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Aba
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the springs, well or fountain of the town of Ergiske in Kikonia (Ciconia), Thrake (Thrace). She was the mother of the town's eponymous founder Ergiskos (Ergiscus) by Poseidon.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Acaste
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Along with several of her Oceanid sisters, one of the companions of Persephone who were picking flowers with her when she was abducted by Hades.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
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Achaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of Achaea. Achaeus was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea and Larissa, daughter of Pelasgus, the son of Triopas, meaning he is of Argive descent through his mother's parentage. He is the brother of Phthius and Pelasgus.
Together with his brothers Phthius and Pelasgus, they left Achaean Argos with a Pelasgian contingent for Thessaly. They then established a colony on the said country naming it after themselves. The only source of the accounts of Achaeus is recounted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Roman Antiquities about the Pelasgian race's migration in connection with Achaeus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Achelous
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Callirhoe - child
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Admetus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Pherae in Thessaly. Admetus succeeded his father Pheres after whom the city was named. His mother was identified as Periclymene. He was one of the Argonauts and took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt. Admetus' wife Alcestis offered to substitute her own death for his. The most famous of Admetus's children was Eumelus, who led a contingent from Pherae to fight in the Trojan War. He also had a daughter Perimele.
Life Stages: Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Alcestis - married
- Eumelus - child
- Perimele - child
- child - Periclymene
- child - Pheres
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Adrastus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
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Aegaeides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (THE AIGAIIDES) Naiad-nymph of the River Aigaios (Aegaeus) in Skheria (Scheria)--the mythical island home of the Phaiakes (Phaeacians).
Skheria was sometimes identified with Korkyra (Corcyra) on the north-western coast of Greece.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Aegaeus
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Aegaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (AIGAIOS) A river-god of Skherie (Scheria), the mythical island home of the Phaiakes (Phaeacians).
The Phaiakian island was sometimes identified as Black Korkyra (Corcyra).Life Stages: Potamoi
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Aerope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Cretan princess as the daughter of Catreus, king of Crete. She was the sister of Clymene, Apemosyne and Althaemenes. After an oracle said he would be killed by one of his children, Catreus gave Aerope to Nauplius to be sold abroad. Nauplius spared her, and she became the wife of Atreus or Pleisthenes (or both). By most accounts, she is the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus. While the wife of Atreus, she became the lover of his brother Thyestes, and gave Thyestes the golden lamb that allowed him to become king of Mycenae.
Nauplius spared her, and she became the wife of Atreus or Pleisthenes (or both). By most accounts, she is the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus. While the wife of Atreus, she became the lover of his brother Thyestes, and gave Thyestes the golden lamb that allowed him to become king of Mycenae.Life Stages: Mortal
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Agamemnon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War. He was the son (or grandson) of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Iphigenia, Iphianassa, Electra, Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. Legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. gamemnon was killed upon his return from Troy by Clytemnestra, or in an older version of the story, by Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus.
Life Stages: Hero, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Orestes - child
- child - Aerope
- child - Atreus
- married - Clytemnestra
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Akis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 26
A river-god of eastern Sikelia (Sicily). He was originally a Sikelian (Sicilian) youth loved by the Nereid Galateia whose jealous rival, the Kyklops (Cyclops) Polyphemos, killed him with the cast of a boulder. The gods in pity transformed the dying youth into a river.
The Akis stream flowed down into the Mediterranean from the slopes of Mount Aitna (Etna) near the town of Akion (Acium). Other personified Sikelian rivers included the Symaithos (Symaethus) and Anapos to the south, and Krimisos (Crimisus) in the west.Life Stages: Potamoi
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Alcestis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A princess of Iolcus known for her love of her husband. Her life story was described by Pseudo-Apollodorus in his Bibliotheca, and a version of her death and return from the dead was also popularized by Euripides' tragedy Alcestis. Alcestis was the fairest among the daughters of Pelias, king of Iolcus, and Phylomache. She was sister to Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia and Hippothoe. Alcestis was the wife of Admetus by whom she bore a son, Eumelus, a participant in the siege of Troy, and a daughter, Perimele.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eumelus - child
- Perimele - child
- married - Admetus
- child - Pelias
- child - Philomache
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Alcmaeon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Epigoni, was the leader of the Argives who attacked Thebes, taking the city in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven against Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing. Alcmaeon was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and brother of Amphilochus. He had many progeny by different women including Clytius by Alphesiboea or Arsinoe, daughter of Phegeus; Amphoterus and Acarnan by Callirhoe, daughter of Achelous and lastly Amphilochus and Tisiphone by Manto, daughter of Tiresias.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Callirhoe - partner
- child - Amphiaraus
- child - Eriphyle
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Aleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
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Alexirrhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Mother of Carmanor by Dionysus.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Alpos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A monstrous Sicilian giant slain by the god Dionysos. He had vipers for hair and multiple sets of arms.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Amphiaraus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
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Amphictyon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Thermopylae and later Athens. In one account, he was the ruler of Locris. Amphictyon was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous (born from the earth).
