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Encyclopedia - Apollodorus: Encyclopedia - Apollodorus
Apollodorus, sometimes anachronistically called Apollodorus of Athens, (born c. 180 BC) was a Greek writer most famous for a verse chroni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centaur: Encyclopedia - Centaur
In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race part human and part horse, with a horse's body, including all fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia - Adonis
Adonis, an annual vegetation life-death-rebirth deity, imported from Syrian into Greek mythology, always retained aspects of his Semitic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amphitrite: Encyclopedia - Amphitrite
Amphitrite, in ancient Greek mythology, was a sea-goddess, and wife of Poseidon, identified with the Salacia the wife of Neptune in Roman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actaeon: Encyclopedia - Actaeon
In Greek mythology, Actaeon (or Aktaion), son of Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a hunter who suffered the wrath of Artemis. Artemi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeneas: Encyclopedia - Aeneas
Aeneas (Greek: Αινείας, Aineías) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus in Roman sources)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristodemus: Encyclopedia - Aristodemus
For the 5th century BCE Spartan by the same name, see Aristodemus (Spartan). In Greek mythology, Aristodemus was a son of Aristomaches an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Selene: Encyclopedia - Selene
In Greek mythology, Selene (Σελήνη, "moon") (the Roman moon goddess being Luna) was an ancient lunar deity, and the daughter of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unknown God: Encyclopedia - Unknown God
In addition to the twelve main Gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks used to worship an Unknown God (spelled Agnostos T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycnus: Encyclopedia - Cycnus
In Greek mythology, four people were known as Cycnus or Cygnus. Most of them ended up being transformed into swans. The most famous Cycnu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argea: Encyclopedia - Argea
In Greek mythology, Argea (or Argeia) was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antiope Mother Of Amphion: Encyclopedia - Antiope Mother Of Amphion
In Greek mythology, Antiope was the name of the daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus, according to Homer (Od. xi. 260); in later poe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aglaulus: Encyclopedia - Aglaulus
Aglaulus is a figure in Greek mythology, daughter of Cecrops. According to Apollodorus, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesacus: Encyclopedia - 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 da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia - Amazons
In Greek mythology, the Ἀμαζόνες, Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amymone: Encyclopedia - Amymone
In Greek mythology, Amymone (the "blameless" one) was a daughter of Danaus. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her, perhaps, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andromeda Mythology: Encyclopedia - Andromeda Mythology
In Greek mythology, Andromeda ("ruler of men") was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the Ethiopians. Cassiopeia, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andromache: Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cresphontes: Encyclopedia - Cresphontes
In Greek mythology, Cresphontes was a son of Aristomaches and brother of Temenus and Aristodemus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kalypso Mythology: Encyclopedia - Kalypso Mythology
In Greek mythology Kālypsō (Greek: 'Καλυψώ', 'I will conceal'), or Calypso, was a sea nymph, daughter of Atlas, who delayed Odyss...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bibliotheca Pseudo-apollodorus: Encyclopedia - Bibliotheca Pseudo-apollodorus
The Bibliotheca (in English Library), in three books, provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. The onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atreus: Encyclopedia - Atreus
In Greek mythology, King Atreus (Greek: Ατρεύς, Atreús) ("fearless") of Mycenae was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia and father of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia
The Boast of Cassiopeia is a story from Greek mythology, associated with Perseus. Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth. The story is set in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autolycus: Encyclopedia - Autolycus
The name Autolycus refers to several people: In Greek mythology, Autolycus, or Autólykos was the son of Chione and Hermes and father of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calydonian Boar: Encyclopedia - Calydonian Boar
The Calydonian Boar is one of the many monsters in Greek mythology, which met its end in the Calydonian Hunt, a popular subject in classi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ate: Encyclopedia - Ate
Ate, a Greek word for 'ruin, folly, delusion', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his hubris, or great pride, that l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asia Mythology: Encyclopedia - Asia Mythology
Asia or Clymene in Greek mythology, is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asopus: Encyclopedia - Asopus
Asopus or Asôpos is the name of five different rivers in Greece and also in Greek mythology the name of the gods of those rivers. Asopus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegeus: Encyclopedia - Aegeus
In Greek mythology, Aegeus, also Aigeus, Aegeas or Aigeas, was the father of Theseus and an Athenian King. He was the son of Pandion II a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belus Egyptian: Encyclopedia - Belus Egyptian
Belus (Greek Belos) the Egyptian is in Greek Mythology a son of Poseidon by Libya. He was a King of Egypt and father of Aegyptus and Dana...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clytius: Encyclopedia - Clytius
Clytius is the name of many people in Greek mythology: A son of Laomedon in Homer's Iliad, book 10. A young soldier in the army of Turnu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thetis: Encyclopedia - Thetis
In Greek mythology, silver-footed Thetis (Greek Θέτις) is a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of "the ancient one of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnos: Encyclopedia - Lemnos
Lemnos (mod. Limnos Greek: Λήμνος Turkish: Limni), an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. The island, part of the Greek ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ilithyia: Encyclopedia - Ilithyia
