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Aglaurus
Status: alive
Pronouns: her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Abas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Abas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Argive seer, son of Melampus. He was the father of Coeranus, Idmon (surrogate headcannon), and Lysimache.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Lysimache - child
- child - Iphianeira
- child - Melampus
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Abderus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A divine hero, reputed by some to be one of Heracles' lovers (eromenoi), and reputedly a son of Hermes by some accounts, and eponym of Abdera, Thrace.
Abderus was mostly known for his tragic role in Heracles' Eighth Labor. Along with others, he helped Heracles capture the four savage mares of Diomedes the king of the Thracian Bistones. Heracles overpowered the grooms and drove the Mares of Diomedes into the sea and left them in the care of Abderus. However, while Heracles was away the horses killed Abderus, either by dragging him behind them after he lost control of them, or by devouring him.
Heracles was heartbroken upon Abderus's death, weeping, hugging and wailing over what remained of his lover. Heracles buried Abderus in a cermonial tomb, with a bowl containing a kalos inscription of affection. Heracles then founded the city of Abdera near Abderus's tomb, where agones (Greek: ἀγῶνες), athletic games consisting of boxing, pancratium and wrestling were held in his honor (but chariot races were banned in respect of how he died).Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Abrota
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Acacallis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Acacallis was the daughter of Minos, king of Crete, and Pasiphae the daughter of Helios, or Crete the daughter of Asterion. She was the sister of Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus and Xenodice. The Bibliotheca calls her Acalle.
According to a Cretan mythological tradition, she had a son with Hermes, Cydon, the founder of Cydonia and Naxos (eponym of the island Naxos) with Apollo. Another tradition relates that Acacallis and Apollo had sons named Miletus and Oaxes. Still other traditions relate that another son was born of her and Apollo, named Amphithemis or Garamas (in some stories, the first mortal born). Lastly by Apollo, she was also said to be the mother of Phylacides and Phylander.
Fearing her father's wrath, she exposed her son Miletus, but Apollo commanded she-wolves to nurse him until he could be taken in and raised by shepherds. He grew up strong and handsome, and Minos was seized with desire for the boy. Miletus fled Crete to avoid being becoming the eromenos of the king, and went on to found the eponymous city, Miletus.
Pausanias relates that when Apollo came to Carmanor to be cleansed for the murder of Python, he mated with Acacallis (said to be a nymph in this particular version), and that from their union were born Phylacides and Phylander. People of the Cretan city Elyrus sent to Delphi a bronze statue of a goat suckling these two children, which suggests that they must have been abandoned by their mother.
Acacallis was in Crete a common name for a narcissus (flower).Life Stages: Mortal
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- Apollo - partner
- Hermes - partner
- Cydon - child
- Oaxes - child
- Naxos - child
- Amphithemis - child
- Phylacides and Philander - child
- Miletus - child
- child - Minos
- child - Pasiphaë
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Acca Larentia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A mythical woman, later a goddess of fertility, in Roman mythology whose festival, the Larentalia, was celebrated on 23 December.
In one mythological tradition (that of Licinius Macer, et al.), Acca Larentia was the wife of the shepherd Faustulus.[2] And after Romulus and Remus were thrown into the Tiber river, Faustulus brought them back to his home, where Acca Larentia would raise the children. She had twelve sons, and on the death of one of them Romulus and Remus took his place, and with the remaining eleven founded the college of the Arval brothers (Fratres Arvales). She is therefore identified with the Dea Dia of that collegium. The flamen Quirinalis acted in the role of Romulus (deified as Quirinus) to perform funerary rites for his foster mother.
Yet another tradition holds that Larentia was neither the wife of Faustulus nor the consort of Hercules, but a courtesan called lupa by the shepherds. Lupa literally means "she-wolf", although the word colloquially meant "prostitute". The legend also states that she left the fortune she amassed through prostitution to the Roman people.Life Stages: Mortal
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Acestor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Ephippus, son of Poemander from Tanagra in Boeotia. When his grandfather, Poemander, refused the call to join the Trojan War, the Achaeans besieged him. During the fighting, Acestor was killed by Achilles.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Ephippus
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Achelous
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Castalia - child
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Achilles
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors. The central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous Argonaut. Achilles was raised in Phthia along with his childhood companion Patroclus and received his education by the centaur Chiron. In the Iliad, he is presented as the commander of the mythical tribe of the Myrmidons.
Achilles's most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan prince Hector outside the gates of Troy. Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the Iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him with an arrow. Later legends (beginning with Statius's unfinished epic Achilleid, written in the first century CE) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for one heel. According to that myth, when his mother Thetis dipped him in the river Styx as an infant, she held him by one of his heels, leaving it untouched by the waters and thus his only vulnerable body part.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- Neoptolemus - child
- pollinated - Deidamia
- married - Patroclus
- child - Peleus
- child - Thetis
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Actaeon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus in Boeotia, and a famous Theban hero. Through his mother Autonoë he was a member of the ruling House of Cadmus. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.
He succumbed to the fatal wrath of Artemis (later his myth became attached to tales of Artemis' Roman counterpart Diana), but the surviving details of his transgression vary: "the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a 'wolf's frenzy' (Lyssa), tore him apart as they would a stag."
Most depictions, both in ancient art and in Renaissance and post-Renaissance art, show either the moment of transgression and transformation, or his killing by his own hounds.Life Stages: Mortal
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Actor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Phthia, was said to be the son of King Myrmidon and Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus. Some say that Actor died childless, but others say that he is the father of Eurytion, his successor or of Irus, who was also called the father of Eurytion. This Actor married Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus, and had several children, among them Menoetius. Menoetius was counted among the Argonauts, and was the father of Patroclus (Achilles' very close companion).
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Actor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Azeus, descendant of Phrixus, was ruler of the Minyans of Orchomenus. He was father of Astyoche, who was seduced by the war-god Ares and bore him twin sons, named Ascalaphus and Ialmenus. These last two led the Minyan contingent to the Trojan War.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Adonis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Adrastus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a king of Argos, and leader of the Seven against Thebes. He was the son of the Argive king Talaus, but was forced out of Argos by his dynastic rival Amphiaraus. He fled to Sicyon, where he became king. Later, he reconciled with Amphiaraus and returned to Argos as its king. Because of an oracle, Adrastus married his daughters to the exiles Polynices and Tydeus and promised to restore them to their homelands. He first assembled an army to place Polynices on the throne of Thebes, led by seven champions, famously called the Seven against Thebes. The expedition failed, and all the champions died except Adrastus, saved by his divine horse Arion. He went with the Epigoni, the sons of the Seven, in the successful second war against Thebes, and was said to have died on his way home.
Adrastus is mentioned as early as Homer's Iliad, and his story was (presumably) told in the Cyclic Thebaid. He figures prominently in the poetry of Pindar, and is a main character in Euripides' The Suppliants. His story was told by Diodorus Siculus, Hyginus, Statius, and Apollodorus. He was said to be the founder of the Nemean Games, had hero cults at Sicyon, Megara, and Colonus, and was depicted in works of art from as early as the 6th century BC.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphithea - married
- Deipyle - child
- child - Lysianassa
- child - Talaus
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Aegeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: one of the kings of Athens in Greek mythology, who gave his name to the Aegean Sea, was the father of Theseus, and founded Athenian institutions.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aethra - married
- Theseus - child
- Medea - married
- child - Pandion II
- child - Pylia
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Aegialeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Original settler of the Peloponnese and the founder and first ruler of the city-state of Aegialea, later known to history as Sicyon.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Aegialus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aegialus inherited the kingdom upon his father's death. He gathered all the people from scattered settlements in a newly founded city which he named Caunus after his father.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Aegina
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
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Aegle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of radiant good health. She was an attendant of her father, the medicine-god Asklepios (Asclepius). Her sisters included Panakeia (All-Cure), Iaso (Remedy) and Hygeia (Good-Health).
Life Stages: Olympian
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Aegyrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The sixth king of Sicyon who reigned for 34 years. Aegyrus was the son and heir of King Thelxion, descendant of the city's founder Aegialeus (an autochthon). Aegyrus was succeeded in the throne by his son Thurimachus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Thurimachus - child
- child - Thelxion
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Aeneas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Hero, Mortal
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Aeneas Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: third in the list of the mythical kings of Alba Longa in Latium, succeeding his father Silvius. The Silvii regarded him as the founder of their house. Dionysius of Halicarnassus ascribes to him a reign of 31 years. Ovid does not mention him among the Alban kings. According to Livy and Dionysius, the heir of Aeneas Silvius was named Latinus Silvius.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Latinus Silvius - child
- child - Silvius
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Aeolia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Protogeneia - child
- married - Calydon
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Aeolus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Poseidon by Arne, daughter of Aeolus (son of Hellen). He had a twin brother named Boeotus.
Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria. When Bœotus and Aeolus were born, they were raised by Metapontus; but their stepmother Autolyte or Theano (wife of Metapontus) quarreled with their mother Arne, prompting Bœotus and Aeolus to kill Autolyte and flee from Icaria. Bœotus, accompanied by Arne, went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands. According to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara. Although his home has been traditionally identified as one of the Aeolian Islands (there is little consensus as to which), near Sicily, an alternative location has been suggested at Gramvousa off the northwest coast of Crete.Life Stages: Mortal
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Aeolus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Aerope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Cepheus of Arcadia, who was king of Tegea. She had a son Aeropus by Ares, but herself died in labor. The child survived by sucking its dead mother's breasts, which Ares had caused to still produce an abundance of milk. Because of this, Ares was called Aphneius ("Abundant"), and was honored under that name with a sanctuary on Mount Cresius. Pausanias goes on to report that the hill was said to have been given the name Aeropus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Aeson
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Iolcus in Thessaly. He was the father of the hero Jason. According to one version of the story, he was imprisoned by his half-brother Pelias, and when Pelias intended to kill him he committed suicide. In another story, he was killed by Jason's wife Medea, who brought him back to life as a young man.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Aethra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Troezenian princess and the daughter of King Pittheus. Aethra was the mother of Theseus (his father was King Aegeus of Athens, or in some versions, Poseidon) and of Clymene (by Hippalces). Aethra was also called Pittheis after her father Pittheus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Aethusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther and Linus.
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Aex
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A daughter of Olenus, who was a descendant of Hephaestus. Aex and her sister Helice nursed the infant Zeus in Crete, and the former was afterwards changed by the god into the constellation called Capella.
Life Stages: Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
- child - Olenus
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Aeëtes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Agenor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A member of the royal house of Argos. He belonged to the house of Phoroneus, and was father of Crotopus. His exact position in the lineage varies depending on the source.
brother of Jasus and Pelasgus, and that after their father's death, the two elder brothers divided his dominions between themselves in such a manner that Pelasgus received the country about the river Erasmus, and built Larissa, and Jasus the country about Elis. After the death of these two, Agenor, the youngest, invaded their dominions, and thus became king of Argos.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Agenor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Telephassa - married
- Phineus - child
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Aglaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the three Kharites (Charites) and the goddess of beauty, splendour, glory and adornment.
She was the wife of the god Hephaistos (Hephaestus) and the mother of four younger Kharites named Eukleia (Eucleia, Good-Repute), Euthenia (Praise), Eupheme (Eloquence) and Philophrosyne (Welcome). Aglaia was also named Kharis (Charis, Grace) and Kale (Calé, Beauty).Life Stages: on original, Olympian
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- Hephaestus - married
- Eukleia - child
- Eupheme - child
- Euthenia - child
- Philophrosyne - child
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Aglaurus
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of the Attic king Cecrops I and Aglaurus, the daughter of Actaeus. By the god Ares, she was the mother of Alcippe.
She was the sister of Herse, Pandrosus and possibly, Erysichthon. Aglaurus had two offspring by two different gods, Alcippe (with Ares) and Ceryx (with Hermes). There were numerous versions of her myth.Life Stages: Mortal
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Agreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo and Euboea, daughter of Macareus. He was the lord of Diphys in Euboea, or king of the entire island.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Agreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Presided over hunting, herding and grazing respectively. Agreus "Hunter", Agreus' mother being the nymph Sose, a prophetess: he inherited his mother's gift of prophecy, and was also a skilled hunter. Agreus and Nomios joined the dozen sons of the god Pan to help Dionysus in his wars in India.
Life Stages: Saytr
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Agrippa
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A descendant of Aeneas and King of Alba Longa, the capital of Latium, southeast of Rome. He was listed as king of Alba Longa in the time of Augustus. Some speculate that this was done in order to give prestige to Augustus' friend and son-in-law Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. He was also ancestor of the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Romulus Silvius - child
- child - Tiberinus Silvius
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Agrius and Oreius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The twin sons of Polyphonte, daughter of Hipponous, and a bear as well as them being the great-grandsons of Ares.
Polyphonte was punished by Aphrodite for the former did not worship her, instead becoming a devotee of the virgin goddess Artemis. The goddess of love made her to couple with a bear causing Artemis to have the animals of the forest attack her. Polyphonte fled back to her father and gave birth to twin savage bear-like children named Agrius and Orius. They were of immense strength, but they did not honour the gods and ate whatever stranger they happened upon. Zeus eventually sent Hermes to take care of them, and he decided to chop off their hands and feet. But Ares, Polyphonte's forefather, changed Hermes' mind so the two gods turned them all into birds. Polyphonte became a small owl, Orius became an eagle owl, a bird that presages little good to anyone when it appears, Agrius was turned into a vulture, birds that crave for human flesh and blood. The family's female servant was changed into a woodpecker, for she begged to become a good bird.Life Stages: Beast, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Polyphonte
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Aigipan
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Aegipan) one of the goat-legged Panes. When the gods fled from the monster Typhoeus and hid themselves in animal forms, Aigipan assumed the form of a fish-tailed goat. He later came to the aid of Zeus, stealing back the god's severed sinews from the giant. As a reward for his service Aigipan was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capricorn.
Life Stages: Sea God
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Aiolos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his wife and six sons and six daughters. To ensure safe passage home for Odysseus and his men, Aeolus gave Odysseus a bag containing all the winds, except the gentle west wind. But when almost home, close enough to smell fresh bread being baked and even see Odysseus' mother, Anticlea, waving to him, Odysseus' men, thinking the bag contained treasure, opened it and they were all driven by the winds back to Aeolia. Believing that Odysseus must evidently be hated by the gods, Aeolus sent him away without further help. This Aeolus was also sometimes confused with the Aeolus who was the son of Hellen and the eponym of one of the four major Ancient Greek tribes, the Aeolians.
Life Stages: on original, Sky God
Relationships:
- Cleobule - child
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Aix
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Aex) Epimelid-nymph of nanny-goat wife of the god Pan. She was seduced by Zeus and bore him a son named Aigipan (Aegipan).
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph
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Akeso
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of curing sickness and healing wounds. Unlike her sister Panakeia (Panacea) (Cure-All) she represented the process of a curing rather than the cure itself. Her male was counterpart was Akesis (Acesis). In Greek sculpural reliefs Akeso appears alongside her father Asklepios (Asclepius) and sisters Hygeia, Panakeia and Iaso.
Life Stages: Olympian
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Alba Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: In Roman mythology the fifth king of Alba Longa. He was the son of Latinus Silvius and the father of Atys. He reigned thirty-nine years.
In Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136), British king Ebraucus sent his thirty daughters to Alba Silvius, where they were married among the Trojan nobility, as the Latin and Sabine women refused to associate with them. Alba Silvius assisted Ebraucus' twenty sons (except for Brutus Greenshield) in conquering Germany. Geoffrey gives the name of his son and successor as "Sylvius Epitus", instead of Atys.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Atys - child
- child - Latinus Silvius
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Alcaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Mycenaean prince. He was a son of Perseus and Andromeda and thus the brother of Perses, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, Cynurus, Gorgophone and Autochthe. Alcaeus was married either to Astydameia, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or else Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus, by whom he became the father of Amphitryon, Anaxo and Perimede.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Astydameia - married
- Anaxo - child
- Amphitryon - child
- child - Andromeda
- child - Perseus
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Alcathous
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Pisatian prince who became a king of Megara. He was the son of King Pelops of Pisa and Hippodamia, and brother of Atreus and Thyestes. He first married Pyrgo and afterwards Euaechme, and was the father of Ischepolis (Ἰσχέπολις), Callipolis (Καλλίπολις), Iphinoe, Periboea, and Automedusa.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Automedusa - child
- Evaechme - married
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pelops
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Alcidameia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Bounos.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Alcippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Daedalus by Eupalamus, son of Metion.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Alcippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Ares and the mortal princess Aglauros.
According to myth, she was attacked and, in some versions, raped on the beach of Athens by Halirrhothius, a son of the god of the sea, Poseidon.
Her father, Ares, came to her aid and killed Halirrhothius. Poseidon demanded justice for his son, and Ares was judged by the Court of the Gods in what, according to the myth, was the first trial in history. The trial took place on the Areopagus, a hill adjacent to the Acropolis of Athens which took its name from this event.
Ares claimed to have killed Halirrhothius to defend/avenge his daughter from rape, and Alcippe confirmed her father's statement. The gods believed them and, as there were no witnesses to the contrary, completely acquitted Ares. According to Panyasis however, it seems that Ares is condemned to serve among mortals, probably as a price for this murder.Life Stages: Mortal
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Alcippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: the daughter of King Oenomaus in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch, who cites a historian named Dositheus for this information. She married Evenus, the son of Ares, by whom she bore a daughter, Marpessa.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Alcmene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: the wife of Amphitryon, by whom she bore two children, Iphicles and Laonome. She is best known as the mother of Heracles, whose father was the god Zeus. Alcmene was also referred to as Electryone (Ἠλεκτρυώνη, Elektryṓnē), a patronymic name as a daughter of Electryon.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Alcyone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess, the daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia, either by Enarete. She was the sister of Salmoneus, Athamas, Sisyphus, Cretheus, Perieres, Deioneus, Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Pisidice and Perimede. Later on, Alcyone became the queen of Trachis after marrying King Ceyx. The latter was the son of Eosphorus. The couple were very happy together in Trachis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Ceyx - married
- Themistonoe - child
- child - Aeolus
- child - Enarete
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Aletheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of truth and sincerity. Her opposite number were Dolos (Trickery), Apate (Deception) and the Pseudologoi (Lies). Also said to have been crafted by Prometheus
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Zeus
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Aleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree III, on original, King, Mortal
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Alexanor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Machaon, and grandson of the Greek god Asclepius. Alexanor was worshipped as a hero in Titane of Sicyonia, where he established an Asclepieion temple built to his grandfather within a grove densely planted with cypresses. He also built a temple on the summit of Titane in the territory of Sicyon to honor his grandfather, around which there were dwellings for the use of those who came to solicit the aid of the god. Inside this Asclepieion, there were wooden statues (xoana) of Asclepius and Hygeia. Many believed that the statue of Asclepius was the work of Alexanor himself. In his honor, there was also his own statue inside the building.
Alexanor's brothers were Sphyros, who also founded an Asclepieion in Argos, Polemocrates, Alcon, and others that remain unknown. Alexanor had great respect for his grandfather and was proud of his heritage so proud he built a temple in his honor he himself would in up being worshiped there along with his grandfather, and sacrifices were offered to him, but only after sunset.Life Stages: Mortal
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Alope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 39
A mortal woman, the daughter of Cercyon, known for her great beauty.
Poseidon, in the guise of a kingfisher, seduced Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to Hippothoon. Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare suckled the child until it was found by shepherds, who fell into a dispute as to who was to have the beautiful royal attire of the boy. The case was brought before Cercyon, who, on recognizing by the dress whose child the boy was, ordered Alope to be imprisoned in order to be put to death, and her child to be exposed again. The latter was fed and found in the same manner as before, and the shepherds called him Hippothoon. The body of Alope was changed by Poseidon into a spring, which bore the same name.
There was a monument of Alope on the road from Eleusis to Megara, on the spot where she was believed to have been killed by her father.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippothoon - child
- child - Cercyon
- pollinated - Poseidon
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Alpheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Orsilochus - child
- partner - Telegone
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Althaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Amata
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Latinus, king of the Latins, and the mother of their only child, Lavinia. In the Aeneid of Virgil, she commits suicide during the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus over which of them would marry Lavinia.
When Aeneas asks for Lavinia's hand, Amata objects, because she has already been promised to Turnus, the king of the Rutulians. Hiding her daughter in the woods, she enlists the other Latin women to instigate a war between the two. Turnus, and his ally Mezentius, leader of the Etruscans, are defeated by Aeneas with the assistance of the Pelasgian colonists from Arcadia and Italic natives of Pallantium, led by that city's founder, the Arcadian Evander of Pallene. The story of this conflict fills the greater part of the seventh book of Virgil's Aeneid. When Amata believes that Turnus had fallen in battle, she hangs herself.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ambracia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Oeachalian princess and daughter of King Melaneus, son of Apollo and Oechalia, and the sister of Eurytus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Melaneus
- child - Stratonice
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Amekhania
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of helplessness and want. She was a close companion of Penia (Poverty) and Ptokheia (Beggary). Amekhania was virtually identical to Aporia (Powerlessness).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Amphiaraus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Oicles, a seer, and one of the leaders of the Seven against Thebes. Amphiaraus at first refused to go with Adrastus on this expedition against Thebes as he foresaw the death of everyone who joined the expedition. His wife, Eriphyle, eventually compelled him to go.
Amphiaraus was a seer, and greatly honored in his time. Both Zeus and Apollo favored him, and Zeus gave him his oracular talent. In the generation before the Trojan War, Amphiaraus was one of the heroes present at the Calydonian boar hunt and also counted as an Argonaut.Life Stages: Tree III, Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Eriphyle - married
- child - Hypermnestra
- child - Oicles
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Amphidamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Arcadian prince as son of King Lycurgus by either Cleophyle or Eurynome, and thus brother of Ancaeus, Epochus and Iasus. Amphidamas had two children: Melanion, the husband of Atalanta, and Antimache who married King Eurystheus of Tiryns.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphion and Zethus
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: The twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus ) 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. Zethus or Amphion had a daughter called Neis (Νηίς), and the Neitian gate at Thebes was believed to have derived its name from her.
Amphion and Zethus were the sons of Antiope, who fled in shame to Sicyon after Zeus raped her, and married King Epopeus there. However, either Nycteus or Lycus attacked Sicyon in order to carry her back to Thebes and punish her. On the way back, she gave birth to the twins and was forced to expose them on Mount Cithaeron. Lycus gave her to his wife, Dirce, who treated her very cruelly for many years.
Antiope eventually escaped and found her sons living near Mount Cithaeron. After they were convinced that she was their mother, they killed Dirce by tying her to the horns of a bull, gathered an army, and conquered Thebes, becoming its joint rulers. They also either killed Lycus or forced him to give up his throne.
Amphion became a great singer and musician after his lover Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden lyre. Zethus became a hunter and herdsman, with a great interest in cattle breeding. As Zethus was associated with agriculture and the hunt, his attribute was the hunting dog, while Amphion's - the lyre. Amphion and Zethus built the fortifications of Thebes. They built the walls around the Cadmea, the citadel of Thebes, at the command of Apollo. While Zethus struggled to carry his stones, Amphion played his lyre and his stones followed after him and gently glided into place.
Amphion married Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus, the Lydian king. Because of this, he learned to play his lyre in the Lydian mode and added three strings to it. Zethus married Thebe, after whom the city of Thebes was named.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphissus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: the son of Apollo and Dryope. According to Ovid, he is the son of Andraemon and Dryope. Amphissus eventually built a temple to his father in the city he founded, Amphissa.
Apollo found Dryope tending her sheep on a mountainside while she was being accompanied by other dryads. The god hid behind a tree and watched her, and later on, he disguised himself as a turtle in order for him to get closer to her. Dryope claimed the turtle as hers. Then, to scare away the other dryads, Apollo turned into a snake to chased them away and coupled with Dryope. This is how she came with child, Amphissus.
According to Ovid, his mother Dryope picked a lotus for him, which turned out to be a nymph. It caused Dryope to become a lotus tree.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Wife of Autolycus and mother of Anticlea (the mother of Odysseus), Polymede (possible mother of Jason), and a number of sons, including Aesimus (the father of Sinon).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Pronax, son of King Talaus of Argos, and thus, sister to Lycurgus. She married Adrastus and was the mother of Argia, Deipyle, Aegiale, Aegialeus and Cyanippus. Another account refers to her as the wife of Dion and the mother of Carya, Lyco and Orphe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphithemis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Acacallis (the daughter of Minos) and Apollo. He was born in Libya, to which Minos had banished Acacallis in retribution for her having an illicit relationship. By the Libyan lake nymph Tritonis, he fathered two sons: Nasamon and Caphaurus (also known as Cephalion). The latter was a shepherd who slew the Argonauts Eurybate and Canthus after they plundered his flocks. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, Amphithemis was also named Garamas (the eponym of the Garamantes).
Ancestor of the faction of Garamantes. he city of Garama in Libya was named after him. He was born in Libya, where Minos had banished his pregnant daughter, Acacallis in retribution for her having an illicit relationship with the sun god.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphitryon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was a husband of Alcmene, Electryon's daughter, and stepfather of the Greek hero Heracles.
Born—according to tradition—in Tiryns, in Argolis in the eastern part of the Peloponnese, Amphitryon became King of Troezen
and regent of Mycenae. He was a friend of Panopeus.
Having accidentally killed his prospective father-in-law, Electryon, king of Mycenae, Amphitryon was driven out of Mycenae by Electryon's brother, Sthenelus. However, there is an earlier tradition that Amphitryon killed Electryon in a fit of anger over some cattle. He fled with Alcmene to Thebes, where he was cleansed from the guilt of blood by Creon, king of Thebes.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Heracles - stepparent
- Iphicles - child
- child - Alcaeus
- married - Alcmene
- child - Astydameia
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Amulius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Alba Longa who ordered the death of his infant, twin grandnephews Romulus, the eventual founder and king of Rome, and Remus. He was deposed and killed by them after they survived and grew to adulthood. He is the brother and usurper of Numitor and son of Procas. He was said to have reigned 41 years before his death (793–752 BC).
His brother had been king, but Amulius overthrew him, killed his son, and took the throne. He forced Rhea Silvia, Numitor's daughter, to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of Vesta, so that she would never bear any sons that might overthrow him. However, she was raped or seduced by the god Mars, resulting in the birth of the twins. Rhea was thrown into prison and her sons ordered to be thrown into the river Tiber. The twins washed up onto dry land and were found by a she-wolf who suckled them. Later their mother was saved by the river god Tiberinus who ended up marrying her. Romulus and Remus went on to found Rome and overthrow Amulius, reinstating their grandfather Numitor as king of Alba Longa.
Amulius' father, King Proca, willed the throne to Numitor but Amulius deposed him. For fear of a threat to his rule, the king had Numitor's son, Aegestus killed, blaming thieves. The truth about the crime was known by some, including Numitor, who feigned ignorance. Amulius then appointed Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, to the Vestal priestesshood, where her vow of chastity would prevent her from producing any further children. Despite this, she became pregnant a few years later, claiming to have been raped.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Procas
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Amythaon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Prince of Iolcus as the son of King Cretheus and Tyro, daughter of King Salmoneus of Elis. He was the brother of Aeson and Pheres.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Anaxo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Anaxo was the sister of Amphitryon and Perimede, wife of Licymnius. She married Electryon, king of Mycenae, and her own uncle. Her children were Alcmene, Stratobates, Gorgophonus, Phylonomus, Celaeneus, Amphimachus, Lysinomus, Cheirimachus, Anactor, and Archelaus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Alcmene - child
- child - Alcaeus
- child - Astydameia
- married - Electryon
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Ancaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Samia - married
- Parthenope - child
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Anchiroe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Achiroe was the mother of Sithon by Ares
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Androdamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Sicyonian son of Phlias and Chthonophyle, daughter of King Sicyon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Chthonophyle
- child - Phlias
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Androgeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Cretan prince as the son of King Minos. He was the brother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus and Xenodice. Androgeus's sons were Sthenelus and Alcaeus, who later became companions of Heracles.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Andromeda
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
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Angelia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of messages, tidings and proclamations. The English word "angel" derives the same ancient Greek word.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Hermes
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Anius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a king of Delos and priest of Apollo.
He was the son of Apollo and Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis.
Anius was born either on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, or on Euboea, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Staphylus when he had discovered her pregnancy was washed ashore there. Rhoeo then, placing the baby on Apollo's altar, asked the god to care for it, if it was his. Rhoeo then married Zarex, who thus became the legal father of Anius. Apollo cared for the child Anius for a long time, teaching him the arts of divination and prophecy. Anius later became Apollo's priest and the king of Delos.
Anius had three daughters: Oeno, Spermo, and Elais, known as the Oenotropae; and three sons, Andros, Mykonos, and Thasos. Their mother was Dorippe, a Thracian woman ransomed by Anius for the price of a horse from the pirates who had kidnapped her. Dionysus gave the three daughters the power to change whatever they wanted into wine, wheat, and oil. When the Greeks landed on Delos while on their way to Troy, Anius prophesied that the Trojan War would not be won until the tenth year, and insisted that they stay with him for nine years, promising that his daughters would supply them with aliments during that period. When Agamemnon heard this, he wanted to take the Oenotropae with him by force, to provide his army with food and wine. They prayed to Dionysus, who changed them into doves.
Of Anius's three sons, Andros and Mykonos became eponyms of the islands of Andros and Mykonos respectively. As for Thasos, he was devoured by dogs, and since then it was prohibited to keep dogs on Delos.
Later, Anius, an old friend of Anchises, gave aid to him, his son Aeneas, and his retinue when they were fleeing from Troy and en route to the future site of Rome. According to a rare version of the myth, Aeneas married Anius's daughter Lavinia (or Launa), who, like her father, had prophetic abilities and bore Aeneas a son, who was also named Anius.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Dorippe - married
- The Oenotropae - child
- child - Apollo
- child - Rhoeo
- stepparent - Zarex
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Anticlea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Queen of Ithaca as the wife of King Laërtes. Anticlea was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea The divine trickster and messenger of the gods, Hermes, was her paternal grandfather. Anticlea was the mother of Odysseus by Laërtes. Ctimene was also her daughter by her husband Laertes.
According to Callimachus, when she was young, Anticlea served the goddess Artemis, and accompanied her in hunting, bearing arrow and quiver.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Anticlea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Diocles, king of Pherae, according to Pausanias. She married Asclepius' son Machaon and had by him two sons, Nicomachus and Gorgasus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Machaon - married
- Nicomachus - child
- Alexanor - child
- Sphyros - child
- Polemocrates - child
- child - Diocles
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Anticlea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother by Hephaestus of Periphetes, the lame malefactor of Epidaurus who was killed by the hero Theseus in one of his exploits.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hephaestus - partner
- Periphetes - child
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Antiochus
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Son of Heracles and Meda. Both his maternal grandfather and his own son bore the name Phylas. He was the eponym of the Athenian phyle Antiochis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Antion
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Was the eldest son of Periphas and Astyaguia (daughter of Hypseus), who were distantly related. According to legend, he was the great-grandson of Apollo, his paternal grandfather being Lapithus, the son of Apollo and Stilbe and patriot of the Lapith people. Antion married Perimele, and they became parents of the legendary demi-god Ixion.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Antiope
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphion and Zethus - child
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Antiope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Pylon or Pylaon. She was married to Eurytus, by whom she became the mother of the Argonauts Iphitus and Clytius, also of Toxeus, Deioneus, Molion, Didaeon and a very beautiful daughter, Iole. She is also called Antioche.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Antiope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: An Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe, Hippolyta, Penthesilea and possibly Orithyia, queens of the Amazons. Two sisters, Orithyia and Antiope, co-ruled the Amazons. Antiope may have been the wife of Theseus and mother to his son Hippolytus of Athens, but differing sources claim this was Hippolyta.
Relationships:
- child - Ares
- child - Otrera
- turned - The Amazons
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Antiphates
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Melampus and Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes. He married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Hippocoon. Their children were Oecles and Amphalces.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Zeuxippe - married
- Oicles - child
- child - Iphianeira
- child - Melampus
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Antiphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Phthian prince as the son of King Myrmidon and Peisidice, and brother of Actor. He may be the same with Antippus, the father of Hippea who became the mother of Polyphemus, Caeneus and Ischys by Elatus, king of the Lapiths.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Aphidas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Stheneboea / Antea - child
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Aphrodite
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
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Apis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Argos Apollodorus states that Apis, the son of Phoroneus, was killed by Aetolus; Pausanias, however, gives the latter story in relation to Apis, son of Jason, who was killed by Aetolus during the funeral games celebrated in honor of Azanes.
Apis, the son of Phoroneus, is said, after his death, to have been worshiped as a god under the name of Serapis (Σάραπις). This confusion is still more manifest in the tradition, that Apis gave his kingdom of Argos to his brother, and went to Egypt, where he reigned for several years afterwards. Apis is spoken of as one of the earliest lawgivers among the Greeks. Both these stories show that Egyptian myths were mixed up with the story of Apis.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Apis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The fourth king of Sicyon who reigned for 25 years. Apis was the son and heir of King Telchis, descendant of the city's founder Aegialeus. He was the father of Thelxion who succeeded him in the throne. Apis belonged to a legacy of primeval kings of Sicyon which is as follows: Aegialeus, Europs, Telchis, Apis, Thelxion, Agyreus, Thurimachus, Leucippus.