Amphictyon had a son, Itonus, who in his turn became the father of Boeotus, Iodame, Metanira, and Chromia by Melanippe. Some added that Amphictyon had another son, Physcus, by Chthonopatra, daughter of his brother Hellen. However, others stated that Physcus was the grandson of Amphictyon through Aetolus. In this late account, the kingdom of Locris was ruled from Amphictyon to Aetolus, then Physcus and eventually, Locrus who gave his name to the land.Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Amphictyone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Phthius, eponym of Phthiotis. She married Asterius and became the mother of Dotius (Dotis), one of the possible eponyms of Dotium (Dotion) in Thessaly.
Her name was the feminine form of Amphictyon, the legendary king of Athens who founded the Amphictyonic League.Life Stages: Mortal
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Amphion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Minyan Orchomenus and son of Iasus. By Persephone, daughter of Minyas, he became the father of Chloris, wife of Neleus and Phylomache, wife of Pelias; these husbands are sons of Tyro and Poseidon.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Persephone - married
- Chloris - child
- child - Clymene
- child - Iasus
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Amphion
Status: alive
Biography: King of the Minyan Orchomenus and son of Iasus. By Persephone, daughter of Minyas, he became the father of Chloris, wife of Neleus and Phylomache, wife of Pelias; these husbands are sons of Tyro and Poseidon.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Philomache - child
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Amphisbaena
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: A mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. According to Lucan, the amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from the Gorgon Medusa's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with her head in his hand: in Pharsalia (IX, 719), the Roman poet names it along with other serpents that Cato's army encountered in Libya. Amphisbaena fed on the corpses left behind. n ancient times, the supposedly dangerous amphisbaena had many uses in the art of folk medicine and other magical remedies. Pliny notes that expecting women wearing a live amphisbaena around their necks would have safe pregnancies (Naturalis historia XXX, 128); however, if one's goal was to cure ailments such as arthritis or the common cold, one should wear only its skin. By eating the meat of the amphisbaena, one could supposedly attract many lovers of the opposite sex, and slaying one during the full moon could give power to one who is pure of heart and mind.
Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- child - Medusa
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Amphithea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
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Amyclas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Sparta and the son of Lacedaemon. The town of Amyclae in Laconia was said to have been founded by and named after him. Brother of Queen Eurydice of Argos. He was the father of Argalus, Cynortas, Hyacinth, Laodamia (or Leaneira), Harpalus, and Hegesandre. Cynortas was the son who succeeded Amyclas on the throne; in some versions Cynortas ascends to power directly after his father, and in others he does so after Argalus, his elder brother, dies.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Diomede - married
- Argalus - child
- Cynortas - child
- child - Lacedaemon
- child - Sparta
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Ananke
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 2
Primordial goddess of necessity, compulsion and inevitability. In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation--an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos. Ananke and her mate Khronos (Chronos) (Time), their serpentine coils entwined, crushed the primal egg of creation splitting it into its constituent parts of earth, heaven and sea to form the ordered universe. After their act of creation Ananke and Khronos encircled the cosmos to drive the rotation of the heavens and the eternal passage of time. They were beyond the reach of the younger gods whose fates they were sometimes said to control.
Possibly the only ancient representation of the goddess, the torch-bearing, winged figure right is labelled with her name.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Anax and Asterius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Were father and son giants of the island of Lade near Miletos in Lydia, Anatolia. They stood about 15 feet tall.
The pair were probably connected with the other giants of Lydian myth--Damasen, Atlas, and Hyllos.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Anchirhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Erasinides, Argive naiad daughters of the river-god Erasinus. She and her sisters, Byze, Maera and Melite, received Britomartis.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Andropompus - child
- child - Erasinos
- married - Penthilus
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Andreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: son of the river-god Peneus in Thessaly, from whom the district about Orchomenos in Boeotia was called Andreis. With Evippe, daughter of Leucon. Eteocles, son of Kephisos, was his successor.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Peneus
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Andropompus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the descendants of Neleus, king of Thessaly, as son of Penthilus and Anchirhoe. He was the father of King Melanthus of Athens.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Anna Perenna
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A minor deity of the circle, wheel, or "ring" of the year, as indicated by her title Perenna. Roman poet Ovid reports a legend that conflates Anna Perenna with Anna, the sister of Dido: queen and founder of Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid.
