center of worship of her father, Helios....
   Goddess of the morning or waking up
• Alexiares and Anicetus
  Alexiares and Anicetus
  
  Alexiares and Anicetus are minor twin gods in Greek Mythology. They are the sons of Heracles and Hebe , and along with their father, the guardians of Mount Olympus....
   Twin guardians of Mount Olympus
• Amphitrite
  Amphitrite
  
  In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite was a sea-goddess. Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea....
   (?µf?t??t?) Goddess of the sea, wife of Poseidon
• Anakes
  Anakes
  
  Anakes were deities worshipped in Attica and Argos. The word is a title which means lords or kings, for they were the sons of Zeus . Some have associated the Anake cult with worship of the goddess Helen....
  
• Antheia
  Antheia
  
  Antheia was one of the Charites, or Graces, of Greek mythology and "was the goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths worn at festivals and parties." Her name is derived from the Ancient Greek word anthos, meaning flower, and she was depicted on vases as an attendant of Aphrodite with other Charites....
   Goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths
• Aphaea
  Aphaea
  
  Aphaea was a Greek mythology who was worshipped exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle Under Athenian hegemony, however, she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemi...
   Minor goddess of agriculture and fertility
• Aristaeus
  Aristaeus
  
  A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios , "ever close follower of the flocks", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene ....
   A good hunter and inventor
• Asclepius
  Asclepius
  
  Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea and Panacea symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively....
   (?s???p???) God of healing
• Astraea (?st?a?a) Virgin Goddess of Justice
• Ate
  Ate
  
  At?, a Greek word for "ruin, folly, delusion", is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his or her hubris that leads to his or her death or downfall....
   Goddess of foolish acts
• Attis
  Attis
  
  Attis was Cybele's lover, eunuch attendant, and driver of her lion-driven chariot. He was driven mad by her and Castration himself.Attis was originally a local semi-deity of Phrygia, associated with the great Phrygian trading city of Pessinos, which lay under the lee of Mount Agdistis....
  
• Bia
  Bia (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Bia was the personification of force, daughter of Pallas and Styx . She was the sister of Nike , Cratos, and Zelus; she and her siblings were constant companions of Zeus....
   Goddess of violence
• Boreas (????a?) God of the north wind and of winter
• Brizo
  Brizo
  
  Brizo is an ancient Greek mythology who was known as the protector of mariners, sailors, and fishermen. She was worshipped primarily by the women of Delos, who set out food offerings in small boats....
   Goddess of sailors
• Cabiri
• Caerus
  Caerus
  
  In Greek mythology, Caerus was the personification of opportunity, luck and favorable moments. He was depicted with only one lock of hair. His Roman mythology equivalent was Occasio or Tempus....
   God of luck and opportunity
• Calypso
  Calypso (mythology)
  
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• Ceto
  Ceto
  
  In Greek mythology, Cetus , also called Ceto or Cetea, was a hideous sea monster, a daughter of Gaia and Pontus . The asteroid 65489 Ceto was named after her, and its satellite Ceto I Phorcys after her husband....
   Goddess of the dangers of the ocean and of sea monsters
• Charon
  Charon (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead....
   Hades’ ferryman
• Circe
  Circe
  
  In Greek mythology, Circe , is a Queen goddess living on the island of Aeaea.Circe's father was Helios , the god of the sun and the owner of the land where Odysseus' men ate cattle, and her mother was Hecate the goddess of magic and the moon ; she was sister of two kings of Colchis, Aeetes and Perses, and of Pasipha?, mother of the Mino...
  
• Cotys
• Cragus
  Cragus
  
  Cragus or Cragos or Kragos may refer to several different things in the ancient world, including:geography# Mount Cragus, a peak in ancient Lycia...
  
• Cybele
  Cybele
  
  Cybele , was the Phrygian deification of the Earth Mother. As with Greek Gaia , or her Minoan civilization equivalent Rhea , Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals ....
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• Dike Goddess of Justice
• Dioscuri (???s??????)
• Castor (??st??)
• Polydeuces
  Polydeuces
  
  Polydeuces may refer to:*Polydeuces , a moon of Saturn*An alternative name for the Greek mythological hero Castor and Pollux...
   (????de????)
• Doris
  Doris (mythology)
  
  This is an article about the Greek goddess. For other uses, see Doris .Doris , an Oceanid, was a sea nymph in Greek mythology, whose name represented the bounty of the sea....
  Goddess of the sea’s bounty
• Efreisone
  Efreisone
  
  In Greek mythology, Efreisone was the personification of an object very important in many Greek rituals and ceremonies: an olive tree branch, covered with wool and fruit. It could only be carried by children who had two living parents....
   (??f??s???) Personification of the olive branch
• Eileithyia Goddess of childbirth
• Elpis
  Elpis
  
  In Greek mythology, Elpis was the personification of hope, perhaps a child of Nyx and mother of Pheme, the goddess of rumor. She was depicted as a young woman, usually carrying flowers or cornucopia in her hands....
   (??p??) Goddess of hope or expectation
• Enyalius
  Enyalius
  
  Enyalius in Greek mythology is generally a byname of Ares the god of war but in Mycenaean times is differentiated as a separate deity. On the Linear B Knossos Tablet KN V 52 the name E-nu-wa-ri-jo is interpreted to refer to this same Enyalios....
   Minor god of war
• Enyo
  Enyo
  
  Enyo in Greek mythology, was an ancient goddess of war, acting as a counterpart and companion to the war god Ares. She is also identified as his sister, and daughter of Zeus and Hera, in a role closely resembling that of Eris ; with Homer representing the two as the same goddess....
   Goddess of destructive war
• Eos
  Eos
  
  Eos is, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun....
  Goddess of the dawn
• Eosphorus God of the morning star
• The Erinyes
  Erinyes
  
  In Greek mythology the Erinyes or Eumenides or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of revenge or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead....
  , or "Furies"
• Eris
  Eris (mythology)
  
  Eris is the Greek mythology goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia , whose Latin counterpart is Concordia ....
  Goddess of strife and discord
• Eros God of lust, love, and sex
• Eurynome
  Eurynome
  
  In Greek mythology, there were many women with the name Eur?nom?, with the possible significance "far-wandering" .#The Eurynome , or daughter of Oceanus....
   (??????µ?)
• Eurus (Euros) God of the east wind
• Glaucus
  Glaucus
  
  In Greek mythology, Glaucus was the name of several different figures, including one god . These figures are sometimes referred to as Glaukos or Glacus....
   Minor sea god
• Gorgons (G?????e?)
• Stheno
  Stheno
  
  Stheno , in Greek mythology, was one of the Gorgons, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. She was born in the caverns beneath Mount Olympus....
  
• Euryale
  Euryale
  
  Euryale , in Greek mythology, was one of the immortal Gorgons, three vicious sisters with brass hands, sharp fangs, and hair of living, venomous snakes....
  
• Medusa
  Medusa
  
  In Greek mythology, Medusa was a gorgon, a chthonic female monster; gazing upon her would turn onlookers to stone. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until giving it to the goddess Athena to place on her Aegis....
   (a mortal) (??d??sa)
• Hêbê
  Hebe (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Hebe is the goddess of youth . She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. H?b? was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles ; her successor was the young Troy prince Ganymede ....
   (?ß?) Goddess of youth
• Hecate
  Hecate
  
  Hecate Hekate , or Hekat was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, naturalized early in Mycenaean Greece or in Thrace, but originating among the Carians of Anatolia, the region where most theophoric names invoking Hecate, such as Hecataeus or Hecatomnus, progenitor of Mausollus, are attested, and where Hekate re...
   (???t?)
• Hêlios
  Helios
  
  Helios is the god of sun.In Greek mythology the sun was personified as Helios . Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion , while Hesiod and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia or Euryphaessa and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn....
  Personification of the sun
• Heracles
  Heracles
  
  In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
   (??a????) Ascended hero
• Hespera
• Horae
  Horae
  
  In Greek mythology, the Horai, Latinized Horae were three goddesses controlling orderly life. They were daughters of Zeus and Themis, half-sisters to the Moirae....
   (??e?) (the hours)
• Thallo (Ta???)
• Auxo
• Karpo
  Carpo
  
  Carpo can mean:#In Greek mythology, one of the Horae#In astronomy, Carpo , an irregular satellite of Jupiter#In telecommunication, Carpo VoIP, a telecommunication service provider in Europe...
   (?a?p?)
• Eunomia
  Eunomia (goddess)
  
  Eunomia was a minor Greek goddess....
   (????µ?a)
• Dike
  Dike (mythology)
  
  In Ancient Greece, Dike was the spirit of moral order and fair judgement based on immemorial custom....
  