Apis reached such a height of power before Pelops came to Olympia that all the territory south of the Isthmus was called after him Apia. This was also attributed to his Argive namesake who have had Peloponnesus named Apia after him. Apis was, however, a tyrant, and was overthrown by his son Thelxion.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Apollo
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
- Othreis - partner
- Phagrus - child
- Centaurus - child
- Lapithes - child
- Kyrene - partner
- Aristaeus - child
- Idmon - child
- Coronis - pollinated
- Asclepius - child
- Eriopis - child
- Samothrakian Korybantes - child
- Coronus - child
- Zeuxippus - child
- Psamathe - pollinated
- Linus - child
- Oncius - child
- Erymanthus - child
- Iamus - child
- Eleuther - child
- Dryops - child
- Dryope - pollinated
- Amphissus - child
- Chaeron - child
- Trophonius - child
- Lycorus - child
- Delphus - child
- Philammon - child
- Polypoetes - child
- Laodocus - child
- Melaneus - child
- Lycomedes - child
- Anius - child
- Ceos - child
- Oaxes - child
- Amphithemis - child
- Naxos - child
- Phylacides and Philander - child
- Hemithea - child
- Tenes - child
- Ourea - partner
- Ileus - child
- Troilus - child
- Mopsus - child
- Syrus - child
- Agreus - child
- Hymenaios - affair
- partner - Acacallis
- partner - Aethusa
- partner - Arsinoe
- affair - Branchus
- partner - Celaeno
- partner - Chrysorthe
- partner - Corycia
- partner - Dia
- partner - Euboea
- partner - Evadne
- affair - Hyacinth
- partner - Manto
- partner - Parthenope
- partner - Phthia
- partner - Proclia
- partner - Rhodoessa / Melia
- partner - Rhoeo
- partner - Sinope
- partner - Stilbe
- partner - Syllis
- partner - Terpsichore
- partner - Thaleia
- partner - Thero
- child - Zeus
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Aporia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of want, difficulty and powerlessness. She was a companion of Penia (Poverty) and counterpart of Amekhania (Helplessness). Her opposite number was Poros (Expediency).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Aratus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the god Asclepius and the mortal Sicyonian woman Aristodeme. He was half-brother to Aceso, Aegle, Hygieia, Iaso, Panacea, Machaon, Podalirius, and Telesphoros. Literary evidence of Aratus's parentage largely comes via references from one single author, the geographer Pausanias. However, there are other remnants, such as an inscription dating from the second or third century BCE and unearthed in the city of Epidaurus that reads: "[We] set up this dragon, the monstrous father of the hero Aratus, to be guardian of possessions."
It is unclear to what extent Aratus as the son of Asclepius was an existing mythological tradition and to what extent it was a post-hoc mythologizing of Aratus of Sicyon after his death.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Aristodeme
- child - Asclepius
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Arcesius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
- Chalcomedusa - married
- Laertes - child
- adopted - Zeus
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Ardalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the god Hephaestus who was said to have invented the flute, and to have built a sanctuary of the Muses at Troezen, who derived from him the surname Ardalides or Ardaliotides.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hephaestus
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Ares
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
- Phlegyas - child
- Anchiroe - partner
- Sithon - child
- Aphrodite - partner
- Deimos and Phobos - child
- Enyalios - child
- Alcippe - child
- Evenus - child
- Melanippus - child
- Philonome - pollinated
- Lycastus and Parrhasius - child
- Drakon Ismenios - child
- Astyoche - pollinated
- Ascalaphus - child
- Ialmenus - child
- Oxylus - child
- Dryas - child
- Cycnus - child
- Diomedes - child
- Biston - child
- Tereus - child
- Thrassa - child
- The Amazons - child
- Otrera - child
- Penthesilea - child
- Antiope - child
- Hippolyta - child
- Melanippe - child
- Lycus - child
- Rhea Silvia - pollinated
- Remus - child
- Romulus - child
- partner - Aerope
- partner - Aglaurus
- partner - Bistonis
- partner - Callirhoe
- partner - Demonice
- partner - Dotia
- partner - Enyo
- partner - Harmonia
- partner - Otrera
- partner - Protogeneia
- partner - Tereine
- partner - Triteia
- child - Zeus
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Argiope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 38
Naiad of the town of Eleusis, mother of Cercyon by Branchus. A daughter of the river-god Cephissus.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Argus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A member of the royal house of Argos. He belonged to the house of Phoroneus, and was father of Crotopus. His exact position in the lineage varies depending on the source.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Argus Panoptes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A many-eyed giant, Known for his perpetual vigilance, he served the goddess Hera as a watchman. His most famous task was guarding Io, a priestess of Hera, whom Zeus had transformed into a heifer. Argus's constant watch, with some of his eyes always open, made him a formidable guardian. His eventual slaying by Hermes, on Zeus's orders, is a prominent episode in the myths surrounding him, and his eyes were then incorporated into the peacock's tail by Hera in his honor.
guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and the son of Arestor. According to Asclepiades, Argus Panoptes was a son of Inachus, and according to Cercops he was a son of Argus and Ismene, daughter of Asopus.
Argus was Hera's servant. His great service to the Olympian pantheon was to slay the chthonic serpent-legged monster Echidna as she slept in her cave. Hera's defining task for Argus was to guard the white heifer Io from Zeus, who was attracted to her, keeping her chained to the sacred olive tree at the Argive Heraion. She required someone who had at least a hundred eyes spread out, always watching in all directions, someone who would stay awake despite being asleep. Argos was meant to be the perfect guardian. She charged him to "Tether this cow safely to an olive-tree at Nemea". Hera knew that the heifer was in reality Io, one of the many nymphs Zeus was coupling with to establish a new order. To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes. The messenger of the Olympian gods, disguised as a shepherd, first put all of Argus' eyes asleep with spoken charms, then slew him. Some versions say that Hermes used his wand to close Argus' eyes permanently, while other versions say that Hermes simply hurled a stone at Argus. Either way, Argus' death was the first stain of bloodshed among the new generation of gods. After beheading Argus, Hermes acquired the epithet Argeiphontes or “Argus-slayer”.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
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Ariadne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Cretan princess, the daughter of King Minos of Crete. There are variations of Ariadne's myth, but she is known for helping Theseus escape from the Minotaur and being abandoned by him (or herself dying) on the island of Naxos. There, Dionysus saw Ariadne sleeping, fell in love with her, and later married her. Many versions of the myth recount Dionysus throwing Ariadne's jeweled crown into the sky to create a constellation, the Corona Borealis.
Ariadne is associated with mazes and labyrinths because of her involvement in the myths of Theseus and the Minotaur.
There were also festivals held in Cyprus and Naxos in Ariadne's honor.Life Stages: Mortal
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Aristaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Rustic god of shepherds and cheesemaking, beekeeping, honey and honey-mead, olive growing and oil milling, medicinal herbs, hunting, and the Etesian winds which provided some respite from the scorching heat of midsummer. His name was derived from the Greek word aristos, "most excellent" or "most useful."
Life Stages: Apotheosis, Rustic
Relationships:
- Autonoë - married
- Actaeon - child
- Macris / Nysa - child
- child - Apollo
- child - Kyrene
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Aristodeme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Sicyonian woman, who, according to a local tradition of Sicyon, became the mother of the demigod Aratus by Asclepius, who came to her in the form of a dragon. A painting of her and the dragon existed at Sicyon in the temple of Asclepius.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Arne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Arsinoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Leucippus and possibly Philodice. She was also the sister of Hilaeira and Phoebe, who were abducted by the Dioscuri. By the god Apollo, Eriopis 'with the lovely hair'.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ascalaphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Ares and the Minyan princess Astyoche, daughter of King Actor of Orchomenus. Ascalaphus was also a king of the Minyans, and twin brother of Ialmenos. These brothers were counted among the Argonauts and the suitors of Helen, and led the Orchomenian contingent in the Trojan War, where Deiphobos threw a spear and killed him.
Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
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Ascanius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and of Creusa, daughter of Priam. He is a significant figure in Roman mythology because of his family connections: as the son of the Roman ancestor-figure Aeneas (himself the son of the goddess Venus and the Trojan prince Anchises), and as a forebear of the Roman people. Under his additional name Iulus, he was claimed as the particular ancestor of the gens Iulia, the family of Julius Caesar, and therefore a progenitor of the first line of Roman emperors, the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Some Roman genealogies also make him an ancestor of Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of Rome itself.
Like his father, Ascanius appears as a major character in Virgil's Aeneid.
Ascanius was succeeded by Silvius, who was his younger brother. Ascanius died in the 28th year of his reign.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Asclepius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis. He was also the patron god, and reputed ancestor, of the Asklepiades (Asclepiades), the ancient guild of doctors.
Asklepios was the son of Apollon and the Trikkaian (Triccaean) princess Koronis (Coronis). His mother died in labour and when she was laid out on the pyre, Apollon cut the unborn child from her womb. From this Asklepios received his name which means "to cut open." Asklepios was raised by the centaur Kheiron (Chiron) who instructed him in the art of medicine. He grew so skilled in the craft that he was able to restore the dead to life. This was a crime against the natural order and so Zeus destroyed him with a thunderbolt.
After his death Asklepios was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Ophiochus ("the Serpent Holder"). Some say his mother was also set in the heavens as Corvus, the crow (korônê in Greek). Asklepios' apotheosis into godhood occurred at the same time. He was sometimes identified with Homer's Paion (Paeon), the physician of the gods.
Asklepios was depicted as a kindly, bearded man holding a serpent-entwined staff. Although he is largely absent from ancient Greek vase painting, statues of the god are quite common.Life Stages: Apotheosis, Olympian
Relationships:
- Epione - married
- Iaso - child
- Panacea - child
- Aegle - child
- Hygeia - child
- Akeso - child
- Telesphoros - child
- Machaon - child
- Podalirius - child
- Aristodeme - pollinated
- Aratus - child
- child - Apollo
- child - Coronis
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Asopos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
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Asterion / The Minotaur
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: With the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull". He dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, upon command of King Minos of Crete. According to tradition, every nine years the people of Athens were compelled by King Minos to choose fourteen young noble citizens (seven men and seven women) to be offered as sacrificial victims to the Minotaur in retribution for the death of Minos's son Androgeus. The Minotaur was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus, who managed to navigate the labyrinth with the help of a thread offered to him by the King's daughter, Ariadne.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Astyaguia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalin princess as the daughter of King Hypseus of Lapiths and the naiad Chlidanope. Astyaguia married Periphas, son of Lapithus, and they had eight sons, the oldest of whom was Antion who became the father of Ixion by Perimela, daughter of Amythaon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Antion - child
- child - Chlidanope
- child - Hypseus
- married - Periphas
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Astydameia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She married Alcaeus and had Amphitryon and Anaxo by him.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Anaxo - child
- Amphitryon - child
- married - Alcaeus
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pelops
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Astyoche
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: naiad daughter of the river god Simoeis, mother of Tros by Erichthonius.
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Tros - child
- married - Erikthonius
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Astyoche
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of King Phylas of Ephyra, mother of Tlepolemus by Heracles. Also known as Astydameia or Astygeneia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Heracles - partner
- Tlepolemus - child
- child - Phylas
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Astyoche
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Minyan princess as the daughter of King Actor of Orchomenus, son of Azeus. She was the mother of Ascalaphus and Ialmenus with Ares. The latter lay with her in secret when the maiden entered into her upper chamber.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Ialmenus - child
- Ascalaphus - child
- child - Actor
- pollinated - Ares
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Atalanta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Parthenopaeus - child
- Melanion - married
- child - Clymene
- partner - Meleager
- child - Phylacus
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Atalanta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: From Boeotia, who is the daughter of King Schoeneus and is primarily noted for her skill in the footrace. Atalanta was a local figure allied to the goddess Artemis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippomenes - married
- child - Schoeneus
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Athamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Atrax
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: believed to have been the founder and eponym of Atrax or Atracia, a city in ancient Thessaly. Atrax was the son of the river god Peneus and Bura. He had three daughters: Hippodamia, wife of Pirithous; Caenis, who transformed into a male, Caeneus; and Damasippe, who was married to Cassandrus of Thrace.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippodamia - child
- child - Bura
- child - Peneus
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Atymnius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A beautiful boy, who was beloved by Sarpedon and Minos both, over whom they quarrelled. He was the son of Cassiopeia and Zeus. Atymnius seems to have been worshipped at Gortyn in Crete together with Europa.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Cassiopeia
- child - Zeus
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Atys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus to have been an early king of Lydia, then probably known as Maeonia. Herodotus recounts that Maeonia was beset by severe famine during Atys' reign. To help them endure hunger, the Maeonians developed various expedients including dice, knucklebones and ball games. The idea was that they would eat every other day only. On the interim days when they fasted, they would play games all day to distract their minds from hunger. Herodotus says they lived like that for eighteen years. Eventually, Atys decided to halve the population, one half to remain in Maeonia and the other half to leave and found a colony elsewhere. Lots were drawn and Atys appointed himself to stay while one of his sons, Tyrrhenus, led the colonists to Umbria where they settled and became known as Tyrrhenians
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Atys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Sixth king of Alba Longa. Geoffrey of Monmouth asserted in his Historia Regum Britanniae that Silvius (whom he calls "Silvius Epitus") succeeded Alba at the same time that Solomon began to build the Temple in Jerusalem, and king Leil of Britain founded Carlisle. The king is thought to be the Ancestor of Atia gens.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Capys - child
- child - Alba Silvius
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Aura
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan-goddess of the breeze and the fresh, cool air of early morning. She was a virgin-huntress who was excessively proud of her maidenhood. In her hubris she dared compare her body with that of the goddess Artemis, claiming the goddess was too womanly in form to be a true virgin. Artemis sought out Nemesis (Retribution) to avenge her and as punishment Aura was violated by the god Dionysos. The crime drove her mad and in her fury she became a ruthless, slayer of men. When her twin sons were born, Aura swallowed one whole, but the second was snatched safely away by Artemis. Zeus then transformed Aura into a stream--or perhaps breeze "aura".
Aura is related to the Aurai (Aurae), nymphs of the breezes.Life Stages: Titan
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Autarieus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the sons of Illyrius and the eponymous founder of the Autariates.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Autolycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A robber who had the power to metamorphose or make invisible the things he stole. He had his residence on Mount Parnassus and was renowned among men for his cunning and oaths.
He became the father of Anticlea (who married Laertes of Ithaca and was the mother of Odysseus) and several sons, of whom only Aesimus, father of Sinon was named. Autolycus's other daughter was Polymede, mother of Jason, the famous Argonaut who led a group of men to find the coveted Golden Fleece.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Anticlea - child
- Polymede - child
- married - Amphithea
- child - Chione / Philonis
- child - Hermes
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Automedusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Megarian princess as the youngest daughter of King Alcathous either by his first wife, Pyrgo or second spouse, Evaechme, daughter of King Megareus of Megara. Automedusa married Heracles's half-brother Iphicles and had by him a son Iolaus, who became the charioteer of Heracles.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Autonoë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Theban princess as the eldest daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes in Boeotia, and the goddess Harmonia. She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris.
In Euripides' play, The Bacchae, she and her sisters were driven into a bacchic frenzy by the god Dionysus (her nephew) when Pentheus, the king of Thebes, refused to allow his worship in the city. When Pentheus came to spy on their revels, Agave, the mother of Pentheus and Autonoë's sister, spotted him in a tree. They tore him to pieces in their Bacchic fury. The murder of Pentheus was brought by Dionysus as retribution for Pentheus's lack of piety for the gods.
Actaeon, the son of Autonoë, was eaten by his own hounds as punishment for glimpsing Artemis naked. At last, grief and sadness at the lamentable fate of the house of her father induced Autonoe to quit Thebes to go to Ereneia, a village of the Megarians, where she died.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Actaeon - child
- Macris / Nysa - child
- married - Aristaeus
- child - Cadmus
- child - Harmonia
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Aventinus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the mythical kings of Alba Longa, who was buried on the Aventine Hill later named after him. He is said to have reigned thirty-seven years, and to have been succeeded by Procas, the father of Amulius.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Procas - child
- child - Romulus Silvius
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Azeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Minyan prince as the youngest among the sons of King Clymenus of Orchomenus.
Azeus mother was probably Boudeia, daughter of Lycus. He was the brother of Erginus, Stratius, Arrhon, Pyleus, Eurydice, and Axia. Azeus was the father of King Actor, father of Astyoche who coupled with Ares and begat Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, the Orchomenian leaders during the Trojan War.
Azeus went with his brothers, under the command of Erginus against Thebes, to take vengeance for the murder of his father, who had been slain by the Thebans at a festival of the Onchestian Poseidon.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Aëdon
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Pandareus of Ephesus. According to Homer, she was the wife of Zethus, and the mother of Itylus. Aëdon features in two different stories, one set in Thebes and one set in Western Asia Minor, both of which contain filicide and explain the origin of the nightingale, a bird in constant mourning. Aëdon serves as a doublet of the Athenian princess Procne in some versions of her myth.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Neis - child
- Itylus - child
- married - Amphion and Zethus
- child - Harmothoë
- child - Pandareus
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Basilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: In after years, the son of Lyrcus and Hemithea, whose name was Basilus, came, when he was a grown man, to the Caunian land; and Lyrcus, now an old man, recognized him as his son, and made him ruler over his peoples.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Batea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad, who married King Oebalus of Sparta. Their sons were Hippocoon, Tyndareus and Icarius.[2] She also becomes somewhat relevant in Plato's dialogues. Plato implies Batea is her name given by the Gods and Myrina the one called by mortals in Cratylus (dialogue).
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Batea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the mother of Ilus, Erichthonius, and Zacynthus. A hill in the Troad and the town Bateia were named after her. Batia's father was the ruler of a tribe known as the Teucrians (Teucri). She married King Dardanus, son of Zeus and Electra, whom Teucer named as his heir. By Dardanus, Batea was the mother of Ilus, Erichthonius, and Zacynthus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Dardanus - married
- Erikthonius - child
- child - Teucer
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Bellerophon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Philonoe - married
- Laodamia - child
- Hippolochus - child
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Beroe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess-nymph of the city of Beruit in Phoinikia (Phoenicia) (modern Lebanon) who was wooed by the gods Dionysos and Poseidon and won by the latter for a bride.
Beroe was a daughter of Aphrodite and Adonis--the Phoenician gods Ashtarte and Adon.
She was sometimes identified with the Danaid-nymph Amymone.Relationships:
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Bias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the three kings of Argos when the kingdom was divided into three domains. The other kings were his brother Melampus and Anaxagoras. From Bias, they say, a river in Messenia was called.
According to Pausanias, Amythaon was the father of Bias and the seer Melampus by Idomene. Bias was the father of Talaus by his first wife Pero while together with Iphianassa, daughter of Proetus, had a daughter Anaxibia (Alphesiboea ) who married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. It is mentioned by Apollonius of Rhodes that Bias had three sons: Talaus, Arëius, and Leodocus who were crew of the Argo. One source, named the children of Bias as Perialces, Aretos and Alphesiboea.
Bias married his cousin Pero who was the daughter of Neleus. It was said that Neleus would not allow his daughter to marry anyone unless the suitor brought him the oxen of Iphiclus. These Melampus achieved with courage and using his supernatural abilities of speaking with animals, upon winning the challenge he arranged the marriage of Pero and Bias. The couple had one child together, Talaus. When Pero died, Bias remarried Iphianassa, daughter of Proetus, after Melampus had cured her, her sisters and the Argive women from madness. He received one third of Proetus's kingdom all of which he gave to Bias. According to Pausanias, the Biantidae continued to rule in Argos for four generations: Bias – Talaus – Adrastus – Diomedes – Cyanippus.Life Stages: Mortal
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Biston
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: the ancestor of the Bistonians, a Thracian people. He is said to be the son of Ares and Callirrhoe. Biston built the city of Bistonia on the shores of Lake Bistonis in Thrace. He also introduced the Thracian practice of tattooing both men and women with eye-like patterns as a magical fetish, in response to an oracle which guaranteed victory against the neighbouring Edonians tribe if so adorned. The Thracian Bistonians were famous for their warlike nature and cult of Ares whom they worshipped in the form of an upright standing sword.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Bistonis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Gave birth to a son of Ares, Tereus. Although she is mentioned in several surviving classical texts, she is the main subject of few or none. In at least one poem, written by Moschus in the 3rd century BCE, Lake Bistonis, in Thrace, is referred to as being her lake, and that lake is described as having a population of nymphs:
Tell all the nymphs by Bistonis’ clear lake,
The Orpheus of the Dorian isle is dead.
Her name is similar to the name of a city in Thrace, Bistonia, said in ancient Greek mythology to have been built on the shores of that lake by Biston, who was the son of Ares and Callirrhoe.Life Stages: Mortal, Naiad Nymphs
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Bounos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Corinthian son of Hermes and Alcidamea/Alcidamia. Bunus received the throne of Ephyra (an early name of Corinth) from Aeëtes, when the latter decided to migrate to Colchis, biding him to keep it until he or his children came back. He is said to have built a sanctuary to Hera Bunaea on the road which led up to Acrocorinthus. After the death of Bounus, Epopeus of Sicyon, who had come from Thessaly, extended his own kingdom to include Corinth.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Alcidameia
- child - Hermes
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Branchus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Smicrus and a lover of the god Apollo in Greek mythology. Initially a shepherd in Miletus, Branchus became a prophet after receiving prophetic abilities from Apollo. He introduced the worship of the god at Didyma and founded a shrine for him at Miletus. His descendants, the Branchides, were an influential clan of prophets.
Branchus was the son of Smicrus and a distinguished Milesian woman. When giving birth, his mother had a vision of the sun entering her mouth, passing through her stomach and emerging from her genitals. The seers took this to be an excellent omen, and so her son was named Branchus, since the sun had passed through her bronchia (throat).
Branchus grew up to be the most handsome of men. One day, he came across Apollo in the woods and, being enchanted with the beauty of the god, kissed him. Apollo embraced him and returned his affections. Later Apollo gave him a crown and a magical staff, and breathed the gift of prophecy into him. Having received these gifts, Branchus became a prophet and a priest of Apollo. He established the cult of Apollo at Didyma. After Branchus suddenly disappeared, an altar was built on the place he kissed Apollo. A different story is given by Callimachus. One day, Apollo left Delos on a dolphin and reached a place called hiera hyle (sacred woods). It was there that he saw Branchus tending to his flocks and felt attracted to him. Wanting to seduce the mortal, Apollo appeared to him disguised as a goatherd. He first offered assistance in milking the goats, but the distracted god ended up milking a billy goat.[7][8] Embarrassed, Apollo revealed his divine nature. In order to persuade Branchus to abandon the herding and accompany him instead, Apollo guaranteed the safety and promised a supply of good grazing to the flocks. After they became lovers, Apollo taught Branchus the mantic arts. Apollo also looked after the flocks while Branchus practiced the art. On becoming a prophet, Branchus is said to have transplanted a shoot of the laurel tree at Delphi in the precinct of Didyma. Branchus used the branches of this laurel tree while chanting spells in order to cure the illness of the Milesians.
Milesians built temples dedicated to Branchus and Apollo and named them Philesia, after the kiss of Branchus. There, the god was worshipped under the name Apollo Philesius (Apollo of the kiss).Relationships:
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Branchus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 38
Father of Cercyon, by the nymph Argiope.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Budeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Lycus. She was the wife of the Orchomenian king, Clymenus and mother of his children, including Erginus, Stration, Arrhon, Pyleus, Azeus, Eurydice, and Axia. The Boeotian town of Budeion was named after her. An alternate spelling of her name is Buzyge.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Bura
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Ion. She is possibly the same as Bura, mother of Atrax by Peneus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Byblis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Miletus and Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria. She fell in love with Caunus, her twin brother.
he most elaborate interpretation of her story is that of Ovid, and runs as follows. Byblis acknowledged her love for Caunus, and despite her initial efforts to convince herself that her feelings were natural, she realized the inappropriateness of them. Unable to keep her love for Caunus a secret from him any longer, she sent him a long love letter through a servant giving examples of other incestuous relationships between the gods. Disgusted, he ran away. Believing that she could yet make him love her, she was determined to try to woo him once more. When she found out that he had fled, she tore her clothes and stripped naked in sorrow and was driven into madness. She followed him through much of Greece and Asia Minor until she finally died, worn out by her grief and the long journey. As she had been constantly crying, she was changed into a spring.
Parthenius of Nicaea cites two versions of Byblis' story, one of which is generally the same as that recounted by Ovid, but ends with Byblis hanging herself with her girdle. In the other version, it is Caunus who instigates the incest, but Byblis still seems to return his affection; Caunus then leaves home before he can lose control over his desires, and Byblis, after a long search for him, makes a noose of her garment and hangs herself. The same version is followed by Conon.
Antoninus Liberalis again portrays Byblis as overcome with unanswered love for her brother; after Caunus leaves, she rejects the proposals of numerous suitors and attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but is saved by hamadryads, who cause her to fall asleep and transform her into a fellow nymph.
onnus depicts Byblis, Caunos and Miletus as the children of Asterius, son of Minos and Androgeneia. In this account, Caunus romantically pursues Byblis with a love song referencing the incestuous relationships between the gods.
All the authors make mention of a spring which was believed to have appeared from Byblis' incessant tears.
The city Byblos in Phoenicia was believed to have taken its name from Byblis.Life Stages: Mortal
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Cabeiro
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Haliae
Relationships:
- The Kabeiroi - child
- The Kabeirides - child
- partner - Hephaestus
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Cadmus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Caecus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A lord of Teuthrania (in Asia Minor) after whom the main river of the kingdom was named. He was a son of Hermes and the Naias Nymphe Okyrrhoe.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Calchas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Appears in the opening scenes of the Iliad, and also has a long literary history after Homer.
A seer in the service of the Greek forces, Calchas is portrayed as a skilled augur, Greek oinópolos ('bird-savant'): "as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp." He had received knowledge of the past, present, and future from the god, Apollo. He had other mantic skills as well: interpreting the entrails of the enemy during the tide of battle. His mantosune, as it is called in the Iliad, is the hereditary occupation of his family, which accounts for the most credible etymology of his name: “the dark one” in the sense of “ponderer,” based on the resemblance of pondering to melancholy, or being “blue.”
It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended. The episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle. He also states that Troy will be sacked on the tenth year of the war.Life Stages: Mortal
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Calchinia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Sicyonian princess as a daughter of King Leucippus of Aegialea. She consorted with the sea-god Poseidon and bore him a son, Peratus. Leucippus reared his grandson and with the former's death, he handed over the kingdom to Peratus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Callirhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: the naiad daughter of the river god Scamander, wife of Tros, and thus, mother of Ilus, Assaracus, Ganymede, Cleopatra, and possibly, Cleomestra.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Callirhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Oceanids, daughters of the Titans: Oceanus and Tethys. Callirhoe had consorted with Chrysaor, Neilus, Poseidon and Manes. By Chrysaor, she became the mother of the monsters Geryon while Chione was her daughter by the river-god of Egypt, Neilus and to Manes, Cotys, a king of Maeonia.
Callirhoe was among the Oceanids who accompanied Persephone when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by the lord of the dead, Hades.Life Stages: on original, Oceanid Nymph
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Callirhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of the river-god Nestus and mother of Biston, Odomantus, Mygdon and Edonus by Ares.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Callirhoê
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Lycus, the king of Libya, in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. She fell in love with Diomedes and saved him from being sacrificed to Ares by her father. After Diomedes left Libya, she hanged herself.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Callithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Lydus, after whom the Lydian people were later named, and Tyrrhenus, after whom the Tyrrhenians were named.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Atys
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Calydon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aeolia - married
- Protogeneia - child
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Capetus Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A descendant of Aeneas and one of the legendary Latin kings of Alba Longa. He was the son of Capys, and the father of Tiberinus, after whom the Tiber river was named.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Tiberinus Silvius - child
- child - Capys
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Capys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Mythological king of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas. Said to have reigned from 963 to 935 BC.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Capetus Silvius - child
- child - Atys
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Carmenta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Roman and Greek goddess of childbirth and prophecy, associated with technological innovation, specifically, the invention or adaptation of the Latin alphabet as well as the protection of mothers and children and a patron of midwives. Muse of mothers and alphabets.
She was the mother of Evander of Pallene (fathered by Hermes) and, along with other Greek followers, they founded the town of Pallantium which later was one of the sites of the start of Rome. It was she who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet which her son Evander introduced into Latium. Carmenta was one of the Camenae and the Cimmerian Sibyl. The leader of her cult was called the flamen carmentalis.
It was forbidden to wear leather or other forms of dead skin in her temple, which was next to the Porta Carmentalis, and close to the Theater of Marcellus in Rome. Her festival, called the Carmentalia, was celebrated primarily by women on January 11 and January 15.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Carystus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Chiron and a nymph Chariclo, brother of Hippe, Endeïs and Ocyrhoe. his son Petraeus was the father of Zarax instead. The town of Carystus on Euboea took the name from him.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cassiopeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cassiopeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Castalia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A young nymph, a daughter of the river-god Achelous, who attracted the god Apollo and who is said to have flung herself into the sacred spring in Delphi when pursued by him. The spring took the name Castalia afterwards.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Caunos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Miletus, grandson of Apollo and brother of Byblis.
Caunus became the object of his own sister's passionate love. From some accounts it appears that Caunus was the first to develop the affection towards her; others describe Byblis' feelings as unrequited. All sources agree, however, that Caunus chose to flee from home in order to prevent himself from actually committing incest with Byblis, and that she followed him until she was completely exhausted by grief and died (or committed suicide). Caunus eventually came to Lycia, where he married the Naiad Pronoe and had by her a son Aegialus. Caunus became king of the land; when he died, Aegialus gathered all the people from scattered settlements in a newly founded city which he named Caunus after his father.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cecrops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Celaeno
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phocian princess as the daughter of King Hyamus of Hyampolis, son of Lycorus. Her mother was Melantheia (Melantho), daughter of Deucalion. Celaeno or her sister Melanis became the mother of Delphus by Apollo.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Apollo - partner
- Delphus - child
- child - Hyamus
- child - Melantheia
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Centaurus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river-god Peneius and the naiad Creusa. He is the twin brother of the hero Lapithes and father of the race of mythological beasts known as the Centaurs. The Centaurs are half-man, half horse; having the torso of a man extending where the neck of a horse should be. They were a kindred people with the Lapiths and were said to be wild, savage, and lustful.
A deformed child who hunched over and found no peace amongst other humans, and so removed to the mountain of Pelion. There he mated with the Magnesian mares who lived there. This resulted in the birth of the centaur race.Life Stages: Centaur
Relationships:
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Ceos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 42
Eponym of island Keos. He was the son of Apollo and the nymph Rhodoessa.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Apollo
- child - Rhodoessa / Melia
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Cephalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A member of the Athenian royal family as the son of Princess Herse and Hermes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cepheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Tegea in Arcadia. He was an Argonaut, and was, along with most of his twenty sons, killed in Heracles's war against Hippocoon, king of Sparta. He was perhaps the same Cepheus who, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, participated in the Calydonian boar hunt.
Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ceramus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A lord of the Keramaikos "Potter's" district of Athens in Attika (douthern Greece). He was one of the sons of Dionysos and Ariadne.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cercyon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 38
He was a notorious king of Eleusis, famous for his cruelty towards his daughter, Alope, and anyone who refused to fight with him. Cercyon was described also as a very strong man.
Cercyon was said to have treated strangers wickedly, especially in wrestling with them against their will. He stood on the roads around Eleusis and challenged passers-by to a wrestling match. Other writers identified Cercyon as a robber who operated around Eleusis. The loser (always the passer-by) was murdered, though Cercyon promised his kingdom to anyone who won. In his fifth labour, journeying from Troezen, Theseus eventually beat and killed Cercyon when he lifted him up and dashed him to the ground. Theseus won owing to his skill, rather than superiority in brute physical strength. With this, Theseus started the sport of wrestling. In the account of Bacchylides, he alludes to the event when saying, "Theseus has closed the wrestling school of Cercyon". he place associated with the story, known as the wrestling-school of Cercyon, was near Eleusis, on the road to Megara.
According to some, Theseus ravished Cercyon's daughters after taking over the kingdom of Eleusis. He then gave it to Hippothous, who came to him and asked for his grandfather's kingdom. Theseus willingly gave it to him when he learned that he was the son of Poseidon, from whom he claimed his own birth.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ceryx
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A member of the Athenian royal family as the son of Hermes by either of the princesses Pandrosus and Agraulus. Ceryx was, like his father, a messenger. But the kêryx career began as a humble cook for the tribe, a skill Hermes demonstrates in his cooked meat offerings on the Twelve Gods Altar set in place in 522 BC by Peisistratos III in Athens. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes 128 recalls the young god cutting out and laying up twelve steaks on a flat rock or platamoni, the 12 Gods altar.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ceyx
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Keyx) Son of Eosphorus (often translated as Lucifer). Husband of Alcyone.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Themistonoe - child
- married - Alcyone
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Chaeresilaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Iasius, himself son of Eleuther. He was the brother of Astreis and the father of Poemander by Stratonice.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Stratonice - married
- Poemander - child
- child - Iasius
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Chaeron
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of Chaeronea.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Chalciope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Colchian princess as the daughter of King Aeëtes. Acusilaus, Hesiod and Hesychius referred to her as Iophossa while according to Pherecydes, she was called Euenia.
Chalciope's mother was the Oceanid Idyia, and her siblings were the witch Medea and Absyrtus. She married Phrixus by whom she had the following sons:
Argus, Phrontis, Melas, Presbon, and CytisorusLife Stages: Tree III, on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Chalcomedusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: In Greek Mythology, Chalcomedusa (Ancient Greek: Ancient Greek: Χαλκομεδούσα) was an Ithacan queen as the wife of King Arcesius and mother of Laertes. Her name, chalcos ("copper") and medousa ("guardian" or "protectress"), identifies her as the protector of Bronze Age metal-working technology.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Chariclo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Chariclo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph devotee of Athena, who became pregnant by a shepherd, Everes, giving birth to the prophet Tiresias. Tiresias was struck blind by Athena after seeing her naked. Chariclo begged Athena to give Tiresias his sight back, but the goddess could not undo her curse. She gave him the gift of prophecy instead.
Life Stages: Mortal, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Chelidon
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the daughters of Pandareus, Chelidon is presented as a virgin who is abused and violated by her brother-in-law Polytechnus and then forced to serve as a slave her older sister Aëdon before revealing her identity to her sister and transforming into a swallow in an Anatolian variant of the story of Philomela, though she might have had an independent origin in Attica, Philomela's homeland. The most significant difference between the two stories is that Chelidon, unlike Philomela, is not mutilated.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Chione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of the Oceanid Callirrhoe and Nilus. She was raped by a local peasant and transformed into a snow cloud by Hermes at the order of Zeus. From the clouds she cast snow (khiôn) upon the desert. The Greek word for snow (χιών chiōn) was thought to have come from her name.
Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Chione / Philonis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The pretty daughter of Daedalion, who was desired by many, among them the Olympian gods Apollo and Hermes both. She bore each god a son, Philammon and Autolycus respectively. The beautiful Chione died when she gravely insulted Artemis, goddess of the hunt, who slew her with her arrows.
Chione was an excessively beautiful maiden who began attracting the attention of many mortal and divine males once she turned fourteen. Among her most ardent suitors were the gods Apollo and Hermes, who took a glimpse of her at the same time when they were coming down from Delphi and Mount Cyllene respectively. They fell in love with her in an instant on account of her great beauty.
