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Abarbaree
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Abarbarea) Naiad-nymph of the meadows of the Trojan river Aisepos (Aesepus) loved by Prince Boukolion (Bucolion) of Troy.
"Aisepos (Aesepus) and Pedasos, those whom the Naias (Naiad) Nymphe Abarbaree had born to blameless Boukolion (Bucolion). Boukolion himself was the son of haughty Laomedon . . . While shepherding his flocks he lay with the Nymphe and loved her, and she conceiving bore him twin boys."Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Aisepos
- married - Boukolion
- turned - The Naiads
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Abas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Poseidon and Arethusa A Thracian by birth, Abas founded a tribe known as the Abantians or Abantes. Abas and his Abantian followers migrated to the island of Euboea, where he subsequently reigned as king. He was father of Canethus and Chalcodon, and through the latter grandfather of Elephenor, who is known to have accidentally killed him. In some accounts, Abas was also called the father of Dias, Arethusa, Alcon, Canthus (alternatively the son of Canethus and thus, his grandson).
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Abas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The twelfth king of Argos. He was the great-grandfather of Perseus, and the founder of the towns Abae and Argos Pelasgikon. Hera favoured Abas and blessed his shield making it resistant to any sword. With his wife Ocalea (or Aglaea, depending on the source), he had twin sons Acrisius (grandfather of Perseus) and Proetus, and one daughter, Idomene.[4] According to Pausanias, Abas had also an illegitimate son named Lyrcus, who gave his name to the city of Lyrcea.
The name Abantiades generally signified a descendant of this Abas, but was used especially to designate Perseus, the great-grandson of Abas, and Acrisius, a son of Abas. A female descendant of Abas, as Danaë and Atalante, was called Abantias.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Acrisius - child
- Idomene - child
- child - Hypermnestra
- child - Lynceus
- married - Ocalea
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Abrota
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of eponymous King Onchestοs of the Boeotian city of Onchestos and sister of Megareus. On the death of his beloved wife, Abrota, Nisos commanded all the Megarian women to wear a garment of the same kind as Abrota had worn, which was called aphábroma (ἀφάβρωμα) and was still in use in the time of Plutarch.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Absyrtus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Apsyrtos) Involved in Jason's escape with the golden fleece from Colchis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Aeëtes
- child - Asterodeia
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Achiroe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Acrisius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was the grandfather of the famous Greek demi-god Perseus through his only daughter Danaë. His other daughter was Evarete, wife of King Oenomaus of Pisa in Elis.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Actor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Phorbas and Hyrmine, thus a brother of Augeas and Tiphys. He was king of Elis, and founded the city of Hyrmina, which he named after his mother. Actor married Molione and became by her father of the twins known as the Molionides, Eurytus and Cteatus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Molionidai - stepchild
- child - Hyrmine
- married - Molione
- child - Phorbas
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Adikia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of injustice and wrong-doing. She was depicted as an ugly, barbarian woman with tattooed skin. Her opposite number was Dike (Justice) who was sometimes depicted beating her with a club.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Adonis
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Born from his mother when she was turned into a Myrrh tree. his mother Myrrha when she Aphrodite found the baby, and took him to the underworld to be fostered by Persephone. She returned for him once he was grown and discovered him to be strikingly handsome. However, Persephone too found Adonis to be exceedingly handsome and wanted to keep Adonis for she too fell in love with him; Zeus settled the dispute by decreeing that Adonis would spend one third of the year with Aphrodite, one third with Persephone, and one third with whomever he chose. Adonis chose Aphrodite, and they remained constantly together. He was considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Adrastus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Eurydice, Possibly fought in the Trojan war and was killed by Patroclus.
Another Adrastus was the son of Merops of Percote, captured by Menelaus and killed by Agamemmnon, but this is probably a different perosn of the same name.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurydice - child
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Aeacus
Status: alive
Biography: (Aiakos) Born on an island called Oenone, which was inhabited at the time, Zues turned all the ants into men, forming the Myrmidons. Aeacus became the ruler of the Myrmidons. Aeacus was considered a just and pious ruler, and was asked to judge over disputes of both men and gods all over Greece. The inhabitants of Aegina also believed that their ruler had created the cliffs that surrounded the island, in order to protect it from pirates. When Aeacus died, he went to the Underworld, where he became one of the three judges, the other two being Minos and Rhadamanthus.
Life Stages: Apotheosis, King, Mortal
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Aegina
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Aigina) Naiad-nymph loved by the god Zeus. He carried her off in the guise of an eagle to the island of Aigina which was named after her. Aegina bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus, both of whom became kings. A certain Damocrateia, who married Menoetius, was also called her daughter by Zeus.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Aeacus - child
- child - Asopos
- child - Metope
- turned - The Naiads
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Aegyptus
Status: alive
Biography: Legendary king of ancient Egypt. He was a descendant of the princess Io through his father Belus, and of the river-god Nilus as both the father of Achiroe, his mother and as a great, great-grandfather on his father's side. Aegyptus fathered fifty sons by different women: six of whom by a woman of royal blood called Argyphia; ten by an Arabian woman; seven by a Phoenician woman; three by Tyria; twelve by the naiad Caliadne; six by Gorgo and lastly another six by Hephaestine.
According to Hippostratus, Aegyptus had these progeny by a single woman called Eurryroe, daughter of NilusLife Stages: King, Mortal
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Aello
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 34
(Aellopos) A harpy SAME AS PODARGELife Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- Horses of Erechtheus - child
- The Horse of Ares - child
- pollinated - Boreas
- turned - The Harpies
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Aeneas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Trojan hero in Greco-Roman mythology, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite. His father was a second cousin of King Priam of Troy (both being great-grandsons of Tros, founder of Troy), making Aeneas a third cousin to Priam's children (such as Hector and Paris). He is a minor character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad. Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is cast as an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Aeolia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Amythaon and wife of Calydon, eponym of the city in Aetolia. She had two daughters: Epicaste, wife of Agenor, and Protogeneia, mother of Oxylus by Ares.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Aeolus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Aiolos) Ruler of Aeolia (later called Thessaly), and the eponym of the Aeolians, one of the four main tribes of the Greeks. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, Aeolus was the father of seven sons: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, and five daughters: Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, and Perimede.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Aepytus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the mythical kings of Arcadia who originally ruled over Phaesana on the Alpheius. When Cleitor, the son of Azan, died without leaving any issue, Aepytus succeeded him and became king of the Arcadians, a part of whose country was called after him Aepytis. He is said to have been killed during the chase on Mount Sepia by the bite of a venomous snake. His tomb there was still shown in the time of Pausanias, and he was anxious to see it, because it was mentioned by Homer.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Aergia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of idleness, laziness, indolence and sloth. Her opposite number was probably Hormes (Effort).
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Aether
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 7
(Aither) Primordial god of light and the bright, blue ether of the heavens. His mists filled the space between the solid dome of the sky (Ouranos) and the transparent mists of the earth-bound air (Chaos). In the evening his mother Nyx drew her dark veil across the sky, obscuring the ether and bringing night. In the morn his sister Hemera dispersed night's mist to reveal the shining blue ether of day. In the ancient cosmogonies night and day were regarded as elements separate from the sun.Life Stages: Protogenoi, Sky God
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Aethlius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The first king of Elis. Married to Calyce by whom he fathered Endymion.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Calyce - married
- Endymion - child
- child - Protogeneia
- child - Zeus
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Aethusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther and Linus. Through either of the latter two, Aethusa became the grandmother of Pierus, father of Oeagrus, father of the musician Orpheus. Because of this genealogical fact, she was usually identified as a Thracian.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Aetolus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aetolus' father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon and Epeius to decide by a contest at Olympia as to which of them was to succeed him in his kingdom of Elis. Epeius gained the victory, and occupied the throne after his father, and on his demise he was succeeded by Aetolus. During the funeral games which were celebrated in honor of Azan, he ran with his chariot over Apis, the son of Jason or Salmoneus, and killed him, whereupon he was expelled by the sons of Apis. The kingdom then passed to Eleius, son of his sister Eurycyda. After leaving Peloponnesus, he went to the country of the Curetes, between the Achelous and the Corinthian gulf, where he slew Dorus, Laodocus, and Polypoetes, the sons of Apollo and Phthia, and gave to the country the name of Aetolia. This story is only a mythical account of the colonization of Aetolia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Pleuron - child
- Calydon - child
- child - Endymion
- child - Iphianassa
- married - Pronoe
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Aeëtes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the island of Colchis. In the myth of Phrixus and Helle, the twins that escaped from the wrath of their stepmother, Aeetes welcomed Phrixus when he arrived in Colchis and protected him; in fact, he later married Aeetes’ daughter, Chalciope, and Phrixus gave the famous Golden Fleece to the king as a gift. The Golden Fleece became the item of desire for Jason and the Argonauts, and after successfully completing the tasks that Aeetes asked, they managed to take it for themselves.
Life Stages: King
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Agave
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Cadmus and a princess of Thebes. She is most well known for her role in the myths surrounding her nephew, Dionysus, god of wine. Agave was the eldest daughter of Cadmus, a legendary hero, king, and founder of the city of Thebes, and of the goddess Harmonia, goddess of harmony. She had three sisters: Autonoë, Ino and Semele, and a brother, Polydorus. Agave married Echion, one of the five Spartoi, and was the mother of Pentheus, a king of Thebes, and Epirus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Agenor
Status: alive
Biography: Phoenician king of Tyre or Sidon. Agenor's children; he was said to have been the father of Cadmus, Cilix, Phoenix, Phineus, and Thasus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Agenor
Status: alive
Pronouns: her/he
Biography: A son of King Pleuron of Aetolia and Xanthippe, and grandson of Aetolus. His siblings were Stratonice, Sterope and Laophonte. Agenor married his cousin Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, who became by him the mother of Porthaon and Demonice.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Agraulus
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Actaeus (Telchines?)
had a son Erysichthon, who departed this life childless; and Cecrops had daughters, Agraulus, Herse, and Pandrosus. Agraulus had a daughter Alcippe by Ares. In attempting to violate Alcippe, Halirrhothius, son of Poseidon and a nymph Euryte, was detected and killed by Ares. Impeached by Poseidon, Ares was tried in the Areopagus before the twelve gods, and was acquitted.Relationships:
- Kekrops - married
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Aidos
Status: alive
Biography: (Aedos) Goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of modesty, shame, reverence and respect. She was a companion of the goddess Nemesis.
As a quality Aidos was the feeling of shame which restrains men from doing wrong, while Nemesis was righteous indignation aroused by the sight of wicked men receiving undeserved good fortune.Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Prometheus
- child - Pronoia
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Aigaion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 10, Pg 29
God of storms of the Aegean Sea and ally of the Titanes. Often identified with Briareus, one of the Hekatonkheires.Life Stages: Sea God
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Aiolos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Aeolus) was the divine keeper of the winds and king of the mythical, floating island of Aiolia (Aeolia). He kept the violent Storm-Winds locked safely away inside the cavernous interior of his isle, releasing them only at the command of greatest gods to wreak devastation upon the world.
The hero Odysseus once visited Aiolos' isle and was entrusted with a bag containing all of the Storm-Winds to ensure a safe voyage home. However, during the trip, the hero's greedy companions opened the bag in a search for gold and the escaping winds carried their ship all the way back to Aiolos' shore.
The Winds were often conceived of as horse-shaped gods or spirits, and as such Aiolos was titled Hippotades, "the reiner of horses."
Homer's wind-god Aiolos bears many similarities to Hesiod's Ouranos (Uranus)--both are described as having six sons and daughers joined in wedlock, and both kept a group of storm-spirits locked behind a threshold of bronze. In the case of Ouranos, the twelve children were the Titan-gods, and the storm-gods were the Hekatonkheires (Hecatoncheires) and Kyklopes (Cyclopes) in Tartaros.
All that Homer's Odyssey tells us about Aeolus' family is that his father was Hippotes, that he had six sons and six daughters, that Aeolus gave his six daughters to his six sons as wives, and that Aeolus, his wife, and all their children lived happily together on the idyllic island paradise of Aeolia. In Euripides' lost tragedy Aeolus, one of Aeolus' six sons is named Macareus, and one of his six daughters is named Canace (also the name of one of the five daughters of Aeolus son of Hellen).
Aeolus' children: the sons Periphas, Agenor, Euchenor, Clymenus, Xuthus and Macareus, and daughters Clymene, Callithyia, Eurygone, Lysidice, Canace and an unnamed one.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
- child - Hippotes
- child - Melanippe / Okyrrhoe
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Aisepos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Aesepus) was a river-god of the Troad in northern Mysia, Anatolia (modern Turkey).
The Aisepos River had its headwaters in the foothills of Mount Ida near the town of Skepsis (Scepsis) and emptied into the Hellespont in the vicinity of Zeleia. The most important neighbouring rivers were the Grenikos (Grenicus) to the west, and the Rhyndakos (Rhyndacus) and the Askanios (Ascanius) in the east.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Abarbaree - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Aitna
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Etna) Goddess of Mount Etna, one of the Ourea. The giant Enkelados was buried beneath her and his restless turning cause earthquakes and lava flow.
Life Stages: Mountian God, Ourea, Rustic
Relationships:
- The Palikoi - child
- turned - Ourea
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Ajax
Status: alive
Biography: Named because when Hercules had prayed that his father might have a male child, an eagle appeared after the prayer.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Akheilos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Acheilus) A shark-formed sea daimon. He was once a handsome boy who was transformed into a shark by the goddess Aphrodite as punishment for boasting he was more beautiful she.
Life Stages: Beast
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Akheloios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Achelous) River-God of Aitolia (Aetolia) in central Greece. As the deity of the largest river in the region he was often portrayed as the god of fresh-water in general. Akheloios competed with Herakles for the hand of the Aitolian princess Deianeira. During their wrestling match the hero tore off one of the god's horns forming the legendary Cornucopia or Horn of Plenty. The Akheloios river rises in the Pindar mountain range, flows south through the heart of Aitolia and Akarnania (Acarnania), to empty into the Ionian Sea near the mouth of the Gulf of Korinthos (Corinth). The most significant neighbouring river is the Euenos (Evenus) to the east.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Melpomene - married
- The Seirenes - child
- Eurymedousa - child
- Hippodamas - child
- partner - Perimede
- turned - The Potamoi
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Alala
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of the war-cry.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Polemos
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Alcidice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Aleus, the king of Arkadia
Life Stages: Mortal
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Alcyone
Status: alive
Biography: Pleiad-nymph of Mount Kithairon (Cithaeron) in Boiotia (central Greece) loved by the god Poseidon.
She attracted the attention of the god Poseidon and bore him several children, variously named in the sources: Hyrieus, Hyperenor, and Aethusa; Hyperes and Anthas; and Epopeus. By a mortal, Anthedon, Alcyone became the mother of the fisherman Glaucus, who was later transformed into a marine god.Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
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Alebion and Dercynus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Dercynus (also called Bergion or Ligys), In one source, Alebion was also known as Ialebion
The two brothers engaged into battle with Heracles at Liguria of North-Western Italy.
Alebion attacked Heracles with Dercynus when he passed through their country, Liguria in North-Western Italy, on his way back to Mycenae from Iberia having obtained the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour. The battle that followed was fierce; Albion and Dercynus (or Bergion) were supported by a numerous army. Heracles and his army were in a difficult position so he prayed to his father Zeus for help. With the aegis of Zeus, Heracles won the battle, and both brothers were killed. t was this kneeling position of Heracles, when he prayed to his father Zeus, that gave the name Engonasin (Ἐγγόνασιν, derived from ἐν γόνασιν), meaning "on his knees" or "the Kneeler" to Hercules' constellation.
Having obtained the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour, Heracles was passing through Liguria, on his way back to Mycenae from Iberia. Dercynus and Albion were supported by a numerous army. The battle that followed was fierce. Hercules and his army were in a difficult position so he prayed to his father Zeus for help. With the aegis of Zeus, Heracles won the battle and both brothers were killed.[5] It was this kneeling position of Heracles when prayed to his father Zeus that gave the name Engonasin ("Εγγόνασιν", derived from "εν γόνασιν"), meaning "on his knees" or "the Kneeler" to Hercules' constellationLife Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Poseidon
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Alector
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Elean prince as the son of King Epeius, and brother of Hyrmine. Later on, he succeeded his father on the throne of Elis but in fear of the overlordship of King Pelops of Pisa, he summoned Phorbas from Olenus to his aid and gave his new ally a share of the kingdom. By Phorbas’ daughter, Diogeneia, Alector became father of Amarynceus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Diogeneia - married
- Amarynceus - child
- child - Anaxiroe
- child - Epeius
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Alectrona
Status: alive
Biography: (Electryone) Goddess of the sun and morning, associated with sunrise, dawn, and the "waking sense" of humans, she represents light, hope, and the start of a new day.
Life Stages: Sky God
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Aleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: him
Biography: King of Arcadia, eponym of Alea, and founder of the cult of Athena Alea.
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, King, Mortal
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Alkathous
Status: alive
Biography: (Alcathus) son of Pelops
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Periboia - child
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Almus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Halmus) A Corinthian prince who later founded the Boeotian town of Halmones or Holmones, in the neighborhood of Orchomenus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Chrysogeneia - child
- child - Merope
- child - Sisyphus
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Aloeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Haloeus) Thessalian prince as the son of Poseidon and princess Canace. His first wife was his niece Iphimedeia, and later Eriboea, daughter of Eurymachus. In some accounts, Aloeus was the father of Salmoneus who founded Elis, the girls Elate and Platanus, the twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, collectively known as the Aloadae and lastly, the maiden Pancratis. These giants made war on the gods and captured the god Ares in a bag. Aloeus's wife Eriboea reported this to the gods, for which Aloeus had her flayed alive. In Virgil's Aeneid, the sons of Aloeus were found in the underworld and there Aeneas sees them being punished by Rhadamanthus. This scene from Virgil was a precursor to Dante's depiction of Hell. Aloeus was credited to have founded the city of Alus in Aetolia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Iphimedeia - married
- child - Canace
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Alpheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River god who embodied the river of the same name.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Melantheia - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Althaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Queen of Calydon through her marriage to King Oeneus. Althaea appears in myths surrounding the fabled Calydonian boar hunt, and is infamous for murdering her son Meleager. Althaea was the daughter of King Thestius of Aetolia, son of Ares. She was therefore a Pleuronian princess. Through her sister Leda, Althaea was the aunt of Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux. Althaea married Oeneus, king of Calydon. Together they had sons Meleager, Toxeus, Thyreus, Pheres, Clymenus, Agelaus, Periphas and daughters Deianeira, Gorge, Melanippe and Eurymede. According to some accounts, Meleager was the result of a liaison with Ares, and Ancaeus was named as her son by the god Poseidon. Likewise, Deianeira was sometimes described as the daughter of Dionysus; Hyginus wrote that the affair was carried out with Oeneus' permission and knowledge, and as a reward, Dionysus taught him how to cultivate grapes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Perimede - child
- child - Eurythemis
- married - Oeneus
- child - Thestius
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Amaltheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Amalthea) was the she-goat nurse of the god Zeus who nourished him with milk in a cave on Mount Dikte (Dicte) in Krete (Crete). When the god reached maturity he created his thunder-shield (the aigis) from her hide and the horn of plenty (cornucopia or keras amaltheias) from her crown. According to some Amaltheia was a nymphe rather than a goat.
Amaltheia was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capra--the stellar group surrounding Capella on the arm (ôlenê) of the Auriga the Charioteer. The "goat on the arm" no doubt represented the stormy aigis-shield of Zeus which in classical art was sometimes depicted as a tasselled hide slung across his arm. The rising of Capella marked the onset of stormy weather for the Greeks. The word aigis means both "stormy weather" and "goat-skin" in ancient Greek which explains the close connection between the two in myth.Relationships:
- child - Haimonios
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Amarynceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A chief of the Eleans. According to Hyginus, Amarynceus himself joined the expedition against Troy with nineteen ships. Homer, on the other hand, only mentions Amarynceus' son Diores (also known by the patronymic Amarynceides) as partaking in the Trojan War. When Amarynceus died, his sons celebrated funeral games in his honor, in which Nestor took part. According to Pausanias, Amarynceus had been of great service to Augeas against Heracles, in return for which Augeas shared his throne with him.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Mnesimache - married
- Diores - child
- child - Alector
- child - Diogeneia
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Ameinias
Status: alive
Biography: Admirer of Narcissus, killed himself on Narcissus' door after he rejected Ameinias. Before killing himself, he called upon Nemesis to avenge him and cure Narcissus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Narcissus - crush
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Amphimarus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A lord of Mount Helikon in Boiotia (central Greece) or Khalkis in Euboia (Central Greece).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Amphitrite
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess-queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. She was the female personification of the sea--the loud-moaning mother of fish, seals and dolphins.
When Poseidon first sought Amphitrite's hand in marriage, she fled his advances, and hid herself away near Atlas in the Ocean stream at the far ends of the earth. The dolphin-god Delphin eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king.
Mother of some seals, dolphins, fish, and shellfishLife Stages: Nereid, Sea God
Relationships:
- Rhode - child
- Triton - child
- Kymopoleia - child
- Benthesikyme - child
- married - Poseidon
- turned - The Nereides
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Amykos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia. Amycus was a doughty man but being a king he compelled strangers to box as a way of killing them. When the Argonauts passed through Bithynia, Amycus challenged the best man of the crew to a boxing match. Polydeuces undertook to box against him and killed him with a blow on the elbow. When the Bebryces rush to avenge him, the chiefs snatched up their arms and put them to flight with great slaughter.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Amymone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Danaides. The family emigrated from Libya to Argos in the Greek Peloponnese but arrived to find a land parched by drought. Danaus sent his daughters out in search of water and in the course of her wanderings Amymone came upon Lerna where she was seduced by the god Poseidon. As a reward he caused a spring of water to gush from the earth, relieving the Argive drought.
Some time later the fifty sons of Danaus' twin brother Aigyptos (Aegyptus) arrived in Argos seeking the hands of the Danaides in marriage. They forced the king to agree but the girls, conspiring with their father, murdered them all on the wedding night. Amymone herself slew Enkelados (Enceladus).Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- Poseidon - partner
- Nauplios - child
- turned - The Danaides
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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. Amythaon dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene , became the father of Bias, Melampus, Aeolia, and Perimele.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Anaideia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of ruthlessness and unforgivingness. She was a companion of Hybris (Violence). Her opposite number was Eleos (Mercy).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Anaxiroe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Coronus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ancaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the island of Samos, and an Argonaut: helmsmanship was his special skill. According to a lost epic of his house, sung by the Samian poet Asios, he married Samia, daughter of the river god Maeander, who bore him Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses, and Parthenope, the mother of Lycomedes.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- Samia - married
- child - Astypalaea
- child - Poseidon
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Anchiale
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Ankhiale) The Titan goddess of the warming heat of fire. She was the wife of Hekateros (Hecaterus), Titan-god of hands, and the mother of the metal-working Daktyloi (Dactyls), "the Fingers." These rustic deities together represented the power of the human hand to create and utilise fire. Ankhiale's brother, Prometheus, famously stole fire from heaven for man.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- The Daktyloi - child
- The Hekaterides - child
- Oaxos - child
- Kydnos - child
- child - Clymene
- married - Hecaterus
- child - Iapetos
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Anchises
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aphrodite met in love's dalliance and bore two sons.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Andraimon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Andraemon) An early king of the mountain-dwelling Dryopes tribe
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Andromeda
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: When Cassiopeia boasts that she (or Andromeda) is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia as divine punishment. Queen Cassiopeia understands that chaining Andromeda to a rock as a human sacrifice is what will appease Poseidon. Perseus finds her as he is coming back from his quest to decapitate Medusa, and brings her back to Greece to marry her and let her reign as his queen. With the head of Medusa, Perseus petrifies Cetus to stop it from terrorizing the coast any longer.
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical antiquity; rescued by a Greek hero, Andromeda's narration is considered the forerunner to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story has appeared many times in such diverse media as plays, poetry, novels, operas, classical and popular music, film, and paintings. A significant part of the northern sky contains several constellations named after the story's figures; in particular, the constellation Andromeda is named after her.
Her mother Cassiopeia foolishly boasts that she is more beautiful than the Nereids,a display of hubris by a human that is unacceptable to the gods. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon floods the kingdom's coast and sends a sea monster named Cetus to ravage its inhabitants. In desperation, King Cepheus consults the oracle of Ammon, who announces that no respite can be found until the king sacrifices his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. She is thus stripped naked and chained to a rock in Jaffa by the sea to await her death. Perseus is just then flying near the coast of Aethiopia on his winged sandals or on Pegasus the winged horse, having slain the Gorgon Medusa and carrying her severed head, which instantly petrifies any who look at it. Upon seeing Andromeda bound to the rock, Perseus falls in love with her, and he secures Cepheus's promise of her hand in marriage if he can save her. Perseus kills the monster with the Medusa's head, saving Andromeda. Preparations are then made for their marriage, in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle, Phineus. At the wedding, a quarrel between the rivals ends when Perseus shows Medusa's head to Phineus and his allies, turning them to stone.
Andromeda follows her husband to his native island of Seriphos, where he rescues his mother, Danaë from her unwanted wedding to the king of that island. They next go to Argos, where Perseus is the rightful heir to the throne. However, after accidentally killing his grandfather Acrisius, the king of Argos, Perseus chooses to become king of neighboring Tiryns instead. The mythographer Apollodorus states that Perseus and Andromeda have six sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and a daughter, Gorgophone. Their descendants rule Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attains the kingdom. The Greek hero Heracles is also a descendant, as his mother Alcmene is the daughter of Electryon.
According to the Catasterismi, Andromeda is placed in the sky by Athena as the constellation Andromeda, in a pose with her limbs outstretched, similar to when she was chained to the rock, in commemoration of Perseus' bravery in fighting the sea monster.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
- Mestor - child
- child - Cassiopeia
- child - Cepheus
- married - Perseus
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Anemoi Thuellai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Daimones of the violent storm-winds, sons of the monstrous hurricane-giant Typhoeus. They were kept locked away inside the floating island of Aiolos (Aeolus) and released at the command of the gods to wreak their havoc.
Their female counterparts were the Harpyiai (Harpies) (also known as the Aellai and Thuellai).
The storm-winds were often conflated with the gentler Anemoi of the four directional winds--Boreas (the North Wind), Notos (the South-Wind) and Zephyros (the West-Wind) and Euros (the East-Wind).Life Stages: Daimon, Sky God
Relationships:
- child - Typhoeus
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Antaios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Antaeus) was a Libyan giant who forced travellers passing through his land to compete with him in a wrestling match. He overwhelmed them all and used their skulls to roof the temple of his father Poseidon.
Antaios was a son of Gaia of the Earth, and it was from her that he drew his invincible strength. When Herakles encountered him in the ring, Athene advised the him to lift the giant up from the earth in the contest. He did so, and weakening the monster was able to crush his ribs and kill him.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Anteros
Status: alive
Biography: God of requited love and the avenger of the unrequited. He was numbered amongst the Erotes, winged godlings in the train of Aphrodite.
Anteros was often depicted opposite Eros on Aphrodite's scales of love.Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
- surrogate - Aphrodite
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Anthas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Poseidon and Alcyone, and brother of Hyperes. The brothers were eponymous founders and first kings of the cities Hyperea and Anthea in a region they reigned over; later on these two cities were merged into the historical Troezen. Anthas was father of at least two sons, Aëtius and Dius, of whom Aëtius was the successor to both his father and uncle, and further co-ruled with Pittheus and Troezen. The descendants of Anthas through Aëtius reputedly founded colonies in Caria: Halicarnassus and Myndus, and accordingly the people of Halicarnassus were referred to by the poetic epithet Antheades 'descendants of Anthas'. Alternately, Halicarnassus was founded by Anthas himself. Anthas also was the presumed eponym of Anthedon, over which he was said to have reigned,[1] and of Anthana in Laconia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Anthedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Mortal, father of Glaucus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Antiope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of the twin heroes Amphion and Zethus by Zeus the king of the gods. Her myth has many variations, but they all agree that Antiope is forced to expose her children after their birth and then spends many years being abused by her uncle and his wife before her sons save her.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Apate
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Personified spirit of deceit, deception, guile and fraud. She was a companion of the Pseudologoi (Lies). Her male counterpart was Dolos, daimon of trickery, and her opposite number was Aletheia, the spirit of truth.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Aphareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Messenian king. It is said that Aphareus together with his brother Leucippus inherited their father's kingdom upon his death, but the former kept the greater authority than the latter. Aphareus was credited with founding the city Arene in Messenia, which was named after his wife. When Hippocoon usurped the throne of Sparta, Tyndareus fled to his step-brother Aphareus in Messenia where he settled in Thalamae and while living there, children were born to him
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Arene - married
- Idas - child
- Lynceus - child
- child - Gorgophone
- child - Perieres
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Apheidas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Became kind of Tegea after his father died. He was the brother of Elatus, Azan and Tripylus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aleus - child
- child - Arkas
- child - Chrysopeleia / Erato
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Aphrodite
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman often accompanied by the winged godling Eros (Love). Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. In classical sculpture and fresco she was usually depicted nude.
Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
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Apollo
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Olympian god of prophecy, music, poetry, healing and archery.
This page provides a comprehensive overview of the children of the god. Most of these, however, were only linked to him with the briefest of genealogical references. Some were assigned his parentage to emphasize their skill as bards and seers. Others were the mythic founders of historical noble houses and priestly clans.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Arabius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of Arabia, and the son of Hermes and Thronia, daughter of King Belus of Egypt.[2] He fathered Cassiopeia, wife of King Phoenix of Phoenicia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Cassiopeia - child
- child - Hermes
- child - Thronia
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Arcesius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Zeus made Arcesius' line one of "only sons": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus (albeit siring a daughter named Ctimene ), whose only son was Telemachus. Arcesius's wife (and thus mother of Laertes) was Chalcomedusa.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Areion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An immortal horse born to the goddess Demeter after Poseidon raped her in the guise of a horse. It was first owned by the Arkadian Onkios (Oncius), then Herakles (Heracles) and finally Adrastos (Adrastus).
Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
- Sthenelos' Horse - child
- child - Demeter
- child - Poseidon
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Arene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Aphareus and mother of Idas and Lynceus in Greek mythology
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Idas - child
- Lynceus - child
- married - Aphareus
- child - Gorgophone
- child - Oebalus
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Ares
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Olympian god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. In ancient Greek art he was depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Arethusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Boeotian daughter of Hyperes. She was the mother of Abas, king of the Abantians in Euboea by Poseidon. The god had intercourse with Arethusa in Boeotian Euripus and was changed into a fountain in Chalcis by Hera.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Argos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King and eponym of Argos
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Arkas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Callisto, Arkas' mother, was turned into a bear by Artemis. Hunters later caught and delivered her and her son Arkas to King Lykaon. When the boy was fully grown, Kallisto inadvertently wandered into the sanctuary of Zeus Lykaios and Arkas, not knowing the bear's identity, tried to kill her for the sacrilege but Zeus intervened by transferring the pair to the stars. In another version, Zeus sent Hermes to recover the child Arkas from her womb and delivered him into the care of the nymphe Maia. Kallisto was again placed amongst the stars. Arkas claimed his throne and ruled a new generation of Pelasgian tribesmen born of the oaks. His descendants ruled the kingdom right down to the time of the Trojan War.
Life Stages: Tree III, Mortal
Relationships:
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Arke
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 29
The messenger of the Titan-gods. Arke may have represented the faded secondary rainbow which is sometimes seen in the sky in the shadow of the first.
After the war Zeus stripped her of her wings, and cast her into the pit of Tartarus. Zeus afterwards punished her for this by throwing her into Tartarus and depriving her of her wings, which were given to Thetis at her marriage with Peleus. Thetis afterwards fixed these wings to the feet of her son Achilles.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Arne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: also called Melanippe or Antiopa, was the daughter of Aeolus and Melanippe (also Hippe or Euippe), daughter of Chiron.
Aeolus entrusted her to the care of one Desmontes. However, Poseidon fathered Aeolus and Boeotus with her while he was in the form of a bull. Enraged, Desmontes entombed and blinded her and placed her twin sons on Mount Pelion. She was later rescued by her sons and married king Metapontus of Icaria, and Poseidon restored her vision.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Boeotus - child
- child - Aeolus
- child - Melanippe / Okyrrhoe
- pollinated - Poseidon
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Artemis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olympian goddess of hunting, the wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage--her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bringers of sudden death and disease--Artemis targetted women and girls, Apollon men and boys.
In ancient art Artemis was usually depicted as a girl or young maiden with a hunting bow and quiver of arrows.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Askre
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Ascra) Naiad-nymph of the main spring, well or fountain of the town of Askra in Boiotia (central Greece). She was loved by the god Poseidon.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Oioklos - child
- partner - Poseidon
- turned - The Naiads
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Asopos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-God of Sikyonia in the Peloponnesos and Boiotia in central Greece. His twenty beautiful daughters were abducted by gods and became the Naiad-nymphs of the springs of a host of Boiotian, Korinthian, Sikyonian, Argive and island towns. When Asopos tried to recover his stolen daughter Aigina (Aegina) from Zeus, the god drove him back with a thunderbolt.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
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Aspledon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Regarded as the founder of Aspledon, an ancient town of the Minyans in Boeotia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Assarakos
Status: alive
Pronouns: him
Relationships:
- Hieromneme - married
- Capys - child
- child - Tros
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Asteria
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan goddess of falling stars and perhaps of nighttime divinations such as oneiromancy (by dreams) and astrology (by stars). After the fall of the Titans, Zeus chased Asteria across the sky but she escaped him by transforming herself into a quail and leaping into the sea to became the island of Delos. Her sister Leto later gave birth to Apollo and Artemis on the isle.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Asterion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river-god of Argos. He had three daughters, Euboea, Prosymna, and Acraea, who were the nurses of Hera. Asterion was one of the three river-gods (the other two being Inachus and Cephisus) who awarded the territory of Argolis to Hera over Poseidon. Poseidon, in anger, made the waters of all three rivers disappear so that they don't flow unless it rains, and are dry in summer.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Euboea - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Asterion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was a King of Crete and the foster-father of Minos. Asterion brought up his stepsons: Minos, the just king in Crete who judged the Underworld; Rhadamanthus, presiding over the Blessed Island or in the Underworld; and Sarpedon, king in Lycia. When he died without male heirs, Asterion gave his kingdom to Minos, who promptly "banished" his brothers after quarreling with them.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Asterodeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a gold-bearing stream of the Kaukasos (Caucasus) Mountains. She was loved by King Aeetes of Kholkis (Colchis) and bore him a son named Apsyrtos. Asterodeia was the nymph of a gold-bearing stream which sparkled like a "rosy-star". Ancient Greek writers commenting on the story of the Golden Fleece note that tribesmen of the Kaukasos mountains collected gold from the streams with the aid of lambskin fleeces. Also, n the tale of the Argonauts, the heroes stole not only the fleece but also Apsyrtos--the boy of the gold-bearing stream.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Asterope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pleiad star-nymph of the town of Pisa in Elis (southern Greece). She was loved by the god Ares and bore him Oinomaos (Oenomaus), the barbaric founding king of Pisa.
Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Oenomaus - child
- Ares - partner
- turned - The Pleiades
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Astra Planeta
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Gods of the five wandering stars. They were named Phainon (planet Saturn), Phaethon (planet Jupiter), Pyroeis (planet Mars), Eosphoros (planet Venus) and Stilbon (planet Mercury). In ancient Greek vase painting they were depicted as youths diving into the earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus) before the rising chariot of the sun-god Helios.
The three remaining planets--Uranus, Neptune and Pluto--are invisible to the naked eye and were only discovered and named in modern times.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Astraeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Astraios) was the Titan god of stars and planets and of the art of astrology. He was the father of the four directional winds and the five wandering stars (the Planeta) by his wife Eos, the goddess of the dawn.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Eos - married
- The Anemoi - child
- Astra Planeta - child
- Eosphoros and Hesperos - child
- Astraia - child
- child - Eurybia
- child - Krios
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Astraia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Astraea) Virgin-goddess of justice. During the Golden Age she dwelt upon the earth with mankind but was driven away by the increasing lawlessness of the subsequent Bronze Age. Zeus then set her amongst the stars as the constellation Virgo.
Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Astris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 34
Indian star-nymphLife Stages: Star Nymph
Relationships:
- The Hydaspides - child
- child - Ceto
- child - Helios
- married - Hydaspes
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Astynous
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was the father of King Sandocus of Celendreis who in turn fathered King Cinyras of Cyprus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Astyokhe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a fresh-water spring or fountain of the town of Troy in the Troad (Anatolia). Her son Tros was the eponymous founding-king of the city.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Tros - child
- married - Erikhthonios
- child - Simoeis
- turned - The Naiads
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Astypalaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phoenician princess as the daughter of King Phoenix and Perimede, daughter of Oeneus; thus she was the sister of Europa. Astypale was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her, and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos, and Eurypylos, King of Kos. The island of Astypalaia was believed to have been named after her.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Atalanta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: From Arcadia, whose parents were Iasus and Clymene and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ate
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daiomona of delusion, infatuation, blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path of ruin. Her power was countered by the Litai (Litae) (Prayers) which followed in her wake.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Athamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Boeotian king. Athamas sired several children by his first wife, the goddess Nephele, and his other wives Ino and Themisto. Nephele first bore to him twins, a son Phrixus and a daughter Helle; and also a second son, Makistos. He subsequently married Ino, daughter of Cadmus, with whom he had two children: Learches and Melicertes.
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Athena
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olympian goddess of wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts. She was depicted as a stately woman armed with a shield and spear, and wearing a long robe, crested helm, and the famed aigis--a snake-trimmed cape adorned with the monstrous visage of the Gorgon Medousa .
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Athos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of Mt. Thrake
Life Stages: Mountian God, Ourea, Rustic
Relationships:
- turned - Ourea
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Atlas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance.
Atlas was a leader of the Titanes (Titans) in their war against Zeus and after their defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders. According to others he was instead (or later) appointed guardian of the pillars which held the earth and sky asunder. Atlas was also the god who instructed mankind in the art of astronomy, a tool which was used by sailors in navigation and farmers in measuring the seasons. These roles were often combined and Atlas becomes the god who turns the heaven on their axis, causing the stars to revolve.
The Titan was also the constellation Kneeler.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Pleione - married
- The Pleiades - child
- The Hyades - child
- Hyas - child
- Calypso - child
- Maira - child
- child - Clymene
- child - Iapetos
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Atthis
Status: alive
Relationships:
- Erichthonius - child
- child - Cranaus
- child - Pedias
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Auxesia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Auxo) Goddess Hora (Season) or Kharis (Grace) of spring growth.
Life Stages: Horai
Relationships:
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Balios and Xanthos
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: BALIOS and XANTHOS were a pair of immortal horses which the hero Peleus received from Poseidon at his marriage to the goddess Thetis. They drew the chariot of the couple's son Akhilleus (Achilles) during the Trojan War.
Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
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Bellerophon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Bellerophontes) One of the most celebrated heroes of myth. In his youth Bellerophontes captured the winged horse Pegasos as it came to drink from the town's fountain.
He was later exiled for the murder of a family member and journeyed to the court of King Proitos (Proetus) in Argos for purification. The queen, however, developed a lust for the hero and when he spurned her, she told her husband he had tried to violate her.
Proitos then sent him off to King Iobates in Lykia (Lycia) with a closed letter requesting the youth be put to death. Iobates was reluctant to do this himself and so commanded Bellerophontes to slay the fire-breathing Khimaira (Chimera) which was ravaging the land. He rode into battle against the beast on the back of Pegasos and slew it by driving a lead-tipped spear into its fiery gullet.
The king then ordered him to subdue the barbarous Solymoi tribe, and later the Amazones, but again he proved victorious. Finally, Iobates commanded his guards to ambush and kill the youth, but he slew them all. The king was forced to acknowledge that Bellerophontes must be the son of a god and welcomed him into his house as his son-in-law and heir.
Despite all of his successes, Bellerophontes was still not satisfied and sought to ascend to heaven on the back of Pegasos. Zeus was angered by his presumption and sent a gadfly to sting the horse, causing it to buck and cast the hero back down to earth. After this he wandered the world alone, despised by both gods and men.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
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Belus
Status: alive
Biography: Ruled in Egypt
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Benthesikyme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the foster mother of Eumolpus. After Chione slept with Poseidon, she gave birth to Eumolpus, but, to avoid the detection of her father, she threw the infant into the sea. Poseidon rescued the child, and gave it to Benthesikyme to raise. Once Eumolpus had grown up, the husband of Benthesikyme gave to him one of their own two daughters; he was later expelled for attempting to violate the sister of wife.
Relationships:
- Eumolpus - surrogate
- child - Amphitrite
- child - Poseidon
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Bia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of force, power, might, bodily strength and compulsion. She, her sister Nike (Victory), and brothers Kratos (Cratus, Strength) and Zelos (Rivalry), were the winged enforcers of Zeus who stood in attendance by his throne.
Life Stages: Daimon
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Bias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Lelex
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Boeotus
Status: alive
Biography: eponym of Boeotia in Greece. Poseidon fathered both Aeolus and Boeotus with Arne (Melanippe). It was then through Boeotus that Arne became the ancestress of the Boeotians.
A late source tells the story of Boeotus' marriage to Eurythemista. Boeotus was planning to get married and had difficulty choosing between two candidates, both equally noble maidens (one of them was Eurythemista and the other one's name is not given). He arranged to meet both on top of a nameless mountain; when they came, he saw a star fall on Eurythemista's shoulder and immediately vanish, and chose her. The mountain was named Asterion (from astēr, "star") to commemorate the event, but was later renamed Cithaeron in honor of the young Cithaeron who was loved by Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes, and killed by her for not answering her feelings, the same source relates.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurythemista - married
- Onchestos - child
- child - Arne
- child - Poseidon
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Bootes / Philomelos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Demi-god inventor of the wagon and the plough. He was set amongst the stars by his mother, the goddess Demeter, as the constellations Bootes and the Wain (Ursa Major).
Bootes means "Ploughman" from the Greek word boôtês. He was also named Philomelos "Friend of Ease" from the words philos and mêlos.Life Stages: Agrarian God
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Boreas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: BOREAS was the purple-winged god of the north wind, one of the four seasonal Anemoi. He was also the god of winter who swept down from the cold mountains of Thrake (Thrace), chilling the air with his icy breath.
Life Stages: Anemoi, Sky God
Relationships:
- Aello - pollinated
- Horses of Erechtheus - child
- Zetes and Kalais - child
- Khione - child
- The Horse of Ares - child
- Horses of Erechtheus - pollinated
- The Trojan Horses - child
- Nymphai Hyperboreiai - child
- Hyperboreades - child
- Oreithyia - pollinated
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Boukolion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan King Laomedon
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Briareos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was one of the Hekantonkheires, He was more specifically a god of sea-storms and in this guise he was often named Aigaion (Of the Aegean). Briareos wed Poseidon's daughter Kymopoleia and dwelt with her in the depths of the sea. His two brothers, on the other hand, were appointed guardians of the gates of the storm-pit Tartaros.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- Kymopoleia - married
- Oiolyka - child
- turned - The Hekatonkheires
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Britomartis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: virgin goddess of hunting-, fishing- and fowling-nets. The catch of the nets--small game, fish, and fowl--was served by the ancient Greeks as a relish beside the staple meal of bread. Bread itself was apparently the province of Britomartis' mother Karme (Carme) "Lady of the Harvest".
Britomartis was a huntress of the island of Krete (Crete). When the lustful king Minos attempted to seduce her, she fled his advances, raced the length of the island and leapt into the sea. There she was caught in the nets of fishermen and carried to the safety of the island of Aigina (Aegina).Life Stages: Apotheosis, Rustic
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Busiris
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Egyptian king of the central Delta who was killed by Heracles. Isocrates, in his witty declamation Busiris, recounts "the false tale of Heracles and Busiris" which was a comic subject represented almost entirely in the repertory of early 5th century BC Athenian vase-painters: the theme has a narrow narrative range, according to Niall Livingstone: Heracles being led to sacrifice; his escape; the killing of Busiris; the rout of his entourage.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Lysianassa
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Cadmus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Commonly stated to be a prince of Phoenicia. Originally, he was sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his Niece Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. Cadmus founded or refounded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honour. Cadmus was credited by the Greek historian Herodotus with introducing the original Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet. Modern scholarship has almost unanimously agreed with Herodotus concerning the Phoenician source of the alphabet.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Harmonia - married
- Polydorus - child
- Agave - child
- Ino - child
- Semele - child
- The Spartoi - surrogate
- child - Agenor
- child - Telephassa
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Calliope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry, so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. Hesiod and Ovid called her the "Chief of all Muses". She taught Orpheus verses for singing. According to Hesiod, she was also the wisest of the Muses, as well as the most assertive. Calliope married Oeagrus in Pimpleia, a town near Mount Olympus. She is said to have defeated the daughters of Pierus, king of Thessaly, in a singing match, and then, to punish their presumption, turned them into magpies.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- Oeagrus - married
- Orpheus - child
- turned - The Mousai
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Callisto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Kallisto) Hunting companion of the goddess Artemis. There were several contradictory versions of her story but ancient writers all agreed on a number of details:--that she was seduced by the god Zeus, transformed into a bear, bore a son named Arkas (Arcas), and was hunted down as a beast and placed amongst the stars as the constellation Ursa Major.
Zeus seduced Kallisto in the guise of the goddess Artemis. But after she was seduced by the god Zeus, she kept the fact hidden. Her condition was eventually revealed during the bath and Artemis and in her fury the goddess transformed Kallisto into a bear. Hunters later caught and delivered her and her son Arkas to King Lykaon. When the boy was fully grown, Kallisto inadvertently wandered into the sanctuary of Zeus Lykaios and Arkas, not knowing the bear's identity, tried to kill her for the sacrilege but Zeus intervened by transferring the pair to the stars.Life Stages: Mortal
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Calyce
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess as the daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. She was the sister of Athamas, Cretheus, Deioneus, Magnes, Perieres, Salmoneus, Sisyphus, Alcyone, Canace, Perimede and Peisidice. Some sources stated that Calyce was the mother of Endymion, king of Elis, by her husband Aethlius, former king of Elis[
Life Stages: Mortal
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Calyce
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Poseidon's son Cycnus. She was given as the daughter of Hecaton. Cycnus was born in secret, and left to die on the coast, but went on to become a king.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Calydon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous ruler of Calydon, a city in Aetolia. Calydon was a son of King Aetolus and Pronoe, daughter of Phorbus, and the brother of Pleuron. He married Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon, and had by her two daughters: Protogeneia, who consorted with Ares, and Epicaste, who wed her cousin Agenor.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Calypso
Status: alive
Biography: (Kalypso) Goddess-nymph of the mythical island of Ogygia and a daughter of the Titan Atlas. She detained the hero Odysseus for many years in the course of his wanderings after the fall of Troy but was eventually commanded by Zeus to release him.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
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Canace
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: In the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Canace is one of the daughters of the Thessalian king Aeolus, son of Hellen, and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. According to the Bibliotheca attributed to Apollodorus, the brothers of Canace were Athamas, Cretheus, Deioneus, Magnes, Perieres, Salmoneus, and Sisyphus; her sisters were Alcyone, Calyce, Peisidice, and Perimede.
By Poseidon she was the mother of Aloeus, Epopeus, Hopleus, Nireus and Triops.Life Stages: Mortal
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Capys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Relationships:
- Themiste - married
- Anchises - child
- child - Assarakos
- child - Hieromneme
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Cassiopeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Was the daughter of Arabus (Arabius) and by King Phoenix of Phoenicia, the mother of Phineus. She was the mother of the hero Atymnius and Anchinos was also called the son of Cassiopeia and Zeus who seduced her by changing himself into the shape of her husband Phoenix.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Cassiopeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus of Ethiopia. She was arrogant and vain, characteristics that led to the endangerment of her daughter Andromeda and her own downfall. Cassiopeia boasted that she (or her daughter Andromeda), was more beautiful than all the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus. This brought the wrath of Poseidon, ruling god of the sea, upon the kingdom of Aethiopia.
Accounts differ as to whether Poseidon decided to flood the whole country or direct the sea monster Cetus to destroy it. In either case, trying to save their kingdom, Cepheus and Cassiopeia consulted an oracle of Zeus, who told them that the only way to appease the sea gods was to sacrifice their daughter.
Accordingly, Andromeda was chained to a rock at the sea's edge and left to be killed by the sea monster. Perseus arrived and instead killed Cetus, saved Andromeda and married her.
Poseidon thought Cassiopeia should not escape punishment, so he placed her in the heavens chained to a throne in a position that referenced Andromeda's ordeal. The constellation resembles the chair that originally represented an instrument of torture. Cassiopeia is not always represented tied to the chair in torment; in some later drawings she holds a mirror, symbol of her vanity, while in others she holds a palm frond.
The constellation Cassiopeia, near to the pole star, can be seen from latitudes north of 35°N during the whole year. The constellation is also visible in countries north of the Tropic of Capricorn, in late spring.Life Stages: Mortal
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Castor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Dioskouroi (Dioscuri)
star-crowned, twin gods of St. Elmo's fire--an electrical discharge which appears on the rigging of ships portending deliverance from a storm. They were also gods of horsemanship and protectors of guests and travellers.
The twins were born as mortal princes, sons of the Spartan queen Leda by Zeus and her husband Tyndareus. Because of their kindness and generosity they were apotheosised at death. Polydeukes (Polydeuces), being a son of Zeus, was at first the only one offered this gift but he insisted it be shared with his twin Kastor (Castor). Zeus agreed, but in order to appease the Fates, the twins had to spend alternate days in heaven and the underworld.
The Dioskouroi were also placed amongst the stars as the constellation Gemini (the Twins). The division of their time between heaven and the underworld might be a reference to the heavenly cycles--for their constellation is visible in the sky for only six months of the year.
The Dioskouroi were depicted as youthful horsemen with wide-brimmed traveller's hats.Life Stages: Apotheosis, Argonaut
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Cephalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aeolian prince, the son of Deion/Deioneos, ruler of Phocis, and Diomede, and grandson of Aeolus. He was one of the lovers of the dawn goddess Eos.
Cephalus consulted an oracle, and the oracle told him that if he wished to have a son, he should mate with the first female being he saw. Cephalus then encountered a she-bear, and mated with the animal. She then transformed into a human woman and gave birth to Arcesius. Arcesius succeeded Cephalus as ruler of his Cephallenian realm. This Arcesius was sometimes said to be the grandfather of Odysseus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Tithonus - child
- Procris - married
- Euryodeia - partner
- Arcesius - child
- Eosphoros and Hesperos - child
- child - Deioneus / Deion
- child - Diomede
- pollinated - Eos
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Cepheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Aethiopia and the father of Andromeda, the princess who is saved by the hero Perseus. Cepheus is prominently featured in the Perseus legend as the husband of Cassiopeia, father of Princess Andromeda, and brother of Phineus, who expects to marry Andromeda. Various sources describe his kingdom to be "Aethiopia" or later, the city of Joppa (Jaffa) in Phoenicia, which was named after the elder Cepheus's wife, Iope, daughter of Aeolus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Cassiopeia - married
- Andromeda - child
- child - Achiroe
- child - Belus
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Cerambus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Kerambos) Cerambus was a survivor of Deucalion's flood by means of wings which he received from the nymphs. These wings had raised him above the water thus escaping death. He dwelt in the land of the Melians on the spurs of Mount Othrys and owned a large herd of cattle. In another myth, Cerambus was renowned as the greatest singer of his time. He was credited with inventing the shepherd's pipes, as well as with introducing lyre-playing and composing a number of delightful rural songs. This was why the nymphs of Mount Othrys favored him, and even became visible to him as he was playing his lyre. The honors, however, made Cerambus arrogant to the point of insanity: when Pan advised him to drive his cattle down to the plain, due to an extremely severe winter being expected, Cerambus wouldn't listen to him as though smitten by some god.
Moreover, he went so far in his insolence that he told insulting and mindless tales of the nymphs, claiming that they were descended not from Zeus, but from Spercheios and the naiad Deino, and that when Poseidon fell for one of the nymphs, Diopatra, he changed her sisters into poplar trees, but restored their original shape after satisfying his desires. The nymphs were angry and transformed Cerambus into a wood-gnawing beetle Cerambyx (κεράμβυξ). A short while later there came a sudden frost and the streams froze. This was the beginning of the severe winter Pan predicted. The cattle all perished from the cold, as did the trees.Life Stages: Mortal
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Cerops II
Status: alive
Biography: Seventh king of Athens and in whose reign the deeds of Dionysus and Perseus occurred.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Metiadusa - married
- Pandion II - child
- child - Pandion
- child - Zeuxippe
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Ceto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Indian Okeanid- and Naiad-nymph loved by the sun-god Helios. Their daughter Astris was the star-nymph wife of the Indian river Hydaspes.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Astris - child
- partner - Helios
- turned - The Oceanids
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Chaos
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 1
First god, the start of it all. The gap, or chasm, in between heaven and earth.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Chione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the town of Khios (Chios) on the Aegean island of the same name. She was loved by the god Poseidon and, during a snowfall (khios), bore him a son named Khios--the eponymous first king of the island. Another Khian Nymph was mother by Poseidon of Melos and Agelos, eponyms of the island's two other towns.
The other Khian Nymph: an unnamed Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the towns of Agelos (Agelus) and Melas on the Aegean island of Khios (Chios). She was loved by the god Poseidon and bore him the eponymous founding-princes of the twin towns, AGELOS and MELASLife Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Poseidon - partner
- turned - The Naiads
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Chiron
Status: alive
Biography: Eldest and wisest of the Kentauroi (Centaurs), a Thessalian tribe of half-horse men. Unlike his brethren Kheiron was an immortal son of the Titan Kronos (Cronus) and a half-brother of Zeus. When Kronos' tryst with the nymphe Philyra was interrupted by Rhea, he transformed himself into a horse to escape notice and the result was this two-formed son.
Kheiron was a renowned teacher who mentored many of the greatest heroes of myth including the Argonauts Jason and Peleus, the physician Asklepios (Asclepius), the demi-god Aristaios (Aristaeus) and Akhilleus (Achilles) of Troy.
The old Kentauros was accidentally wounded by Herakles when the hero was battling other members of the tribe. The wound, poisoned with Hydra-venom, was incurable, and suffering unbearable pain Kheiron voluntarily relinquished his immortality. Zeus then placed him amongst the stars as the constellation Sagittarius or Centaurus.Life Stages: Centaur
Relationships:
- Pelionides - child
- Endeis - child
- Melanippe / Okyrrhoe - child
- Karystos - child
- married - Khariklo
- child - Kronos
- child - Philyre
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Chloris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Wife of Neleus, king of Pylos. Possible one of the Niobids.
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
- Philomache - twin
- Periklymenos - child
- married - Neleus
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Chryses
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The successor of Phlegyas, as king of Orchomenus. He was the son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia, daughter of King Almus of Halmones.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Chrysogeneia
- child - Poseidon
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Chrysogeneia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Minyan princess as the daughter of King Almus of Orchomenus. She was the sister of Chryse and mother, by the sea-god Poseidon, of Chryses.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Chrysopeleia / Erato
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Dryad-nymph of the Akakesion (Acacesium) Hill near Mount Lykaios (Lycaeus) in Arkadia (southern Greece). She was a prophetess of the god Pan and the wife of Arkas (Arcas), eponymous king of Arkadia.
Life Stages: Dryad Nymph
Relationships:
- Apheidas - child
- Elatus - child
- married - Arkas
- turned - The Hamadryades
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Cinyras
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A famous hero and king of Cyprus. Priest of Aphrodite.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Circe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Kirke) goddess of sorcery (pharmakeia) who was skilled in the magic of transmutation, illusion, and necromancy. She lived on the mythical island of Aiaia (Aeaea) with her nymph companions.
When Odysseus came to her island she transformed his men into beasts but, with the help of the god Hermes, he overcame her and forced her to end the spell.
Kirke's name is derived from the Greek verb kirkoô meaning "to secure with rings" or "hoop around"--a reference to the binding power of magic.
Kirke's island of Aiaia (Aeaea) was located in the far west, near the earth-encircling River Okeanos (Oceanus). Her brother Aeetes' realm in the far east was similarly named Aia (Aea).Life Stages: Sky God
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Cleoboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Eurythemis. Her daughter was married to King Thestius of Pleuron in Aetolia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurythemis - child
- child - Criasus
- child - Melantho
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Cleophyle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Arcadian queen as wife of King Lycurgus. She was the mother of his four sons: Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasius. Otherwise, the name of Lycurgus' wife was called Eurynome or Antinoe.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Cleson
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Cleta
Status: alive
Biography: One of the Spartan Charites. Her sister was Phaenna.
Relationships:
- Eurotas - married
- Sparta - child
- Pitane - child
- turned - The Charites
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Clymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the elder Okeanides and the Titan goddess of fame and renown. She was the wife of the Titan Iapetos and the mother of Prometheus and Atlas.
Klymene was also named Asia and in this guise portrayed as the eponymous goddess of Anatolia (Asia Minor).Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Anchiale - child
- Atlas - child
- Epimetheus - child
- Prometheus - child
- Menoitios - child
- married - Iapetos
- turned - The Oceanids
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Clymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Orchomenian princess as the daughter of King Minyas. She was the wife of either Cephalus or 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: Mortal
Relationships:
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Clytie
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Okeanid-nymph loved by sun-god Helios. When he forsook her for the love of Leukothoe (Leucothea), she pined away and was transformed into the sun-gazing heliotrope flower.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Helios - crush
- turned - The Oceanids
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Cranaus
Status: alive
Biography: (Kranaus) When Kekrops (Cecrops) died, Kranaus (Cranaus) came to the throne; he was a son of the soil, and it was in his time that the flood in the age of Deukalion (Deucalion) is said to have taken place.
He married a Lacedaemonian wife, Pedias, daughter of Mynes, and begat Cranae, Menaechme, and Atthis; and when Atthis died a maid, Cranaus called the country Atthis.Relationships:
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Cres
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of the island Crete. The autochthonous Cres is mentioned in other accounts as the native king of a whole earth-born nation, the Eteocretans ("true Cretans"), and the inventor of a number of items that were crucial for the development of the human civilization.[4] He was said to be one of the Curetes.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- turned - Korybantes
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Cretheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King and founder of Iolcus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Creusa
Status: alive
Biography: Athenian princess. Creusa was the youngest daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens and his wife, Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia.[1] She was the sister of Protogeneia, Pandora, Procris, Oreithyia, Chthonia, Cecrops, Pandorus and Metion. Apollodorus mentions Creusa as the mother of Achaeus and Ion by her husband Xuthus; she is presumably also the mother of Xuthus' daughter Diomede.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Diomede - child
- child - Erechtheus
- child - Praxithea
- married - Xuthus
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Criasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aking of Argos. He had five brothers who were named Ecbasus, Jasus, Peiranthus, Epidaurus and Tiryns. Criasus fathered Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea by Melantho.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Melantho - married
- Phorbaceus - child
- Cleoboea - child
- child - Argos
- child - Evadne
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Cteatus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- turned - Molionidai
- married - Theronice
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Cycnus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Liguria, a beloved and lover of Phaethon, who lamented his death and was subsequently turned into a swan and then a constellation. Cycnus was the son of Sthenelus and the lover of Phaethon (Servius explicitly writes "amator", or lover). After Phaethon died, Cycnus sat by the river Eridanos mourning his death. The gods turned him into a swan to relieve him of his sorrow. Even then he retained memories of Phaethon's death, and would avoid the sun's heat because of that. Swans are known for mourning their mate for many days when they die, which suggests that Cygnus and Phaethon were lovers. According to Virgil, Cycnus lamented Phaethon's death till he grew old, so his gray hair became gray feathers upon his transformation. Pausanias mentions Cycnus, king of the Ligyes (Ligurians), as a renowned musician who after his death was changed into a swan by Apollo. Servius also writes of Cycnus as a musician and a friend of Phaethon, and states that he was changed into a swan and later placed among the stars by Apollo (that is, as the constellation Cygnus). Both Pausanias and Servius state it was Apollo who had blessed Cycnus with talent in singing. Cycnus' profession as a musician may be a direct reference to the concept of the swan song suggested in Hyginus' account.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cycnus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the town of Kolonai in the southern Troad. His mother abandoned him on the seashore, but he was rescued by fishermen who named him Cycnus "swan" because they saw a swan flying over him. In another account, he was said to have had womanly white skin and fair hair, which was why he received his name that meant "swan". Cycnus married first Procleia, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy or of Laomedon's son Clytius. Cycnus and Procleia had two children, named Tenes and Hemithea, although Tenes claimed the god Apollo as his father. On Procleia's death, Cycnus married Philonome, daughter of Tragasus (Cragasus), also known as Polyboea
A king of Kolonai in the Troad (Asia Minor) and ally of the Trojans in their war with the Greeks. He was a son of Poseidon and Kalyke whom his father made invulnerable to weapons.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Daimones Proseoous
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Six marine-deities who haunted the dark sea-caves beneath the island of Rhodes.
They once dwelt on the shore but when the new-born goddess Aphrodite attempted to land on the island they drove her away. As punishment she inflicted them with a madness that caused them to rape their own mother. Poseidon was so enraged by the horrendous crime, he cast them into the dark caverns beneath the isle.
The Eastern Daimones were probably identified with the Telkhines who in Diodorus' account were their uncles.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Damia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess Hora (Season) of the fertile earth.
Life Stages: Horai
Relationships:
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Danaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Libya. His myth is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus. In Homer's Iliad, "Danaans" ("tribe of Danaus") and "Argives" commonly designate the Greek forces opposed to the Trojans.
Danaus had fifty daughters, the Danaides, twelve of whom were born to the naiad Polyxo; six to Pieria; two to Elephantis; four to Queen Europa; ten to the hamadryad nymphs Atlanteia and Phoebe; seven to an Aethiopian woman; three to Memphis; two to Herse and lastly four to Crino. According to Hippostratus, Danaus had all these progenies begotten by Europa, the daughter of NilusLife Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- The Danaides - child
- child - Achiroe
- child - Belus
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Danaë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Argive princess and mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus. She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age. By Zeus, Danaë was the mother of the hero Perseus, slayer of Medusa and founder of Mycenae.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Dardanos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Brother of Iasion. Grieved at his brother's death, Dardanus left Samothrace and came to the opposite mainland. That country was ruled by a king, Teucer, son of the river Scamander and of a nymph Idaea, and the inhabitants of the country were called Teucrians after Teucer. Being welcomed by the king, and having received a share of the land and the king's daughter Batia, he built a city Dardanus, and when Teucer died he called the whole country Dardania
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Erikhthonios - child
- child - Electra
- child - Zeus
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Deino
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph of the springs of the river Sperkheios (Spercheus) in Malis, central Greece. She was the wife of the god of the river.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Diopatre - child
- Eidothea - child
- married - Sperkheios
- turned - The Oceanids
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Deioneus / Deion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Phocis and son of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. By Diomede, Deioneus became the father of Cephalus, Actor, Aenetus, Phylacus, Asterodia and Philonis. After the death of his brother, Salmoneus, Deioneus took his daughter Tyro into his house, and gave her in marriage to Cretheus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Delphin
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 13
Dolphin-shaped sea daimon in the service of the god Poseidon. When his master was wooing the Nereid Amphitrite and she fled, Delphin was sent to find the nymphe and persuade her to agree to the marriage. For his service Poseidon placed the dolphin amongst the stars as the constellation Delphinus.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Demeter
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread who sustained mankind with the earth's rich bounty. She presided over the foremost of the Mystery Cults which promised its intiates the path to a blessed afterlife in the realm of Elysium. Demeter was depicted as a mature woman, often wearing a crown and bearing sheafs of wheat or a cornucopia (horn of plenty), and a torch.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- Zeus - partner
- Persephone - child
- Iasion - partner
- Ploutos - child
- Bootes / Philomelos - child
- Areion - child
- Despoine - child
- Eubouleus - child
- Khrysothemis - child
- partner - Karmanor
- child - Kronos
- pollinated - Poseidon
- child - Rhea
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Demodice
Status: alive
Biography: (Also known as Gorgopis, Themisto, or Biadice, or Demodika) Second wife of either Cretheus or Athamas, who unsuccessfully attempted to seduce Phrixus and in revenge accused him of sexual abuse, which caused him to flee from his father's kingdom.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Cretheus
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Demonax
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Damon) One of the Telkhines
Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Demonice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Aetolian princess as the daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron and Epicaste and thus sister of Porthaon. She bore Ares four sons: Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius. Her son's names may be intended to be eponyms, with Evenus corresponding to the river Evinos in Aetolia; Pylus to the Aetolian city of Pylene between the rivers Achelous and Evenos; and Molus to the people named Molossians from Epirus. Demonice was also known as Demodice.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Despoine
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Despoena) Fertility goddess of the Arkadian (Arcadian) Mystery cult of Akakesion (Acacesium). She was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter, sister Persephone, and Artemis. Her true name and function were revealed only to the intitiates.
Life Stages: Agricultural God
Relationships:
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Deukalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: First king of the northern reaches of Greece. Husband of Pyrrha the daughter of Pandora, the first woman. The couple lived in the time of the Bronze Race of Mankind--a third, warlike generation born after the virtuous Silver and Gold races. Zeus was angered by their impiety and destroyed them with the Great Deluge. Only Deukalion and Pyrrha survived the apocalypse--having been warned of the impending calamity by Prometheus. Mounting a chest the couple found refuge the dry peaks of Mount Parnassos. Other regions also claimed survivors--King Dardanos was said to have sought refuge on Mount Ida in the Troad, Kerambos was carried to the heights of Mount Othrys by the Nymphs, Megaros fled to Mount Gerana, Arkas and Nyktimos were preserved on Mount Kyllene in Arkadia, and the tribes of Parnassos fled to the heights above Delphoi. Io and her son Epaphos, who lived in Egypt, were also preserved. Zeus then let the waters to recede and, in the north Poseidon, split the mountains at the Vale of Tempe to release the waters trapped in the Thessalian plain.
Deukalion and Pyrrha consulted the Delphic oracle asking how they might repopulate the now desolate earth and were told to cast the bones of their mother over their shoulders. They mulled on the riddle and realised the bones were the stones of Mother Earth--casting these, Deuckalion producing a tribe of men and Pyrrha women.
Deukalion had a number of sons and daughters. The most famous of these were Hellen, the eponymous king of the Hellenes (i.e. the Greeks), and three maidens loved by the god Zeus--Pandora (who was named after her maternal grandmother), Protogeneia and Thyia. Deukalion's descendants ruled most of the kingdoms of Greece in the mythic age. His most famous great-grandsons included Sisyphos, Salmoneus, Athamas, Diktys and Polydektes, Ion and Endymion. The intervening generations consisted mostly of eponyms--that is, figures who gave their names to tribes or places and which had little or no mythology.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hellen - child
- Protogeneia - child
- child - Prometheus
- child - Pronoia
- married - Pyrrha
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Dexamenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Mnesimache, Eurypylus, and the twins Theronice and Theraephone,
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Theronice - child
- Theraephone - child
- Mnesimache - child
- child - Oeceus
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Dexithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: He [Euxantios king of Keos (Ceos) and son of Minos and Dexithea, the daughter of one of the Telkhines (Telchines)] declared to them [the sons of Minos and Pasiphae] the marvel that had once befallen him :--‘Know ye that I fear war with Zeus, I fear the loudly thundering Shaker of the earth [Poseidon]. They, on a day, with thunderbolt and trident, sent the land and a countless host [presumably the Telkhines] into the depths of Tartaros, while they left alone my mother [Dexithea daughter of one of the Telkhines], and her well-walled home.’"
Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Deïmachus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Enarete, wife of Aeolus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Enarete - child
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Dike
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of justice, fair judgements and the rights established by custom and law. Like her siblings, she probably also represented an aspect of springtime growth.
Life Stages: Horai, Olympian
Relationships:
- turned - The Horai
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Diogeneia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Phorbas, from Olenus in Achaea, and possibly Hyrmina, thus sister to Augeas, Actor and Tiphys. She was the wife of King Alector of Elis and mother of Amarynceus. Otherwise, the latter was called the son of Onesimachus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Amarynceus - child
- married - Alector
- child - Hyrmine
- child - Phorbas
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Diogeneia.
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 36
Naiad-nymph of a well or fountain of the city of Athens in Attika (southern Greece). She was a daughter of the nearby River Kephisos (Cephisus) and the wife of the Athenian lord Phrasimos.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Diomede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Xuthus. She married Deioneus, king of Phocis, and was the mother of Cephalus, Actor, Aenetus, Phylacus and Asterodia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Cephalus - child
- child - Creusa
- married - Deioneus / Deion
- child - Xuthus
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Dionysos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. He was depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth. His attributes included the thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy. He was usually accompanied by a troop of Satyrs and Mainades (wild female devotees).
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Diopatre
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a spring of the river Sperkheios (Spercheus) on Mount Othrys in Malis (northern Greece). She was loved by the god Poseidon who transformed her sisters into poplar-trees to seduce her unhindered.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Eusiros - child
- child - Deino
- pollinated - Poseidon
- child - Sperkheios
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Diores
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Leader of the Elis contingent during the Trojan War. He was the son of Amarynceus, and was killed by Peiros.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Amarynceus
- child - Mnesimache
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Dirce
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Was a queen of Thebes as the wife of Lycus in Greek mythology. After Zeus impregnated Dirce's niece-by-marriage Antiope, the latter fled in shame to King Epopeus of Sicyon, but was brought back by Lycus through force, giving birth to the twins Amphion and Zethus on the way. Lycus gave Antiope to Dirce. Dirce hated Antiope and treated her cruelly, until Antiope, after many years, escaped. Dirce was devoted to the god Dionysus, who caused a spring to flow where she died, either at Mount Cithaeron or at Thebes, and it was a local tradition for the outgoing Theban hipparch to swear in his successor at her tomb.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Dolion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of the Doliones tribe
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Dolos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of trickery, cunning deception, craftiness, treachery and guile. He was an apprentice of the Titan Prometheus and a companion of the Pseudologoi (Lies). His female counterpart was Apate, the spirit of deception.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Doris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 11
Goddess of the rich fishing-grounds found at the mouths of rivers where fresh water mingled with the brine.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph, Sea God
Relationships:
- The Nereides - child
- Nerites - child
- Delphin - child
- married - Nereus
- turned - The Oceanids
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Dorus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous founder of the Dorians.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Dorus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aetolian son of Apollo and Phthia, and brother of Laodocus and Polypoites. He was the father of Xanthippe, who married Pleuron, son of Aetolus, the man who killed Dorus and his brothers.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Drakon Kholkikos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: THE DRAKON KHOLKIKOS (Colchian Dragon) was a giant, watchful serpent which guarded the Golden Fleece in the sacred grove of Ares in Kolkhis (Colchis). When Jason and the Argonauts came to fetch the fleece, the beast was either slain by the hero or put to sleep by the witch Medea. In one version of the story--preserved only in vase painting (see image right)--Jason was first devoured and disgorged by the dragon.
The monster's teeth were harvested by King Aeetes for their magical properties. He commanded Jason sow them in a sacred field of Ares with a plough drawn by fire-breathing bulls. When they were seeded a tribe of warlike men (Spartoi) sprang up full-grown from the earth. The teeth of the closely related Ismenian Drakon of Thebes, sown by Kadmos (Cadmus), produced a similar crop of men.Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- The Spartoi - built
- child - Ekhidna
- child - Typhoeus
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Drakon Kykhreides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Dragon Cychreides) was a giant serpent which terrorised the island of Salamis. The serpent then swam across the sea to Eleusis where it became a familiar of the goddess Demeter.
Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Drakon Nemeios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Nemean Dragon) was a monstrous serpent which was set to guard the sacred grove of Zeus at Nemea. When the infant prince Opheltes was lain the grass by his nurse as she directed the army of the Seven Against Thebes towards a nearby spring, the dragon found and killed him. Adrastos and his company then slew the beast and established the Nemeian Games in honour of the child and the god Zeus.
Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Drakon-Landon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 29
The Hesperian Dragon was a hundred-headed serpent named Ladon tasked with guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides and tormenting the heavens-bearing Titan Atlas. The creature was slain by Herakles when he was sent to recover the golden apples as one of his twelve labours. It was afterwards placed amongst the stars by the gods as the Constellation Draco encircling the north pole.Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
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Drakones Troiades
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: THE DRAKONES TROIADES (Trojan Dragons) were two huge sea-serpents summoned from the deep by the goddess Athena to slay the Trojan seer Laokoon (Laocoon) when he tried to warn the Trojans of the ruse of the Wooden Horse.
Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- child - Typhoeus
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Dryope
Status: alive
Biography: Was the Hamadryad- and Naiad-nymph of a poplar-tree and spring of Mount Oita (Oeta) in Dryopia (northern Greece).
Dryope was once a mortal princess who was seduced by the god Apollon in the guise of a tortoise and a serpent. She was later transformed into a nymph by the Hamadryades of Oita.
Her son was Amphissos by Apollo.Life Stages: Dryad Nymph, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- married - Andraimon
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Dysnomia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of lawlessness and poor civil order. She was a companion of Adikia (Injustice), Ate (Ruin) and Hybris (Violence). Her opposite number was Eunomia (Civil Order).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Dyssebeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of impiety
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Hybris
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Echion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Echion was principally known for his skill in battle and bravery; Echion was father of Pentheus and Epeiros by Agave. He was credited to be the founder of the Malian city of Echinos. Also, Echion was said to have dedicated a temple of Cybele in Boeotia, and to have assisted Cadmus in the building of Thebes.
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
- Agave - married
- Pentheus - child
- turned - The Spartoi
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Echo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Oreiad-nymph of Mount Kithairon (Cithaeron) in Boiotia. The goddess Hera cursed her with just an echo for a voice as punishment for distracting her from the affairs of Zeus with her endless chatter. She was loved by the god Pan, and herself became enamoured of the boy Narkissos (Narcissus). When the youth spurned her advances she wasted away, leaving nothing behind but an echoing voice.
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Narcissus - crush
- turned - The Oreiades
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Eidothea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A prophetic sea-nymph daughter of the shape-shifting marine god Proteus. When Menelaus was returning home from Troy, his fleet was becalmed on the island of Pharos near Egypt. Eidothea took pity on the hero and told him how he might capture her father and force him to reveal prophecies which would enable his escape from the island.
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
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Eidothea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A nymph of Othreis, mother of Cerambus by Eusiros (son of Poseidon). Cerambus who was metamorphosed by the nymphs into a gnawing beetle because of his insolence. In some myths, her son was borne up into the air on wings by the nymphs escaping the flood of Deucalion.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs, Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Cerambus - child
- child - Deino
- partner - Eusiros
- child - Sperkheios
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Eidyia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Okeanid-nymph of the town of Kolkhis (Colchis) in Aia at the eastern end of the Black Sea. She was the wife of King Aeetes and the mother of the witch Medea.
She probably personified the power of the eye which in Greek superstition was the source of a witch's supernatural powers. As an Okeanid-nymph she was presumably also the Naiad of the main well or fountain of Kolkhis--the marriage of founding-king and local Naiad is a common motif in Greek myth.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Medea - child
- Khalkipe - child
- married - Aeëtes
- turned - The Oceanids
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Eileithyia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Ilithyia) Goddess of childbirth and labour pains. According to some there were two Eileithyiai (Eileithyiae)--one who furthered birth and one who protracted the labour. Her name means "she who comes to aid" or "relieve" from the Greek word elêluthyia. Her Roman counterpart was Lucina ("Light bringer") or Natio ("Birth").
When Alkmene (Alcmena) was in labour with Herakles (Heracles), Hera sent Eileithyia to stay the birth and so kill mother and child. However, Alkmene's handmaiden Galinthias spied the goddess seated before the door with her arms and legs crossed, and cried "a son is born." The goddess leapt up in surprise, releasing her magical grip on the womb, allowing the child to be born. Eileithyia was furious at being tricked by the woman and transformed Galinthias into a polecat.
Eileithyia was depicted as a woman wielding a torch, representing the burning pains of childbirth, or with her arms raised in the air to bring the child to the light. She was closely identified with the goddesses Hera and Artemis, both of whom bore epithets of her name.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Eirene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Irene) Goddess of peace and the season of spring. Eirene's name is the Greek word for peace (eirênê) but it is also closely connected with the word for spring (eiar, eiarinos). In ancient Greece late spring was the traditional campaign season, the time when peace was most at risk. Her opposite number was Polemos (War). Statues of the goddess often depict her as a maiden holding the infant Ploutos (Plutus) (Wealth) in her arms.
Life Stages: Horai, Olympian
Relationships:
- turned - The Horai
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Eirene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She gave her name to Eirene, a small island near the Peloponnese.[1] The island was later called Anthedonia and Hypereia, but eventually received the name Calauria after Calaurus, who was also a son of Poseidon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Melantheia
- child - Poseidon
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Ekhidna
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 21
A monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman and the tail of a coiling serpent. She probably represented the corruptions of the earth--rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease. Sometimes equated with Python. Consort of Typhoeus.Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- Typhoeus - partner
- Orthos - child
- Kerberos - child
- Hydra Lernaia - child
- Khimaira - child
- Hus Krommyon - child
- Drakon Kholkikos - child
- Ekhidnades - child
- child - Keto
- child - Phorkys
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Ekhidnades
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 21
(Echidnades) was an unnamed giant son of the Drakaina Ekhidna (she-dragon Echidna). He was a serpent-footed ally of the Titanes who was slain in battle by the god Ares.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Ekhidna
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Elatus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was allotted by Arcas the region of then-nameless Mount Cyllene as his domain, but afterwards migrated to the region which later became known as Phocis, and assisted the local inhabitants in the war against the Phlegyans; he was renowned as founder and eponym of the city Elatea. An image of him was carved on a stele in the marketplace of Elatea. He married Laodice (daughter of Cinyras) and became by her, the father of Stymphalus, Pereus, Aepytus, Ischys, and Cyllen.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Laodice - married
- Pereus - child
- Aepytus - child
- child - Arkas
- child - Chrysopeleia / Erato
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Electra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Saon on the island of Samothrake (Samothrace) in the north Aegean. She was loved by Zeus and bore him two sons, Dardanos, ancestor of the Trojan royal family, and Iasion, founder of the Samothrakian Mysteries. She was also entrusted with the fostering of Aphrodite's illegitimate daughter Harmonia.
Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Dardanos - child
- Iasion - child
- turned - The Pleiades
- partner - Zeus
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Elektra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 29
The cloud-nymph of the amber-trim, of storm-clouds illuminated by the beams of the returning sun. Her secondary name, Ozomene, meaning "Many-Branches" suggests the cloudy source of the rainbow reaching down to the sea.Life Stages: Nephelai, Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Iris - child
- Hydaspes - child
- Arke - child
- The Harpies - child
- married - Thaumas
- turned - The Nephelai
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Eleos
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of mercy, pity and compassion. Her opposite number was Anaideia (Ruthlessness).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Eleusis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III
Relationships:
- Triptolemos - child
- Karmanor - child
- married - Trokhilos
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Elpis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of hope. She and the other daimones were trapped in a jar by Zeus and entrusted to the care of the first woman Pandora. When she opened the vessel all of the spirits escaped except for Elpis (Hope) who remained behind to comfort mankind. Elpis was depicted as a young woman carrying flowers in her arms. Her opposite number was Moros, the spirit of hopelessness and doom.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- Pheme and Ossa - child
- child - Nyx
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Emathion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Loved the Naiad nymph Pagasis
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Tithonus
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Enarete
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Queen of Aeolia (i.e. Thessaly) and ancestor of the Aeolians.
Relationships:
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Endeis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian nymph, or princess, wife of King Aiakos (Aeacus) of Aigina (Aegina). Jealous of her stepson Phokos (Phocus), she induced her sons Peleus and Telamon to murder the boy.
Endeis was a daughter of either the wise kentauros Kheiron (centaur Chiron)--foster-father of her grandson Akhilleus (Achilles).Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Endymion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis. Calyce and Aethlius had a son Endymion who led Aeolians from Thessaly and founded Elis. But some say that he was a son of Zeus. As he was of unsurpassed beauty, the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, and he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless. Endymion had by a Naiad nymph or, as some say, by Iphianassa, a son Aetolus, who slew Apis, son of Phoroneus, and fled to the Curetian country. There he killed his hosts, Dorus and Laodocus and Polypoetes, the sons of Phthia and Apollo, and called the country Aetolia after himself.
In a similar vein, a scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius wrote that, according to Hesiod, Zeus allowed Endymion to be the keeper of his own death and to decide on his own when he would die.[Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Enipeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-god of Thessalia (Thessaly) in northern Greece. The maiden Tyro fell in love with his streams and was impregnated by the god Poseidon as she poured his waters upon her lap.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- turned - The Potamoi
- crush - Tyro
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Eos
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn. Eos rose into the sky from the river Okeanos (Oceanus) at the start of each day, and with her rays of light dispersed the mists of night. She was depicted either driving a chariot drawn by winged horses or borne aloft on her own wings. Eos had an unquenchable desire for handsome young men, some say as the result of a curse laid upon her by the goddess Aphrodite.
Life Stages: Sky God, Titan
Relationships:
- Memnon - child
- The Anemoi - child
- Astra Planeta - child
- Eosphoros and Hesperos - child
- Astraia - child
- Tithonus - child
- Cephalus - pollinated
- married - Astraeus
- child - Hyperion
- child - Theia
- partner - Tithonus
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Eosphoros and Hesperos
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Eosphorus) and (Hesperus) Gods of the star (aster planeta) Venus. They were originally regarded as two distinct divinities--the first, whose name means "Dawn-Bringer," was the god of the dawn-star, while the second, "Evening," was the star of dusk. The two star-gods were later combined.
Phosphorus is the god of the planet Venus in its appearance as the Morning Star. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is "Eosphorus" which means "dawn-bringer". The term "eosphorus" is sometimes met in English. As an adjective, the word "phosphorus" is applied in the sense of "light-bringing" (for instance, the dawn, the god Dionysus, pine torches and the day) and "torch-bearing" as an epithet of several gods and goddesses, especially of Hecate but also of Artemis/Diana and Hephaestus. Seasonally, Venus is the "light bringer" in the northern hemisphere, appearing most brightly in December (an optical illusion due to shorter days), signalling the "rebirth" of longer days as winter wanes.
The morning star is an appearance of the planet Venus, an inferior planet, meaning that its orbit lies between the Earth and the Sun. Depending on the orbital locations of both Venus and Earth, it can be seen in the eastern morning sky for an hour or so before the Sun rises and dims it, or (as the evening star) in the western evening sky for an hour or so after the Sun sets, when Venus itself then sets. Venus is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, outshining the planets Jupiter and Saturn but, while these rise high in the sky, Venus never does. This may lie behind myths about deities associated with the morning star proudly striving for the highest place among the gods and being cast down.
The Latin word corresponding to Greek "Phosphorus" is "Lucifer". It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose and poetry.
Hesperus is the Evening Star, the planet Venus in the evening. A son of the dawn goddess Eos he is the half-brother of her other son, Phosphorus. Hesperus' Roman equivalent is Vesper By one account, Hesperus' father was the mortal Cephalus (NOT THE AEOLIAN PRINCE BUT THE ATHENIAN ONE, while Phosphorus' father was the star god Astraeus.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
- Keyx and Daidalion - child
- child - Astraeus
- child - Cephalus
- child - Eos
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Epaphus
Status: alive
Biography: King of Egypt
The name/word Epaphus means "Touch". This refers to the manner in which he was conceived, by the touch of Zeus' hand. He was born in Euboea, in the cave Boösaule according to Strabo or according to others, in Egypt, on the river Nile, after the long wanderings of his mother. He was then concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera, but Io sought and afterward found him in Syria where he was nursed by the wife of the king of Byblus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Libya - child
- Lysianassa - child
- child - Io
- married - Memphis
- child - Zeus
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Epeius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Elean prince as son of King Endymion. He ran a race at Olympia, against his brothers Aetolus and Paeon, winning his father's kingdom. Epeius' other siblings were Eurycyda and possibly Naxos. He was married to Anaxiroe, daughter of Coronus, and had one daughter, Hyrmine. King Oenomaus of Pisa was his contemporary. From him, the Epei derived their name.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Anaxiroe - married
- Hyrmine - child
- Alector - child
- child - Endymion
- child - Iphianassa
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Epicaste
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Calydonian princess as daughter of King Calydon by Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon, and thus, sister of Protogeneia. She married her cousin Agenor, son of King Pleuron, and had by him children: Porthaon and Demonice.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Epimetheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Titan god of afterthought and excuses. He and his brother Prometheus were given the task of populating the earth with animals and men. However, Epimetheus quickly exhausted the supply of gifts allotted for the task in the equipment of animals, leaving Prometheus' masterpiece, mankind, completely helpless. As a result the Titan brother was forced to steal fire from heaven to arm them. Zeus was angered by this theft and ordered the creation of Pandora, the first woman, as a means to deliver evil into the house of man. Despite the warnings of his brother, Epimetheus happily received her as his bride, but as soon as she arrived she lifted the lid of a jar entrusted her by the gods, releasing a plague of harmful daimones (spirits) to trouble mankind. Only Hope (Elpis) remained behind to succor the unfortunate race.
Epimetheus' name was derived from the Greek words epi-, epeita, and mêtis, and means "afterthought" or "late counselling." Pindar calls Afterthought (Epimetheus) the father of Excuse (Prophasis). He was the proverbial fool.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Epiphron
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of prudence, shrewdness, careful consideration and sagacity.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Epopeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Ephoceus) 17th king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops (ἔποψ), the hoopoe, the "watcher". A fragment of Callimachus' Aitia ("Origins") appears to ask, "Why, at Sicyon, is it the hoopoe, and not the usual splendid ravens, that is the bird of good omen?"
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Erebus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 7
(Erebos) Primordial god of darkness and consort of Nyx. The profound and enigmatic aspects of the cosmos and darkness. Every night, Nyx would draw Erebus' darkness across the sky and every morning their daughter, Hemera, scattered the darkness at dawn, revealing their son Aither and bringing day.Life Stages: Chthonian God, Protogenoi
Relationships:
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Erechtheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The second Erechtheus was given a historicizing genealogy as son and heir to King Pandion I of Athens by Zeuxippe, this Pandion being son of Erichthonius. This later king Erechtheus may be distinguished as Erechtheus II. His siblings were Philomela, Procne, Butes and possibly Teuthras. Erechtheus was father, by his wife Praxithea, of sons: Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion[6] and of six daughters, the eldest was Protogeneia, Pandora, Procris, Creusa, Oreithyia and Chthonia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Erginus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Argonaut who piloted the Argo after the helmsman Tiphys died. Erginus is said to be the son of Poseidon, and to have resided in the Carian city of Miletus.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Poseidon
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Erichthonius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Some say that this Erichthonius was a son of Hephaestus and Atthis, daughter of Cranaus, and some that he was a son of Hephaestus and Athena, as follows: Athena came to Hephaestus, desirous of fashioning arms. But he, being forsaken by Aphrodite, fell in love with Athena, and began to pursue her; but she fled. When he got near her with much ado (for he was lame), he attempted to embrace her; but she, being a chaste virgin, would not submit to him, and he dropped his seed on the leg of the goddess. In disgust, she wiped off the seed with wool and threw it on the ground; and as she fled and the seed fell on the ground, Erichthonius was produced. Athena brought up unknown to the other gods, wishing to make him immortal; and having put him in a chest, she committed it to Pandrosus, daughter of Cecrops, forbidding her to open the chest. But the sisters of Pandrosus opened it out of curiosity, and beheld a serpent coiled about the babe; and, as some say, they were destroyed by the serpent, but according to others they were driven mad by reason of the anger of Athena and threw themselves down from the acropolis. Having been brought up by Athena herself in the precinct, Erichthonius expelled Amphictyon and became king of Athens; and he set up the wooden image of Athena in the acropolis, and instituted the festival of the Panathenaea,300 and married Praxithea, a Naiad nymph, by whom he had a son Pandion. When Erichthonius died and was buried in the same precinct of Athena.
Relationships:
- Praxithea - married
- Oreithyia - child
- Pandion - child
- child - Atthis
- child - Hephaestus
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Erikhthonios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Dardanus
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Eris
Status: alive
Biography: Daimona of strife, discord, contention and rivalry. She was often portrayed, more specifically, as the daimona of the strife of war, haunting the battlefield and delighting in human bloodshed. Because of Eris' disagreeable nature she was the only goddess not to be invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. When she turned up anyway and was refused admittance, she raged and threw a golden apple amongst the goddesses inscribed "To the fairest." Three laid claim to it--Hera, Aphrodite and Athena--and in their rivalry brought about the events leading up to the Trojan War.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- Ponos - child
- Lethe - child
- Limos - child
- The Algea - child
- The Hysminae - child
- The Machae - child
- The Phonoi - child
- The Androktasiai - child
- The Neikae - child
- The Pseudologoi - child
- The Amphilogiai - child
- Dysnomia - child
- Adikia - child
- Ate - child
- Horkos - child
- Anaideia - child
- Penthos - child
- Poine - child
- Aergia - child
- Hormes - child
- Phthonos - child
- Polemos - child
- child - Nyx
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Eros
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 5
Primordial god of love, procreation, lust, and generation of new life at the beginning of time. Described as the fairest of the primordial gods, who overcame minds, unnerves limbs, and wise counseled the gods.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Eros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Mischievous god of love, a minion and constant companion of the goddess Aphrodite. Accompanying Aphrodite at the time of her birth from the sea-foam. Some classical writers interpreted this to mean the pair were born of the goddess immediately following her birth or else alongside her from the sea-foam. The scene was particular popular in ancient art where the godlings flutter about the goddess as she reclines inside a conch-shell.
Eventually Eros was multiplied by ancient poets and artists into a host of Erotes (Roman Cupides). The singular Eros, however, remained distinct in myth. It was he who lit the flame of love in the hearts of the gods and men, armed with either a bow and arrows or a flaming torch. Eros was often portrayed as the disobedient but fiercely loyal child of Aphrodite.Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
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Eryx
Status: alive
Biography: king of the city of Eryx in Sicily. He was either the son of Poseidon. Eryx was an excellent boxer but died when Heracles beat him in a match.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Poseidon
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Euadne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Poseidon and the nymphe Pitane who was raised in the house of King Aipytos (Aepytus) of Arkadia. She was seduced by the god Apollon and bore him a son but, fearing the wrath of her guardian, abandoned him in the countryside. Lying in a patch of violets the infant was nurtured on honey by the bees. Her stepfather Aipytos, upon learning from the Delphic Oracle of the birth of the son of a god, commanded her recover the child. She named him Iamos, "Boy of the Violets," from his rustic bed.
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Euboea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Argive naiad daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and Prosymna, were the nurses of Hera. Mother of of Arestor and Triopas by Phrobas
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Triopas - child
- child - Asterion
- married - Phorbaceus
- turned - The Naiads
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Eubouleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Demi-god or hero of the sacred swine of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He was perhaps also a demi-god of ploughing and the planting of the grain seed.
Eubouleus appears in two seperate regional myths. In the Cretan myth he was a son of the grain-goddess Demeter and her consort the harvest-man Karmanor (Carmanor). In the Eleusinian and Argive myths he was the swine-herd brother of Triptolemos whose animals were swallowed up by the earth when Haides seized Persephone. Eubouleus was occassionally depicted in ancient art amongst the deities of the Eleusinian Mysteries where he appears as a youth holding an Eleusinian torch.Life Stages: Agrarian God
Relationships:
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Eumolpus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Legendary king of Thrace. He was described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior, or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus. Chione, daughter of Boreas and the heroine Oreithyia, pregnant in secret with Eumolpus by Poseidon, was frightened of her father's reaction so she threw the baby into the ocean after giving birth to him. Poseidon however, looked after him and brought him to shore in Ethiopia, where Benthesikyme, a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, raised the child as their own. When he grew up, Eumolpus married one of Benthesikyme's two daughters by her Ethiopian husband. Eumolpus however, loved a different daughter and made an attempt upon her chastity, and was banished because of this. He went to Thrace with his son Ismarus (or Immaradus) who was married to the daughter of King Tegyrius. Later on, Eumolpus was discovered in a plot to overthrow King Tegyrios and was obliged to take flight and fled to Eleusis where he formed a friendship with the Eleusinians.
In Eleusis, Eumolpus became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries. When Ismarus died, Tegyrios sent for Eumolpus to return to Thrace, they made peace and Eumolpus inherited the Thracian kingdom. During a war between Athens and Eleusis, Eumolpus sided with Eleusis and came with a numerous band of Thracians.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- surrogate - Benthesikyme
- child - Khione
- child - Poseidon
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Eunomia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: goddess of good order and lawful conduct. She was associated with the internal stability of a state, including the enactment of good laws and the maintenance of civil order. She was also the spring-time goddess of green pastures. Her opposite number was Dysnomia (Lawlessness).
Life Stages: Horai, Olympian
Relationships:
- turned - The Horai
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Euphemus
Status: alive
Biography: Counted among the Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts, and was connected with the legend of the foundation of Cyrene. Euphemus was a son of Poseidon, granted by his father the power to walk on water. In some accounts, he is said to have been married to Laonome, sister of Heracles.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Mecionice / Menodice
- child - Poseidon
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Europa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phoenician princess said to have been abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull. She was the mother of the Cretan king Minos. Zeus was enamoured with Europa and decided to seduce or rape her, the two being near-equivalent in Greek myth. He transformed himself into a tame white bull and mixed in with her father's herds. While Europa and her helpers were gathering flowers, she saw the bull, caressed his flanks, and eventually got onto his back. Zeus took that opportunity and ran to the sea and swam, with her on his back, to the island of Crete. Zeus then revealed his true identity, and Europa became the first queen of Crete. Zeus gave her a necklace made by Hephaestus and three additional gifts: the bronze automaton guard Talos, the hound Laelaps who never failed to catch his quarry, and a javelin that never missed. Zeus later re-created the shape of the white bull in the stars, which is now known as the constellation Taurus. It should not be confused with the Cretan Bull that fathered the Minotaur and was captured by Heracles. Having given birth to three sons by Zeus, Europa married a king Asterion
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurotas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river-god of Lakedaimonia (Lacedaemonia) in the Peloponnese, southern Greece. He was an early king of the region and possessed a mortal, rather than typical river-god, genealogy. Eurotas bequeathed the kingdom to Lacedaemon, the son of Zeus and Taygete, after whom Mount Taygetus was named, according to Pausanias. This Lacedaemon married his daughter Sparta and renamed the state after his wife.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Sparta - child
- Pitane - child
- married - Cleta
- child - Kleokhareia
- child - Lelex
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Euryale
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Minos, mother of the great hunter Orion.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Euryanassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Hyperphas, leader of the Phlegyans and thus, sister to Euryganeia, wife of Oedipus. She was the mother of Minyas by Poseidon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Euryanassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of the river-god Pactolus. She was the wife of Tantalus, and one of the possible mothers of Pelops, Broteas, and Niobe.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Eurybia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 10, Pg 35
Goddess of power over and mastery of the sea.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Eurydice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A queen of Troy as the wife of Ilus, founder of Ilium.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurydice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The wife of Orpheus, whom Orpheus tried to bring back from the dead with his enchanting music.
Eurydice was the wife of musician Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, Aristaeus saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, was bitten, and died thereafter. Distraught, Orpheus played and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and deities wept and told him to travel to the Underworld to retrieve her, which he gladly did. After his music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone, his singing so sweet that even the Erinyes wept, he was allowed to take her back to the world of the living. In another version, Orpheus played his lyre to put Cerberus, the guardian of Hades, to sleep, after which Eurydice was allowed to return with Orpheus to the world of the living. Either way, the condition was attached that he must walk in front of her and not look back until both had reached the upper world. Soon, he began to doubt that she was there, suspecting that Hades had deceived him. Just as he reached the portals of Hades and daylight, he turned around to gaze on her face, and because Eurydice had not yet crossed the threshold, she vanished back into the Underworld. When Orpheus was later killed by the Maenads at the orders of Dionysus, his soul ended up in the Underworld, where he was reunited with Eurydice.Life Stages: Dryad Nymph
Relationships:
- married - Orpheus
- turned - The Hamadryades
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Eurydice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Spartan princess who later on became the queen of Argos. She is the mother of Danaë, the mother of the Argive hero Perseus. Later on, Eurydice married King Acrisius of Argos and became the mother of Danaë who begot the celebrated hero Perseus. Her other daughter was possibly Evarete, wife of Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis. In some accounts, the wife of Acrisius was called Aganippe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Acrisius - married
- Danaë - child
- Evarete - child
- child - Lacedaemon
- child - Sparta
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Euryganeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Married Oedipus after the death of Iocaste; Pausanias also maintains that it was she, and not Iocaste, who bore Oedipus his four children (Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone and Ismene). Defending this version, Pausanias refers to the poem Oedipodea and to a painting by Onasias, which depicted Euryganeia in grief over the conflict between her sons.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurymede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Relationships:
- Bellerophon - child
- child - Abrota
- married - Glaucus
- child - Nisos
- pollinated - Poseidon
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Eurymedousa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Zeus approached and seduced her in the form of an ant. As a result, she gave birth to Myrmidon.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Eurynome
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the elder Okeanides and the Titan-goddess of water-meadows and pasturelands. She was the third of the brides of Zeus who bore him the Kharites (Charites), goddesses of grace and beauty. Her name means "She of Broad-Pastures" from the Greek words eurys "wide" or "broad" and nomia "pasture."
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Zeus - married
- The Charites - child
- turned - The Oceanids
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Eurynome
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: First Titan-queen of heaven who ruled Olympos beside her husband Ophion. The pair were wrestled by Kronos (Cronus) and Rhea for their thrones and cast defeated into the earth-encircling River Okeanos (Oceanus).
Eurynome's name means "Wide-Ruling" or "She of Broad-Pastures" from the Greek words eurys "wide" or "broad" and nomos "ruling" or nomia "pasturelands."Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Euryodeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She-bear who was transformed into a woman, the mother of King Arcesius of Ithaca.
Life Stages: Beast, Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurypylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: According to a scholium on the Argonautica he was a king of Cyrene and the brother of Eupemus and Lycus, who were also referred to as Eurytus and Lycaon. Eurypylus married Sterope, a daughter of Helios and had two sons, Lycaon and Leucippus. Triton assumed his shape when he encountered the Argonauts in Libya.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurypylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the island of Cos. Eurypylus was the son of Poseidon and Astypalaea He was the husband of Clytie and father of Chalciope, Chalcon and Antagoras.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Astypalaea
- child - Poseidon
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Euryte
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Hippodamas, By Porthaon, the king of Calydon, she was the mother of Oeneus, Agrius, Leucopeus, Melas, Alcathous and Sterope.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Porthaon - married
- Oeneus - child
- child - Hippodamas
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Eurythemis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Cleoboea. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, she was the wife of King Thestius of Pleuron and mother of Althaea, Leda, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Evippus, Plexippus and Eurypylus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurythemista
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the two maidens that were wooed by Boeotus. He could not choose between the two until he saw a star fall on Eurythemiste's shoulder; he then took her to wife.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurytus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- turned - Molionidai
- married - Theraephone
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Eusiros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A lord of Malis (northern Greece), son of Poseidon, and father of Cerambus by the nymph Eidothea of Mt. Othrys. His son was changed into a gnawing beetle by the nymphs because of his arrogance.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Euxantios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Ceos, refused to share his power with his half-brothers, the sons of Minos.
“He [Euxantios king of Keos (Ceos) and son of Minos and Dexithea, the daughter of one of the Telkhines (Telchines)] declared to them [the sons of Minos and Pasiphae] the marvel that had once befallen him :--‘Know ye that I fear war with Zeus, I fear the loudly thundering Shaker of the earth [Poseidon]. They, on a day, with thunderbolt and trident, sent the land and a countless host [presumably the Telkhines] into the depths of Tartaros, while they left alone my mother [Dexithea daughter of one of the Telkhines], and her well-walled home.’"Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Evadne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Peiras, Epidaurus and Criasus.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Evarete
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Wife of King Oenomaus of Pisa and mother of Hippodamia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippodamia - child
- child - Acrisius
- child - Eurydice
- married - Oenomaus
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Gaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 3
(Gaia) Mother Earth herself. Created after Chaos, mother of creation.Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, Protogenoi, Rustic
Relationships:
- Ouranos - child
- Pontos - child
- Ourea - child
- Nereus - child
- Thaumas - child
- Phorkys - child
- Keto - child
- Eurybia - child
- Aigaion - child
- The Titanes - child
- Python - child
- The Titanides - child
- The Kylopes - child
- The Hekatonkheires - child
- Hecaterus - child
- Silenos - child
- The Erinyes - child
- The Meliai - child
- Drakon Nemeios - child
- Ophiotauros - child
- Skorpios - child
- Tartarus - partner
- Typhoeus - child
- Kekrops - child
- Kynokephaloi - child
- Pygmaioi - child
- Cranaus - child
- Aphrodite - child
- Drakon Kykhreides - child
- Lelex - child
- Antaios - child
- The Laestrygones - child
- pollinated - Ouranos
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Galateia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 26
GALATEIA (Galatea) was one of the fifty Nereides and the goddess of calm seas.
She frequented the coast of Sicily and there attracted the attention of the Kyklops (Cyclops) Polyphemos. The giant wooed her with tunes from his rustic pipes and offerings of milk and cheese. But the nymphe spurned his advances and consorted instead with a handsome Sicillian youth named Akis (Acis). Polyphemos flew into a jealous rage and crushed the boy beneath a rock. Galateia was grief-stricken and transformed Akis into a stream. According to some Galateia was the mother by Polyphemos of Galatos, eponymous king of Galatia in Anatolia.
Galateia was depicted in ancient art as a beautiful woman riding side-saddle on the back of a sea-monster or fish-tailed god.
Her name means either "goddess of calm seas" from galênê and theia or "milky-white" from galaktos.Life Stages: Tree III, Epimelid Nymph, Nereid
Relationships:
- Galatos - child
- pollinated - Polyphemos
- turned - The Nereides
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Galatos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 26
Eponymous king of Galatia in Anatolia.Life Stages: Tree III, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Galateia
- child - Polyphemos
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Ganymedes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A handsome Trojan prince who was carried off to heaven by Zeus in the shape of an eagle where he was appointed as cup-bearer of the gods. Ganymedes was also placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aquarius, his ambrosial mixing cup as Crater, and the eagle as Aquila. Ganymedes was often portrayed as the god of homosexual love and as such appears as a playmate of the love-gods Eros (Love) and Hymenaios (Hymenaeus) (Marital Love). The boy's name was derived from the Greek words ganumai "gladdening" and mêdon or medeôn, "prince" or "genitals." The name may have been formed to contain a deliberate double-meaning.
Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
- child - Tros
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Geras
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of old age. He was depicted as a tiny, shrivelled-up old man. Geras' opposite number was Hebe, the goddess of youth.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Geryon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 19
A three-bodied, four-winged giant who lived on the island of Erytheia in the westernmost reach of the earth-encircling river Okeanos.
He possessed a fabulous herd of cattle whose coats were stained red by the light of the sunset. Herakles was sent to fetch these as one of his twelve labours.
The hero reached the island by sailing across the Okeanos in a golden cup-boat borrowed from the sun-god Helios. There he encountered and slew the cattle-herder Eurytion, the two-headed guard dog Orthros (Orthus), and finally three-bodied Geryon himself. With this task complete the hero herded the cattle into his boat and led them back to the Greek Peloponnese.
Geryon may have originally been associated with the constellation Orion, his two-headed dog Orthos with the adjacent canines Canis Major and Minor, and his cattle with Taurus the bull. His father's name Khrysaor ("Golden Sword") was an appellation of the constellation Orion and most of Herakles other labours are connected with star groups.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
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Glaucus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurymede - married
- Bellerophon - adopted
- child - Merope
- child - Sisyphus
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Glaukos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 12
(Glaucus) A mortal fisherman who was transformed into a sea-god after eating a magical herb. He was the patron god of fishermen.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Gorgo Aix
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Ancient Gorgon slain by Zeus at the start of the Titan war. He crafted his famed aigis shield--a goat-hide arm-guard fringed with serpents--from its skin and set her fearsome visage upon it. Aix was also memorialised amongst the stars as the constellation Capra (Greek Aix) on the arm of Auriga. Capra's rising in late autumn heralded the onset of seasonal storms.
Aix was a daughter of the sun-god Helios. Like the aigis-shield itself, she symbolised the storm-cloud. Her name means both "Terrible Goat" and "Fierce Storm" for the Greek word aigis contains the double-meaning of "stormy" and "goatish".
The Gorgo Aix, was also described as the nurse of Zeus, and in this case she was a monstrous counterpart of the goat Amaltheia.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
- child - Helios
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Gorgophone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Queen of both Messenia and Sparta and one of the Perseids, as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father Perseus who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon. Gorgophone was a prominent figure in the mythical history of Sparta, having been married to two kings: Oebalus of Laconia and Perieres of Messenia. She is considered the first woman to have married twice. After the death of her first husband Perieres by whom she had sons Aphareus and Leucippus, Gorgophone took Oebalus as her second spouse. With him she had a daughter, Arene. Her sons Tyndareus, Icarius, and Pisus have been named as the sons of both kings, and their parentage varies between accounts
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Hades
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Chthonian God, Olympian
Relationships:
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Haimonios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Kourete
Life Stages: Rustic
Relationships:
- Amaltheia - child
- turned - The Curetes
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Halia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: sea-nymph of the island of Rhodes loved by the god Poseidon. When her sons denied Aphrodite landing on the island, the goddess drove them into a mad frenzy causing them to rape their mother. Halia in shame cast herself into the sea and her sons were exiled by their father to the dark caverns beneath the island.
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- Daimones Proseoous - child
- Poseidon - partner
- child - Thalassa
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Hallirhothios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: "Agraulos [daughter of Kekrops king of Athens] and Ares had a daughter Alkippe. As Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon and a nymphe named Eurtye, was trying to rape Alkippe, Ares caught him at it and slew him. Poseidon had Ares tried on the Areopagos with the twelve gods presiding. Ares was acquitted."
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Poseidon
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Hamadryas
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Dryad-nymph of Mt. Othrys, the first oak tree nymph.
Life Stages: Dryad Nymph
Relationships:
- The Hamadryades - child
- child - Oreios
- married - Oxylos
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Harmonia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of harmony and concord. Her Greek opposite is Eris and her Roman counterpart is Concordia. Harmonia is most well-known for her marriage to Cadmus and the many misfortunes that haunted her descendants, particularly those related to the fabled Necklace of Harmonia.
goddess of harmony and concord. She was a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite and as such presided over both marital harmony, soothing strife and discord, and harmonious action of soldiers in war. Late Greek and Roman writers sometimes portrayed her as harmony in a more abstract sense--a deity who presided over cosmic balance.
Harmonia was born of Aphrodite's adulterous affair with the god Ares. She was awarded to Kadmos (Cadmus), hero and founder of Thebes, in a wedding attended by the gods. Hephaistos (Hephaestus), however, was still angry over his wife's betrayal and presented Harmonia with a cursed necklace, dooming her descendants to endless tragedy.
Following a string of family catastrophes the couple emmigrated to Illyria where they battled various local tribes to found a new kingdom. Later the pair were transformed into serpents by the gods and carried off the Islands of the Blessed to live in peace.
In ancient Greek vase painting Harmonia appears in two scenes--firstly as the bride of Kadmos and secondly as a goddess in the retinue of the bridal Aphrodite. Harmonia's opposite number was Eris (Strife).Life Stages: Daimon, Olympian
Relationships:
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Hebe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of youth and the cupbearer of the gods who served ambrosia at the heavenly feast. She was also the patron goddess of the young bride and an attendant of the goddess Aphrodite.
Herakles (Heracles) received Hebe in marriage upon his ascension to Olympos, a wedding which reconciled the hero with Hebe's mother Hera.
Hebe's male counterpart was the boy Ganymedes and her opposite number was Geras (Old Age). She may have been equated with Selene's daughter Pandeia. Her Roman name was Juventas.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Hecaterus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: was the demi-god (daimon) of the hekateris--a rustic dance of quickly moving hands--and perhaps also of the skill of hands in general. He was the father of ten children by a daughter of the first man Phoroneus.
