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River god;son of Oceanus and Tethys and said to be the father of the Sirens |
Achelous |
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Greek warrior; slew Hector at Troy; slain by Paris who wounded him in his vulnerable heel |
Achilles |
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Hunter; surprised Artemis bathing; changed by her to stag; and killed by his dogs. |
Actaeon |
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King of Thessaly; his wife, Alcestis, offered to die in his place. |
Admetus |
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Beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite |
Adonis |
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One of the three judges of dead in Hades; son of Zeus |
Aeacus |
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King of Colchis; father of Medea; keeper of the golden fleece |
Aeetes |
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Father of Theseus; believing Theseus killed in Crete, he drownes himself; Aegean Sea named for him |
Aegeus |
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Son of Thyestes; slew Atreus; with Clytemnestra, his paramour, slew Agamemnon; slain by Orestes |
Aegisthus |
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Brother of Danaus; his sons, except Lynceus, slain by Danaides |
Aegyptus |
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Trojan; son of Anchesis and Aphrodite; after fall of Troy, led his followers eventually to Italy; loved ang deserted by Dido |
Aeneas |
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King of Ioclus; father of Jason; overthrown by his brother Pelias; restored to youth by Medea. |
Aeson |
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Personification of sky |
Aether |
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Mother of Theseus |
Aethra |
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King of Mycenae; son of Atreus; brother of Menelaus; leader of Greeks against Troy; slain on his return home by Clytemnestra Aegisthus. |
Agamemnon |
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Greek warrior; killed himself at Troy because Achilles's armor was awarded to Odysseus. |
Ajax |
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Wife of Admetus who offered to die in his place but saved from death by Hercules |
Alcestis |
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Wife of Amphitryon; mother by Zeus of Hercules |
Alcmene |
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Youth changed by Ares into cock |
Alectryon |
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Wife of Oeneus; mother of Meleager |
Althaea |
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Female warriors in Asia minor; supported Troy against Greeks |
Amazons |
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Musician; husband of Niobe; charmes stones to build fortifications for Thebes |
Amphion |
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Sea goddess; wife of Poseidon |
Amphitrite |
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Husband of Alcmene |
Amphitryon |
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Father of Aeneas |
Anchises |
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Sacred shield that fell from heavens; palladium of Romw |
Ancile |
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Husband of Dryope |
Andraemon |
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Wife of Hector |
Andromache |
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Daughter of Cepheus; chained to cliff for monster to devour; rescued by Perseus. |
Andromeda |
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Wife of Proteus; tried to induce Bellerophon to elope with her |
Anteia |
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God who avenged unrequited love |
Anteros |
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Daughter of Oedipus; accompanied him to Colonus; performed burial rite for Polynices( her brother) and hanged herself |
Antigone |
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Leader of suitors of Penelope; slain by Odysseus |
Antinous |
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Goddess of fertility, love and beauty; daughter of Zeus and Dione; mother of Eros |
Aphrodite (Venus) |
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God of beauty, poetry, music, light and prophecy; later identified with Helios as Phoebus Apollo; son of Zeus and Leto |
Apollo |
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Maiden who challenged Athena to weaving contest; changed to spider |
Arachne |
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God of war; son of Zeus and Hera |
Ares (Mars) |
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Ship which Jason and followers sailed to Colchis for Golden Fleece |
Argo |
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Monster with hundred eyes; slain by Hermes; his eyes placed by Hera into peacock's tail |
Argus |
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Daughter of Minos; aides Theseus in slaying Minotaur; deserted by him on island of Naxos |
Ariadne |
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Musician; thrown overboard by pirates but saved by dolphin |
Arion |
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Goddess of moon; huntress; twin sister of Apollo |
Artemis ( Diana ) |
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Mortal son of Apollo; slain by Zeus for raising dead; later deified as god of medicine. Also known as Asklepios |
Asclepius |
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Phoenician goddess of love; variously identified with Aphrodite, Selene, and Artemis |
Astarte |
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Goddess of Justice; daughter of Zeus and Themis |
Astraea |
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Princess who challenged her suitors to a foot racw; Hippomenes won the race and married her |
Atalanta |