• Eirene
  Eirene (Greek goddess)
  
  Eirene, or Irene , one of the Horae, was the personification of peace, and was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia, scepter and a torch or rhyton....
  
• Hybris
  Hubris
  
  Hubris or hybris , mythology is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution....
   (?ß???) God of hubris
• Hygieia
  Hygieia
  
  In Greek mythology, Hygieia or Hygeia was a daughter of Asclepius. She was the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation and afterwards, the moon....
   (??e?a) Goddess of cleanliness
• Hymen God of Marriage and Marriage Feasts
• Hypnos
  Hypnos
  
  In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman mythology equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thanatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx ....
   (?p???) God of sleep
• Iris
  Iris (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. As the sun unites Earth and heaven, Iris links the gods to humanity....
  Goddess of the rainbow and minor messenger
• Moira
  Moirae
  
  The Moirae or Moerae , in Greek mythology, were the white-robed personifications of destiny . The Greek word moira literally means a part or portion, and by extension one's portion in life or destiny....
   (????a)
• The three Moirae
  Moirae
  
  The Moirae or Moerae , in Greek mythology, were the white-robed personifications of destiny . The Greek word moira literally means a part or portion, and by extension one's portion in life or destiny....
  , or "Fates": (????e?)
• Clotho
  Clotho
  
  Clotho or Klotho — the "spinner" — was the youngest of the Moirae of Greek mythology, otherwise known as the Fates due to their roles in governing over the lives of humans....
  
• Lachesis
  Lachesis (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Lachesis was the second of the Three Fates, or Moirae. She was the apportioner, deciding how much time for life was to be allowed for each person or being....
   (???es??)
• Atropos
  Atropos
  
  In Greek mythology, Atropos was one of the three Moirae, Goddesses of wikt:fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was Morta . Atropos was the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as the "inflexible" or "inevitable." It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and ended the life of each mortal by cutting their thread with her "abhor...
   (?t??p??)
• Mania
  Mania (mythology)
  
  Mania may refer to two different Mythology figures. In Greek mythology, Mania was the personification of insanity. In Roman mythology and Etruscan mythology, Mania was the goddess of the dead....
   (?a??a) Goddess of insanity
• Metis
  Metis (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Metis was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that M?tis was born of Oceanus and Tethys , of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings....
   (??t??) Goddess of wisdom and thought
• Momus
  Momus
  
  For the Scottish artist and singer see Momus . Momus or Momos , in Greek mythology the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, poets, a spirit of evil-spirited blame and unfair criticism....
   God of satire and criticism
• Morpheus (???f?a?) God of dreams
• Muses (???se?)
• Calliope
  Calliope
  
  File:Calliope.jpgIn Greek mythology, Calliope was the muse of heroic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is now best known as Homer's muse, the inspiration for the Iliad and the Odyssey....
   (?a????p?)
• Clio
  Clio
  
  In Greek mythology, Clio or Kleio is the muse of history. Like all the muses, she is a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. She had one son, Hyacinth , with the King of Macedonia , Pierus....
   (??e??)
• Erato
  Erato
  
  In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean "lovely" if derived from Eros , as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica....
   (??at?)
• Euterpe
  Euterpe
  
  In Greek mythology, Euterpe was one of the Muses, the daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus. Called the "Giver of delight", when later poets assigned roles to each of the Muses, she was the muse of music....
   (??t??p?)
• Melpomene
  Melpomene
  
  Melpom?ne , initially the Muse of Singing, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now. Her name was derived from the Greek verb melp? or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song." She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors....
   (?e?p?µ???)
• Polyhymnia
  Polyhymnia
  
  Polyhymnia , in Greek mythology, was the Muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn and eloquence as well as agriculture and pantomime. She is also known as the Muse of mime....
   (????µ??a) - (????µ??a)
• Terpsichore
  Terpsichore
  
  In Greek mythology, Terpsichore "delight of dancing" was one of the nine Muses, ruling over dance and the dramatic Greek chorus. She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean" which means "of or relating to dance"....
   (?e???????)
• Thalia
  Thalia
  
  Thalia can refer to four distinct entities in Greek mythology, two of whom were daughters of Zeus, and a third of whom bore him sons. The name Thalia, or Thaleia is spelled T??e?a in Greek and derives from the same stem as ????e?? "to bloom"....
   (T??e?a)
• Urania
  Urania
  
  In Greek mythology, Urania , was the muse of astronomy and astrology. She is usually depicted as having a globe in her left hand. She is able to foretell the future by the position of the stars....
   (???a??a)
• Nemesis
  Nemesis (mythology)
  
  Nemesis , also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia , at her sanctuary at Rhamnous, north of Marathon, Greece, in Greek mythology was the spirit of divine punitive justice against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess....
   (??µes??) Goddess of retribution
• Nereus
  Nereus
  
  Nereus , in Greek Mythology, was the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia , a Titan who fathered the Nereids, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea....
   (????a?)
• Nike
  Nike (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Nike , was a goddess who personified triumph throughout the ages of the ancient Greek culture. The Roman equivalent was Victoria ....
  Goddess of victory
• Notus
  Notus
  
  Notus may refer to:*Notus - the south wind in Greek mythology .*Notus, Idaho - a town in the United States....
   (??t??) God of the south wind
• Pan
  Pan (mythology)
  
  Pan , in Ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, is the companion of the nymphs, god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music....
  God of shepherds, pastures, and fertility
• Phoebe
  Phoebe
  
  Phoebe or Phebe is a female given name. Phoebe is also the name of a bird or a girl's name from the Book of Romans...
   Goddess of the moon: Bright
• Perséphonê
  Persephone
  
  In Greek mythology, Persephone was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Greek Underworld, the kore , and the parthenogenesis daughter of Demeter and, in later Classical myths, a daughter of Demeter and Zeus....
   (?e?sef???) Goddess of the earth’s fertility
• Peitho
  Peitho
  
  In Greek mythology, Peitho is the goddess who personifies persuasion and seduction. Her Roman mythology name is Suadela. Although this goddess did not have much power, she is a figure of some significance in Ancient Greek religion....
   (?e???) Goddess of persuasion and seduction
• Pleiades
  Pleiades (mythology)
  
  The Pleiades , , companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Kyllini. They are the sisters of Calypso , Hyas, the Hyades , and the Hesperides....
   (??e??de?)
• Psyche
  Psyche
  
  Psyche may refer to:Astronomy*16 Psyche, an asteroidComputers and software*Psyche, a code name for Red Hat Linux 8.0Fiction...
   Goddess of the Soul
• Alcyone
  Alcyone
  
  In Greek mythology, Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale . She married Ceyx , son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star....
   (???????)
• Sterope
  Sterope (Pleiad)
  
  In Greek mythology, Sterope , also called Asterope, was one of the seven Pleiades and the wife of Oenomaus ....
   (Ste??p?)
• Celaeno
  Celaeno
  
  In Greek mythology, Celaeno referred to several different beings.*Celaeno was a harpy whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys....
   (?e?a???)
• Electra
  Electra (Pleiad)
  
  The Pleiad Electra of Greek mythology was one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione . Electra was the wife of Corythus. She was raped by Zeus and gave birth to Dardanus, who became the founder of Troy, ancestor of Priam and his house....
   (????t?a)
• Maia
  Maia (mythology)
  
  Maia in Greek mythology, was the eldest of the Pleiades , the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione . She and her sisters, born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, are sometimes called mountain goddesses, oreads, for Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain Maia" "of the lively black eyes"....
   (?a?a)
• Merope
  Merope
  
  Merope was the name of several, probably unrelated, characters in Greek mythology.* Merope , one of the Heliades, daughter of Helios and Clymene...
   (?e??p?)
• Taygete
  Taygete
  
  In Greek mythology, Taygete was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to Apollodorus and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals." Taygetus in Laconia, dedicated to the Goddess, was her haunt....
   (?a???t?)
• Phorcys
  Phorcys
  
  In Greek mythology, Phorcys, or Phorkys , was one of the names of the "Old Man [or One] of the Sea", the primeval Greek sea gods, who, according to Hesiod, was the son of Pontus and Gaia ....
   (F?????)
• Proteus
  Proteus
  