Relationships:
- Anchiale - married
- The Daktyloi - child
- The Hekaterides - child
- Oaxos - child
- child - Gaea
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Hedone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of pleasure and enjoyment. As the daughter of Eros (Love) she was more specifically the goddess of sensual pleasure.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Hedylogos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 32
God of sweet-talk. He was one of the winged love-gods known as Erotes.Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
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Hegemone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Leader goddess of spring
Life Stages: Horai
Relationships:
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Hegetoria
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph of the Aegean island of Rhodes who wed Okhimos (Ochimus), first king of the island. She was probably the Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the main town of Rhodes.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Kydippe - child
- married - Okhimos
- turned - The Naiads
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Hekate
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. Hekate assisted Demeter in her search for Persephone, guiding her through the night with flaming torches. After the mother-daughter reunion became she Persephone's minister and companion in Haides. familiars: the black she-dog and the polecat (a mustelid house pet kept by the ancients to hunt vermin). The dog was the Trojan Queen Hekabe (Hecuba) who leapt into the sea after the fall of Troy and was transformed by the goddess. The polecat was either the witch Gale, turned as punishment for her incontinence, or Galinthias, midwife of Alkmene (Alcmena), who was transformed by the enraged goddess Eileithyia but adopted by the sympathetic Hekate.
Life Stages: Chthonian God
Relationships:
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Helios
Status: alive
Biography: Titan god of the sun, a guardian of oaths, and the god of sight. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Okeanos. at the far ends of the earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds. When he reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Okeanos back to his rising place in the East.
Life Stages: Sky God, Titan
Relationships:
- Neaira - partner
- Lampeita and Phaethousa - child
- Klymene - partner
- The Heliades - child
- Phaethon - child
- Ceto - partner
- Astris - child
- The Heliadai - child
- Phasis - child
- Perseis - married
- Circe - child
- Aeëtes - child
- Pasiphaë - child
- Perses - child
- Ikhnaie - child
- Gorgo Aix - child
- The Twelve Horai - child
- Alectrona - child
- Leucothoe - pollinated
- Thersanon - child
- Sterope - child
- crush - Clytie
- child - Hyperion
- partner - Okyrhoe
- partner - Rhode
- child - Theia
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Helle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Helle is known for giving her name to the strait of Hellespont ("sea of Helle"), into which she fell while crossing it on the back of a flying golden ram with her brother Phrixus—the same flying ram from which the Golden Fleece derived. Phrixus—son of King Athamas of Boeotia and the nymph Nephele—along with his younger sister, Helle, were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the children, roasting all of the town's crop seeds so that they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle, such that they would lie and tell the others that the oracle had required the sacrifice of Phrixus.
Yet, before he was killed, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying golden ram sent by Nephele, their natural mother. For reasons unknown, Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont (which was subsequently named after her); there she either drowned, or was rescued by Poseidon and turned into a sea-goddess. Phrixus, however, survived all the way to Colchis (now a region on the coast of modern Georgia). There, King Aeetes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the Golden Fleece of the ram, which Aeetes placed in a consecrated grove, under the care of a sleepless dragon.
With the Greek god Poseidon, Helle was the mother of the giant Almops and Paeon (called Edonus in some accounts).Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Hellen
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Early king of the Hellenes of northern Greece.
Life Stages: Tree III, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Hemera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 7
Primordial goddess of the day. Every evening Hemera's mother Nyx drew her dark veil across the sky, obscuring the the shining blue of the heavenly ether, and bringing night to earth. With each morn Hemera dispersed her mother's mists, bathing the earth again in the light of the ether.Life Stages: Protogenoi, Sky God
Relationships:
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Hemithea and Parthenos
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: PARTHENOS was a princess of the island of Naxos who leapt into the sea, along with her sister Hemithea, to escape the wrath of her father Staphylos. The pair were transformed into goddesses by Apollon who, according to some, was their natural father. Parthenos was worshipped in the Karian (Carian) town of Bubastos and her sister Hemithea in neighbouring Kastabos (Castabus). According to some Parthenos was also set amongst the stars as the constellation Virgo.
HEMITHEA was a princess of the island of Naxos who leapt into the sea, along with her sister Parthenos, to escape the wrath of her father Staphylos. The pair were transformed into goddesses by Apollon who, according to some, was their natural father. Hemithea was worshipped in the town of Kastabos (Castabus) on the Karian Kherronesos (Carian Chersonese) and her sister Parthenos in neighbouring Bubastos.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
- child - Khrysothemis
- child - Staphylos
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Hephaestus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Olympian god of fire, smiths, craftsmen, metalworking, stonemasonry and sculpture. He was depicted as a bearded man holding a hammer and tongs--the tools of a smith--and sometimes riding a donkey.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- The Palikoi - child
- Erichthonius - child
- child - Hera
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Hera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- Zeus - married
- Hebe - child
- Ares - child
- Eileithyia - child
- Hephaestus - child
- child - Kronos
- child - Rhea
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Hermes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Olympian god of herds, trade, heralds, athletes and thieves.
This page outlines the divine and mortal children fathered by Hermes. Most of these were only connected to the god with the briefest of genealogical references and were often assigned his paternity to emphasize their roles as messengers and swift runners in myth. A few were the founders of noble houses, such as Kerys--ancestor of the Athenian family which held the position of herald in the Eleusinian mysteries.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Herse
Status: alive
Biography: (Ersa) Goddess of the dew. Her moisture nourished the plants of the earth.
Relationships:
- child - Selene
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Hesione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Relationships:
- Teucer - child
- child - Laomedon
- child - Strymo Rhoio
- pollinated - Telamon
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Hesperides
Status: alive
Biography: Goddess-nymphs of evening and the golden light of sunsets. The Hesperides were entrusted with the care of the tree of the golden apples which was had been presented to the goddess Hera by Gaia (the Earth) on her wedding day. They were assisted by a hundred-headed guardian-Drakon (Dragon). Herakles was sent to fetch the apples as one of his twelve labours and, upon slaying the serpent, stole the precious fruit. Athena later returned them to the Hesperides.
The Hesperides were also the keepers of other treasures of the gods. Perseus obtained from them the artifacts he needed to slay the Gorgon Medousa (Medusa).
The three nymphs and their glowing, golden apples were regarded as the source of the golden light of sunset--a phenomena which celebrated the bridal of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of heaven.
Their names were Aegle, Erytheia, Hesperia, and Arethusa,Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Hestia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: virgin goddess of the hearth (both private and municipal) and the home. As the goddess of the family hearth she also presided over the cooking of bread and the preparation of the family meal. Hestia was also the goddess of the sacrificial flame and received a share of every sacrifice to the gods. The cooking of the communal feast of sacrificial meat was naturally a part of her domain.
In myth Hestia was the first born child of Kronos (Cronus) and Rhea who was swallowed by her father at birth. Zeus later forced the old Titan to disgorge Hestia and her siblings. As the first to be swallowed she was also the last to be disgorged, and so was named as both the eldest and youngest of the six Kronides. When the gods Apollon and Poseidon sought for her hand in marriage, Hestia refused and asked Zeus to let her remain an eternal virgin. He agreed and she took her place at his royal hearth.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Hieromneme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Relationships:
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Hilaeira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The Leukippides (Leucippides)
A Messenian princess. Stephanus of Byzantium called her Elaeira
Two Messenian princesses who were granted immortality alongside their Dioskouroi (Dioscuri) husbands.
The Dioskouroi abducted the girls from their home in Messenia but they were already betrothed to the brothers Idas and Lynkeus (Lynceus) who gave chase. In the fight which ensued one of the Dioskouroi and both of the Aphareides were killed. Zeus then transformed the twins and their brides into immortal demigods.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Himeros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of sexual desire and one of the Erotes, the winged gods of love. When Aphrodite was born from the sea-foam's she was greeted by the twin loves Eros and Himeros. The pair remained her constant companions acting as agents of her divine power.
Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
- surrogate - Aphrodite
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Hippodamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of the river-god Achelous and princess Perimede, daughter of King Aeolus of Thessaly. He was the brother of Orestes and father of Euryte, wife of Porthaon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hippodamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the queen of Pisa and the wife of Pelops, appearing with Pelops at a potential cult site in Ancient Olympia. Although Hippodamia does not speak within her mythologies, she is spoken about by both Oenomaus and Pelops. It is stated that Hippodamia is Oenomaus' only joy, and is a virtuous child. Oenomaus considered many men inferior to his daughter. Hippodamia married Pelops, son of King Tantalus of Lydia, and their children are as follows: Astydameia, Atreus, Corpreus, Dias, Eurydice, Hippalcimus, Hippasus, Lysidice, Mytilene, Nicippe, Pittheus, Thyestes, and Troezen.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hippotes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Aiolos
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aiolos - child
- married - Melanippe / Okyrrhoe
- child - Mimas
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Hippothoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Mestor, son of Perseus, and of Lysidice, daughter of Pelops. Poseidon abducted Hippothoe from her family and took her to the Echinades islands. There, he sired Taphius who later founded the city of Taphos.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Hiscilla
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phthian princess as daughter of King Myrmidon and Peisidice. She was the mother of Phorbas and Iphimedeia
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Iphimedeia - child
- child - Myrmidon
- child - Pisidice
- married - Triopas
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Horkos
Status: alive
Biography: Daimon of oaths who punished perjurers. He was a punitive companion of the goddess Dike (Justice).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Hormes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of effort, impulse and eagerness. In the context of war, hormê was a violent forward movement--an assault or attack. Hormes was worshipped at Athens as the virtue of industrious effort. His opposite number was Aergia (Sloth).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Horses of Erechtheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: THE HIPPOI EREKTHEIOI (Horses of Erechtheus) were two immortal horses possessed by the Athenian King Erekhtheus. He received them from Boreas, god of the north-wind, as a bride price for his daughter Oreithyia. The steeds were named Xanthos and Podarkes.
Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
- The Trojan Horses - child
- child - Aello
- child - Boreas
- pollinated - Boreas
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Horses of the Dioscuri
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Kyllaros, Xanthos, Harpagos, and Philogeus. They were four immortal steeds gifted to the Dioskouroi by the gods Hermes and Hera. They served the twins both during their time on earth and after their ascension to godhood.
Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
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Hus Kalydonios
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: THE HUS KALYDONIOS (Calydonian Boar) was a gigantic boar sent by Artemis to ravage the countryside of Kalydon (Calydon) to punish King Oineus (Oeneus) for neglecting her in the offerings of the first fruits to the gods.
The king summoned heroes from throughout Greece to hunt the beast. The famed Kalydonian Boar Hunt which ensued was led by the king's son Meleagros (Meleager) who struck the killing blow. However the hero awarded the skin to Atalanta as a prize for drawing first blood.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- child - Hus Krommyon
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Hus Krommyon
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Crommyonian Sow) was a giant boar which terrorized the countryside around the town of Krommyon on the Isthmos. The beast was the man-eating pet of an old crone named Phaia (Phaea). Both she and the sow were slain by Theseus as he journeyed from Troizenos (Troezen) to Athens clearing the highway of assorted bandits and miscreants.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- Hus Kalydonios - child
- child - Ekhidna
- child - Typhoeus
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Hyas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: HYAS was a minor god (daimon) of seasonal rains heralded by the rising of the constellation Aquarius. He was a brother of the Hyades (Rain-Nymphs) and a son of the sky-bearing Titan Atlas.
As a young boy Hyas was killed by a lion (or wild boar) while fetching water and was afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aquarius. His five mourning sisters and the lion were also elevated to the sky as the constellations Hyades and Leo. Aquarius and Leo do not share the sky at the same time--one sets as the other rises--, an eternal chase playing out in the heavens.
Hyas was probably identified with Hylas, a young lover of Herakles who was kidnapped by water-nymphs when sent to fetch water.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Hybris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of insolence, hubris, violence, reckless pride, arrogance and outrageous behavior in general.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Hydaspes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 34
River-God of north-western India, opposed Dionysus and supported the Indians in their war.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Astris - married
- The Hydaspides - child
- child - Elektra
- child - Thaumas
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Hydra Lernaia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Lernaean Hydra) was a gigantic, nine-headed water-serpent, which haunted the swamps of Lerna. Herakles (Heracles) was sent to destroy her as one of his twelve labours, but for each of her heads that he decapitated, two more sprang forth. So with the help of Iolaos (Iolaus), he applied burning brands to the severed stumps, cauterizing the wounds and preventing the regeneration. In the battle he also crushed a giant crab beneath his heel which had come to assist the Hydra. The Hydra and the Crab were afterwards placed amongst the stars by Hera as the Constellations Hydra and Cancer.
Life Stages: Beast, Dragon
Relationships:
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Hyperboreades
Status: alive
Biography: Three giant sons of Boreas the north-wind and Khione (Chione) the goddess of snow. They were the immortal priests of the virtuous Hyperborean tribe who dwelt in a realm of eternal spring beyond the North Wind.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Hyperes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Boeotian son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, and brother of Anthas. He was the father of Arethusa, mother of Abas by Poseidon. Hyperes and his brother Anthas reigned over what later became Troezen and were founders of the cities Hyperea and Anthea respectively. Two brands of Troezenian wine, Anthedonias and Hypereias, were believed to have been named after certain "Anthus and Hyperus", who apparently are the same figures. The island of Calauria, off the coast of Troezen, was likewise believed to have received from Hyperes the name of Hypereia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Hyperion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Titan god of heavenly light, as the father of the sun and dawn, Hyperion was no doubt regarded as the Titan of the pillar of the east.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Helios - child
- Selene - child
- Eos - child
- turned - The Titanes
- married - Theia
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Hypermnestra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She is a daughter of King Danaus, and one of the 50 Danaids. Hypermnestra is most notable for being the only Danaid that betrayed her father and refused to kill her husband Lynceus, the future king of Argos. Hypermnestra was one of two daughters born of King Danaus of Libya and Elephantis, with her only full sister being Gorgophone, as the rest of the 48 Danaids were begotten by other women. Danaus was enraged by Hypermnestra's disobedience. He imprisoned her and tried her in the Argive courts. However, she was acquitted— alternatively, saved by Aphrodite— and to commemorate her escape, commissioned an image of Aphrodite, "Bringer of Victory." In some versions of the myth
Apollodorus claims the heads of the murdered husbands were buried at Lerna, where Athena and Hermes then purified the ground at the command of Zeus., Lynceus killed Danaus for his treachery, and in others, Danaus died years later and passed the kingdom to Lynceus. However, Pausanias claims the heads were instead buried at Larisa, and the headless bodies were buried in Lerna. Additionally, in some versions of the myth, the Danaides were punished in the underworld by being forced to carry water in a jug with holes, or a sieve, so the water always leaked out. Hypermnestra, however, went straight to Elysium.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Abas - child
- married - Lynceus
- turned - The Danaides
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Hyperphas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Leader of the Phlegyans and an ally of the Thebans. He was the father of Euryganeia who, according to Pausanias, married Oedipus after the death of Iocaste
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Euryanassa - child
- Euryganeia - child
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Hypnos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of sleep. He dwelt in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness beyond the gates of the rising sun, and rose into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night). Hypnos was often paired with his twin brother Thanatos (Peaceful Death), and the Oneiroi (Dreams) were his brothers.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Hyrieus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The eponymous founding lord of the town of Hyria in Boiotia (central Greece), One source calls Hyrieus the father of Crinacus, father of King Macareus of Lesbos. By the nymph Clonia, he became the father of Nycteus and Lycus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Hyrmine
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Elean princess. The town of Hyrmine, named after her, was founded by her son Actor.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Iapetos
Status: alive
Biography: (Iapetus) The Titan god of mortality and life-span. Iapetos himself was the pillar of the west, a position later held by his son Atlas.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Clymene - married
- Anchiale - child
- Atlas - child
- Epimetheus - child
- Prometheus - child
- Menoitios - child
- turned - The Titanes
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Iasion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: IASION was an agricultural hero and the springtime consort of Demeter in the Samothracian Mysteries.
Iasion lay with the goddess in a thrice-ploughed field during the wedding celebrations of Kadmos (Cadmus) and Harmonia on the island of Samothrake. When Zeus learned of the affair he slew Iasion with a thunderbolt. According to some Iasion and the agricultural hero Triptolemos were afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Gemini (the Heavenly Twins).Life Stages: Agrarian God, Apotheosis
Relationships:
- Ploutos - child
- Bootes / Philomelos - child
- partner - Demeter
- child - Electra
- child - Zeus
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Iasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Arcadian father of Atalanta by Clymene, daughter of Minyas; he was the son of King Lycurgus of Arcadia by either Eurynome or Cleophyle. His brothers were Ancaeus, Epochus and Amphidamas. Father of King Amphion of Orchomenus. The latter married Persephone, daughter of Minyas, and fathered Chloris and Phylomache who both married the twins, Neleus and Pelias, respectively.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Idas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Messenian prince. He was one of the Argonauts, a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and contender with the gods. Idas was described as keen and spirited. elder brother of Lynceus and Pisus. He was sometimes regarded as the offspring of Poseidon.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ide and Adrasteia
Status: alive
Biography: nymphs of Mount Ida in Krete (Crete) who were entrusted with the care of the infant god Zeus. They hid him away in the secluded Diktaion (Dictaean) cave, nursing him on honey and the milk of the she-goat Amaltheia. The Kouretes (Curetes), meanwhile, masked his cries with their shield-clashing war dance. As a reward for their service, Zeus placed the pair amongst the stars as the constellations Ursa Major and Minor (the Bears).
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- child - Melisseus
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Idomene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Wife of Amythaon
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ikhnaie
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of tracing and tracking. She was one of the female Titanes who possessed an oracle at Ikhnai (Ichnae) in Thessalia (Thessaly).
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- child - Helios
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Ilos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Ilus) Founder of Illium. And having prayed to Zeus that a sign might be shown to him, he beheld by day the Palladium, fallen from heaven, lying before his tent.
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Inachus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: First king of Argos. The Inachus River, a river in eastern Peloponnese, is named after him.
Life Stages: King, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Melia - married
- Philodice - child
- Phoroneus - child
- Io - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Ino
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Sea goddess who came to the aid of sailors in distress.
She was once a mortal princess named Ino, a daughter of King Kadmos (Cadmus) of Thebes. She and her husband Athamas incurred the wrath of Hera when they fostered the infant god Dionysos. As punishment the goddess drove Athamas into a murderous rage and he slew his eldest child. Ino then grapped the other, and in her flight leapt off a cliff into the sea. The pair were welcomed into the company of the sea-gods and renamed Leukothea (the White Goddess) and Palaimon (Palaemon).
Leukothea later came to the aid of Odysseus when his raft had been destroyed by Poseidon, and wrapped him in the safety of her buoyant shawl.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
- Melikertes - child
- married - Athamas
- child - Cadmus
- child - Harmonia
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Io
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, her descendants included Perseus, Cadmus, Heracles, Minos, Lynceus, Cepheus, Dionysus, and Danaus.
Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Zeus pursues a fleeing Io through the Lycrean country, throwing a mantle of darkness over the earth, and then raped her. According to some stories, Zeus then turned Io into a heifer in order to hide her from his wife; others maintain that Hera herself transformed Io. In the version of the story in which Zeus transformed Io, the deception failed, and Hera begged Zeus to give her the heifer as a present, which, having no reason to refuse, he did. Pitying the unfortunate girl, Gaia, the goddess of the earth, created the violet so the cow could eat, thus growing "from her from whom it has its name". The various colours of the violet (red, purple, white) changed on account of Io's life, red for the blushing maiden, purple for the cow, white for the stars. Hera then sent Argus Panoptes, a giant who had 100 eyes, to watch Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, and so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus. According to Ovid, he did so by first lulling him to sleep by playing the panpipes and telling stories. Zeus freed Io, still in the form of a heifer. In some myths, Hera uses Argus' eyes to decorate her peacock's feathers to thank the giant for his help. In order to exact her revenge, Hera sent a gadfly to sting Io continuously, driving her to wander the world without rest. Io eventually crossed the path between the Propontis and the Black Sea, which thus acquired the name Bosporus (meaning ox passage), where she met Prometheus, who had been chained on Mt. Caucasus by Zeus. Prometheus comforted Io with the information that she would be restored to human form and become the ancestress of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles. Io escaped across the Ionian Sea to Egypt, where she was restored to human form by Zeus. There, she gave birth to Zeus's son Epaphus[22], and a daughter as well, Keroessa. She later married Egyptian king Telegonus. Their grandson, Danaus, eventually returned to Greece with his fifty daughters (the Danaids).
She was sometimes compared to the Egyptian goddess Isis, whereas her Egyptian husband Telegonus was Osiris.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Iphianassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. Consort of King Endymion of Elis and mother of Aetolus.
Life Stages: Nereid
Relationships:
- Epeius - child
- Aetolus - child
- married - Endymion
- turned - The Nereides
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Iphimedeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess. She was attested in Homer's Odyssey in the Catalogue of Women as being a mortal. Iphimedea had by Poseidon the twins Otus and Ephialtes who were called the Aloadae after their stepfather. She mothered as well Pancratis (or Pancrato) to Aloeus. She was probably also the mother of Elate and Platanus, the sisters of the Aloadae.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- The Aloadae - child
- Poseidon - partner
- married - Aloeus
- child - Hiscilla
- child - Triopas
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Iris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 30
IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Ismenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of the river of the same name. He was mentioned as the father of several spring nymphs, the river god Ismenus gets involved in the war of the Seven against Thebes: he attempts to raise his waters against Hippomedon in revenge for the death of Crenaeus, son of his daughter Ismenis by Pan, but has to withdraw his attack at the request of Zeus.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Dirce - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Jocasta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Iocaste) Queen of Thebes through her marriages to Laius and her son, Oedipus. She is best known for her role in the myths surrounding Oedipus and her eventual suicide upon the discovery of his identity. With Laius, she became Queen of Thebes and gave birth to a son, Oedipus. Later, not knowing of Oedipus's identity, she married him and gave birth to Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene. She was therefore both the mother and the grandmother of her children.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Kabeiro
Status: alive
Biography: A sea-nymph daughter of the marine-god Proteus. She was the mother of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) gods of Lemnos by Hephaistos (Hephaestus).
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
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Kallirhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Callirhoe) Okeanid-nymph of the mythical western isle of Erytheia (sometimes identified as southern Spain). She was the mother by Khrysaor (Chrysaor) of the three-bodied giant Geryon.
Kallirhoe was probably either the Naiad-nymph of a spring or fountain of Geryon's town or a rain-bringing cloud-goddess.Life Stages: Tree II, Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Geryon - child
- married - Khrysaor
- turned - The Oceanids
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Kalliste
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Calliste) A sea-nymph of the Aegean island of Kalliste (now Santorini). Her father, the sea-god Triton, presented her to the Argonaut Euphemos as a clod of earth which, when it was cast overboard, transformed into the island of Kalliste.
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- child - Triton
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Kalybe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Calybe) Trojan nymph loved by King Laomedon of Troy.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph
Relationships:
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Karmanor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Carmanor) Kretan demi-god of the harvest. He was a consort of the goddess Demeter and the father of Euboulos (Eubulus), demi-god of ploughing, Khrysothemis (Chrysothemis), demi-goddess of the harvest-festival, and Akakallis (Acacallis) "the Daffodil." His grand-daughter Karme (Carme) shared his name and function.
Life Stages: Agrarian God
Relationships:
- Demeter - partner
- Eubouleus - child
- Khrysothemis - child
- child - Eleusis
- child - Trokhilos
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Karme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Kretan (Cretan) demi-goddess of the harvest. She was a daughter of Euboulos (Eubulus), demi-god of ploughing, and the mother of the huntress Britomartis by Zeus. Karme's male counterpart was her grandfather Karmanor (Carmanor), a Kretan consort of the goddess Demeter.
Life Stages: Agrarian God
Relationships:
- Britomartis - child
- child - Eubouleus
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Karpo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: KARPO (Carpo) was the goddess of the fruits of the earth. She was numbered amongst the Horai (Seasons). Karpo was worshipped in Athens alongside the goddesses Auxo (Growth) and Hegemone (Leader).
Life Stages: Horai
Relationships:
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Karystos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Carystus) Rustic demi-god of the island of Euboia (Euboea) in central Greece. In the local mythology he was the father of the shepherd-god Aristaios (Aristaeus). Karystos also gave his name to a southern Euboian town.
Life Stages: Rustic
Relationships:
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Kebren
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: KEBREN (Cebren) was a river-god of the Troad in north-western Mysia, Anatolia.
The River Kebren was a tributary of the Skamandros (Scamander) whose headwaters lay in the foothills of Mount Ida near the town of Kebrene (Cebrene). Kebren may be the same as the river Heptaporos mentioned by Homer.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Oinone - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Kekrops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: KEKROPS (Cecrops) was an early, earth-born king of Attika and founder the city of Athens. He was depicted as a man from the waist up with a serpent's-tail in place of legs.
Kekrops was the first man to offer sacrifices to the goddess Athena after her birth from the head of Zeus and he established her ancient shrine on the Akropolis. When Poseidon disputed her claim to the city, Kekrops was asked to adjudicate and ruled in her favour. He was succeeded on the throne by Athena's foster-son, the earth-born hero Erikthonios (Erichthonius).
Children: HERSE, AGLAUROS, PANDROSOS, ERYSIKHTHON (by Agraulos)Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Kelaino
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Celaeno) Pleiad star-nymph of the island of Euboia or Mount Kithairon (Cithaeron) in Boiotia loved by the god Poseidon.
Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Lycus - child
- Eurypylus - child
- partner - Poseidon
- turned - The Pleiades
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Kentauroi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Peloponnesian Centaurs) were a tribe of half-man, half-horse Arkadian wildmen who fought Herakles for the wine of their hospitable brother Pholos (Pholus). Most of them were slain in the battle which ensued--felled by poisoned arrows. The few survivors fled south to the Malean peninsular or Eleusis where they were given refuge by Poseidon.
Included Pholos, Ankhios, Agrios, Elatos, Hyailos, Amphion, Hippotion, Oreios, Isoples, Melankhaites, Thereus, Doupon, Phrixos, Homados, and Asbolos.Relationships:
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Kephisos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 36
KEPHISOS (Cephisus) was a river-god of Attika in southern Greece. The Kephisos River had its headwaters on the northern slopes of Mount Parnassos (Parnassus) and the southern foothills of the Mount Othrys. It flowed east through Phokis and Boiotia before emptying into Lake Kopais (Copais) near the town of Orkhomenos (Orchomenus). The most important neighbouring rivers of Boiotian Kephisos were the Sperkheios (Spercheus) of Malis to the north, the Pleistos of Phokis to the south, and the Ismenos of central Boiotia to the south-east.Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Diogeneia. - child
- Liriope - married
- Narcissus - child
- Mideia - child
- Kleodora - child
- child - Pontos
- child - Thalassa
- turned - The Potamoi
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Kerberos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Cerberus) was the gigantic, three-headed hound of Haides which guarded the gates of the underworld and prevented the escape of the shades of the dead.
Life Stages: Beast, Chthonian God
Relationships:
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Keres
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimones of violent or cruel death, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They were agents of the Moirai and Moros. Personified the necessity of death. Sometimes described as one daimon, Ker, personification of violent death.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Kerkaphos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Relationships:
- Kydippe - married
- Lindos, Ialysos, and Kameiros - child
- turned - The Heliadai
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Keto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 10, Pg 14
Goddess of the dangers of the sea, specifically sea monsters, whales, and large sharks. She was also known as the whirlpool monster Charybdis, who was near Scylla.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
- The Graiai - child
- The Gorgones - child
- Ekhidna - child
- Drakon-Landon - child
- Thoosa - child
- Scylla - child
- Ketos Aithiopios - child
- child - Gaea
- married - Phorkys
- child - Pontos
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Ketos Aithiopios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 21
(Cetus Aethiopius) was a sea-monster sent by Poseidon to ravage the land of Aithiopia (Ethiopia) as punishment for Queen Kassiopeia's (Cassiopeia's) hubristic boast that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereides. To assuage the wrath of the sea-gods, the girl was chained to a rock as a sacrificial feast for the monster. It was at this time that Perseus was winging his way back to Greece with the head of Medousa (Medusa). He spied the girl, flew down, slew the monster and carried her off as his bride. Some say the hero turned the monster to stone--a rock near the Lebanese town of Joppa frequented by ancient tourists.
The Sea-Monster, along with Perseus, Andromeda, and her parents King Kepheus (Cepehus) and Queen Kassiopeia, were placed amongst the stars of the sky as constellatons.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Keyx and Daidalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Keyx was the king of Phokis and Daidalion was the father of Philonis, who was killed by Artemis. Daidalion was turned into a hawk by Apollo and Hermes, the fathers of his grandsons, Autolykos (by Hermes) and Philammon (by Apollo).
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Eosphoros and Hesperos
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Khalkipe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Chalciope or Iophoss)
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, Mortal
Relationships:
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Khariklo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Chariclo) Nymph of Mount Pelion in Magnesia (northern Greece) who was the wife of the wise centaur Kheiron (Chiron). She was the foster-mother of many of the great heroes of myth including Peleus, Akhilleus (Achilles), Aristaios (Aristaeus) and Asklepios (Asclepius).
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Chiron - married
- Pelionides - child
- Endeis - child
- Melanippe / Okyrrhoe - child
- Karystos - child
- child - Asteria
- child - Perses
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Khimaira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Chimera) was a three-headed monster which ravaged the countryside of Lykia (Lycia) in Anatolia. It was a bizarre fire-breathing creature with the body and head of a lion, a goat's head rising from its back, the udders of a goat, and a serpent for a tail.
The hero Bellerophon was commanded by King Iobates to slay the beast. He rode into battle on the back of the winged horse Pegasos and drove a lead-tipped lance into its flaming throat, choking the beast on molten metal.
Late classical writers believed the creature was a metaphor for a Lycian volcano.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- Sphinx - child
- Leon Nemeios - child
- child - Ekhidna
- partner - Orthos
- child - Typhoeus
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Khione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Chione) Nymph of Mount Haimos (Haemus) in Thrake (north of Greece). She was a daughter of Boreas, god of the chill north-wind, and Oreithyia, the lady of mountain gales. Khione was a goddess of snow.
Life Stages: Nephelai
Relationships:
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Khloris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Chloris) was the goddess of flowers and a nymph of the Islands of the Blessed. She was the wife of Zephyros the West-Wind and the mother of Karpos (Carpus), god of fruit.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Khrysaor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 19
Son of the Gorgon Medousa (Medusa) who, together with his twin-brother Pegasos, was born from the bloody neck-stump of his beheaded mother.
Khrysaor was usually described as a giant but, at times, may have been envisaged as a winged-boar. The vase painting right depicts such a creature on the shield of Khrysaor's son Geryon.
Khrysaor's name means "golden-blade" which could be a sword, tusks, or, as in the case Demeter's title Khrysaoros, a reference to golden blades of wheat.Life Stages: Beast, Giant
Relationships:
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Khrysothemis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Chrysothemis) Agricultural demi-goddess of the "Golden-Custom"--which was probably a harvest-festival. She was a daughter of Karmanor (Carmanor, "He who Crops") and the goddess Demeter ("Earth-Mother"). Khryosthemis won the first musical contest at Delphoi with a song (presumably a harvest-tune) and consorted with Apollon to produce a child.
Khrysothemis was also described as the wife of the Naxian King Staphylos ("Bunch of Grapes"), a son of Dionysos. Apollon, however, was the putitative father of all of her children including Molpadia and Parthenos--maiden demigoddesses worshipped in western Anatolia. The latter was associated with agrarian constellation Virgo and pictured holding a sheaf of wheat.Life Stages: Agrarian God, Agricultural God
Relationships:
- Staphylos - married
- Hemithea and Parthenos - child
- child - Demeter
- child - Karmanor
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Kleodora
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph of Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece). She was loved by the god Poseidon and bore him Parnassos, eponym of the mountain and founder of the pre-Deluge town of Delphoi. She was probably the Naiad-nymph of a spring or fountain of the town and was perhaps numbered amongst the Korykiai (Coryciae)--nymphs of sacred Korykian cave. One of the Thriae, three nymphs who divined the future by throwing stones or pebbles, associated with the Oracle of Delphi. Her name comes from kleos ‘famous’ and dôron ‘gift’, in reference to her gift of prophecy.
she was the mother of Parnassos, who created a method of telling the future using birds and founded the main city on Mt. Parnassus. Kleodora's father was Cephissus, a river god of northern Boeotia.
As a member of the Thriae, Kleodora is often conflated with the bee maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, from whom Apollo directs Hermes to learn prophecy.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Kleokhareia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the river Eurotas in Lakonia (southern Greece). She was the wife of Lelex, the region's first earth-born king.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Myles - child
- Polycaon - child
- Eurotas - child
- married - Lelex
- turned - The Naiads
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Kleopatra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Relationships:
- child - Tros
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Kloniê
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Clonia) Naiad-nymph of a spring or fountain of the town of Hyria in Boiotia (central Greece). She was the wife of Hyrieus, the eponymous founding-prince of the town, and the mother of Lykos (Lycus) and Nykteus (Nycteus), regents of the city of Thebes.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Lycus - child
- Nycteus - child
- married - Hyrieus
- turned - The Naiads
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Klymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Okeanid-nymph loved by the sun-god Helios. She bore him seven daughters, the Heliad-nymphs, and a son named Phaethon. The boy was killed when he attempted to drive his father's chariot across the sky, and his sisters were transformed into poplar trees.
Klymene was the personification of fame and infamy, an appropriate consort for the bright sun. She was also named Merope meaning "with face-turned"--from the Greek words meros and ops)--or "wife of Merops". The first may have originally been a reference to the solar eclipse, in which the sun's face is turned away (merops). However the poets came to associate the name with the Aithiopian (Ethiopian) kingdom and city of Merope whose people were said to have been scorched black by Phaethon when he lost control of the chariot of the sun.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- The Heliades - child
- Phaethon - child
- partner - Helios
- turned - The Oceanids
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Koios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Coeus) One of the Elder Titans. He was also called Polo, and suggest that he was god of the North. As god of the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved, he was probably also god of heavenly oracles.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Phoibe - married
- Leto - child
- Asteria - child
- turned - The Titanes
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Kombe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Korybantes - child
- married - Sokos
- turned - The Oreiades
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Korkyra
Status: alive
Biography: (Corcyra) Naiad-nymph of the springs or fountain of the main town of the island of Korkyra in the Ionian Sea. She was a daughter of the Argive river Asopos who was abducted to the island by the god Poseidon where she bore Phaiax (Phaeax), the eponymous founding-king of the Phaiakoi (Phaeacian) nation.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Koros
Status: alive
Pronouns: her/he
Biography: (Corus) Daimon of insolence, disdain, satiety and surfeit. He was the son of Hybris (Excessive Pride) and brother of Dyssebeia (Impiety).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Hybris
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Korybantes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: THE EUBOIAN KORYBANTES (Euboean Corybantes) were seven rustic demi-gods (daimones) appointed by Zeus to guard the infant the infant Dionysos and his nurse, the Nymphe Mystis or Makris, on the island of Euboia. They were the sons of an obscure rustic deity named Sokos (Socus).
They’re children were the Abantes (First Men of Euboia)Relationships:
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Kratos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Cratus) Daimon of strength, might, power and sovereign rule. He and his three siblings--Nike (Victory), Bia (Force) and Zelos (Rivalry)--were the winged enforcers of the god Zeus, angel-like beings who stood in attendance of the heavenly throne.
Life Stages: Daimon
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Krios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Crius) was one of the elder Titanes
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Astraeus - child
- Perses - child
- Pallas - child
- married - Eurybia
- turned - The Titanes
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Kronos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Cronus) King of the Titanes and the god of time, in particular time when viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force.
He ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father Ouranos (Uranus, Sky). In fear of a prophecy that he would in turn be overthrown by his own son, Kronos swallowed each of his children as they were born. Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Krete (Crete), and fed Kronos a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. The god grew up, forced Kronos to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten year war against the Titanes (Titans), driving them in defeat into the pit of Tartaros (Tartarus).
Many human generations later, Zeus released Kronos and his brothers from their prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Kydippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Cyrbia)
Relationships:
- Lindos, Ialysos, and Kameiros - child
- child - Hegetoria
- married - Kerkaphos
- child - Okhimos
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Kydnides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Cydnides) were Naiad-nymphs of the river Kydnos (Cydnus) in Kilikia (Cilicia) (south-eastern Anatolia). They were warrior Mainades (Maenads) who joined the army of Dionysos in his campaign against the Indians.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Kydnos
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Kydnos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Cydnus) was a river-god of Kilikia (Cilicia) in Anatolia
Life Stages: Potamoi, Rustic
Relationships:
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Kykhreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Cychreus) First king of Salamis. According to some the dragon Kykhreides (Cychreides) was slain by King Kykhreus (Cychreus). In other accounts the king raised the beast and it was instead driven from the island by the hero Eurylokhos (Eurylochus).