After Dido's tragic death, Anna finds refuge from her brother Pygmalion on Malta with Battus, the king of the island and a wealthy host.After protecting Anna for three years, Battus counselled her to flee for her safety and find a fresh place of exile as her brother was seeking war. Forced again to flee over the seas, Anna was shipwrecked on the coasts of Latium where she was hosted by Aeneas's settlement of Lavinium. However, her presence there made Lavinia increasingly jealous, and she planned to murder Anna. Dido appeared in Anna's dream, exhorting her to abandon her latest refuge. Anna obeyed, and she was swept away by the river-god Numicus and transformed into a river nymph hidden in the "perennial stream" (amnis perennis), and renamed Anna Perenna.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Belus
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Antiphates
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Laestrygones, a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals. He was married and had a daughter. When he was visited by a scouting party sent by Odysseus, he ate one of the men on the spot and raised a hue-and-cry to ensure most of the rest of Odysseus' company would be hunted down.
Life Stages: Giant, King
Relationships:
- turned - The Laestrygonians
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Anytus
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (Anytos) One of the Kouretes (Curetes) or Titanes who was entrusted with the care of the young goddess Despoine in Arkadia. He was depicted as a warrior dressed in hoplite armour.
Life Stages: Rustic
Relationships:
- turned - The Curetes
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Apollo
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Olympian
Relationships:
- Rhodope - partner
- Cicon - child
- Cyparissus - affair
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Arcas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I
Relationships:
- married - Meganeira
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Argalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A leader of the Lacedaemonid Greeks from the age of legend, now treated as being the Bronze Age in Greece. Argalus was the eldest son and heir of King Amyklas of Sparta, by his wife, Diomede, daughter of Lapithes.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Arganthonios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of ancient Tartessos (in Andalusia, southern Spain) who according to Herodotus, was visited by Kolaios of Samos. Given the legendary status of Geryon, Gargoris and Habis, Arganthonios is the earliest documented monarch of the Iberian Peninsula. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, King Arganthonios ruled Tartessos for 80 years (from about 625 BC to 545 BC) and lived to be 120 years old, although some believe he lived to 150.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Habis
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Argia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, and of Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes, and bore him three sons: Thersander, Adrastus, and Timeas. When Oedipus had died at Thebes, Argia came with others to the funeral of Oedipus, her father-in-law. In Dante's Inferno, she is found in Limbo.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Thersander - child
- child - Adrastus
- child - Amphithea
- married - Polynices
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Argiope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Naiad Nymphs
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Argus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope and husband of Perimele, daughter of Admetus and Alcestis. By her, he became the father of Magnes, the father of Hymenaios. Argus was erroneously conflated with the Argus Arestorides who was the shipwright of the Argo and counted as one of the Argonauts.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Armenius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Harmenius) Was the son of Zeuxippus, son of King Eumelus of Pherae. He was the father of Henioche, mother of Melanthus by Andropompus.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Asterius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Husband of Amphictyone, daughter of Phthius, and father of Dotius (Dotis), one of the possible eponyms of Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Dotis - child
- married - Amphictyone
- child - Peneus
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Asterodia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Eurypylus and by Icarius had Iphthime
Life Stages: Mortal
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Asterope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Boeotian mother of Peneleos by Hippalcimus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Peneleos - child
- married - Hippalcimus
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Astris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 34
Life Stages: Tree I, Sky God
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Athamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
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Atreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. His descendants became known collectively as the Atreidae.
Atreus and his brother Thyestes were exiled by their father for murdering their half-brother Chrysippus in their desire for the throne of Olympia. They took refuge in Mycenae, where they ascended to the throne in the absence of King Eurystheus, who was fighting the Heracleidae. Eurystheus had meant for their stewardship to be temporary, but it became permanent after his death in battle, which ended the rule of the Perseid dynasty in Mycenae.
According to most ancient sources, Atreus was the father of Pleisthenes, but in some lyric poets (Ibycus, Bacchylides) Pleisthenides (son of Pleisthenes) is used as an alternative name for Atreus himself.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Aerope - married
- Menelaus - child
- Agamemnon - child
- child - Hippodamia
- child - Pelops
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Auge
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Aleus the king of Tegea in Arcadia, and the virgin priestess of Athena Alea. She was also the mother of the hero Telephus by Heracles.