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Goddess of wisdom; known poetically as Pallas Athene; sprang fully armed from head of Zeus |
Athena ( Minerva ) |
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Titan; held world on his shoulders as punishment for warring against Zeus; son of Iapetus |
Atlas |
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King of Mycenae; father of Menelaus and Agamemnon; brother of Thyestes, three of whose sons he slew and served to him at banquet; slain by Aegisthus |
Atreus |
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Infernal regions; names derived from small vaporous lake near Vesuvius which was fabled to kill birds and vegetation |
Avernus |
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Corinthian hero; killed Chimera with aid Pegasus; tried to reach Olympus on Pegasus and was thrown to his death |
Bellerophon |
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Roman goddess of war |
Bellona |
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Monster of hundred hands; son of Uranus and Gaea |
Briareus |
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Captive maiden given to Achilles; taken by Agamemnon in exchange for loss of Chryseis |
Briseis |
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Brother of Europa; planter of dragon seeds from which first Thebans sprang |
Cadmus |
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Sea nymph who kept Odysseus on her island Ogygia for seven years |
Calypso |
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Daughter of Priam; prophetess who was never believed; slain with Agamemnon |
Cassandra |
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Beings half man and half horse; lived in mountains of Thessaly |
Centaurs |
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Hunter; accidentally killed his wife Procris with his spear |
Cephalus |
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King of Ethiopia; father of Andromeda |
Cepheus |
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Three-headed dog guarding entrance to Hades |
Cerberus |
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formless void; personified as first of gods |
Chaos |
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Boatman on Styx who carried souls of dead to Hades; son of Erebus |
Charon |
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Female monster; personification of whirlpool |
Charybdis |
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Female monster with head of lion, body of goat, tail of serpent; killed ny Bellerophon |
Chimera |
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Most famous of Centaurs |
Chiron |
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Personification of Time |
Chronos |
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Captive maiden given to Agamemnon; his refusal to accept ransom from her father Chryses caused Apollo to send plague on Greeks besieging Troy |
Chryseis |
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Sorceress; daughter of Helios; changed Odysseus's men into swine |
Circe |
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Wife of Agamemnon, whom she slew with aid of her paramour, Aegisthus; slain by her son Orestes |
Clytemnestra |
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Father of Jocasta; forbade burial of Polynices; ordered burial alive Antigone |
Creon |
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Princess of Corinth, for whom Jason desertes Medea; slain by Medea, who sent her poisoned robe; also known as Glauke |
Creusa |
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Titan; god of harvests; son of Uranus and Gaea; dethroned by his son Zeus |
Cronus (Saturn) |
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Anatolian nature goddess; adopted by Greeks and identified with Rhea |
Cybele |
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Race of one-eyed giants (singular: Cyclops) |
Cyclopes |
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Athenian artificer; father of Icarus; builder of Labyrinth in Crete; devised wings attached with wax for him and Icarus to escape Crete |
Daedalus |
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Princess of Argos; mother of Perseus by Zeus, who appeared to her in form of golden shower |
Danae |
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Daughters of Danaus; at his command, all axceot Hypermnestra slew their husbands, the sons of Aegyptus |
Danaides |
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Brother of Aegyptus; father of Danaides; slain by Lynceus |
Danaus |
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nymph; pursued by Apollo; changed to laurel tree |
Daphne |
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Goddess of agriculture/harvest; mother of Persophone |
Demeter (Ceres) |
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Founder and queen of Carthage; stabbed herself when deserted by Aeneas |
Dido |
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Greek hero; with Odysseus, entered Troy and carried off Palladium, sacred statue of Athena |
Diomedes |
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Titan goddess; mother by Zeus of Aphrodite |
Dione |
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God of Wine; sone of Zeus and Semele |
Dionysus (Bacchus) |
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Twins Castor and Pollux; son of Leda by Zeus |
Dioscuri |
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wood nymphs |
Dryads |
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maiden changed to Hamadryad |
Dryope |
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Nymph who fell hopelessly in love with Narcissus; faded away except for her voice |
Echo |
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Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; suster of Orestes; urged Orestes to slay Clytemnestra and Aegisthus |
Electra |
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Abode of blessed dead |
Elysium |