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Kymopoleia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A sea-nymph daughter of the god Poseidon and the wife of the hundred-handed, storm-giant Briareos. She was probably a goddess of the violent storm waves generated by her husband.
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- Oiolyka - child
- child - Amphitrite
- married - Briareos
- child - Poseidon
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Kynokephaloi
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: (Cynocephali) were a tribe of dog-headed men native to Africa and India. The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed from the Greek words kuôn "dog" and kephalos "head".
The legend probably originated in ancient travellers' accounts of African baboons which were mistaken for a tribe of men. Indeed the name Kynokephalos was later used by the Greeks for this very animal.Life Stages: Legendary Tribe
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Labdacus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The only son of Polydorus and a king of Thebes. Labdacus was a grandson of Thebes's founder, Cadmus. His mother was Nycteïs, daughter of Nycteus. Polydorus died while Labdacus was a child, leaving Nycteus as his regent, although Lycus soon replaced him in that office. When Labdacus had grown, he briefly ruled Thebes. He died while he was still young, after he lost a war with the king of Athens, Pandion, over their borders. Apollodorus writes that he, like his cousin Pentheus, was ripped apart by women in a bacchic frenzy for disrespect to the god Dionysus. Lycus became regent once more after his death, this time for Labdacus's son, Laius. His descendants were called the Labdacids, and included his son Laius, who fathered Oedipus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lacedaemon
Status: alive
Biography: Eponymous king of Lacedaemon (i.e. Sparta) in classical Greek mythology. Lacedaemon was the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Taygete. By Princess Sparta, the daughter of former King Eurotas, he was the father of his heir Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos. Lacedemon was credited to be the founder of the sanctuary of the Graces, Cleta and Phaenna, near the river Tiasa.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ladon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river-god of Arkadia in the Peloponnese, southern Greece.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Metope - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Laius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King Laius of Thebes was a key personage in the Theban founding myth. After the death of his father Labdacus, Laius was raised by the regent Lycus but Amphion and Zethus usurped the throne of Thebes. Some Thebans, wishing to see the line of Cadmus continue, smuggled the young Laius out of the city before their attack, in which they killed Lycus and took the throne. Laius was welcomed by Pelops, king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus. According to some sources, Laius abducted and raped the king's son, Chrysippus, and carried him off to Thebes while teaching him how to drive a chariot, or as Hyginus records it, during the Nemean Games. Because of this, Laius is considered by many to be the originator of pederastic love, and the first pederastic rapist. This abduction is thought to be the subject of one of the lost tragedies of Euripides. With both Amphion and Zethus having died in his absence, Laius became king of Thebes upon his return.
After the rape of Chrysippus, Laius married Jocasta, the daughter of Menoeceus, a descendant of the Spartoi. Laius received an oracle from Delphi which told him that he must not have a child, or the child would kill him and marry his wife; in another version, recorded by Aeschylus, Laius is warned that he can save the city only if he dies childless. One night, however, Laius was drunk and fathered Oedipus with Jocasta. On Laius' orders, the baby, Oedipus, was exposed on Mount Cithaeron with his feet bound (or perhaps staked to the ground), but he was taken by a shepherd, who did not have the resources to look after him, so he was given to King Polybus and Queen Merope (or Periboea) of Corinth, who raised him to adulthood.
Many of Laius' descendants met with ill fortune, but whether this was because he violated the laws of hospitality and marriage by carrying off his host's son and raping him, or because he ignored the Oracle's warning not to have children, or some combination of these, is not clear. Another theory is that the entire line of Cadmus was cursed, either by Ares when Cadmus killed his serpent, or else by Hephaestus who resented the fact that Cadmus married Harmonia, the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, Hephaestus' straying wife. Certainly, many of Cadmus' descendants had tragic ends.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Lamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: a child-devouring sea-monster or night-haunting daemon. She was a daughter of Poseidon and mother of Akheilos (Acheilus, the Shark). Lamia was originally a Libyan queen loved by Zeus. When his jealous wife Hera learned of their affair she stole away Lamia's children and the woman, driven mad with grief, tore out her own eyes. Zeus then transformed her into a monster allowing her to exact revenge by devouring the children of others.
Lamia was often described as a bogeyman--a night-haunting daemon which preyed on children. She was sometimes pluralised into host of ghostly, vampiric Lamiai (Lamiae).Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Lampeita and Phaethousa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: wo nymphs who pastured the sacred herds of the sun-god Helios on the mythical island of Thrinakie (Thrinacia). Lampetia shepherded seven flocks of fifty sheep with a silver crock, while Phaethousa tended seven herds of fifty cattle with a copper staff.
Aeschylus, and later Ovid, uses the names Lampetia and Phaethousa for two of the Heliades, daughters of the sun who were transformed into poplar trees following the death of their brother Phaethon. However these two sets of nymphs were usually quite distinct.Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph
Relationships:
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Langia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the fresh-water springs of the town of Nemea in Argolis. When the god Dionysos afflicted the Argive land with drought, Langia's spring was the only one to be spared.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Asopos
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Laodice
Status: alive
Pronouns: her
Biography: Daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus and Metharme. She was the wife of Elatus and by him mother of Stymphalus and Pereus, and possibly of Ischys, Cyllen and Aepytus too
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Laomedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Troy in Greek mythology, son of Ilus and grandson of Tros.
Laomedon owned magical horses with divine parentage, a gift from Zeus to his grandfather Tros in compensation for kidnapping Tros's son Ganymede.
Zeus sent Poseidon and Apollo to serve Laomedon as punishment for a conspiracy against Zeus. The two gods built walls around Troy, but Laomedon refused to pay them, leading to a pestilence and a sea monster attacking the city. To end the calamities, Laomedon had to sacrifice his daughter Hesione to the sea monster. Heracles arrived and agreed to save Hesione in exchange for the magical horses, but Laomedon went back on his promise, causing Heracles to wage war on Troy.
Heracles eventually conquered the city, killing Laomedon and his sons, except for Podarces. Hesione was given to Telamon as a war prize, and she ransomed her brother Podarces, who then became known as Priam.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Leda
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Aetolian princess who became queen consort of Sparta through her marriage to King Tyndareus. Zeus fell in love with Leda, and to avoid his wife Hera's jealousy, seduced her while disguised as a swan. Leda was named as the mother of four famous children in Greek mythology: Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, and the twins Castor and Pollux. Leda and the Swan was a popular motif in the visual arts, particularly during the Renaissance. She was occasionally referred to as Thestias. Leda lay with Tyndareus the same night she was seduced by Zeus, and Pollux and Helen were children of Zeus while Clytemnestra and Castor were children of Tyndareus. This explains why Castor was frequently described as mortal while Pollux was described as immortal.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lelex
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Megara and regarded as the ancestor of the Leleges.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lelex
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Original inhabitants of Laconia which was called after him, its first king, Lelegia. Lelex was said to be autochthonous. He was the father of Polycaon and Myles. Through Myles, Lelex was the grandfather of Eurotas, who had a daughter named Sparta. This woman later married Lacedaemon[8] who named the city of Sparta after his wife; however, the city's name would also be his own, as it was called either Lacedaemon or Sparta interchangeably.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Kleokhareia - married
- Myles - child
- Polycaon - child
- Eurotas - child
- child - Gaea
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Leon Nemeios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Nemean Lion) was a large lion whose hide was impervious to weapons,. It plagued the district of Nemea in the Argolis. King Eurystheus commanded Herakles (Heracles) to destroy the beast as the first of his twelve Labours. The hero cornered the lion in its cave and seizing it by the neck wrestled it to death. He then skinned its hide to make a lion-skin cape, one of his most distinctive attributes. Hera afterwards placed the lion amongst the stars as the constellation Leo.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Lethe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of forgetfulness and oblivion. She was often connected with the underworld river Lethe. Her opposite number was Mnemosyne (Memory).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Leto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A Titanides, mother of the twin gods Apollon and Artemis. She was the goddess of motherhood and, with her children, a protectress of the young. She was also a goddess of modesty and womanly demure. When Leto was pregant with the twins she was pursued relentlessly by the goddess Hera, who drove her from land to land preventing her from finding a place to rest and give birth. The floating island of Delos eventually provided her with refuge. Leto was usually depicted as a woman lifting her veil in a gesture of modesty.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Leucippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Messenian prince. The Boeotian town of Leuctra is said to have derived its name from him. It is said that Leucippus together with his brother Aphareus inherited their father's kingdom upon his death, but the latter kept the greater authority than the former.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Hilaeira - child
- Phoebe - child
- child - Gorgophone
- child - Perieres
- married - Philodice
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Leucothoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: From Andros. Love of Helios, who transformed into her mother to trick her into letting him into her room.
Clytie, who loved Helios, spurred with anger against that paramour, she published wide the tale of shame and, as it spread, made sure her father knew. Leucothoe's father then killed her for this.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Libya
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She personified the land of Ancient Libya in North Africa, and was considered by the Greeks to be the origin of the name of what is now Libya.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Limos
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Daimon of hunger and starvation. Their opposite number were Demeter, goddess of food, and the daimon Ploutos (Plenty).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Lindos, Ialysos, and Kameiros
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Eponym of the city of Kamiros.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Linus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A reputed musician and master of eloquent speech.[1] He was regarded as the first leader of lyric song. Linus was also considered the inventor of melody and rhythm or of dirges (thrênoi) and songs in general. Linus was said to have lived during the reign of Cadmus in Thebes and became important in the art of music along with Amphion and Zethus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Liriope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 36
Naiad-nymph of Phokis (in central Greece). She bore the river-god Kephisos (Cephisus) a beautiful son named Narkissos (Narcissus) who was transformed into his namesake flower.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Lycaon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing to recognize human flesh. Disgusted, Zeus transformed Lycaon into a wolf, while Nyctimus was restored to life.
LYKAON (Lycaon) was an early king of Arkadia who lived in the time before the Great Deluge. He sought to test the divinity of Zeus by serving the god a slaughtered child--either his son Nyktimos (Nyctimus), his grandson Arkas (Arcas), or a Molossian captive. Zeus was furious and overturning the table, destroyed the fifty sons of Lykaon with lightning-bolts, and transformed the king into a wolf.
In the chronology of myth Lykaon was a contemporary of Deukalion (Deucalion), king of Thessalia, and Kekrops (Cecrops), king of Athens. His fifty sons founded and gave their names to the towns and villages of Arkadia. Lykaon was succeeded on the throne by his youngest son Nyktimos or grandson Arkas. Some say that Nyktimos was preserved by Gaia (the Earth) when his brothers were struck down by the lightning-bolts of Zeus, others that he was the child sacrificed by Lykaon who was afterwards resurrected by the gods (cf. the story of the sacrifice and resurrection of Pelops).Life Stages: Beast, King
Relationships:
- Nonakris - married
- The Lykaonides - child
- Callisto - child
- child - Meliboia / Cyllene
- child - Pelasgos
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Lycurgus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Tegea in Arcadia. Lycurgus was notorious for killing, by ambushing him, a warrior called Areithous. He attacked the man unexpectedly in a narrow passage where Areithous' famous club was useless. Lycurgus took Areithous' armor as spoils and wore it himself, but handed it over to Ereuthalion when he had grown old. In homer's Iliad Nestor recounts killing Ereuthalion in a battle between Pylos and Arcadia. Lycurgus outlived his sons and reached an extreme old age for Epochus fell ill and died while Ancaeus was wounded by the Calydonian boar. On his death, he was succeeded by Echemus, son of Aeropus, the whom would have been either son of his brother Cepheus and hence a scion of Arkas.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A ruler of the ancient city of Ancient Thebes (Boeotia). His rule was preceded by the regency of Nycteus and in turn, Lycus was succeeded by the twins Amphion and Zethus. Lycus and Nycteus fled from Euboea after they murdered King Phlegyas, settling in Hyria and then moving to Thebes, because they were friends with Pentheus, its king.
Relationships:
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Lycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of King Lycus of Thebes, the brother of Nycteus. He appeared in Euripides's Heracles. Originally from Euboea, Lycus seized power in Ancient Thebes (Boeotia) by killing King Creon who at the time was regent for the son of Eteocles, Laodamas. Lycus mistreated Creon's family, throwing them out of their house and depriving them food and clothing. However, Creon was the father-in-law of the hero Heracles, who returned unexpectedly to Thebes and slew Lycus. Laodamas succeeded him as king.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lycus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Also called Lycus, son of Poseidon and Celaeno, one of the Pleiades. He was the brother of King Eurypylus of Cyrene. A man who was transferrred to the Islands of the Blest by Poseidon. He was a son of Poseidon and the Pleaid Kelaino. He was settled in the Fortunate Isles by his father.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Lynceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a Messenian prince and one of the Argonauts who served as a lookout on the Argo. He also participated in the hunt for the Calydonian boar. Lynceus, along with his brother Idas, murdered Castor. He helped Idas to spot and kill Castor, and was in turn killed by Castor's brother Pollux, though he first managed to wound Pollux by throwing a rock. Idas and Lynceus murdered Castor because he and Pollux had kidnapped and married Phoebe and Hilaeira, the daughters of Leucippus, who were betrothed to Lynceus and Idas. Lynceus was said to have excellent sight; enabling him to see through walls, trees, skin and the ground. According to some versions he was also able to see in the dark; in others his reputation for being able to see through the ground was simply a rumor that resulted from his knowledge of geology and gold-mining
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Lynceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Lynceus was one of the 50 sons of King Aegyptus of Egypt. Aegyptus had many consorts, and Lynceus was one of six sons born to Argyphia, a woman of royal blood. His five full brothers are named as Proteus, Busiris, Enceladus, Lycus, and Daiphron. Lynceus's father Aegyptus commanded that his 50 sons should be able to marry his brother's 50 daughters, the Danaids. However, Danaus had previously been told by an oracle that he would die at the hand of his son-in-law, so he refused his brother and fled to Argos, where he was then made king by Pelasgus.
Aegyptus was enraged by his brother's betrayal. He organized an army led by his sons, including Lynceus, and sent them to Argos with the command that they should not return until either Danaus was dead or he had consented to let the brothers marry the Danaids. Danaus, facing siege and a probable loss, agreed to let the brothers marry his daughters in a large wedding feast where every couple was married on the same night. Couples were arranged, and Lynceus was paired with Hypermnestra . However, though Danaus agreed to the arrangement, he was greatly angered by his brother's actions. He gave all the Danaids swords and instructed them to kill their husbands after they had fallen asleep on their wedding night. The next morning, they were to bring their husband's heads to him as proof of the deed.
However, while all 49 other Danaids followed through and killed their husbands, Hypermnestra alone refused. In the most common version of the myth, she decided to spare Lynceus when he honored her wish to remain a virgin. After sparing her husband, Hypermnestra helped Lynceus flee back to safety. In the version of the myth where he flees to Lynceia, Lynceus informed his wife of his safety by lighting a torch: she then informed him of her safety by lighting a torch from Larissa, the citadel of Argos. The city was later named Lynceia in his honor.
When Lynceus arrived back in Egypt, he informed his father of Danaus's treachery and his brothers' deaths. They raised an army and sailed to Argos, where Lynceus killed Danaus, united with Hypermnestra, and became king. According to Apollodorus however, there was no invasion and Lynceus did not kill Danaus; instead, Lynceus was passed the crown after Danaus's eventual death. Together, Hypermnestra and Lynceus had a son: Abas, who succeeded his father as king of Argos.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hypermnestra - married
- Abas - child
- child - Aegyptus
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Lysianassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Egyptian princess as the daughter of King Epaphus.[3] She bore Poseidon a son, Busiris, King of Egypt who was killed by Heracles.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Lysidice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Mestor and became the mother of Hippothoe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Mestor - married
- Hippothoe - child
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pelops
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Lyssa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimona of mad rage, fury, crazed frenzy and, in animals, rabies.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Macello
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Was spared when Zeus punished all the Telkhines.
Zeus and Poseidon (or Apollon) destroyed the island and its population, but spared Dexithea and her sisters, daughters of Damon (or Demonax), the chief of the Telkhines, because Makelo had entertained the two gods : in Callimachus Makelo (Macelo) is mother of Dexithea who is also spared with her, in Ovid and the scholia she is her sister and loses her life because her husband had offended the gods
Makello (Macello) entertained Zeus and Apollon at one table and when Earthshaker [Poseidon] had shattered the whole island with his trident [because of the seed-poisoning Telkhines (Telchines)] and rooted all the Phlegans at the bottom of the sea, he saved both women and did not strike them down with his trident."Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Maia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eldest of the Pleiades, the seven nymphs of the constellation Pleiades. She was a shy goddess who dwelt alone in a cave near the peaks of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia where she secretly gave birth to the god Hermes, her son by Zeus. She also raised the boy Arkas (Arcas) in her cave whose mother Kallisto (Callisto) had been transformed into a bear.
Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Zeus - partner
- Hermes - child
- Arkas - surrogate
- turned - The Pleiades
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Maira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Maera) Nymph of the dog-star Seirios (Sirius) whose rising, in conjunction with the sun, brought on the scorching heat of midsummer. Like the Pleiades and Hyades, Maira was a starry daughter of the Titan Atlas. She was the wife of King Tegeates of Arkadia, the eponymous founder of the town Tegea.
Children: SKEPHROS, LEIMON, KYDON, ARKHEDIOS, GORTYSLife Stages: Star Nymph
Relationships:
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Makaria
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Macaria) Goddess of a "blessed" death, a minion of her father Haides. She was perhaps a more merciful counterpart of the death-god Thanatos or else connected with the passage of souls to the Islands of the Blessed
Life Stages: Chthonian God
Relationships:
- child - Hades
- child - Persephone
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Maniai
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimones of madness, insanity, and crazed frenzy.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Mantineus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon. He founded the Arcadian city of Mantineia. Mantineus and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Mantineus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god. His daughter was Ocalea.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Ocalea - child
- turned - The Lykaonides
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Marathon
Status: alive
Biography: King of Corinth after succeeding his father King Epopeus of Sicyon and Corinth. His father's only known wife is Antiope, the Theban daughter of Regent-king Nycteus, but she is not clearly stated to be Marathon's mother.[4] He was the brother of Oenope, and father of Corinthus and Sicyon. Marathon escaped from the lawless violence of his father and migrated to the sea coast of Attica (in Marathon). On his father's death, Marathon came back to Peloponnesus and divided his kingdom among his sons and returned to Attica where he had previously settled.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Epopeus
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Marpessa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Aetolian princess and a granddaughter of Ares. She attracted the attention of the hero Idas as well as the god Apollo. Marpessa eventually married Idas, by whom she begot Cleopatra, the future wife of the hero Meleager.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Idas
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Marsyas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A flute playing satyr, who picked up his flute when Athena threw it away after being presented it as a gift. He challenged Apollo and lost in the second round. As his punishment, he was tired to a tree and flayed alive. The rustic god then transformed him into a stream. His story is sometimes told of Pan.
Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
- child - Olympos
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Meander
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: river god in Greek mythology, patron deity of the Meander river (modern Büyük Menderes River) in Caria, southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Samia - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Mecionice / Menodice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Boeotian woman from Hyria who consorted with Poseidon and had by this god a son Euphemus, one of the Argonauts. Compare Mecionice with Menodice, another daughter of Orion, who gave birth to Hylas to King Theiodamas of the Dryopians. They might be the same woman who mothered the heroes Euphemus and Hylas to Theiodamas - this could be supported by the stories that recall Hylas as an arms-bearer of Heracles who had a half-sister Laonome that married Euphemus.
Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Medea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress, an accomplished pharmakís.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Medusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 16
Medousa was mortal. King Polydektes of Seriphos once commanded the hero Perseus to fetch her head. He accomplished this with the help of the gods who equipped him with a reflective shield, a curved sword, winged boots and helm of invisibility. When he fell upon Medousa and decapitated her, two creatures sprang forth from the wound--the winged horse Pegasos (Pegasus) and the giant Khrysaor (Chrysaor). Perseus fled with the monster's head in a sack and her two angry sisters chasing close on his heels.
According to late classical poets, Medousa was once a beautiful woman who was transformed into a monster by Athena as punishment for lying with Poseidon in her shrine. Earlier Greek writers and artists, however, simply portray her as a monster born into a large family of monsters.Life Stages: Beast, Mortal
Relationships:
- Pegasus - child
- Khrysaor - child
- pollinated - Poseidon
- turned - The Gorgones
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Megareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Also called Megarus (Μέγαρος), was king of Onchestus in Boeotia. In some myths, he was the eponymous king of Megara.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Megassares
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Hyria and the father of Pharnace.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Melanippe / Okyrrhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Ocyrrhoe) A prophetic nymph daughter of the kentauros Kheiron (centaur Chiron) who was transformed into a mare by Zeus for revealing the secrets of the gods. She was later placed amongst the stars as the constellation Pegasus. Her father Kheiron also became a constellation--either the adjacent Saggitarius or the more distant Centaurus.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph
Relationships:
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Melantheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: According to Plutarch's Greek Questions, she was, by Poseidon, the mother of Eirene, after whom the island of Calaurea was once known by the same name.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Melantho
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Also called Melantomice, an Argive queen as the wife of King Criasus. She was the mother of Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Phorbaceus - child
- Cleoboea - child
- married - Criasus
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Melia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the mother of culture hero Phoroneus, and Aegialeus (or Phegeus), by her brother Inachus, the river-god of Argos.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Philodice - child
- Phoroneus - child
- Io - child
- married - Inachus
- turned - The Oceanids
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Melia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Bithynian nymph, who was, by Poseidon, the mother of Amycus and Mygdon, both kings of the Bebryces.
Life Stages: Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
- Poseidon - partner
- Amykos - child
- turned - The Meliai
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Meliboia / Cyllene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: MELIBOIA (Meliboea) was an Okeanid-nymph of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia (southern Greece). She was the wife of Pelasgos (Pelasgus), the eponymous first king of the aboriginal Pelasgian tribes of Arkadia.
Meliboia's name was derived from the Greek words meli "honey-sweet" and bous "cow"--honeyed was an adjective often applied to springs and cow was a favourable term for a woman (whose bride-price was once paid in cattle). Meliboia was probably the same as Kyllene (Cyllene), the wife of Pelasgos by other accounts.
KYLLENE (Cyllene) was an Oreiad-nymph of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia (southern Greece). She was the wife of Pelasgos (Pelasgus), the first king of Arkadia who lived in the days before the Great Deluge.
Kyllene was perhaps identified with Meliboia, the wife of Pelasgos in other accounts.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
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Melikertes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was originally a mortal boy named Melikertes (Melicertes) whose parents incurred the wrath of Hera for fostering the young god Dionysos. His father was driven into a murderous rage by the goddess and Ino fled with Melikertes in her arms, leaping off the cliffs into the sea. The pair were transformed into sea-gods and renamed Palaimon and Leukothea. (Palaemon) was a child sea-god who, with his mother Leukothea (Leucothea), came to the aid of sailors in distress .
Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Melione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A frightful, underworld goddess who presided over propitiations offered to the ghosts of the dead. At night she wandered the earth with her train of ghosts, striking fear into the hearts of men. Her limbs were black on one side and white on the other, a manifestation of her dual chthonic and heavenly nature.
Melinoe's name means either "Dark-Minded" or "Propitation-Minded" from the Greek words melas "black", meilia "propitiation" and noos "mind". The word meilia was often used to describe propitiatory offerings made to the ghosts of the dead.Life Stages: Chthonian God
Relationships:
- child - Hades
- child - Persephone
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Melisseus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of honey and the art of beekeeping.
Life Stages: Daimon, Rustic
Relationships:
- Ide and Adrasteia - child
- turned - Korybantes
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Melpomene
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, Melpomene was named Muse of tragedy. In this guise she was portrayed holding a tragic mask or sword, and sometimes wearing a wreath of ivy and cothurnus boots. Her name was derived from the Greek verb melpô or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song."
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- The Seirenes - child
- married - Akheloios
- turned - The Mousai
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Memnon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Aithiopian (Ethiopian) king, son of Eos and Tithonos. Brought an army to defend Troy during the Trojan war, killed Antilochus, Nestor's son, during a fierce battle. Nestor challenged Memnon to a fight, but Memnon refused, as there was little honor in killing such an aged man. Nestor then pleaded with Achilles to avenge his son's death. Despite warnings that soon after Memnon fell so too would Achilles, the two men fought. Memnon drew blood from Achilles, but Achilles drove his spear through Memnon's chest, sending the Aethiopian army running. The death of Memnon echoes that of Hector, another defender of Troy whom Achilles also killed out of revenge for a fallen comrade, Patroclus. After Memnon's death, Zeus was moved by Eos' tears and granted him immortality.
Life Stages: Apotheosis, King
Relationships:
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Memphis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the main well or fountain of the Egyptian city of Memphis. She was a daughter of the river Nile and the wife of King Epaphos of Egypt, the founder of her namesake city.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Menoeceus
Status: alive
Biography: Father of Creon, Jocasta and Hipponome and both grandfather and father-in-law of Oedipus. He was the Theban son of Pentheus and a descendant of the Spartoi through his grandfather Echion.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Menoitios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the younger Titanes. He was perhaps the god rash action and violent rage. Zeus blasted him with a thunderbolt into Erebos (the Underworld) for his hubris.
Menoitios' name was derived from the Greek words menos meaning "might", "force", "passion" and "batterage", and oitos meaning "ill-fated" or "doomed". Hesiod calls him hybristes--a violent, overbearing and insolent man.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Merope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was the wife the impious king Sisyphos (Sisyphus) and ancestress of the Korinthian (Corinthian) and Lykian (Lycian) royal houses. Merope was so ashamed of her husband's crimes that she hid her face in heaven, causing the seventh star of the Pleiades to gradually fade from sight.
Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Sisyphus - married
- Glaucus - child
- Almus - child
- turned - The Pleiades
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Messapus
Status: alive
Biography: A character in Virgil's Aeneid, appears in Books VII to XII of the Latin epic poem. He was a son of Neptune, a famous tamer of horses, and king of Etruria, known for being one "whom no one can fell by fire or steel"
Virgil adapted a myth from Greek poetry to create Messapus, namely the Greek mythological figure Cycnus, who was a son of Poseidon. Virgil also "borrowed" the property of invulnerability from Cycnus and attributed it to Messapus.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Poseidon
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Messene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Princess of Argos, she was married to Polycaon, son of king Lelex, of Laconia. Messene was said to have been very ambitious. After her father-in-law died, her husband's brother Myles inherited the throne to Laconia. It was not her intent to be wed to an anonymous man, so she went about gathering an armed force from both Argos and Laconia. Once their army was ready, the newly married couple invaded a nearby territory. This territory was then named Messenia, after the aggressive princess of Argos. Following the establishment of the new kingdom, they founded the city Andania, where they built their palace
Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Mestor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Perseus and Andromeda, according to the mythographer Apollodorus. By Lysidice, daughter of Hippodamia and Pelops, he sired Hippothoe, who mothered Taphius by the god Poseidon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Metharme
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Pygmalion and his statue Galatea, Cinyras founded the city of Paphos on Cyprus, under the patronage of Aphrodite, and built the great temple to the goddess there for Metharme.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Methone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph-consort of Pierus, king of Pieria, and by the latter, became the mother of Oeagrus, father of Orpheus.
Relationships:
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Metiadusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A member of the Athenian royal family as the daughter of Prince Eupalamus and possibly Alcippe.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Pandion II - child
- married - Cerops II
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Metis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: one of the elder Okeanides and the Titan-goddess of good counsel, planning, cunning and wisdom. She was a counsellor of Zeus during the Titan War and hatched the plan through which Kronos (Cronus) was forced to regurgitate his devoured children. In an odd reversal of fortune, Zeus swallowed Metis whole when a prophecy was revealed that she was destined to bear a son greater than his father. Metis afterwards bore a daughter, Athena, within the very belly of the god and equipped her with arms and armour before she was rebirthed from the god's head.
It should be noted that most poets and mythographers describe Athena as a "motherless goddess" and no mention is made of Metis. Zeus himself was titled Mêtieta "the Wise Counsellor" in the Homeric poems and in this sense Metis was probably regarded as an aspect of the god rather than a distinct figure. In any case, the Metis myth implies she was wholly subsumed by the devouring god.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Athena - child
- turned - The Oceanids
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Metope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the springs and stream of Metope near the town of Stymphalos in Arkadia (southern Greece). Her waters were probably regarded as the source of the Sikyonian Asopos (Asopus), the stream of her river-god husband. bore two sons, Ismenus and Pelagon, and twenty daughters, of whom one, Aegina, was carried off by Zeus
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Mideia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 36
Naiad-nymph of a spring on the acropolis Mideia of the town of Aspledon in Boiotia (central Greece). She was the mother by Poseidon of Aspledon, the eponymous founder of the town.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Mimas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Gigante slain by Hephaistos with a volley of molten iron in the war against the gods.
MIMON - A Gigante despatched by Ares in the war against the gods. He was perhaps the same as Mimas.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- Hippotes - child
- turned - The Gigantes
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Minos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Minyas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Clymene - child
- child - Euryanassa
- child - Poseidon
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Mnemosyne
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words. Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorisation required to preserve the stories of history and the sagas of myth before the introduction of writing. In this role she was the mother of the Mousai (Muses) who were originally patron goddesses of poets of the oral tradition.
Finally Mnemosyne was a minor oracular goddess like her sister-Titanesses. She presided over the underground oracle of Trophonios (Trophonius) in Boiotia (Boeotia).Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- The Mousai - child
- turned - The Titanides
- partner - Zeus
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Mnesimache
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Diores by Amarynceus
(is sometimes the same person as Deianira, second wife of Heracles, but I am making them different people)Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Diores - child
- married - Amarynceus
- child - Dexamenus
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Molione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A member of the Aetolian royal family. Moline was the daughter of Molus of Aetolia. She became the mother of the Molionides (Eurytus and Cteatus) either by King Actor of Elis or by Poseidon. Her sons were born with their bodies grown together.
When the Molionides were murdered in an ambush by the hero Heracles, Moline devoted herself in detecting the unknown slayer. When she discovered him, the Eleans demanded satisfaction for the crime from the Argives, especially King Eurystheus, for at the time Heracles had his home at Tiryns. When the Argives refused them satisfaction (Eurystheus disclaimed responsibility for the misdeeds of Heracles whom he had banished), the Eleans as an alternative pressed the Corinthians entirely to exclude the Argive people from the Isthmian games. When they failed in this also, Moline is said to have laid curses on her countrymen, should they refuse to boycott the Isthmian festival. The curses of Moline are respected right down to the present day, and no athlete of Elis is wont to compete in the Isthmian games.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Actor - married
- Molionidai - child
- child - Molus
- pollinated - Poseidon
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Molionidai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Eurytus and Cteatus, saimese-twins and princes of Olenos in Akhaia (southern Greece). They were sons of Molione and Poseidon.
Both brothers went on expeditions of war to the Neleus and the Pylians, and later led an army marching against their uncle Augeas at the behest of Heracles. However, after the latter made peace, the brothers attacked Heracles and were subsequently killed by him outside Cleonae.Both brothers went on expeditions of war to the Neleus and the Pylians, and later led an army marching against their uncle Augeas at the behest of Heracles. However, after the latter made peace, the brothers attacked Heracles and were subsequently killed by him outside Cleonae.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Molus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A member of the Aetolian royal family. Molus was the son of Ares and princess Demonice, daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Momos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Momus) Daimon of mockery, blame, ridicule, scorn, complaint and harsh criticism. He was expelled by Zeus from heaven for ridiculing the gods. Momos' opposite number was Eupheme (Praise).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Moros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Personified spirit of doom--the force which drove man towards his fated death. Aeschylus describes how Prometheus saved mankind from misery by taking away foresight of his own doom (moros) and replacing it with false hope (elpis).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Myles
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An ancient king of Laconia. He was the son of the King Lelex and possibly the naiad Queen Cleocharia, and brother of Polycaon. Myles was the father of Eurotas who begotten Sparta after whom the city of Sparta was named. Myles was said to be the first mortal to invent a mill and ground corn in Alesiae.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Kleokhareia
- child - Lelex
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Myrmidon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous ancestor of the Myrmidons in one version of the myth. He married Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and by her became the father of Antiphus and Actor. Also, Myrmidon had two daughters: Eupolemeia (mother of the Argonaut Aethalides by Hermes) and Hiscilla (mother of Phorbas by Triopas).
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hiscilla - child
- child - Eurymedousa
- married - Pisidice
- child - Zeus
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Myrrha
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: She was transformed into a myrrh tree after having coitus with her father, and gave birth — in tree form — to Adonis. The myth details the incestuous relationship between Myrrha and her father, Cinyras. Adonis was the son of Myrrha, who was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus, after Myrrha's mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the goddess. It was to her nurse that, with much reluctance, Myrrha revealed her shameful passion. Sometime later, during a festival in honour of Demeter, the nurse found Cinyras half-passed out with wine and Myrrha's mother nowhere near him. Thus, she spoke to him of a girl who truly loved him and desired to sleep with him, giving her a fictitious name and simply describing her as Myrrha's age. Cinyras agreed, and the nurse was quick to bring Myrrha to him. Myrrha left her father's room impregnated. After discovering her identity, Cinyras draws his sword and pursues Myrrha. She flees across Arabia and, after nine months, turns to the gods for help. They take pity on her and transform her into a myrrh tree. While in plant form, Myrrha gives birth to Adonis. According to legend, the aromatic exudate of the myrrh tree are Myrrha's tears.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Nais
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the springs of the town of Pyrrhikhos (Pyrrhichus) on the Malean peninsular of Lakedaimonia (southern Greece). She was the wife of the old rustic-god Seilenos (Silenus).
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Kentauroi - child
- Dolion - child
- child - Pyrrhikhos
- married - Silenos
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Narcissus
Status: alive
Biography: (Narkissos) A youth of the town of Thespiai (Thespiae) in Boiotia, a son of the river-god Kephisos (Cephisus) and the fountain-nymph Liriope. He was celebrated for his beauty and attracted many admirers but, in his arrogance, spurned them all. The suffering of two of these, however, would bring down a curse upon him.
The nymphe Ekho (Echo)--a girl cursed by Hera to repeat only the last words of what was said before--was rejected by the boy and fading away in despair left behind nothing but an echoing voice.
The other admirer was the youth Ameinias who became distraught when Narkissos cruelly spurned him. He killed himself before his beloved's door, calling on the goddess Nemesis to avenge him. His prayer was answered when Narkissos fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. Gazing endlessly at the image, he slowly pined away and was transformed by the nymphs into a narcissus flower. Others say he was instead filled with remorse and killed himself beside the pool--and from his dying life's blood the flower was born.
Narkissos' name was the ancient Greek word for the narcissus or daffodil flower. The boy's mother Leiriope was named after another species of daffodil--the leirion--and his spurned love Ameinias for the ameinasis. According to Hesychius s.v., ameinasis was another name for the sweet-smelling herb duosmon--either dill, anise or cummin. Presumably these two were also transformed into their namesake plants. Such a group of sympathetic metamorphoses is not uncommon in Greek myth.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Nauplios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Nauplios was the king of Nauplia in Argolis at the time of the Trojan War. He was a famous navigator who discovered the constellation Ursa Major.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Neaera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of Pereus, mother of Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus by Aleus.
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, Mortal
Relationships:
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Neaera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Evadne by Strymon
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Evadne - child
- married - Strymon
- turned - The Oceanids
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Neaira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Neaera) Nymph of the mythical island of Thrinakia (Thrinacia) loved by the sun-god Helios. Neaira's name means "New-Rising" or "Newly-Risen" from the Greek words neos "new" and aeirô "to rise.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Lampeita and Phaethousa - child
- partner - Helios
- turned - The Naiads
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Neilos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Nile or Nilus) River-God of Aigyptos (Egypt) in North Africa.
Neilos was the Greek name for the River Nile. The only other north African river known to have been personified by the Greeks was the Khrementes (Chremetes) of western Libya.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Memphis - child
- Achiroe - child
- Telephassa - child
- child - The Potamoi
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Neleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: In secret Tyro gave birth to twin boys. As the infants lay abandoned to exposure, a mare of some passing horse-keepers grazed on of them with her hoof, and made part of his face black and blue. The horseman took and reared both boys, giving the name Pelias to the one with the discoloration, and calling the other Neleus. When they had grown, they rediscovered their mother, and slew their stepmother Sidero [i.e. the wife of Kretheus]. For they found out that she was mistreating Tyro; yet when they set out to get her she eluded them and escaped into the temenos of Hera. But Pelias slaughtered her on the altar . . .