Hermes, who was impatient, immediately sent Chione into a deep sleep and raped her while she was unconscious. Apollo on the other hand waited until dusk and consorted with her after he gained access to her chambers by transforming himself into an old woman. Having lain with them on the same day, Chione bore them twin sons; Autolycus, who was crafty and deceitful, to Hermes, and Philammon, a talented singer and musician, to Apollo.
Chione's unrestrained arrogance and hubris proved to be her undoing, for eventually she spoke in a haughty manner against Artemis and dared compare her beauty to that of the goddess. Artemis would have none of that, so she pierced the maiden's tongue with her arrows, and Chione perished in agony and blood. Her father Daedalion was extremely distraught by Chione's death, and attempted to join her in her funeral pyre, but was restrained. In the end he threw himself off a cliff, but Apollo felt pity for him and turned him into a hawk.Life Stages: Sky God, Star God
Relationships:
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Chiron
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Centaur
Relationships:
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Chlidanope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The naiad wife of King Hypseus of Lapiths, son of the river-god Peneus. The couple had four daughters.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Chloris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Chrysorthe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Sicyonian princess as the daughter of King Orthopolis, descendant of the city's founder Apis. By Apollo, she became the mother of Coronus who succeeded her father in the throne of Sicyon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Apollo - partner
- Coronus - child
- child - Orthopolis
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Chrysothemis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Carmanor, a Cretan priest, and the wife of Staphylus, one of the Argonauts.
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Chthonophyle
Status: alive
Biography: The daughter of King Sicyon (whose name was given to the city of Sicyon) and Zeuxippe. She and Hermes are the parents of Polybus, another king of Sicyon. She married Phlias, son of Dionysus and Ariadne, and had by him another son, Androdamas.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Circe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Sky God
Relationships:
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Cleitus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Suitor of Pallene, daughter of Sithon of Thrace. He eventually won Pallene's hand and inherited Sithon's kingdom
A Sithonian king whose daughter Chrysonoe or Torone married Proteus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cleobule
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Aeolus one of the possible mothers of Myrtilus by Hermes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cleopatra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Sometimes called Alcyone was the daughter of Idas and Marpessa and the wife of Meleager, a Calydonian prince and participant in the Calydonian boar hunt. Together they had a daughter, Polydora. According to Greek traveler and geographer Pausanias, Polydora was the wife of Protesilas, the first soldier to leap ashore in Troy, and therefore the first to die in the Trojan War.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cleophema
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Aegle (Coronis)
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cleophyle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphidamas - child
- married - Lycurgus
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Clymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: An Orchomenian princess as the daughter of King Minyas. She was the wife of Phylacus and mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede. Some sources call her Periclymene or Eteoclymene while according to others, Periclymene and Eteoclymene were instead the names of her sisters. Alternately, this Clymene was the wife of Iasus and mother by him of Atalanta. She was one of the souls encountered by Odysseus in his journey to the underworld.
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Clymenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Periclymenus), son of either Presbon and a King of Orchomenus in Boeotia, which he inherited from its eponym Orchomenus because Orchomenus left the kingdom to him, having no children of his own. By Boudeia or Bouzyge, daughter of Lycus, Clymenus was father of five sons: Erginus, Stratius, Arrhon, Pyleus, Azeus, and two daughters: Eurydice and Axia. At a festival of Poseidon at Onchestus, Clymenus quarreled with a group of Thebans over a minor cause and was mortally wounded as a result of a stone thrown at him by Perieres, the charioteer of Menoeceus. Being brought home half dead, Clymenus told Erginus, his successor-to-be, to avenge his death, and died; Erginus then led a war against Thebes.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Clytemnestra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. With Agamemnon, she was the mother of Orestes and Electra. Clytemnestra appears as a character in several ancient Greek works, including the Homeric epics and plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. She is infamous for murdering Agamemnon when he returned from the Trojan War along with Trojan princess Cassandra, taken as a war prize, as revenge for sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemis. In Homer's Iliad, her role in Agamemnon's death is unclear and her character is significantly more subdued. However, in the Odyssey Agamemnon's ghost tells Odysseus about Clytemnestra's role in his brutal murder.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Clytodora
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Spouse of Minyas and mother of Clymene, Periclymene, Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas, Diochthondas and Eteoclymene.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Periclymene - child
- Elara - child
- partner - Minyas
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Corax
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 16th king of Sicyon who reigned for 30 years. He was the elder son and heir of King Coronus, descendant of the city's founder Aegialeus. He was brother of Lamedon. Corax received the throne from his predecessor Coronus, in whose reign Danaus became the king of Argos. After Corax died childless, Lamedon was his rightful successor, but Lamedon was usurped by Epopeus who came from Thessaly and seized the kingdom from him. In the latter's reign, the conflict between Sicyon and Thebes ensued.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Coronus
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Coronis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess and a lover of the god Apollo. She was the daughter of Cleophema and Phlegyas, king of the Lapiths. By Apollo she became the mother of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. While she was still pregnant, she slept with a mortal man named Ischys and was subsequently killed by either the god or his sister Artemis for her betrayal. After failing to heal her, Apollo rescued their unborn child by performing a caesarean section. She was turned into a constellation after her death.
Istrus (Greek historian) and several others said that Coronis was turned into the constellation Corvus.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Coronus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Sicyon, son of Apollo and Chrysorthe, and father of Lamedon and Corex. Coronus inherited the kingdom of Sicyon from his maternal grandfather Orthopolis. Corex succeeded to his father's power, but himself left no heirs so the kingdom was usurped by Epopeus, after whose death it went back to Lamedon.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Corax - child
- Lamedon - child
- child - Apollo
- child - Chrysorthe
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Corycia
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 42
A naiad who lived on Mount Parnassus in Phocis. Corycia was one of the Thriae nymphs of the springs of the Corycian Cave, which was named after her. She was related to the nymph Castalia who presided over the sacred springs at Delphi. Corycia was closely identified with Kleodora and Melaina.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Cotys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Maeonia
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Crenaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A defender of Thebes in the war of the Seven against Thebes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Creon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus. Creon was the son of Menoeceus, and grandson of King Pentheus. Creon had four sons and three daughters with his wife, Eurydice (sometimes known as Henioche): Henioche, Pyrrha, Megareus, Lycomedes and Haemon. Creon and his sister, Jocasta, were descendants of Cadmus and of the Spartoi. He is sometimes considered to be the same person who purified Amphitryon of the murder of his uncle Electryon and father of Megara, first wife of Heracles.
After the death of King Laius of Thebes at the hands of his own son Oedipus, Creon became the ruler of the kingdom.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cretheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Creusa
Status: alive
Biography: Thessalian naiad nymph.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Creusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Creusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Aeneas, legendary hero and founder of Alba Longa, and the mother of Ascanius. According to Apollodorus, she was the daughter of Priam, the last king of Troy, and his wife Hecuba. Authors often depict her as being present during the sack of Troy, fleeing the city with her husband.
In Virgil's Aeneid, during the sack of Troy, Creusa is lost in the confusion while their family is trying to escape. When Aeneas turns back to look for her, he meets her shade, which informs him of his future journeys. She is the mother of Ascanius by Aeneas. As Troy is falling to the Greeks, Aeneas goes to his home to lead his father Anchises, Creusa, and their son Ascanius out of the city and into the countryside. Anchises refuses to leave the house, and Aeneas decides that he would rather stay in Troy and die in battle instead of abandoning his father. Creusa grabs his feet and begs him to think of what would become of Ascanius, Anchises, and herself if Aeneas were to be killed.
As she does this, Ascanius is suddenly engulfed in a supernatural flame. The flame is quickly doused with water. Anchises believes this to be an omen from Jupiter, who confirms this omen by sending a shooting star. Seeing this, Anchises changes his mind and agrees to flee Troy. The family leaves the home; Aeneas carries his father holds Ascanius' hand, while Creusa follows behind. They eventually reach the gates and begin to run after noticing that the Greeks appeared to be gaining on them. Creusa is lost, unable to keep up with them. After reaching Ceres' temple outside of the city, Aeneas leaves Anchises and Ascanius there to go back in search of Creusa. As he searches the city in desperation, he meets Creusa's shade, who tells him that it was her fate to remain in Troy. She predicts his journey to Hesperia, Italy, and his future marriage to another woman. She asks that Aeneas take care of their child and vanishes. Aeneas tries three times to grasp and hold her shade, but fails each time.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Criasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Argos. son of Argus and Evadne (daughter of Strymon). He had five brothers who were named Ecbasus, Jasus, Peiranthus, Epidaurus and Tiryns. Criasus fathered Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea by Melantho.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Crocale
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Part of the train of Artemis. Crocale was the daughter of the river-god Ismenus. Crocale only appeared in the account of Ovid in his Metamorphoses where she was mentioned as one of the nymph attendants of Artemis who was accidentally seen naked by the hunter Actaeon.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Ismenus
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Crotopus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eighth king of Argos. Crotopus was the son of Agenor and father of Psamathe and Sthenelas.
According to myth, Crotopus condemned to death his own daughter Psamathe, after she gave birth to a child who was Apollo 's son. Crotopus's city of Argos was consequently punished by Apollo with a plague. There are various versions, but it is in Conon's account that the king must expiate this himself by self-exile:
Crotopus was a terrifying father to Psamathe, and she exposed the child, but the child was found and grew up as a shepherd's boy named Linus, until Crotopus's sheepdogs tore the boy apart. As Psamathe grieved over the loss of her child, Crotopus discovered about the secret child, and under the assumption she had acted like a harlot and was lying about Apollo, sentenced her to death. In retribution Apollo brought an unspecified plague (Greek: λοιμός loimos) upon Argos.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ctesius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the island called Syra and son of Ormenus. He was the father of Eumaeus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ctimene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Ithacan princess as the daughter of King Laertes and Anticlea, and wife of Eurylochus. Ctimene was the younger sister of Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaca and is the wife of Eurylochus.
Ctimene was raised by her parents alongside the servant Eumaeus who was treated almost as her equal. She was married off to Eurylochus of Same for a massive bride price. Her husband accompanied Odysseus on his journey from Troy but, like all of Odysseus's men, died before reaching home.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cycnus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cycnus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Cygnus) A bloodthirsty and cruel man who dwelt either in Pagasae, Thessaly or by the river Echedorus in Macedonia. Cycnus was the son of Ares by Pelopia or Pyrene. He married Themistonoe, daughter of King Ceyx of Trachis.
Cycnus killed all of his guests until he was slain by Heracles. According to Pausanias, one of the men murdered by him was Lycus of Thrace.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Themistonoe - married
- child - Ares
- child - Pelopia / Pyrene
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Cydon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Of Crete, eponym of Cydonia. According to one version, he was a son of Tegeates and possibly, Maera, daughter of the Titan Atlas. He was the brother of Leimon, Schephrus, Gortys and Archedius: the three brothers were said to have migrated to Crete from Arcadia.
Alternately, Cydon was a native of Crete, son of Acacallis by Hermes. He is probably the same as Cydon, the father of Eulimene.[4] The town of Cydonia was named after him.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cynosura
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: An Idaean nymph from the island Crete who brought up a young Zeus during his early years when he hid from his father Cronus, and ended up among the stars.
Along with fellow nymph Helice, Cynosura put the infant Zeus in a cave and nurtured him in Ida, in Crete, while the Dictaean Curetes deceived Cronus so he would not devour his son. One day, Cronus happened to visit Crete, so Zeus hid the nymphs by transforming them both into bears, as he changed his shape into that of a dragon, in order to go undetected by Cronus. Eventually, after he became king of the gods, he honoured his two nurses by placing them both in the sky as constellations, and Cynosura became Ursa Minor, which was a common name for the constellation in Ancient Greece.Life Stages: Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
- married - Helice
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Daedalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Askillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix, and possibly also the father of Iapyx. Among his most famous creations are the wooden cow for Pasiphaë, the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete which imprisoned the Minotaur, and wings that he and his son Icarus used to attempt to escape Crete. It was during this escape that Icarus did not listen to his father's warnings and flew too close to the Sun; the wax holding his wings together melted and Icarus fell to his death.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Daeira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Okeanid-nymph of the town in Eleusis in Attika (southern Greece). She may have been the Naiad of the town's famous well, the Kallikhoros (Callichorus), where Demeter first rested upon entering Eleusis. She was also the mother of the town's eponymous king Eleusis by the god Hermes.
Daeira was surely connected with the rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Her name means "Knowing One" or "Teacher" from the Greek verb daô which appears to connect her with the instruction of initiates in the secret knowledge of the Mysteries. The name Daeira was also an Eleusinian title of the goddess Persephone. Daeira may also have been identified with the Eleusinian Hekate who, according to some, was a consort of Hermes Khthonios (the Guide of the Dead).Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
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Daidalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: was a son of Hesperos, the god of the Evening Star or Phosphorus, god of the Morning Star and the brother of Ceyx. Ceyx describes his brother Daedalion as a great warrior, full of courage and vigour but acknowledged that he could also be harsh, relishing the cruelty of war. The story of Daedalion's life is told mainly in Ovid's Metamorphoses though passing references can be found in other classical works. It is possible the story may have originated with Boios. In the tale Daedalion, grief-stricken following the death of his daughter Chione, attempts to cast himself off Mount Parnassus only to be transformed into a hawk by Apollo.
Life Stages: on original, Sky God, Star God
Relationships:
- Chione / Philonis - child
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Daphnis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary Sicilian cowherd who was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.
his father was Hermes and his mother was a nymph,[3] despite which Daphnis himself was mortal. As an infant, Daphnis' mother exposed him under a laurel tree, where he was found by some herdsmen who named him after the tree (Greek daphnē) under which he was found. The cows that tended to him as an infant were said to be sisters to the ones owned by Helios. He was also sometimes said to be Hermes' eromenos (beloved) rather than his son. In some versions, Daphnis was taught how to play the panpipes by the god Pan himself, and eventually the two also became lovers.
Daphnis became a follower of the goddess Artemis, accompanying her in hunting and entertaining her with his singing of pastoral songs and playing of the panpipes. A naiad (possibly Echenais or Nomia) was in love with him and prophesied that he would be blinded if he loved another woman. However, he was seduced, with the aid of wine, by the daughter of a king, and, in revenge, this nymph blinded him or changed him into stone.
Daphnis, who endeavoured to console himself by playing the flute and singing herdsmen's songs, soon afterwards died. He fell from a cliff, or was changed into a rock, or was taken up to heaven by his father Hermes, who caused a spring of water to gush out from the spot where his son had been carried off.
Ever afterwards the Sicilians offered sacrifices at this spring as an expiatory offering for the youth's early death. There is little doubt that Aelian in his account follows Stesichorus of Himera, who in like manner had been blinded by the vengeance of a woman (Helen) and probably sang of the sufferings of Daphnis in his recantation. Nothing is said of Daphnis's blindness by Theocritus, who dwells on his amour with Nais; his victory over Menalcas in a poetical competition; his love for Xenea brought about by the wrath of Aphrodite; his wanderings through the woods while suffering the torments of unrequited love; his death just at the moment when Aphrodite, moved by compassion, endeavours (but too late) to save him; the deep sorrow, shared by nature and all created things, for his untimely end (Theocritus i. vii. viii.). A later form of the legend identifies Daphnis with a Phrygian hero, and makes him the teacher of Marsyas. The legend of Daphnis and his early death may be compared with those of Hyacinthus, Narcissus, Linus and Adonis—all beautiful youths cut off in their prime, typical of the luxuriant growth of vegetation in the spring, and its sudden withering away beneath the scorching summer sun.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hermes
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Dardanus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad.
Dardanus, a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, was a significant figure in Greek mythology. He was the brother of Iasion and sometimes of Harmonia and Emathion. Originally from Arcadia, Dardanus married Chryse, with whom he fathered two sons, Idaeus and Deimas. After a great flood, Dardanus and his people settled on the island of Samothrace before eventually moving to Asia Minor due to the land's poor quality. In Virgil's Aeneid, Dardanus is said to have originally come from Italy, where his mother Electra was married to Corythus, the king of Tarquinia.
Dardanus later married Batea, the daughter of King Teucer, and founded the city of Dardanus on Mount Ida, which became the capital of his kingdom. He also founded the city of Thymbra and expanded his kingdom by waging successful wars against his neighbors. Dardanus had several children with Batea, including Ilus, Erichthonius, Idaea, and Zacynthus. He reigned for 64 or 65 years before being succeeded by his son Erichthonius or, in some accounts, Ilus.Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Erikthonius - child
- married - Batea
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Dascylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king who ruled over Mysia or Mariandyne. He is presumably the eponym of the coastal city of Dascylaeum or Dascylium (but see below). The wife of Dascylus was Anthemoeisia, daughter of the river god Lycus, and he was the father of sons named Lycus, Priolas, and Otreus. Dascylus' own father was the infamous Tantalus. Priolas and Otreus were both killed by Amycus, king of Bebrycia (Bithynia); Otreus was killed while travelling to Troy to sue for the hand of King Laomedon's daughter Hesione in marriage. Both sons have names connected with local settlements: Priola, near Heraclea, and Otrea, on the Ascanian Lake.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Deianira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Also known as Dejanira, a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology whose name translates as "man-destroyer" or "destroyer of her husband". She was the wife of Heracles and, in late Classical accounts, his unwitting murderer, killing him with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. She is the main character in Sophocles' play Women of Trachis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Deidamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of King Lycomedes, who lives on the island of Scyros. By Achilles she becomes the mother of Neoptolemus. Following the Trojan War, her son gives her in marriage to Helenus, a Trojan captive. She is sometimes said to have a second son, Oneiros.
Years later, Deidamia tried to persuade their son, Neoptolemus, not to join his father in the same war. After the death of Achilles, Neoptolemus went to Troy to support the Achaeans. After the war, Deidamia was given in marriage by Neoptolemus to his slave Helenus, the son of Priam whom he had brought to Epirus. Later on, Neoptolemus was eventually killed by Orestes when the son of Agamemnon went mad.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Achilles - pollinated
- Neoptolemus - child
- child - Lycomedes
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Deimos and Phobos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimones of fear. Deimos represented terror and dread, while his brother Phobos was panic, flight and rout. They were sons of the war-god Ares who accompanied their father into battle, driving his chariot and spreading fear in his wake. As sons of Aphrodite, goddess of love, the twins also represented fear of loss.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Deioneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Deipyle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Adrastus and Amphithea, wife of Tydeus and mother of Diomedes. Her sister Argea married Polynices.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Delphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The person from whom the town of Delphi was believed to have derived its name.
He is said to have had a son, Pythis, who ruled over the country about Mount Parnassus, and from whom the oracle received the name of Pytho.
In yet another version, his mother is Melanis or Celaeno, a daughter of Hyamus and Melantheia, and father is not mentioned; Delphus is said to have inherited his grandfather's kingdom in the neighborhood of Mount Parnassus, to have married Castalia, and to have had two children, a son Castalius and a daughter Phemonoe, the first person to write hexameters. His grandson through Castalius was Laphrius, and his great-grandson through Laphrius was Noutius.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Demonice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Deucalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: SAME AS OTHER DEUCALION
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
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Deucalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: SAME AS OTHER DEUCALION
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Melantheia - child
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Dia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian queen, wife of the nefarious Ixion and mother of the hero Pirithous. She bore Pirithous not to her husband but to Zeus, who approached her in the form of a stallion.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Dia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of the king Lycaon (thus sister of Callisto), mother of Dryops by Apollo. She concealed her new-born infant in a hollow oak tree.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Diocles
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Pherae as son of previous ruler Orsilochus. He was possibly the brother of Medusa, wife of Polybus of Corinth and Dorodoche, wife of Icarius of Sparta. Diocles was the father of the twins Orsilochus and Crethon, and also of Anticleia, the mother of Nicomachus and Gorgasus by Machaon. These two grandsons succeeded him on the throne after his death. In the Odyssey, Telemachus and Peisistratus spent a night at his house on their way to Sparta, as well as on their way back.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Anticlea - child
- child - Orsilochus
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Diomede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Diomedes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Ares and Cyrene. He lived on the shores of the Black Sea ruling the warlike tribe of Bistones. He is known for his man-eating horses, which Heracles stole in order to complete the eighth of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the process.
Heracles encounters King Diomedes through performing his eighth labour. Eurystheus, King of Tiryns and Heracles' cousin, had sent Heracles to capture the Mares of Diomedes after he had completed his seventh labour, capturing the Cretan Bull. Heracles travelled to the shores of the Black Sea to meet King Diomedes. He was said to have been the son of the god Ares and Cyrene, who is said to be the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths. King Diomedes was a savage; he enjoyed feeding strangers and prisoners to his mares. They did not like the taste of oats and grain; instead they feasted on human flesh, which their master gave them willingly. His mares could not be controlled; they were savage, just like the King. They could not be tethered by regular rope; instead they needed to be tethered to a bronze manger by chains, so they would not escape.
Upon arrival, Heracles, knowing how King Diomedes treats strangers, wrestles with him, trying to bring King Diomedes to the stables, where the mares live. Even though Heracles is said to have unmatched strength, it is a long and reasonably even match, since Diomedes himself is the son of the god of war. He eventually loses to Heracles, and is brought to the mares’ manger where they devour him. It is said that this cures them of their hunger for human flesh. It seems that all they longed for was their master's blood. They become calm and controllable. Heracles is able to bring them back to Tiryns to show Eurystheus his completion of his eighth labour. Eurystheus dedicates the mares to Hera, goddess of marriage, women and childbirth. Once dedicated they were released and free to roam Argos. One of their descendants is said to be the horse of Alexander the Great. In other translations it is said that the mares are freed to Mount Olympus where some were eaten by wild beasts.
Other versions of the story claim that Heracles was accompanied by a band of volunteers to assist in acquiring Diomedes' mares. Rather than wrestling Diomedes alone Heracles entrusts the mares to a young boy named Abderos. While Heracles and his men defeat Diomedes and his Bistone army, young Abderos is unable to control the mares and is killed in the process. Heracles, grieved by the fate of Abderos, builds a city named Abdera in his name. Other versions also may include the addition of a chariot. Either Heracles attaches the mares to his chariot to tame them or he takes them along with the chariot of Diomedes.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Ares
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Diomedes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax the Great and Agamemnon, after Achilles, as one of the best warriors of all the Achaeans in prowess. After the Trojan War he is said to have founded ten or more Italian cities[3][4] and, after his death, was worshiped as a divine being in both Italy and Greece.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Dionysus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
- Priapos - child
- Methe - child
- Thysa - child
- Nicaea - pollinated
- Telete - child
- Aura - pollinated
- Iacchus - child
- Pasithea - child
- Sabazios - child
- Ceramus - child
- Phlias - child
- Eurymedon - child
- Staphylus - child
- Narcaeus - child
- Phanos - child
- Oenopion - child
- Thoas - child
- Peparethus - child
- Euanthes - child
- partner - Aphrodite
- married - Ariadne
- partner - Physcoa
- child - Zeus
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Dorippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Thracian woman ransomed by Anius for the price of a horse from the pirates who had kidnapped her.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- The Oenotropae - child
- married - Anius
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Doris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
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Dorus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Iphthime - child
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Dotia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Dotis) The eponym of the city Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly. Dotia was the daughter of King Elatus of the Lapiths. By Ares, she bore the infamous Phlegyas.
She founded the city of Dotion with Dotius and Dotus. They randomly found each other and made a city together. this is my silly thoughts.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Drakon Ismenios
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: A giant serpent which guarded the sacred spring of Ares near Thebes. When the hero Kadmos (Cadmus) arrived seeking to found the city, he slew the monster with a heavy stone. The goddess Athena then instructed him to sow the dragon's teeth, producing a crop of fully-grown, armed warriors called Spartoi (Sparti), five of which became the ancestral lords of Thebes. Ares later avenged his draconic son by transforming Kadmos and his wife into serpents.
Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- The Spartoi - built
- child - Ares
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Dryas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A lord from Calydon who was also one of the famous Calydonian hunters. Dryas was a son of Ares and a brother of Tereus.
In the account of the Fabulae by Hyginus, Tereus, having heard the prophecy that his son was to be killed by the hand of a relative and falsely believing that it was Dryas whom the oracle indicated, murdered the innocent man (whereas the son was actually murdered by Procne).Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Ares
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Dryope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Dryops, king of Oeta ("oak-man") Dryope mothered Amphissus by Apollo.
According to the first, Apollo seduced her by a trick. While Dryope tended the flocks of her father on Mount Oeta, she became the playmate of the hamadryads of the woods on Mount Oeta. The nymphs taught her to sing hymns to the gods and to dance. On one occasion, Dryope was seen by Apollo. In order to win her favours the god turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet. The nymphs played with the animal and when Dryope had the tortoise on her lap, Apollo turned into a snake. The nymphs then got scared and abandoned her, and Apollo raped her. Eventually she gave birth to her son Amphissus. Soon afterwards Dryope married Andraemon, son of Oxylus. Amphissus eventually built a temple to his father Apollo in the city of Oeta, which he founded. Here the nymphs came to converse with Dryope, who had become a priestess of the temple. Fond of her, they took her with them and placed a poplar tree in her place. They then turned her into a nymph. Two women of the town told the people that the nymphs had taken Dryope, so the nymphs turned them into fir trees.
In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree. Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed. She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot. She slowly began to turn into a lotus tree, the bark spreading up her legs from the earth, but just before the woody stiffness finally reached her throat and as her arms began sprouting twigs her husband Andraemon heard her cries and came to her. She had just enough time to warn her husband to take care of their child and make sure that he did not pick flowers. She also told him to find Amphissus a nurse and to tell him to call her his mother.Life Stages: on original, Dryad Nymph, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Dryops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of the Dryopians. Dryops was the son of Apollo by Dia, daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia. As a newborn infant, he was concealed by Dia in a hollow oak-tree. He had one daughter, Dryope, and also two sons Cragaleus and Theiodamas
Life Stages: Tree III, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Dymas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Phrygian king. The father of Dymas was given as one Eioneus, son of Proteus, by some ancient mythographers. According to Dictys, he was a descendant of Phoenix, son of Agenor, as recounted by Helen to Hecuba to prove their kinship. Dymas' wife was called as Eunoë.
By his wife, Eunoë Dymas was the father of Hecuba (also called Hecabe), wife to King Priam of Troy. King Dymas is also said by Homer to have had a son named Asius, who fought (and died) during the Trojan War - not to be confused with his namesake, Asius son of Hyrtacus, who also fought (and died) before Troy. The scholiasts credited Dymas with another son, named Otreus, who fought the Amazons a generation before the Trojan War.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Echo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Iynx - child
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Eidothea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Carian woman, daughter of King Eurytus and possible spouse of Miletus who bore him Byblis and Caunus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eioneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the sea-god Proteus and father of the Phrygian king Dymas, father of Hecuba.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Elara
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A mortal princess of Orchomenus and mother of the giant Tityos by Zeus.
Zeus fell in love with Elara and hid her from his wife Hera's jealous rage by placing her deep beneath the Earth. This was where she gave birth to Tityos, a giant who is sometimes said to be the son of Gaia, the Earth goddess, for the reason being an earth-born (γηγενής gigenis "native") and brought up under the earth. It is further added that Elara died in labour because of the enormous size of her baby.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Elatus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Lapith chieftain of Larissa, Thessaly. He was the father, by Hippeia, of Caeneus, Polyphemus, the seer Ampycus, Ischys who was beloved by Coronis, and a daughter Dotia, possibly the eponym of Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Electra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Electryon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Eleusinus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous hero of the town of Eleusis. Eleusis was a son of Hermes and the Oceanid Daeira, father of Triptolemus.
King Eleusis and Cothonea (Cyntinia), parents of Triptolemus, are visited by Demeter, who rears their son, feeding him divine milk by day and placing him into the fire at night, which makes Triptolemus grow faster than mortal children normally do. She eventually kills Eleusis for intervening when the fire ritual is performed.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Eleusis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eponymous demi-goddess or heroine of the town of Eleusis in Attika. She was an attendant of Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries and mother of the agrarian demi-gods Triptolemos and Eubouleus.
In the image right Eniatos (Year) stands beside the goddess Eleusis--or Demeter of Eleusis. She is seated on a pair of cushions and holds a four-headed Eleusinian torch.Life Stages: Tree III, on original, Agrarian God
Relationships:
- Trochilus - married
- Triptolemus - child
- child - Daeira
- child - Hermes
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Eleuther
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo and Aethusa. He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games, and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus, as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae. His sons were Iasius. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis".
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Emathion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Samothrace, was the son of Zeus and Electra (one of the Pleiades), brother to Dardanus and Iasion. He sent soldiers to join Dionysus in his Indian campaigns.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Enarete
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Enyalios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A minor god or spirit of war and an attendant of Ares. The name Enyalius, though, was usually just a title of Ares.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Enyo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of war. She was the female counterpart and close companion of the god Ares Enyalios.
Enyo was closely identified with Eris, the goddess of strife. Indeed Homer does not appear to distinguish between the two goddesses. She was also connected with the Anatolian goddess Ma and the Roman Bellona.Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Eos
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Sky God, Titan
Relationships:
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Ephippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The father of Acestor.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Epidaurus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was the presumed eponym of the polis Epidaurus. His parentage varies from one local version of the myth to another: the Argive version gives him as the son of Argus (himself son of Zeus) and Evadne. Epidaurians themselves considered him to be a son of Apollo.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Epione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of the soothing of pain. She was the wife of the medicine-god Asklepios (Aslcepius) and the mother of the five Asklepiades (Asclepiades)--Hygeia (Good Health), Panakeia (Cure-All), Iaso (Healing), Aigle (Radiance), and Akeso (Curing).
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- Iaso - child
- Panacea - child
- Aegle - child
- Hygeia - child
- Akeso - child
- Telesphoros - child
- Machaon - child
- Podalirius - child
- married - Asclepius
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Epopeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 17th king of Sicyon
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Marathon - child
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Erato
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Muses, associated with erotic lyric poetry. Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic imitation. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight. Since the Renaissance she has mostly been shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument often associated with Apollo.
Her father gave Erato to Malus (eponym of Malea), as a bride and by him became the mother of Cleophema who bore Aegle (Coronis) by Phlegyas.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Erechtheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Erikthonius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was the son of Dardanus and Batea (in some other legends his mother is said to be, Olizone, daughter of Phineus). He was the brother of Ilus and Zacynthus. Erichthonius was said to have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous reign.
Erichthonios begat Tros, king of the Trojans, and Tros had three noble sons, Ilos, Assarakos, and Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men; wherefore the gods carried him off to be Zeus' cupbearer, for his beauty's sake, that he might dwell among the immortals.Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Eriopis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: 'With the lovely hair', the daughter of Apollo and Arsinoe (herself daughter of Leucippus).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eriphyle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: In exchange for the Necklace of Harmonia (also called the Necklace of Eriphyle) given to her by Polynices, persuaded her husband Amphiaraus to join the doomed expedition of the Seven against Thebes. She was then slain by her son Alcmaeon. Eriphyle was the daughter of King Talaus of Argos and Lysimache, a granddaughter of Melampus. She had five brothers: Adrastus, Parthenopaeus, Pronax, Mecisteus, and Aristomachus. During a feud in Argos, Talaus was slain by the hero Amphiaraus, greatly angering Eriphyle's brother Adrastus. When Adrastus and Amphiaraus eventually reconciled, Adrastus gave him Eriphyle's hand in marriage. Together, Eriphyle and Amphiaraus had two sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus. They may have also had three daughters: Alcmene, Eurydice, and Demonassa.
Life Stages: Tree III, Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Amphiaraus
- child - Lysimache
- child - Talaus
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Eris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Daimon
Relationships:
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Erymanthus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo, who saw Aphrodite bathing naked after having sex with Adonis, and was blinded by the angry goddess. Apollo took revenge on Aphrodite by changing himself into a boar and killing Adonis ( Erymanthian Boar).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Apollo
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Erytheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 20
Daughter of Geryon and mother, by Hermes, of Norax, the man who led the Iberians to Sardinia.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Euanthes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Dionysus and Ariadne and brother to Oenopion, Thoas, Staphylus, Latromis and Tauropolis. He was also said to be one the generals of Rhadamanthys who was presented by the later with the city of Maroneia. Euanthes had a son Maron who was encountered by Odysseus in Ismarus, land of the Ciconians.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Euboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Euboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus. Euboea's possible sister was Megaclite, consort of Zeus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eukleia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of good repute and glory. She and her three sisters--Eupheme (Acclaim), Euthenia (Prosperity) and Philophrosyne (Welcome)--were probably the goddesses known collectively as the younger Kharites (Charites).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Aglaea
- child - Hephaestus
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Eumaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was Odysseus' doulos, swineherd, and friend. His father, Ctesius, son of Ormenus, was king of an island called Syra (present-day Syros in the Greek islands of the Cyclades). When he was a young child, a Phoenician sailor seduced his nurse, a slave, who agreed to bring the child among other treasures in exchange for their help in her escape. The nurse was killed by Artemis on the journey by sea, but the sailors continued to Ithaca where Odysseus' father Laertes bought him as a doulos. Thereafter he was brought up with Odysseus and his sister Ctimene (or Ktimene) and was treated by Anticleia, their mother, almost as Ctimene's equal.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Euneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a son of Jason and Queen Hypsipyle of Lemnos; he had a twin brother whose name is variously given as Nebrophonus or Thoas.
The children were separated from their mother after she was exiled from the island for having spared her own father Thoas. Later, the brothers participated in the funeral games of Opheltes (Archemorus), for whose death Hypsipyle was responsible.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eunoë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A naiad-nymph daughter of the river god Sangarius, sometimes associated with Persephone as her mother. Eunoë is the wife of the Phrygian king Dymas, and the mother of Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of Troy.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Euonymus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 42
Son of Cephissus. He was the eponym of the deme Euonymeia, Attica, whereas his daughter Aulis gave her name to the city Aulis, Boeotia.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Stratonice - child
- child - Kephisos
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Eupalamus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Athenian prince.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eupheme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of praise, acclamation, and shouts of triumph. She and her three sisters--Eukleia (Good Repute), Euthenia (Prosperity) and Philophrosyne (Welcome)--were probably the goddesses known collectively as the younger Kharites (Charites). Her opposite number was Momos (Critique).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Aglaea
- child - Hephaestus
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Eupheme
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Nymph of Mount Helikon (Helicon) in Boiotia (central Greece) who nursed the young goddess Mousai (Muses). Eupheme was loved by the god Pan and bore him a son named Krotos (Crotus) who was a favourite of the nine goddesses.