Auge had sex with Heracles (either willingly, or by force) and was made pregnant. When Aleus found this out, by various accounts, he ordered Auge drowned, or sold as a slave, or shut up in a wooden chest and thrown into the sea (similar to Princess Danaë of Argos, mother of Perseus). However, in all these accounts, she and her son Telephus end up at the court of the Mysian king Teuthras, where Auge becomes the wife (or the adopted daughter) of Teuthras, and Telephus becomes Teuthras’ adopted son and heir.Life Stages: Mortal
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Autesion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Thebes. He was the son of Tisamenus, the grandson of Thersander and Demonassa and the great-grandson of Polynices and Argea.
Autesion is called the father of Theras and Argeia, by the latter of whom Aristodemus became the father of Eurysthenes and Procles. Autesion was a native of Thebes, where he had succeeded his father as king, but at the command of an oracle he went to Peloponnesus and joined the Dorians.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Tisamenus
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Azeus
Status: alive
Biography: (Achelous) Arkadian giant who fought in the war of the Titanes. He was an ancestor of the kings of Arkadia through his son Lykon (Lycon).
It is not clear which side he supported in the war although several other Arkadian giants such as Hoplodamos, defender of Rhea, and Anytos, protector of the goddess Despoine, were allies of the gods. His name was probably derived from the Greek word azesios "drought," or from Azania, a region of Arkadia. The local Zeus, surnamed Lykaios, was conversely the god of rain.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Batea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Naiad Nymphs
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Belus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was said to have been the father of Dido of Carthage, Pygmalion of Tyre, and Anna Perenna.
The historical father of these figures was the king Mattan I (reigned 840 BC – 832 BCE), also known as MTN-BʿL (Matan-Baʿal, 'Gift of the Lord'), which classicist T. T. Duke suggests was made into the name Belus as a hypocorism.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Dido - child
- Pygmalion - child
- Anna Perenna - child
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Boeotus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurythemista - married
- Itonus - child
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Boreas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Anemoi, Sky God
Relationships:
- Haemus - child
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Callidice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eleusinian princess as one of the daughters of King Celeus and Metaneira, sister of Cleisidice, Demo and Callithoe.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Callirhoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of the river god Achelous. She was betrothed of Alcmaeon, son of Amphiaraus of Argos, and mothered by him two sons, Amphoterus and Acarnan. Because of Callirhoe's senseless passion for the robe and necklace of Harmonia, Alcmaeon trying to get them was killed. She then requested of Zeus that her small sons Amphoterus and Acarnan might immediately grow up in order to avenge their father's murder by the hands of king Phegeus' sons.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Callithoe
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eleusinian princess as the eldest daughter of King Celeus and Metaneira. Her name derives from the Greek roots kallos (beauty) and theo (to run), sometimes interpreted as "beautiful runner".
Life Stages: Mortal
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Carmanor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Dionysus and Alexirrhoe. He was said to have been killed by a boar during hunt, and the Lydian mountain Tmolus had allegedly been named "Carmanorium" after him before receiving its newer name.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Alexirrhoe
- child - Dionysus
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Catreus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The eldest son of Minos and Pasiphaë, and Minos's successor as king of Crete. Catreus had one son, Althaemenes, and three daughters, Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene. Catreus was mistakenly killed by his son Althaemenes thereby fulfilling an oracle's prophecy.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Caucasian Eagle
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (THE AETOS KAUKASIOS ) was a gigantic eagle sent by Zeus to feed upon the ever-regenerating liver of the Titan Prometheus after he was chained to a peak of the Kaukasos (Caucasus) Mountains as punishment for stealing fire from the gods.
The eagle was variously described as a bronze automaton constructed by the god Hephaistos (Hephaestus), or as a fell creature spawned by the drakaina Ekhidna (Echidna).
When Herakles set out to free Prometheus from his bonds, he felled the eagle with a volley of arrows. Afterwards the Eagle, as well as the Titan and Arrow, were placed all amongst the stars as the constellations Aquila, the Kneeler and Saggita.Life Stages: Beast
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Celeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Husband of Metaneira and father of several daughters, who are called Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice and Callithoe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and Diogeneia, Pammerope and Saesara by Pausanias.
In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Demeter's cult the Eleusinian Mysteries.
While Demeter was searching for her daughter, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the king of Eleusis in Attica. He asked her to nurse Demophon, his youngest son by Metaneira. As a gift to Celeus, because of his hospitality, Demeter planned to make Demophon immortal by burning his mortal spirit away in the family hearth every night. She was unable to complete the ritual because Metaneira walked in on her one night and interfered with the process. Instead, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus, the other son of Celeus (though he was ascribed different parentages as well), the art of agriculture and, from him, the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops.[5] He flew across the land on a winged chariot while Demeter and Persephone cared for him, and helped him complete his mission of educating the whole of Greece on the art of agriculture.