Later on, the two broke up with each other. Neleus was banished and made his way to Messene, where he founded Pylos [i.e. in the kingdom of his grandfather Salmoneus] But at the death of Kretheos a strife over the kingship arose between Pelias and Neleus. Of these two Pelias became king over Iolkos (Iolcus) and the neighbouring districts, but Neleus, taking with him Melampous and Bias, the son of Amythaon [to Pylos].Life Stages: Tree II, Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Pelias - twin
- Chloris - married
- Periklymenos - child
- child - Poseidon
- child - Tyro
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Nemea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the springs of the town of Nemea in Argolis.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Nemesis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. She was a personification of the resentment aroused in men by those who committed crimes with apparent impunity, or who had inordinate good fortune. Happiness and unhappiness were measured out by her, care being taken that happiness was not too frequent or too excessive.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Nephele
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Cloud-nymph wife of Lord Athamas of Athamantia in Boiotia (central Greece). When Athamas' second wife Ino plotted to have Nephele's children sacrificed to the gods, she sent the golden-fleeced Ram to carry them away to safety.
Life Stages: Nephelai
Relationships:
- Athamas - married
- Phrixus - child
- Helle - child
- turned - The Nephelai
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Nereus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 9, Pg 11
Old man of the sea and god of the sea's bounty of fish. He was a shapeshifter and prophetic.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Nerites
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 11
A lover of Aphrodite, who refused to follow her to Olympus under Zeus' rule. Also a charioteer and mutual lover of Poseidon. He challenged Helios to a chariot race, and when he lost, he was punished by being transformed into a sea snail / shellfish.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Nike
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Nicé) Winged goddess of victory--victory both in war and in peaceful competition. When Zeus was gathering allies at the start of the Titan War, Styx brought her four children Nike (Victory), Zelos (Rivalry), Kratos (Cratus Strength) and Bia (Force) into the god's service. Nike was appointed his charioteer and together the four became sentinels of Zeus' throne.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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Niobe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Acusilaus also claimed she was the first woman to ever have sex with Zeus. a daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice, the sister of Apis, and the mother by Zeus of Argus, who was the eponym of Argos.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Nisos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A King of Megara.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Abrota - married
- Eurymede - child
- child - Pandion II
- child - Pylia / Peleia
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Nonakris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the springs of the town of Nonakris in Arkadia, southern Greece. She was the wife of the impious Arkadian King Lykaon (Lycaon) and the mother of the bear-maiden Kallisto (Callisto).
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- The Lykaonides - child
- Callisto - child
- married - Lycaon
- turned - The Naiads
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Nycteus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Thebes. His rule began after the death of Polydorus, and ended when he was succeeded by his brother Lycus. Nycteus had two daughters by Polyxo, Nycteis and Antiope. After Antiope was impregnated by Zeus and fled to marry king Epopeus in Sicyon, the Bibliotheca reports that Nycteus killed himself in shame, after asking Lycus to punish her. Pausanias, however, states that Nycteus led the Thebans against Epopeus, but was wounded and carried back to Thebes, where he died after asking Lycus to continue the battle.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Nycteïs
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Nycteus and Polyxo. She married the son of Cadmus and Harmonia, Polydorus, a Theban king and mother by him of Labdacus, king of Thebes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Nymphai Hyperboreiai
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Three nymphs of the mythical, far northern realm of Hyperborea named Oupis, Loxo and Hekaerge. They were handmaidens of the goddess Artemis who were worshipped as demi-goddesses on the island of Delos. The nymphs presided over the varied skills of archery--aim (Opis), trajectory (Loxo) and distancing (Hekaerge).
Life Stages: Nephelai
Relationships:
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Nysiades
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Okeanid-nymphs of the mythical Mount Nysa. Zeus entrusted them with the care of the infant god Dionysos, alongside the elderly satyr Seilenos (Silenus). When the god was grown they joined his company as the first of the Bakkhantes (Bacchantes). Dionysos later set them amongst the stars in the constellation Hyades.
Nysa, Kisseis, Bromis, Erato, Eriphia, Polyhymno, Koronis, Ambrosie, Arsinoe, Phyto, Polyxo, Eudora, Pedile, and Thyone.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- child - Nysos
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Nysos
Status: alive
Biography: (Nysus) God of Mt. Nysa. Often considered the same as Seilenos, fathered the Nysaid-Nymphs.
Life Stages: Mountian God, Ourea, Rustic
Relationships:
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Nyx
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 7
Night incarnate, primordial goddess of the night. Subduer of the gods, even Zeus stood in awe of her. She resided in Tartarus with her sons Thanatos and Hypnos.Life Stages: Chthonian God, Protogenoi, Sky God
Relationships:
- Erebus - partner
- Aether - child
- Hemera - child
- The Moirai - child
- The Oneiroi - child
- Hesperides - child
- Keres - child
- Moros - child
- Momos - child
- Oizys - child
- Nemesis - child
- Apate - child
- Thanatos - child
- Hypnos - child
- Philotes - child
- Geras - child
- Hybris - child
- Eleos - child
- Dolos - child
- Lyssa - child
- Maniai - child
- Epiphron - child
- Sophrosyne - child
- Eris - child
- Elpis - child
- child - Chaos
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Oaxos
Status: alive
Relationships:
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Ocalea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Argive queen as the wife of King Abas. She was the daughter of Mantineus and by her husband, she became the mother of twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus. Often, she was referred to as Aglaia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Oceanus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Okeanos) Titan god of the great, earth-encircling River Okeanos, font of all of the earth's fresh-water - rivers, wells, springs and rain-clouds. He was also the god who regulated the heavenly bodies which rose from and set into his waters. Okeanos was probably identical to Ophion, an elder Titan in the Orphic myths who ruled heaven briefly before being wrestled and cast into the Ocean stream by Kronos (Cronus).
In the Hellenistic era, Okeanos was reimagined as the god of the then increasingly accessible Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the old cosmological idea of a great, earth-encircling, fresh-water stream was discarded.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- The Oceanids - child
- The Potamoi - child
- The Aurai - child
- The Nephelai - child
- Theia - partner
- The Kerkopes - child
- Eurynome - child
- married - Tethys
- turned - The Titanes
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Oeagrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Thrace, and father of Orpheus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oebalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Sparta.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Arene - child
- Tyndareus - child
- married - Gorgophone
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Oeceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Olenus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Dexamenus - child
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Oedipus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Euryganeia
- child - Jocasta
- partner - Jocasta
- child - Laius
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Oeneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Calydonian king. He introduced wine-making to Aetolia, which he learned from Dionysus and the first who received a vine-plant from the same god. He married Althaea and became the father of Deianeira, Meleager, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus (or Ageleus), Thyreus (or Phereus or Pheres), Gorge, Eurymede, Melanippe and Perimede
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oenomaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Pisa, was the father of Hippodamia and the son of Ares. His name Oinomaos denotes a wine man. King Oenomaus of Pisa, was fearful of a prophecy that claimed he would be killed by his son-in-law. So when suitors arrived, he told them they could marry his daughter only if they defeated him in a chariot race, and if they lost, they would be executed. Eighteen suitors of Hippodamia had perished in this way, and Oenamaus had affixed their heads to the wooden columns of his palace. Pausanias was shown what was purported to be the last standing column in the late second century CE; the same author mentions that Pelops erected a monument in honor of all the suitors before himself, Pelops, son of King Tantalus of Lydia, came to ask for Hippodamia's hand in marriage and prepared to race Oenomaus. Worried about losing, Pelops went to the seaside and invoked Poseidon, his former lover. Reminding Poseidon of their love ("Aphrodite's sweet gifts"), he asked Poseidon for help. Smiling, Poseidon caused a chariot drawn by winged horses to appear.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Evarete - married
- Hippodamia - child
- child - Ares
- child - Asterope
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Oenope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Sicyonian princess as daughter of King Epopeus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Oinone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Oenone) Naiad-nymph of Mount Ida in the Troad. She was the first wife of Paris who abandoned her when Aphrodite awarded him the hand of Helene in marriage. Later, during the Trojan War, when Paris had been wounded by the poisoned arrow of Philoktetes (Philoctetes), he sought her healing skills but she refused him and he died. Oinone was afterwards overcome with remorse and committed suicide.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Kebren
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Oioklos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Oeoclus) A son of Poseidon by Ascra, who in conjunction with the Aloadae, is said to have built the town of Ascra in Boeotia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oiolyka
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Oeolyca) She was a sea-nymph daughter of the hundred-handed giant Briareos (Briareus). She may have been a minor deity of storm-generated wave-surges. According to some, Herakles was sent to fetch her girdle as his one of his Twelve Labours.
Oilokya's name means "Lone Wolf"Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- child - Briareos
- child - Kymopoleia
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Oizys
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daimon of misery and woe, distress and suffering.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Okhimos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Relationships:
- Hegetoria - married
- Kydippe - child
- turned - The Heliadai
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Okyrhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Ocyrhoe) Naiad-nymph of Kolkhis (Colchis), at the eastern end of the Black Sea, loved by the sun-god Helios.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Helios - partner
- Phasis - child
- turned - The Naiads
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Olympos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of Mt. Anatolia (no coloration to Mount Olympus, home to the gods). Inventor of the flute.
Life Stages: Mountian God, Ourea, Rustic
Relationships:
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Onchestos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous founder of the city of Onchestos in Boeotia, where the Onchestian Poseidon had a temple and a statue
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Abrota - child
- child - Boeotus
- child - Eurythemista
- married - Oenope
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Ophion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: First Titan-king of heaven. Kronos (Cronus) wrestled him for the throne and cast him defeated into the Ocean-Stream. Ophion's wife Eurynome was simultaneously overcome in a wrestling-mach with the Titaness Rheia.
Okeanos was probably identical to Ophion, an elder Titan in the Orphic myths who ruled heaven briefly before being wrestled and cast into the Ocean stream by Kronos (Cronus).Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- married - Eurynome
- turned - The Titanes
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Ophiotauros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: a monster born with the foreparts of a black bull and the tail of a serpent. It was slain by a giant ally of the Titanes who hoped to sacrifice its guts in a rite which would have ensured victory against Zeus. However the god's kite stole the parts away, thwarting the plan. Ophiotauros was presumably set amongst the stars as the constellation Taurus (which was sometimes envisaged as a serpent-tailed bull), alongside the kite as Lyra, and the altar Ara.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Oreios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Oreus) God of Mt. Othrys or Mt. Oita.
Life Stages: Mountian God, Ourea, Rustic
Relationships:
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Oreithyia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Relationships:
- Zetes and Kalais - child
- Khione - child
- Nymphai Hyperboreiai - child
- Hyperboreades - child
- pollinated - Boreas
- child - Erichthonius
- child - Praxithea
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Orion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A handsome giant granted the ability to walk on water by his father Poseidon. He served King Oinopion (Oenopion) of Khios (Chios) as huntsman for a time, but was blinded and exiled from the island after raping the king's daughter Merope. Orion then travelled across the sea to Lemnos to petition the god Hephaistos (Hephaestus) for help in recovering his sight. Lending him his assistant Kedalion (Cedalion), the god directed the giant to the rising place of the sun where Helios restored his vision. Upon returning to Greece, Orion sought out Oinopion to exact his revenge but the king hid himself away in an underground, bronze chamber. The giant then retired to the island of Delos or Krete (Crete) where he became a hunting companion of the goddess Artemis. After his death he was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Orion. There were various accounts of his death. In one version he desired to marry Artemis but her brother Apollon tricked the goddess into shooting him with an arrow as he was swimming far out at sea. In another version, Artemis slew him after he raped her handmaiden Oupis. The most common story, however, was that Orion bragged he would hunt down and kill all the beasts of the earth, so Gaia (Mother Earth) sent a Scorpion to destroy him. Orion and the Scorpion were afterwards placed amongst the stars as opposing constellations--one rises as the other sets.
The Boiotians also had their own stories about the stellar hunter. According to their version of his myth Orion was born when three gods--Zeus, Poseidon and Hermes--urinated on a bull-hide and buried it in the earth to provide King Hyrieus with a son and heir.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- Mecionice / Menodice - child
- child - Euryale
- child - Poseidon
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Orpheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet. He was also a renowned poet and, according to legend, traveled with Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, and descended into the underworld to recover his lost wife, Eurydice. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music (the usual scene in Orpheus mosaics), his attempt to retrieve his wife Eurydice from the underworld, and his death at the hands of the maenads of Dionysus, who got tired of his mourning for his late wife Eurydice. For the Greeks, Orpheus was a founder and prophet of the so-called "Orphic" mysteries.
Although Cicero reported that Aristotle did not believe Orpheus existed, most other ancient writers believed he once was a real person, though living in remote antiquity. Most of them believed that he lived several generations before Homer.
Greeks of the Classical age venerated Orpheus as the greatest of all poets and musicians; it was said that while Hermes had invented the lyre, Orpheus perfected it. Poets such as Simonides of Ceos said that Orpheus' music and singing could charm the birds, fish and wild beasts, coax the trees and rocks into dance, and divert the course of rivers.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Orseis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of spring of a town in the region of Hellas in Thessalia (northern Greece). She was the wife of Hellen, an early king of the Hellenes of northern Greece. He was the only son of Deukalion and Pyrrha, the two survivors of the Great Deluge. Hellen and Orseis' descendants would come to rule most of Greece.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Orthos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Orthrus) was a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog which guarded the fabulous, red cattle of Geryon on the island of Erytheia. Herakles was sent to fetch these as one of his twelve labours and in the process slew both Orthros and his master.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- Khimaira - partner
- Sphinx - child
- Leon Nemeios - child
- child - Ekhidna
- child - Typhoeus
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Ouranos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Is Uranus, Greek is Ouranos) The god of the sky, born from Gaia to cover her like a blanket.
Life Stages: Protogenoi
Relationships:
- Gaea - pollinated
- The Titanes - child
- The Titanides - child
- The Kylopes - child
- The Hekatonkheires - child
- The Gigantes - child
- The Erinyes - child
- The Meliai - child
- Aphrodite - child
- child - Gaea
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Ourea
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 8
Children of Gaia
The gods/goddesses of the mountains.Life Stages: Protogenoi, Rustic
Relationships:
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Oxylos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Rustic Diamon of mountain forest, more specifically mountain beech.
Life Stages: Daimon, Rustic
Relationships:
- Hamadryas - married
- The Hamadryades - child
- Andraimon - child
- child - Oreios
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Pactolus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Pactolus) River-god of Lydia in Anatolia (modern Turkey). His streams were flecked with gold from the time King Midas washed away the curse of the golden touch in his waters.
The Paktolos River was a small tributary of the River Hermos which flowed from the Lydian Mount Tmolos near the town of Sardis.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Euryanassa - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Pallas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Titan god of battle and warcraft.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Pallas
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nymph of Lake Tritonis in Libya (North Africa). She was raised with the goddess Athena but during one of their childhood war-games was accidentally killed. The goddess crafted a wooden statue of her friend as a memorial--the so-called Palladium, an artifact which was later ensconsed in the city of Troy.
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- child - Triton
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Pandeia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Pandia) Goddess of the full moon
Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
- child - Selene
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Pandion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pandion married Zeuxippe, his mother's sister, and begat two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes.
Relationships:
- Zeuxippe - married
- Cerops II - child
- Erechtheus - child
- child - Erichthonius
- child - Praxithea
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Pandion II
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary King of Athens, the son and heir of King Cecrops II and his wife Metiadusa,
Relationships:
- Pylia / Peleia - married
- Nisos - child
- child - Cerops II
- child - Metiadusa
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Pandora
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: First mortal woman who was formed out of clay by the gods. Zeus gave Pandora a storage jar (pithos) as a wedding gift which she opened, releasing the swarm of evil spirits trapped within. These would forever after plague mankind. Only Elpis (Hope) remained behind, a single blessing to ease mankind's suffering.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Pyrrha - child
- married - Epimetheus
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Parnassos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A lord of Phokis (central Greece). Created a method of telling the future using birds and founded the main city on Mt. Parnassus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pasiphaë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Immortal daughter of the sun-god Helios. Like her siblings, Aeetes and Kirke (Circe), she was a skilled practitioner of witchcraft (pharmakeia).
Pasiphae married King Minos of Krete (Crete) and bore him a number of sons and daughters. As punishment for some offence against the gods--committed either by herself or her husband--she was cursed with lust for the king's finest bull. The queen enlisted the help of the artisan Daidalos (Daedalus) who built her an animate, wooden cow wrapped in bovine-skin. Hidden inside the contraption she coupled with the bull and conceived a hybrid child--the bull-headed Minotauros (Minotaur).
Pasiphae's husband King Minos also proved unfaithful. When she learned of his indiscretions she bewitched him, causing him to ejaculate poisoned creatures and destroy his lovers. Pasiphae herself, being an immortal, was alone immune to the spell. Minos was later cured by the Athenian girl Prokris (Procris) who devised a remedy for the strange afflication.
Pasiphae was an early Kretan moon-goddess similar to the classical Selene. Both her taurine lover and her Minotaur son--who was also named Asterios (Starry One)--were associated with the constellation Taurus.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Pedias
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: daughter of Mynes, mother of Cranae, Menaechme, and Atthis.
Relationships:
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Pegasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 18
(Pegasos) An immortal, winged horse which sprang from the neck of the beheaded Gorgon Medousa (Medusa). It was tamed by Bellerophon who rode it into battle against the fire-breathing monster known as the Khimaira (Chimera). Later the hero attempted to fly to heaven but Zeus caused the horse to buck throwing him back down to earth in disgrace. Pegasos winged his way on to Olympos where he became the thunderbolt-bearer of Zeus.
Pegasos was commemorated amongst the stars as the constellation of the same name. Its rising marks the arrival of spring and, in Greece, of seasonal thunderstorms.Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
- pet - Bellerophon
- child - Medusa
- child - Poseidon
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Peirene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a fountain in the city of Korinthos (Corinth), southern Greece. She was a daughter of the Sikyonian river-god Asopos who was abducted to the site of the town by the god Poseidon. Their, sons Lekhes (Leches) and Kenkhrias (Cenchrias), were the eponymous founders of the city's twin ports--one on each side of the Isthmos.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Pelasgos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The mythical eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the indigenous, pre-Greek inhabitants of the Aegean region. In Greek mythology, he was considered an autochthonous (earth-born) figure and the first king in Arcadia
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
- Meliboia / Cyllene - married
- Lycaon - child
- child - Niobe
- child - Zeus
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Peleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles. Peleus and his brother Telamon were friends of Jason and both were counted as Argonauts. Though there were no further kings in Aegina, the kings of Epirus claimed descent from Peleus in the historic period.
Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pelias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: In secret Tyro gave birth to twin boys. As the infants lay abandoned to exposure, a mare of some passing horse-keepers grazed on of them with her hoof, and made part of his face black and blue. The horseman took and reared both boys, giving the name Pelias to the one with the discoloration, and calling the other Neleus. When they had grown, they rediscovered their mother, and slew their stepmother Sidero [i.e. the wife of Kretheus]. For they found out that she was mistreating Tyro; yet when they set out to get her she eluded them and escaped into the temenos of Hera. But Pelias slaughtered her on the altar . . .
Later on, the two broke up with each other. Neleus was banished and made his way to Messene, where he founded Pylos [i.e. in the kingdom of his grandfather Salmoneus] But at the death of Kretheos a strife over the kingship arose between Pelias and Neleus. Of these two Pelias became king over Iolkos (Iolcus) and the neighbouring districts, but Neleus, taking with him Melampous and Bias, the son of Amythaon [to Pylos].Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Philomache - married
- twin - Neleus
- child - Poseidon
- child - Tyro
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Pelionides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Nymphs of Mount Pelion in Magnesia, Thessalia (northern Greece). They were nurses of the infant Kentauroi (Centaurs) which were spawned by the cloud-nymph Nephele on the slopes of Mount Pelion. The god Apollon also entrusted them with the care of his new-born son Aristaios (Aristaeus).
The Pelionides are variously described as Oreiad-, Naiad- and Epimelid-nymphs of the mountain, its springs and its flocks respectively.Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph, Nereid, Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
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Pelops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was the son of Tantalus and the father of Atreus.
He was venerated at Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games, the most important expression of unity, not only for the people of Peloponnesus, but for all Hellenes. At the sanctuary at Olympia, chthonic night-time libations were offered each time to "dark-faced" Pelops in his sacrificial pit (bothros) before they were offered in the following daylight to the sky-god Zeus.
Pelops's father was Tantalus, king at Mount Sipylus in Anatolia. Wanting to make an offering to the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods. Demeter, deep in grief after the abduction of her daughter Persephone by Hades, absentmindedly accepted the offering and ate the left shoulder. The other gods sensed the plot, however, and held off from eating of the boy's body. While Tantalus was banished to Tartarus, Pelops was ritually reassembled and brought back to life, his shoulder replaced with one of ivory made for him by Hephaestus. Pindar mentioned this tradition in his First Olympian Ode, only to reject it as a malicious invention. Instead, Pindar relates that he was taken by Poseidon as a lover and the story of his death was a rumour spread after his disappearance by neighbours envious of Tantalus's prosperity.
After Pelops's resurrection, Poseidon took him to Olympus, and made him the youth apprentice, teaching him also to drive the divine chariot. Later, Zeus found out about the gods' stolen food and their now revealed secrets, and threw Pelops out of Olympus, angry at his father, Tantalus.
king of the Eleian city of Pisa and the eponymous overlord of the western Peloponnesos, the so-called "Island of Pelops".
His father King Tantalos of Lydia was impious man who, wishing to test the fallibility of the gods, butchered the young Pelops and served him at a feast of the gods. Zeus recognised the deception, cast Tantalos into Haides for eternal torment, and had the boy resurrected by the Moirai. The Fates collected up his remains and cast them into a boiling cauldron, restoring his form except for his left shoulder which had inadvertently been devoured by the goddess Demeter. This they replaced with one made of ivory.
The young Pelops became a lover of the god Poseidon who provided him with a chariot drawn by swift--some say winged--horses. He later travelled across the sea to Greece to compete for the hand of Hippodameia, daughter of King Oinomaos (Oenomaus) of Pisa. The king would slay his daughter's suitors as he overtook them in a chariot race, so Pelops bribed the charioteer Myrtilos to tamper with the axle. Oinomaos was killed as a result and Pelops seized control of the kingdom. When Myrtilos demanded his reward, he treacherously cast him off a cliff into the sea. The dying man called down a curse upon his house which would plague Pelops and his descendants for many generations to come.
Pelops quickly grew his empire and came to control most of the western Peloponnesos. His rival in the east was King Perseus of Argos, but the two houses formed an alliance with the marriage of the daughters of Pelops to the sons of Perseus.
Pelops was one of the most important founding-kings of myth. His descendants included Herakles, Eurystheus, Theseus, Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus.Life Stages: Hero, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Lysidice - child
- child - Euryanassa
- married - Hippodamia
- child - Tantalus
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Pentheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Thebes. The story of Pentheus' resistance to Dionysus and his subsequent punishment is presented by Euripides as follows. Cadmus, the king of Thebes, abdicated due to his old age in favour of his grandson Pentheus. Pentheus soon banned the worship of the god Dionysus, who was the son of his aunt Semele, and forbade the women of Cadmeia to partake in his rites. An angered Dionysus caused Pentheus' mother Agave and his aunts Ino and Autonoë, along with all the other women of Thebes, to rush to Mount Cithaeron in a Bacchic frenzy. Accordingly, Pentheus imprisoned Dionysus, thinking the man simply a follower, but his chains fell off and the jail doors opened for him. Dionysus lured Pentheus, disguised as a woman, out to spy on the Bacchic rites, where Pentheus expected to see sexual activities. The daughters of Cadmus saw him in a tree and thought him to be a wild animal. They pulled Pentheus down and tore him limb from limb (as part of a ritual known as the sparagmos). When his true identity was later discovered, officials exiled the women from Thebes. Some say that his own mother was the first to attack him, tearing his arm off and then tearing off his head. She placed the head on a stick and took it back to Thebes, but only realized whose head it was after meeting her father Cadmus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Penthos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of grief and lamentation. May have been numbered amongst the Algea (Sorrows).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Pereus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Arcadian prince as the son of King Elatus and Laodice, daughter of King Cinyras.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Periboia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Perieres
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Messene, an ancient polis in southern Peloponnese. In some accounts, Perieres was called the son of Dioplethes, son of King Myrmidon of Phthia and possibly Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Gorgophone - widowed
- Aphareus - child
- Leucippus - child
- child - Aeolus
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Periklymenos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eldest of son of King Neleus of Pylos who was granted the ability to change his shape by his grandfather Poseidon. When Herakles attacked the kingdom, Periklymenos assumed the form of a lion, an ant, a snake, a swarm of bees and an eagle, but was nevertheless vanquished by the hero.
Periklymenos was also numbered amongst the Argonauts but had no role to play in the story besides a mention in the list of fifty heroes.Life Stages: Tree III, Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Perimede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess as the daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. She was the sister of Salmoneus, Athamas, Sisyphus, Cretheus, Perieres, Deioneus, Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Alcyone and Pisidice. Perimede was the mother of Hippodamas and Orestes by the river god Achelous.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Akheloios - partner
- Hippodamas - child
- child - Aeolus
- child - Enarete
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Perimede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Calydonian princess as the daughter of King Oeneus, mother of Astypalaea and Europa by Phoenix (son of Agenor).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Phoenix - partner
- Astypalaea - child
- Europa - child
- child - Althaea
- child - Oeneus
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Perseis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Okeanid-nymph loved by the sun-god Helios. Perseis' name was derived from the Greek word persô meaning "to destroy," "to slay," or "to sack with fire."
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
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Persephone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife.
Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate (Hecate) bearing torches. When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.
In other myths, Persephone appears exclusively as the queen of the underworld, receiving the likes of Herakles and Orpheus at her court.Life Stages: Chthonian God, Olympian
Relationships:
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Perses
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Titan god of destruction.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Perses
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Usurped the throne of Colchis from his brother, but was subsequently slain by Medea, his paternal niece, who restored her father to the throne, as an oracle had once predicted that he would be slain by his own kin.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Perseus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. He was a demigod, being the son of Zeus and the mortal Danaë, as well as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both children of Zeus, and Heracles's mother was Perseus's granddaughter).
Life Stages: Hero
Relationships:
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Phaeax
Status: alive
Biography: son of Poseidon and Korkyra (Cercyra), from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. He was the father of Locrus. When Phaeax, who reigned in the island of Scheria, died, Alkinous and Lokros after quarreling came together again on the basis that Alkinous would be king of Phaiakis, and Lokros would take the heirlooms and part of the ethnos to make a colony.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phaethon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of wandering star (aster planetos) Dios, the planet Jupiter. He was carried off by the goddess Aphrodite while he was no more than a child to be the night-watchman at her most sacred shrines.
Life Stages: Star God
Relationships:
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Phaethon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Youthful son of Helios who begged his father let him drive the chariot of the sun. The god reluctantly conceded to the boy's wishes and handed him the reigns. But his inexperience proved fatal, for Phaethon quickly lost control of the immortal steeds and the sun-chariot veered out of control setting the earth ablaze. The plains of Africa were scorched to desert and men charred black. Zeus, appalled by the destruction, smote the boy with a thunderbolt, hurling his flaming body into the waters of the River Eridanos. Phaethon's sisters, the Heliades, gathered on the banks and in their mourning were transformed into amber-teared poplar trees.
After his death Phaethon was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Auriga ("the Charioteer"), or else transformed into the god of the star which the Greeks named Phaethon--the planet Jupiter or Saturn.Life Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
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Pharnace
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Hyrian princess as the daughter of King Megassares of Hyria.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Cinyras - child
- child - Megassares
- married - Sandocus
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Pharsimos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Athenian Lord.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Praxithea - child
- married - Diogeneia.
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Phasis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-god of Kolkhis (Colchis) at the easternmost end of the Black Sea (modern day Georgia).
The Phasis River had its headwaters in the Kaukasos (Caucasus) Mountains and flowed down through the land of Kolkhis to the Black Sea. The next major rivers personified by the Greeks were the Thermodon in Anatolia to the south-west and the Tanais (Don) of Skythia to the north.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Asterodeia - child
- child - Helios
- child - Okyrhoe
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Pheme and Ossa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The Goddess or personified spirits of rumor, report and gossip. They were also by extension the spirit of fame and good repute in a positive sense and infamy and scandal in the bad.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Elpis
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Philodice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Argive naiad, daughter of Inachus, river-king of Argos. She was the wife of Leucippus of Messenia by whom she became the mother of Hilaeira and Phoebe, and possibly Arsinoe. Philodice was considered the sister of Phoroneus, Io and Aegialeus.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Philomache
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Minyan princess who became a queen of Iolcus. She was named as the wife of Pelias, king of Iolcus and mother of Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe and Alcestis. But other sources say that the wife of Pelias and the mother of these children was the daughter of Bias named Anaxibia or Alphesiboea.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Philotes
Status: alive
Biography: Personified spirit of friendship and affection. She was perhaps also the spirit of sexual intercourse--an alternate meaning of the word philotês in Greek. Philotes' opposite number were the Neikea (Feuds).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Philyre
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Philyra)
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Chiron - child
- pollinated - Kronos
- turned - The Oceanids
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Phoebe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The Leukippides (Leucippides)
A Messenian princess. Phoebe and Hilaera were priestesses of Athena and Artemis, and betrothed to Idas and Lynceus, the sons of Aphareus. Castor and Pollux were charmed by their beauty and carried them off.
two Messenian princesses who were granted immortality alongside their Dioskouroi (Dioscuri) husbands.
The Dioskouroi abducted the girls from their home in Messenia but they were already betrothed to the brothers Idas and Lynkeus (Lynceus) who gave chase. In the fight which ensued one of the Dioskouroi and both of the Aphareides were killed. Zeus then transformed the twins and their brides into immortal demigods.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Phoenix
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of Phoenicia who together with his brothers were tasked to find his abducted daughter Europa. By Cassiopeia, Phoenix had a daughter, Carme, and three sons: Cilix, Phineus, and Doryclus, as well as a stepson Atymnius, whose natural father was Zeus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Europa - child
- Cassiopeia - married
- Astypalaea - child
- child - Agenor
- partner - Perimede
- child - Telephassa
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Phoibe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Phoebe) Titan goddess of the bright intellect. Phoibe was the third goddess to hold the great oracle of Delphoi which she in turn bestowed upon her grandson Apollo
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Leto - child
- Asteria - child
- married - Koios
- turned - The Titanides
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Phokos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Phocus) "the Seal" was killed by his half brothers Peleus and Telamon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pholos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: was an Arkadian Kentauros (Centaur) who made his home in a cave on Mount Pholoe. He once entertained Herakles who was passing through the region in search of the Erymanthian boar. But when Pholos opened his wine-skin to serve the hero the other Kentauroi (Centaurs), driven into a mad frenzy by the aroma, attacked. Herakles slew most of them with his arrows and the rest fled south. Pholos himself also suffered a mishap--for as he was examining the hero's poisoned-arrows he dropped one on his foot and died. The gods rewarded him for his show of hospitality by placing him amongst the stars as constellation Centaurus and his wine-cup as the adjacent Crater.
Relationships:
- turned - Kentauroi
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Phorbaceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Phorbas king of Argos) Sixth king of Argos.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phorbas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Prince of the Thessalian Phlegyes who emigrated to Elis in the Peloponnesos. Phorbas assisted Alector, king of Elis, in the war against Pelops, and shared the kingdom with him.
Phorbas was said to have been a lover of Apollo.
Phorbas was a savage king who preyed on pilgrims visiting the oracle of Delphoi until he was killed by the god Apollon in a boxing match.
Phorbas' elder son Augeias--according to some--succeeded him as king of Elis, while the younger, Aktor (Actor), came to rule the Eleian region of Bouprasion (Buprasium). His grandsons included the twin Molionidai and the hero Lepreus.
Another Phorbas, hero of the island of Rhodes, was sometimes confounded with the Phlegyan Phorbas.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phorbus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Pronoe, wife of Aetolus, the founder of Aetolia. Through his daughter, he was grandfather of Pleuron and Calydon, and thus, the ancestor of the Calydonian royal family with notable members including: Oeneus, Althaea, Leda, Deianira and Meleager
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Pronoe - child
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Phorkys
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 10, Pg 14
Ancient sea-god of the hidden dangers of the deep.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
- Keto - married
- The Graiai - child
- The Gorgones - child
- Ekhidna - child
- Drakon-Landon - child
- Thoosa - child
- Scylla - child
- Ketos Aithiopios - child
- child - Gaea
- child - Pontos
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Phoroneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A culture-hero of the Argolid, fire-bringer, law giver, and primordial king of Argos.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phrixus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele (a goddess of clouds). He was the older brother of Helle and the father of Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus by Chalciope (Iophassa) daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis.
Phrixus and Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino. She hatched a devious plot to get rid of the children, roasting all of Boeotia's crop seeds so they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus and Helle. Before they were killed, though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying, or swimming, ram with golden wool sent by Nephele, their natural mother; their starting point is variously recorded as Halos in Thessaly and Orchomenus in Boeotia. During their flight Helle, for unknown reasons, fell off the ram and drowned in the strait between Europe and Asia, which was named after her the Hellespont, meaning the sea of Helle (now the Dardanelles); Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeëtes, the son of the sun god Helios, took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus (or in some less-common variations of the telling, Poseidon) and gave the king the Golden Fleece of the ram, which Aeëtes hung in a tree in the holy grove of Ares in his kingdom, guarded by a dragon that never slept. Phrixus and Chalciope had four sons, who later joined forces with the Argonauts. The oldest was Argos/Argus, the others were Phrontis, Melas, and Cytisorus.
Phrixus thus lived at the court of Aeëtes, but one day Aeëtes learned from an oracle that he would die at the hands of a descendant of Aeolus (the paternal grandfather of Phrixus) and so he killed Phrixus. However, other sources claim that Phrixus lived peacefully at Colchis and died of old age.Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phthia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Beloved of Apollo, by whom she became the mother of Dorus, Laodocus, and Polypoetes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Phthonos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of jealousy and envy. He was particularly concerned with the jealous passions of love. In one ancient Greek vase painting he appears as an Erote, winged godling of love, accompanying Aphrodite.
Life Stages: Daimon, Erotes
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Pierus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Emathia in Macedonia. He was the eponym of Pieria and Mt. Pierus. Pierus was credited to be the first to write in the praise of the Muses.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pisidice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Peisidice was the mother of Antiphus and Actor and Hiscilla and Eupolemiea by Myrmidon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pitane
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Pitane in Lakedaimonia (southern Greece) loved by the god Poseidon.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Pleione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Aethra) Okeanid-nymph of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia, southern Greece. She was the wife of the Titan Atlas and bore him a bevy of beautiful daughters. She presided over the multiplication of the flocks--for her name means "to increase in number" and her grandson Hermes was the god of animal husbandry.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph, Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- The Pleiades - child
- The Hyades - child
- Hyas - child
- Calypso - child
- Maira - child
- married - Atlas
- turned - The Oceanids
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Pleuron
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Aetolus and Pronoe, daughter of Phorbus, and brother of Calydon. He was married to Xanthippe, daughter of Dorus, by whom he became the father of Agenor, Sterope, Stratonice, and Laophonte. Pleuron was said to have founded the town of Pleuron in Aetolia (and apparently was its eponym), but he had also a heroon at Sparta, erected by his great-granddaughter, Queen Leda.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Ploutos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Plutus) God of wealth. At first he was solely concerned with agricultural bounty but later came to represent wealth in general.
Ploutos was born to the goddess Demeter after she lay with the hero Iasion in a thrice-ploughed field. The young god was blinded by Zeus so he would distribute wealth indiscriminately and not favour the good.
Ploutos was usually depicted as a boy holding a cornucopia full of grain. In sculpture he was portrayed as an infant in the arms of Eirene (Irene), goddess of peace, or Tykhe (Tyche), goddess of good fortune.Life Stages: Agrarian God
Relationships:
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Pluto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Tantalus
Relationships:
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Podarge
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 34
A Harpy SAME AS AELLOLife Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- Balios and Xanthos - child
- Horses of the Dioscuri - child
- turned - The Harpies
- affair - Zephyrus
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Poine
Status: alive
Biography: (Poena)Daimona of retribution, vengeance, recompense, punishment and penalty for the crime of murder and manslaughter. The word poinê also referred to the bloodmoney paid to the victim's family to expiation the crime of murder. Poine was closely connected with Praxidike the "Exacter of Justice."