Eupheme the "Well-Spoken" was probably the Naiad-nymph of the spring of Hippokrene (Hippocrene) on Mount Helikon whose waters were believed to inspire poets. She was perhaps identified with Aganippe.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Europa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Minos - child
- Rhadamanthus - child
- pollinated - Zeus
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Europs
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Aegialeus, father of Telchis and grandfather of Apis, all of whom formed a legacy of the primeval kings of Sicyon according to a local legend. He was said to be the second ruler of Aegialea and have reigned for 45 years.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurydice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Sometimes called Henioche, was the wife of Creon, a king of Thebes. Eurydice was probably the mother of Creon's five children: Menoeceus (Megareus), Lycomedes, Haemon, Megara and Pyrrha.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurymedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Dionysus and Ariadne, one of the Argonauts. He was the brother of Phlias.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurynomus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Magnes and Phylodice and brother of Eioneus. He was the father of Hippios, who was devoured by Sphinx, and of Orsinome, who married Lapithes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurystheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos.
Eurystheus married Antimache, daughter of Amphidamas of Arcadia. Their children were Admete, Alexander, Eurybius, Mentor, Perimedes, Iphimedon, and Eurypylus.
In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles—though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried "Hera's fame"—was the candidate of Zeus. The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus. The immediate necessity for the Labours of Heracles is as penance for Heracles' murder of his own family, in a fit of madness, which had been sent by Hera; however, further human rather than mythic motivation is supplied by mythographers who note that their respective families had been rivals for the throne of Mycenae. Details of the individual episodes may be found in the article on the Labours of Heracles, but Hera was connected to all of the opponents Heracles had to overcome.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurythemis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hypermnestra - child
- married - Thestius
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Eurytus
Status: alive
Pronouns: her/he
Biography: Skillful archer of Greek mythology who was even said to have instructed Heracles in the art of using the bow. He was the brother of Ambracias, eponym of Ambracia, a city in Epirus. Eurytus's grandfather was Apollo, the archer-god. Eurytus married Antiope, daughter of Pylon (son of Naubolus) and had these children: Iphitus, Clytius, Toxeus, Deioneus, Molion, Didaeon, Hippasus and a very beautiful daughter, Iole. A late legend also makes Eurytus the father of Dryope, by his first wife. Hesiod calls his wife Antioche and they had four sons but Creophylus says only two.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Antiope - married
- Eidothea - child
- child - Melaneus
- child - Stratonice
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Euthenia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of prosperity and abundance. She and her three sisters--Eukleia (Good Repute), Philophrosyne (Welcome) and Eupheme (Acclaim)--were probably the goddesses known collectively as the younger Kharites (Charites). Her opposite number was Penia (Poverty).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Aglaea
- child - Hephaestus
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Evadne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Evadne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane who was raised by Aepytus of Arcadia. She experienced the joys of her first love with Apollo. However, when her consequent pregnancy was discovered by Aepytus, he was furious and left to consult the Oracle of Apollo. During childbirth, Apollo sent Eileithyia and the Moirae to assist his lover and ease her pain. Evadne gave birth in the wilderness and left the child, Iamus, exposed to the elements. Five days later, Aepytus returned from the Delphi, where he had been told by Apollo's Oracle that Evadne's child was indeed the son of Apollo and destined to be a gifted prophet. He demanded that the child be brought to him, and so Evadne retrieved Iamus from the patch of violets where she had left him. Iamus had been nurtured for those five days by the honeybees that were sent by Apollo, or by the Fates. Evadne named the child Iamus (“Boy of the Violets”). He went on to found the Iamidae, a family of priests from Olympia.
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Evaechme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: a Megarian princess as daughter of King Megareus and Iphinoe, daughter of King Nisus, thus sister of Evippus and Timalcus. She was the second wife of Alcathous, son of Pelops and by him, mother of Automedusa, possibly the mother of Ischepolis, Callipolis, Iphinoe and Periboea. Otherwise, the mother of these children was Pyrgo.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Automedusa - child
- married - Alcathous
- child - Iphinoe
- child - Megareus
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Evander
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (EUANDROS) A culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who was said to have brought the pantheon, laws, and alphabet of Greece to ancient Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Palatine Hill, Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War. He instituted the festival of the Lupercalia. Evander was deified after his death and an altar was constructed to him on the Aventine Hill.
In addition, Strabo mentions a story that Rome was an Arcadian colony founded by Evander.
Evander's wisdom was beyond that of all Arcadians.Life Stages: Hero, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Evarete
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Evenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Evenus was represented as a mortal prince or king as the son of Ares and princess Demonice, daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron. He was the brother of Molus, Pylus and Thestius.
Evenus married his niece Alcippe, daughter of King Oenomaus of Pisa (another son of Ares and Sterope) by whom he became the father of Marpessa.
When Idas, son of Aphareus, came from Messenia to ask for the hand of Marpessa, Evenus refused his request because he wanted her daughter to remain a virgin. Idas went to his father Poseidon and begged for the use of a winged chariot. Poseidon consented him the use of the chariot, and Idas abducted Marpessa away from a band of dancers and fled from Pleuron in Aetolia. Evenus, after chasing the couple for a long time and realizing he could not catch up to them, killed his horses and then drowned himself in a nearby river Lycormas and became immortal. The river was named later after him. According to some writers, Evenus, like Oenomaus, used to set his daughter's suitors to run a chariot race with him, promising to bestow her on the winner; but he cut off the heads of his vanquished competitors and nailed them to the walls of his house.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Everes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Theban father, by the nymph Chariclo, of Tiresias. He may be a descendant of Udaeus, one of the Spartoi.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Faustulus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: the shepherd who found the infant Romulus (the future founder of the city of Rome) and his twin brother Remus along the banks of the Tiber River as they were being suckled by the she-wolf, Lupa. According to legend, Faustulus carried the babies back to his sheepfold for his wife Acca Larentia to nurse them. Faustulus and Acca Larentia then raised the boys as their own. Romulus later defeated and killed King Amulius of Alba Longa, with the help of Faustulus, and his brother Pleistinus. Romulus and Remus set out to build their own city, but then had a falling-out. In the ensuing skirmish, Faustulus and Pleistinus were killed. Romulus went on to found Rome.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Acca Larentia - married
- Remus - adopted
- Romulus - adopted
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Gaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 3
(Gaia)Life Stages: on original, Protogenoi
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Geryon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Giant
Relationships:
- Erytheia - child
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Glaucus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A captain in the Lycian army under the command of his close friend and cousin Sarpedon. The Lycians in the Trojan War were allies of Troy. During the war, Glaucus fought valiantly.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hippolochus
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Graecus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Zeus and Pandora, daughter of Deucalion, and the eponym of the Graecians.
Graecus was the eponym of the Graecians, a group of Hellenic people who lived westwards of the Hellenes mentioned by Homer. The Hellenic peoples collectively came to be known as Graeci in Latin, after the Graecians.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Gyliphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Shepherd that cared for Lycastus and Parrhasius like his own son.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Lycastus and Parrhasius - surrogate
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Halie
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Tyllus, an autochthon. She married Cotys, son of Manes, an early king of Lydia, bearing him two sons, Asies and Atys, who succeeded Manes as king of Lydia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Harmonia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Daimon, Olympian
Relationships:
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Harmonia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph of the Akmonian Wood near Thermiskyra--the legendary town of the Amazones on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia. She was loved by the god Ares and bore him the first generation of Amazon women--or perhaps just the tribe's first queens, such as Otrera.
One of the Meliai (Meliae) nymphs--ash-tree Dryades from whose wood the first spears were crafted. In the case of the Amazon "harmony" no doubt refers to the harmony of military formation whereas the Theban queen was harmony in the sense of marital bliss.Life Stages: Dryad Nymph, Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
- Ares - partner
- The Amazons - child
- Otrera - child
- turned - The Meliai
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Harmothoë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Pandareus and the mother of his children. Harmothoë usually joins Pandareus in his demise when he angers the gods. Harmothoë's parentage and homeland are unknown. She married Pandareus, who hailed from Asia Minor, and had three daughters by him; Aëdon, Cleothera and Merope.Pausanias calls the later two Cameiro and Clytie, while Antoninus Liberalis writes that Pandareus and his wife (whom he does not name) had two daughters named Aëdon and Chelidon and an unnamed son.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hecuba
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of King Priam and queen of Troy during the Trojan War. With Priam, she was the mother of the warriors Hector and Troilus; Helen's suitor Paris; and the prophetess Cassandra. Other named children of Hecuba by Priam are Helenus, Deiphobus, Laodice, Polyxena, Creusa, Polydorus, Polites, Antiphus, Pammon, Hipponous, and Iliona. Her son Troilus is said to have been born as a result of Hecuba's relationship with the god Apollo.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Helen
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Also known as Helen of Troy, or Helen of Sparta, and in Latin as Helena, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus by Leda or Nemesis, and the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor, Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. She was first married to King Menelaus of Sparta "who became by her the father of Hermione." Her subsequent marriage to Paris of Troy was the most immediate cause of the Trojan War.
In her youth, she was abducted by Theseus. A competition between her suitors for her hand in marriage saw Menelaus emerge victorious. All of her suitors were required to swear an oath (known as the Oath of Tyndareus) promising to provide military assistance to the winning suitor, if Helen were ever stolen from him. The obligations of the oath precipitated the Trojan War. When she married Menelaus she was still very young. In most accounts, including Homer's, Helen ultimately fell in love with Paris and willingly went to Troy with him, though there are also stories in which she was abducted.
The legends of Helen during her time in Troy are contradictory. Homer depicts her ambivalently, both regretful of her choice and sly in her attempts to redeem her public image. Other accounts have a treacherous Helen who simulated Bacchic rites and rejoiced in the carnage she caused. In some versions, Helen does not arrive in Troy, but instead waits out the war in Egypt.
Ultimately, Paris was killed in action, and in Homer's account, Helen was reunited with Menelaus, though other versions of the legend recount her ascending to Olympus instead. A cult associated with her developed in Hellenistic Laconia, both at Sparta and elsewhere; at Therapne she shared a shrine with Menelaus. She was also worshipped in Attica and on Rhodes.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Helice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: nurse of the god Zeus during his infancy on Crete together with her sister Aex. Her name suggests that she was a "willow-nymph", just as there were oak-tree nymphs and ash-nymphs (Dryads and Meliae). It is likely that she is the same as Ide. When Cronus once came to Crete in search of Zeus, the young god hid himself and his nurses by turning them into bears, as he became a serpent. Later, when he became king, he made them both constellations, Helice becoming Ursa Major, while Cynosura became Ursa Minor. Helice, in antiquity, was a common proper name for the constellation Ursa Major. In one version, Demeter asks the stars whether they know anything about her daughter Persephone's abduction, and Helice tells her to ask Helios, who knows the deeds of the day, because the night is blameless and knows nothing. Another account relates that Helice and her sister Aex were the nymph-daughters of Olenus, son of Hephaestus. It was said that the trio gave their names to the following cities— Olenus in Aulis, Helice in the Peloponnesus, and Aex in Haemonia.
Life Stages: Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
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Helike
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph who became the wife of King Oenopion of Chios and mother by him of Melas, Talus, Maron, Euanthes, Salagus, Athamas and Merope (Aero).
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Merópē / Aërō - child
- married - Oenopion
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Hemithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Originally named Molpadia, daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, sister of Parthenos and Rhoeo.
According to Diodorus Siculus, she and Parthenos were put in charge of watching after their father's wine but fell asleep while performing this duty, and while they were asleep, the wine jar was broken by the swine their family kept. When the sisters woke up, they saw what had happened. In fear of their father's wrath, threw themselves off a cliff both muttering the name of Apollo. Apollo, who was in love with Rhoeo, would not let her sisters die and granted both of them immortality. Molpadia's name was changed to Hemithea upon her deification. Parthenius makes Hemithea mother of Basileus by Lyrcus; in his version of the story, Hemithea apparently had this name since birth and nothing is said of her deification; however, Staphylus and his daughters' home is located in Bubastus, right where Hemithea came to be worshipped in Diodorus' account. Hemithea was worshipped as a healing goddess at Castabus in Caria, and there is evidence of her sanctuary there as far back as the 7th century BC.Life Stages: on original, Apotheosis
Relationships:
- Lyrcus - married
- Basilus - child
- child - Chrysothemis
- child - Staphylus
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Hemithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: also known as Amphithea or Leucothea, the sister of Tenes, who was placed into a chest and set into the sea together with her brother after their stepmother Philonome falsely accused Tenes of raping her. They landed on an island which was later named Tenedos, of which Tenes became king. Tenes ended his life in a battle with Achilles, who then attempted to rape Hemithea. She ran off to escape him and was swallowed up in a chasm of the earth.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hephaestus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
- Cabeiro - partner
- The Kabeiroi - child
- The Kabeirides - child
- Philophrosyne - child
- Eukleia - child
- Euthenia - child
- Eupheme - child
- Periphetes - child
- Ardalus - child
- Olenus - child
- Palaimonius - child
- Pylius - child
- Kakos - child
- married - Aglaea
- partner - Anticlea
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Heracles
Status: alive
Biography: Was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.
He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans known as Heracleidae and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.Life Stages: Hero
Relationships:
- Meda - partner
- Antiochus - child
- Tlepolemus - child
- affair - Abderus
- child - Alcmene
- stepparent - Amphitryon
- partner - Astyoche
- married - Deianira
- married - Megara
- child - Zeus
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Hermaphroditos
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: God of hermaphrodites and of effeminates. He was numbered amongst the winged love-gods known as Erotes.
Hermaphroditos was a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality.
According to some he was once a handsome youth who attracted the love of a Naiad nymphe Salmakis (Salmacis). She prayed to to be united with him forever and the gods, answering her prayer, merged their two forms into one. At the same time her spring acquired the property of making men who bathed in its waters soft and effeminate.
Hermaphroditos was depicted as a winged youth with both male and female features--usually female thighs, breasts, and style of hair, and male genitalia.Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
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Hermes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
- Autolycus - child
- Rhene - partner
- Saon - child
- Cydon - child
- Polybus - child
- Ceryx - child
- Abderus - child
- Thymbris - partner
- Pan - child
- Aphrodite - partner
- Hermaphroditos - child
- Pharis - child
- Nomios - child
- Agreus - child
- Pronomus - child
- Pherespondus - child
- Lycus - child
- Eleusis - child
- Angelia - child
- Palaestra - child
- Cephalus - child
- Eleusinus - child
- Myrtilus - child
- Bounos - child
- Evander - child
- Caecus - child
- Phaunos - child
- Daphnis - child
- Norax - child
- partner - Acacallis
- partner - Aglaurus
- partner - Alcidameia
- partner - Carmenta
- partner - Chione / Philonis
- partner - Chthonophyle
- partner - Cleobule
- partner - Daeira
- partner - Erytheia
- partner - Herse
- partner - Iphthime
- partner - Okyrrhoe
- partner - Penelopeia
- partner - Phylodámeia
- partner - Sose
- partner - Thronia
- child - Zeus
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Herophile
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A sea-nymph daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite and sister of the sea-goddess Rhode.
She was perhaps the same as the Delphic Sibyl Herophile who is otherwise described as a daughter of Zeus and Lamia.Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
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Herse
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Athenian princess as the daughter of King Cecrops of Athens and Aglaurus, daughter of King Actaeus. Herse was the sister to Aglauros and Pandrosos. Cephalus of Athens is the son of Hermes and Herse, who married Eos, and gave birth to Tithonus (not to be confused with Tithonus of Troy).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hersilia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She is credited with ending the war between Rome and the Sabines.
In some accounts she is the wife of Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome in Rome's founding myths. She is described as such in both Livy and Plutarch; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, she was instead the wife of Hostus Hostilius, a Roman champion at the time of Romulus.
Just like her husband (who became the god Quirinus), she was deified after her death as Hora Quirini, as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Very little concrete information is known about the deity Hora Quirini. According to Georg Wissowa, Ovid created the story of Hersilia's apotheosis into Hora Quirini.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
- married - Romulus
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Himalia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph of the Aegean island of Rhodes. She was seduced by the god Zeus when he came to subdue the island's resident Titanes--the Telkhines.
After Zeus subdued the Titans, he became enamored with Himalia and mated with her in the form of a fertile rain. The latter produced three sons with him, Spartaeus, Kronios, and Kytos: no further information about them survives. During the flood that drowned the island of Rhodes, Himalia and the sons of Zeus were saved by taking refuge in the high places of the island.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Hippeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Antippus. She married Elatus and bore the Argonaut Polyphemus and Caeneus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hippocoon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The great-grandfather of Amphiaraus. The lineage is as follows: Zeuxippe, daughter of this Hippocoön, married Antiphates and gave birth to Oecles and Amphalces; Oecles, in his turn, married Hypermnestra, daughter of Thespius, and to them were born Iphianeira, Polyboea and Amphiaraus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Zeuxippe - child
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Hippodamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
- Astydameia - child
- Nicippe - child
- Pittheus - child
- Alcathous - child
- married - Pelops
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Hippodamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Bride of King Pirithous of the Lapiths. Saved by Theseus on her wedding day from being kidnpped by a centaur.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Polypoetes - child
- child - Atrax
- married - Pirithous
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Hippolochus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Lycian prince as the son of King Bellerophon. He was probably the successor of the latter in the kingship of the Lycian land.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Glaucus - child
- child - Bellerophon
- child - Philonoe
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Hippolyta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope, Penthesilea, and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' zoster, the Greek word found in the Iliad and elsewhere meaning "war belt". Hippolyta figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus. The myths about her are so varied it is thought that they may be about different women. The name Hippolyta translates as "she who unleashes the horses", deriving from two Greek roots meaning "horse" and "let loose".
Relationships:
- child - Ares
- child - Otrera
- turned - The Amazons
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Hippomenes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a Boeotian prince, the son of Megareus. Hippomenes married Atalanta, the virginal runner, after defeating her in a footrace with the help of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Later the two were transformed into lions when they offended the gods.
Although often identified with Melanion, Atalanta's husband in other versions, he is distinct from him.
Atalanta only accepted to marry the man who would beat her in a footrace. Hippomenes was no match for her speed, but he was given three golden apples by love-goddess Aphrodite that he dropped on three occasions during the footrace; each time Atalanta halted to pick up the apple, losing time and allowing Hippomenes to overtake her and take the victory and her hand in marriage. But he neglected to properly thank Aphrodite for her support, so some time later she inspired uncontrollable lust in them and the two had sex inside a temple dedicated to Zeus or Cybele, so the offended deity transformed them both into lions.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Atalanta
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Hipponous
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Triballus. He was the father of Polyphonte by Thrassa, the daughter of Ares and Tereine.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Polyphonte - child
- married - Thrassa
- child - Triballus
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Hippothoon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 39
Often described as the king of Eleusis, succeeding to the throne after the death of Cercyon. He is the Attic hero and the eponym of the Athenian phyle called Hippothoontis (Ιπποθοωντίς). Hippothoon was the son of Poseidon and Alope, Cercyon's daughter.
Although Cercyon had Alope buried alive, Poseidon turned her into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis.
Hippothoon was stated to be present in the missions of Triptolemus and was mentioned along with Eumolpus as an Eleusinian hero who was worshiped according to honorary decrees dating to the 4th century BC. He was also described as the host of Demeter, instead of Celeus, during her wandering in search of Persephone.
According to Pausanias, a heroon was dedicated to him for worship by hereditarily assigned priests.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hyacinth
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A deified hero and a lover of Apollo in Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae southwest of Sparta dates from the Mycenaean era. The hero is mythically linked to local cults and identified with Apollo. In the Classical period, a temenos (sanctuary) grew up around what was alleged to be his burial mound, which was located at the feet of a statue of Apollo.
handsome young Spartan prince loved by the gods Apollon and Zephyros. The West-Wind, however, grew jealous of his rival in love and one day, as the pair were playing discus, blew the discus off course causing it to strike Hyakinthos in the head killing him. The grieving Apollon then transformed the dying youth into a larkspur flower (hyakinthos in Greek) which he inscribed with the wail of mourning "AI, AI."
THESSALIAN HYACINTHUS
The Thessalians had their own version of Hyakinthos who they also named Hymenaios "Of the Hymns." As with his female counterpart, Apollon's love Daphne, the northern Hyakinthos was associated with the Vale of Tempe--seat of Apollon's cult in the region. His father was named as either King Magnes of Magnesia or King Pieros of Pieria who ruled the two regions adjacent to the vale. Even the Spartans seemed to acknowledge this tradition when they describe their Hyakinthos as the son of the Lapith princess Diomede of Thessalia.
CHRONOLOGY OF MYTH
In the chronology of myth Hyakinthos was a very early figure. His grandfather Lakedaimon (Lacedaemon) was the very first king of Lakedaimonia--the Spartan kingdom--who probably reigned shortly after the Great Deluge. His great-nephew Oibalos (Oebalus) was a contemporary of the Aiolides who established kingdoms throughout the Peloponessos--namely Perieres, Salmoneus, Sisyphos, and Endymion.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Hyamus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 42
A son of Lycorus. It was related of him that after the Great Deluge, he became king over a people dwelling around Mount Parnassus, and founded Hyampolis. He was married to Melantheia, a daughter of Deucalion, and had at least two daughters, Celaeno and Melanis, of whom either might have been mother of Delphus.Life Stages: Tree III, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Melantheia - married
- Celaeno - child
- child - Lycorus
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Hygeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of good health. She was a daughter and attendant of the medicine-god Asklepios (Asclepius), and a companion of the goddess Aphrodite. Her sisters included Panakeia (Panacea) (Cure-All) and Iaso (Remedy).
Hygeia's opposite number were the Nosoi (Spirits of Disease). Her Roman name was Salus.
In classical sculpture she was represented as a woman holding a large serpent in her arms.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Hymenaios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A god of marriage ceremonies who inspires feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry that was sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which is sung at the nuptial threshold. Hymen is supposed to attend every wedding. If he did not, the marriage would supposedly prove disastrous and so the Greeks would run about calling his name aloud. He presided over many of the weddings in Greek mythology, for all the deities and their children.
Hymen is celebrated in the ancient marriage song of unknown origin (called a Hymenaios) Hymen o Hymenae, Hymen delivered by Catullus.Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
- affair - Apollo
- child - Terpsichore
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Hypermnestra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of King Thestius of Pleuron and Eurythemis, and the sister of Althaea, Leda, Iphiclus, Evippus, Plexippus, and Eurypylus.
Diodorus Siculus also mentions a figure named Hypmnestra, who he states is the daughter of Thespius, and the mother, by Oicles, of Amphiaraus (one of the Seven against Thebes), Polyboea, and Iphianeira.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Oicles - married
- Amphiaraus - child
- child - Eurythemis
- child - Thestius
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Hypseus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of the Lapiths. By the naiad Chlidanope he had four daughters.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Hypsipyle
Status: alive
Biography: A queen of Lemnos, and the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas. She ruled Lemnos when the Argonauts visited the island, and had two sons by Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. Later the women of Lemnos discovered that Thoas had been saved by Hypsipyle and she was sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the king of Nemea, where she became the nurse of the king's infant son Opheltes, who was killed by a serpent while in her care. She is eventually freed from her servitude by her sons.[
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Euneus - child
- Nebrophonus / Thoas - child
- partner - Jason
- child - Thoas
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Iacchus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon attendant of the goddess Demeter and the leader-in-chief of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He was the god of the ritual cry of joy "iakhe" of the initiates' procession.
Iakkhos was depicted as a young man holding the twin torches of the Mysteries, usually in the company of Demeter, Persephone, Hekate and other Eleusinian gods.
Iakkhos was sometimes equated with the god Dionysos in the same way that the Eleusinian Hekate was paired with Artemis. The Orphics identified him with the Eleusinian demi-gods Dysaules and Eubouleus. Their Iakkhos also had a female aspect named Misa and the two were equated with the bi-gendered creator-god Phanes.Life Stages: Agrarian God, Daimon
Relationships:
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Ialmenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Ares and Astyoche, and twin brother of Ascalaphus. Together with his brother he sailed with the Argonauts, among the suitors of Helen, and led the Orchomenian contingent in the Trojan War. Unlike Ascalaphus, Ialmenus survived the war. He was said to have ended up in Colchis, where he founded a colony, the inhabitants of which were later referred to as the "Achaeans of Pontus".
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- Ascalaphus - twin
- child - Ares
- child - Astyoche
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Iamus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Apollo and Evadne, a daughter of Poseidon, raised by Aepytus. In a story told by Pindar, after his mother lies with Apollo and the child is born, he is left in the wilderness. Here he is raised by a pair of snakes, before being found again after Aepytus upon his visit to the Oracle of Delphi. Iamus was later taken to Olympia by his father, who teaches him ability of prophecy.
He was said to be the ancestor of the Iamidae, a family of seers that operated in Olympia.
He is said to have been the ancestor of Iamidae, a lineage of seers that operated in Olympia. Their main method of reading the future was through the use of a sacrificial fire. According to Pausanias, their tomb existed in Sparta; they are also known to have been present in Messene and Mantinea.
Apollo sends down Eileithyia and the Moirai (Fates) to assist Evadne. After giving birth, she abandons the child in the wild out of distress. The child survives, as he is nourished by two snakes, who feed him a harmless kind of venom produced by bees. When Aepytus learns from the Delphic Oracle that the new born was sired by Apollo himself, and was destined to be a great prophet, he orders for the child to be brought back into the house. The infant is found alive lying among violets, and is named "Iamus" by Evadne.
When he reached his youth, Iamus descended into the waters of Alpheios and invoked Poseidon, his grandfather, and Apollo, his father, asking them to reveal his destiny to him. Only Apollo answered his prayer, and appearing to him, took him to Olympia. There, Apollo taught him the art of prophecy and gave him the power to understand and explain the voices of birds.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Iasius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Eleuther and brother of Pierus. He was the father of Chaeresilaus and Astreis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Chaeresilaus - child
- child - Eleuther
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Iaso
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of cures, remedies and modes of healing. She was a daughter and attendant of the medicine-god Asklepios. Her sisters included Panakeia (Panacea) (Cure-All) and Hygeia (Good Health).
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Iasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Argos.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Icarius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Spartan king and a champion runner. By the naiad Periboea, he became the father of Penelope, Perileos, Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes and Iphthime.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Icarus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete, and his wife Naucrate. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of King Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalus had revealed the labyrinth's secrets and thus imprisoned them —either in a large tower overlooking the ocean or in the labyrinth itself, depending upon the account. Icarus and Daedalus escaped using wings Daedalus constructed from birds' molted feathers, threads from blankets, the leather straps from their sandals, and beeswax. Before escaping, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too low or the water would soak the feathers and not to fly too close to the Sun or the heat would melt the wax. Icarus ignored Daedalus' instructions not to fly too close to the Sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the Sun". In some versions of the tale, Daedalus and Icarus escape by ship.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Daedalus
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Idaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph, presumably of Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). She was the wife of the river-god Scamander, and a principal ancestor of the royal house of Troy. According to Diodorus Siculus, and the mythographer Apollodorus, she was the mother, by Scamander, of Teucer, who was the first to rule as a king over the region known later as Troy.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Idaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The second wife of Phineus, the king of Thrace, whose false accusations against her stepsons were responsible for her husband's misfortunes. She was sent back to her father the Scythian king Dardanus who condemned her to death.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Mariandynus - child
- married - Phineus
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Idas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Idmon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Argonaut seer. Idmon foresaw his own death in the Argonaut expedition, but joined anyway. During the outbound voyage of Argo, a boar killed him in the land of the Mariandyni, in Bithynia.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Idomene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
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Idyia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ileus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: During his stay in Troy, Apollo had a lover named Ourea, who was a nymph and daughter of Poseidon. Together they had a son named Ileus, whom Apollo loved dearly.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Illyrius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Cadmus and Harmonia, who eventually ruled Illyria and became the eponymous ancestor of the Illyrians
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Inachus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
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Iolaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Theban divine hero. He was famed for being Heracles's charioteer and squire, and for helping with some of his Labors, as well as for being one of the Argonauts.
Iolaus was the son of Iphicles and Automedusa, daughter of King Alcathous of Megara. According to Plutarch, Heracles gave his wife, Megara, age thirty three, to Iolaus, then only sixteen years old. According to Pausanias, who cites Hesiod as the source, they had a daughter, Leipephilene, though the name is corrupt and has been amended by various editors to "Leipephile" (Λειπεφίλη), "Hippophile" (Ἱπποφίλη) or "Deiphile" (Δηιφίλη). Through this daughter, Iolaus was considered to have fathered the mythic and historic line of the kings of Corinth, ending with Telestes.Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- Megara - partner
- Leipephilene - child
- child - Automedusa
- child - Iphicles
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Ion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous ancestor of the Ionians.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Iphianeira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Megapenthes and wife of Melampus, mother of Antiphates, Bias, Pronoe and Manto.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Antiphates - child
- Abas - child
- child - Megapenthes
- married - Melampus
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Iphicles
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Also called Iphiclus, was the younger maternal half-twin brother of Heracles and one of the Calydonian boar hunters. Iphicles was the son of Alcmene and her human husband Amphitryon, whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus. He also had a sister, Laonome, who married Euphemus or Polyphemus. Iphicles was the father of Heracles' charioteer Iolaus by his first wife, Automedusa, daughter of Alcathous. Afterwards, he fathered two children by Pyrrha, the younger daughter of Creon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Iolaus - child
- Pyrrha - married
- child - Alcmene
- child - Amphitryon
- married - Automedusa
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Iphiclus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Phylacean prince as the son of the eponymous King Phylacus of Phylace and Clymene, and brother of Alcimede and Clymenus. He was the father of Protesilaus and Podarces by Diomedeia. Hesiod described him as fleet of foot. Iphiclus was cured of infertility by Melampus, and gave him his famous herd of oxen in reward. He was counted among the Argonauts who sailed for Colchis in their quest of the Golden Fleece.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- Protesilaus - child
- child - Clymene
- child - Phylacus
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Iphinoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Megarian princess as daughter of King Nisos and Abrota of Onchestus, thus sister to Eurynome and Scylla. She was the mother of Timalcus, Evippus and Evaechme by Megareus, her maternal uncle.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Iphthime
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Dorus, mother of the Satyrs Lycus, Pherespondus and Pronomus by Hermes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hermes - partner
- Lycus - child
- Pherespondus - child
- Pronomus - child
- child - Dorus
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Ischys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was the son of Elatus. Ischys had an affair with the Thessalian princess Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers, who was at that time pregnant with the god's child. When a (then white) raven told Apollo of the affair between Ischys and Coronis, he became so angry that his intense glare scorched the raven black. His twin sister Artemis killed Coronis as a punishment, but the unborn child was saved at the last minute by Apollo who felt remorse for causing his lover's death. Ischys was then killed by Apollo's father Zeus or Apollo himself.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ismene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of the river-god Asopus by the nymph Metope, daughter of the river Ladon. Ismene was the wife of Argus, eponymous king of Argos and thus, mother of Argus Panoptes and Iasus.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Argus Panoptes - child
- Iasus - child
- married - Argus
- child - Asopos
- child - Metope
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Ismenis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad nymph, one of the daughters of the Boeotian river god Ismenus: Ismenis is a patronymic rather than a given name. Ismenis was the mother, by Pan, of Crenaeus, a defender of Thebes in the war of the Seven against Thebes.
When Crenaeus was killed by Hippomedon whom he had challenged to single combat, Ismenis searched for his body which was carried away by the flow of River Ismenus, and, upon finding it, lamented her son's fate.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Ismenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
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Itylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Young son of Queen Aëdon and King Zethus of Thebes. Although the various versions of Itylus' tale vary greatly, they all share the theme of an only child being killed at the hands of its mother who was trying to get revenge against someone else. In the earlier versions, Itylus was a prince of Thebes, whom his mother killed accidentally in his bed while aiming for another boy, the son of Niobe. By the fifth century BC, Itylus' name had shifted to Itys, and he was treated as the deliberate murder victim of both his mother Aëdon, later called Procne, and his aunt Chelidon, later known as Philomela, who kill him in order to avenge themselves against the boy's father's crimes.
All those tales however a similar ending, culminating in the metamorphosis of the mother into a nightingale, a songbird that continues to mourn the loss of her child.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Amphion and Zethus
- child - Aëdon
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Itys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Tereus, a king of Thrace, by his Athenian wife Procne. Itys was murdered by his own mother and aunt and served to be consumed during dinner by his father, as part of a revenge plan against Tereus for assaulting and raping the maiden Philomela, Procne's sister.
Following those events, Itys' immediate family were all transformed into birds afterwards, and in some versions he too joins them in the avian kingdom. Itys' story survives in several accounts, the most extensive and famous among them being Ovid's Metamorphoses. His myth had been known since at least the sixth century BC, though myths that would eventually shape the standard tale go back even further.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ixion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly. Ixion desired Hera, the queen of the gods and wife of Zeus, and his arrogant attempt to sleep with her led to his eternal punishment in Tartarus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Iynx
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph inventress of a magical love-charm known as the iynx--a spinning wheel with a wryneck bird attached. Iynx used her enchantments to make Zeus fall in love with her or, some say, with the nymph Io. Hera was enraged and transformed her into a wryneck bird.
The English word "jinx" is derived from Iynx's name.Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Jason
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea, the granddaughter of the sungod Helios.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Hero
Relationships:
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Kairos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Caerus) Daimon of opportunity and the youngest of the divine sons of Zeus. He was depicted as a youth with a long lock of hair hanging down from his forehead which suggested that Opportunity could only be grasped as he approached.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Zeus
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Kakos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A monstrous, fire-breathing giant who dwelt in a cave on the Aventine Hill in Latium--later the site of Rome. He was slain by Herakles as the hero was on his way back to Greece after fetching the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia (Spain).
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Hephaestus
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Kephisos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: SAME AS THE OTHER KEPHISOS
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Corycia - child
- Rhodoessa / Melia - child
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Kephisos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river god of ancient Greece, associated with the river Cephissus in Attica and/or with the river Cephissus in Boeotia, both in Greece.
IS THE SAME AS THE OTHER KEPHISOSLife Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
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Kleio
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The muse of history. Like all the muses, Clio is a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. Along with her sister Muses, she is considered to dwell at either Mount Helicon or Mount Parnassos. She had one son, Hyacinth, with one of several kings, in various myths—with Pierus. she is also the mother of Hymenaeus and Rhesus. According to Apollodorus, Clio was made to fall in love with Pierus by Aphrodite, for Clio had derided her for her love affair with Adonis.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Koios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Titan
Relationships:
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Kronios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Spartaeus and Cytus. When Cronius and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon and Halia. Thus, the goddess cursed them with insanity.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Krotos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Crotus) A satyr companion of the Mousai (Muses) on Mount Helikon in Boiotia. He was a great hunter and musician who invented the hunting bow and the rhythmic beats used to accompany music. The Mousai had him set amongst the stars as the constellation Sagittarius.
Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
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Kyrene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The etymon of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. She was said to have been a Thessalian princess and huntress who became the queen regnant of Cyrene, founded and named in her honor by the god Apollo. By the god Apollo, she bore Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus became the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making. Idmon became a famed seer. Apollonius Rhodius states that the couple also had another son called Autuchus.
Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
- Aristaeus - child
- Idmon - child
- partner - Apollo
- child - Chlidanope
- child - Hypseus
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Kytos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Cronius and Spartaeus. When Cytus and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon and Halia. Thus, the goddess cursed them with insanity.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Laertes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Cephallenians, an ethnic group who lived both on the Ionian Islands and on the mainland. He presumably inherited the kingdom from his father Arcesius and grandfather Cephalus. His realm included Ithaca and surrounding islands, and perhaps even the neighboring part of the mainland of other Greek city-states. Laertes was also an Argonaut, and a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.
Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lamedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 18th king of Sicyon who reigned for 40 years. Lamedon was the younger son of King Coronus the Sicyonian, and brother to King Corex. He was married Pheno, daughter of the Athenian Clytius, and had by her a daughter Zeuxippe.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Laodamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Lycian princess as the daughter of Bellerophon and Philonoe, daughter of King Iobates. Laodamia's brothers were Hippolochus and Isander, and by Zeus, she became the mother of Sarpedon. She was shot by Artemis (that is, died a sudden, instant death) one day when she was weaving.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Zeus - partner
- Sarpedon - child
- child - Bellerophon
- child - Philonoe
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Laodocus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Aetolian son of Apollo and Phthia, brother of Dorus and Polypoetes; all three were killed by Aetolus, son of Endymion
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Laomedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Strymo Rhoio - married
- Proclia - child
- Priam - child
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Laothoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Thestor by Idmon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Laothoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Consort of King Porthaon of Calydon and mother of Sterope, Stratonice and Eurythemiste.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Stratonice - child
- married - Porthaon
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Lapithes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Apollo and Stilbe. He and his full brother Centaurus were believed to have given their names to the legendary races of Lapiths and Centaurs respectively. Lapithes settled on the banks of River Peneus and married Orsinome, daughter of Eurynomus, by whom he became the father of Phorbas, Periphas, and Diomede.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Latinus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Latinus, or Lavinius, was a king of the Latins. He is sometimes described as the son of Faunus and Marica, and father of Lavinia with his wife, Amata. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, however, claims he was a son of Heracles who only passed for a son of Faunus. He hosted Aeneas's army of exiled Trojans and offered them the chance to reorganize their life in Old Latium. His wife Amata wished his daughter Lavinia to be betrothed to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Latinus and the gods insisted that he give her instead to Aeneas; consequently, Turnus declared war on Aeneas and was killed two weeks into the conflict. Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, later founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings leading to Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Latinus Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Fourth descendant of Aeneas and fourth in the list of mythical kings of Alba Longa according to Livy, who also credits him with founding a majority of the settlements in Latium. It is, however, unclear if this person ever existed.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Alba Silvius - child
- child - Aeneas Silvius
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Lausus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was the son and heir of the Alban king Numitor, but was killed by his uncle Amulius, who wanted to seize the throne.
According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, his name was Aegestus. He was killed while hunting by Amulius, who blamed his death on bandits. Many Albans did not believe him.
His story is briefly told by Ovid.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Numitor
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Lavinia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Latinus and Amata, and the last wife of Aeneas. It has been proposed that the character was in part intended to represent Servilia Isaurica, Emperor Augustus's first fiancée.
According to Livy, Ascanius was the step-son of Lavinia; she led the Latins as a power behind the throne since Ascanius was too young to rule.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Leda
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
- Tyndareus - married
- Clytemnestra - child
- Helen - child
- pollinated - Zeus
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Leipephilene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Iolaus and Megara. She was renowned for her beauty which was compared to that of an Olympian goddess. Leipephilene married Phylas and bore two children to him, Hippotes and Thero.
The name form "Leipephilene" is a corruption, and has been variously emended by some editors as "Leipephile" (Λειπεφίλη), "Hippophile" (Ἱπποφίλη) or "Deiphile" (Δηιφίλη). The precise original form remains unknown.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lelantus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the younger Titanes. He was probably the god of air, moving unseen and a hunter's skill at stalking prey. His daughter was the huntress Aura, goddess of the breeze.
Lelantos' name was derived from the Greek words lêthô, lanthanô, and lelathon, meaning "to escape notice," "move unseen" or "go unobserved." Lelantos may also have been associated with the Lelantian plain of Euboia (Euboea).
Lelantos is apparently the male counterpart of Leto, just as his daughter, the virgin huntress Aura ("Breeze"), is the counterpart of Leto's daughter Artemis.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Leucane
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Iasus
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Leucippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Leucippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eighth king of Sicyon who reigned for 53 years. Leucippus was the son and heir of King Thurimachus, son of Aegyrus, son of Thelxion, son of Apis, son of Telchis, son of Europs, son of Aegialeus.
According to Pausanias' account, Leucippus had only one child, a daughter Calchinia. She bore Poseidon a son, Peratus, who was reared by Leucippus and inherited the kingdom.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Calchinia - child
- Messapus - child
- child - Thurimachus
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Leucippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Poemander and Tanagra. Poemander had refused the Achaeans' call to join the Trojan War, and as a result was attacked by them. As Poemander was fortifying his stronghold at Poemandria, a builder named Polycrithus mocked him. Poemander threw a stone at Polycrithus, but missed and hit his son Leucippus instead. As a result, Poemander was banished and later purified of the murder by Elephenor. Leucippus' wife was named Graia, daughter of Medeon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Linus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo and Psamathe, daughter of King Crotopus of Argos.
When Psamathe had given birth to Linus, fearing her father she thus exposed the child. Linus was found by shepherds, who brought him up but the child after reaching adulthood was torn to pieces by the shepherd's dogs. Psamathe's grief at the occurrence betrayed her misfortune to her father, who would not believe that she had had intercourse with a god rather than a mortal, and thus condemned her to death. Apollo, in his indignation at the father's cruelty, visited Argos with a child-killing plague and when his oracle was consulted about the means of averting the plague, he answered that the Argives must propitiate Psamathe and Linus.
This was attempted by means of sacrifices, and matrons and virgins sang dirges which were called linoi, and the month in which this solemnity was celebrated was called arneios, and the festival itself arnis, because Linus had grown up among lambs. The pestilence, however, did not cease until Crotopus quitted Argos and settled at Tripodisium, in Megaris.
In an alternate version, the baby Linus was torn apart by the king's sheepdogs upon being exposed and Apollo sent Poene, the personification of punishment, upon the city. Poene would steal children from their mothers until Coroebus killed her. This caused a second punishment to fall upon the city that was devastated by plague.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Locrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Zeus and Megaclite, He is said to have assisted Zethus and Amphion in the building of Thebes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lupa / She-wolf
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: an Italian wolf who nursed and sheltered the twins Romulus and Remus after they were abandoned in the wild by decree of King Amulius of Alba Longa. She cared for the infants at her den, a cave known as the Lupercal, until they were discovered by a shepherd, Faustulus. Romulus would later become the founder and first king of Rome and both twins became famous throughout history as the founders of the Rome we know today. The image of the she-wolf suckling the twins has been a symbol of Rome since ancient times and is one of the most recognizable icons of ancient mythology.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Lycaon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycastus and Parrhasius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Lycastus, twin brother of Parrhasius, whose parents were Ares and Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus and Arcadia. Their mother was seduced by Ares in the guise of a shepherd; in fear of her father's wrath, she cast the newborn twins into the river Erymanthus. They did not drown and were washed into the hollow of an oak tree, where a she-wolf found and suckled them, giving up her own cubs. The twins were then adopted and raised by a shepherd named Gyliphus, and eventually succeeded to the throne of Arcadia. Their story is closely parallel, and is cited as such by Pseudo-Plutarch, to that of Romulus and Remus.
Parrhasius, twin brother of Lycastus and son of Ares and Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus and Arcadia. Their mother them into the river Erymanthus but they survived when a wolf suckled them and a shepherd, Gyliphus, reared them. Parrhasius succeeded later to the throne of Arcadia.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycomedes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Also known as Lycurgus, was the most prominent king of the Dolopians in the island of Scyros near Euboea during the Trojan War. Lycomedes was the father of seven daughters including Deidameia, and grandfather of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus.
Plutarch says that Lycomedes killed Theseus, who had fled to his island in exile by pushing him off a cliff for he feared that Theseus would dethrone him, as people of the island treated the guest with marked honor. Some related that the cause of this violence was that Lycomedes would not give up the estates which Theseus had in Scyros, or the circumstance that Lycomedes wanted to gain the favour of Menestheus.
At the request of Thetis, Lycomedes concealed Achilles in female disguise among his own daughters. At Lycomedes' court, Achilles had an affair with Deidamia, which resulted in the birth of Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus). As Odysseus drew Achilles out of his disguise and took him to Troy, Neoptolemus stayed with his grandfather until he too was summoned during the later stages of the war.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Deidamia - child
- child - Apollo
- child - Parthenope
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Lycorus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 42
A son of Apollo and the nymph Corycia. After him a city was named Lycoreia (later Delphi, after Delphus, great-grandson of Lycorus). He was father of Hyamus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycurgus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Cleophyle - married
- Amphidamas - child
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Lycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Dascylus of Mysia or Mariandyne. He was hospitable towards the Argonauts and Heracles, who conquered the land of the Bebryces (Heraclea Pontica). He is apparently identical with the Lycus given as a son of Titias, brother of Priolaus and eponym of a city.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Libya and son of the god Ares[1] and the father of Callirhoê. Lycus had the custom of sacrificing strangers to honor his father. After the sack of Troy, Diomedes was cast up on the Libyan coast and was to be offered as a sacrifice. However, the king's daughter Callirhoê fell in love with the hero and betrayed her father by loosening his bonds and rescued him eventually. She committed suicide upon his departure.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The "loudvoiced" satyr herald of Dionysus during the Indian War. In secret union, Hermes fathered him, Pherespondus and Pronomus, by Iphthime, daughter of Dorus. Eiraphiotes (i.e. Dionysus) entrusted to these three satyr brothers the dignity of 'the staff of their wisdom-fostering father, the herald of heaven'.
Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
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Lyrcus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Phoroneus. He was one of several men sent by Inachus when Io, daughter of King Inachus of Argos, had been captured by brigands to search for her and attempt to find her. Lyrcus failed to find her and gave up on the search mission but he was too much afraid of Inachus to return to Argos, and went instead to Caunus, where he married Hilebia, daughter of King Aegialus (son of Caunus), who, as the story goes, had fallen in love with Lyrcus as soon as she saw him, and by her instant prayers had persuaded her father to betroth her to him; he gave him as dowry a good share of the realm and of the rest of the regal attributes, and accepted him as his son-in-law. So a considerable period of time passed, but Lyrcus and his wife had no children: and accordingly he made a journey to the oracle at Didyma, to ask how he might obtain offspring; and the answer was, that he would beget a child upon the first woman with whom he should have to do after leaving the shrine. At this, he was mighty pleased, and began to hasten on his homeward journey back to his wife, sure that the prediction was going to be fulfilled according to his wish; but on his voyage, when he arrived at Bybastus (a city in Caria), he was entertained by Staphylus, the son of Dionysus, who received him in the most friendly manner and enticed him to much drinking of wine, and then, when his senses were dulled with drunkenness, united him with his own daughter Hemithea, having had previous intimation of what the sentence of the oracle had been, and desiring to have descendants born to her: but actually a bitter strife arose between Rhoeo and Hemithea, the two daughters of Staphylus, as to which should have the guest, because of a great desire for him by both of the daughters. On the next morning, Lyrcus discovered the trap that his host had laid for him, when he saw Hemithea by his side: he was exceedingly angry, and upbraided Staphylus violently for his treacherous conduct; but finally, seeing that there was nothing to be done, he took off his belt and gave it to the girl, bidding her to keep it until their future offspring had come to man’s estate, so that he might possess a token by which he might be recognized, if he should ever come to his father at Caunus: and so he sailed away home. Aegialus, however, when he heard the whole story about the oracle and about Hemithea, banished him from his country; and there was then a war of great length between the partisans of Lyrcus and those of Aegialus: Hilebia was on the side of the former, for she refused to repudiate her husband. In after years, the son of Lyrcus and Hemithea, whose name was Basilus, came, when he was a grown man, to the Caunian land; and Lyrcus, now an old man, recognized him as his son, and made him ruler over his peoples.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lysianassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Sicyonian princess as the daughter of King Polybus. She married King Talaus of Argos and bore him Adrastus and Mecisteus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lysimache
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Abas, son of Melampus. She married king Talaus of Argos and bore him these children: Hippomedon, Pronax, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Macareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Locris and father to Euboea. He may be the same with Macareus, father of Megaclite who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Thebe and Locrus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Machaon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Asclepius; and the older brother of Podalirius. He and his brother led an army from Tricca in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. Machaon fathered Nicomachus and Gorgasus by Anticleia, daughter of Diocles of Pharae. His other sons were Alexanor, Sphyrus and Polemocrates.
According to Diogenes Laertius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Hermippus, in his book On Aristotle, places Machaon as the son of Asclepius, father of Nicomachus, and ancestor of Aristotle.
Both Machaon and Podalirius were highly valued surgeons and medics. In the Iliad, he was wounded and put out of action by Paris. Machaon (or his brother) healed Philoctetes' foot infection, Telephus and Menelaus, after he sustained an arrow at the hand of Pandarus, during the war. He was also supposed to possess herbs which were bestowed to his father Asclepius by Chiron, the centaur.
He was killed by Eurypylus in the tenth year of the war. He was buried in Gerenia in Messenia, where he was worshiped by the people.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Nicomachus - child
- Alexanor - child
- Sphyros - child
- Polemocrates - child
- married - Anticlea
- child - Asclepius
- child - Epione
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Macris / Nysa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of Aristaeus who reared the goddess Hera in her youth, before incurring the wrath of the goddess and being banished by her.
Macris became the nursemaid of the young goddess Hera, who was brought up in Euboea, an island off the coast of Boeotia. One day Hera was carried off by her brother Zeus who concealed themselves in Mount Cithaeron. Macris crossed over the mainland looking for her young ward, but when she attempted to search the place and in particularly the spot the two were hiding, the mountain king-god Cithaeron prevented her from doing so, lying that Zeus was taking his pleasure with Leto there, so Macris went away and Hera escaped discovery. Later Hera shared an altar with Leto in gratitude.
Some time later, Hermes or Zeus himself took the infant Dionysus and brought him to Macris, who nursed him and fed him honey. As punishment, Hera exiled Macris who fled to the island of Corcyra, where Demeter taught the Titans the art of agriculture for Macris' sake. The island was called Macris ("long") after her, and the cave she chose to dwell in later beheld the wedding and consummation of Jason and Medea, so it was called Medea's Cave thereafter.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Maeandros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-god of Karia (Caria) in Anatolia (modern Turkey).
The River Maiandros had its headwaters the highlands of southern Phrygia and, flowing west through Karia, entered the Aegean Sea opposite the town of Miletos (Miletus). The major neighbouring rivers were the Kaystros (Cayster) to the north and the Indos to the south.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Salmacis - child
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Maera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Proetus, son of Thersander, son of Sisyphus, was still a maid when she died. Otherwise, she was the mother of Locrus by Zeus. Maera's shade appeared to Odysseus when the hero visited the underworld.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Proetus
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Magnes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Thessalian prince who later on became the eponymous first king of Magnesia.
Magnes married an unnamed naiad that bore him Dictys and Polydectes. The mother and the sons later emigrated and colonized the island of Seriphos. Polydectes became king of the island while his brother Dictys, a fisherman would later receive Danae and her son Perseus. Magnes' wife as Philodice and his sons, Eurynomus and Eioneus. He also had Alector with a certain Meliboea, and added that Magnes called the town of Meliboea at the foot of mount Pelion after his wife and the country of Magnesia after his own name. Pierus, the father of Hyacinth by the Muse Clio, was also called a son of Magnes.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Makedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous ancestor of the Makedones (ancient Macedonians) according to various ancient Greek fragmentary narratives. In most versions, he appears as a native or immigrant leader from Epirus, who gave his name to Macedonia, previously called Emathia according to Strabo, which according to Marsyas of Pella was until then a part of Thrace.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Malus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of Malea.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Manes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus in Book One of Histories to have been an early king of Lydia then probably known as Maeonia (which he may be the eponym of). He was believed to have been the son of Zeus and was the father of Atys, who succeeded him as king. Atys, through Callithea, fathered Lydus, after whom the Lydian people were later named, and Tyrrhenus, after whom the Tyrrhenians were named. Later, in Book Four, Herodotus states that Manes had another son called Cotys, who, through Halie, had a son called Asies, after whom the Lydians claimed that the continent of Asia is named. Dionysius of Halicarnassus names Callirhoe, daughter of Oceanus, as the mother of Cotys by Manes, and Atys as the son of Cotys.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Manto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of the prophet Tiresias and mother of Mopsus. Tiresias was a Theban oracle who, according to tradition, was changed into a woman after striking a pair of copulating snakes with a rod, and was thereafter a priestess of Hera.
During the War of the Epigoni, a later myth relates, Manto was brought to Delphi as a war prize. Apollo made her his priestess and sent her to Colophon to found an oracle devoted to him. She had a son named Mopsus by Apollo, although by some accounts, the father of Mopsus is Rhacius, whom Manto later married. According to the Bibliotheca, she had two children by Alcmaeon, Amphilochus and Tisiphone. In an early version, Apollo instructed her to marry the first man she saw outside of Delphi (who turned out to be Rhacius). Rhacius then took her to Claros (which, like Colophon, is in western Asia Minor) and there she founded the oracle of Apollo Clarios. When she arrived, Manto wept bitter tears for her ravaged city. As they fell to the ground, the tears transformed into a spring.
Manto also appears in the myth of Niobe, the boastful queen of Thebes who degraded Leto. Manto warns her not to anger the gods and suggests she ask for Leto's forgiveness. Niobe refuses and continues to insult Leto, and consequently is punished by Apollo and Artemis.
Lampus, who tried to violate Manto on her couch, was killed by Apollo for this act.
She is one of the fortune-tellers and diviners whom Dante sees in the fourth pit of the eighth circle of the Inferno.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Marathon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 14th king of Sicyon who reigned for 20 - 30 years. His predecessor was Marathonius. During his reign, Zeus slept with Io, the daughter of Iasus, and Cecrops founded Athenai in Euboea which was also called Diada or as Euboeans called it as Orchomenon.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Marathonius
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Marathon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Marathonius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 13th king of Sicyon who reigned for 30 years. His predecessor was Orthopolis and himself was succeeded by Marathus. During his reign, Cecrops Diphyes became the first king of Attica.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Marathon - child
- child - Orthopolis
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Mariandynus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The eponymous hero of the Mariandyni tribe in Northern Anatolia. He was an Aeolian, He had several sons, of whom the eldest may have been Titias.
Mariandynus was also the name of his grandson through Titias, who was credited with composing a mourning song in honor of his brother Priolaus, killed in a battle against the Bebrycians.Life Stages: Mortal
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Marica
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph, the mother of Latinus. Latinus was fathered by Faunus, who was also occasionally referred to as the son of Marica. The sacred forest near Minturnae was dedicated to Marica. A lake nearby was also named after her.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Maron
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The hero of sweet wine. He was an experienced man in the cultivation of the vine. Maron was the son of Euanthes and grandson of Dionysus and Ariadne. As the grandson of Bacchus and the Cretan princess, Maron was nephew to Thoas, Staphylos and Eunous.
Maron was also a priest of Apollo at Ismarus and the only one spared by the hero Odysseus when he pillaged the city.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Euanthes
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Marpessa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Meda
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Phylas and mother of Antiochus by Heracles.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Medea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Megaclite
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Macareus, king of Locris and possibly the sister of Euboea. She was the mother of Thebe and Locrus by Zeus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Megapenthes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Argos. Megapenthes was the son and successor of Proetus and father of Argeus. He also had a daughter Iphianeira, who married Melampus.
Megapenthes exchanged kingdoms (Argos for Tiryns) with his cousin Perseus whom he killed much later.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Iphianeira - child
- child - Proetus
- child - Stheneboea / Antea
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Megara
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Theban princess and the first wife of the hero Heracles. Megara was the eldest daughter of Creon, King of Thebes, who was the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Oedipus. If Creon is the same figure, Megara's mother is likely Creon's wife Eurydice, and she would be the sister of Menoeceus (Megareus), Lycomedes, Haemon, and Pyrrha.
Accounts of the names and number of Megara and Heracles' children vary based on the author. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, Megara was the mother of three sons by Heracles named Therimachus, Creontiades, and Deicoon. Dinias the Argive included the three children named by Apollodorus, however, he also added a fourth named Deion. Theban poet Pindar states that Megara bore Heracles eight sons. Alternatively, the Roman mythographer Hyginus named their sons as Therimachus and Ophites.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Heracles - married
- Leipephilene - child
- child - Creon
- child - Eurydice
- partner - Iolaus
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Megareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Onchestus in Boeotia. In some myths, he was the eponymous king of Megara.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Melampus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 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 seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Iphianeira - married
- Antiphates - child
- Abas - child
- child - Amythaon
- child - Idomene
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Melaneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The founder of Oechalia (Oikhalia), variously located in Thessaly, Messenia or Euboea and also king of the Dryopes.
Melaneus was a noted archer, inheriting Apollo's archery skills. Apollo, his father, carried his bride-to-be Stratonice away from her father's home to marry his son. Stratonice was a Calydonian princess, the daughter of King Porthaon by his wife Laothoe. By her, Melaneus became the father of Eurytus, the famous archer whose reputation overshadowed his father, and of Ambracia, eponym of Ambracia in Epirus. Alternatively, Melaneus was the husband of Oechalia (merely the eponym of the kingdom he was assigned to by Perieres).Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Stratonice - married
- Eurytus - child
- Ambracia - child
- child - Apollo
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Melanion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Arcadian prince who married Atalanta, the fearsome huntress who killed the Calydonian boar. In ancient sources Melanion is often conflated with Atalanta's husband Hippomenes, but is not entirely interchangeable with him, and the two likely originated from independent traditions.
Melanion avoided marriage and withdrew to the mountains, hunting wild game with nets he wove and never returning home out of hatred for women. The man who marries Atalanta in spite of her wilfully avoiding marriage, although his way of wooing the maiden is often overlooked by ancient testimonies. As a hunter who avoided marriage, Melanion can be seen as a male counterpart to Atalanta. (lavender marriage)Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Amphidamas
- married - Atalanta
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Melanippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Amazon, sister of Hippolyta, Penthesilea and Antiope, daughter of Ares. Heracles captured her and demanded Hippolyte's girdle in exchange for her freedom. Hippolyte complied and Heracles let her go. Some say that it was Melanippe whom Theseus abducted and married. Yet others relate that she was killed by Telamon.
Relationships:
- child - Ares
- child - Otrera
- turned - The Amazons
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Melanippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Ares and Triteia, daughter of the sea-god Triton, founder of the city of Tritaia, which he named after his own mother.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Melantheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Tvhe daughter of Deucalion. According to a scholium on Euripides's Orestes, she was the mother of Melainis by Hyamus.
Life Stages: Tree III, Mortal
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Melantho
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: An Argive queen as the wife of King Criasus. She was the mother of Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea.
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Meleager
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A hero in Greek mythology, venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia. He was famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Homer, and was also mentioned as one of the Argonauts.
Meleager married Cleopatra, daughter of Idas and Marpessa. They had a daughter, Polydora, who became the bride of Protesilaus, who left her bed on their wedding-night to join the expedition to Troy.Life Stages: Mortal
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Melia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Oceanid Nymph
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Meliteus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Zeus and the nymph Othreis. He was celebrated as the founder of the city of Melitaea in Thessaly.
Fearing that Hera would discover the affair, his mother abandoned him in a forest. Zeus, however, ensured that bees cared for and nourished the infant, allowing him to survive and grow. He was eventually discovered by his maternal half-brother Phagrus, a son of Apollo and Othreis, who found him while pasturing his sheep. Marvelling at the child's miraculous nourishment by the bees, took him home and raised him with care. Phagrus gave him the name Meliteus because he had been nourished by bees. Phagrus also recalled an oracle that he was destined to save a kinsman reared by bees.
Upon reaching adulthood, Meliteus was said to have become a noble and capable leader who ruled over many people in the region. He was later believed to have founded the town of Melitaea in Phthia, which was named after him.Life Stages: Mortal
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Mendeis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Thracian nymph who became the mother of Pallene by King Sithon. Her husband had the habit of killing one by one the suitors of her daughter. Mendeis might have been associated with the city of Mende.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Menoeceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Creon - child
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Menoetius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: From Opus was one of the Argonauts, and son of Actor and Aegina. He was the father of Patroclus and Myrto. Among the settlers of Locris, Menoetius was chiefly honored by King Opus II, son of Zeus and Protogeneia.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- Philomela / Periopis - married
- Patroclus - child
- child - Actor
- child - Aegina
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Merope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Thersander - child
- married - Sisyphus
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Merops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A resident of Miletus and father of Pandareus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Pandareus - child
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Merópē / Aërō
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The story of Oenopion's daughter differs somewhat in different ancient sources. The hunter Orion married a lovely woman called Side and when she was punished by Hera, he walked to Chios over the Aegean, and Oenopion welcomed him with a banquet.
Merope was beloved by Orion but he did not have the approval of Oenopion. Orion got drunk and slept with or assaulted Merope. In revenge, Oenopion stabbed out Orion's eyes, and then threw him off the island.Life Stages: Mortal
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Messapus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Ninth king of Sicyon in the Peloponnesus according to classical Greek mythography. Writers quoting Castor of Rhodes stated that he reigned over Sicyon for 47 years following Leucippus, and before Eratus. However, Pausanias omitted this king Messapus, alleging that the throne passed directly from Leucippus, who had no male heir, to his grandson Peratus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Leucippus
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Methe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess-nymph of drunkenness, a companion of the god Dionysos. She was the wife of Staphylos (Bunch of Grapes) and mother of Botrys (Grapes).
Spirit and personification of drunkenness. She entered the retinue of Dionysus and was mentioned in association with the god or other companions of his. Methe was the daughter of Dionysus in some accounts.
The family held court in their palace at Assyria. They received Dionysus as guest and held a banquet in his honor. Staphylus died a sudden death the next morning after the feast; to console his wife and son, Dionysus named grape bunches after Staphylus, drunkenness after Methe, and grapes after Botrys.Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- child - Dionysus
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Methone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A bastard daughter of King Oeneus of Calydon by a concubine. She was the eponymous heroine who gave her name to Methone in Messenia. Wife of King Poeas of Meliboea and mother of Philoctetes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Philoctetes - child
- child - Oeneus
- married - Poeas
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Metiadusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Metion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Athenian prince as the son of King Erechtheus and Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Eupalamus - child
- child - Erechtheus
- child - Praxithea
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Metis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Poros - child
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Metope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
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Miletus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The eponymous mythical founder of the city of Miletus.
Miletus married either Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria.
In the tradition in which his mother was Acacallis, the daughter of Minos, fearing her father's wrath, exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child. He was loved by both Minos and Sarpedon, but showed preference for the latter, and this became the reason why Sarpedon was expelled from Crete by his brother. Following the advice of Sarpedon, Miletus with an army also left Crete for Samos, then moved to Caria and became the mythical founder and eponym of the city of Miletus. Myths further relate that the hero Miletus founded the city only after slaying Asterius, son of Anax; and that the region known as Miletus was originally called 'Anactoria'.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Minos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Minyas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Clytodora - partner
- Periclymene - child
- Elara - child
- Phanosyra - partner
- Orchomenus - child
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Mopsus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Celebrated seer and diviner, was the son of Manto, daughter of the mythic seer Tiresias, and Apollo himself, the oracular god. Greeks of the Classical age accepted Mopsus as a historical figure, though the anecdotes concerning him bridge legend and myth.
Mopsus officiated at the altars of Apollo at Klaros, which he founded; at Klaros the tradition was that he had been the son of a daughter of the seer Teiresias named Manto, literally "seeress". His unerring wisdom and discernment gave rise to the ancient Greek proverb, "more certain than Mopsus". He distinguished himself at the siege of Thebes; but he was held in particular veneration at the court of Amphilochus at Colophon on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor, adjacent to Caria.
Having been consulted, on one occasion, by Amphilochus, who wished to know what success would attend his arms in a war which he was going to undertake, he predicted the greatest calamities; but Calchas, who had been the soothsayer of the Greeks during the Trojan War, promised the greatest successes. Amphilochus followed the opinion of Calchas, but the prediction of Mopsus was fully verified. This had such an effect upon Calchas that he died soon after.Life Stages: Mortal
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Myrmidon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Myrtilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A divine hero and son of Hermes. Myrtilus was the charioteer of King Oenomaus of Pisa in Elis, on the northwest coast of the Peloponnesus.
On the eve of the fateful horse race that would decide the marriage between Pelops and Hippodamia, Myrtilus was approached by Pelops (or in some accounts, by Hippodamia) who wanted him to hinder the efforts of his master, Oenomaus, to win the race, since Oenomaus killed suitors who lost the race to him, and he had always won up to then. Myrtilus was offered as bribe the privilege of the first night with Hippodamia.
Myrtilus, who loved Hippodamia himself but was too afraid to ask her hand of her father, agreed and sabotaged the king's chariot by replacing the bronze linchpins with fake ones made of bees' wax. In the ensuing accident Oenomaus lost his life, cursing Myrtilus as he died. Shortly thereafter Myrtilus tried to seduce Hippodamia, who ran crying to Pelops, although Myrtilus said this was the bargain. Enraged, Pelops murdered Myrtilus by casting him into the sea off the east coast of the Peloponnesus, which was later named the Myrtoan Sea in honor of the hero. His body was later recovered and brought in the temple of Hermes where it was honored with annual sacrifices. Some say that Myrtilus was transformed into the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer.
As Myrtilus died, he cursed Pelops. This curse would haunt future generations of Pelops' family, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, Orestes and Chrysippus. Also, the burial place of Myrtilus was a taraxippus in Olympia.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Narcaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Physcoa was said to have consorted with Dionysus and to have had by him a son Narcaeus. When Narcaeus grew up, it is related, he conquered many neighboring peoples and gained a lot of power; he was also credited with founding the sanctuary of Athena Narcaea. Narcaeus and Physcoa were also reported to be the first people to pay homage to Dionysus as a god.
Pausanias mentions that various honors were paid to Physcoa, and these included making her the eponym of the ritual dance.Life Stages: Mortal
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Naubolus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Pylon, king of Oechalia. The latter's daughter Antiope was the mother, by Eurytus, of Iole, Didaeon, Deioneus, Toxeus, Clytius, Molion and another Iphitos, of whom the last two are also counted among the Argonauts.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Pylon - child
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Naxos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo and Acacallis, daughter of Minos. His brothers could be Cydon, Amphithemis, Oaxes, Miletus, Phylacides and Phylander who were called offspring of Apollo and Acacallis.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Neaera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree III, on original, Mortal
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Nebrophonus / Thoas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Jason and Hypsipyle, and a grandson of the Lemnian king Thoas, and the twin brother of Euneus. Thoas and Euneus took part in the funeral games of the Nemean king Lycurgus' infant son Opheltes, after which they succeeded in rescuing their mother Hypsipyle from her servitude.
When the women of Lemnos massacred the Lemnian men, Hypsipyle secretly helped her father escape from the island. She was made queen of Lemnos, and received Jason and the Argonauts when they visited the island. The Argonauts stayed for a while and mated with the women there.Life Stages: Mortal
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Neis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: is a princess from the city-kingdom of Thebes and the namesake of the Neitian Gate, one of the seven gates of Thebes. Neis is the daughter of either one of Thebes’ twin kings, Amphion and Zethus, by their wives Niobe or Aëdon respectively.
The Theban princess Neis gave her name to the Neitian Gate of seven-gate Thebes.[7] The traveller Pausanias also confirms the tale, but refers to Neis as a boy rather than a girl.
Neis' mother Aëdon was jealous of Niobe's vast progeny compared to her own, so she tried to kill Niobe's firstborn Amaleus, but accidentally killed her own son Itylus instead. In the versions where Neis is included in the family of Zethus, Aëdon is a direct parallel of the goddess Leto; both mothers of two children, a boy and a girl, who feel threatened by Niobe's many children and punish the queen by harming said children.
If a daughter of Niobe and Amphion, then she perished along with all her brothers and sisters when the Olympians Artemis and Apollo shot all the Niobids dead in punishment for their mother boasting that she was a better mother than Leto on account of the number of children she produced.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Amphion and Zethus
- child - Aëdon
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Neleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Argonaut, King, Mortal
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Neoptolemus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of the mythical warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros. He became the progenitor of the ruling dynasty of the Molossians of ancient Epirus. In a reference to his pedigree, Neoptolemus was sometimes called Achillides (from his father Achilles' name).
Life Stages: Mortal
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Nereus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Sea God
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Nessus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: river-god of the river Nestus (also called Nessus or Nesus) in Thrace. He is the son of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and the father of the naiad Callirrhoe who mothered Biston, Odomas and Edonus by Ares. Nestus is possibly the father of another Bistonian naiad Thronia, mother of Abderus by Poseidon.
Life Stages: Potamoi
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Nicaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Nikaia) Naiad-nymph of the springs or fountain of the Greek colony of Nikaia in Bithynia (north-western Anatolia) or else the goddess of the adjacent lake Askanios (Ascanius). She was a devotee of the goddess Artemis who was seduced by Dionysos with the aid of Hypnos the god of sleep.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Nicippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pisatian princess as daughter of King Pelops and Hippodamia, daughter of the earlier king Oenomaus. She became queen of Mycenae after marrying King Sthenelus by whom she bore Alcyone, Medusa (Astymedusa) and Eurystheus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurystheus - child
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pelops
- married - Sthenelus
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Nicomachus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Anticlia and Machaon, son of Asclepius. According to Diogenes Laertius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Hermippus, in his book On Aristotle, places Machaon as the son of Asclepius, father of Nicomachus, and ancestor of Aristotle.