Celeus was killed by Erichthonius in a war with Athens. His mourning daughters were afterwards transformed into doves by Demeter.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Metanira - married
- Triptolemus - adopted
- Callithoe - child
- Callidice - child
- Demo - child
- Cleisidice - child
- Saesara - child
- Demophon - child
- child - Eleusis
- child - Trochilus
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Centaurides
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (THE KENTAURIDES) The female members of the Kentauroi (Centaur) tribe, creatures with the double-formed bodies of horses and men.
Female centaurs are seldom mentioned in ancient literature, although they do occasionally appear in ancient Greek paintings and Roman-era mosaics and reliefs. One Roman relief, housed in the Louvre Museum, depicts a Kentauris with infant in the train of the god Dionysos.Life Stages: Centaur
Relationships:
- child - Centaurus
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Centaurs
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (Ixionidae) A creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in the mountains of Thessaly.
Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. Centaurs are subsequently featured in Roman mythology, and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary. They remain a staple of modern fantastic literature.
Another tribe of centaurs was said to have lived on Cyprus. According to Nonnus, the Cyprian Centaurs were fathered by Zeus, who, in frustration after Aphrodite had eluded him, spilled his seed on the ground of that land. Unlike those of mainland Greece, the Cyprian centaurs were ox-horned.
There were also the Lamian Pheres, twelve rustic daimones (spirits) of the Lamos river. They were set by Zeus to guard the infant Dionysus, protecting him from the machinations of Hera, but the enraged goddess transformed them into ox-horned Centaurs unrelated to the Cyprian Centaurs. The Lamian Pheres later accompanied Dionysus in his campaign against the Indians.Life Stages: Centaur
Relationships:
- child - Centaurus
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Centaurus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: After Ixion, king of the Lapiths, fell into insanity and was ostracized by his people, Zeus sympathized greatly with Ixion and brought him up to Olympus to dine with the gods. There Ixion saw Hera, Zeus' wife and queen of the gods, with whom he fell instantly in love and began to desire her sexually. Zeus, suspicious of Ixion, set for him a trap by fashioning a figure from cloud (Nephele) in the likeness of Hera and laying it next to Ixion whilst he was asleep in a field. When Ixion awoke, he began to make love to Hera's double, which so enraged Zeus that he drove Ixion from Mount Olympus, struck him with a thunderbolt, and damned Ixion to be eternally bound to a flying burning wheel that would spin around the heavens non-stop (though it was later moved to Tartarus).
Nephele's child by this union was Centaurus, a deformed child who hunched over and found no peace amongst other humans, and so removed to the mountain of Pelion. There he mated with the Magnesian mares who lived there. This resulted in the birth of the centaur race.
Inhabited the mountains and forests of Thessalian Magnesia. They were a primitive race who made their homes in caves, hunted wild animals for food and armed themselves with rocks and tree branches. The Kentauroi were spawned by the cloud-nymphe Nephele after she was violated by the impious Lapith king Ixion. were spawned by the cloud-nymph Nephele after she was violated by the impious Lapith king Ixion. She deposited her double-formed brood on Mount Pelion where they were nursed by the daughters of the immortal kentauros Kheiron (Chiron).
nursed by the daughters of the immortal kentauros Kheiron (Chiron).
The Kentauroi were invited to attend the wedding of their half-brother Peirithoos (Pirithous) but became drunk at the festivities and attempted to carry off the bride and other female guests. In the battle which ensued most of the Kentauroi were destroyed.Life Stages: Centaur
Relationships:
- Centaurs - child
- Centaurides - child
- child - Ixion
- child - Nephele
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Chalciope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Charybdis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: (KHARYBDIS) A sea-monster whose gigantic whirlpool swirled in the straits of Messina opposite the cliffs of the monster Skylla (Scylla). She was probably the daimon of the tides with her thrice daily sucking and expulsion of waters--mentioned by Homer--imagined as the cause of the three high and low tides of the day.
The ancient Greek scholia on Homer's Odyssey give several different accounts of the origin of Kharybdis. In one she was a daughter of Pontos (Sea) and Gaia (Earth) who laid siege to the land with her waves. Zeus, in anger, captured and chained to the sea-bed. In another tale, she was a voracious women who stole the cattle of Herakles. For this reason Zeus cast her into the sea with the blow of a thunderbolt.