  In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early sea-god, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea", whose name suggests the "first", as protogonos is the "primordial" or the "firstborn"....
   (???te??) Minor sea god
• Priapus
  Priapus
  
  In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. His Roman mythology equivalent was Mutinus Mutunus....
   (???ap??) God of male virility
• Satyr
  Satyr
  
  In Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus ? "satyresses" were a late invention of poets ? that roamed the woods and mountains....
   (S?t????)
• Selene
  Selene
  
  Selene is the Titan goddess of the moon.In Greek mythology, Selene was an archaic lunar deity and the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia....
   (Se????) Goddess of the moon
• Thanatos
  Thanatos
  
  In Greek religion, Th?natos was the Daemon personification of Death and Mortality. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person....
   (T??at??) God/demon of death and mortality
• Thetis
  Thetis
  
  Silver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ....
   (T?t??)
• Triton (???t??) Poseidon’s messenger
• Typhon
  Typhon
  
  In Greek mythology, Typhon , also Typheus/Typhoeus , Typhaon or Typhos is the final son of Gaia , fathered by Tartarus, and is the god of wind....
   (??f??)
• Zephyrus (??f????) God of the west wind

Mortals

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• Abas
  Abas
  
  The name Abas may refer to:*Abas , an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician.*Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troiea from which Maurus Servius Honoratus has preserved a fragment....
  
• Abderus
  Abderus
  
  In Greek mythology Abderus or Abderos was a Greek hero, reputed a son of Hermes by some accounts, and eponym of Abdera, Thrace.The paternity of Abderus differs according to the sources....
  
• Acacallis
• Acamas
  Acamas
  
  Acamas was a name attributed to several characters in Greek mythology. The following three all fought in the Trojan War, and only the first was not mentioned by Homer....
   (???µa?)
• Acarnan
  Acarnan
  
  In Greek mythology, Acarnan , one of the Epigones, was a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother of Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by Phegeus , when they were yet very young, and Calirrhoe prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow quickly, that they might be able to avenge the death of their father....
   (??a????)
• Acastus
  Acastus
  
  Acastus is a character in Greek mythology. He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
  
• Acestes
  Acestes
  
  Acestes or Egestes was, in Roman mythology, the son of the Sicilian river-god Crinisus by a Dardania n or Troy woman named Egesta or Segesta....
  
• Achaeus
  Achaeus, son of Xuthus
  
  Achaeus was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and conse?quently a brother of Ionas and grandson of Hellen. The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus....
   (??a???)
• Achilles
  Achilles
  
  In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
   (Akhilleus) (?????e?? or ??????a?)
• Acoetes
  Acoetes
  
  Acoetes was the name of two men in Greek mythology and Roman mythology. The first Acoetes is known for helping the god Dionysus. Another, lesser-known Acoetes was father to Laocoon, who warned about the Trojan Horse....
  
• Acrisius
  Acrisius
  
  Acrisius was a Greek mythology king of Argos, and a son of Abas, son of Lynceus and Aglaea , grandson of Lynceus, great-grandson of Danaus. His twin brother was Proetus, with whom he is said to have quarreled even in the womb of his mother....
  
• Actaeon
  Actaeon
  
  In Greek mythology, Actaeon , son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Thebes, Greece hero, trained by the centaur Cheiron, who suffered the fatal wrath of Artemis; ....
   (Aktaion)
• Actaeus
  Actaeus
  
  Actaeus was the first king of Athens, according to Pausanias. He was the son of Erysichthon, father of Agraulus, and father-in-law to Cecrops I, the second king of Athens....
  
• Actor
  Actor (mythology)
  
  Actor is a very common name in Greek mythology. Here is a selection of characters that share this name :#Actor, a king of Phthia, was said to be the son of King Deion of Phocis and Diomede, or of King Myrmidon and Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus....
   (??t??)
• Admetus
  Admetus
  
  In Greek mythology, Admetus /?d 'mi: t?s/ was a king of Pherae in Thessaly, succeeding his father Pheres after whom the city was named. Admetus was one of the Argonauts and took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt....
   (?dµ?t??)
• Adonis
  Adonis
  
  Adonis is a figure of West Semitic origin, where he is a central cult figure in various mystery religions, who enters Greek mythology in Hellenistic culture....
   (?d????)
• Adrastus
  Adrastus
  
  Adrastus or Adrestus , traditionally translated as "nonparticipant" or "uncooperative", was a legendary king of Argos during the war of the Seven Against Thebes....
   (?d?ast??)
• Aeacus
  Aeacus
  
  Aeacus was a Greek mythology king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.He was son of Zeus and Aegina , a daughter of the river-god Asopus....
   (Aiakos) (??a???)
• Aeetes
  Aeëtes
  
  In Greek mythology, Ae?tes was a son of the king-god Helios and the nymph Perseis , brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus....
  
• Aegeus
  Aegeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aegeus , also Aigeus, Aegeas or Aigeas, was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens. The "goat-man" who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens....
   (???e??)
• Aegialeia (????a?e?a)
• Aegialeus
  Aegialeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aegialeus is a name attributed several individuals.* Aegialeus was the elder son of Adrastus, a king of Argos, and either Amphithea or Demonassa....
  
• Aegimius
  Aegimius
  
  Aegimius was the Greek mythology ancestor of the Dorians, who is described as their king and lawgiver at the time when they were yet in?habiting the northern parts of Thessaly....
  
• Aegina
  Aegina (mythology)
  
  Aegina was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos....
    (?????a)
• Aegisthus
  Aegisthus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes and of his daughter, Pelopia.Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenae throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus....
   (????s???)
• Aegyptus
  Aegyptus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aegyptus is a descendant of the heifer maiden, Io , and the river-god Nilus , and was a king in Ancient Egypt. Aegyptos was the son of Belus and Achiroe, a naiad daughter of Nile....
   (????pt??)
• Aeneas
  Aeneas
  
  This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
   (Aineas) (???e?a?)
• Aeolus
  Aeolus
  
  Aeolus , Latinized as ?olus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which....
  
• Aepytus
  Aepytus
  
  Aepytus can refer to several people in Classical mythology:*Aepytus was one of the mythi?cal kings of Arcadia. He was the son of Eilatus, and originally ruled over Phaesana on the Alpheius in Arcadia....
  
• Aerope
  Aerope
  
  A?rope was, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Catreus, king of Crete, and granddaughter of Minos. Her father, who had received an oracle that he should lose his life by one of his children, gave her and her sister, Clymene, to Nauplius, who was to sell them in a foreign land....
  
• Aesacus
  Aesacus
  
  Aesacus or Aisakos, in Greek mythology, was a son of King Priam of Troy. Aesacus sorrowed for the death of his wife or would-be lover, a daughter of the river Cebren, and was transformed into a bird....
  
• Aeson
  Aeson
  
  In Greek mythology, Aeson or Aison was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, who also had his brothers Pheres and Amythaon. Aeson was the father of Jason and Promachus with Polymede, the daughter of Autolycus....
   (Aison)
• Aethalides
  Aethalides
  
  Aethalides was a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of Myrmidon. He was the herald of the Argonauts, and had received from his father the faculty of remembering everything, even in Hades....
  
• Aethlius
  Aethlius
  
  Aethlius was, in Greek mythology, the first king of Elis, father of Endymion . He was the son of either Zeus and Protogeneia , and was married to Calyce ....
  
• Aethra
  Aethra
  
  In Greek mythology, Aethra or Aithra was a name applied to three individuals:...
   (????a)
• Aetolus (??t????)
• Agamedes
  Agamedes
  
  In Greek mythology, Agamedes was a son of Erginus . He was father of Cercyon by Epicaste, who also brought to him a stepson, Trophonius, who was by some believed to be a son of Apollo....
  
• Agamemnon
  Agamemnon
  
  In Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos....
   (??aµ?µ???)
• Agapenor
  Agapenor
  
  Agapenor was in Greek mythology a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan war. He was a son of Ancaeus#Ancaeus of Arcadia, and grandson of Lycurgus ....
  
• Agasthenes
  Agasthenes
  
  Agasthenes was the son of Augeas, and his successor in the kingdom of Elis. The government was shared between Amphimachus, Thalpius and Agasthenes....
  