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mortal loved by Selene |
Endymion |
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Goddess of dawn |
Eos (Aurora) |
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brother of Prometheus; husband of Pandora |
Epimetheus |
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Spirit of darkness; son of Chaos |
Erebus |
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Goddess of discord |
Eris |
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God of love; son of Aphrodite |
Eros (Amor or Cupid) |
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Son of Oedipus, whom he succeeded to rule alternately with Polynices; refused to give up throne at end of year; he and Polynices slew each other |
Eteocles |
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Mortal loved by Zeus, who, in form of white bull, carried her off to Crete |
Europa |
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nymph; wife of Orpheus |
Eurydice |
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King of Argos; imposed 12 labors on Hercules |
Eurystheus |
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Goddesses of destiny |
Fates Clotho= Spinner of thread of life Lachesis= determiner of length |
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Half man, half serpent; son of Hephaestus and Athena |
Ericthonius |
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Roman deities of woods and groves |
Fauna |
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Roman goddess of flower |
Flora |
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Roman goddess of fortune |
fortuna |
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Avenging spirits; Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone; also known as Erinyes or Eumenides |
Furies |
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Goddess of Earth; daughter of Chaos; mother of Titans; known also as Ge, Gea, Gaia |
Gaea |
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Statue of maiden carved form ivory by Pygmalion; given life by Aphrodite |
Galatea |
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beautiful boy; successor to Hebe as cupbearer of gods |
Ganymede |
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mortal who became sea divinity by eating magic grass |
Glaucus |
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fleece from ram that flew Phrixos to Colchis; Aeetes placed it under guard of dragon; carried off by Jason |
Golden Fleece |
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Female monsters; Euryale, Medusa, and Stheno; had snakes for hair; their glances turned mortals to stone |
Gorgons |
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Beautiful goddesses; Aglaia(brilliance), Euphrosyne (joy), and Thalia (bloom); daughters of Zeus |
Graces |
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Sentinels for Gorgons; Deino, Enyo and Pephredo; had one eye among them, which passed from one another |
Graeae |
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Name sometimes given Pluto; also, abode of dead, ruled by Pluto. |
Hades (Dis) |
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Sin of Creon; promised husband of Antigone; killed hinself in her tomb |
Haemon |
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Tree nymphs |
Hamadryads |
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Monsters with heads of women and bodies of birds |
Harpies |
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Goddess of youth; cupbearer of gods before Ganymede |
Hebe (Juventas) |
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Goddess of sorcery and witchcraft |
Hecate |
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Son of Priam; slayer of Patroclus; slain by Achilles |
Hector |
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Wife of Priam |
Hecuba |
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Fairest woman in world; daughter of Zeus and Leda; wife of Menelaus; carried to Troy by Paris, causing Trojan war |
Helen |
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Daughters of Helios; mourned for Phaethon and were changed to poplar trees |
Heliades |
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God of sun; later identified with Apollo |
Helios (Sol) |
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Sister of Phrixos; fell from ram of Golden Fleece; water where she fell named Hellenspont |
Helle |
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God of Fire; celestial blacksmith; son of Zeus and Hera; husband of Aphrodite |
Hephaestus (Vulcan) |
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Queen of heaven; wife of Zeus |
Hera (Juno) |
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Hero and strong man; sin of Zeus and Alcmene; performed twelve labors of deeds to be free from bondage under Eurystheus; after death, his mortal share was destroyed, and he became immortal. Also know as Herakles or Heracles |
Hercules Labors: 1. killing Nemean lion 2. killing Lernaean Hydra 3. capturing Erymanthian boar 4. capturing Cerynean hind 5. killing man-eating Stymphalian birds 6. procuring girdle of Hippolyte 7. cleaning Augean stables 8. capturing Cretan bull 9. capturing man-eatinf horses of Diomedes 10. capturing cattle of Geryon 11. procuring golden apples of Hesperides 12. bringing Cerberus up from Hades |
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God of physicians and thieves; messenger of gods; son of Zeus and Maia |
Hermes (Mercury) |
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Prietess of Aphrodite; leander swam Hellenspot nightly to see her; drowned herself at his death |
Hero |
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Evening star |
Hesperus |
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Goddess of Hearth; sister of Zeus |
Hestia (Vesta) |
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Queen of Amazons; wife of Theseus |
Hippolyte |