The Greeks had a verb ekcha rubdizô which meant to swallow like Kharybdis. According to Hesykhios (s.v. anepothe) this verb was invented by Pherekydes to describe those who were glutonous.
Kharybdis was perhaps identical to Keto Trienos "the Sea-Monster Thrice" who was the mother of Skylla and grandmother of the Sicilian giant Polyphemos.Life Stages: Beast
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Chloris
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
- Nestor - child
- child - Amphion
- married - Neleus
- child - Persephone
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Chronos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 2
(Khronos) The primordial god of time. In the Orphic cosmogony he emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. Khronos was envisaged as an incorporeal god, serpentine in form, with three heads--that of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his consort, the serpentine goddess Ananke (Inevitability), enveloped the primordial world-egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. After this act of creation the couple circled the cosmos driving the rotation of heaven and the eternal passage of time.
The figure of Khronos was essentially a cosmological double of the Titan Kronos (Cronus) ("Father Time"). The Orphics sometimes merged Khronos with the creator-god Phanes, and also equated him with the Titan Ophion. His equivalent in the Phoenician cosmogony was probably Olam (Eternal Time) whose name is written Oulomos in Greek transcripts.
Khronos was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaic as Aion (Aeon), eternity personified. He holds a wheel inscribed with the signs of the zodiac and Gaia (Mother Earth) usually reclines at his feet. The poet Nonnus describes Aion as an old man with long, white hair and a beard but mosaic-art presents a youthful figure.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Chrysippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 34
Daughter of Hydaspes of Punjab. Through the wrath of Aphrodite, she fell in love with her own father and, with the help of her nurse, lay with him unrecognized. When Hydaspes realized what had happened, he crucified his daughter and buried her nurse alive. Soon after that, overcome with grief, he threw himself into the river Indus (presumably not the same as the Indian river commonly known as Indus), which was said to have been renamed Hydaspes after him.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cicon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (KIKON) The eponym of the Thracian tribe Cicones. He was the son of Apollo and Rhodope. According to a scholium on Apollonius of Rhodes, the Hellenistic writer Philostephanus considered Cicon to be the father of Biston.
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
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Cleisidice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eleusinian princess as the daughter of King Celeus and Metaneira. Her name was often associated with the root kleis (key, or "she who locks/holds") and dike (justice). Together with her sisters Demo, Callidice and Callithoe, Clisidice met the goddess Demeter at the virgin well Callichoros in Eleusis, who was resting there in the form of an old woman in search of her daughter Persephone, who was stolen by Hades, and invited her to her father's house.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Clymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Mortal
Relationships:
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Clymenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Whose eldest daughter Eurydice was, according to Homer's Odyssey, the wife of Nestor.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurydice - child
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Clytemnestra
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Codrus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was an ancient exemplar of patriotism and self-sacrifice. He was succeeded by his son Medon, who it is claimed ruled not as king but as the first Archon of Athens. He was said to have traced his descent to the sea-God Poseidon through his father Melanthus.
The earliest version of the story of Codrus comes from the 4th oration Against Leocrates by Lycurgus of Athens. During the time of the Dorian Invasion of Peloponnesus (c. 1068 BC), the Dorians under Aletes, son of Hippotes, had consulted the Delphic Oracle, who prophesied that their invasion would succeed as long as the king was not harmed. The news of this prophecy, that only the death of an Athenian king would ensure the safety of Athens, quickly found its way to the ears of the king. Knowing Athens would fall to the foreign war tribe otherwise, after conquering most of Greece up to this point; for the love of his people, King Codrus sacrificed himself to save them.
Disguised as a peasant, he made it to the vicinity of the Dorian encampment across the river, where he provoked a group of Dorian soldiers. He was put to death in the quarrel, and the Dorians, realizing Codrus had been slain, decided to retreat in fear of their prophesied defeat. In the aftermath of these events, it was claimed that no one thought himself worthy to succeed Codrus and so the title of king was abolished, and that of archon substituted for it.
Aristotle (or possibly one of his students), in the Constitution of the Athenians, states that it was indeed the house of Codrus that abolished the title of king in favor of Archon, eventually followed by 11 more.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Melanthus
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Corycia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 42
Life Stages: Tree II, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- turned - Crytones Nymphs
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Cranaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cranaë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: An Athenian princess as daughter of King Cranaus and Pedias, the Lacedaemonian daughter of Mynes. She was the sister of Cranaechme and Atthis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Metanira - child
- married - Amphictyon
- child - Cranaus
- child - Pedias
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Crocon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The husband of Saesara, daughter of Celeus of Eleusis. This couple became the parents of Meganeira.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Crytones Nymphs
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 41
Naiad-nymphs of the springs of the town of Kyrtones.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Cynortas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Sparta. Cynortas was the son of King Amyclas of Sparta and Queen Diomede, and thus brother to King Argalus. He was the father of Oebalus. After the death of his brother Argalus, Cynortes inherited the kingdom and eventually became the king of Sparta.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Cyparissus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A boy beloved by Apollo, or, in some versions, by other deities. In the best-known version of the story, the favorite companion of Cyparissus was a tamed stag, which he accidentally killed with his hunting javelin as it lay sleeping in the woods. The boy's grief was such that it transformed him into a cypress tree, a classical symbol of mourning.
