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In Homer's Odyssey, Penelópē (Πηνελόπεια/Πηνελόπη) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually rejoined with him. Her name has traditionally been associated with faithfulness, and so it was...
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| x Orpheus |
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Orpheus (Greek: Ὀρφεύς; in English pronounced /ˈɔrfiəs/ or /ˈɔrfjuːs/) is an important figure from Greek mythology, the inspiration for subsequent Orphic cults, much of the literature, poetry and drama of ancient Greece and Rome and, due to his...
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| x Eurydice |
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Eurydice (Εὐρυδίκη, Eurydíkē) (yur-ID-ih-see) in Greek mythology, was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of light). She was the wife of Orpheus. Orpheus loved her dearly; on their wedding day, Orpheus played songs filled with...
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| x Aristaeus |
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A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (Greek: Ἀρισταῖος), "ever close follower of the flocks", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee...
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| x Amphion |
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There are several characters named Amphion (Greek: Ἀμφίων; gen.: Ἀμφίονος) in Greek mythology:
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| x Amphion and Zethus |
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Amphion and Zethus (also Zethos), in ancient Greek mythology, were the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope. They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls.
Amphion and Zethus...
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| x Linus |
In Greek mythology Linus (in Greek, Linos (Λῖνος)) refers to the musical son of Apollo and one of the Muses. As the son of Apollo or of Amphimarus, a son of Poseidon and Urania, it was related that he was killed by Apollo during a musical contest....
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| x Titanomachy |
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In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy, or War of the Titans (Greek: Τιτανομαχία), was the ten-year series of battles fought between the two races of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, fighting from Mount Othrys, or Mount Etna...
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| x Hymenaios |
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In Greek mythology, Hymenaios (also Hymenaeus, Hymenaues, or Hymen; Ancient Greek: Ὑμέναιος) was a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song. A hymenaios is also a genre of Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to...
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| x Titan |
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In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν - Ti-tan; plural: Τιτᾶνες - Ti-tânes), 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 Olympians, in the...
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| x Philammon |
In Greek mythology, Philammon was the son of Chione and Apollo. He was an excellent musician, a talent he received from his father. He had two children, Eumolpus and Thamyris.
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| x Thamyris |
In Greek mythology, Thamyris (Greek: Θάμυρις), son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, was a Thracian singer who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the Muses. He competed against them and lost. As punishment for his...
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In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (gr. Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double flute (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of...
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| x Melampus |
In Greek mythology, Melampus, or Melampous (Greek: Μέλαμπος), was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a...
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| x Achilles |
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In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against...
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| x Endymion |
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In Greek mythology, Endymion (Ἐνδυμίων ) could have been a handsome Aeolian 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 Mount Latmus in Caria, on the...
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| x Orion |
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Orion (Greek: Ὠρίων or Ωαρίων, Latin: Orion) was a giant huntsman of Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion.
Ancient sources tell several different stories about Orion. There are two major versions of his...
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| x Laomedon |
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In Greek mythology, Laomedon was a Trojan king, son of Ilus, brother of Ganymedes and father of Priam, Astyoche, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Cilla, Proclia, Aethilla, Clytodora, and Hesione. Tithonus is also described by most sources as Laomedon's...
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| x Memnon |
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In Greek mythology, Memnon (Greek: Mέμνων) was an Ethiopian king and son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost Achilles' equal in skill. At the Trojan War, he brought an army to Troy's defense and was killed by Achilles in...
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| x Tithonos |
In Greek mythology, Tithonos (Τιθωνός) was a son of Eos and Cephalus. The name of Eos' lover, Tithonus, is also sometimes spelled Tithonos. He is mentioned in Book Eleven of The Iliad as "the haughty Tithonos," by whom Eos slept (Richard Lattimore...
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Tithonios is a miserable wretch of Greek mythology to whom the gods awarded eternal life, but not eternal youth. He dared to trick the gods into granting him immortality, but they withheld eternal youth and he was doomed to spend all of eternity...
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| x Emathion |
In Greek mythology, Emathion refers to four individuals.
Emathion was king of Ethiopia, the son of Tithonus and Eos, and brother of Memnon. Heracles killed him.
Emathion was king of Samothrace, was the son of Zeus and Electra (one of the Pleiades),...
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| x Tithonus |
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In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos (Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός) was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo (Στρυμώ). In the mythology known to the fifth-century...
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| x Polydora |
Polydora may refer to:
In Greek mythology, Polydora (Ancient Greek: Πολυδώρη, Poludṓrē) was a name attributed to several individuals:
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| x Peleus |
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In Greek mythology, Pēleus (Greek: Πηλεύς) was a hero whose myth was already known to the hearers of Homer in the late 8th century BCE. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Endeïs, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he...
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Eris (Greek Ἔρις, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart...
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| x Menelaus |
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In Greek mythology, Menelaus (Ancient Greek: Μενέλαος) was a legendary king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta, the husband of Helen, and a central figure in the Trojan War. He was the son of Atreus and Aerope, and brother of Agamemnon king of Mycenae...
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| x Odysseus |
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Odysseus or Ulysses (Greek Ὀδυσσεύς, Odusseus; Latin: Ulixes, Ulysses), in Greek mythology pronounced /oʊˈdɪsiəs/, was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad...
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| x Priam |
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In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Πρίαμος Priamos) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous".
Priam had a number...
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Paris (Greek: Πάρις; also known as Alexander or Alexandros, c.f. Alaksandu of Wilusa), the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the...
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In Greek mythology, Helen (in Greek, Ἑλένη – Helénē), known as Helen of Troy (and earlier Helen of Sparta), was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her...