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Polemos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of war and battle. His opposite number was Eirene (Irene) (Peace).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Pollux
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Dioskouroi (Dioscuri)
(Polydeukes or Polydeuces)
star-crowned, twin gods of St. Elmo's fire--an electrical discharge which appears on the rigging of ships portending deliverance from a storm. They were also gods of horsemanship and protectors of guests and travellers.
The twins were born as mortal princes, sons of the Spartan queen Leda by Zeus and her husband Tyndareus. Because of their kindness and generosity they were apotheosised at death. Polydeukes (Polydeuces), being a son of Zeus, was at first the only one offered this gift but he insisted it be shared with his twin Kastor (Castor). Zeus agreed, but in order to appease the Fates, the twins had to spend alternate days in heaven and the underworld.
The Dioskouroi were also placed amongst the stars as the constellation Gemini (the Twins). The division of their time between heaven and the underworld might be a reference to the heavenly cycles--for their constellation is visible in the sky for only six months of the year.
The Dioskouroi were depicted as youthful horsemen with wide-brimmed traveller's hats.Life Stages: Apotheosis, Argonaut
Relationships:
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Polycaon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Lelex, king of Laconia, by the Naiad nymph, Cleochareia. Polycaon married an ambitious woman named Messene, daughter of King Triopas, of Argos. After his father's death, his brother Myles inherited the throne of Laconia. Messene, not wanting to be the wife of a simple anonymous man, collected an armed force from both Argos and Laconia. The newly married couple invaded the territory of which would be named after Polycaon's wife, Messenia. After establishing the newly conquered kingdom, they founded the city Andania, where they built their palace.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Kleokhareia
- child - Lelex
- married - Messene
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Polydorus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Thebes. Polydorus was the youngest and only male child of Cadmus and Harmonia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Polyphemos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 23
Man-eating kyklops (cyclops) giant--a monster with a single, orb-shaped eye in the middle of his forehead. Odysseus encountered him on his return from Troy and became trapped in the giant's cave. To escape the hero plied him with wine and as he slept plunged a burning stake into his eye. The blinded giant tried to prevent Odysseus' flight by tossing boulders at his ship but, failing that, prayed to his father Poseidon to exact revenge.
Polyphemos also loved the nereid-nymph Galateia and wooed her with music and song. She spurned him for the love of the shepherd Akis (Acis), but when the giant spied the pair together he crushed the boy beneath a stone.Life Stages: Cyclopes
Relationships:
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Polyxo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Antiope and possibly Nycteis by Nycteus.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Nycteus - married
- Antiope - child
- Nycteïs - child
- turned - The Oceanids
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Ponos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of hard labour and toil. He presided over extreme physical labour rather than just hard work--e.g. the toil required of subsistence farmers just to survive.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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Pontos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 9
(Pontus) The primordial god of the sea. The sea itself.
The Protogenos of the sea. He sprung from Gaea the Earth at the beginning of creation, when the elements of the universe were set in their proper order.Life Stages: Potamoi, Sea God
Relationships:
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Porthaon
Status: alive
Biography: (Parthaon or Portheus) King of Calydon and son of Agenor or Ares[2] by Epicaste and thus brother of Demonice (also known as Demodice) Porthaon was the husband of Euryte, daughter of Hippodamas, who became the mother of his children, Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus and Sterope. In some account, his wife Laothoe, bore him three daughters, Sterope, Eurythemiste and Stratonice. By an unnamed servant, Porthaon was the father of the Argonaut Laocoön. Dia, the consort of his son Agrius was also called his daughter.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Poseidon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Olympian god of the sea, earthquakes, floods, drought and horses.
He was depicted as a mature man with a sturdy build and dark beard holding a trident (a three-pronged fisherman's spear).Life Stages: Olympian, Sea God
Relationships:
- Demeter - pollinated
- Areion - child
- Despoine - child
- Amphitrite - married
- Rhode - child
- Triton - child
- Kymopoleia - child
- Proteus - child
- Medusa - pollinated
- Pegasus - child
- Khrysaor - child
- Eurymede - pollinated
- Bellerophon - child
- Hallirhothios - child
- Libya - pollinated
- Lelex - child
- Epopeus - child
- Megareus - child
- Arne - pollinated
- Boeotus - child
- Salamis - abducted
- Kykhreus - child
- Belus - child
- Agenor - child
- Nauplios - child
- Hyrieus - child
- Hyperes - child
- Anthas - child
- Aethusa - child
- Eirene - child
- Tyro - pollinated
- Pelias - child
- Neleus - child
- Euryanassa - pollinated
- Minyas - child
- Molione - pollinated
- Molionidai - child
- Molionidai - child
- Pitane - pollinated
- Euadne - child
- Euryale - partner
- Orion - child
- Mecionice / Menodice - partner
- Euphemus - child
- Kelaino - partner
- Lycus - child
- Eurypylus - child
- Askre - partner
- Oioklos - child
- Mideia - partner
- Aspledon - child
- Amphimarus - child
- Arethusa - pollinated
- Abas - child
- Kleodora - partner
- Parnassos - child
- Chryses - child
- Diopatre - pollinated
- Eusiros - child
- Canace - partner
- The Aloadae - child
- Benthesikyme - child
- Khione - pollinated
- Eumolpus - child
- Hippothoe - pollinated
- Taphius - child
- Ancaeus - child
- Cycnus - child
- Erginus - child
- Amykos - child
- Lysianassa - pollinated
- Lamia - child
- Phaeax - child
- Eryx - child
- Polyphemos - child
- Messapus - child
- Alebion and Dercynus - child
- Eurypylus - child
- Daimones Proseoous - child
- partner - Alcyone
- partner - Amymone
- partner - Astypalaea
- partner - Calyce
- partner - Chione
- partner - Chrysogeneia
- partner - Halia
- partner - Iphimedeia
- partner - Korkyra
- child - Kronos
- partner - Melantheia
- partner - Melia
- partner - Oenope
- child - Rhea
- partner - Thoosa
- partner - Urania
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Pothos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 32
God of sexual longing, yearning and desire. He was one of the winged love-gods known as Erotes.Life Stages: Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
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Praxithea
Status: alive
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the city of Athens--perhaps one located near the marketplace. She married Erichthonius of Athens and by him had a son named Pandion I. Praxithea's sister Zeuxippe married her nephew Pandion, and to them were born Erechtheus, Butes, Procne and Philomela. She was also called Pasithea.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Oreithyia - child
- Pandion - child
- married - Erichthonius
- turned - The Naiads
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Praxithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Athenian daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia, daughter of the river-god Cephissus. She became queen of Athens after marrying King Erechtheus by whom she Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion, Protogeneia, Pandora, Procris, Creusa, Oreithyia and Chthonia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Erechtheus - married
- Creusa - child
- Procris - child
- child - Diogeneia.
- child - Pharsimos
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Priam
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Troy during the Trojan war.
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
- child - Laomedon
- child - Strymo Rhoio
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Procris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Athenian princess, the third daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens and his wife, Praxithea. Homer mentions her in the Odyssey as one of the many dead spirits Odysseus saw in the Underworld. She married Cephalus, the son of King Deioneus of Phocis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Cephalus
- child - Erechtheus
- child - Praxithea
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Prometheus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task of moulding mankind out of clay. His attempts to better the lives of his creation brought him into conflict with Zeus. Firstly he tricked the gods out of the best portion of the sacrificial feast, acquiring the meat for the feasting of man. Then, when Zeus withheld fire, he stole it from heaven and delivered it to mortal kind hidden inside a fennel-stalk. As punishment for these rebellious acts, Zeus ordered the creation of Pandora (the first woman) as a means to deliver misfortune into the house of man, or as a way to cheat mankind of the company of the good spirits. Prometheus meanwhile, was arrested and bound to a stake on Mount Kaukasos (Caucasus) where an eagle was set to feed upon his ever-regenerating liver (or, some say, heart). Generations later the great hero Herakles (Heracles) came along and released the old Titan from his torture.
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Pronoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Phorbus. She married King Aetolus of Aetolia and bore him Pleuron and Calydon.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pronoia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/he
Biography: Hesione Pronoia (Preonoea)Okeanid-nymph wife of the Titan Prometheus. She was a minor goddess of foresight. Prometheus' wife was sometimes named Asia.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Deukalion - child
- Aidos - child
- married - Prometheus
- turned - The Oceanids
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Prophasis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Personified spirit (daimona) of excuse. She was a daughter of the foolish Titan Epimetheus (Afterthought).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Epimetheus
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Proteus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Prophetic old sea-god and the herdsman of Poseidon's seals. Menelaus, a hero of the Trojan War, encountered Proteus during his return voyage to Greece, and upon capturing him compelled the god to prophesy the future.
Proteus was specifically associated with the island of Lemnos, the nearby Thracian peninsular of Pallene, and the Egyptian island of Pharos. Like Melikertes he may have been the Greek equivalent of the Phoenician sea-god Melkart. The island of Pharos, which is his home in the Odyssey, possessed a Phoenician trading colony in historical times.
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 105 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"He [Herakles] went onto Torone, where he was challenged to a wrestling match by Polygonos, and Telegonos, sons of Poseidon's son Proteus. He killed them both."Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Protogeneia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly and Pyrrha, mythological progenitors of the Hellenes. She was the sister of Hellen and Amphictyon, Pandora II. By Zeus, Protogeneia became the mother of Opus, Aethlius, Aetolus and possibly of Dorus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Psamathe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nereid goddess of sand and the wife of Proteus, herder of seals. Psamathe was seduced by the Aiginetan king Aiakos (Aeacus) who ambushed her on the beach. She tried to escape his grasp by transforming herself into a seal but he refused to release his hold and so she conceded, bearing him a son named Phokos (Phocus) "the Seal". The boy was his father's favourite and his half-brothers Peleus and Telamon grew jealous and murdered him. Psamathe sent a giant wolf to avenge Phokos by harrassing the flocks of Peleus but he managed to assuage her wrath with proper sacrifices.
Life Stages: Epimelid Nymph, Nereid
Relationships:
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Psykhe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Psyche) The goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl. Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace. Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which culminated in a journey to the Underworld. Psykhe was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
Life Stages: Apotheosis, Olympian
Relationships:
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Pygmaioi
Status: alive
Biography: THE PYGMAIOI (Pygmies) were a tribe of diminutive African men who lived on the southernmost shores of the great earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus) where they were engaged in an endless war with flocks migrating cranes.
The Pygmaioi were described as tiny, black-skinned men who grew to a height of one "pygme"--a "pygme" being the length from a man's elbow to his nuckle-bone (approximately 1 1/2 foot).
The Pygmies were located by ancient geographers in India (eastern "Aithiopia") and Sub-Saharan Africa (western "Aithiopia") at the southernmost reaches of the world.Life Stages: Legendary Tribe
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Pygmalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster. Post-classical sources name her Galatea. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women".[1] He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. Pygmalion kissed and fondled the sculpture, brought it various gifts, and created a sumptuous bed for it.
In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. There, too afraid to admit his desire, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. Aphrodite had granted Pygmalion's wish.
Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos (Metharme), from whom is derived the name of the city.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Metharme - child
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Pylas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: also called Pylon or Pylos, was a king of Megara and successor of his father Cteson, son of Lelex.
He gave Megara to Pandion who had married his daughter Pylia, and accordingly was his son-in-law.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Pylia / Peleia - child
- child - Cleson
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Pylia / Peleia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: a Megarian princess as the daughter of the Lelegian king, Pylas of Megara.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Nisos - child
- married - Pandion II
- child - Pylas
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Pyrrha
Status: alive
Biography: First queen of the northern reaches of Greece Opountian Lokris (Opuntian Locris), Malis, Phthiotis and Thessalia (Thessaly). Her husband was Deukalion was the son of Prometheus, creator of mankind. The couple lived in the time of the Bronze Race of Mankind--a third, warlike generation born after the virtuous Silver and Gold races. Zeus was angered by their impiety and destroyed them with the Great Deluge. Only Deukalion and Pyrrha survived the apocalypse--having been warned of the impending calamity by Prometheus. Mounting a chest the couple found refuge the dry peaks of Mount Parnassos. Other regions also claimed survivors--King Dardanos was said to have sought refuge on Mount Ida in the Troad, Kerambos was carried to the heights of Mount Othrys by the Nymphs, Megaros fled to Mount Gerana, Arkas and Nyktimos were preserved on Mount Kyllene in Arkadia, and the tribes of Parnassos fled to the heights above Delphoi. Io and her son Epaphos, who lived in Egypt, were also preserved. Zeus then let the waters to recede and, in the north Poseidon, split the mountains at the Vale of Tempe to release the waters trapped in the Thessalian plain.
Deukalion and Pyrrha consulted the Delphic oracle asking how they might repopulate the now desolate earth and were told to cast the bones of their mother over their shoulders. They mulled on the riddle and realised the bones were the stones of Mother Earth--casting these, Deuckalion producing a tribe of men and Pyrrha women.
Deukalion had a number of sons and daughters. The most famous of these were Hellen, the eponymous king of the Hellenes (i.e. the Greeks), and three maidens loved by the god Zeus--Pandora (who was named after her maternal grandmother), Protogeneia and Thyia. Deukalion's descendants ruled most of the kingdoms of Greece in the mythic age. His most famous great-grandsons included Sisyphos, Salmoneus, Athamas, Diktys and Polydektes, Ion and Endymion. The intervening generations consisted mostly of eponyms--that is, figures who gave their names to tribes or places and which had little or no mythology.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Deukalion - married
- Hellen - child
- Protogeneia - child
- child - Epimetheus
- child - Pandora
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Pyrrhikhos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Pyrrhichus) was the leader of the Kouretes (Curetes), the shield-clashing daimon guardians the infant god Zeus. Pyrrhikhos was worshipped in the Lakonian town of the same name where he was also identified with the god Seilenos (Silenus).
Relationships:
- Nais - child
- turned - The Curetes
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Python
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Rhea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Rheia) Titanis (Titaness) mother of the gods, and goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation. Her name means "flow" and "ease." As the wife of Kronos (Cronus, Time), she represented the eternal flow of time and generations; as the great Mother (Meter Megale), the "flow" was menstrual blood, birth waters, and milk. She was also a goddess of comfort and ease, a blessing reflected in the common Homeric phrase "the gods who live at their ease (rhea)."
In myth, Rhea was the wife of the Titan Kronos (Cronus) and Queen of Heaven. When her husband heard a prophecy that he would be deposed by one of his children, he took to swallowing each of them as soon as they were born. But Rhea bore her youngest, Zeus, in secret and hid him away in a cave in Krete (Crete) guarded by shield-clashing Kouretes (Curetes). In his stead she presented Kronos with a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly devoured.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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Rhode
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess-nymph and eponym of the Aegean island of Rhodes. She was a daughter of Poseidon and the wife of Helios the Sun--the island's patron god.
Helios (the Sun), the myth tells us, becoming enamoured of Rhodos, named the island Rhodes after her and caused the water which had overflowed it to disappear . . .
His seven sons [by Rhodos] were Okhimos (Ochimus), Kerkaphos (Cercaphus), Makar (Macar), Aktis (Actis), Tenages, Triopas, Kandalos (Candalus), and there was one daughter, Elektryone (Electryone), who quit this life while still a maiden and attained at the hands of the Rhodians to honours like those accorded to the heroes."Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- Helios - partner
- The Heliadai - child
- Alectrona - child
- child - Amphitrite
- child - Poseidon
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Salamis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the main town of the island of Salamis (in southern Greece). She was a daughter of the river-god Asopos who was abducted to the island by Poseidon. Their son Kykhreus (Cychreus) was the first king of Salamis.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Salmoneos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the seven sons of King Aiolos (Aeolus) of Thessalia who led a group of colonists to the Peloponnese where he established the kingdom of Salmonia in the region later known as Pylos (in southern Elis and north-western Messenia).
Salmoneus was an arrogant, impious man who demanded his people worship him as the god Zeus. He impersonated the deity by driving around in a chariot dragging bronze kettles to make thunder and casting torches in the air as faux-lightning. Zeus was enraged and struck Salmoneus dead with a thunderbolt and laid waste to his city. Later Salmoneus' grandson Neleus came to the region, claimed the throne and founded a new capital at Pylos.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Samia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of the river-god Maeander. She became the wife of Ancaeus, the son of Poseidon and Astypalaea, who ruled over Leleges. By Ancaeus, Samia bore several children: Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses, and a daughter named Parthenope. Parthenope later had a son, Lycomedes, by Apollo.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Sandocus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Sandocus migrated from Syria to Cilicia where he founded a city Celenderis. He then married Pharnace, daughter of King Megassares of Hyria, and had by her a son, Cinyras.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Scylla
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 22
A sea-monster who haunted the rocks of a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool of Kharybdis (Charybdis). Ships who sailed too close to her rocks would lose six men to her ravenous, darting heads.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Selene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan goddess of the moon. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns.
Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos (Latmus). His heavenly bride consorted with him there in the night.Life Stages: Sky God, Titan
Relationships:
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Semele
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Semele Thyone was the mother of Dionysos and the goddess of the Bacchic frenzy which seized female devotees of the god during the Orgies.
Thyone's mortal name was Semele. She was a Theban princess loved by the god Zeus. When his wife Hera learned of their affair, she tricked the girl into having Zeus swear an oath to appear before her in his full glory. Bound by his pledge the god did so and Semele was consumed by the fire of his lightning-bolts. Zeus recovered their son Dionysos from her womb and upon reaching adulthood he fetched her from the underworld to join the gods on Olympos.Life Stages: Apotheosis, Rustic
Relationships:
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Sidero
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Second wife of King Salmoneus of Elis and stepmother of Tyro, whom she mistreated. Pelias and Neleus, Tyro's twin sons, sought revenge when they reached adulthood. Although Sidero fled from them into Hera's district, Pelias nevertheless murdered her atop the altar to Hera, earning the goddess' undying hatred in the process.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- married - Salmoneos
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Silenos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Silenus) was the old rustic god of wine-making and drunkenness. He was the foster-father of the god Dionysos who was entrusted to his care by Hermes after his birth from the thigh of Zeus. The young god was raised by Seilenos and nursed by the Nysiad nymphs in a cave on Mount Nysa. Once, when Dionysos was travelling through Phrygia, Seilenos became lost and was captured by King Midas. The king treated him hospitably and as a reward Dionysos granted him his golden touch.
Life Stages: Rustic
Relationships:
- Nais - married
- Kentauroi - child
- Dolion - child
- The Seilenoi - child
- child - Gaea
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Simoeis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-God of the Troad in north-western Anatolia (modern Turkey).
The Simoeis was a tributory of the river Skamandros (Scamander). Their two streams merged near the city of Troy.Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Astyokhe - child
- Hieromneme - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Sisyphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Founder and king of Ephyra (Corinth). He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath. His subsequent cheating of death earns him eternal punishment in the underworld, once he dies of old age. The gods forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity.
A Corinthian king who tried to cheat death, first by escaping from the Underworld, and then by capturing the spirit of Death himself. The wicked man was eventually recaptured and sentenced to eternal torture in the Dungeons of the Damned.
Father of Ornytion (Porphyrion), Glaucus, Thersander and Almus. He was the grandfather of Bellerophon through Glaucus; and of Minyas, founder of Orchomenus, through Almus.Life Stages: Apotheosis, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Skamandros
Status: alive
Biography: (Scamander) River-God of the Troad in north-western Anatolia. During the Trojan War he tried to drown the hero Akhilleus (Achilles) but was driven back by Hephaistos (Hephaestus) with flame.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Strymo Rhoio - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Skorpios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Scorpius) was a giant scorpion sent by Gaia the Earth to slay the giant Orion when he threatened to slay all the beasts of the world. Orion and the Scorpion were afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellations of the same name. The two opponents are never seen in the sky at the same time--for as one constellation rises, the other sets. The ancient Greek Skorpios originally encompassed two constellations--Scorpio formed its body and Libra its claws.
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Sokos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Socus) was a rustic demi-god or spirit (daimon) of the island of Euboia (Euboea). He was the father of Melisseus, the "Honey-Man", and the Euboian Korybantes (Corybantes) but in a mad rage drove them from the island.
Life Stages: Daimon, Rustic
Relationships:
- Kombe - married
- Korybantes - child
- turned - The Curetes
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Sophrosyne
Status: alive
Biography: Daimona of moderation, self-control, temperance, restraint, and discretion. She was one of the good spirits to escape Pandora's box and abandoned mankind in her flight back to Olympos.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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Sosipolis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: demigod saviour and protector of the city of Elis in the western Peloponnese. He was depicted as a boy clothed in a star-spangled robe and holding a cornucopia (horn of plenty) in his hand.
Sosipolis may have been identified with Ploutos (Plutus) who was also depicted in a similar fashion.Life Stages: Daimon, Olympian
Relationships:
- child - Eileithyia
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Sparta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Ancient Queen of Sparta, which was named in her honor. By her husband, Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and the grandmother of Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo and Zephyrus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Lacedaemon - married
- Eurydice - child
- child - Cleta
- child - Eurotas
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Sperkheios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: River-god of Malis in central Greece. The River Sperkheios had its headwaters in the Pindus mountain range and flowed east emptying into the Gulf of Malis. The most important neighbouring rivers were the Peneios (Peneus) and Anauros of Thessalia to the north and the Kephisos (Cephisus) of Boiotia and Phokis to the south.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Deino - married
- Diopatre - child
- Eidothea - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Sphinx
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A female monster with the body of a lion, the head and breast of a woman, eagle's wings and, according to some, a serpent's tail.
She was sent by the gods to plague the town of Thebes as punishment for some ancient crime, preying on its youths and devouring all who failed to solve her riddle. The regent of Thebes, King Kreon (Creon), offered the throne to the one who would destroy her. Oidipous (Oedipus) took up the challenge, and when he solved the Sphinx's riddle, she cast herself off the mountainside in despair.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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Staphylos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Bubastos in Karia (Asia Minor) or the island of Thasos (Greek Aegean), and one of the Argonauts. He was one of the many sons of Dionysos and Ariadne.
Life Stages: Argonaut
Relationships:
- Hemithea and Parthenos - child
- child - Dionysos
- married - Khrysothemis
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Sterope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Helios and wife of King Eurypylus of Cyrene by whom she became the mother of Lycaon and Leucippus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Sthenelos' Horse
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
- child - Areion
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Sthenelus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Cycnus and King of Liguria.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Cycnus - child
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Strymo Rhoio
Status: alive
Biography: Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the city of Troy in the Troad (north-western Anatolia). She was a daughter of the river Skamandros (Scamander), the wife of King Laomedon of Troy and the mother of King Priamos (Priam).
She had sons named Tithonos (Tithonus), Lampos (Lampus), Klytios (Clytius), Hiketaon (Hicetaon), and Podarkes (Podarces) [i.e. Priamos (Priam)], and daughters Hesione, Killa (Cilla), and Astyokhe (Astyoche).Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Laomedon - married
- Tithonus - child
- Priam - child
- Hesione - child
- child - Skamandros
- turned - The Naiads
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Strymon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was a king of Thrace.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Neaera - married
- Evadne - child
- turned - The Potamoi
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Styx
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of the underworld River Styx and the eldest of the Okeanides. She was also the spirit (daimon) personification of hatred. Styx was a firm ally of Zeus in the Titan Wars, who brought her children Nike (Victory), Zelos (Rivalry), Bia (Force) and Kratos (Cratus, Strength) to stand beside the god in battle. Zeus rewarded her by making her stream the agent of oaths which bound the gods.
The River Styx was also a corrosive Arkadian (Arcadian) stream which allegedly flowed forth from the underworld.Life Stages: Chthonian God, Daimon
Relationships:
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Tantalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for either revealing many secrets of the gods, for stealing ambrosia from them, or for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink. This punishment, although the best-known today, was a more unusual detail in surviving early Greek sources, where variants including a stone suspended above his head are more commonly recorded.
Despite the crime of attempting to feed his son to the gods being the most well-known variant today, in antiquity there were multiple variants reporting different crimes. Most, but not all, of these involve a feast to some degree. References to the attempt to feed the gods his dismembered son appear comparatively late in the surviving sources.
The variant in which Tantalus attempts to feed the gods his dismembered son is, however, clearly familiar to audiences by the time of Pindar. Pindar initially alludes to the story in which Pelops is killed, served as food, and partially eaten, by explaining that Clotho, one of the three Fates, revived Pelops in a cauldron, replacing his shoulder with one of ivory.
In a different tradition, Tantalus was implicated in the theft of the gold dog which Rhea had once put to watch over the goat nourishing the infant Zeus when she hid him in a cave on Crete. The story is recorded by Antoninus Liberalis as well as in scholia on Pindar's Olympian 1 and on the Odyssey.Life Stages: Apotheosis
Relationships:
- Pelops - child
- partner - Euryanassa
- child - Pluto
- child - Zeus
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Taphius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Founded the city Taphos on the island of the same name, and was its king. He also gave his name to the Taphians, a people that inhabited Taphos and nearby islands, which formed part of Odysseus's kingdom at the time of the Trojan War.
Hippothoe was carried off by the god who brought her to the Echinadian Islands where he had intercourse with her. There she conceived Taphius who colonized Taphos and called the people Teleboans, because he had gone far from his native land (“telou ebē” τηλοῦ ἔβη means “he went far”).Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Tartarus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 6
(Tartartos) Primordial god of the stormy pit Tartarus that lies below the earth. He was the body of the pit itself rather than an athropomorphic deity. Tartaros was envisaged as the opposite of the sky, an inverted-dome lying beneath the flat earth. Together the Ouranion-dome and Tartarean-pit enclosed the entire cosmos in an egg-shaped or spherical shell.
For cosmographical descriptions of the Tartarean pit see the Pit of Tartaros.
The Protogenos of the great stormy pit which lay beneath the roots of the earth. He was the anti-heaven: just as the dome of heaven arched high above the earth, Tartarus arched beneath her. The Titans were imprisoned in his depths.Life Stages: Protogenoi
Relationships:
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Tectamus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Crete and hero of ancient Hellenic mythology. Tectamus invaded Crete together with a horde of Aeolian and Pelasgian settlers and became the island's king. It was the third of the tribes that migrated to Crete. According to another version, Tectamus was a chief of Dorians and Achaeans. He married Cretheus’s daughter who gave birth to his son Asterion.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Telamon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The elder brother of Peleus, Telamon sailed alongside Jason as one of his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. In the Iliad, he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer by different mothers. Some accounts mention a third son of his, Trambelus. He and Peleus were also close friends of Heracles, assisting him on his expeditions against the Amazons and his assault on Troy.
Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Teledice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of Argos (southern Greece). She was the wife of Phoroneus, an early Peloponnesian king who lived in the time before the great Deluge. Their daughter Niobe was the first mortal woman loved by the god Zeus.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Niobe - child
- married - Phoroneus
- turned - The Naiads
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Telephassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Is a lunar epithet in Greek mythology that is sometimes substituted for Argiope the wife of Agenor. Telephassa gave to her daughter, Europa, the basket of gold which was made by Hephaestus. This gift was originally bestowed by Poseidon to Libya who in turn gave this to Telephassa by the account of their blood relation.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Telkhines
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 6
Four mysterious sea-god magicians and smiths native to the islands of Keos (Ceos) and Rhodes. They invented the art of metal-working and were said to have crafted the sickle used by Kronos (Cronus) used to castrate his father Ouranos (Uranus) as well as the magical trident for Poseidon which the god used to lever mountains into the sea to create the island of the Aegean. Their malignant use of magic later angered Zeus, who cast them beneath the sea or into the pit of Tartaros. These strange sea-daimones were sometimes described as having the heads of dogs and fish-fins for hands.
Some of their names might have been Lykos, Damon or Demonax, Aktaios, Megalesios, and Ormenos.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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Tethys
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan goddess of the primal font of fresh water which nourishes the earth. She fed her children's springs with the waters of Okeanos drawn through subterranean acquifers. Her name was derived from the Greek word têthê meaning "nurse" or "grandmother".
Tethys was perhaps identified with the Titanis Eurynome, one-time Queen of Heaven, who was cast into the Ocean-stream along with her husband Ophion by Kronos (Cronus). She was probably also connected with the Protogenos Thesis (Mother Creation) who appears in the Orphic cosmogony. Tethys was described by late classical poets as the sea personified and was equated with Thalassa.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Oceanus - married
- The Oceanids - child
- The Potamoi - child
- The Aurai - child
- The Nephelai - child
- turned - The Titanides
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Teucer
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Thalassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 10
Primordial goddess of the sea. Mingled with Pontos (Pontus), her male counterpart, she produced the fish and other sea creatures. Thalassa was the literal body of the sea and in the fables of Aesop, manifests as a woman formed of sea-water rising from her native element.Life Stages: Protogenoi, Sea God
Relationships:
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Thallo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Goddess of spring buds and green shoots. Thallo was worshipped in Athens alongside the goddess Pandrosos (All-Dew).
Life Stages: Horai
Relationships:
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Thanatos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Daimon of non-violent death. His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos (Sleep).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Thaumas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 9, Pg 29
Sea god who personified the wonders of the sea.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
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The Algea
Status: alive
Biography: daimones) of pain and suffering--body and mind--, grief, sorrow and distress. They were the bringers of weeping and tears. The Algea were related to Oizys, the milder spirit of misery and sadness, and Penthos, the god of mourning and lamentation. Their opposite number were Hedone (Pleasure) and the Kharites (Charites, Joys).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Aloadae
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Otos and Ephialtes, Thessalian sons of Princess Iphimedia, wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon, From Aloeus, their stepfather, they received their patronymic, the Aloadae. They had a sister Pancratis (Pancrato) who was renowned for her great beauty. The Aloads were strong and aggressive giants, growing by nine fingers every month. Nine fathoms tall aged nine, they were only outshone in beauty by Orion.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Iphimedeia
- child - Poseidon
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The Amphilogiai
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Female spirits of disputes and altercations.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Androktasiai
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Androctasiae) Female spirits of battlefield slaughter. They were similar to the Keres and were the companions of other battlefield daimones such as Eris and the Makhai (Machae).
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Anemoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Gods of the four winds--namely Boreas the North-Wind, Zephryos (Zephyrus) the West, Notos (Notus) the South, and Euros (Eurus) the East. Each of these was associated with a season--Boreas was the cold breath of winter, Euros with the season of autumn, Zephyros the god of spring breezes, and Notos the god of summer rain-storms.
Life Stages: Anemoi, Sky God
Relationships:
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The Aurai
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: (Aurae) were nymphs of the breezes. They were daughters of either the earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus). In the story of Kephalos (Cephalus) the dawn-goddess Eos was portrayed as a singular Aura. Similarly, the Titan-goddess Aura was a single personification of the breeze.
Life Stages: Aurai Nymph
Relationships:
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The Charites
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Charites) Or Graces, were three goddesses of grace, beauty, adornment, joy, mirth, festivity, dance and song.
A number of younger Kharites presided over the other pleasures of life including play, amusement, banqueting, floral decoration, happiness, rest and relaxation.
The Kharites were attendants of the goddesses Aphrodite and Hera.Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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The Curetes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (The Kouretes) were gods of the wild mountainside, inventors of the rustic arts of metalworking, shepherding, hunting and beekeeping. They were also the first armoured warriors and gods of the orgiastic war-dance performed by the youths of Krete (Crete) and Euboia (Euboea). These younger Kouretes were hundred in number, they married their sister Meliai (Meliae) (Ash-Tree Nymphs) and from their branches fashioned the first spears.
Kelmis, Damnameneus, Delas, Skythes, Melisseus, and Pyrrhikhos to name a few.Relationships:
- Sokos - turned
- Haimonios - turned
- Pyrrhikhos - turned
- child - The Daktyloi
- child - The Hekaterides
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The Daktyloi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Rustic daimones appointed by Rhea to guard the infant god Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida in Krete (Crete). To keep the boy hidden from his cannibalistic father Kronos (Cronus), they drowned out his cries with a frenzied dance of clashing spear and shield.
The five Daktyloi (Dactyls) ("fingers") were usually regarded as identical to the Kouretes. These also had an equal number of sisters named Hekaterides (Hecaterides), who together appeared to have represented all ten fingers of the human hand--daktyloi being the Greek word for "fingers". The male and female Daktyloi were also joined in marriage, perhaps imagined as a harmonious "finger to finger" folding of the hands, and from this union were born the rustic Satyroi (Satyrs), Oreiades (Oreads) and tribes of Kouretes (Curetes) (the first Kretan men). These younger Kouretes were hundred in number, they married their sister Meliai (Meliae) (Ash-Tree Nymphs) and from their branches fashioned the first spears.Relationships:
- The Curetes - child
- The Satyroi - child
- The Oreiades - child
- child - Anchiale
- child - Hecaterus
- married - The Hekaterides
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The Danaides
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: 50 Daughters of Danaus and multiple women.
After Aegyptus commanded that his fifty sons should marry the Danaides, Danaus elected to flee instead. To that purpose, he built a ship on the advice of Athena, the first ship that ever was.
When Aegyptus and his fifty sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus gave them in order to spare the Argives the pain of a battle. However, he instructed his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night. Forty-nine followed through and subsequently buried the heads of their bridegrooms in Lerna; but one, Hypermnestra, refused because her husband, Lynceus, honored her wish to remain a virgin.
Danaus was angry with his disobedient daughter and threw her to the Argive courts. Aphrodite intervened and saved her. Lynceus and Hypermnestra then began a dynasty of Argive kings (the Danaid Dynasty).Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Amymone - turned
- Hypermnestra - turned
- child - Danaus
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The Erinyes
Status: alive
Biography: The Furies, were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury. Erinyes were born of just such a crime, being sprung from the blood of Ouranos (Uranus), when he was castrated by his son Kronos (Cronus). The goddesses were also servants of Haides and Persephone in the underworld where they oversaw the torture of criminals consigned to the Dungeons of the Damned.
Tisiphone, Megaira, and AlektoLife Stages: Chthonian God
Relationships:
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The Gigantes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: The Giants were a tribe of a hundred giants born of the earth-goddess Gaia.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
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The Gorgones
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 15
Three powerful, winged daimones named Medousa (Medusa), Sthenno and Euryale. Of the three sisters only Medusa was mortal.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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The Graiai
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 14
Hags who personified the white foam of the sea. They were grey-haired from birth and shared amongst themselves a single, detatchable eye and tooth. Pemphredo and EnyoLife Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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The Hamadryades
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: 8 daughters of Hamadryas and Oxylos
Aigeiros was the nymph of the black poplar (Populus nigra);
Ampelos the nymph of the vine--including the wild grape (Vitis silvestris), bryony (Bryonia creticus), black bryony (Tamus communis) and the wrack (Fucus volubilis);
Balanis the nymph of oak-trees--such as the holm oak (Quercus ilex) and prickly-cupped oak (Quercus aegilops);
Karya the nymph of the nut tree--both the hazel (Corylus avellana) and the walnut (Juglans regia), and perhaps also the sweet chestnut (Castanea vesca);
Kraneia the nymph of the cornelian cherry-tree (Cornus mas);
Morea the nymph of the mulberry tree (Morus nigra) or else the wild olive;
Ptelea the nymph of the European elm tree (Ulmus glabra);
and Syke the nymph of the fig tree (Ficus carica).Life Stages: Dryad Nymph
Relationships:
- Chrysopeleia / Erato - turned
- Eurydice - turned
- child - Hamadryas
- child - Oxylos
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The Harpies
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 32
Spirits of sudden, sharp gusts of wind, known as the hounds of Zeus and were despatched by the god to snatch away people and things from the earth. Sudden, mysterious disappearances were often attributed to the Harpyiai. The Harpyiai were depicted as winged women, sometimes with ugly faces, or with the lower bodies of birds. They were Okypete, Aello, and Podarge.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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The Hekaterides
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Hecaterides) were five nymphs of the rustic dance. They were sisters of the Daktyloi (Dactys) and the mothers of the Satyroi (Satyrs), Oreiades (Oread Nymphs) and Kouretes (Curetes).
Relationships:
- The Daktyloi - married
- The Curetes - child
- The Satyroi - child
- The Oreiades - child
- child - Anchiale
- child - Hecaterus
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The Hekatonkheires
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Hecatoncheires or Hekantonkheires) Each had a hundred hands for wielding clouds and fifty heads for blustering winds (theullai). They helped Zeus drive the elder gods from heaven down into the pit. The Hekatonkheires were then appointed as the prison's eternal wardens.