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Son of Theseus and Hippolyte; falsely accused by Phaedra of trying to kidnap her; slain by Poseidon at request of Theseus |
Hippolytus |
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Husband of Atalanta, whim he beat in race by dropping golden apples, which she stopped to pick up |
Hippomenes |
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beautiful youth accidentally killed by Apollo, who caused flower to spring up from his blood |
Hyacinthus |
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Nine-headed monster on marsh of Merna; slain by Hercules |
Hydra |
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Personification of health |
Hygeia |
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God of Marriage |
Hymen |
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Titan; early sun god; father of Helios |
Hyperion |
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Daughter of Danaus; refused to kill her husband Lynceus |
Hypermnestra |
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God of sleep |
Hypnos (Somnus) |
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Titan; father of Atlas, Epimetheus, and Prometheus |
Iapetus |
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Son of Daedalus; flew too near sun with wax-attached wings and fell into sea and was drowned |
Icarus |
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Mortal maiden lived by Zeus; changes by Hera into heifer |
Io |
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King of Lycia; sent Bellerophon to slay Chimera |
Iobates |
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Daughter of Agamemnon; offered as sacrifice to Artemis at Aulis; carried by Artemis to Tauris where she became priestess; escaoed from there with Orestes |
Iphigenia |
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Goddess of rainbow;messenger of Zeus and Hera |
Iris |
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Daughter of Oedipus;sister of Antigone |
Ismene |
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Son of Aeneas |
Iulus |
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King of Lapithae;for making love to Hera he was bound to endlessly revolving wheel in Tartarus |
Ixion |
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Roman god of gates and doors; represented with two opposite faces. |
Janus |
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Son of Aeson; to gain throne of Ioclus from Pelias, went to Colchis and brought back Golden Fleece; married Medea;deserted her for Creusa. |
Jason |
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mother of Oedipus; unwittingly became wife of Oedipus; hanged herself when relationship was discovered. |
Jocasta |
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Juventas |
Hebe |
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Father of Oedipus, by whom he was slain |
Laius |
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Priest of Apollo at Troy;warned against bringing wooden horse into Troy; destroyed with his two sons by serpents sent by Athena. |
Laocoon |
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Roman ancestral spirits protecting descendants and homes. |
Lares |
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Wife of Aeneas after defeat of Turnus. |
Lavinia |
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Swam Hellespont nightly to see Hero; drowned in storm. |
Leander |
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Mortal loved by Zeus in form of swan; mother of Helen, Clytemnestra, Dioscuri |
Leda |
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Mother by Zeus of Artemis and Apollo |
Leto (Latona) |
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Roman goddess of childbirth; identified with Juno |
Lucina |
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Son of Aegyptus; husband of Hypermnestra; slew Danaus |
Lynceus |
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Daughter of Atlas; mother of Hermes. |
Maia |
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Souls of dead Romans, particularly of ancestors |
Manes |
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Ares |
Mars |
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Shepherd; challenged Apollo to music contest and lost; flayed alive by Apollo |
Marsyas |
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Sorceress; daughter of Aeetes; helped Jason obtain Golden Fleece; when deserted by him for Creusa, killed her children and Creusa. |
Medea |
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Slain by Perseus, who cut off her head. |
Medusa |
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Son of Althaea; his life would last as long as brand burning at his birth; Althaea quenched and saved it but destroyed it when Meleager slew his uncles |
Meleager |
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Ethiopian king; made immortal by Zeus; son of Tithonus and Eos |
Memnon |
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King of Sparta; son of Atreus; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen. |
Menelaus |
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Tutor of Telemacgus and friend of Odysseus. In the Odyssey, on several occasions, Athena assumes form of Mentor to give advice to Telemachus or Odysseus. |
Mentor |
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Hermes |
Mercury |
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One of the several Pleiades. Have hidden in shame for loving a mortal. |
Merope |
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Monster, half man and half beast, kept in Labyrinth in Crete; slain by Theseus. |
Minotaur |
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Monster, half man and half beast, kept in Labyrinth in Crete; slain by Theseus. |
Minotaur |
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Goddess of memory; mother by Zeus of Muses. |
Mnemosyne |
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God of ridicule |
Momus |
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God of dreams. |