The myth is thus an aetiological tale explaining the relation of the tree to its ancient cultural significance. The subject is mainly known from Greek-inspired Latin literature and frescoes from Pompeii.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Cyprian Centaurs
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (THE KENTAUROI KYPRIOI) a tribe of bull-horned centaurs native to the island of Kypros (Cyprus). They were born of Gaia the Earth when she was accidentally impregnated by Zeus during a failed attempt to couple with the goddess Aphrodite.
The Kentauroi were probably fertility-spirit (daimones) attendants of the goddess Aphrodite. They were no doubt related to the Kerastai (Cerastae)--bull-horned, Kyprian devotees of the goddess.
Despite their similar form they were not connected with the more famous Kentauroi of Thessalia.Life Stages: Centaur, Daimon
Relationships:
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Damasen
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A giant of the kingdom of Lydia in Anatolia who slew a monstrous drakon (dragon) that was laying waste to the land. His name was derived from the Greek verb damazô or damasô, meaning "to subdue."
The story given by Nonnus below appears to be derived from Lydian mythology. He may be related to Manes, the earth-born first King of the Lydians described by Herodotus whose son Atyllos may be the same as Nonnus' Tylos. The pair also apparently appear in Greek mythology in the guise of Tantalos and Pelops. Pelops like Tylos is slain but restored to life by the Moirai (Fates).
The Lydian hero Damasen may also have been identified with Herakles by the Greeks. In one myth Herackles is described slaying a similar Lydian Drakon. He was probably also connected with several other giants of Lydian myth--Hyllos, Atlas, Anax and Asterios.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Daulis
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Pg 40
AKA Daulia and Daulion. Naiad-nymph of a well or fountain in the town of Daulis in Boiotia, central Greece. She was a daughter of the local river-god Kephisos.
Daulis was the hometown of Tereus, Thracian king and also the city at the end of the road not taken by Oedipus.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Demo
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eleusinian princess as the daughter of King Celeus and Metaneira. Together with her sisters Callidike, Cleisidike and Callithoe, she met the goddess Demeter at the virgin well Callichoros in Eleusis, who was resting there in the form of an old woman in search of her daughter Persephone, who was stolen by Hades, and invited her to her father's house.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Demonassa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Amphiaraus, king of Argos and Eriphyle, and thus, sister to Alcmaeon, Amphilochus, Eurydice, Alcmena and Alexida. She married Thersander and had a son, Tisamenus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Tisamenus - child
- child - Amphiaraus
- child - Eriphyle
- married - Thersander
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Demophon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eleusinian prince as the son of King Celeus and Queen Metanira. While Demeter, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, searched for her lost daughter Persephone, she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis in Attica. He asked her to nurse Demophon – his son by Metanira.
As a gift to Celeus, because of his hospitality, Demeter planned to make Demophon a god by anointing and coating him with ambrosia, breathing gently upon him while holding him in her arms and bosom, and making him immortal by burning his mortal spirit away in the family's hearth every night. She put him in the fire at night like a firebrand or ember – without the knowledge of his parents.
Demeter failed to complete the ritual because Demophon's mother Metanira walked in, saw her son in the fire, and screamed in fright; this angered Demeter, who lamented that foolish mortals do not understand the concept and ritual. Demophon would never obtain a life free from death, but Demeter's actions, in fact, prepared and destined him to become immortalized as a recipient of a hero cult.
The bungled immortalization becomes the cause of his death, and funeral games in his honor were established at Eleusis under the guise of a ritual mock-battle, a quasi-athletic event known as the Ballêtus, which took place on a seasonal basis to compensate for the death of the baby cult-hero Demophon. This mock-battle seems to have been the ritual kernel of a whole complex of events known as the Eleusinian Games.