The father of Aristotle. The Suda states that he was a doctor descended from Nicomachus, son of Machaon, son of Asclepius, the god of Medicine.Life Stages: Mortal
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Nilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of 3,000 river gods, who represent the god of the Nile river itself. Nilus is the son of the water gods Oceanus and Tethys.
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
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Niobe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Niobe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the wife of Amphion and the sister of Pelops and Broteas. Niobe is mentioned by Achilles in Homer's Iliad, which relates her hubris, for which she was punished by Leto, who sent Apollo and Artemis to slay all of her children, after which her children lay unburied for nine days while she abstained from food. Once the gods had interred the slain, Niobe retreated to her native Sipylus, "where Nymphs dance around the River Acheloos, and though turned to stone, she broods over the sorrows sent by the Gods". Later writers asserted that Niobe was wedded to Amphion, one of the twin founders of Thebes, where there was a single sanctuary where the twin founders were venerated, but no shrine to Niobe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Amphion and Zethus
- child - Tantalus
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Nisos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Nomios
Status: alive
Biography: They presided over hunting, herding and grazing respectively. Nomios "Of the Pastures" Nomios' mother was the dryad Penelope. He was an excellent shepherd, a seducer of nymphs, and musician upon the shepherd's pipes. Agreus and Nomios joined the dozen sons of the god Pan to help Dionysus in his wars in India.
Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
- child - Hermes
- child - Penelopeia
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Nonacris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of King Lycaon of Arcadia and mother of Callisto, from whom the town of Nonacris was believed to have derived its name. From this town Hermes and Evander are called Nonacriates and Nonacrius, in the general sense of Arcadian.
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
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Norax
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was said to be the son of the god Hermes and Erytheia, the daughter of Geryon. Norax appears in the writings of Pausanias and Solinus. According to Pausanias, Norax led a group of Iberians to Sardinia, where they founded the city of Nora, which was considered the first city on the island. Solinus adds that Norax came from the city of Tartessos in southern Iberia. His expedition was one of several mythological colonization traditions associated with Sardinia, alongside figures such as Sardus, Aristaeus, and Iolaus.
Life Stages: Tree III, Mortal
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Numitor
Status: alive
Biography: King of Alba Longa was the maternal grandfather of Rome's founder and first king, Romulus, and his twin brother Remus. He was the son of Procas, descendant of Aeneas the Trojan, and father of the twins' mother, Rhea Silvia, and Lausus.
In 794 BC Procas died and was meant to be succeeded by Numitor. Instead he was overthrown and removed from the kingdom by his brother, Amulius, who had no respect for his father's will or his brother's seniority. Amulius also murdered Numitor's sons, in an effort to remove power from his brother for himself. Rhea Silvia was made a Vestal Virgin by Amulius, rendering her unable to have children on pain of death; however, according to myth, she was forcibly impregnated by the god Mars. Romulus and Remus overthrew Amulius and reinstated Numitor as king in 752 BC.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Lausus - child
- Rhea Silvia - child
- child - Procas
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Nyctimus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Arcadian prince and the youngest of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon. Nyctimus was the father of Periphetes, the ancestor of Psophis, one of the possible eponyms for the city of Psophis. This can be explained by the following genealogical link; Nyctimus, Periphetes, Parthaon, Aristas, Erymanthus, Arrhon and Psophis.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Nymphs
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: on original
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Oaxes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The founder of the town of Oaxus within Crete, a place known to Servius and Herodotus. He was the son of the god Apollo by Acacallis, daughter of Minos. Apollonius wrote in Argonautica of Crete being the Oaxian land. Vibius Sequester wrote the river Oaxes gave its name (to the city Oaxia). The river Oaxes was, according to Baudrand, very cold.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Ocalea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Odysseus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 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 and other works in that same epic cycle. As the son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus, Acusilaus, and Telegonus, Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and he is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Ancient Greek: μῆτις, romanized: mêtis, lit. 'cunning intelligence'). He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oebalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oeneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oenomaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oenopion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary king of Chios, and was said to have brought winemaking to the island, which was assigned to him by Rhadamanthys. Oenopion was the son of the Cretan princess Ariadne by Dionysus. He was born on Lemnos. His brothers were Thoas, Staphylus, Latromis, Euanthes, and Tauropolis.
By Queen Helike, Oenopion had one daughter, called either Merópē, or Aërō. He also had several sons, namely Melas, Talus, Maron, Euanthes, Salagus and Athamas, who all sailed with him to Chios from Crete.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Helike - married
- Merópē / Aërō - child
- child - Ariadne
- child - Dionysus
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Oicles
Status: alive
Biography: Was the father of the seer Amphiaraus. He accompanied Heracles on his campaign against Troy. According to Homer's Odyssey, Oicles was the son of Antiphates, who was the son of Melampus. Diodorus Siculus adds that Oicles' mother was Zeuxippe, the daughter Hippocoon.
Oicles accompanied Heracles in his campaign against Troy. Upon arriving at the Troad, Oicles was put in charge of guarding the expedition's ships, while Heracles left with the main force to attack the city. Oicles' company was attacked by Laomedon the king of Troy, who was attempting to burn the invaders ships. Oicles was killed by Laomedon, but his men were able to save the ships by taking them out to sea.
By some accounts, Oicles lived for a time in Arcadia. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, after the capture of Thebes by the Epigoni, Oicles was visited there by his grandson Alcmaeon, the son of Ampiaraus.[9] Pausanias reports seeing what was said to be the tomb of Oicles near Megalopolis in Arcadia.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphiaraus - child
- child - Antiphates
- married - Hypermnestra
- child - Zeuxippe
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Okyrrhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the river Kaikos (Caecus) in Teuthrania (north-western Anatolia). She was loved by the god Hermes and bore him a son named Kaikos for whom the local river was named.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Olenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Vulcan and father of Helice and Aex, two nurses of infant Jove. A city in Aulis was named for him.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Helice - child
- Aex - child
- child - Hephaestus
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Oncius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Apollo and a ruler over Ónkeion (Ὄγκειον), a region of Arcadia adjacent to Thelpusa, as well as eponym of a city Oncae. He owned a herd of horses, in which Demeter tried to hide from Poseidon's advances, changing herself into a mare. Poseidon did mate with her in the shape of a stallion, which resulted in the birth of the fantastic horse Arion. Oncius kept Arion and later gave him away to Heracles as the latter was starting a military campaign against Elis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Apollo
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Orchomenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Minyas and Phanosyra. He succeeded to Minyas' power and had his domain, the Boeotian Orchomenus, named after himself. He received Hyettus who had fled Argos over the murder of Molurus, and assigned to him a tract of land. According to one source, Orchomenus died without issue, and his kingdom was handed over to Presbon, a son of Phrixus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oreaside
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ormenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Ctesius, king of the isle of Syra. Ctesius is the father of Eumaeus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Ctesius - child
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Orsilochus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of the river god Alpheus and Telegone, daughter of Pharis. He was a resident of Pherae and its king after succeeding his grandfather to the throne. It was at his home that Odysseus met Iphitos the son of Eurytus. Orsilochus had at least one son Diocles, his successor, and at least two daughters: Dorodoche, said by some to be the wife of Icarius, and Medusa, the wife of Polybus of Corinth.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Orsinome
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She married Lapithes, son of Apollo and Stilbe, by whom she became the mother of Phorbas, Periphas, and Diomede.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Orthopolis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 12th king of Sicyon who reigned for 63 years. Orthopolis was the son and heir of King Plemnaeus, descendant of the city's founder Apis. He was the father of Chrysorthe, mother by Apollo of Coronus, the successor to the Sicyonian throne.
Before Orthopolis was born, all the children borne to his father Plemnaeus by his mother died the very first time they cried. Later on, the goddess Demeter who took pity on the unfortunate king came to Aegialea (ancient name of Sicyon) in the guise of a strange woman and reared for him his son Orthopolis. In some account of the myth, the crown of Sicyon was passed to Marathonius instead of Coronus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Chrysorthe - child
- Marathonius - child
- child - Plemnaeus
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Othreis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Oreiad-nymph of Mount Othrys in Malis, northern Greece. She was loved by the gods Zeus and Apollon and bore Meliteus to one and Phagros to the other. When Meliteus was born, Othreis, in fear of Hera's wrath, exposed the child. The boy, however, was nurtured by bees and thus survived. He was soon found by his half-brother Phager, who was pasturing his sheep in the neighborhood. Impressed with the child being nurtured in such a marvelous way, as well as having reckoned a prophecy that told him to take care of his relative nourished by bees, Phager adopted and raised Meliteus. When Meliteus grew up, he founded the city Melite in Phthia.
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Otrera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The founder and first Queen of the Amazons; the consort of Ares and mother of Hippolyta and Penthesilea. She is credited with being the founder of the shrine of Artemis in Ephesus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Ares - partner
- Penthesilea - child
- Hippolyta - child
- Antiope - child
- Melanippe - child
- child - Ares
- child - Harmonia
- turned - The Amazons
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Ourea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: During his stay in Troy, Apollo had a lover named Ourea, who was a nymph and daughter of Poseidon. Together they had a son named Ileus, whom Apollo loved dearly.
Relationships:
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Oxylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son for Ares and Protogeneia, daughter of Calydon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Ares
- child - Protogeneia
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Palaestra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of the sport of wrestling. She was a daughter of the athlete-god Hermes.
Life Stages: Daimon, Rustic
Relationships:
- child - Hermes
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Palaimonius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Argonuat who had a mobility impairment, son of Hephaestus.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hephaestus
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Pallene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Macedonian or Thracian princess, the daughter of King Sithon who ruled over Odomantice, an ancient region right where Macedonia meets Thrace. Pallene saw many of her potential suitors die at the hands of her father, who decreed that only whoever beat him in fight would wed Pallene and rule the kingdom, until one day the life of the suitor she was in love with was at stake, forcing her to take the situation in her own hands. In other stories, she consorts with Dionysus, the god of festivity and wine.
Pallene was the daughter of King Sithon by a nymph named Mendeis. She has a sister named Rhoetea. Pallene's homeland was situated in either Macedonia or Thrace, regions in southeast Europe which overlapped in some areas. Sithon was said to be king of Odomantice or the Thracian Cherronesus, also known as Sithonia (the modern Gallipoli peninsula).Life Stages: Mortal
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Pan
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of shepherds and hunters, and of the meadows and forests of the mountain wilds. His unseen presence aroused panic in those who traversed his realm.
Pan idled in the rugged countryside of Arkadia (Arcadia), playing his panpipes and chasing Nymphs. One of these, Pitys, fled his advances and was transformed into a mountain-pine, the god's sacred tree. Another, Syrinx, escaped but was turned into a clump of reeds from which Pan crafted his pipes. And a third, Ekho (Echo), was cursed to fade away for spurning the god, leaving behind just a voice to repeat his mountain cries.
Pan was depicted as a man with the horns, legs and tail of a goat, a thick beard, snub nose and pointed ears. He often appears in scenes of the company of Dionysos.
In the classical age the Greeks associated his name with the word pan meaning "all". However its true origin lay in an old Arcadian word for rustic.
Pan was closely identified with several other rustic deities including Aristaios (Aristaeus), the shepherd-god of northern Greece who shared the god's titles of Agreus (Hunter) and Nomios (Shepherd), the pipe-playing Phrygian satyr Marsyas who challenged Apollon to a musical contest, and Aigipan (Aegipan), the goat-fish god of the constellation Capricorn. Sometimes Pan was multiplied into a host of Panes, or a triad of gods named Agreus, Nomios, and Phorbas.
In Roman religion and myth, Pan was frequently identified with Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea, sometimes identified as Fauna; he was also closely associated with Silvanus, due to their similar relationships with woodlands, and Inuus, a vaguely defined deity also sometimes identified with Faunus.Life Stages: Rustic, Saytr
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Panacea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of cures and panaceas--in the form of medicines, salves and other curatives. She was an attendant of her father, the medicine-god Asklepios (Asclepius). Her sisters included Iaso (Curing) and Hygeia (Good Health).
Life Stages: Olympian
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Pandareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Is the son of Merops and a nymph. His residence is usually given as either Ephesus or Miletus, though he is also associated with the island of Crete. Pandareus married Harmothoë and had several daughters by her before perishing for stealing a sacred dog that belonged to Zeus, king of the gods.
is the son of Merops and a nymph. His residence is usually given as either Ephesus or Miletus, though he is also associated with the island of Crete. Pandareus married Harmothoë and had several daughters by her before perishing for stealing a sacred dog that belonged to Zeus, king of the Antoninus Liberalis associated Pandareus with Ephesus, also on the Anatolian coast.
By his wife Harmothoë Pandareus was the father of three girls; Aëdon (the wife of Zethus), Cleothera, and Merope.[4] According to Pausanias, the last two were called Cameiro and Clytia. In another version, Cleothera and Merope are omitted in favour of Chelidon and an unnamed son, born to a wife whose name is not confirmed to be Harmothoë.
Pandareus was said to have been favored by the goddess Demeter, who conferred upon him the benefit of never suffering from indigestion, however much food he should eat.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pandion I
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pandion II
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pandora
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly. She was named after her maternal grandmother, the more infamous Pandora.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pannonius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Autarieus of the Pannonians
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Parthenopaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Seven against Thebes, a native of Arcadia, described as young and outstandingly good-looking, but at the same time arrogant, ruthless and over-confident, although an unproblematic ally for the Argives.
Hyginus writes that he was left exposed by Atalanta on Mount Parthenius ("virginal") in Arcadia, so that she could conceal the fact that she was not a virgin anymore; the name Parthenopaeus is accordingly interpreted by Hyginus as "seemingly-virginal" or the like, as if referring to the fact that his mother was pretending to still be a virgin. He was subsequently rescued by a shepherd, along with Telephus, the son of Auge and Heracles, who had been abandoned on the same mountain, and the two boys became good friends. Parthenopaeus went with Telephus to Teuthrania, where he helped him repulse Idas's invasion of the kingdom of Teuthras.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Parthenope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Lelegian princess as daughter of King Ancaeus of Samos and Samia, daughter of Meander, one of the river gods. She consorted with Apollo and had a son Lycomedes.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Pasiphaë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Sky God
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Pasithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the younger Kharites (Charites) and the wife of Hypnos, god of sleep. She was probably the goddess of rest and relaxation.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- child - Dionysus
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Patroclus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Greek hero of the Trojan War and close companion of the hero Achilles in Greek mythology. Patroclus is an important character in Homer's Iliad. Although Homer does not explicitly describe Patroclus and Achilles as lovers, later ancient authors often interpreted their relationship in this manner.
Born in Opus, Patroclus was the son of the Argonaut Menoetius. When he was a child, he was exiled from his hometown and was adopted by Peleus, king of Phthia. There, he was raised alongside Peleus's son, Achilles. When the tide of the Trojan War turned against the Achaeans, Patroclus, disguised as Achilles and defying his orders to retreat in time, led the Myrmidons in battle against the Trojans and was eventually killed by the Trojan prince, Hector. Enraged by Patroclus's death, Achilles ended his refusal to fight, resulting in significant Greek victories.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- Achilles - married
- child - Menoetius
- child - Philomela / Periopis
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Peisidice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
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Peitho
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of persuasion, seduction and charming speech. She was a handmaiden and herald of the goddess Aphrodite.
Peitho was usually depicted as a woman with her hand raised in the act of persuasion or fleeing from the scene of a rape. Her attributes were a ball of twine and a dove.Life Stages: Daimon
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Pelasgus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Also known as Gelanor, was an Inachid king of Argos. Pelasgus was the son of Sthenelas, son of Crotopus, son of Agenor, son of Triopas.
Pelasgus welcomed Danaus and the Danaïdes when they fled from Aegyptus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Sthenelus
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Peleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Argonaut, Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pelopia / Pyrene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Cycnus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Cycnus - child
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Pelops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
- Hippodamia - married
- Astydameia - child
- Nicippe - child
- Pittheus - child
- Alcathous - child
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Penelope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Naiad Periboea . The mythological Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence.
She has only one son with Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War. She waits twenty years for Odysseus's return, during which time she devises various cunning strategies to delay marrying any of the 108 suitors (led by Antinous and including Agelaus, Amphinomus, Ctessippus, Demoptolemus, Elatus, Euryades, Eurymachus and Peisander).Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- Odysseus - married
- Telemachus - child
- child - Icarius
- child - Periboea
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Penelopeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Epimelid-nymph of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia (southern Greece) who was the mother by Hermes of the goat-legged god Pan. Her father Dryopos "Oak-Face" was probably the craggy, old god of the mountain. The nymph's name was perhaps derived from the Greek words pênê and lopas meaning "needle and thread," or else from pan and lopos "to peel-away-all"--which might suggest the shearing of sheep or the skinning of animals. The latter would certainly be an appropriate name for the mother of a god of hunting and flocks.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph
Relationships:
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Peneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Thessalian river god. The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths,[2] and three daughters, Menippe (mother of Phrastor by Pelasgus), Daphne, and Stilbe. Peneus also had a son Atrax with Bura, and Andreus with an unknown consort. Tricce (or Tricca), eponym of the city Tricca, was mentioned as his daughter. In later accounts, Peneus was credited to be the father of Chrysogenia who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Thissaeus. In later accounts, Peneus was credited to be the father of Chrysogenia who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Thissaeus.
Life Stages: Tree III, Potamoi
Relationships:
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Penia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of poverty and need. She was a companion of Amekhania (Want of Rescource) and Ptokheia (Beggary). Her opposite number were Ploutos (Plutus) (Wealth) and Euthenia (Prosperity).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Penthesilea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Melanippe. She assisted Troy in the Trojan War, during which she was killed by Achilles or Neoptolemus.
Relationships:
- child - Ares
- child - Otrera
- turned - The Amazons
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Peparethus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of the island of Peparethos (Greek Aegean). He was one of the many sons of Dionysos and Ariadne.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Peratus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Also called Eratus (Ἔρατος means "lovely"), was the 10th king of Sicyon who reigned for 46 years. Peratus was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Calchinia, daughter of King Leucippus.[2] He was father of Plemnaeus who succeeded him to the throne of Aegialea (former name of Sicyon). Peratus' grandfather, King Leucippus, brought him up and at the latter's death handed over the kingdom to him. However, in some accounts, the crown of Sicyon was passed to Messapus before being inherited by Eratus .
Relationships:
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Perdix
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: In some sources, a nephew and student of Daedalus in Greek mythology, claimed to have invented the saw and the compass. In other sources, Perdix was the name of Daedalus's sister, and her inventor son was named Talos, Kalos, or Attalus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Talos / Kalos / Attalus - child
- child - Alcippe
- child - Eupalamus
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Periboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad, wife of Icarius, mother of Penelope, Perilaus, Aletes, Damasippus, Imeusimus and Thoas,
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Periboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Okeanid-nymph wife of the Titan Lelantos and the mother of Aura, goddess of the breeze.
She and her husband may have been associated with the Lelantian plain of Euboia (Euboea). Nonnus however locates their daughter in Phrygia.
Periboia's name means "Surrounding Cattle" from the Greek words peri- "around" and bous "cattle"--which perhaps suggests she was a nymph of pastureland or a small stream.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
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Periboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olenian daughter of Hipponous and mother of Tydeus and possibly Melanippus by Oeneus. She was sent by his father to Oeneus because she was seduced by Hippostratus, son of Amarynceus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Periclymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Minyan princess as the daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus. She became the mother of Admetus, Lycurgus, Eidomene (wife of Amythaon), Periopis (mother of Patroclus) and Antigona (mother of Asterius), by King Pheres of Pherae.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Philomela / Periopis - child
- child - Clytodora
- child - Minyas
- married - Pheres
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Perimele
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Amythaon. She and Antion, son of Periphas, were the possible parents of Ixion.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Periphas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Lapithes and Orsinome in Thessaly. He consorted with Astyagyia, daughter of Hypseus, and had by her eight sons, of whom the eldest, Antion was a possible father of Ixion with Perimela.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Periphetes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the several bandits encountered and defeated by the hero Theseus on his way to Athens. Periphetes would roam the roads and attack and rob travellers before killing them with his club.
Periphetes dwelt in the region around Epidaurus, and would attack and kill passers-by with his large bronze club, earning the nickname 'Clubman' (Corynetes. In one version he had a leg deformity, forcing him to use an iron club with which he dispatched travellers.
Finally, Theseus had to traverse the area on his way from his hometown Troezen to Athens and ran into the bandit, the first of deadly foes he encountered after leaving Troezen. Periphetes tried to attack him but the hero wrestled him and slew him. He then took the dead Periphetes' club to use from now on, as Heracles had done with the skin of the Nemean lion.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Anticlea
- child - Hephaestus
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Pero
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Princess of Pylos. Pero was the daughter of King Neleus and Chloris, daughter of the Minyan king Amphion of Orchomenus. She was the wife of her cousin Bias, and by him, bore her sons including Areius, Leodocus, and Talaus. In some accounts, her sons were called Aretus and Perialces. Pero had a daughter named Alphesiboea who married King Pelias of Iolcus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Perseus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
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Petraeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Carystus (son of Chiron) and father of Zarex, adopted father of Anius.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Phagrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Apollo and the nymph Othreis.
While pasturing his sheep, Phagrus happened upon the child Meliteus, his step-brother, the son of Zeus and Othreis, who had been exposed in a wood by his mother out of fear of Hera. Phagrus marveled at how well fed the child was and noticed that bees were nourishing him. Phagrus gathered the child up and took him home. He reared him with great care and named him Meliteus, a name derived from the fact that the child had been nourished by bees. In doing so, Phagrus recalled an oracle in which the god had once told him that he would be the one to save someone of the same kin who had been reared by bees.
Through Phagrus's actions, Meliteus survived and was raised to adulthood. Meliteus grow into a man of nobility, later ruling over many people of the region and founding the city of Melitaea (Thessaly) in Phthia.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Phanos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Argonaut from the island of Thasos (Greek Aegean). He was a son of Dionysos and Ariadne.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phanosyra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Orchomenus - child
- partner - Minyas
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Pharis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Hermes and the Danaid Phylodámeia (Φυλοδάμεια), and founder of Pharae in Messene. Pharis had one daughter, Telegone, who consorted with the river god Alpheius and had by him a son Ortilochus (Orsilochus), who in his turn became father of Diocles, and Diocles had twin sons Crethon and Orsilochus, who fought at Troy and were killed by Aeneas.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Telegone - child
- child - Hermes
- child - Phylodámeia
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Phaunos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: When driving the cattle of Geryon through
Italy, Herakles was offered hospitality by
king Phaunos, who was son of Hermes and
used to sacrifice his guests to his parent.
But as he attacked Herakles he was killed.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hermes
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Phemonoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Greek poet of the ante-Homeric period. She was said to have been the daughter of Apollo, his first priestess at Delphi,[2] or of his possible son Delphus, and the inventor of the hexameter verses, a type of poetic metre.
In some studies, the phrase "know thyself" (γνῶθι σεαυτόν), found inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, has been attributed to her. Some writers seem to have placed her at Delos instead of Delphi; and Servius identifies her with the Cumaean Sibyl. The tradition which ascribed to her the invention of the hexameter, was by no means uniform; Pausanias, for example, as quoted above, calls her the first who used it, but in another passage he quotes an hexameter distich, which was ascribed to the Peleiades, who lived before Phemonoe: the traditions respecting the invention of the hexameter are collected by Fabricius. There were poems which went under the name of Phemonoe, like the old religious poems which were ascribed to Orpheus, Musaeus, and the other mythological bards.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pheno
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Athenian woman and daughter of Clytius. She married Lamedon, king of Sicyon, and bore him a daughter Zeuxippe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pheres
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Cretheus and Tyro, and the brother of Aeson and Amythaon. In the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus, he is said to be the founder of Pherae in Thessaly. In the Fabulae, he is said to be the father of Admetus by Periclymene. In addition to Admetus, Apollodorus calls Lycurgus, Idomene, and Periopis children of Pheres.
According to the Bibliotheca, a 2nd-century AD work by the Greek mythographer Apollodurs, Pheres is the son of Cretheus, the founder of Iolcus, and his wife Tyro. He is given two brothers, Aeson and Amythaon.
Pheres marries Periclymene, a daughter of Minyas, by whom he becomes the father of Admetus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Periclymene - married
- Philomela / Periopis - child
- child - Cretheus
- child - Tyro
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Pherespondus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The satyr herald of Dionysus during the Indian War. In secret union, Hermes fathered him, Lycus and Pronomus to Iphthime, daughter of Dorus. Eiraphiotes (i.e. Dionysus) entrusted to the three satyr brothers the dignity of the staff of the heavenly herald which their father was the source of wisdom. Pherespondus was ordered by Dionysus to be bear the message to Deriades to surrender or to fight the god.
Life Stages: Saytr
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Philammon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An excellent musician, a talent he received from his father Apollo.
Philammon was unnaturally beautiful and thus, one of the nymphs (Argiope) seduced the youth and became pregnant. But Philammon refused to take her into his house as his wife and for being ashamed of the pregnancy, the girl left the Peloponnese and came to the Akte (shore) where she gave birth to a boy, Thamyris.
Philammon was said to have established the tradition of the hymns celebrating the births of Artemis and Apollo, written by himself, being performed by choruses of girls at Delphi. He was the second winner of the most ancient singing contest at Delphi, after Chrysothemis and before his son Thamyris. He was the second winner of the most ancient singing contest at Delphi, after Chrysothemis and before his son Thamyris. He was also reported to have been among the Argonauts.Life Stages: Tree III, Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Apollo
- child - Chione / Philonis
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Philoctetes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Methone. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War. He came into possession of the bow and arrows of Heracles after assisting the hero in ending the agony of the shirt of Nessus—Philoctetes, or in some versions his father, lit the pyre on which Heracles immolated himself and became immortal. Philoctetes then received the favor of the newly deified Heracles.
Philoctetes had been one of the many eligible Greeks who competed for the hand of Helen, the Spartan princess; as such, he was required to participate in the expedition to reclaim her for Menelaus that became the Trojan War. However, on the way to Troy, Philoctetes was left behind and stranded on the island of Lemnos. There are at least four stories about what caused the Greeks to abandon Philoctetes, but in every version he received a wound on his foot that festered and had a terrible smell.
One version holds that Philoctetes was bitten by a snake that Hera sent to molest him as punishment for the service rendered to Heracles, since Hera was portrayed in one tradition as the adversary of Heracles.
Another tradition says that the Greeks forced Philoctetes to show them where Heracles's ashes were deposited. Philoctetes would not break his oath by speech, but he went to the spot and placed his foot upon the site. The foot that touched the soil over the ashes immediately suffered a wound.
Regardless of the cause of the wound, Philoctetes was marooned by the Greeks and harbored a grudge against Odysseus, who had advised the Atreidae to leave him. Medôn took control of Philoctetes' men, and Philoctetes himself remained on Lemnos, alone, for ten years, as the Trojan War dragged on.
Helenus, the prophetic son of King Priam of Troy, was forced under torture to reveal that one of the conditions for the Greeks to win the war was possession of the bow and arrows of Heracles. Upon hearing this, Odysseus and a group of men (usually including Diomedes) rushed back to Lemnos to recover Heracles' weapons. In the tragedy by Sophocles titled Philoctetes, Odysseus is accompanied by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, also known as Pyrrhus. (Other versions of the myth don't include Neoptolemus.) Surprised to find the archer alive, the Greeks balked on what to do next. Odysseus tricked the weaponry away from Philoctetes, but Diomedes ( or Neoptolemus in Philoctetes, 1373ff.) refused to take the weapons without the man. The divine Heracles came down from Olympus and told Philoctetes to go and that he would be healed by the son of Asclepius and win great honor as a hero of the Achaean army.
Once back in military company outside Troy, they employed either Machaon the surgeon or more likely Podalirius the physician, both sons of the immortal physician Asclepius, to heal his wound permanently. Philoctetes challenged and would have killed Paris, son of Priam, in single combat were it not for the debates over future Greek strategy. In one version it was Philoctetes who killed Paris. He shot four times: the first arrow went wide; the second struck his bow hand; the third hit him in the right eye; the fourth hit him in the heel, so there was no need of a fifth shot. Philoctetes sided with Neoptolemus about continuing to try to storm the city. They were the only two to think so because they had not had the war-weariness of the prior ten years. Afterward, Philoctetes was among those chosen to hide inside the Trojan Horse, and during the sack of the city he killed many famed Trojans.
According to another myth, Pylius (Πύλιος), the son of god Hephaestus, healed Philoctetes at Lemnos.
A scholiast commenting on Apollonius's Argonautica lists Philoctetes as one of the male lovers of Heracles.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Philodice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Wife of Magnes, king of Magnesia and mother of his sons, Eurynomus and Eioneus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Philodice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Philomela
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Philomela was the younger of two daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens, and the naiad Zeuxippe. Her sister, Procne, was the wife of King Tereus of Thrace.
While the myth has several variations, the general depiction is that Philomela, after being raped and mutilated by her sister's husband, Tereus, obtains her revenge and is transformed into a bird, either a swallow in Greek versions or a nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), a bird renowned for its song, in Roman ones. Because of the violence associated with the myth, the song of the nightingale is often depicted or interpreted as a sorrowful lament. In nature, the female nightingale is mute, and only the male of the species sings.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Philomela / Periopis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus. Princess of Pherae as daughter of King Pheres and possibly, Periclymene, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Patroclus - child
- married - Menoetius
- child - Periclymene
- child - Pheres
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Philonoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Iobates and first wife of Bellerophon by whom, she became the mother of Isander (Peisander), Hippolochus and Laodamia. She was also known under several other names: Alcimedusa or Cassandra.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Laodamia - child
- Hippolochus - child
- married - Bellerophon
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Philonome
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phylonome is the daughter of Tragasus and second wife of king Cycnus, thus stepmother to his children Tenes and Hemithea. She features in a short myth where she falsely accuses her stepson of rape to his father after failing to seduce him herself. Philonome's myth is a typical example of the "Potiphar's wife", a common motif in mythology and folklore.
Philonome was the daughter of Tragasus via an unnamed mother. In some authors she is also called Polyboea or Scamandria.
Philonome desired her stepson Tenes romantically and tried to seduce him, only for her efforts to fail. In revenge she falsely accused Tenes of attempting (or even managing) to violate her, and brought the flute-player Eumolpus or Molpus as her false witness.
Cycnus believed her tale at first, so he locked up Tenes and Hemithea into a chest he set adrift into the sea, until the chest washed up on the island of Tenedos near Troad. The falsehood did not last however and Cycnus eventually learnt the truth,[11] so he stoned Eumolpus to death and buried Philonome alive into the ground.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Philonome
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Nyctimus (son of Lycaon) and Arcadia. She was a maiden who used to hunt with Artemis until Ares seduced her in the guise of a shepherd. Being pregnant and fearing her father, she cast her twin children, Lycastus and Parrhasius, into the river Erymanthus, but they found haven in the trunk of a tree. Later a wolf suckled the children and a shepherd, Gyliphus, reared them as if they were his own sons.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Lycastus and Parrhasius - child
- pollinated - Ares
- child - Nyctimus
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Philophrosyne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of friendliness and welcome. She and her three sisters--Eukleia (Good Repute), Euthenia (Prosperity) and Eupheme (Acclaim)--were probably the goddesses known collectively as the younger Kharites (Charites).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Aglaea
- child - Hephaestus
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Phineus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Salmydessus in Thrace and seer, who appears in accounts of the Argonauts' voyage. Some accounts make him a king in Paphlagonia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Idaea - married
- Mariandynus - child
- child - Agenor
- child - Telephassa
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Phlegyas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Lapiths (or the Phlegyans). Phlegyas succeeded Eteocles, who died without issue, in the government of the district of Orchomenos, which he named Phlegyantis, after himself. Phlegyas was the father of Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers. The girl's mother was called Cleopheme, daughter of Malus and the Muse Erato. He was best friends with Ixion, like brothers.
Phlegyas succeeded Eteocles, who died without issue, in the government of the district of Orchomenos, which he named Phlegyantis, after himself.
While pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. When a hooded crow informed Apollo of the affair, he sent his sister Artemis to kill Coronis, unable to perform the task himself. However, Hermes rescued the baby from Coronis' womb and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Phlegyas, angry at Apollo for killing his daughter, torched the Apollonian temple at Delphi, causing Apollo to kill him with his arrows and condemn him to severe punishment in the lower world. In another version of the myth, Phlegyas had no children and the two brothers Lycus and Nycteus are responsible for his death.
In the Aeneid of Virgil, Phlegyas is shown tormented in Tartarus in the Underworld, warning others not to despise the gods. In the Thebaid of Statius, Phlegyas is also shown to be in the Underworld entombed in a rock by Megaera (one of the Furies) and starved in front of an eternal feast (comparable to the torment of Tantalus).Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phlias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Dionysus and Ariadne, and husband of Chthonophyle in Greek mythology. A native of Araithyrea in Argolis, he is mentioned as one of the Argonauts.
Life Stages: Argonaut
Relationships:
- Chthonophyle - married
- Androdamas - child
- child - Ariadne
- child - Dionysus
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Phoenice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother by Poseidon of Proteus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Poseidon - partner
- Proteus - child
- child - Cassiopeia
- child - Phoenix
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Phoenix
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Cassiopeia - married
- Phoenice - child
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Phoibe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Titan
Relationships:
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Phorbas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Prince of the Thessalian Phlegyes who emigrated to Elis in the Peloponnesos.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phorbas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The sixth king of Argos.
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phoroneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phrixus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree III, on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Presbon - child
- Mariandynus - child
- married - Chalciope
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Phthia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The beloved of Apollo, by whom she became the mother of Dorus, Laodocus, and Polypoetes.
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Apollo - partner
- Laodocus - child
- Polypoetes - child
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Phylacides and Philander
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: The son of the nymph Acacallis and Apollo, and the brother of Philander. Their mother mated with the god in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha. According to the Elyrians, Phylacides and Philander were suckled by a goat.