• Agave
  Agave (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Agave was the daughter of Cadmus, the king and founder of the city of Thebes, Greece, and of the goddess Harmonia . Her sisters were Autono?, Ino and Semele....
  
• Agelaus
  Agelaus
  
  Agelaus or Agelaos is, in Greek mythology, the name of various individuals.#Agelaus, or Agelaos, son of Damastor was a suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus....
   (Ageláos)
• Agenor
• Aglaea
  Aglaea
  
  Aglaea or Agla?a is the name of five figures in Greek mythology....
   (???a?a)
• Agraulus
  Aglaulus
  
  Aglaulus or Agraulos is a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.*Aglaulus, daughter of Actaeus, king of Athens. She married Cecrops I and became the mother of Erysichthon, Aglaulus, daughter of Cecrops , Herse, and Pandrosus....
  
• Agrius
  Agrius
  
  Agrius was in Greek mythology a son of Parthaon, king of Calydon in Aetolia, and Euryte; he was the brother of Oeneus , Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope....
  
• Agron
  Agron
  
  Agron may refer to:* Agron , a Marvel Comics character* Agron , second king of Illyria* Agron , Saadia Gaon's double dictionary of the early Middle Ages...
  
• Ajax the great (Aîas the great) (??a? ? ???a?)
• Ajax the lesser
  Ajax the Lesser
  
  Ajax was a Greeks Greek mythology hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax , son of Telamon....
   (Aîas the lesser) (??a? ? ??????)
• Alcaeus
  Alcaeus (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Alcaeus or Alkaios was the name of a number of different people:*Alcaeus, a son of Perseus and Andromeda , and married to Hipponome, the daughter of Menoeceus of Thebes, Greece, by whom he became the father of Amphitryon and Anaxo....
   (Alkaios) (???a???)
• Alcathous
  Alcathous
  
  Alcathous was the name of several people in Greek mythology:*Alcathous, son of Pelops, killed the Cithaeronian lion.*Alcathous, son of Aesyetes, husband of Hippodameia, the daughter of Anchises and sister of Aeneas, who was educated in the house of Alcathous....
  
• Alcestis
  Alcestis
  
  Alcestis is a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her Admetus. Her story was popularised in Euripides's tragedy Alcestis ....
   (????st??)
• Alcidice
  Alcidice
  
  Alcidice was in Greek mythology the daughter of Aleus, king of Arcadia. She married Salmoneus, king of Elis and bore a daughter, Tyro. After her death Salmoneus married Sidero....
  
• Alcimede
  Alcimede
  
  In Greek mythology, Alcimede was one of the matrilineal Minyans daughters, the daughter of Clymene, Minyas ' daughter. She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, whom she met in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly, a chthonic lair where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias....
  
• Alcinous
  Alcinous
  
  Alcinous or Alk?no?s was in Greek mythology a son of Nausithous, or of Phaeax , and father of Nausicaa, Halius, and Laodamas with Arete ....
   (???????? or ????????)
• Alcmaeon
• Alcmene
  Alcmene
  
  In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena was the mother of Heracles....
   (Alkmênê) (???µ???)
• Alcyone
  Alcyone
  
  In Greek mythology, Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale . She married Ceyx , son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star....
   (?????? or ???????)
• Aleus
  Aleus
  
  Aleus was in Greek mythology a son of Apheidas, and grandson of Arcas. He was king of Tegea in Arcadia, and married to Neaera, and is said to have founded the town of Alea, Greece and the first temple of Athena Alea at Tegea....
  
• Almus
  Almus
  
  Almus is a town and a district of Tokat Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey region of Turkey....
  
• Aloeus
  Aloeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aloeus was the son of Poseidon and Canace, husband first of Iphimedeia and later of Eeriboea, and father of Salmoneus , Aloadae and Ephialtes , collectively known as the Aloadae....
  
• Alope
  Alope
  
  For other uses see Alope In Greek mythology, Alop? was a mortal woman, daughter of Cercyon. Poseidon had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, begetting Hippothoon....
  
• Althaea (???a?a)
• Althaemenes
  Althaemenes
  
  In Greek mythology, Althaemenes was a son of Catreus, brother of Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene. An oracle told Catreus that he would be murdered by one of his children....
  
• Amarynceus
  Amarynceus
  
  In Greek mythology, Amarynceus, or Amarynkeus, was the father of Diores....
  
• Amphiaraus
  Amphiaraus
  
  In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus was the son of Oicles and Hypermnestra, and husband of Eriphyle. Amphiaraus was the King of Argos along with Adrastus? the brother of Amphiaraus' wife, Eriphyle? and Iphis ....
   (?µf???a??)
• Amphictyon
  Amphictyon
  
  Amphictyon , in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous . Amphictyon was king of Thermopylae and married a daughter of Cranaus of Athens....
   (?µf??t???)
• Amphidamas
  Amphidamas
  
  Amphidamas may refer to both historical and mythological figures in ancient Greece :...
   (?µf?d?µa?)
• Amphilochus
  Amphilochus
  
  Amphilochus or Amph?lokhos may refer to:* In Greek mythology:** Amphilochus ** Amphilochus ** Husband of Alcinoe* Amphilochus, a genus in family Gammaridae...
   (?µf??????
• Amphimachus
  Amphimachus
  
  In Greek mythology, Amphimachus is a name attributed to multiple individuals....
   (?µf?µa???)
• Amphinomus
  Amphinomus
  
  In Greek mythology, Amphinomus, also Amph?nomos , was the son of King Nisos and one of the suitors of Penelope that was killed by Odysseus....
   (Amphínomos) (?µf???µ??)
• Amphion
  Amphion
  
  There are several characters named Amphion in Greek mythology:* Amphion,son of Zeus and Antiope , and twin brother of Zethus . Together they are famous for building Thebes ....
  
• Amphinomus
  Amphinomus
  
  In Greek mythology, Amphinomus, also Amph?nomos , was the son of King Nisos and one of the suitors of Penelope that was killed by Odysseus....
  
• Amphithea
  Amphithea
  
  Amphithea is the name of four women in Greek mythology1. Amphithea, wife of Lycurgus , king of Nemea, and mother of Opheltes 2. Amphithea, daughter of Pronax....
    (?µf???a)
• Amphitryon
  Amphitryon
  
  Amphitryon, or Amphitrion, in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus , king of Tiryns in Argolis.Amphitryon was a Thebes, Greece general, who was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese....
   (Amphitrion) (?µf?t????)
• Amyclas
  Amyclas
  
  In Greek mythology, Amyclas refers to two individuals:*Amyclas was the son of Lacedaemon and Sparta , and he was the brother of Eurydice of Argos ....
   (?µ???a?)
• Amycus
  Amycus
  
  In Greek mythology, Amycus was the son of Poseidon and Melia. He was a boxer and King of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia. Polydeuces beat him in a boxing match when the Argonauts passed through Bithynia....
  
• Amymone
  Amymone
  
  In Greek mythology, Amymone was a daughter of Danaus. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identical to Hypermnestra , also the one Danaid who did not assassinate her Egyptian husband on their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did....
  
• Amyntor
  Amyntor
  
  Amyntor , was an ancient Greek name attributed to several people both mythological and historical....
   (?µ??t??)
• Amythaon
• Anaxagoras
  Anaxagoras (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Anaxagoras was a king of Argos and son of either Megapenthes or his son Argeus. The prince, Anaxagoras' son, suffered from a strange malady and the king offered a reward for anybody that could heal him....
   (??a?a???a?)
• Anaxibia
  Anaxibia
  
  Anaxibia is the name of five characters in Greek mythology.*Anaxibia, the daughter of Bias and Iphianassa, and niece of Melampus. She married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, Alcestis, and Medusa....
  
• Anaxo
  Anaxo
  
  In Greek mythology, Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and either Astydamia, daughter of Pelops or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus....
  
• Ancaeus
  Ancaeus
  
  The name Ancaeus or Ankaios is attributed to two heroes in Greek mythology. Both were among the Argonauts, and each met his death at the tusks of a boar....
  
• Anchialus (????a???)
• Anchises
  Anchises
  
  In Greek mythology, Anchises was a son of Capys and Themiste or Hieromneme, a naiad. His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite ....
   (????s??)
• Andraemon
  Andraemon
  
  In Greek mythology, Andraemon, or Andraim?n, was the husband of Dryope and father of Thoas...
  