Bariareos, Kottos, Gyes.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
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The Heliadai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Sons of Hellios, took over the island Rhode after the Telchines.
Names: OKHIMOS, KERKAPHOS, MAKAR, AKTIS, TENAGES, TRIOPAS, KANDALOS, ELEKTRYONERelationships:
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The Heliades
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Seven nymph daughters of the sun-god Helios. When their brother Phaethon was struck from the chariot of the sun by Zeus, they gathered around his smoky grave on the banks of the River Eridanos and in their unrelenting grief were transformed into poplar-trees and their tears into golden amber.
Names: MEROPE, HELIE, AIGLE, LAMPETIA, PHOIBE, AETHERIE, DIOXIPPERelationships:
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The Horai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. They presided over the revolutions of the heavenly constellations by which the year was measured. The Horai also guarded the gates of Olympos and rallied the stars and constellations of heaven.
The Horai were particularly honoured by farmers who planted and tended their crops in time with the rising and setting of the stars--measures of the passing seasons. The three were usually named Eunomia (Good Order, Good Pasture), Eirene (Peace, Spring), and Dike (Justice) goddesses who individually represented the conditions required for farming prosperity.
Names: EUNOMIA, DIKE, EIRENE, THALLO, KARPO, AUXO, AUXESIA, DAMIALife Stages: Horai, Olympian
Relationships:
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The Horse of Ares
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: THE HIPPOI AREIOI (Horses of Ares) were four immortal horses named Aithon (Aethon), Phlogios (Phlogius), Konabos (Conabus) and Phobos (Phobus) which drew the chariot of the god Ares.
Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
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The Hyades
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: nymphs of the five stars of the constellation Hyades and daughters of the heavens-bearing Titan Atlas. After their brother Hyas was killed by a lion, the teary Hyades were set amongst the stars. The heliacal setting of their constellation in November marks the start of the rainy season in Greece and from this the nymphs were named "the Rainy Ones."
Names: PHAISYLE, KORONIS, KLEEIA (AMBROSIA), PHAIO(POLYXO), EUDORELife Stages: Star Nymph
Relationships:
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The Hydaspides
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 35
Naiad-nymphs of the river Hydaspes in India. They were nurses of the god Zagreus.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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The Hysminae
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Daimones of fighting and combat. As their sisters, the Makhai (Machae), presided over battlefield combat, the Hysminai must have been spirits of non-martial combat such as fist-fights, punch-ups and armed street-fights. Some poets conflate the two and have the Hysminiai attendant on the battlefield.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Kerkopes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Cercopes) were a pair of monkey-like thieves which plagued the land of Lydia in western Anatolia. They were once captured by Herakles who was so amused with their jokes that he set them free unharmed. The pair later ran afoul of the god Zeus who transformed them into monkeys, or else turned them to stone, as punishment for their crimes.
Names: Akmon and PassalosLife Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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The Kylopes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The elder Cyclopes were three, orb-eyed, immortal giants who forged the lightning-bolts of Zeus, Poseidon with his storm-raising trident, and Haides with a helm of invisibility. They were Brontes, Steropes, Arges and their sons Euryalos, Elatreus, Trakhios, and Halimedes.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
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The Laestrygones
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Were a tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus on his travels. Homer appears to place them somewhere in the far north, a land where the sun rose shortly after it set. Their name was derived from the Greek words laisêion, "raw hide" or "skin" and trygaô, "to gather."
Life Stages: Giant, Legendary Tribe
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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The Lykaonides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: 50 Sons of Lycaon and Nonakris. Lycaon sought to test the divinity of Zeus by serving the god a slaughtered child--either his son Nyktimos (Nyctimus), his grandson Arkas (Arcas), or a Molossian captive. Zeus was furious and overturning the table, destroyed the fifty sons of Lykaon with lightning-bolts, and transformed the king into a wolf.
. Lykaon was succeeded on the throne by his youngest son Nyktimos or grandson Arkas. Some say that Nyktimos was preserved by Gaia (the Earth) when his brothers were struck down by the lightning-bolts of Zeus, others that he was the child sacrificed by Lykaon who was afterwards resurrected by the gods (cf. the story of the sacrifice and resurrection of Pelops).Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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The Machae
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: (Makhai) Daimones of battle and combat.
The spirits Homados (Battle-Noise), Alala (War-Cry), Proioxis (Onrush), Palioxis (Backrush), Ioke (Onslaught), Alke (Battle-Strength), Poleos (War and Battle), and Kydoimos (Confusion) were probably numbered amongst the Makhai.Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Meliai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Oread-nymphs of mountain ash-tree, born of Gaia (Gaea, the Earth) when she was impregnated by the blood of the castrated Ouranos (Uranus, the Sky). They were the wives of the Silver Race of Man and mothers of the Bronze, the third generation of mankind. They nursed their sons on the honey-sap (Greek meli) of the ash, and armed them with spears crafted from the wood of their trees (Greek melia). The Bronze were an overly warlike race who incurred the wrath of Zeus and were destroyed in the floods of the Great Deluge.
Life Stages: Dryad Nymph, Meliai Nymph
Relationships:
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The Moirai
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: THE MOIRAI (Moirae) were the three goddesses of fate who personified the inescapable destiny of man. They assigned to every person his or her fate or share in the scheme of things. Their name means "Parts." "Shares" or "Alottted Portions." The individuals were Klotho (Clotho), the "the Spinner," who spun the thread of life, Lakhesis (Lachesis), "the Apportioner of Lots", who measured it, and Atropos (or Aisa), "She who cannot be turned," who cut it short. Zeus Moiragetes, the god of fate, was their leader. At the birth of a man, the Moirai spinned out the thread of his future life, followed his steps, and directed the consequences of his actions according to the counsel of the gods.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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The Mousai
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: (Muses) The goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass. Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres: Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry; Kleio (Clio), history; Ourania (Urania), astronomy; Thaleia (Thalia), comedy; Melpomene, tragedy; Polymnia (Polyhymnia), religious hymns; Erato, erotic poetry; Euterpe, lyric poetry; and Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), choral song and dance.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
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The Naiads
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography:
Nymphs of rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs. They were minor goddesses who attended the assemblies of the gods on Mount Olympos.
The Naiad nymphs were sometimes classified by domain:--
(1) Pegaiai (Pegaeae) were the nymphs of springs;
(2) Krenaiai (Crenaeae) were naiads of fountains;
(3) Potameides presided over rivers and streams;
(4) Limnades and Limnatides inhabited lakes; and
(5) Heleionomai were the nymphs of marshes and wetlands.
Naiades, in conjunction with the goddess Artemis, were nurses of the young and the protectors of girls, overseeing their safe passage from child to adult. Apollon and the River-Gods were the complimentary guardians of boys.
In myth many Naiades were the wives of kings and hold a prominent place in the royal genealogies. Others, such as the beautiful daughters of the River Asopos, were loved by the gods. They often gave their names to towns, cities and islands, and as such were surely regarded as the goddess-protectors of a settlement's main water supply such as a spring, fountain, or well.
Of the various types of Naiad, the Pegaiai (of Springs) and the Krinaiai (of Fountains) were the ones most often individualised and worshipped. Those whose waters were believed to possess some special property might even have proper shrines and cults. Examples of these include the Anigrides of Elis whose waters were believed to cure disease and the Nymphs of Mount Helikon and Delphoi whose springs were thought to be fonts of poetic and prophetic inspiration.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Strymo Rhoio - turned
- Astyokhe - turned
- Abarbaree - turned
- Aegina - turned
- Neaira - turned
- Hegetoria - turned
- Okyrhoe - turned
- Nonakris - turned
- Kleokhareia - turned
- Teledice - turned
- Euboea - turned
- Kloniê - turned
- Askre - turned
- Chione - turned
- Praxithea - turned
- Zeuxippe - turned
- child - The Potamoi
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The Neikae
Status: alive
Biography: Daimones of quarrels, feuds, and grievances.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Nephelai
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: (Nephelae) were the Okeanid-nymphs of clouds and rain. They arose from the earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus) bearing water in cloudy pitchers. Nephelai fed the streams of their River-God brothers with rain and nourished the earth.
Life Stages: Nephelai
Relationships:
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The Nereides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 12
the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris
AGAUE (Agave) A Nereid whose name means "the illustrious."
AKTAIA (Actaea) The Nereid of the "sea-shore."
AMATHEIA (Amathea) One of the Nereides, the one who "rears or nurses" the fish. describeed as having azure locks luxuriant.
AMPHINOME A Nereid of the sea's bounty, literally "she of the surrounding pasture."
AMPHITHOE A Nereid of the sea currents, named "she who moves swiftly around."
AMPHITRITE The Nereid Queen of the sea, the "surrounding third," wife of the god Poseidon. Together with her sisters Kymatolege and Kymodoke she possessed the power to still the winds and calm the sea.
APSEUDES She who never lives
AUTONOE A Nereid named "with her own mind, giver of inspiration"
DERO One of the Nereides.
DEXAMENE One of the Nereides, "of the strength of the right hand."
DIONE One of the Nereides, "the divine."
DORIS The Nereid of the sea's "bounty" or else the mixing of fresh water with the brine.
DOTO The Nereid of "giving" safe voyage or generous catch. She had a shrine in the town of Gabala.
DYNAMENE The Nereid of the sea's "power." Had the power to disappear.
EIONE The Nereis of the "beach strand."
ERATO A Nereid named "the lovely.".
EUAGORE (Evagora) The Nereid of the "good assembling" of fish or perhaps navy ships.
EUARNE (Evarne) One of the Nereides, "lovely of shape and without blemish of form of marble rocks."
EUDORA The Nereid of the "fine gifts" or the sea.
EUKRANTE (Eucrante) The Nereid of "successful" voyages or fishing.
EULIMENE The Nereid of "good harbourage."
EUMOLPE A Nereid, perhaps of fisherman's songs, named "the fine singer."
EUNIKE (Eunice) The Nereid of "fine victory" in a martime sense. Also "rosy-armed" She is described as leaping and dancing from wave to wave.
EUPOMPE The Nereid of "the fine procession," perhaps with reference to religious journeys to thei sland shrines.
GALATEIA (Galatea) The Nereid of "the milky white" sea-foam. She was loved by the Kyklops Polyphemos.
GALENE The Nereid of the "calm" seas.
GLAUKE (Glauce) The Nereid of the "blue-grey" waters.
GLAUKONOME (Glauconome) The Nereid of the "mastering the grey" sea. and fond of laughter
HALIA The Nereid of the "brine." ox-eyed
HALIMEDE The Nereid "lady of the brine." the sea-goddess of good counsel
HIPPONOE The Nereid "who knows about horses," that is, of the waves.
HIPPOTHOE The Nereid of "the swift horses," that is, swift waves. lovely
IAIRA (Iaera) One of the Nereides. 'the honeyed'
IANASSA One of the Nereides. 'wedded voice'
Ligea She was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene. Ligeia was described to have bright, waving locks
KALLIANASSA (Callianassa) One of the Nereides, "the lovely queen."
KALLIANEIRA (Callianeira) One of the Nereides.
KETO (Ceto) The Nereid of "sea-monsters."
KLYMENE (Clymene) A Nereid of "fame."
KYMO, KYMATOLEGE (Cymo, Cymatolege) A Nereid named the "wave" or the "end of waves" wh,o with her sisters Amphitrite and Kymodoke, had the power to still the winds and calm the sea.
KYMODOKE (Cymodoce) The Nereid of "steadying the waves" who, with her sisters Amphitrite and Kymatolege, possessed the power to still the winds and calm the sea.
KYMOTHOE (Cymothoe) The Nereis of the "running waves." "cerulean" Nereid of gentle and quiet waves. Cymothoe and the sea-god Glaucus rescued Helle when she fell from the golden ram.
LAOMEDEIA The Nereid "leader of the folk."
LEAGORE The Nereid of "assembling" the schools of fish.
LIMNOREIA The Nereid of the "salt-marsh."
LYSIANASSA The Nereid of "royal delivery."
MELITE The Nereid of "calm" seas.
MENIPPE The Nereid of "strong horses," that is, strong waves.
NAUSITHOE The Nereis of "swift ships."
NEMERTES The Nereis of "unerring" counsel, wisest of the sisters.
NESAIE The Nereid of "islands."
NESO The Nereid of "islands."
OREITHYIA (Orithyia) The Nereid of the "raging" sea.
PANOPEIA The Nereid of the sea's "panorama."
PASITHEA A Nereid named "all-divine."
PHEROUSA (Pherusa) The Nereid of "carrying" fish, or perhaps rescued sailors.
PLEXAURE The Nereid of the "twisting breeze."
PLOTO The Nereid of "sailing."
POLYNOME One of the Nereides, "the many pastured."
PONTOMEDOUSA (Pondomedusa) A Nereid named the "sea-queen."
PONTOPOREIA The Nereid of "crossing the sea."
POULYNOE (Polynoe) A Nereid named "rich of mind."
PRONOE The Nereid of "forethought."
PROTO The Nereis of the "first" voyage.
PROTOMEDEIA A Nereid named "first queen."
PSAMATHE The Nereis "goddess of sand."
SAO The Nereid of "safe" passage, or the rescue of sailors.
SPEIO (Spio) The Nereid of the sea "caves."
THALEIA (Thalia) The Nereid of the "blooming" sea.
THEMISTO The Nereis of the "customary law" of the sea.
THETIS The Nereis of the "generation" or spawning of fish, and their leader. She was the mother of the Greek hero Akhilleus, born of her marriage to the mortal Peleus.
THOE The Nereis of "swift" voyage or moving waves.Life Stages: Nereid
Relationships:
- Galateia - turned
- Amphitrite - turned
- Iphianassa - turned
- Psamathe - turned
- child - Doris
- child - Nereus
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The Oceanids
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Nymphs of rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs. They were minor goddesses who attended the assemblies of the gods on Mount Olympos.
The Naiad nymphs were sometimes classified by domain:-- (1) Pegaiai (Pegaeae) were the nymphs of springs; (2) Krenaiai (Crenaeae) were naiads of fountains; (3) Potameides presided over rivers and streams; (4) Limnades and Limnatides inhabited lakes; and (5) Heleionomai were the nymphs of marshes and wetlands.
Naiades, in conjunction with the goddess Artemis, were nurses of the young and the protectors of girls, overseeing their safe passage from child to adult. Apollon and the River-Gods were the complimentary guardians of boys.
In myth many Naiades were the wives of kings and hold a prominent place in the royal genealogies. Others, such as the beautiful daughters of the River Asopos, were loved by the gods. They often gave their names to towns, cities and islands, and as such were surely regarded as the goddess-protectors of a settlement's main water supply such as a spring, fountain, or well.
Of the various types of Naiad, the Pegaiai (of Springs) and the Krinaiai (of Fountains) were the ones most often individualised and worshipped. Those whose waters were believed to possess some special property might even have proper shrines and cults. Examples of these include the Anigrides of Elis whose waters were believed to cure disease and the Nymphs of Mount Helikon and Delphoi whose springs were thought to be fonts of poetic and prophetic inspiration.Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Styx - turned
- Klymene - turned
- Ceto - turned
- Perseis - turned
- Clytie - turned
- Clymene - turned
- Pleione - turned
- Pronoia - turned
- Philyre - turned
- Eurynome - turned
- Kallirhoe - turned
- Melia - turned
- Neaera - turned
- Polyxo - turned
- Deino - turned
- Metis - turned
- Eidyia - turned
- Doris - turned
- child - Oceanus
- child - Tethys
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The Oneiroi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Dark-winged spirits (daimones) of dreams which emerged each night like a flock of bats from their cavernous home in Erebos--the land of eternal darkness beyond the rising sun. The Oneiroi passed through one of two gates (pylai). The first of these, made of horn, was the source of the prophetic god-sent dreams, while the other, constructed of ivory, was the source of dreams which were false and without meaning. The term for nightmare was melas oneiros (black dream).
According to some the leader of the Oneiroi was Morpheus, a god who appeared in the dreams of kings in the guise of a man bearing messages from the gods.Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Nyx
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The Oreiades
Status: alive
Biography: The nymphs of trees, groves, woodlands and mountain forests. They were the spirits of the oaks and pines, poplar and ash, apple and laurel. For those known as Hamadryades, a tree was born with her birth to which her life was tied. While the tree flourished, so did its resident nymph, but when it died she passed away.
The Oreiades (Oreads) were nymphs of the mountain conifers. The eldest of these were daughters of the five Daktyloi (Dactyls) and five Hekaterides (Hecaterides). Subsequent generations were descended from these elder Oreiades and their brother Satyroi (Satyrs).
N.B. In ancient Greece most of the forests were located on the slopes of the rugged hills and mountains, sas the majority of the lowland forest had been cleared for farming. It was therefore natural for the Greeks to think of Dryades as mountain-dwellers.Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Kombe - turned
- Echo - turned
- child - The Daktyloi
- child - The Hekaterides
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The Palikoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Rustic Daimones twins of the geysers and hot-springs in Sicily. Presided over the oaths sworn upon their springs and provided refuge to escaped slaves in their sanctuary. Father- Hephestes
Life Stages: Daimon, Rustic
Relationships:
- child - Aitna
- child - Hephaestus
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The Phonoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Daimones of murder, killing and slaughter. Their sisters, the Androktasiai, presided over battlefield slaughter while the Phonoi were spirits of murder and killing outside of war.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Pleiades
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Seven mountain-nymph daughters of the Titan Atlas. Their leader was Maia the mother of Hermes by Zeus. Five of the other Pleiades were also loved by gods becoming ancestresses of various royal families including those of Sparta and Troy. When they were pursued by the lustful giant Orion, Zeus placed them amongst the stars as the constellation Pleiades.
Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
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The Potamoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Gods of the rivers and streams of the earth, all sons of the great earth-encirling river Okeanos (Oceanus). The River-God was depicted in one of three forms:--as a man-headed bull; a bull-horned man with the tail of a serpentine-fish in place of legs; or as a reclining man with an arm resting upon a pitcher pouring water.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- The Naiads - child
- Skamandros - turned
- Simoeis - turned
- Aisepos - turned
- Asopos - turned
- Kephisos - turned
- Kebren - turned
- Ladon - turned
- Neilos - child
- Alpheus - turned
- Enipeus - turned
- Inachus - turned
- Strymon - turned
- Asterion - turned
- Ismenus - turned
- Sperkheios - turned
- Akheloios - turned
- Pactolus - turned
- Meander - turned
- child - Oceanus
- child - Tethys
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The Pseudologoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Daimones of lies and falsehoods. Their opposites were Alatheia, spirit of truth, and Pistis, the spirit of honesty. They were said to also of been built by Dolos, apprentice of Prometheus, in Aesop Fables.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
- child - Eris
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The Satyroi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Satyrs) were rustic fertility spirits of the countryside and wilds. They consorted with the Nymphai (Nymphs) and were companions of the gods Dionysos, Hermes, Hephaistos, Pan, Rhea-Kybele and Gaia.
Some of the more specific types of Satyroi were the Panes (goat-legged satyrs), Seilenoi (Silens) (elderly satyrs), Satyriskoi (Satyrisci) (child satyrs), and Tityroi (flute-playing satyrs).Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
- child - The Daktyloi
- child - The Hekaterides
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The Seilenoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: They were sons of the elder Seilenos (Silenus).
Maron a rustic Silen, god of Maroneia in Thrake-- one of the finest wine-producing regions in the ancient world. He was also the charioteer of the god Dionysos.
Lenus a Seilen god of grape-treading and the dance of the wine trough (lenôs). He was one of the three Seilen sons of the elder god Seilenos (Silenus).
Leneus was probably the father of the Lenai (Lenae)--satyr-like, wine-making daimones in the retinue of the god Dionysos.
Astraios the Starry One" was a demi-god of nocturnal bacchic revelries.Life Stages: Rustic, Saytr
Relationships:
- child - Silenos
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The Seirenes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Three monstrous sea-nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song. They were formerly handmaidens of the goddess Persephone and when she was secretly abducted by Haides, Demeter gave them the bodies of birds to assist in the search. They eventually gave up and settled on the flowery island of Anthemoessa. The Seirenes were encountered by the Argonauts who passed by unharmed with the help of the poet Orpheus who drowned out their music with song. Odysseus later sailed by, bound tightly to the mast, while his men blocked their ears with wax. The Seirenes were so distressed to see a man hear their song and still escape that they threw themselves into the sea and drowned.
The Seirenes were depicted as birds with either the heads or entire upper bodies of women. In mosaic art they were depicted with just bird legs.
Names: THELXIOPE-THELXINOE, MOLPE, AGLAOPHONOSLife Stages: Beast
Relationships:
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The Spartoi
Status: alive
Biography:
THE SPARTOI (Sparti) were a tribe of warlike, earth-born men which sprang fully grown and armed for battle from the sown teeth of a Drakon (Dragon) sacred to the war-god Ares.
The first of the Spartoi were sown by the hero Kadmos (Cadmus) from the teeth of the Drakon of the Ismenian Spring of Thebes. As they were sprouting from the earth, he cast a stone amongst them and they fell to fighting. The five survivors afterwards assisted Kadmos in founding the city of Thebes.
A second batch of Spartoi was sown by Iason (Jason) in the fields of Kolkhis (Colchis) on the Black Sea--a task demanded of him by King Aeetes in his quest for the Golden Fleece. Like Kadmos Iason threw a stone amongst the sprouting warriors and they slew one another in battle.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Echion - turned
- surrogate - Cadmus
- built - Drakon Kholkikos
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The Themeides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Three nymph daughters of the goddess Themis who were the keepers of certain artifacts of the gods.
They may have been goddesses of the oracle of Dodona, divine counterparts of the Peleiades--the three elderly prophetesses of the shrine. Their mother Themis certainly possessed a temple in the sanctuary.Relationships:
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The Titanes
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: The Titans were six elder gods named Kronos (Cronus), Koios (Coeus), Krios (Crius), Iapetos (Iapetus), Hyperion and Okeanos (Oceanus) who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians came to power.
Relationships:
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The Titanides
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: They were the female counterparts of the Titanes--the primal gods of time, divinities of both Heaven and the Tartarean pit, the cosmic inverse of heaven.
The Titanides represented different aspects of their mother Gaia the Earth: Tethys was the nourishing waters of subterranean springs and the nurse of all life; Rheia was nature's fertile mother, and lady of the wilds; Themis was earth's natural order, and prophetic voice; Phoibe (Phoebe) was earth's oracular midpoint (Delphi); Theia was sight, the all-seeing and all-knowing earth; Mnemosyne was memory, the preservation of earthly history.
MNEMOSYNE The elder Titanis-goddess of goddess of memory, words and language. She was the mother by Zeus of the nine Mousai (Muses).
PHOIBE (Phoebe) The elder Titanis-goddess of intellect and the Oracle of Delphoi (Delphi). She was the grandmother of the god Apollon.
RHEIA (Rhea) The Queen of the Titanes (Titans) and goddess of female fertility and the wild mountains. She rescued her infant son Zeus from the maw of Kronos (Cronus) who had devoured her other five children.
TETHYS The elder Titanis-goddess of nursing and the underground sources of fresh-water. She was the mother of the Rivers and Springs.
THEIA The elder Titanis-goddess of sight and the precious value of gold, silver and gemstones. She was the mother of Sun, Moon and Dawn.
THEMIS The elder Titanis-goddess of natural order, divine law and tradition, and the oracles of the earth. She was the mother by Zeus of the Fates and Seasons.
The Titanides also represented various human and animal qualities: Tethys was the nursing mother; Rhea female fertility; Themis natural order and custom (implying instinct in animals); Phoibe intelligence, the mind; Theia sight; and Mnemosyne memory, learning.
Many of them were oracular in natureLife Stages: Titan
Relationships:
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The Trojan Horses
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: THE HIPPOI TROIADES (Trojan Horses) were twelve immortal horses possessed by the kings of Troy. According to some they were they were sired by the North-Wind upon the mares of the Trojan King Erikhthonios (Erichthonius). According to others Zeus gave them to King Laomedon as compensation for the theft of Ganymedes.
Laomedon later promised the horses to Herakles as a reward for the rescue of his daughter Hesione from a sea-monster. But the king afterwards reneged on his promise and the hero laid siege to the city and took them by force.Life Stages: Immortal Horse
Relationships:
- child - Boreas
- child - Horses of Erechtheus
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The Twelve Horai
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Goddesses of the hours of the day (and perhaps also the twelve months of the year). They guided the path of the sun-god Helios as he journeyed across the sky, dividing the day into portions.
The ancient Greeks did not have hours of fixed length as we do today. Instead they divided the hours of daylight into twelve portions identified by the position of the sun in the sky. Thus the length of the hour varied between the longer days of summer and shorter ones of winter.
Names: AUGE, ANATOLE, MOUSIKA, GYMNASTIKA, NYMPHE, MESEMBRIA, SPONDE, ELETE, AKTE, HESPERIS, DYSISLife Stages: Sky God
Relationships:
- child - Helios
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Theia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of the Aithiopian (Ethiopian) king Memnon and mother of the Cercopes.
Relationships:
- The Kerkopes - child
- child - Memnon
- partner - Oceanus
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Theia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan goddess of sight and the shining ether of the bright, blue sky. She was also, by extension, the goddess who endowed gold and silver with their brilliance and intrinsic value. She was also named Aithre (Aethra) "Blue-Sky" and Euryphaessa "Wide-Shining".
Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- Hyperion - married
- Helios - child
- Selene - child
- Eos - child
- turned - The Titanides
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Themis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Titan goddess of divine law and order--the traditional rules of conduct first established by the gods. She was also a prophetic goddess who presided over the most ancient oracles, including Delphoi (Delphi). In this role, she was the divine voice (themistes) who first instructed mankind in the primal laws of justice and morality, such as the precepts of piety, the rules of hospitality, good governance, conduct of assembly, and pious offerings to the gods. In Greek, the word themis referred to divine law, those rules of conduct long established by custom. Unlike the word nomos, the term was not usually used to describe laws of human decree.
Themis was an early bride of Zeus and his first counsellor. She was often represented seated beside his throne advising him on the precepts of divine law and the rules of fate.Life Stages: Titan
Relationships:
- The Horai - child
- The Themeides - child
- turned - The Titanides
- married - Zeus
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Themiste
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Relationships:
-
Theraephone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olenian princess as the daughter of King Dexamenus of Olenus and the twin sister of Theronice. These maidens were wed to the Molionides, Cteatus and Eurytus. Theraephone's son by the latter was Thalpius, one of the Achaean Leaders.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
-
Theronice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Olenian princess as the daughter of King Dexamenus and the twin sister of Theraephone. These maidens were wed to the Molionides, Eurytus and Cteatus. Theronice's son by the latter was Amphimachus, one of the Achaean Leaders.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
-
Thersanon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Argonaut from Andros
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
-
Thestius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Pleuronians in Aetolia. Thestius was the father of Iphiclus by Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea, who was the mother of his other children, Althaea, Eurypylus, Evippus, Hypermnestra, Leda and Plexippus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurythemis - married
- Leda - child
- Althaea - child
- child - Ares
- child - Demonice
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Thoosa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 23
The sea-nymph mother of the Kyklops (Cyclops) Polyphemos by the god Poseidon.Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- Polyphemos - child
- Poseidon - partner
- child - Keto
- child - Phorkys
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Thronia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of King Belus of Egypt, and the mother of Arabus, the eponym of Arabia, by Hermes.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
-
Tithonus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The Trojan prince Tithonos became her official consort. When the goddess petitioned Zeus for his immortality, she neglected also to request eternal youth. In time he shrivelled up by old age and transformed into a grasshopper.
Relationships:
- Eos - partner
- Memnon - child
- Emathion - child
- child - Laomedon
- child - Strymo Rhoio
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Tithonus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Married Eos, NOT THE SON OF CEPHALUS THE AEOLIAN PRINCE, BUT CEPHALUS OF ATHENS
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Tmolos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: God of Mt. Lydia, was appointed as a judge of a musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas.
Life Stages: Mountian God, Ourea, Rustic
Relationships:
- turned - Ourea
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Triopas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Argos and son of Phorbas. His daughter was Messene.
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Messene - child
- child - Euboea
- child - Phorbaceus
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Triopas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Thessaly, and son of Poseidon and princess Canace, daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia. Triopas was the husband of Myrmidon's daughter Hiscilla. He destroyed a temple of Demeter in order to obtain materials for roofing his own house, and was punished by insatiable hunger as well as being plagued by a snake which inflicted illness on him. Eventually Demeter placed him and the snake among the stars as the constellation Ophiuchus to remind others of his crime and punishment. A city in Caria was named Triopion after him.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hiscilla - married
- Iphimedeia - child
- child - Canace
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Triptolemos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: demi-god of the Eleusinian mysteries who presided over the sowing of grain-seed and the milling of wheat.
He was one of the Eleusinian princes who hospitably received the goddess Demeter when she was mourning the loss of her daughter. After Persephone was returned from the underworld Demeter, in her munificence, instructed Triptolemos in the ways of agriculture and provided him with a winged, serpent-drawn chariot to spread her gift across the earth. He travelled through many lands but when he reached the cold realm of the Skythians, King Lynkos (Lyncus) slew one of his dragon-serpents and drove the hero away. Deventer transformed the king into a lynx and denied the Skythians the gift of agriculture.
In ancient Greek vase painting Triptolemos is usually depicted seated on his winged chariot in the company of the goddesses Demeter.Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III, Agrarian God, Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Triteia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A sea-nymph of the Korinthian (Corinthian) Gulf and the town of Triteia in Akhaia (Achaea) (southern Greece). She was loved by the god Ares and bore him a son named Melanippos, the founding-prince of her namesake town.
Life Stages: Haliae
Relationships:
- child - Triton
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Triton
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A fish-tailed sea-god, the son and herald of Poseidon who stilled the waves with his conch-shell trumpet.
Triton was also described as the god of the Tritonis, a large salt-lake in Libya. When the Argonauts found themselves stranded in the middle of the desert he helped them find passage from the lake back to the sea.
Triton was often multiplied into a host of sea-spirits called Tritones which were regarded as satyr-like daimones (spirits) of the sea.Life Stages: Sea God
Relationships:
- Pallas - child
- Triteia - child
- Kalliste - child
- child - Amphitrite
- child - Poseidon
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Trokhilos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, Tree III
Relationships:
- Eleusis - married
- Triptolemos - child
- Karmanor - child
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Tros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous founding-king of the city Troy
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Tyndareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Spartan king. He married the Aetolian princess, Leda, by whom he became the father of Castor, Clytemnestra, Timandra, Phoebe and Philonoe, and the stepfather of Helen of Troy and Pollux.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Typhoeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Typhon) was a monstrous storm-giant who laid siege to heaven but was defeated by Zeus and imprisoned in the pit of Tartaros. He was the source of devastating storms which issued forth from that dark nether-realm.
Zeus defeated the Titans. But afterwards, Gaia, in union with Tartarus, bore the youngest of her sons Typhon, who would be the last challenge to the authority of Zeus.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- Orthos - child
- Kerberos - child
- Hydra Lernaia - child
- Khimaira - child
- Hus Krommyon - child
- Drakon Kholkikos - child
- Drakones Troiades - child
- Anemoi Thuellai - child
- partner - Ekhidna
- child - Gaea
- child - Tartarus
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Tyro
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Thessalian princess who fell in love with the river Enipeus. As she was sitting on the banks of the river, Poseidon seduced her in the guise of the river-god. She bore him twin sons, Pelias and Neleus, which she left in the wilderness to die. The infants were found and rescued by passing herdsmen who raised them as their own. Tyro's father Salmoneus later married her to his brother Kretheus (Cretheus), King of Iolkos (Iolcus), and she bore him three sons. Upon reaching manhood the sons of Poseidon returned to their mother and seized control of their uncle's Kretheus' kingdom. They also slew his second wife Sidero who had been mistreating Tyro.
There were several alternate versions of her story. In one, after Tyro revealed she was pregnant by the god, her father Salmoneus refused to believe her, suspecting that his wicked brother Sisyphos was involved. He commanded her to expose the children as soon as they were born.
In yet another version, Sisyphos fathered two children by Tyro after learning that these sons would grow up to kill Salmoneus. When this was revealed Tyro, out of loyalty to her father, put the infants to death.
Tyro was the ancestress of many of the great heroes of myth. Her grandsons included the seer Melampos and the Argonauts Jason, Admetos, Akastos (Acastus), Iphiklos (Iphiclus) and Periklymenos (Periclymenus). Several of her great-grandsons fought in the Trojan War.
According to Diodorus Siculus Tyro's name was derived from the Greek word tyrôs "like cheese" for her complexion was said to be as fair as white goat cheese.Life Stages: Hero, Mortal
Relationships:
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Urania
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Muse of astronomy and astrology. In ancient art, her attributes include the globe and the pointer.
Life Stages: Olympian
Relationships:
- Poseidon - partner
- Amphimarus - child
- turned - The Mousai
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Xanthippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Dorus, son of Apollo and Phthia. She was the wife of King Pleuron and mother by him of Agenor, Sterope, Stratonice and Laophonte.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Xuthus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Phthian prince who later became a king of Peloponnesus. He was the founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations. He had two sons, Ion and Achaeus, and a daughter named Diomede by Creusa, the Athenian daughter of King Erechtheus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Zagreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: ZAGREUS, "the first-born Dionysos," was a god of the Orphic Mysteries. He was a son of Zeus and Persephone who had been seduced by the god in the guise of a serpent. Zeus placed Zagreus upon the throne of heaven and armed him with his lightning bolts. The Titanes, incited by the jealous goddess Hera, sneaked into Olympos and offered the boy a collection of toys, tricking him into setting aside the lightning. They then seized and dismembered him with their knives. Zeus recovered Zagreus' heart and made it into a potion for Semele to inbibe who then conceived and gave birth to the second Dionysos as a reincarnation of the first.
The genitals of Zagreus were later recovered by the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri), two demigods of the island of Samothrake. They deposited these in a sacred cave on the isle and instituted the Samothrakian Mysteries in honour of the dead god.Life Stages: Chthonian God
Relationships:
- child - Hades
- child - Persephone
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Zelos
Status: alive
Biography: (Zelus) Daimon of rivalry, emulation, jealousy, envy and zeal. He and his siblings, Nike (Victory), Bia (Force) and Kratos (Cratus, Strength), were the winged enforcers of Zeus who stood in attendance of his throne.
Life Stages: Daimon
Relationships:
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Zephyrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The god of the west wind, one of the four seasonal Anemoi.
Life Stages: Anemoi, Sky God
Relationships:
- Podarge - affair
- Balios and Xanthos - child
- Horses of the Dioscuri - child
- Iris - partner
- Pothos - child
- Hedylogos - child
- Khloris - married
- Karpo - child
- Auxesia - child
- Hegemone - child
- Damia - child
- Thallo - child
- turned - The Anemoi
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Zetes and Kalais
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Winged sons of Boreas and Oreithyia, sailed wit5th Jason, they met their end chasing the Harpies or killed by Herakles.
Relationships:
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Zeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Olympian, Sky God
Relationships:
- Themis - married
- The Horai - child
- The Themeides - child
- Mnemosyne - partner
- The Mousai - child
- Persephone - child
- Britomartis - parent
- Hebe - child
- Ares - child
- Eileithyia - child
- The Charites - child
- Callisto - pollinated
- Arkas - child
- Aethlius - child
- Pelasgos - child
- Argos - child
- Leda - pollinated
- Pollux - child
- Europa - pollinated
- Minos - child
- Io - pollinated
- Epaphus - child
- Eurymedousa - partner
- Myrmidon - child
- Danaë - pollinated
- Perseus - child
- Tantalus - child
- Akheilos - child
- Lamia - pollinated
- Leto - pollinated
- Apollo - child
- Artemis - child
- Athena - child
- Arcesius - adopted
- Hermes - child
- Electra - partner
- Dardanos - child
- Iasion - child
- Dionysos - child
- partner - Demeter
- married - Eurynome
- married - Hera
- child - Kronos
- partner - Maia
- partner - Niobe
- partner - Pluto
- partner - Protogeneia
- child - Rhea
- partner - Semele
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Zeuxippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad nymph of Athens and the mother of Erechtheus, Butes, Procne, Philomela and possibly Teuthras by King Pandion I. She was the sister of Praxithea.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Cerops II - child
- Erechtheus - child
- married - Pandion
- turned - The Naiads