Phylacides means son of Phylacus
Philander or Philandros means loving menLife Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Phylacus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Founder of the city of Phylace, Thessaly. He was the son of Deioneus and Diomede, husband of Clymene and the father of Alcimede, Iphiclus, Evadne and possibly Clymenus. n some accounts, Phylacus was also called the father of Alcimache who became the mother of Ajax the Lesser to Oileus. His children and grandchildren are sometimes referred to by the patronymic Phylacides. His grandson through Iphiclus was also named Phylacus. In some accounts, his grandsons Protesilaus and Podarces were called his sons by Astyoche.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phylas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Ephyra, a descendant of Dryopes. Heracles led a war against him and killed him. Phylas had two daughters, Meda and Astyoche; Heracles consorted with both and fathered Antiochus with the former, and Tlepolemus with the latter.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Phylas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Antiochus, thus a great-grandson of the precedent. With Leipephilene, daughter of Iolaus and Megara, he became father of Hippotes and Thero.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Leipephilene - married
- Thero - child
- child - Antiochus
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Phylodámeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Danaid, mother of Pharis by Hermes
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hermes - partner
- Pharis - child
- turned - The Danaides
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Physcoa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A woman from the deme Orthia of Elis. She was credited with a variety of notable deeds, which are recorded in Pausanias' Description of Greece. Physcoa was believed to have belonged to the very first, legendary set of the so-called Sixteen Women. There were two choral dances of which the Sixteen Women were in charge, one of them being named after Physcoa and the other one after Hippodamia.
Physcoa was said to have consorted with Dionysus and to have had by him a son Narcaeus. When Narcaeus grew up, it is related, he conquered many neighboring peoples and gained a lot of power; he was also credited with founding the sanctuary of Athena Narcaea. Narcaeus and Physcoa were also reported to be the first people to pay homage to Dionysus as a god.
Pausanias mentions that various honors were paid to Physcoa, and these included making her the eponym of the ritual dance.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pierus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Thessalian Magnes. He was the lover of muse Clio and father of Hyacinth.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pirithous
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Lapiths of Larissa in Thessaly, as well as best friend to Theseus. Pirithous was a son of "heavenly" Dia. He married Hippodamia, daughter of Atrax or Butes, at whose wedding the famous Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs occurred. By his wife, he became the father of Polypoetes, one of the Greek leaders during the Trojan War. Pirithous was also the close friend of the hero Theseus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippodamia - married
- Polypoetes - child
- child - Dia
- stepparent - Ixion
- child - Zeus
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Pittheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Troezen, city in Argolis, which he had named after his brother Troezen.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aethra - child
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pelops
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Plemnaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 11th king of Sicyon who reigned for 48 years. Plemnaeus was the son and heir of King Peratus, son of Poseidon. He was the father of Orthopolis, his successor to the Sicyonian throne. All the children borne to Plemnaeus and his wife died the very first time they wailed. At last, the goddess Demeter who took pity on the unfortunate king came to Aegialea (former name of Sicyon) in the guise of a strange woman and reared for him his son Orthopolis.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Orthopolis - child
- child - Peratus
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Podalirius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Asclepius. With Machaon, his brother, he led thirty ships from Tricca, Thessaly in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. Like Machaon, he was a legendary healer. He healed Philoctetes, holder of the bow and arrows of Heracles required to end the war. He was one of those who entered the Trojan Horse. Alongside Amphilochus, Calchas, Leonteus and Polypoetes he traveled to Colophon, where Calchas died.
Unlike his brother, Podalirius survived the war, and subsequently settled in Caria. Accounts vary as to how he ended up there. According to one version, he returned to Argos after the war but later went on to consult the Delphian oracle about a preferable place for himself to live, and was instructed to stay at a place where he would suffer no harm should the sky fall; thus he chose the Carian peninsula which was surrounded by mountains.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Poeas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Meliboea or Malis (Maleae) and one of the Argonauts. Poeas was the son of King Thaumacus of Thaumacia and the father of the hero Philoctetes by Methone.
As an Argonaut, Poeas is identified as the greatest archer of the group. When facing the giant Talos, some accounts say Medea drugged the bronze giant and Poeas shot an arrow to poison him in his heel. Other sources cited his son Philoctetes as one of the Argonauts instead of him.
More famously, Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of Heracles, his friend.More famously, Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of Heracles, his friend. When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it. As none of his own men would light the pyre, a passer-by (Poeas) was asked by Heracles to light it. In return for this favor Heracles bestowed his famed bow and poison arrows upon Poeas. Other versions, had Philoctetes as the passer-by or that Poeas assigned Philoctetes the task.Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Methone - married
- Philoctetes - child
- child - Thaumacus
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Poemander
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was also the founder of Tanagra, which he named after the naiad Tanagra, his wife and the daughter of Asopus. They had two sons, Leucippus and Ephippus, the father of Acestor. Because Tanagra was founded by him, it was called Poemandria. Poemander was besieged by the Achaeans in a place called Stephon, for having refused to support them in the Trojan War. At night, he managed to escape and began to fortify Poemandria. His fortifications, however, were made fun of by the architect Polycritus, who leaped over the ditch in derision. Poemander, outraged, threw a stone at him, but missed and hit his own son Leucippus instead, who died of the injury. For the murder, in accordance with the law, Poemander had to leave Boeotia, which was not easy for him, since the land of Tanagra had been invaded by the Achaeans; moreover, his mother Stratonice was carried off by Achilles, who also killed his grandson Acestor. But Ephippus, sent by Poemander to beg for aid, brought Achilles, Tlepolemus and Peneleos to his father; they escorted Poemander to Elephenor, who cleansed him for the murder of Leucippus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Tanagra - married
- Leucippus - child
- Ephippus - child
- child - Chaeresilaus
- child - Stratonice
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Polemocrates
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A physician, and son of Machaon and grandson of Asclepius, god of health. He had a sanctuary, at the village of Eua in Argolis and was honoured there as a god or hero of the healing art..
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Polybus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: 20th king of Sicyon who reigned for 40 years. Polybus was the son of Hermes and Chthonophyle, daughter of the eponym of Sicyon. He had a daughter Lysimache or Lysianassa whom he gave in marriage to Talaus of Argos, son of King Bias. Polybus inherited the throne of Sicyon from his grandfather and during his reign, his grandson Adrastus came to him fleeing from Argos. Afterwards, at the death of Polybus, Adrastus succeeded his grandfather as the new ruler of the city.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Lysianassa - child
- child - Chthonophyle
- child - Hermes
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Polydora
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Meleager. She was married to Protesilaus, and after his death she was so affected by grief that she took her own life.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Protesilaus - married
- child - Cleopatra
- child - Meleager
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Polymede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Autolycus by Mestra, Neaera or Amphithea; and the possible mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Polymele
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Wife of Thestor and mother of Calchas and Leucippe and Theonoe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Polyphonte
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Polyphonte was the daughter of Hipponous and Thrassa; her grandparents on her mother's side were the war god Ares and Tereine, a daughter of the river god Strymon, she was transformed into a strix (was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood. It also referred to witches and related malevolent folkloric beings).
Wishing to remain a virgin, Polyphonte fled to the mountains to become a companion of Artemis, and scorning the honours of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and procreation. This provoked the ire of the goddess, who viewed Polyphonte's decision and dismissive attitude as a personal affront. To punish Polyphonte for failing to honor her womanly duty, Aphrodite drove her mad and caused her to lust after a bear. Artemis was disgusted with Polyphonte and so turned a large horde of wild animals against her. Fearing for her life, Polyphonte was forced to return back to her father's home.
Once at home, Polyphonte gave birth to two humanoid bear-like sons, Agrius and Oreius (the result of her union with the bear). Agrius and Oreius grew into huge men of immense strength. As perhaps befits their feral patronage, the Bear Twins honored neither men nor gods. Indeed, they were cannibals who attacked strangers on the road.Life Stages: Beast, Mortal
Relationships:
- Agrius and Oreius - child
- child - Hipponous
- child - Thrassa
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Polypoetes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Hippodamia and Pirithous. A native of the Thessalian city of Gyrtone (Γυρτώνη), he led the armies of Thessaly on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was among those who vied for Helen's hand in marriage, and later occupied the Trojan horse. Following the death of Patroclus, he won an early version of quoits, winning a 5-year supply of iron. After the war, he was present at the funerals of Calchas and Patroclus. His close companion was Leonteus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pirithous
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Polypoetes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Aetolian son of Apollo and Phthia, brother of Dorus and Laodocus. He was killed by Aetolus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Polyxo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: also known as Philozoë , is the wife of the Trojan War hero Tlepolemus, and later the queen of Rhodes, an island in the southeastern Aegean sea. Following her husband's death during the war, Polyxo took revenge against Helen, whom she blamed for all the sorrows she had suffered. Polyxo's role in the myth is connected to Helen's Rhodian tree-cult. Polyxo was born in Argos, of unclear line. She married a son of Heracles called Tlepolemus, and had an unnamed son by him.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Tlepolemus
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Poros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of expedience and contrivance. He was the husband of Penia (Poverty) and the opposite of Aporia (Helplessness).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Metis
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Porthaon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Laothoe - married
- Stratonice - child
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Poseidon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
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Praxithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Erechtheus - married
- Metion - child
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Presbon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Phrixus and Chalciope (Iophassa), daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, mentioned in few sources, and never enumerated alongside his brothers Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus. Upon return from Colchis to Boeotia, he received his grandfather Athamas' kingdom back from the latter's adoptive heirs Haliartus and Coronus. The kingdom further passed over to his son Clymenus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Priam
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War. He was the son of Laomedon. His many children included notable characters such as Hector, Paris, and Cassandra.
Priam is said to have fathered fifty sons and many daughters, with his chief wife Hecuba, daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas and many other wives and concubines. These children include famous mythological figures such as Hector, Paris, Helenus, Cassandra, Deiphobus, Troilus, Laodice, Polyxena, Creusa, and Polydorus. Priam was killed when he was around 80 years old by Achilles' son Neoptolemus.Life Stages: on original, Hero, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Creusa - child
- married - Hecuba
- child - Laomedon
- child - Strymo Rhoio
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Priapos
Status: alive
Biography: the god of vegetable gardens. He was also a protector of beehives, flocks and vineyards.
Priapos was depicted as a dwarfish man with a huge member, symbolising garden fertility, a peaked Phrygian cap, indicating his origin as a Mysian god, and a basket weighed down with fruit.
His cult was introduced to Greece from Lampsakos (Lampsacus) in Asia Minor and his mythology subsequently reinterpreted. Primitive statues of the god were set-up in vegetable gardens to promote fertility. These also doubled as scarecrows, keeping the birds away.
Priapos was identified with a number of phallic Greek deities including Dionysos, Hermes and the satyrs Orthanes and Tykhon (Tychon).
In a well-known Pompeiian wall fresco (right or above) the god is shown weighing his phallus against the produce of the garden. He is crowned with a peaked Phrygian cap, wears Phrygian boots, and has a Bacchic, cone-tipped thyrsus resting by his side.Life Stages: Rustic
Relationships:
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Procas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Latin kings of Alba Longa in the mythic tradition of the founding of Rome. He was the father of Amulius and Numitor and the great-grandfather of Romulus and Remus, Rome's legendary founders. The names of the Alban kings are often related to toponyms around Rome, or to legendary figures in the early history of Rome. The constructed genealogies in which they appear may reflect the desire of status-seeking families in the Late Republic to lay claim to Trojan ilirian ancestry. The name Procas or Proca may be related to the mythological figure Prochyte, a kinswoman of Aeneas who died when the fleet carrying the refugees of Troy to Italy was within sight of the coast. She was buried on the island that bore her name.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Proclia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Procne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Traditionally she is an Athenian princess as the elder daughter of a king of Athens named Pandion. Procne was married to the king of Thrace, Tereus, who lusted after her sister Philomela. Tereus raped Philomela, cut out her tongue, and locked her away. When Procne discovered her sister's rape from a tapestry which Philomela wove and sent to her, she took revenge against her husband by murdering their only child, a boy named Itys, and serving him as food to Tereus. Procne's story serves as an origin myth for the nightingale, a singing bird whose melodic song was believed to be a sad lament.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Proetus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Abas, joint-king in the Argolid along with Acrisius, having his seat at Tiryns.
By his wife, Antea Proetus became the father of three daughters (the so-called Proetides) and a son Megapenthes. The daughters' names are Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa in the Bibliotheca and were often mentioned under the general name of Proetides.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Stheneboea / Antea - married
- Megapenthes - child
- child - Abas
- child - Ocalea
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Proetus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A prince of Corinth as the son of Prince Thersander, son of King Sisyphus. He was the father of Maera who died a maiden. Scholiasts on the Odyssey confound him with the Argive Proetus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Maera - child
- child - Thersander
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Pronax
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the sons of Talaus and Lysimache, a brother of Adrastus and Eriphyle, and the father of Lycurgus and Amphithea. According to some accounts, he died before the war of the Seven against Thebes, and the Nemean Games were instituted in his honor.
Pronax's son was perhaps the same Lycurgus that was said to have been raised from the dead by Asclepius. His son was also possibly the same as the Nemean Lycurgus who was the father of Opheltes. Although the mythographer Apollodorus distinguishes these two, saying that the Lycurgus, who was the father of Opheltes, was the son of Pheres, there is some evidence to suggest that, in some accounts, these two Lycurgoi were in fact the same. The geographer Pausanias reports seeing an image of Pronax's son Lycurgus on the Amyclae throne of Apollo. According to Pausanias, Adrastus and Tydeus, two of the Seven against Thebes, are shown stopping a fight between Lycurgus and Amphiaraus, another of the Seven. If this image depicted an event during the Seven's stop at Nemea, then this would presumably mean that, in some version of the story, Pronax's son was the father of Opheltes.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphithea - child
- child - Lysianassa
- child - Talaus
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Pronoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad of a river in Lycia. She told Caunus what had happened to his sister Byblis (that she had killed herself), and persuaded him to stay with her on condition that he receive rulership of the country of Lycia or Caria. The couple had a son Aegialus who inherited the kingdom upon his father's death.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Pronomus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The "intelligent" satyr herald of Dionysus during the Indian War. In secret union, Hermes fathered him, Pherespondus and Lycus to Iphthime, daughter of Dorus. iraphiotes (i.e. Dionysus) entrusted to these three satyr brothers the dignity of the staff of the heavenly herald which their father was the source of wisdom.
Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
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Protesilaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A hero in the Iliad who was venerated at cult sites in Thessaly and Thrace. Protesilaus was the son of Iphiclus, a "lord of many sheep"; as grandson of the eponymous Phylacos, he was the leader of the Phylaceans. Hyginus surmised that he was originally known as Iolaus—not to be confused with Iolaus, the nephew of Heracles—but was referred to as "Protesilaus" after being the first (πρῶτος, protos) to leap ashore at Troy, and thus the first to die in the war. Protesilaus was one of the suitors of Helen.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Proteus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Sea God
Relationships:
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Protogeneia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Calydonian princess as the daughter of King Calydon and Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon, and thus sister to Epicaste. By Ares, Protogeneia became the mother of Oxylus of Aetolia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Psamathe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of King Crotopus of Argos, who became the lover of the god Apollo.
According to the Narrations of the mythographer Conon, Psamathe became pregnant by Apollo, and abandoned the newborn boy, Linus, for fear of her father. A shepherd reared the foundling, but the child was one day torn apart by the shepherd's dogs. In the interim, Psamathe was ordered to be killed by her father. Apollo avenged her murder by sending a plague to Argos. When consulted, Apollo demanded that Psamathe and Linus be propitiated with due honors and festivities. The Argives complied but the plague persisted. And by oracular decree, the king was forced to leave in order to found the city of Tripodiscium near Megara, where he would live out his life.
In an alternate version (Pausanias), Psamathe exposed the unnamed child, which was torn apart by the king's sheepdogs. Apollo then sent Poena (Greek: Poinē), the personification of punishment, upon the city. Poine would steal children from their mothers until Coroebus killed her. A hero Coroebus emerged from Argos to slay it, but Apollo then brought a plague upon the city.
The monster is called also Poena, the personification of punishment, in Pausanias's version of the tale. It is a female monster with a snake protruding from her forehead in Statius's version, possibly having snake-feet (anguipedal form) as well.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ptokheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of beggary. She was a companion of Penia (Poverty) and Amekhania (Want) and her opposite number were Ploutos (Wealth) and Euthenia (Prosperity).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Pylia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aegeus - child
- married - Pandion II
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Pylius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of god Hephaestus, healed Philoctetes at Lemnos, according to some myths.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Hephaestus
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Pylon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A member of the Aetolian royal family. Pylus was a son of Ares and princess Demonice, daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron. He was the brother of Evenus, Molus and Thestius. Pylus was said to give his name to the Aetolian city of Pylene located between the rivers Achelous and Evenos.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Demonice
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Pyrrha
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
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Pyrrha
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Theban princess as the younger daughter of King Creon probably by his wife Eurydice. Besides her older sister Megara, Pyrrha has three brothers with the names: Menoeceus (Megareus), Lycomedes and Haemon. She was married by her father to Iphicles, the son of Amphitryon, who was previously wedded to Automedusa, daughter of Alcathous. By Iphicles, Pyrrha became the mother of two unknown children who were later thrown into the fire by Heracles during the hero's fit of madness. Together with her sister, Henioche, they erected statues for them near the temple of Ismenian Apollo in Thebes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Remus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Romulus and Remus are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus, following his fratricide of Remus. The image of a she-wolf suckling the twins in their infancy has been a symbol of the city of Rome and the ancient Romans since at least the 3rd century BC. Although the tale takes place before the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the earliest known written account of the myth is from the late 3rd century BC. Possible historical bases for the story, and interpretations of its local variants, are subjects of ongoing debate.
Seeing them as a possible threat to his rule, King Amulius ordered them to be killed and they were abandoned on the bank of the river Tiber to die. They were saved by the god Tiberinus, Father of the River, and survived with the care of others at the site of future Rome. In the best-known episode, the twins were suckled by a she-wolf in a cave now known as the Lupercal. Eventually, they were adopted by Faustulus, a shepherd. They grew up tending flocks, unaware of their true identities. Over time, they became natural leaders and attracted a company of supporters from the community.
Romulus and Remus on the House of the She-wolf at the Grand-Place of Brussels
When they were young adults, they became involved in a dispute between supporters of Numitor and Amulius. As a result, Remus was taken prisoner and brought to Alba Longa. Both his grandfather and the king suspected his true identity. Romulus, meanwhile, had organized an effort to free his brother and set out with help for the city. During this time, they learned of their past and joined forces with their grandfather to restore him to the throne. Amulius was killed and Numitor was reinstated as king of Alba. The twins set out to build a city of their own.
After arriving back in the area of the seven hills, they disagreed about the hill upon which to build. Romulus preferred the Palatine Hill, above the Lupercal; Remus preferred the Aventine Hill. When they could not resolve the dispute, they agreed to seek the gods' approval through a contest of augury. Remus saw 6 auspicious birds first, but Romulus saw 12 and claimed to have won divine approval. They disputed the result; Remus insulted Romulus's new city and was killed, either by Romulus or by one of his supporters. Romulus then went on to found the city of Rome, its institutions, government, military, and religious traditions. He reigned for many years as its first king.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- adopted - Acca Larentia
- child - Ares
- adopted - Faustulus
- surrogate - Lupa / She-wolf
- child - Rhea Silvia
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Rhadamanthus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A wise king of Crete. As the son of Zeus and Europa he was considered a demigod. He later became one of the judges of the dead and an important figure in Greek mythology.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Rhea Silvia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (also known as Ilia) Mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome. Rhea was a Vestal Virgin who became pregnant with the twins after being impregnated by the god Mars; after giving birth, they were taken from her and raised by a she-wolf.
According to Livy's account of the legend, she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas. Numitor's younger brother Amulius seized the throne and killed Numitor's son, then forced Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of the goddess Vesta. As Vestal Virgins were sworn to celibacy, this would ensure the line of Numitor had no heirs. Rhea, however, became pregnant with the twins Romulus and Remus by the god Mars.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Rhene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Epimelid-nymph of Mount Saon on the north Aegean island of Samothrake. She was loved by the god Hermes and bore him a son named Saon, first king of Samothrake and eponym of Mount Saon--site of the island's celebrated Mysteries. According to some Saon was instead a son of Zeus by an unnamed island nymph.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph
Relationships:
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Rhodoessa / Melia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 42
She consorted with the god Apollo and became the mother by him of Ceos, the eponymous hero of said island.
Naiad-nymph of the spring or fountain of the main town of the Aegean island of Keos (Ceos). She was loved by the god Apollon and bore him Keos, the eponymous king of the island.
Melia's name was derived from the Greek word meli "honey-sweet", an adjective often applied to the waters of a spring.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Rhoeo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Lover of Apollo and mother of Anius, king of Delos and priest of Apollo. Rhoeo was the daughter of Staphylus, son of Dionysus and Ariadne, and Chrysothemis, daughter of Carmanor. Her sisters were Parthenos and Molpadia (later named Hemithea).
Parthenius relates that she once experienced a great jealousy of her sister Hemithea when Staphylus arranged for the latter to spend a night with Lyrcus, his guest, whom both Hemithea and Rhoeo fell in love with. She became the lover of Apollo and by him the mother of Anius. When her father discovered her pregnancy, he believed she was impregnated by a man rather than a god. He placed her in a chest and cast her out to sea (parallel to Danae and Perseus). She landed on the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo. She gave birth to a son on the island and named him Anius (as if from ἀνιάομαι "to suffer"); she then put him on the altar of Apollo and prayed to the god that the baby be saved if it was his. Apollo concealed the child for a while, then raised him and taught him the art of divination and granted him certain honors.
Rhoeo eventually married Zarex, son of Carystus or Carycus, who accepted Anius as his son. She had two more children with him. Later, becoming a priest of Apollo and the king of Delos, Anius gave aid to Aeneas and his retinue when they were travelling from Troy to the future site of Rome.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Apollo - partner
- Anius - child
- Zarex - married
- child - Chrysothemis
- child - Staphylus
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Romulus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and his contemporaries. Although many of these traditions incorporate elements of folklore, and it is not clear to what extent a historical figure underlies the mythical Romulus, the events and institutions ascribed to him were central to the myths surrounding Rome's origins and cultural traditions.
The myths concerning Romulus involve several distinct episodes and figures, including the miraculous birth and youth of Romulus and his twin brother, Remus; Remus' murder and the founding of Rome; the Rape of the Sabine Women, and the subsequent war with the Sabines; a period of joint rule with Titus Tatius; the establishment of various Roman institutions; the death or apotheosis of Romulus, and the succession of Numa Pompilius.
In the traditional account, a she-wolf happened upon the twins, and suckled them until they were found by the king's herdsman, Faustulus, and his wife, Acca Larentia. The brothers grew to manhood among the shepherds and hill-folk. After becoming involved in a conflict between the followers of Amulius and those of their grandfather Numitor, Faustulus told them of their origin. With the help of their friends, they lured Amulius into an ambush and killed him, restoring their grandfather to the throne. The princes then set out to establish a city of their own.
They returned to the hills overlooking the Tiber, near where they had been exposed as infants, but disagreed on the site of their new city. Each took up station on a different hill, and awaited an omen to decide between them. Remus sighted six vultures over the Aventine Hill, then Romulus saw a flight of twelve above the Palatine Hill. Remus argued for the Aventine based on priority, Romulus the Palatine based on number. The conflict escalated, and Romulus or one of his followers killed Remus. In a variant of the legend, the augurs favoured Romulus, who proceeded to plough a square furrow around the Palatine Hill to demarcate the walls of the future city (Roma Quadrata). When Remus derisively leapt over the furrow to show how inadequate it was against invaders, Romulus struck him down in anger. In another variant, Remus was killed during a melée, along with Faustulus.
Ennius (fl. 180s BC) refers to Romulus as a divinity in his own right, without reference to Quirinus. Roman mythographers identified the latter as an originally Sabine war-deity, and thus to be identified with Roman Mars. Lucilius lists Quirinus and Romulus as separate deities, and Varro accords them different temples. Images of Quirinus showed him as a bearded warrior wielding a spear as a god of war, the embodiment of Roman strength and a deified likeness of the city of Rome. He had a Flamen Maior called the Flamen Quirinalis, who oversaw his worship and rituals in the ordainment of Roman religion attributed to Romulus's royal successor, Numa Pompilius. There is however no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before the 1st century BC.
Ovid in Metamorphoses XIV (lines 805-828) gives a description of the deification of Romulus and his wife Hersilia, who are given the new names of Quirinus and Hora respectively. Mars, the father of Romulus, is given permission by Jupiter to bring his son up to Olympus to live with the Olympians.Life Stages: Apotheosis, King
Relationships:
- Hersilia - married
- adopted - Acca Larentia
- child - Ares
- adopted - Faustulus
- surrogate - Lupa / She-wolf
- child - Rhea Silvia
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Romulus Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A descendant of Aeneas and a king of Alba Longa. Alba Longa was a city near the site of Rome, founded later by Romulus, his great-great-great-grandson in 753 BC. He was also known as Aremulus or Alladius. Romulus Silvius is said to have been a wicked ruler and pretended to know how to make thunder in order to frighten his subjects into worshiping him as a god. He perished in a thunderstorm with excessive rain.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Sabazios
Status: alive
Biography: A deity originating in Asia Minor. He is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians., wielding his characteristic staff of power.
Relationships:
- child - Dionysus
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Salmacis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a spring of the town of Halikarnassos (Halicarnassus) in Karia (Caria) (south-western Anatolia). She fell in love with the handsome youth Hermaphroditos and prayed to the gods be united with him forever. Her prayer was taken a little too literally for their forms were merged as one to create the first hermaphrodite. Salmakis' namesake fountain was believed to make men who bathed in its waters effeminate.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- partner - Hermaphroditos
- child - Maeandros
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Samia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Parthenope - child
- married - Ancaeus
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Samothrakian Korybantes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Seven rustic demigods (daimones) who presided over the Korybantic dance of the Mysteries of Samothrake. The korybas was an orgiastic dance performed by armoured men with clashing spear and shield, accompanied by the beat of tambourines and drums and the cries of the mystic devotees.
The Samothrakian Korybantes were barely distinguished from the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri), another set of orgiastic daimones who presided over the Mysteries. Often the two Kabeiroi sons of Hephaistos (Hephaestus) were combined with the seven Korybante sons of Apollon to form a Mystery-chorus of nine.Life Stages: Rustic
Relationships:
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Sangarius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Phrygian river-god. He is the divine personification of the river Sangarius which flows in Phrygia, a region in northwestern Asia Minor.
Sangarius had a daughter Eunoë who became the mother of Hecabe by King Dymas. He was also the father of Nana and therefore the grandfather of Attis. By Cybele, Sangarius became the father of Nicaea, mother of Telete by Dionysus. His other children were Sagaritis and Ocyrrhoe.
The Sangarius river in Phrygia (now Sakarya in Asian Turkey) itself is said to have derived its name from one Sangas, who had offended Rhea and was punished by her by being changed into water.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
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Saon
Status: alive
Pronouns: him
Biography: He was believed to have unified all the inhabitants of the island, who had previously lived in scattered settlements, into one people, which he further subdivided into five tribes named after his sons. He was also said to have established laws for the newly formed people.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Sarpedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Zeus, who fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan War. Although in the Iliad, he was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon, in the later standard tradition, he was the son of Zeus and Europa, and the brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, while in other accounts the Sarpedon who fought at Troy was the grandson of the Sarpedon who was the brother of Minos.
Sarpedon fought on the side of the Trojans, with his cousin Glaucus, during the Trojan War, becoming one of Troy's greatest allies and heroes.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Scamander
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
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Schoeneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Boeotian king, the son of Athamas and Themisto. He may have immigrated to Arcadia, where a village Schoenous and a river Schoeneus flowing by it were believed to have been named after him, and where his children were believed to have originated. He was the father of Atalanta, and also of the Arcadian Clymenus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Sicyon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Sicyon became the 19th king of Sicyonia after he was named as the successor of his father-in-law Lamedon. This was his reward after aiding the latter in his war against, Archander and Architeles, the sons of Achaeus. Sicyon reigned for 45 years and the kingdom was inherited by his son Polybus.
Eponym of the polis of the same name, which was said to have previously been known as Aegiale and, earlier, Mecone.
He married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Lamedon, the previous king of the polis and region that would come to be named after him. They had a daughter Chthonophyle, who bore two sons: Polybus to Hermes and, later, Androdamas to Phlius, the son of Dionysus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Chthonophyle - child
- child - Marathon
- married - Zeuxippe
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Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Silvius Postumus) The son of Aeneas and Lavinia. He succeeded Ascanius as King of Alba Longa and reigned 1139–1110 BC. According to the former tradition, upon the death of Aeneas, Lavinia is said to have hidden in a forest from the fear that Ascanius would harm the child. He was named after his place of birth, Silva being the Latin word for forest or wood.
According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a dispute arose on who should succeed Ascanius, either Silvius (the brother of Ascanius) or Iulus (the son of Ascanius). The dispute was decided in favor of Silvius by the people who believed that it was his right as the grandson of Latinus. Iulus was awarded the priesthood. All the kings of Alba following Silvius bore the name Silvius as their cognomen. His son, Aeneas Silvius, was also king of Alba Longa. In British mythology, Brutus is considered a son of Silvius.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aeneas Silvius - child
- child - Aeneas
- child - Lavinia
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Sinope
Status: alive
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the main fountain or spring of the Greek colony of Sinope in Pontus or Assyria on the Black Sea (north-central Anatolia). She was a daughter of the Greek river-god Asopos who was abducted to the region by Zeus. Sinope outwitted three gods--Zeus, Apollon and Halys--and preserved her virginity.
a daughter of Asopus (a river god) and the eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea.
Sinope's mother was Metope, daughter of the river-god Ladon.
According to Corinna and Diodorus Siculus, Sinope was carried away by the god Apollo to the place where later stood the city honouring her name. Diodorus adds that she bore to Apollo a son named Syrus, supposedly afterwards king of the Syrians, who were named after him.
However, Apollonius of Rhodes and Valerius Flaccus both relate that Sinope was abducted to the site by Zeus, who, in his passion, swore to fulfil her dearest wish. Sinope declared she wished to remain a virgin, so Zeus had to leave her alone. Sinope later tricked Apollo and the river Halys in the same fashion and remained a virgin all her life.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Sisyphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Merope - married
- Thersander - child
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Sithon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of the Odomanti or Hadomanti in Thrace, and presumably the eponym of the peninsula Sithonia and the tribe Sithones.
Sithon was the son of Ares and Anchiroe. He was married to the nymph Mendeis, and had at least two daughters: Rhoeteia, eponym of the promontory of Rhoetium in the Troad, and Pallene.
Sithon promised both the hand of Pallene and his kingdom to the one who would defeat him in single combat. Pallene was so beautiful that a lot of suitors sought her hand, but all of them, including Merops of Anthemusia and Periphetes of Mygdonia, were slain by Sithon. As he grew older and his strength began to fail him, he arranged that the suitors fight each other instead of himself until one of them was killed; the winner would then get both Pallene and the kingdom. When two new wooers, Dryas and Cleitus, arrived, Pallene fell in love with Cleitus. Out of fear for him, she cried so much that her old tutor realized what her feelings were and decided to help. As the suitors were supposed to fight on chariots, he bribed Dryas' charioteer so that he left undone the pins of the chariot wheels. So when Dryas attacked, the wheels came off and he fell to the ground, and was defeated and killed by Cleitus with ease. Sithon became aware of the stratagem and was outraged so much that he intended to slay his daughter next to Dryas' funeral pyre. But the girl was saved by Aphrodite, who appeared at night in front of the inhabitants of the country; alternatively, a sudden heavy shower was sent down by the gods, making Sithon change his mind. He married Pallene to Cleitus; after his death they inherited the kingdom, and the country as well as a city in Thrace subsequently received the name of Pallene.
A different story of Sithon and Pallene is found in Nonnus' Dionysiaca. According to it, Sithon was in love with his own daughter, and that was the reason why he was killing her wooers one after another. This lasted until one day Dionysus came and suggested that he would fight for Pallene's hand with the maiden herself. Sithon agreed, and Dionysus wrestled with Pallene in a manner that was more like seducing her. Sithon interrupted and pronounced the god winner; Dionysus then killed the king with his thyrsus, thus avenging the deaths of the previous suitors. He consorted with Pallene, although he stayed with her for but a night.
The myths of Sithon, Pallene and the suitors are similar to those of Oenomaus, Hippodamia and Pelops.
This Sithon might be the Sithon that according to Ovid in the Metamorphoses "became of indeterminate sex, now man, now woman".Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Smicrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a man connected to Apollo and his oracles in both Delphi and Didyma. He is the father of Branchus, one of Apollo's male lovers who received the gift of prophecy from the god and founded a line of famous seers. Smicrus established athletic competitions in honour of the goddess Leucothea.
Smicrus was either the son of Democlus, a man from Delphi, or an unnamed man from the island of Ceos.[1] An oracle instructed Democlus to sail for Miletus, so Democlus obeyed and took his son Smicrus along, who was thirteen at the time. After having lunch, he was in such a haste to sail off that he forgot Smicrus behind. Smicrus in despair wandered for some time until he was approached by a goatherd's son, who took him to his father Eritharses, also called Patronus. Eritharses, pitying the boy, took him in and cherished him as much as he did his own son (or sons), and bid Smicrus to tend to the goats along with the other boy(s).
One day the boys caught a swan and dressed it up in a garment, and then had a row over which would present the swan to Eritharses. Eventually they grew weary of their fighting and took the garment off of the swan, which revealed itself to be the sea-goddess Leucothea. Delighted in their strife and competition over her, she instructed them to tell the Milesians to honour her by holding athletic contests for boys, or she told Eritharses to love Smicrus above all.
In time Smicrus was wedded, either to a distinguished Milesian woman or a daughter of Eritharses. She fell pregnant soon, and had a dream in which the sun entered her mouth and exited through her genitalia. When a baby boy was born, they called him Branchus (false-etymologically linked to βρόγχος, meaning "windpipe") from his mother's dream, and he ended up courting the god Apollo, founding the god's oracle at nearby Didyma and fathering a clan of great prophets, the Branchidae.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Branchus - child
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Sose
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Prophetic Oreiad- or Naiad-nymph of Arkadia (southern Greece). She was the mother of the goat-legged god Pan Agreus (the Hunter) by Hermes.
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
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Sosis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Queen of Argos as wife of King Triopas and mother of the twins Pelasgus and Iasus
Life Stages: Tree III, Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Triopas
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Spartaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Cronius and Cytus. When Spartaeus and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon and Halia. Thus, the goddess cursed them with insanity.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Sphyros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Founded an Asclepieion in Argos
Life Stages: Mortal
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Staphylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of wine-god Dionysus and Ariadne.