• Andreus
• Androgeus
  Androgeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Androgeus was the father of Sthenelus and a son of Minos and Pasipha?. Aegeus, King of Athens, killed Androgeus because he won every prize during a feast....
  
• Andromache
  Andromache
  
  In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled....
   (??d??µ???)
• Andromeda
  Andromeda (mythology)
  
  Andromeda was a woman from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster....
    (??d??µ?da)
• Anius
  Anius
  
  In Greek mythology, Anius was the son of Apollo and Rhoeo. Anius was born on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Staphylus when he had discovered her pregnancy washed ashore there....
  
• Antenor
  Antenor
  
  Antenor was an Athens sculptor, of the latter part of the 6th century BC. He was named after the Greek mythology figure also called Antenor . He was the creator of the joint statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, set up by the Athenians on the expulsion of Hippias ....
   (??t????)
• Anticlea
  Anticlea
  
  In Greek mythology, Anticlea, , was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea, and mother of Odysseus by Laertes . She is also the granddaughter of the trickster god Hermes ....
   (Antiklia)
• Antigone
  Antigone
  
  Antigone is the name of two different women in Greek mythology. The name may be taken to mean "unbending", coming from "anti-" and "-gon / -gony" , but has also been suggested to mean "opposed to motherhood" or "in place of a mother" based from the root gone, "that which generates" ....
    (??t?????)
• Antilochus
  Antilochus
  
  In Greek mythology, Antilochus was the son of Nestor , king of Pylos. One of the suitors of Helen, he accompanied his father to the Trojan War....
   (??t??????)
• Antimachus (??t?µa???)
• Antinous
  Antinous
  
  For the constellation, see Antinous ; for the asteroid, see 1863 Antinous; for the mythological figure, see Antinous son of EupeithesAntino?s or Antino?s , was a member of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's entourage, to whom he was beloved....
   (Antinoös)
• Antion
• Antiope
  Antiope
  
  Antiope can mean:* Greek mythology:** Antiope - sister of Hippolyte kidnapped by Theseus, during Heracles' ninth Twelve Labours#The Labours;...
   (??t??p?)
• Antiphates
  Antiphates
  
  In Greek mythology, Ant?phat?s or Antiph?t?s is the name of five characters.# Ant?phat?s, Monarch of the Laestrygones, a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals....
  
• Antiphus
  Antiphus
  
  In Greek mythology, Antiphus is a name attributed to multiple individuals:*In the Iliad, Antiphus, or ?ntiphos ,one of the 50 sons of Priam, and son of Hecuba....
  
• Aphareus
  Aphareus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aphareus , son of Gorgophone and Perieres, was the husband of Arene and father of Lynceus and Idas....
  
• Apheidas
  Apheidas
  
  Apheidas was a mythical King of Athens of Athens, son of Oxyntes. After a short reign of one year, his brother Thymoetes succeeded him on the throne....
  
• Apis
  Apis (Greek mythology)
  
  Apis in Greek mythology was the king of Apia a ruler in the long line of rulers of Sicyon. He was the son of either Phoroneus and the nymph Teledice, or Phoroneus and Peitho, or of Phoroneus and Cinna , or of Apollo, or of Telchis....
  
• Apsyrtus
• Arachne
  Arachne
  
  In Greco-Roman mythology, Arachne was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Minerva, the Latin parallel of Pallas Athena, goddess of crafts....
   (Arakhne)
• Arcas
  Arcas
  
  In Greek_mythology, Arcas is the son of Zeus and Callisto . Callisto was a nymph of the goddess Artemis. Zeus, being a flirtatious god, wanted Callisto for a lover....
  
• Arcesius
  Arcesius
  
  In Greek mythology, Arcesius was the son of Cephalus, and king in Ithaca. Zeus made his line one of "only child": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus, whose only son was Telemachus....
   (Arkêsios)
• Arete
  Arete (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. She welcomed Odysseus and treated him hospitably....
  
• Argea
  Argea
  
  In Greek mythology, Argea or Argia was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, and of Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes , and bore him three sons: Thersander, Adrastus, and Timeas....
  
• Argeius
• Argos
• Ariadne
  Ariadne
  
  Ariadne, in Greek mythology , was daughter of Monarch Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasipha?, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. She aided Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and later became the bride of the god Dionysus....
   (????d??)
• Arion
  Arion
  
  Arion was a legendary kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysus poet credited with inventing the dithyramb. The islanders of Lesbos Island claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth....
  
• Aristodemus
  Aristodemus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aristodemus was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Temenus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack on Mycenae in the Peloponnesus....
   (???st?d?µ??)
• Aristomachus (???st?µa???)
• Arsinoe
  Arsinoe
  
  Arsinoe , sometimes spelled Arsino?, may refer to:...
   (??s????)
• Asclepius
  Asclepius
  
  Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea and Panacea symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine, and healing, respectively....
   (?s???p???)
• Asius
  Asius
  
  Asius may refer to:* Asius son of Hyrtacus.* Asius .* Asius of Samos, an ancient Greek genealogical poet.* Asius , a genus of Gelinae wasps....
  
• Assaracus
  Assaracus
  
  In Greek mythology, Assaracus was the second son of King Tros of Dardania . He inherited the throne when his elder brother Ilus preferred to reign instead over his newly founded city of Troy ....
  
• Astacus
  Astacus
  
  Astacus is a genus of crayfish found in Europe and western Asia, comprising three species.Due to the American crayfish plague, crayfish of this genus have been almost wiped out in Europe and have in many European countries been replaced by the North American signal crayfish, which is more resistant to the plague....
  
• Asterius
  Asterius
  
  The name "Asterius" may refetr to:* Asterion, name of two sacred kings of Crete.* Asterius of Amasia, bishop of Amasia, later in the 4th century....
  
• Astyanax
  Astyanax
  
  In Greek mythology, Astyanax was the son of Hector and Andromache. His birth name was Scamandrius , but the people of Troy nicknamed him Astyanax , because he was the son of the city's great defender and the heir apparent's firstborn son....
   (?st???a?)
• Astydameia
  Astydameia
  
  In Greek mythology, Astydameia is a name attributed to three individuals....
   (?st?d?µe?a)
• Astypalaea
  Astypalaea
  
  In Greek mythology, Astypalaea was the daughter of Agenor and Perimede and the sister of Europa . She was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her in the form of a goat and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos Island, and Eurypylos, King of Kos....
   (?st?p??a?a)
• Astyoche
  Astyoche
  
  The name Astyoche was attributed to three individuals in Greek mythology.*Daughter of Laomedon, wife of Telephus and mother of Eurypylus.*Daughter of Actor , mother of Ascalaphus with Ares....
  
• Atalanta
  Atalanta
  
  Atalanta is a character from ancient Greek mythology.After being told by an oracle she would be ruined if she were to marry, Atalanta set up a contest to win her hand in marriage....
   (?ta???t?)
• Athamas
  Athamas
  
  The king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology, Athamas , was married first to the goddess Nephele with whom he had the twins Phrixus and Helle . He later divorced Nephele and married Ino , daughter of Cadmus....
   (???µa?)
• Atreus
  Atreus
  
  In Greek mythology, Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, a king of Mycenae, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae....
   (?t??a?)
• Atymnius
• Auge
  Auge
  
  In Greek mythology, Auge a daughter of Aleus and Neaera and priestess of Athena Alea at Tegea, bore the Greek hero Telephos to Heracles....
  
• Augeas
  Augeas
  
  In Greek mythology, Augeas , whose name means "bright", was king of Elis and husband of Epicaste. He is best known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned ....
   (???e?a?)
• Autesion
  Autesion
  
  In Greek mythology, Autesion ? the son of Tisamenus, the grandson of Thersander and the great-grandson of Polyneices ? was a king of Thebes.He is called the father of Theras and Argeia, by the latter of whom Aristodemus became the father of Eurysthenes and Procles....
  
• Autolycus
  Autolycus
  
  In Greek mythology, Autolycus was a son of Hermes and Chione . He was the husband of Neaera, or according to Homer of Amphithea. Autolycus fathered Anticlea and several sons of whom only Aesimus is named....
  
• Automedon
  Automedon
  
  In Greek mythology, Automedon , son of Diores, was Achilles' charioteer. In Homer's Iliad, he rides into battle once Patroclus has donned Achilles's armor, commanding Achilles' horses Balius and Xanthos....
   (??t?µ?d??)
• Autonoe
  Autonoe
  
  In Greek mythology, Autono? was a daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, Greece, and the goddess Harmonia . She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris....
  
