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Paris Statue of Paris in the British Museum Person Or Being In Fiction Greek mythology
See List of King Priam's children Paris (Greek: ; 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...
Nike Second century AD copy of the head of Nike - original by Paionios, fifth century BC Art Subject Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Nike (Greek Νίκη , meaning Victory), was a goddess who personified triumph throughout the ages of the ancient Greek culture. Depending upon the time of various myths, she was described as the daughter of Pallas (Titan) and Styx ...
Zeus Deity Greek mythology
Zeus (; in Greek: nominative: Zeús , genitive: Diós) in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo...
Jupiter Jupiter, Ancient Roman sky god Art Subject Roman mythology
In Roman mythology, Jupiter held the same role as Zeus in the Greek pantheon. He was called Iuppiter Optimus Maximus (Jupiter Best, Greatest); as the patron deity of the Roman state, he ruled over laws and social order. He was the chief god of the...
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Eros Eros. Attic red-figure bobbin, ca. 470 BC–450 BC   Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Eros (Greek: Ἔρως) was the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart was Cupid. In some myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares, but...
Aphrodite The Birth of Venus, (detail) by Sandro Botticelli, 1485   Greek mythology
Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη; Latin: Venus) (; Ancient Greek: , Modern Greek: ) is the classical Greek goddess of love, lust, beauty, and sexual reproduction. She was also called Kypris and Cytherea after the two places, Cyprus and Cythera, which...
Yeti Yetiscalp   Nepali mythology
The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an apelike animal cryptid said to inhabit the Himalaya region of Nepal and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology....
Lakhey     Nepali mythology
Lakhey (Nepal Bhasa:लाखे, lā-khé) is a famous character in Newar culture. It is a demon character popularized by its dance. Survivor Africa
Newari mythology
Kichkandi     Nepali mythology  
Pandubbi     Nepali mythology
Spirit living in ponds and lakes.
Omphale Hercules and Omphale, by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, der Ältere Art Subject  
In Greek mythology, Omphale was a daughter of the river Iardanus and queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor; according to Bibliotheke she was the wife of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain king of Lydia; after he was gored to death by a bull, she...
Otrera      
In Greek mythology, Otrera (or Otrere) was a Queen of the Amazons, the consort of Ares as well as his daughter, and mother of Hippolyta, Antiope, Lysippe, Melanippe and Penthesilea. Otrera is sometimes considered the mythological founder of the...
Bellerophon Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914)   Greek mythology
Bellerophon (βελλεροφῶν) or Bellerophontes (βελλεροφόντης) was a hero of Greek mythology, "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside of Kadmos and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", whose greatest feat was killing the Chimera, a...
Menehune Alekoko "Menehune" fishpond   Hawaiian mythology
In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune [pronounced meh-neh-HOO-neh] are said to be a people, sometimes described as dwarfs in size, who live in the deep forests and hidden valleys of the Hawaiian islands, far from the eyes of normal humans. Their...
Pele     Hawaiian mythology
In Hawaiian mythology, Pele, pronounced //, (peh-leh, not pay-lay) is the goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcano and violence. She is a daughter of Haumea and Kane Milohai, and her home is believed to be the fire pit, Halema'uma'u crater, at the...
Titania Lady Titania Fictional Character Fairy
Titania was the name of a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Shakespeare's play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen...
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Fairy Take the Fair Face of Woman... by Sophie Anderson Character Species  
A fairy (also fay, fey, fae, faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair folk, and other euphemisms) is a type of mythological being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or...
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Oedipus Gustave Moreau, Œdipe et le Sphinx, 1864, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Inv. 21.1) Art Subject  
Oedipus (pronounced in American English or in British English; Greek: Oidípous meaning "swollen-footed") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought...
Hercules Hercules and the Nemean Lion (detail), silver plate, 6th century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris) Art Subject  
Hercules is the Roman name for the mythical Greek hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italian shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his...
Flora Flora or Hebe, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun    
In Roman mythology, Flora was a goddess of flowers and the season of spring. While she was otherwise a relatively minor figure in Roman mythology, being one among several fertility goddess, her association with the spring gave her particular...
Chloris "As she talks, her lips breathe spring roses: I was Chloris, who am now called Flora." Ovid    
[[image:ChlorisPrimavera.jpg|thumb|250px|right| "As she talks, her lips breathe spring roses:I was Chloris, who am now called Flora." Ovid]]There are many stories in Greek mythology about figures named Chloris ("Khloris" or χλωρις, from "Khloros" or...
Athena Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. Roman copy (1st century) of a Greek original by Kresilas, c. 430 BC    
In Greek mythology, Athena (also called Athene, Attic: , Athēnâ, or , Athḗnē; Doric: , Asána; Latin: Minerva) is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to...
Actaeon Actaeon and his dogs    
In Greek mythology, Actaeon (Greek: Ακταίων), son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero, trained by the centaur Cheiron, who suffered the fatal wrath of Artemis; (later his myth was attached to her...
Ask and Embla      
In Norse Mythology, Ask and Embla (Old Norse: Askr ok Embla) were the first two humans created by the gods. Ask, the male, refers to the ash tree, where as Embla, the female, refers to the elm or vine. The pair are attested in the Poetic Edda,...
Alcmene Birth of Heracles by Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier    
In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena (Greek: ) was the mother of Heracles. Alcmene was born to Electryon, king of Mycenae and a son of Perseus. Her mother was either Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia, or Lysidice, daughter of Pelops and...
Ægir In Norse Mythology, Ægir and his daughters brew ale in a large pot.    
Ægir is a giant and a king of the sea in Norse mythology. He seems to be a personification of the power of the ocean. He was also known for hosting elaborate parties for the gods. In Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál, Ægir is identified with Gymir...
Andromeda Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids (1840) Théodore Chassériau, Louvre    
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. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband. Her name is the Latinized form of the...
Ares Statue of Ares in the Hadrian's Villa    
In Greek mythology, Ares (Ancient Greek: , modern Greek Άρης [pron. "áris"]) is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Olympian god of warfare, he is more accurately the god of savage warfare, bloodlust, or slaughter personified: ...
Aeacus Aeacus and Telamon by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune    
Aeacus (also spelled Eacus, Greek , "bewailing" or "earth borne") was mythological king in the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. He was son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus. He was born in the island of Oenone or Oenopia,...
Aegisthus Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes — Louvre    
In Greek mythology, Aegisthus (Ancient Greek: , "goat strength" also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigísthos) was the son of Thyestes and of his daughter, Pelopia. Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother,...