As one of Rhadamanthys' generals, he was the founder of the colony of Peparethos on the island of Skopelos, in the Northern Sporades island chain Staphylus dwelt in Naxos and was married to Chrysothemis, by whom he had three daughters: Rhoeo, who was a lover to Apollo, Parthenos, and Molpadia or Hemithea. The latter became the mother of Basileus with Lyrcus after Lyrcus had made a journey to the oracle at Didyma. Staphylus is said to have enticed Lyrcus into too much drinking of wine and then, when Lyrcus' senses were dulled by drunkenness, united him with Hemithea.Life Stages: on original, Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Chrysothemis - married
- Rhoeo - child
- Hemithea - child
- child - Ariadne
- child - Dionysus
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Stheneboea / Antea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the queen consort of Proetus, joint-king in the Argolid along with Acrisius, having his seat at Tiryns. According to early sources, Stheneboea was the daughter of Aphidas and sister of Aleus. Stheneboea desired the hero Bellerophon, but he spurned her advances, so she accused him of rape to her husband, setting in motion the events that would result in Bellerophon becoming one of the greatest ancient Greek heroes.
By Proetus she had three daughters, Iphinoë, Iphianassa and Lysippe, collectively known as the Proetids ("daughters of Proetus").Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Megapenthes - child
- child - Aphidas
- married - Proetus
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Sthenelus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Tiryns and Mycenae. Son of Perseus and Andromeda. He was the father of Eurystheus. By Nicippe, sister of Atreus and Thyestes, Sthenelus became the father of Eurystheus, Alcyone and Medusa (Astymedusa).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Nicippe - married
- Eurystheus - child
- child - Andromeda
- child - Perseus
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Sthenelus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Argos and son of Crotopus, son of Agenor, son of Triopas. He was the father of Gelanor.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Stilbe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus and the Naiad Creusa. She bore Apollo twin sons, Centaurus, ancestor of the Centaurs, and Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Stratonice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Calydonian princess as the daughter of King Porthaon and Laothoe. She was the sister of Eurythemiste and Sterope.
When Stratonice and her sisters grew up, they left their parents to live in the mountains. According to Hesiod, they were "like goddesses, skilled in very beautiful works" and the companions of "the beautiful haired nymphs and of the Muses on the wooded mountains".
When Apollo intended to make Stratonice the bride of his son Melaneus, the princess accompanied the god to marry his son. Since Stratonice was her own kuria (authority), Apollo carried her away without giving her father any bridal gifts (hedna) and brought her to Oechalia. After marrying Melaneus she became the queen of Oechalia and gave birth to their dear son, the famous archer Eurytus.Life Stages: Mortal
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Stratonice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 43
Daughter of Euonymos and mother of Poemander by Chaeresilaus. She was carried off by Achilles.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Poemander - child
- married - Chaeresilaus
- child - Euonymus
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Strymo Rhoio
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
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Strymon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Tereine - child
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Syllis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the town of Sikyon (southern Greece). She was loved by the god Apollon and bore him Zeuxippos, a king of Sikyon.
Zeuxippos' name means "bridging the horse" or "yoking the horse"--a horse being both a literal horse and a poetic name for a stream or river.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Syrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Son of Sinope (daughter of Asopus and Metope) and Apollo; the Syrians are named after him. Syros was said to be a wise man who wrote arithmetic philosophy in Phoenician letters.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Talaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Argos and one of the Argonauts. He was the son of Bias (or Perialces) and Pero. His wife was Lysimache, daughter of Abas. He was the father of Adrastus, Aristomachus, Astynome, Eriphyle, Mecisteus, Metidice, and Pronax.
Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
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Talos / Kalos / Attalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Athenian inventor. Being more gifted than his teacher he invented the potter's wheel and according to Ovid, he used a fish spine as the prototype of the saw. But Daedalus, becoming jealous of the youth and feeling that his fame was going to rise far above that of his teacher, treacherously slew the youth. And being detected in the act of burying him, he was asked what he was burying, whereupon he replied, I am inhuming a snake. Here a man may well wonder at the strange happening, that the same animal that led to the thought of devising the saw should also have been the means through which the murder came to be discovered. And Daedalus, having been accused and adjudged guilty of murder by the court of the Areopagites, at first fled to one of the demes of Attica, the inhabitants of which, we are told, were named after him Daedalidae. After that, he was exiled to the court of Minos: "After the corpse was discovered, Daedalus was tried...and went into exile at the court of Minos."
In some accounts, Athena intervened of murder and turned Talos/Perdix into a partridge to save his life. According to Ovid, that partridge later watched the death and burial of Icarus with glee.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Perdix
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Tanagra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Tanagra in Boiotia (central Greece). She was a daughter of the river-god Asopos for whom the gods Hermes and Ares competed in a boxing match.
She was of such great beauty that both the god of war Ares and the god of thieves, Hermes fell for her. To win the right to be her lover they both participated in a boxing match where Hermes won and carried her off to the city of Tanagra, which was named for her, and made her an immortal oread or naiad, depending on versions.
Tanagra married Poemander, and together they had two sons: Leucippus and Ephippus.[4] Poemander founded the city of Tanagra in Boeotia, which he named after his wife.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Tantalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Telchis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: may refer to two different or the same characters:
Telchis or Telchin, the third king of Sicyon who reigned for 20 years. He was the son and successor of Europs, thus grandson of the primeval king Aegialeus. Telchis' heir was his own son Apis to whom was subsequently born Thelxion.
Telchis, an Argive companion of Thelxion. The two are said to have deposed and killed the Argive Apis, son of Phoroneus and Teledice, who had left no offspring. Apis' death was later avenged on them by Argus Panoptes.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Teledice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Telegone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Pharis, son of Hermes and the Danaid Phylodameia.[1] She bore to the river-god Alpheus, a son, Orsilochus who later became the father of Diocles. The latter's children, Orsilochus and Crethon, fought in the Trojan War and were killed by Aeneas.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Alpheus - partner
- Orsilochus - child
- child - Pharis
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Telegonus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Youngest son of Circe and Odysseus.When Telegonus had grown to manhood, his mother Circe sent him in search of Odysseus, who by this time had finally returned to Ithaca from the Trojan War. Shipwrecked on Ithaca by a storm, Telegonus believed mistakenly that he had made landfall on Corcyra (Corfu) and, assailed by hunger, began plundering the island. Odysseus and his oldest son, Telemachus, defended their city and, in the ensuing melée, Telegonus accidentally killed his father with a lance tipped with the venomous spine of a stingray. Telemachus married Telegonus' mother, the enchantress Circe, while Telegonus took to wife Odysseus' widow Penelope. By Penelope, he was the father of Italus who, according to some accounts, gave his name to Italy. What appears to be later tradition holds that Odysseus would also be resurrected by Circe after he was killed by Telegonus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Telemachus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Odysseus and Penelope. When Telemachus reached manhood, he visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wandering father. On his return to Ithaca, he found that Odysseus had reached home before him. Then father and son slayed the suitors who had gathered around to woo Penelope. According to later tradition, Telemachus married Nausicaa after Odysseus's death.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Telephassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
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Telesphoros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of convalescence who "brought to fulfillment" recuperation from illness and injury. He was depicted on ancient coins and reliefs as a boy wearing a wide cloak and low hood or Phrygian cap, and sometimes holding a scroll or tablet in his hands.
Telesphoros had his own temple, the Telesphorion (Telesphorium), in the precinct of Asklepios (Asclepius) at Pergamon in Anatolia. He was also recognised as one of the healing gods at the Asklepian sanctuary of Epidauros.
Telesphoros was also named Akesis and as such his female counterpart was the minor goddess Akeso.
Frequently accompanied his sister Hygieia. He was depicted as a dwarf whose head was always covered with a cowl hood or cap.Life Stages: Olympian
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Telete
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of the initiation rites of the Bacchic Orgies. She was a daughter of the god Dionysos.
Life Stages: Daimon, Rustic
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Tenes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos.
Tenes was the son of Apollo by Proclia, daughter of Laomedon.
Cycnus's second wife Philonome, daughter of Tragasus or Cragasus, falsely accused Tenes of rape, bringing in a flutist named Eumolpus as witness. Cycnus believed the accusations and tried to kill Tenes and his sister Hemithea by placing them both in a chest, which was set into the ocean. However, the chest landed at the island of Leucophrye, which was later renamed Tenedos, and the two survived. The natives of the island pronounced Tenes their king. Cycnus later learned the truth, killed Eumolpus, buried Philonome alive and tried to reconcile with his children, but Tenes rejected his overture: when Cycnus's ship landed at Tenedos, Tenes took an axe and cut the moorings.
When Achilles tried to assault his sister, Tenes fought him. Though his sister escaped, Achilles plunged a sword into his heart, killing him. Even though Thetis had previously warned her son against doing so, for Tenes's death would be avenged by Apollo, Achilles was heedless and sealed his fate. Shortly after the end of the Trojan War, Agamemnon permitted the Trojan prisoners of war to build a city north of Mycenae. The city was called Tenea after Tenes.
Greeks used the proverb "Tenedian human" in reference to those with frightening appearance, because when Tenes laid down laws in Tenedos he stipulated that a man with an axe should stand behind the judge and strike the man being convicted after he had spoken in vain.Life Stages: Mortal
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Tereine
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the river Strymon in the land of the Triballoi tribe of Thrake (north of Greece). She was loved by the god Ares and bore him a daughter named Thrassa.
Teirene's name meaning "She Who Pierces" from the Greek word tereô meaning "to pierce"--a fitting name for a consort of the war-god.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Tereus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Thracian king, the son of Ares and the naiad Bistonis. He was the brother of Dryas. Tereus was the husband of the Athenian princess Procne and the father of Itys.
When Tereus desired his wife's sister, Philomela, he came to Athens to his father-in-law Pandion to ask for his other daughter in marriage, stating that Procne had died. Pandion granted him the favour, and sent Philomela and guards along with her. But Tereus threw the guards into the sea, and finding Philomela on a mountain, forced himself upon her. He then cut her tongue out and held her captive so she could never tell anyone. After he returned to Thrace, Tereus gave Philomela to King Lynceus and told his wife that her sister had died. Philomela wove letters in a tapestry depicting Tereus's crime and sent it secretly to Procne. Lynceus' wife Lathusa, who was a friend of Procne, at once sent Philomela to her.
When Procne recognized her sister and knew the impious deed of Tereus, the two planned to return the favour to the king. Meanwhile, it was revealed to Tereus by prodigies that death by a relative's hand was coming to his son Itys. When he heard this, thinking that his brother Dryas was plotting his son's death, he killed the innocent man. Procne, however, killed Itys, her son by Tereus, served his flesh in a meal at his father's table in revenge, and fled with her sister.
When Tereus learned of her crime, he pursued the sisters and tried to kill them, but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds out of pity: Tereus became a hoopoe or a hawk; Procne became the swallow whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of her child; Philomela became the nightingale. Incidentally, the female nightingale has no song.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Termessos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-god of Boiotia (Boeotia) in central Greece.
The Termessos or Permessos stream had its headwaters on Mount Helikon in Boiotia. It flowed north past the town of Askra to empty into Lake Kopais (Copais). The most important neighbouring rivers were the Kephisos (Cephisus) to the north-west, the Lamos to the south, Ismenos to the south-east, and Pleistos to the west.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Eupheme - child
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Terpsichore
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Tethys
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Titan
Relationships:
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Teucer
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous king of Teucria. Son of the river-god Scamander and the nymph Idaea. Before the arrival of Dardanus, the land that would eventually be called Dardania (and later still the Troad) was known as Teucria and the inhabitants as Teucrians, after Teucer.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Thaleia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the nine Mousai (Muses), the goddesses of music, song and dance. In the Classical era, when the Mousai were assigned specific artistic and literary spheres, Thaleia was named Muse of comedy and bucolic poetry. In this guise she was portrayed with the attributes of comic mask, shepherd's staff and wreath of ivy. Her name was derived from the Greek word thaleia meaning "rich festivity" or "blooming."
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- Apollo - partner
- Samothrakian Korybantes - child
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Thaumacus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was the founder of Thaumacia in Magnesia, Thessaly. He was the father of King Poeas of Meliboea (or Malis), the father of Philoctetes.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Poeas - child
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The Amazons
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Female warriors and hunters, known for their physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat. Their society was closed to men and they raised only their daughters, returning their sons to their fathers with whom they would only socialize briefly in order to reproduce.
Courageous and fiercely independent, the Amazons, commanded by their queen, regularly undertook extensive military expeditions into the far corners of the world, from Scythia to Thrace, Asia Minor, and the Aegean Islands, reaching as far as Arabia and Egypt. Besides military raids, the Amazons are also associated with the foundation of temples and the establishment of numerous ancient cities like Ephesos, Cyme, Smyrna, Sinope, Myrina, Magnesia, Pygela, etc.Life Stages: Mortal
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The Danaides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Phylodámeia - turned
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The Kabeirides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Three nymphs who presided over the orgiastic rites of Samothracian Mysteries.
A group of enigmatic chthonic deities. They were worshipped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean Islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace—at the Samothrace temple complex—and at Thebes.
When represented as a pair of males and a pair of females the Cabeiri's most common names are Axiocersus and Cadmilus for the pair of males and Axierus and Axiocersa for the pair of females.
Were identified with the crab and were also physically disabled.Life Stages: Chthonian God
Relationships:
- child - Cabeiro
- child - Hephaestus
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The Kabeiroi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: twin gods (daimones) who presided over the orgiastic dances of the mysteries of Samothrake (Samothrace) which were held in honour of the goddesses Demeter, Persephone, and Hekate. They were famed metal-workers, dwarfish sons of the god Hephaistos (Hephaestus), who served their father at his Lemnian forge. Like their mother Kabeiro (Cabeiro) the pair were also sea-divinities who came to the aid of sailors in distress.
According to Clement the Kabeiroi were three in number, but two of the brothers committed an act of fratricide. The pair later recovered the phallus of Zagreus who had been dismembered by the Titan-gods and established it in the shrine of the Mysteries. In the Cabiri by Aeschylus, the two gods welcomed the Argonauts to their island and initiated them in a drunken orgy.
ALKON, EURYMEDONRelationships:
- child - Cabeiro
- child - Hephaestus
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The Litai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Litae) Daimones of prayer, ministers of the god Zeus. They were described as hobbling, old women. Their opposite number was Ate, the spirit of delusion and folly, in whose wake they followed.
Homer describes them as kourai "maidens" of Zeus rather than thugateres "daughters", so it is not clear if they were his literal daughters.Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Zeus
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The Meliai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: on original, Dryad Nymph, Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
- Harmonia - turned
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The Nosoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Daimones of plague, sickness and disease. They were numbered amongst the evil spirits which escaped from Pandora's jar.
The Keres were also sometimes portrayed as personifications of deadly disease. In most Homeric literature, however, the arrows of Apollon and Artemis were the bringers of plague and sickness rather than bands of daimones.
The Roman counterparts of the Nosoi were Morbus, Lues, Pestis, Tabes and Macies.Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Oenotropae
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: The three daughters of Anius and Dryope.
The Oenotropae included: Spermo (Ancient Greek: Σπερμώ, "seed"), who produced grain; Oeno or Oino (Ancient Greek: Οἰνώ, "wine"), who produced wine; and Elais (Ancient Greek: Ἐλαΐς, "olive tree"), who produced olive oil.
According to the Bibliotheca, their great-grandfather was Dionysus, and he gave them the power to change water into wine, grass into wheat, and berries into olives. For this reason no one around them ever had to starve. According to other sources, however, the daughters were devotees of Dionysus, and the god rewarded them with the extraordinary ability to produce oil, grain, and wine from the ground or merely by touch. When the Greek fleet set out to make war in Troy, it was the Oenotropae who stocked their ships, and Agamemnon was so impressed with this that he abducted them in order to feed the Greek army. The daughters escaped, but their brother betrayed them again to the Greeks. As they were about to be bound, however, Dionysus saved them by turning them into white doves.Life Stages: Apotheosis
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The Paneides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Twelve young Panes--goat-legged rustic spirits--, sons of the elder Pan. They joined Dionysos in his war against the Indians.
KELAINEUS, AGRENNON, AIGIKOROS, EUGENEION, OMESTER, DAPHOINEUS, PHOBOS, PHILAMNOS, XANTHOS, GLAUKOS, ARGOS, PHORBASLife Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
- child - Pan
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The Spartoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Udaeus - turned
- built - Drakon Ismenios
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Thebe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Zeus and Megacleite and sister of Locrus , the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes. She later on married Zethus and the Boeotian Thebes was named after her.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Amphion and Zethus
- child - Megaclite
- child - Zeus
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Thelxion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The name of two Greek mythological figures associated with a king named Apis. These two figures may be indistinct. One is Apis's son and the fifth king of Sicyon, mentioned by the travel writer Pausanias. The other is the murderer of Apis who is later killed by Argus Panoptes, as told by the mythographer Apollodorus.
According to the 2nd-century AD travel writer Pausanias, Thelxion is the fifth king of the city of Sicyon and the son of Apis, its previous ruler. He was descended from the city's founder, Aegialeus, and was the father of Aegyrus, who succeeded him.
In the Bibliotheca, a 1st- or 2nd-century AD mythological compendium by the mythographer Apollodorus, Thelxion is mentioned among the descendants of Inachus. Along with Telchin – who, in Pausanias's account, was Thelxion's grandfather – Thelxion kill Apis, the king of Argos, on account of the tyrannical nature of his rule. Argus Panoptes later murdered the two perpetrators for their crime.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Themisto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess as the daughter of King Hypseus of Lapiths and the naiad Chlidanope. Her name is derived from the Ancient Greek word: "θεμιστος" which means "belonging to the law", or "belonging to the customs". Themisto intended to kill her husband's children by his previous wife, but accidentally slew her own sons. This was the subject of a non-surviving tragedy by Euripides, retold by Hyginus as follows. Athamas married Themisto as he believed his second wife, Ino, was dead, but Ino turned out to be alive and to have been on Mount Parnassus with the Maenads. Athamas had her brought home but kept her return a secret; Themisto did find out she was back, and resolved to kill Ino's children as an act of revenge. However, she had never seen Ino in person and took her for a servant as they met, and ordered the "servant" to dress all her own children in white clothing, and Ino's in black. Themisto then proceeded to kill all the black-clothed children. What Themisto did not realise was that Ino had switched the children's clothing, and so she in fact killed her own children. Upon discovering that, she killed herself. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus, however, Themisto married Athamas after the death of Ino, and the whole story with the murder of the children did not take place.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Schoeneus - child
- married - Athamas
- child - Chlidanope
- child - Hypseus
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Themistonoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Mortal
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Thero
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Phylas and Leipephilene, and sister of Hippotes. She was said to have been beautiful as the moonbeams. Falling in love with Apollo, Thero became the mother of Chaeron, eponym of Chaeronea.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Apollo - partner
- Chaeron - child
- child - Leipephilene
- child - Phylas
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Thersander
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Corinthian prince as the son of King Sisyphus and the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. He was the brother of Ornytion (Porphyrion ), Glaucus and Almus. His sons were Haliartus and Coronus, eponyms of Haliartus and Coronea, respectively, and also Proetus, himself the father of Maera.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Theseus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A divine hero in Greek mythology, famous for slaying the Minotaur. The myths surrounding Theseus, his journeys, exploits, and friends, have provided material for storytelling throughout the ages. He is raised by his mother, Aethra, and upon discovering his connection to Aegeus, travels overland to Athens, having many adventures on the way. When he reaches Athens, he finds that Aegeus is married to Medea (formerly wife of Jason), who plots against him.
The most famous legend about Theseus is his slaying of the Minotaur, half man and half bull. He then goes on to unite Attica under Athenian rule: the synoikismos ('dwelling together'). As the unifying king, he is credited with building a palace on the fortress of the Acropolis. Pausanias reports that after synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite ('Aphrodite of all the People') on the southern slope of the Acropolis.
Plutarch's Life of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus's escape, and his romantic involvement with and betrayal of Ariadne, daughter of King Minos.Life Stages: Hero, King, Mortal
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Thestius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurythemis - married
- Hypermnestra - child
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Thestor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Idmon and Laothoe, grandson of Apollo; some say that Idmon ("the knowing") was his own surname. By Polymela, he was the father of Calchas, Leucippe and Theonoe.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Thetis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. In the Trojan War cycle of myth, the wedding of Thetis and the Greek hero Peleus is one of the precipitating events in the war which also led to the birth of their child Achilles. Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis (or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others) that her son would become greater than his father. Thus, she is revealed as a figure of cosmic capacity, quite capable of unsettling the divine order.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Thoas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of the god Dionysus and Ariadne, the daughter of the Cretan king Minos. He was the king of Lemnos when the Lemnian women decided to kill all the men on the island. He was the only man to survive the massacre, having been saved by his daughter Hypsipyle. He is sometimes identified with the Thoas who was the king of the Taurians when Iphigenia was taken to the land of the Taurians and became a priestess of Artemis there.
after the god Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne he carried her to Lemnos where they produced four sons Thoas, Staphylus, Oenopion, and Peparethus. Thoas was the father of Hypsipyle, and according to the Iliad, by her and Jason, the grandfather of Euneus.Life Stages: Mortal
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Thrassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph of the Triballoi tribe of Thrake (north of Greece). She was a daughter of Ares and the wife of the Thrakian King Hipponous. Her daughter Polyphonte coupled with a bear and bore the ursine giants Agrios and Oreios.
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Hipponous - married
- Polyphonte - child
- child - Ares
- child - Tereine
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Thronia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad nymph, mother of Abderus by Poseidon and the eponym of the city Thronion in Opuntian Locris. Her father was possibly the river god Nestus in Bistonia and thus probably the sister of Callirhoe.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Thurimachus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Seventh king of Sicyon who reigned for 45 years. Thurimachus was the son and heir of King Aegyrus, descendant of the city's founder Aegialeus (an autochthon). He succeeded by his son Leucippus, father of Calchinia.
During Thurimachus's reign, Inachus became the first king of the Argives.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Thyia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Deucalion. Thyia bore to Zeus two sons, Magnes and Makednos, the latter of whom was considered the eponym of Macedonia.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Thymbris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A prophetic Arkadian Oreiad- or Epimelid-nymph who, according to one account, was the mother of the goat-legged god Pan by Hermes.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph, Oreiad Nymph
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Thysa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess-nymph of the wild frenzy of the Bacchic Orgies. She was a daughter and close companion of the god Dionysos.
Thysa was probably identified with Thyone, the mother of Dionysos in the guise of goddess of the Bacchic frenzy, and Thyia, a nymph who presided over the Bacchic rites at Delphoi.Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- child - Dionysus
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Tiberinus Silvius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Ninth king of Alba Longa, according to the traditional history of Rome handed down by Livy. He was the successor (and probably son) of Capetus, the eighth king of Alba Longa. The Alban kings claimed descent from Aeneas, a Trojan prince who brought a remnant of the Trojan populace to Italy following the sack of Troy (traditionally 1184 BC), and settled in Latium. Alba was built by Ascanius, the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, and founder of the Alban royal line. The Alban kings, including Tiberinus, bore the cognomen Silvius, after the son of Ascanius, who was said to have been born in the woods.
The only tradition specifically attached to Tiberinus is that he was drowned while crossing the river then known as the Albula, but which was ever after known to the Latins as the Tiber. This ancient river formed the boundary of Latium and Etruria, and the city of Rome was later founded on a group of seven hills overlooking its banks. After his death, Tiberinus was revered as the god of the river (see Tiberinus (god)). In the earliest days of Rome, the cult of Tiberinus survived at the Volturnalia, the archaic festival of Volturnus, but no details are known.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Agrippa - child
- child - Capetus Silvius
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Tiresias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus, the founder of Thebes.
Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: the first recounts Tiresias' sex-change episode and later his encounter with Zeus and Hera; the second group recounts his blinding by Athena; the third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias.
On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese, Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes and hit them with his stick, upon which he was transformed into a woman. Afterwards, as told by Phlegon, god of prophecy Apollo informed Tiresias: if she spots copulating snakes and similarly harms them, she will return to her previous form. After seven years as a woman, Tiresias found mating snakes; depending on the myth, she either made sure to leave the snakes alone this time, or, according to Hyginus and Phlegon, trampled them. In both outcomes, Tiresias was released from the sentence and changed back to a man.
According to Eustathius, Tiresias was originally a woman who promised Apollo her favours in exchange for musical lessons, only to reject him afterwards. She was turned by Apollo into a man, then again a woman under unclear circumstances, then a man by the offended Hera, then into a woman by Zeus. She became a man once again after an encounter with the Muses, until finally Aphrodite turned him into a woman again and then into a mouse.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Tithonus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Titias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Idaean Dactyls. Titias and his brother Cyllenus were said to have been venerated in Phrygia as companions of Cybele and "guides of fate of cities". The two, as well as the other Idaean Dactyls of Crete, were sons of the nymph Anchiale and the eldest of the sons of Mariandynus.
Titias' sons were Priolaus, Lycus and Mariandynus; some authors named Bormus instead of Priolaus, as both were noted for having mourning songs performed in memory of them. Priolaus was said to have been killed in a battle against the Bebrycians, which the Mariandynians won thanks to the assistance of Heracles, who also won a competition against a local man during the funeral games of Priolaus.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Lycus - child
- Dascylus - partner
- child - Mariandynus
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Tityos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Tityus) Euboian or Phokian giant who assaulted the goddess Leto as she travelling to the shrine of Delphoi (Delphi). Her son Apollon quickly intervened and slew the giant with a volley of arrows and the blade of his golden sword. As further punishment for his crime, Tityos was staked to the ground in the underworld where two vultures were set to feed on his ever-regenerating liver.
Tityos' name is probably derived from the Greek word tisis meaning "he who suffers retribution." Alternatively he might be connected with the Tityroi, the flute-playing satyrs of Boiotian lore.Life Stages: Giant
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Tlepolemus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The leader of the Rhodian forces in the Trojan War. Tlepolemus was a son of Heracles and Astyoche, daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra. Tlepolemus fled to Rhodes after slaying Licymnius, Heracles' aged maternal uncle. According to the Bibliotheca, this was an accident—Tlepolemus was beating a servant when Licymnius ran between the two, suffering a fatal blow, —but Pindar states that the death was intentional and motivated by anger. Accompanied by his Argive wife Polyxo, Tlepolemus made passage to Rhodes and divided the island into three parts, founding three Rhodian city-states: Cameirus, Ialysus and Lindus.
Hyginus lists Tlepolemus among the suitors of Helen; thus bound by the oath of Tyndareus, he was among the Greek allies in the campaign against Troy, leading a force of nine ships.
He encountered Sarpedon on the first day of fighting recounted in the Iliad and taunted him saying that he lacked courage and could not really be the son of Zeus. Tlepolemus then attacked him, and although he wounded Sarpedon, he was slain by the latter.
According to Pausanias, Polyxo killed Helen to avenge for her husband's death, though Polyaenus says that Menelaus had dressed up a servant in Helen's clothes and that the Rhodians killed her instead as Menelaus and Helen escaped.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Torone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Also called Chrysonoe was a Sithonian princess as the daughter of King Cleitus and Pallene. Torone was the wife of Proteus and mother of Telegonus and Polygonus.
Chrysonoe was given in marriage to Proteus by her father Cleitus after the Egyptian foreigner came to Thrace and became his friend. Chrysonoe's sons had the habit of guest-slaying which forced Proteus to pray for his father Poseidon to carry him back to Egypt away from them. Torone's sons were ultimately killed by Heracles when they challenged the hero to wrestle them. The city of Torone in Sithonia was named after her.Life Stages: Mortal
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Tragasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he
Biography: The father of Philonome, the deceitful wife of Cycnus.
The name Tragasus may be connected with the Tragasaean salt-pan near Hamaxitus, mentioned by Strabo, which was located south of Troy. Stephanus of Byzantium mentions Tragasus as the eponym of Tragasae in Troad, and adds that Poseidon was believed to once have done him a favor by turning the sea water into solid matter. The connection between him and the placename is also confirmed in the Etymologicum Magnum.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Philonome - child
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Triballus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Pannonius of the Triballi
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Triopas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: the seventh king of Argos. Triopas may be an aspect of the Argive Zeus (sometimes represented with a third eye on his forehead), or may be his human representative.
Triopas was also called the son of Phorbas and Euboea, brother of Arestor and father again of Pelasgus, Iasus, Agenor and a daughter Messene. In the latter case, among these children, the eldest were the twins Pelasgus and Iasus who were mothered by Sosis.Life Stages: Tree III, on original, King, Mortal
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Triptolemus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and is worshipped as the inventor and patron of agriculture. Triptolemus is credited with being the first to sow seed for cultivation after being taught by Demeter and is credited for the use of oxen and the plough. Xenophon claims that Peloponnesus was the first place Triptolemus shared Demeter's agricultural gift Pausanias claims the Rharium plane near Eleusis was the first place to be sown for crops. Triptolemus is depicted as a young man with a branch or diadem placed in his hair, usually sitting on his chariot, adorned with serpents. His attributes include a plate of grain, a pair of wheat or barley ears and a scepter.
Life Stages: Tree III, on original, Agrarian God, Apotheosis
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Triteia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of the sea god Triton and the nymph Tritonis as well as the mother, by Ares, of Melanippus. Her son gave to a town in Achaea her name. Sacrifices were offered there to Ares and Tritaea in the temple of Athena.
Life Stages: on original, Haliae
Relationships:
- Ares - partner
- Melanippus - child
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Trochilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a member of the Argive royal house as the son of Princess Callithyia.
Some traditions credited either him or his mother with invention of the chariot. Tertullian informs that Trochilus (if indeed it was him, and not Erichthonius, who invented the chariot) was said to have dedicated his creation to Hera. Pausanias wrote that Trochilus was a priest of Demeter and that he had to flee Argos because of the crackdown of Agenor on him and settled in Attica, where he married Eleusis and became by her father of TriptolemusLife Stages: Tree III, on original, Mortal
Relationships:
- Triptolemus - child
- married - Eleusis
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Troilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. The first surviving reference to him is in Homer's Iliad, composed in the late 8th century BC.
Troilus is a young Trojan prince, one of the sons of King Priam (stepson) and Hecuba. Prophecies link Troilus' fate to that of Troy and so he is ambushed and murdered by Achilles. Sophocles was one of the writers to tell this tale. It was also a popular theme among artists of the time. Ancient writers treated Troilus as the epitome of a dead child mourned by his parents. He was also regarded as a paragon of youthful male beauty.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Trophonius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a Greek hero or daimon or god—it was never certain which one—with a rich mythological tradition and an oracular cult at Lebadea in Boeotia, Greece. In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Trophonius is a son of Erginus (the king of Minyan Orchomenus) and brother of Agamedes. Pausanias gives his father as Apollo and mother a daughter of Erginus.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Apollo
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Tros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Founder of the kingdom of Troy, of which the city of Ilios, founded by his son Ilus took the same name, and the son of Erichthonius by Astyoche (daughter of the river god Simoeis). Tros was the father of three sons: Ilus, Assaracus and Ganymede and two daughters, Cleopatra and Cleomestra. He is the eponym of Troy, also named Ilion for his son Ilus. Tros's wife was said to be Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander,
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Astyoche
- married - Callirhoe
- child - Erikthonius
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Tydeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aetolian hero in Greek mythology, belonging to the generation before the Trojan War. He was one of the Seven against Thebes, and the father of Diomedes, who is frequently known by the patronymic Tydides. Tydeus was a son of Oeneus and Periboea, and was the husband of Deipyle, the mother of Diomedes.
Tydeus was banished from Calydon by his uncle Agrius because he had killed either his brother or a different uncle or six of his cousins. He travelled to Argos, where he married Deipyle, daughter of king Adrastus.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Tyllus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Autochthon of Lydia. He was the father of Halie, who married Cotys, an early king of Lydia.
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Tyndareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original
Relationships:
- Clytemnestra - child
- Helen - stepparent
- child - Batea
- married - Leda
- child - Oebalus
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Tyro
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Mortal
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Udaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Spartoi or men that grew forth from the dragon's teeth which Cadmus sowed at Thebes. The other four surviving Spartoi were Chthonius, Hyperenor, Pelorus, and Echion. Udaeus was the ancestor of the seer Tiresias.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Everes - child
- turned - The Spartoi
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Xuthus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, King, Mortal
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Zarex
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: is the name of a hero of ancient Greek mythology, son of Carystus (Carycus) or by the latter's son Petraeus.
Zarex married Rhoeo, and became the father of Anius and four other children. In some accounts, Zarex adopted his wife's son, Anius, who was raised by his divine father Apollo.
Zarex was credited with having learned the music of Apollo, and having founded the town of Zarex in Laconia; he also had a heroon at Eleusis, next to that of Hippothoon. There also was a mountain on Euboea thought to be named after him. Pausanias wrote that there may was also another Zarex, an Athenian hero, but he had nothing to say concerning him.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Zeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: on original, Olympian
Relationships:
- The Litai - child
- Aletheia - child
- Kairos - child
- Aix - pollinated
- Aigipan - child
- Perseus - child
- Alcmene - pollinated
- Heracles - child
- Leda - pollinated
- Helen - child
- Arcesius - adopted
- Hermes - child
- Elara - pollinated
- Tityos - child
- Othreis - partner
- Meliteus - child
- Apollo - child
- Magnes - child
- Kleio - child
- Dia - pollinated
- Pirithous - child
- Makedon - child
- Graecus - child
- Himalia - pollinated
- Spartaeus - child
- Kronios - child
- Kytos - child
- Minos - child
- Europa - pollinated
- Rhadamanthus - child
- Sarpedon - child
- Cassiopeia - pollinated
- Atymnius - child
- Emathion - child
- Manes - child
- Ares - child
- Erato - child
- Makedon - child
- Niobe - partner
- Argus - child
- Thebe - child
- Locrus - child
- Dionysus - child
- Enyo - child
- Amphion and Zethus - child
- partner - Electra
- partner - Laodamia
- partner - Megaclite
- partner - Pandora
- partner - Thyia
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Zeuxippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Hippocoon and the mother of Oicles and Amphalces with Antiphates.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Oicles - child
- married - Antiphates
- child - Hippocoon
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Zeuxippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Sicyonian princess as the daughter of King Lamedon (son of Coronus) and Pheno. She was the wife of Sicyon and the mother of Chthonophyle.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Sicyon - married
- Chthonophyle - child
- child - Lamedon
- child - Pheno
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Zeuxippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: on original, Naiad Nymphs
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Zeuxippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The successor of Phaestus as king of Sicyon and in turn succeeded by Hippolytus, grandson of the former ruler.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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