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Theseus (mythology)

Theseus was a mythological figure best known for slaying the Minotaur in Daedalus labyrinth at Crete.more...
Paris

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Aurora (goddess)

Aurora is the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology; her Greek counterpart is Eos. In Roman mythology, Aurora renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun....
Cupid

In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupido, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus, and is known in Latin also as Amor ("Love"). His Greek counterpart is E...
Venus (goddess)

Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed ...
Glaucus

Glaucus (Γλαῦκος, gen: Γλαύκου) was a Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb. It was believed that he commonly came to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having once been one himself....
Ares (god)

Ares (Greek: Ἄρης), was the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions a...
Perseus

Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς), the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans, was the first of the heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths of the Twelve Olympians. Pers...
Pentheus

In Greek mythology, Pentheus (Greek: Πενθεύς) was a king of Thebes. His father was Echion, the wisest of the Spartes. His mother was Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and the goddess Harmonia. His sister was Epeiros. He resisted agains...
Circe

In Greek mythology, Circe (Greek Κίρκη) is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary isla...
Atlas

In Greek mythology, Atlas (Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere. He is also the titan of astronomy and navigation. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains i...
Triton

Triton (Τρίτων, gen: Τρίτωνος) is a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the sea. He is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively, and is herald for his father. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper ...
Medusa

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Deucalion

In Greek mythology, Deucalion (Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was a son of Prometheus. The anger of Zeus was ignited by the hubris of the Pelasgians, so he decided to put an end to the Bronze Age. Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, had sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who ...
Isis

Isis (Ancient Greek: Ἶσις, original Egyptian pronunciation "Aset" or "Iset") is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patrones...
Calliope (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Calliope (Ancient Greek: Καλλιόπη Kalliopē "beautiful-voiced") was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is believed to be Homers muse, the inspiration for the Odyssey and the Iliad. Calliope is usually see...
Minerva

Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and defense. She was born from the godhead of Jupiter with weapons. The Romans equated her with the Greek goddess Athena. She was the virgin goddess of music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, co...
Juno (goddess)

Juno (Latin: Iūno) is an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister (but also the wife) of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Mars and Vulcan. Juno also looked after the women of Ro...
Medea Of Colchis

In Greek mythology, Medea (Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia, Georgian: მედეა, Medea) was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Phere...
Chiron

In Greek mythology, Chiron (Greek: Χείρων "hand") was held to be the superlative centaur among his brethren. Chiron was notable throughout Greek mythology for his kourotrophic (bringer up of boys) nature. His personal skills tend to match those of Apollo,...
Arachne (mythology)

In Greco-Roman mythology, Arachne was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Athena, goddess of wisdom, weaving, and strategy. Arachne refused to acknowledge that her knowledge came, in part at least, from the goddess. O...
Diana (goddess)

In Roman mythology, Diana (lt. "heavenly" or "divine") was the goddess of the hunt, the moon and birthing, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals. She was equated with the Greek goddess Artemis...
Philomela

Philomela or Philomel (Ancient Greek: Φιλομήλα) is a minor figure in Greek mythology and is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary, artistic, and musical works in the Western canon.She is identified as being the "princess of Athe...
Abaris

Abaris the Hyperborean (Greek: Ἄβαρις Ὑπερβόρειος, Abaris Hyperboreios), son of Seuthes, was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, near the Cau...
Achelous

In Greek mythology, Achelous (English pronunciation: /ækɨˈloʊ.əs/; Greek: Ἀχελῷος Achelōos) was the patron deity of the "silver-swirling" Achelous River, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its...
Acoetes

Acoetes (Greek Ἀκοίτης, Latin Ăcoetēs) is known for helping the god Bacchus. The helmsman of a Greek ship on which the god Dionysus, disguised as a beautiful youth, was taking passage. When the sailors tried to abduct the youth, Acoetes recognized the god...
Actaeon

Actaeon (Ancient Greek: Ἀκταίων), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron. He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis...
Aeacus

Aeacus (Ancient Greek: Αἰακός) is the son of Zeus and Aegina. He was the monarch of the island of Aegina, which was named after his mother. When his country was depopulated by the plague, he prayed to Zeus to grant him new subjects. Zeus then provided a n...
Aeëtes

In Greek mythology, Aeëtes (Greek: Αἰήτης) was the son of Helios, and king of Colchis. During his reign, Phrixus brought the Golden Fleece to Colchis, where it was later taken by the Argonauts. Aeetes is the father of the sorceress Medea....
Aegeus

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (Ancient Greek: Αἰγεύς) or Aegeas (Αιγέας), 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 instituti...
Aesculapius

Aesculapius (Latin) or Asclepius (Greek: Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós) is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of h...
Aeson

In Greek mythology, Aeson or Aison (Ancient Greek: Αἴσων) was the son of Cretheus and Tyro, father of Jason. He was the king of Iolcus, but was driven away by his half-brother Pelias....
Aglaulus