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| x Agamemnon |
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon ("very resolute") / (ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων) 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...
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Ajax or Aias (Greek: Αἴας, gen. Αἴαντος) was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To...
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| x Nestor |
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In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerênia (Greek: Νέστωρ Γερήνιος; gen.: Νέστορος Γερηνίου) was the son of Neleus and Chloris, and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's brothers and sisters. His wife was...
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In Greek mythology, Hectōr (Ἕκτωρ, "holding fast"), or Hektōr, is a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter of Troy in the Trojan War. As the son of Priam and Hecuba, a descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of...
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Diomedes or Diomed (Greek: Διομήδης, Diomēdēs; English translation: "God-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus") 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...
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| x Diomede |
Diomede (Ancient Greek:Διομήδη) is the name of three women in Greek mythology.
As written in Homer's Iliad, Diomede (Greek: Διομήδη Diomēdē) was a mistress of Achilles, taken up after the seizure of Briseis by King Agamemnon. Her father was Phorbas...
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| x Deiphobus |
In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Δηίφοβος) was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris.
In the Trojan War, described in the Iliad, he along with his brother Helenus led a group of...
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| x Ascalaphus |
In Greek mythology, two people share the name Ascalaphus/Askalaphos (Greek: Ἀσκάλαφος).
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Helenus was a Trojan soldier and prophet in the Trojan War.
In Greek mythology, Helenus (Ἕλενος) was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra. He was also called Scamandrios. According to...
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In Greek mythology, Meriones (Greek: Μηριόνης) was a son of Molus and Melphis. Molus was a half-brother of Idomeneus. Like other heroes of mythology, Meriones was said to be a descendant of gods. As a grandson of Deucalion (son of Minos), Meriones's...
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Scylla is a princess of Megara in Greek mythology. She is mentioned by Ovid.
As the story goes, Scylla was the daughter of Nisus (Nisos) the King of Megara, who possessed a single lock of purple hair which granted him invincibility. When Minos, the...
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| x Scylla and Charybdis |
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Scylla and Charybdis are two sea monsters of Greek mythology who were said to be situated on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, in Italy. They were said to be located close enough to each other that they posed an...
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In Greek mythology, Sarpedon (Greek: Σαρπηδὠν; gen.: Σαρπηδόνος) referred to at least three different people.
The first Sarpedon was a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother to Minos and Rhadamanthys. He was raised by King Asterion and then banished by...
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| x Laodamia |
In Greek mythology, Laodamia referred to two different women:
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Menestheus (Greek: Μενεσθεύς), the son of Peteus, son of Orneus, son of Erechtheus, was a legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War. He was set up as king by the Dioscuri when Theseus travelled to the underworld, and at his return Menestheus...
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In Greek mythology, Calchas (Κάλχας, possibly meaning "bronze-man"), son of Thestor, was an 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".
It was Calchas who...
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| x Iphigeneia |
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Iphigenia (pronounced /ɪfɨdʒɨˈnaɪə/; Greek Ἰφιγένεια, Ifigeneia) is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. In Attic accounts, Iphigenia is sometimes called a daughter of Theseus and Helen raised by Agamemnon and Clytemnestra....
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| x Protesilaus |
In Greek mythology, Protesilaus (Ancient Greek: Πρωτεσίλαος, Protesilaos), was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated at cult sites in Thessaly and Thrace. Protesilaus was the son of Iphicles, a "lord of many sheep"; as grandson of the eponymous...
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In Greek mythology, Podarces (Ποδάρκης) was a son of Iphicles and brother of Protesilaus. In Homer's Iliad, Podarces and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen...
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Aethilla (Greek: Αἴθιλλα or Αἴθυλλα) was a daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam, Astyoche, and Medesicaste. After the fall of Troy she became the prisoner of Protesilaus, who took her, together with other captives, with him on his voyage home....
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Euphorbus (Εὔφορβος), the son of Panthous and Phrontis, was a Trojan hero during the Trojan War. He wounded Patroclus before Patroclus was killed by Hector. In the fight for Patroclus' body, Euphorbus was killed by Menelaus. He was apparently one of...
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In Greek mythology, Chryseis (Greek: Χρυσηΐς, Khrysēís) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome.
In the first book of the...
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In Greek mythology, Chryses (English: /'krai si:z/; Greek: Χρύσης - Khrúsēs) was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy. According to a tradition mentioned by Eustathius of Thessalonica, Chryses and Briseus (father of Briseis) were...
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Hippodameia Brisēís is a Trojan woman captured by the Greeks in the Iliad. She was first Achilles' prize of the Trojan war; he fell in love with her. She was then taken by King Agamemnon, but later returned to Achilles.
In Greek mythology,...
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Cressida (also Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde) is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan War. She is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Calchas a priestly defector to the Greeks. She falls in love...
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In Greek and Roman mythology, the Oceanids (Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανίδες, pl. of Ὠκεανίς) 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,...
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Thespius (Θέσπιος) was a legendary king of Thespiae, Boeotia. His life account is considered part of Greek mythology.
He was reportedly son of Erechtheus, King of Athens and Praxithea. His maternal grandparents were Phrasimus and Diogenia, the...
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Cilician Thebe was a city in Greek mythology. It was located in or near the Troad, in a region termed Cilicia and received the epithet Cilician to distinguish it from the Boeotian city of Thebes. Alternative names include Placia, Hypoplacia and...
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The phoenix (Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ, phoínix, Arabic:العنقاء) is a mythical sacred firebird that originated in ancient Phoenician mythology (according to Sanchuniathon), Egyptian religion and later Greek mythology.
A phoenix is a mythical bird with a...
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