Ilithyia—the Latin spelling—or more usually Eileithyia, was the Cretan goddess whom Greek mythology adapted as the goddess of childbi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gorgon: Encyclopedia - Gorgon
In Greek mythology, the Gorgons ("terrible" or, according to some, "loud-roaring") were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lynceus: Encyclopedia - Lynceus
Lynceus is the name of two people from Greek mythology. Lynceus was a descendant of Belus through Aegyptus, twin brother of Danaus, who h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia - Medea
In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (now a territory of modern Georgia), niece of Circe, and later wife ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tantalus: Encyclopedia - Tantalus
Persephone Hades Minos Aeacus Rhada- manthys Charon Cerberus Acheron Cocytus Tartarus Lethe Elysion Styx Phlegethon Asphodel Ereb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perseus: Encyclopedia - Perseus
Perseus, or Perseos (Greek: Περσεύς, Περσέως), was the son of Danae, and the only grandchild of Acrisius king of Argos. He ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia - Ganymede
In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganumêdês) was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. As a beautiful Troj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electra: Encyclopedia - Electra
In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Dardanus, Iasio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ares: Encyclopedia - Ares
In Greek mythology, Ares ("battle strife"; in Greek, Áρης), is the god of war and before battle people worshipped him. The Romans ide...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asclepius: Encyclopedia - Asclepius
Asclepius (Greek Ἀσκλήπιος also rendered Aesculapius in Latin and transliterated Asklepios) was the god of medicine and healing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argonauts: Encyclopedia - Argonauts
In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his ques...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argus: Encyclopedia - Argus
There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus: 1. Argus Panoptes, (Argus "all eyes") was a giant with a hundred eyes. He was also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cassandra: Encyclopedia - Cassandra
In Greek mythology, Cassandra ("she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra) was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cadmus: Encyclopedia - Cadmus
Cadmus, or Kadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia and brother of Europa. His father is ei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Titan Mythology: Encyclopedia - Titan Mythology
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek Τιταν, plural Τιτανες) are among a series of gods, some of whom opposed Zeus and the O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taygete: Encyclopedia - Taygete
In Greek mythology, Taygete (Greek: Ταϋγέτη, in Modern Greek Taygeti, Taigeti) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to Apoll...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benthesikyme: Encyclopedia - Benthesikyme
Benthesikyme in Greek mythology according to Apollodorus (3.15.4), was a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite and wife of an unnamed Ethio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena: Encyclopedia - Athena
Athena, (Greek Ἀθηνά Athēná or Ἀθήνη Athénē; Doric: Ἀσάνα Asána), the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daedalus: Encyclopedia - Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anemoi: Encyclopedia - Anemoi
In Greek mythology, the Anemoi (Άνεμοι; Greek: "Winds") were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction, from which thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia - Dionysus
Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology
Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia - Heracles
In Greek mythology, Heracles, or Heraklês ("glory of Hera", Ηρακλης) was a divine hero, the demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tityas: Encyclopedia - Tityas
In Greek mythology the minor figure of Tityas (more commonly Tityus), a Titan-like figure of unbridled lust, was the son of Elara, who wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia - Helen
Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pelasgians: Encyclopedia Ii - Pelasgians - Classical Greek Uses Of Pelasgian
Pelasgians - In Homer. The ethnonym Pelasgoí (Pelasgians) is of unknown etymology. It first occurs in the poems of Homer: the Pelasgia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Omphale: Encyclopedia Ii - Omphale - Sons Of Heracles In Lydia
It would be expected that accounts should speak of at least one son born to Heracles by Omphale. It might also be expected that such acco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thetis: Encyclopedia Ii - Thetis - Thetis As Goddess
While most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, and while she is largely a creature of poetic fancy rath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odysseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Odysseus - Journey Home To Ithaca
Odysseus - The Ciconians. After Odysseus and his men depart from Troy, they are greeted by friendly and calm waters. The ships near lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epigoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Epigoni - In Art
There were statues of the Epigoni at Argos8 and Delphi.9 The war of the Epigoni was the subject of an epic poem, which some had attribute...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia Ii - Helen - Helen In Greek Mythology
Helen - Birth. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Cast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Heracles - Birth And Childhood
A major factor in the well-known tragedies surrounding Heracles stem from the hatred the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, had for him. Heracle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The scope of Greek mythology is enormous. It extends from the horrific crimes of the early gods and the bloody wars of Troy and Thebes, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pelops: Encyclopedia Ii - Pelops - Story Of Pelops
Pelops' father was Tantalus, king at Mount Sipylus in Anatolia. Wanting to make an offering to the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gorgon: Encyclopedia Ii - Gorgon - Origins
The concept of the gorgon is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus. The name is good Greek, being from gorgos, "terrible." The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talos: Encyclopedia Ii - Talos - Interpretation