Morpheus |
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Goddesses presiding over arts and sciences |
Muses They are daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. |
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One of the muses epic poetry |
Calliope |
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One of the muses history |
Clio |
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One of the muses lyric and love poetry |
Erato |
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One of the muses music |
Euterpe |
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One of the muses tragedy |
Melpomene |
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One of the muses sacred poetry |
Polymnia or Polyhymnia |
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One of the muses choral dance and song |
Terpsichore |
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One of the muses comedy and bucolic poetry |
Thalia |
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One of the muses Astronomy |
Urania |
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Nymphs of waters, streams, and fountains. |
Naiads |
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Wood nymphs |
Napaeae |
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Beautiful youth loved by Echo; in punishment for not returning her love, he was made to fall in love with his image reflected in pool; pined away and became flower. |
Narcissus |
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Goddess of retribution |
Nemesis |
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Son of Achilles; slew Priam; also known as Pyrrhus. |
Neoptolemus |
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Poseidon |
Neptune |
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Sea nymphs; attendants on Poseidon. |
Nereids |
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King of Pylos; noted for wise counsel in expedition against Troy. |
Nestor |
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Goddess of Victory |
Nike |
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Daughter of Tantalus; wife of Amphion; her children slain by Apollo and Artemis; changed to stone but continued to weep her loss. |
Niobe |
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Beautiful maidens; mibor deities of nature |
Nymphs |
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Goddess of night |
Nyx (Nox) |
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Ocean nymphs; daughters of Oceanus. |
Oceanids |
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Eldest of Titans; god of waters |
Oceanus |
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King of Ithaca; her husband of Penelope; wandered ten years after fall of Troy before arriving home. |
Odysseus (Ulysses) |
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King of Thebes; son of Laius and Jocasta;unwittingly murdered Laius and married Jocasta; tore his eyes out when relationship was discovered. |
Oedipus |
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Nymph of Mount Ida; wife of Paris, who abandoned her; refuses to cure him when he was poisoned by arrow of Philoctetes at Troy. |
Oenone |
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mountain nymphs |
Oreads |
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Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; brother of Electra; slew Clytemnestra; brother of Electra; slew Clytemnestra and Aegisthus; pursued by Furies until his purification by Apollo. |
Orestes |
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Hunter; slain by Artemis and made heavenly constellation |
Orion |
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Famed musician; son of Apollo and Muse Calliope; husband of Eurydice |
Orpheus |
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Roman goddess of shepherds and herdsmen. |
Pales |
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Aeneas' pilot; fell overboard in his sleep and was drowned. |
Palinurus |
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God of woods and fields; part goat; son of Hermes. |
Pan (Faunus) |
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Opener of box containing human ills; mortal wife of Epimetheus. |
Pandora |
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Son of Priam; gave apple of discord to Aphrodite, for which she enabled him to carry off Helen; slew Achilles at Troy; slain by Philoctetes. |
Paris |
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Great friend of Achilles; wore Achiles' armor and was slain by Hector. |
Patroclus |
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Winged horse that sprang form Medusa's body at her death; ridden by Bellerophone when he slew Chimera. |
Pegasus |
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King of Ioclus; seized throne from his brother Aeson; sent Jason for Golden Fleece; slain unwittingly by his daughters at instigation of Medea. |
Pelias |
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Son of Tantalus; his father cooked and served him to gods; restored to life; Peloponnesus named for him. |
Pelops |
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Roman household gods |
Penates |
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Wife of Odysseus; waited faithfully for him for many years while putting off numerous suitors. |
Penelope |
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One of the several Pleiades. Have hidden in shame for loving a mortal. |
Merope |
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Cruel Etruscan king; ally of Turnus against Aeneas; slain by Aeneas. |
Mezentius |
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King of Phrygia; given gift of turning to gold all he touched |
Midas |
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Athena |
Minerva |
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King of Crete; after death, one of three judges of dead in Hades; son of Zeus and Europa. |
Minos |