• Bateia
  Bateia
  
  In Greek mythology, Bateia can refer to several characters:*The daughter of King Teucer and ancesstress of the Troy.*A naiads. Either she or Gorgophone was the mother of Hippocoon, Icarius and Tyndareus with the Spartan King Oebalus....
  
• Battus
  Battus
  
  Battus can refer to:*In Greek mythology, Battus is a shepherd from Pylos, Battus witnessed Hermes stealing Apollo 's cattle. Though he promised his silence, he told many others....
  
• Baucis
  Baucis
  
  Baucis means several things:* A character in the Greek mythology of Baucis and Philemon* Asteroid 172 Baucis* A Ancient Greece poet whose work is now lost, contemporaneous with Sappho and Erinna, apostrophized in Erinna's Distaff....
  
• Bellerophon
  Bellérophon
  
  Bell?rophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed at the Palais Royal, Paris on 31 January 1679....
  
• Belus
  Belus
  
  Belus in Latin or Belos in Greek language transliteration is one of...
  
• Bias
  Bias (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos . Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Talaus, with her....
  
• Borus
• Briseis
  Briseis
  
  Hippodameia Brise?s is a Troy woman captured by the Greeks in the Iliad. She was first Achilles' prize of the Trojan war; he fell in love with her....
  
• Briseus
  Briseus
  
  In Greek mythology, Briseus is the father of Briseis , a maiden captured by the Greeks during the Trojan War, as recorded in the Iliad. Eustathius of Thessalonica, a commentator on Homer, says Briseus and Chryses were brothers, as sons of Ardys, with Briseus dwelling in Pedasus, and Chryses residing in Chrysa; both were towns in the Troa...
  
• Britomartis
  Britomartis
  
  Britomartis is among the Minoan goddess figures that passed through the Mycenaeans' culture into classical Greek mythology, with transformations that are unclear in both transferrals....
  
• Broteas
  Broteas
  
  In Greek mythology, Broteas was the ugly son of Tantalus, whose other offspring were Niobe and Pelops. He carved the most ancient image of the Great Mother of the Gods , an image that in Pausanias ' day was still held sacred by the Magnesia ad Sipylum....
  
• Bunus
  Bunus
  
  Bunus is a small village and commune in France in the Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques d?partement in France of southwestern France.It is located in the Provinces of France of Lower Navarre....
  
• Busiris
  Busiris
  
  Busiris or Bousiris Greek language: polytonic|...
  
• Butes
  Butes
  
  In Greek mythology, the name Butes referred to three different people.*An Argonauts, son of Teleon. Aphrodite's lover, a famous bee keeper and a Sicily king....
  
• Byblis
  Byblis
  
  In Greek mythology, Byblis was a daughter of Miletus. Her mother was either Tragasia, Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander , or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria....
  

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• Cadmus
  Cadmus
  
  Cadmus or Kadmos , in Greek mythology mythology, was a Phoenician prince, the son of Agenor and the brother of Phoenix , Cilix and Europa ....
  
• Caeneus
  Caeneus
  
  In Greek mythology, Caeneus was a Lapith hero and originally a Thessaly woman, Caenis....
   (Caenis
  Caenis
  
  Caenis, a former slave and secretary of Antonia Minor , was the mistress of the Roman emperor Vespasian. Lives of the Twelve Caesars says that after the death of Vespasian's wife Domitilla the Elder, Caenis was his wife in all but name until her death in AD 74....
   when female)
• Calchas
  Calchas
  
  In Greek mythology, Calchas , son of Thestor, was a Argive seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received of Apollo: "as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp"....
  
• Callidice
  Kallidike
  
  Kallidike , queen of Thesprotia, wife of Odysseus, they had a son together, Polypoetes. According to the Telegony , Odysseus was sent on another voyage by the gods after killing all of Penelope's suitors....
  
• Callirhoe
  Callirhoe
  
  Callirrhoe may refer to* Callirrhoe , a daughter of Oceanus and mother of Echidna in Greek mythology, one of the Oceanids* Callirrhoe , a moon of Jupiter...
  
• Callisto
  Callisto (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Callisto was a nymph of Artemis. Transformed into a bear and Catasterism, she was the bear-mother of the Arcadians, through her son Arcas....
  
• Calyce
  Calyce (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Kalyke , Calyce or Calycia is the name of at least two characters.*A nymph, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete. Some sources state that she was the mother of Endymion , king of Elis, by her husband Aethlius, king of Elis or by Zeus....
  
• Calydon
  Calydon
  
  Calydon was an ancient Greece city in Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus. According to Greek mythology, the city took its name from its founder Calydon, son of Aetolus, son of Endymion....
  
• Canace
  Canace
  
  In Greek mythology, Canace was a daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and lover of Poseidon.Canace had seven brothers and six sisters. Her brothers were Athamas, Cretheus, Deioneus, Macar , Perieres, Salmoneus and Sisyphus....
  
• Canthus
  Canthus
  
  Canthus can refer to:* Canthus , a part of the eye* Canthus , one of the Argonauts* Canthus , a Impact crater ...
  
• Capaneus
  Capaneus
  
  In Greek mythology, Capaneus was a son of Hipponous and Astynome, and husband of Evadne, with whom he fathered Sthenelus.According to the legend, Capaneus had immense strength and body size and was an outstanding warrior....
  
• Capys
  Capys
  
  In Greek mythology, Capys was a name attributed to three individuals:*A son of Assaracus and Aigesta or Themiste or Clytodora or Hieromneme, and father of Anchises and so grandfather of Aeneas....
  
• Car
  Car (mythology)
  
  Car is an ancient Greek name attributed to two individuals in Greek mythology. According to Pausanias, Car was the king of Megara and the son of Phoroneus ....
  
• Carme
  Carme
  
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• Carnabon
• Cassandra
  Cassandra
  
  In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy....
  
• Cassiopeia
• Castor
• Catreus
  Catreus
  
  In Greek mythology, Catreus was a son of Minos and Pasipha?. He had one son, Althaemenes, and three daughters, Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene. An oracle told Catreus that one of his children would murder him....
  
• Caunus
  Kaunos (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Caunus was a son of Miletus and brother of Byblis. She fell in love with Caunus. He ran away and she followed him through much of Greece and Asia Minor until she finally died, tired and sad....
  
• Cebriones
• Cecrops
  Cecrops
  
  This name may refer to two Greek mythology King of Athens Athens:* Cecrops I* Cecrops IIIt more often refers to Cecrops I, who was the better known....
  
• Ceisus
• Celeus
  Celeus
  
  Celeus was the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology. While Demeter was searching for her daughter, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the king of Eleusis in Attica, Greece....
  
• Cephalus
  Cephalus
  
  Cephalus is an Ancient Greek name, used both for historical persons and for characters in Greek mythology. The word cephalus is Greek for "head", perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding "head" of a great family that includes Odysseus....
  
• Cepheus, King of Aethiopia
  Cepheus, King of Aethiopia
  
  In Greek mythology, Cepheus was ruler of the Phoenician nation of Ethiopia .Cepheus' parentage is usually given as Belus and Achiroe, making him the brother of Danaus, King of Libya, and Aegyptus, King of Egypt....
  
• Cepheus, King of Tegea
• Cerdo
  Cerdo
  
  Cerdo may refer to:* Cerdo , a Greek mythological figure* Cerdo , a Syrian gnostic of the 2nd Century AD* Kedron of Alexandria, an early patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Alexandria...
  
• Cestrinus
  Cestrinus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cestrinus was the only son of Helenus and Andromache. According to Pausanias, Cestrinus was upset when Andromache's son Molossus succeeded Helenus to the throne of Epirus....
  
• Ceyx
• Chalciope
  Chalciope
  
  Chalciope was a princess in Greek mythology, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, sister of Medea and wife of Phrixus. Phrixus, son of Athamus and Nephele, along with his twin Helle , were hated by their stepmother, Ino....
  
• Chalcodon
  Chalcodon
  
  In Greek mythology, Chalcodon was the son of Abas and the king of the Abantes. While leading his people in an attack on Thebes, Greece he was killed by Amphitryon....
  
• Chione
  Chione
  
  In Greek mythology Chione, the snow-nymph, was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind and Oreithyia, whom he abducted. The Eumolpidae in charge of the Eleusinian mysteries claimed descent from her, as the mother of Eumolpus with Poseidon....
  