A political interpretation of the myth tells that Talos is the Minoan fleet armed with metallic weapons. When the Greeks from the Argo de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tantalus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tantalus - Story Of Tantalus
Tantalus is known for having been welcomed to Zeus' table in Olympus. There he stole nectar and ambrosia, brought them back to his people...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symposium Plato Dialogue: Encyclopedia Ii - Symposium Plato Dialogue - Summary
Symposium Plato dialogue - Start of the discussion. The beginning of the discussion is dominated by very light-hearted banter and ribbi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leleges: Encyclopedia Ii - Leleges - Leleges In Anatolia
In Homer's Iliad the Leleges are allies of the Trojans (10.429), though they do not occur in the formal catalogue of allies in Book II of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia Ii - Medea - Medea In Music
Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Worship
Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia Ii - Ganymede - Story
Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus from Mount Ida in Phrygia, the setting for more than one myth-element bearing on the early mythic history ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symposium Plato Dialogue: Encyclopedia Ii - Symposium Plato Dialogue - Summary
Symposium Plato dialogue - Start of the discussion. Due to the excesses of the previous night's drinking, it is decided that no one wil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The span of stories and characters in Greek mythology is incredibly far-reaching. Events ranging from the atrocities of the early gods to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena: Encyclopedia Ii - Athena - History
Athena has no Greek etymology, and probably was already a goddess in the Aegean before the coming of the Greeks, although her name is not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia Ii - Adonis - Life Of Adonis
Adonis' birth is shrouded in confusion for those who require a single, authoritative version. The resolutely patriarchal Hellenes sought ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Titan Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Titan Mythology - The Titans In Hesiod
In Hesiod's Theogony the twelve Titans follow the Hundred-handers and Cyclopes as children of Ouranos, heaven, and Gaia, the Earth: "Aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnos: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnos - Mythic Lemnos
In ancient times the island was sacred to Hephaestus, who as the legend tells fell on Lemnos when his father Zeus hurled him headlong out...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia Ii - Boast Of Cassiopeia - The Myth
The story is set in the royal household of Aethiopia (not to be confused with Ethiopia, the modern name of Axum). King Cepheus (Greek for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centaur: Encyclopedia Ii - Centaur - Theories Of Origin
The armchair anthropologist and writer Robert Graves speculated that the Centaurs of Greek myth were a dimly-remembered, pre-Hellenic fra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia Ii - Adonis - Birth Of Adonis
Adonis' birth is shrouded in confusion for those who require a single, authoritative version. The resolutely patriarchal Hellenes sought ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argonauts: Encyclopedia Ii - Argonauts - Story
Pelias, king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos), had been warned to be on his guard against a man with one shoe and, o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belus Egyptian: Encyclopedia Ii - Belus Egyptian - More Genealogical Information
Apollodorus (2.1.4) claims that Aegyptus and Danaus were twins and that their mother was Anchinoe (otherwise unknown) and that she was da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asopus: Encyclopedia Ii - Asopus - Mythology
As mythological figures the Boeotian river Asopus and the Phliasian river Asopus are much confounded. They are duplicated a second time a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Amazon-like Figures In History And Folklore
Armed women have often acted as royal bodyguards throughout history. Chandragupta Maurya (322–298 BC), the first emperor to develop a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anemoi: Encyclopedia Ii - Anemoi - Major Winds
Anemoi - North wind. Boreas (Βορέας) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ares: Encyclopedia Ii - Ares - Ares In Neopaganism
Many modern Neopagans maintain a somewhat traditional view of Ares. Far from the glory that the Romans attributed to him however, most mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Perseus - Name
Because of the obscurity of the name and the legendary character of its bearer, most etymologists pass it by, on the presumption that it ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symposium Plato Dialogue: Encyclopedia Ii - Symposium Plato Dialogue - Setting
The cultural elite of Athens are holding a Symposium celebrating Agathon, having won the prize for his first tragedy. Our first view of S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anemoi: Encyclopedia Ii - Anemoi - Minor Winds
Some accounts call these winds the wicked Anemoi- the ones controlled by Aeolus- and the other winds the heavenly Anemoi. These four wind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symposium Plato Dialogue: Encyclopedia Ii - Symposium Plato Dialogue - Interpretations
There are numerous similarities and contrasts between the speeches given; in addition, the dramatic context of the Symposium deepens the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia Ii - Adonis - Origin Of The Cult
Adonis was certainly based in large part on Tammuz. His name is Semitic, a variation on the word meaning "lord" that was also used, as "A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symposium Plato Dialogue: Encyclopedia Ii - Symposium Plato Dialogue - Interpretations
The less controversial salient point of the dialogue is the insight we get both to Socrates' wartime relationship with Alcibiades and his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symposium Plato Dialogue: Encyclopedia Ii - Symposium Plato Dialogue - Setting
From the very start of the dialogue, the reader is made aware that this is no ordinary Socratic dialogue. The cultural elite of Athens ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Nature And Sources Of Greek Mythology
The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myt...   » Read the article