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Alcmene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμήνη) was the wife of Amphitryon. While he was away, Zeus appeared before her in Amphitryons guise, and seduced her. She became by him the mother of Heracles.more...
Andromeda

In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of Cepheus, an Aethiopian king, and Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeias hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster to ravage Aethiopia as divine pu...
Aquilo

The Roman personification of the North Wind. His Greek counterpart is Boreas....
Arcas

In Greek mythology, Arcas (Ἀρκάς) was the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto, who was turned into a bear by Hera out of envy. When Arcas during a hunt attempted to kill the bear, Zeus intervened and put them both in the sky as constellations (Ursa Major a...
Arethusa

Arethusa (Ἀρέθουσα) means "the waterer". In Greek mythology, she was a nymph and daughter of Nereus (making her a Nereid), and later became a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily.more...
Argus

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Athamas

In Greek mythology, Athamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀθάμας) was the king of Orchomenus, son of Aeolus. He divorced his first wife, the goddess Nephele, to be able to marry Ino, the daughter of Cadmus. With Nephele he had two children, Phrixus and Helle, and with ...
Athis

Athis was a young demigod from India, son of Limnaee, a nymph of the River Ganges. He was follower of Phineus. During a quarrel between Perseus and Phineus, Perseus killed Athis, who was preparing to shoot his bow, with a log that had been smoldering in t...
Bacchus (god)

The Roman god of wine and intoxication, equated with the Greek Dionysus....
Battus

A shepherd of Neleus who witnessed the theft of Apollos cattle by Hermes. When he, despite his vow to keep silent, told others about the theft, Hermes turned him into a stone.more...
Boreas

Boreas (Greek: Βορέας, Boréas) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged...
Cadmus (mythology)

Cadmus or Kadmos (Ancient Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician prince, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his...
Callisto

In Greek mythology, Callisto or Kallisto (Greek: Καλλιστώ) was a nymph of Artemis. As a follower of Artemis, Callisto took a vow to remain a virgin, as did all the nymphs of Artemis. But to have her, Zeus disguised himself, as Artemis herself, in order to...
Cecrops I

Cecrops (Ancient Greek: Κέκροψ, Kékrops; gen.: Κέκροπος) was a mythical king of Athens who is said to have reigned for fifty-six years. The name is not of Greek origin according to Strabo, or it might mean face with a tail: it is said that, bo...
Cephalus

In Greek mythology, the son of Hermes and Herse. He was married to Procris, a daughter of Erechtheus. While hunting he was kidnapped by Eos, but she could not diminish his love for Procris. However, when Procris, out of jealousy, spied on her husband duri...
Ceres

In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (Latin: Cerēs) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. Ceres is the only one of Romes many agricultural deities to be listed among the Di Consentes, Romes equivalent to ...
Chariclo

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Charybdis

Charybdis or Kharybdis (Greek: Χάρυβδις) was a sea monster, later rationalized as a whirlpool. In mythology Charybdis lies on one side of a narrow channel. Opposite her is Scylla, another sea-monster. The sides of the strait are within an arrow shot of ea...
Clymene

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Cornix

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Cyane

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Cygnus (1)

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Cygnus (2)

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Daphne Moore

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Dis

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Ekho

In Greek mythology, Ekho (Greek: Ἠχώ, Ēkhō, "echo") was an Oread (a mountain nymph) who loved her own voice. The chief god Zeus had many affairs with both mortals and gods, much to his wifes dislike. While he pursued his amours, it was Echos d...
Europa

In Greek mythology Europa (Greek: Ευρώπη Eurṓpē) was the daughter of Agenor, and was beloved by Zeus. Zeus took the form of a white bull and encountered Europa at the seashore. He coaxed her to climb onto his back and then swam off with her across the sea...
Hermaphroditus

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαφρόδιτος) was the son of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis....
Herse

Herse (Ancient Greek: Ἕρση "dew") is a figure in Greek mythology, daughter of Cecrops, sister to Aglauros and Pandrosos. According to the Bibliotheca, when Hephaestus unsuccessfully attempted to rape Athena, she wiped his semen off her leg with wool and t...
Idmon

In Greek mythology, Idmon was an Argonaut seer. His father is said to have been Apollo but his mortal father was Abas (or Ampycus). His mother was Asteria, daughter of Coronus, or Cyrene, or else Antianeira, daughter of Pheres. By Laothoe he had a son The...
Inachus

In Greek mythology, Inachus (Ancient Greek: Ἴναχος) was the first king of Argos after whom a river was called Inachus River, the modern Panitsa that drains the western margin of the Argive plain. The personified deity of the river of that name in Greece. ...
Ino

In Greek mythology Ino (Greek: Ἰνώ) was a mortal queen of Thebes, who after her death and transfiguration was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess." Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" (θαλασσομέδουσα).In her mortal self...
Io