• Chiron
  Chiron
  
  In Greek mythology, Chiron or Cheiron was held as the superlative centaur among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents....
  
• Chloris
  Chloris
  
  There are many stories in Greek mythology about figures named Chloris . Some clearly refer to different characters; other stories may refer to the same Chloris, but disagree on details....
  
• Chryseis
  Chryseis
  
  In Greek mythology, Chryseis was a Troy woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome....
  
• Chryses
  Chryses
  
  In Greek mythology, Chryses was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy. According to a tradition mentioned by Eustathius of Thessalonica, Chryses and Briseus were brothers, sons of a man named Ardys ....
  
• Chrysippus
  Chrysippus
  
  Chrysippus of Soli was Cleanthes' pupil and his successor, in 232 BC, as third head of the Stoa . A prolific writer, Chrysippus expanded the fundamental doctrines of Zeno of Citium , which earned him the title of Second Founder of Stoicism....
  
• Chrysothemis
  Chrysothemis
  
  In Greek mythology, Chrysothemis was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest or enact vengeance against their mother for having an affair with Aegisthus and then killing their father....
  
• Chthonius
• Cilix
  Cilix
  
  In Greek mythology, Cilix was a son of Agenor and brother of Cadmus and Europa . His father was either Agenor or Phoenix , son of Agenor.Zeus saw Europa gathering flowers and immediately fell in love with her....
  
• Cinyras
  Cinyras
  
  According to Greek mythology, the king Cinyras of Cyprus was a son of Apollo and the husband of Galatea . With Galatea, he fathered Adonis and Myrrha....
  
• Cleite
• Cleodaeus
  Cleodaeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cleodaeus was one of the Heracleidae, a grandson of Heracles. He led the third attempt to capture Mycenae and failed....
  
• Cleopatra
• Clymene
  Clymene
  
  Clymene or Klymen? may refer to:*104 Klymene, an asteroid*Clymene Dolphin *Clymene or Asia , an Oceanid, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas , Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius...
  
• Clymenus
  Clymenus
  
  In Greek mythology, Clymenus, or Klym?nos may refer to any number of individuals:*Clymenus was the father of Eurydice of Pylos.*Clymenus was the son of King Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea....
  
• Clytemnestra
  Clytemnestra
  
  Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greece kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. In the Oresteia by Aeschylus, she was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon—said by Euripides to be her second husband—and his concubine Cassandra....
  
• Clytius
  Clytius
  
  Clytius is the name of many people in Greek mythology:#A son of Laomedon, brother of Priam, and an elder of Troy. Also spelled Klythios, Klytios, Clytios, and Klytius....
  
• Codrus
  Codrus
  
  Codrus , King of Athens was, according to Ancient Greece legend, the last of the legendary King of Athens.During the time of the Dorians Invasion of Peloponnesus , the Dorians under Aletes, son of Hippotes had consulted the Delphic Oracle, who prophesied that their invasion would succeed as long as the king was not harmed....
  
• Comaetho
  Comaetho
  
  In Greek mythology, Comaetho was the daughter of Pterelaos. She was a Taphian princess who loved Amphitryon.The Taphians were at war with Thebes , led by Amphitryon....
  
• Copreus
  Copreus
  
  In Greek mythology, Copreus was King Eurystheus' herald. He announced Heracles' Twelve Labors. Copreus was said to be a son of Pelops and Hippodameia....
  
• Corcyra
• Corinthus
• Coronis
  Coronis
  
  Coronis may refer to:*Coronis *Coronis *Coronis ...
  
• Coronus
  Coronus
  
  Coronus may mean different things:...
  
• Cranaus
  Cranaus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second Kings of Athens of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I.He was autochthonous , like his predecessor. During his reign the flood of the Deucalion story was thought to have occurred....
  
• Creon
  Creon
  
  Creon is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes,_Greece in the legend of Oedipus. He was the father of Menoeceus and Megara by his wife, Eurydice of Thebes....
  
• Cresphontes
  Cresphontes
  
  In Greek mythology, Cresphontes was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Temenus and Aristodemus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack on Mycenae in the Peloponnesus....
  
• Crete
• Cretheus
  Cretheus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cretheus, or Kretheus was the king and founder of Iolcus, the son of Aeolus and Enarete. His wives were Sidero, Tyro and either Demodice or Biadice....
  
• Creusa
  Creusa
  
  In Greek mythology, four people had the name Creusa ; the name means simply "princess"....
  
• Crisus
• Croesus
  Croesus
  
  Croesus was the Monarch of Lydia from 560/561 BC until his defeat by the Persian Empire in about 547 BC. The fall of Croesus made a profound impact on the Greeks, providing a fixed point in their calendar....
  
• Cychreus
• Cycnus
  Cycnus
  
  In Greek mythology, four people were known as Cycnus or Cygnus . Most of them ended up being transformed into swans. The most famous Cycnus however, was the son of Ares....
  
• Cylla
• Cynortas
  Cynortas
  
  In Greek mythology, Cynortas was a king of Sparta. He was the father of Oebalus and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus a son of Amyclas....
  
• Cyparissus
  Cyparissus
  
  In Greek mythology, the myth set in Chios tells of Cyparissus , a young boy and son of Telephus. Though the mythic context and the setting is Hellenic, the subject is essentially known from Hellenizing Latin literature and Pompeiian frescoes....
  
• Cypselus
  Cypselus
  
  Cypselus was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC.With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Ancient Greece city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings; Corinth, the richest archaic polis, led the way....
  
• Cytisorus
• Cyzicus
• Daedalion
  Daedalion
  
  In Greek mythology, Daedalion was a son of Hesperos and brother of Ceyx. He is described as a cruel and warlike man. His daughter Chione was so beautiful that both Apollo and Hermes impreganted her....
  
• Daedalus
  Daedalus
  
  In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a most skillful artificer, or craftsman, so skillful that he was said to have invented images that seemed to move about....
  
• Damocles
  Damocles
  
  Damocles is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote concerning the Sword of Damocles, which was a late addition to classical Greek culture....
  
• Danaë
  Danaë
  
  File:Danae gold shower Louvre CA925.jpgIn Greek mythology, Dana? was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Eurydice of Argos . She was the mother of Perseus by Zeus....
  
• Danaus
  Danaus
  
  Danaus, or Danaos , was a Greek mythology, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus , a mythical king of Ancient Egypt. The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean Greece cities of the Peloponnesus....
  
• Dardanus
  Dardanus
  
  In Greek mythology, Dardanus was a son of Zeus and Electra , daughter of Atlas , and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad....
  
• Dascylus
  Dascylus
  
  In Greek mythology, King Dascylus or Daskylos of Mysia or Mariandyne was the father of Lycus. One account says that Dascylus was a son of Tantalus....
  
• Deianeira
• Deimachus
• Deion
• Deiphobus
  Deiphobus
  
  In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris ....
  
• Deiphontes
• Deipyle
  Deipyle
  
  In Greek mythology, Deipyle or Dipyle was the daughter of Adrastus and Amphithea, mother of Diomedes and wife of Tydeus....
  
• Demonassa
  Demonassa
  
  In Greek mythology, Demonassa was a name attributed to four women.*Demonassa, daughter of Amphiaraus, king of Argos and Eriphyle. She married Thersander and had a son, Tisamenus....
  
• Demonice
  Demonice
  
  In Greek mythology Demonice is the name of two women.1. Demonice a maiden of Ephesus. Brennus, king of the Gauls who was raising Asia Minor came to Ephesus and fell in love with Demonice....
  
• Demophon
  Demophon
  
  In Greek mythology, Demophon referred to two different persons:*Demophon , a king of Athens, Greece, according to Pindar, son of Theseus and half brother of Acamas, fought in the Trojan War and was one of those to be in the Trojan Horse...
  
• Deucalion
  Deucalion
  
  In Greek mythology, Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Ages of Man with the Deluge #The flood of Deucalion....
  
• Dexamenus
  Dexamenus
  
  Dexamenus was a name attributed to two characters in Greek mythology.*Dexamenus, son of Oeceus, king of Olenus. The Centaur Eurytion forced him to betroth his daughter, Mnesimache, to him....
  
• Dia
  Dia (mythology)
  
  Dia in Greek mythology was the mother of the Lapiths Pirithous, whose marriage to Hippodamia was the occasion of the Lapiths' battle with the Centaurs....
  
• Dictys
  Dictys
  
  Dictys was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology.*Dictys was a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos, both being the sons of Magnes by a naiad....
  
• Diomedes
  Diomedes
  
  Diomedes or Diomed is a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his grandfather, Adrastus....
  
• Diores
  Diores
  
  In Greek mythology, Dior?s referred to two different people.*One was the father of Automedon.*One was the son of Amarynceus Diores is also the name of an Diores ....
  
• Dioscuri (Castor and Polydeuces)
• Dirce
  Dirce
  
  Dirce was the wife of Lycus in Greek mythology, and aunt to Antiope whom Zeus impregnated. Antiope fled in shame to King Epopeus of Sicyon, but was brought back by Lycus through force, giving birth to the twins Amphion and Zethus on the way....
  
• Dius
• Dolius
• Dolon
  Dolon
  
  In Greek mythology, Dolon fought for Troy during the Trojan War. He was the child of Eumedes, along with 5 sisters. Considered a fast runner, he volunteered to spy on the Greek ships....
  
• Dorus
  Dorus
  
  In Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of several individuals:#Dorus was a son of Hellen and founder of the Dorian nation. Each of Hellen's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece - Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the Dorians and Xuthus the Achaeans and the Ionians together with his sister's Pandora's sons with Zeus and according to Hesiod's "...
  
• Dryope
  Dryope
  
  In Greek mythology, Dryope was the daughter of Dryops or of Eurytus . She was sometimes thought of as one of the Pleiades . There are two stories of her Shapeshifting into a black poplar....
  
• Echemus
  Echemus
  
  In Greek mythology, Echemus was the king of Arcadia. He succeeded Lycurgus, and married Timandra , daughter of Leda and Tyndareus of Sparta.Timandra bore him a son, Laodocus, before deserting Echemus for Phyleus, the king of Dulichium....
  
• Echetus
  Echetus
  
  King Echetus exists within Greek mythology, he is the son of Euchenor and Phlogea, and was the cruel king of Epirus ....
  
• Echion
  Echion
  
  In Greek mythology, the name Echion, "[son] of the viper", echis) referred to five different beings.*One of the Gigantes.*One of the surviving Spartoi, the "sown men" that sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus; "it was Echion who, for his great valor, was preferred by Cadmus to be his son-in-law:" Echion was father of Pe...
  
• Eetion
  Eetion
  
  In Greek mythology, E?tion was the king of the Cilician Thebe. He is the father of Andromache, wife of Hector, and of seven sons, including Podes....
  
• Elatus
  Elatus
  
  There were six figures named Elatus or ?latos in Greek mythology.* Elatus, a Lapiths chieftain, was the father, by Hippeia, of:**Ischys who was beloved by Coronis....
   (Élatos)
• Electra
  Electra
  
  In Greek mythology, Electra was an Argosian princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and was a sibling to sisters Iphigeneia, Chrysothemis, and brother Orestes....
  
• Electryon
  Electryon
  
  In Greek mythology, Electryon was the son of Perseus and Andromeda , and king of Mycenae. He married either Anaxo, daughter of his brother Alcaeus and sister of Amphitryon, or Eurydice of Mycenae daughter of Pelops....
  
• Eleius
• Elephenor
  Elephenor
  
  In Greek mythology, Elephenor was the son of Chalcodon and king of the Abantes of Euboea. He received the sons of Theseus of Athens, Acamas and Demophon, when they fled the usurper Menestheus....
  
• Eleusis
• Elpenor
  Elpenor
  
  In Greek mythology, Elpenor was a good friend of Odysseus. Elpenor was not especially notable for his intelligence or strength, but he survived the Trojan War, and appears in the Odyssey....
  
• Elymus
  Elymus
  
  In Greek mythology, Elymus was the mythical ancestor of the Elymi, natives of Sicily.In botany, Elymus is the genus of the wild rye....
   (Elumos)
• Endeis
  Endeis
  
  Endeis in Greek mythology was the wife of Aeacus and mother of Telamon and Peleus. Endeis was the daughter of either the Centaur Chiron and the nymph Chariclo, or of Sciron of Megara....
  
• Endymion
  Endymion (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Endymion could have been a handsome Aeolians shepherd or hunter, or, even a king who ruled and was said to reside at Olympia in Elis, but he was also said to reside and was venerated on Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor....
  
• Epaphus
  Epaphus
  
  In Greek mythology, Epaphus , also called Apis, was the son of Zeus and Io and a king of Egypt.The name/word Epaphus means "Touch-born". This refers to the manner in which he was conceived, by the touch of Zeus' hand....
  
• Epeius
  Epeius
  
  There were two characters named Epeius in Greek mythology.#One was a Greek soldier during the Trojan War. He was the son of Panopeus and had the reputation for being a coward....
  
• Epicasta
• Epidaurus
• Epopeus
  Epopeus
  
  Epopeus was a Greek mythology king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops , the hoopoe, the "watcher". A fragment of Callimachus' Aitia appears to ask, "Why, at Sicyon, is it the hoopoe, and not the usual "splendid ravens", that is the Auspice?"...
  
• Erechtheus
  Erechtheus
  
  Erechtheus in Greek mythology was the name of an archaic king of Athens, the re-founder of the polis and a double at Athens for Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus"....
  
• Erginus
  Erginus
  
  In Greek mythology, Erginus was king of Minyans Orchomenus in Boeotia. He was the son of Clymenus, his predecessor, and Buzyge . Erginus avenged his father's death at the hands of the Thebes ; he made war against Thebes, inflicting a heavy defeat....
   (Erginos)
• Erichthonius
  Erichthonius
  
  Erichthonius can refer to:*Erichthonius of Athens*Erichthonius of Dardania...
  
• Eriphyle
  Eriphyle
  
  In Greek mythology, Eriphyle, daughter of Talaus, was the mother of Alcmaeon and the wife of Amphiaraus. Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the raid that initiated the mythic tale of the Seven Against Thebes, though she knew he would die....
  
• Eteocles
  Eteocles
  
  In Greek mythology, Eteocles was a king of Thebes , the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia. The name is from earlier *Etewoklewes , meaning "truly glorious"....
  
• Eumaeus
  Eumaeus
  
  In Greek mythology, Eumaeus, or Eumaios , was Odysseus's swineherd and friend before he left for the Trojan War. He was brought up with Odysseus and his sister Ctimene as a family slave, although he was treated by Anticleia, their mother, almost as Ctimene's equal....
   (Eumaios)
• Eumelus
  Eumelus
  
  Eumelus was the name of:*Eumelus of Corinth, an epic poet of the second half of the eighth century BC*Several men in Greek mythology:**A Eumelus succeeded Admetus as the King of Pherae....
  
• Europa
  Europa (mythology)
  
  Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story, as K?roly Ker?nyi points out; "most of the love-stories concerning Zeus originated from more ancient tales describing his ma...
  
• Eurotas
• Euryalus
  Euryalus
  
  Euryalus refers to two different characters from classical literature:#In the Aeneid by Virgil, Nisus and Euryalus are ideal friends, who died during a raid on the Rutulians....
  
• Eurycleia (also Eurýkleia, Euryclea)
• Eurylochus
  Eurylochus
  
  In Greek mythology, Eurylochus, or Eur?lokhos appears in Homer's Odyssey as second-in-command of Odysseus' ship during the return to Ithaca after the Trojan War....
  
• Eurymachus
  Eurymachus
  
  The name Eurymachus, or Eur?makhos, is attributed to the following individuals:...
  
• Eurypylus
  Eurypylus
  
  In Greek mythology, Eurypylus was the name of several different people....
  
• Eurystheus
  Eurystheus
  
  In Greek mythology, Eurystheus was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean Greece strongholds in the Argolid: Sthenelus was his father and the "victorious horsewoman" Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus , as was his opponent Heracles....
  
• Eurytion
  Eurytion
  
  In Greek mythology Eurytion . "widely-honoured", was a name attributed to six individuals.*The king of Phthia, son of either Actor , or of Ctimenus, or of Irus and Demonassa, and father of Antigone ....
  
• Eurytus
  Eurytus
  
  In Greek mythology, Eurytus is the name of numerous characters....
  
• Ganymede
  Ganymede (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Ganymede, or Ganymedes is a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. He was a Troy prince, son of the eponym Tros of Dardania, and of Callirrhoe , and brother of Ilus and Assaracus....
  

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