Io (Greek: Ἰώ]) was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection. His wife Hera sent ever-watchful Argus Panoptes, with 100 eyes, to guard her, but Hermes was sent to...
Itys

The son of Tereus and Procne. Because Procne and her sister Philomela wanted to avenge themselves on Tereus, the killed Itys and served the flesh to Tereus during a banquet....
Ixion

In Greek mythology, Ixion (Greek: Ἰξίων) was the son the Phlegyas, descendent of Ares, and king of the Lapiths in Thessaly. He is chiefly known as the first human to shed kindred blood. Ixion invited his father-in-law, Deioneus, to come and collect the pr...
Laomedon

In Greek mythology, Laomedon (Ancient Greek: Λαομέδων) was the son of Ilus and a king of Troy, two of his sons were Tithonus and Podarces (Priam) who was later to be king. Laomedon was also very well known for his blatant treachery. He refused to pay Apol...
Leto (greek Mythology)

In Greek mythology, Leto (Greek: Λητώ, Lētṓ; Latin: Latona) is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and the sister of Asteria. The island of Kos is claimed as her birthplace. In the Olympian scheme, Zeus is the father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis...
Leucothea

In Greek mythology, Leucothea (Greek: Λευκοθέα, "white goddess") was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph. Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, sister of Semele, and queen of Athamas, became a g...
Lichas

In Greek mythology, Lichas was Hercules servant, who brought the poisoned shirt from Deianira to Hercules because of her jealousy of Iole, killing him.more...
Lycaon

In Greek mythology, Lycaon was a king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Meliboea, who in the most popular version of the myth tested Zeus by serving him a dish of his slaughtered and dismembered son in order to see whether Zeus was truly omniscient. In retu...
Minos

In Greek mythology, Minos (Ancient Greek: Μίνως, Minōs) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the...
Narcissus (mythology)

Narcissus or Narkissos (Greek: Νάρκισσος) in Greek mythology was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. He was the son of a river god named Cephissus and a nymph named Liriope. He was exceptionally proud, in th...
Neptune

Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto, each of them presiding over the realms of Heaven, our earthly world and...
Niobe (mythology)

a daughter of Tantalus who declared herself to be superior to Leto, causing Artemis and Apollo to kill her fourteen children...
Nyctimene

In Roman mythology, Nyctimene was the daughter of Epopeus, a king of Lesbos. She had sexual intercourse with her father and was transformed by Minerva into an owl as she was hiding in the woods out of shame....
Ocyrhoë

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Orithyia

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Pan (greek)

In Greek religion and mythology, Pan (Ancient Greek: Πᾶν, Pān) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs. His name originates from paein (πάειν), meaning "to pasture." He ...
Pegasus

Pegasus (Ancient Greek: Πήγασος, Pégasos, Latin Pegasus) is one of the best known mythological creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure white in colour. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and f...
Peleus

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Pelias

Pelias (Ancient Greek: Πελίας) was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology, the son of Tyro and Poseidon. He sent his nephew Jason on his quest on the Argo to retrieve the Golden Fleece....
Phaëton

In Greek mythology, Phaëton was the son of the sun-god Helios. When Phaeton ("the shining one") finally learned who his father was, he went east to meet him. He induced his father to allow him to drive the chariot of the sun across the heavens for one day...
Phineus (1)

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Phineus (2)

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Phocus

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Polydectes

In Greek mythology, King Polydectes (Πολυδέκτης) was the ruler of the island of Seriphos. Polydectes fell in love with Danaë when she and her son Perseus were saved by his brother Dictys. Perseus was very protective of his mother and wouldnt allow P...
Procne

In Greek mythology, Procne (Ancient Greek: Πρόκνη) was the elder daughter of a king of Athens named Pandion and the wife of King Tereus of Thrace. Her beautiful sister Philomela visited and was raped by Tereus, who tore out her tongue to prevent her revea...
Procris

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Proserpina

Proserpina or Proserpine is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime. Her Greek goddess equivalent is Persephone. She was the daughter of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and crops and Jupiter, the god of sky and thunder. Plu...
Pyramus

Pyramus and Thisbe are two lovers in the city of Babylon who occupy connected houses/walls, forbidden by their parents to be wed. Through a crack in the wall, they whisper their love for each other. They arrange to meet near Ninus tomb under a mulbe...
Pyreneus

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Pyrrha

In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (Greek: Πύρρα) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion.When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors. Even though he was imprisone...
Saturn

Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) is the Roman god of agriculture concerned with the sowing of the seeds. He is regarded as the father of Jupiter, Ceres, Juno and many others. His wife is the goddess Ops. Jupiter supposedly chased him away and he was taken in by t...
Scylla

In Greek mythology, Scylla (Greek: Σκύλλα, Skylla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrows range of each other—so close that sailors att...
Semele

Semele (Greek: Σεμέλη, Semelē), in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths....
Syrinx

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Telamon

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