Forestalled in making Demophon immortal, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus (Demophon's elder brother) the art of agriculture; from him the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops. He flew across the land on a dragon-drawn chariot while Demeter and Persephone cared for him and helped him complete his mission of educating the whole of Greece in the art of agriculture.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Deriades
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Ph 35
King of the Indians in Nonnus of Panopolis epic poem, Dionysiaca. He serves as the primary antagonist to Dionysus during the god's mythical campaign to conquer India. The term "Indian" in Greco-Roman literature typically referred to the peoples of the Indus Valley.
King Deriades is described as the son of Hydaspes, the god of the river Hydaspes (modern-day Jhelum River in the Punjab region), and Astris, a celestial nymph.
King Deriades is portrayed as a formidable and proud ruler, embodying resistance to Dionysus's divine mission. Deriades commands a vast coalition of warriors, often described in grandiose terms. His army includes mighty champions such as Colletes, and his forces are depicted as exotic and immensely powerful.
Deriades defies Dionysus's claim to godhood and refuses to accept his cult. This sets the stage for a series of epic battles between the armies of Dionysus and the Indus Valley forces. Despite his valor and the strength of his army, Deriades is ultimately defeated. His death signifies the triumph of divine will and the inevitable success of Dionysus's mission.Life Stages: Hero, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Deucalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II
Relationships:
- Pyrrha - married
- Amphictyon - child
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Dido
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Also known as Elissa was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage.
In most accounts, she was originally the joint ruler of Tyre who fled tyranny to found her own city in northwest Africa, now modern-day Tunisia. As she is only known from ancient Greek and Roman sources, all of which were written well after Carthage's founding, her historicity remains uncertain.
Details about Dido's character, life, and role in the founding of Carthage are best known from Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, published around 19 BC. The poem tells the legendary story of the Trojan hero Aeneas. In the poem, Dido is described as a clever and enterprising woman who founded Carthage after fleeing her tyrannical brother. The city prospers under her leadership until Aeneas arrives and the pair fall in love through Juno and Venus' divine intervention. When Aeneas eventually has to leave Carthage, the love-sick Dido commits suicide upon a pyre.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Belus
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Diomede
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Lapith and daughter of Lapithes and possibly of Orsinome. She married King Amyclas of Sparta and became the mother of King Argalus, King Cynortes, Hyacinthus, Polyboea, Laodamia (or Leanira), Harpalus, Hegesandre
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Dionysus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Olympian
Relationships:
- Alexirrhoe - partner
- Carmanor - child
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Dorus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: An Egyptian prince as the son of King Epaphus of Egypt. He was the father of Pygmaeus, ancestor of the tribe of Pygmies.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Dotis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Asterius and Amphictyone, daughter of Phthius. According to Pherecydes (c. 450 BC), he was the eponym of the city Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Amphictyone
- child - Asterius
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Dotus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponym of Dotium (Dotion) in Thessaly. He was the son of Neonus, son of Hellen.
Alternatively, the other mythical eponyms of the Dotian plain were Dotius, son of Asterius and Amphictyone, daughter of Phthius; or of Dotia, daughter of Elatus.
Me, personally, think that they met each other and decided to make a city out of the occasion of finding people with the same name.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Neonus
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Drakon Maionios
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Lydian Dragon) A giant serpent of the River Hermos in Lydia, Anatolia. It was slain by the hero Damasen but its mate used a magical herb to restore it to life.
It was probably the same as the Lydian Drakon slain by Herakles--likely an alternate Greek translation of the same Lydian myth.Life Stages: Dragon
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Dryops
Status: alive
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Theiodamas - child
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Ekhidna
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Beast
Relationships:
- Typhoeus - married
- Caucasian Eagle - child
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Eleusis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Agrarian God
Relationships:
- Trochilus - married
- Celeus - child
- Triptolemus - child
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Enceladus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (ENKELADOS) Gigante who battled Athene in the War of the Giants. When he fled the battlefield, Athene pursued and crushed him beneath the Sicilian Mount Aitna (Etna). According to others, it was the giant Typhoeus who was buried beneath the volcano.
Enkelados's name is derived from the Greek verb enkeleuô, meaning "to urge on" or "to sound the charge."Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
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Epaphus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Gaea - partner
- Dorus - child
- Kynokephaloi - child
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Erasinos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river god of Arkadia and Argos in southern Greece. His daughters Byze, Melite, Maera and Anchiroe. The river itself appears in Pausanias' Description of Greece. Erasinus's only appearance in myth was recounted by Antoninus Liberalis in his Metamorphoses, where he was mentioned as the father of the above daughters who received Britomartis when she fled from King Minos of Crete.
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
- Anchirhoe - child
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Ergiscus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (ERGISKOS) Son of Poseidon and the naiad nymph Aba. The city of Ergisce (Çatalca) was named after him.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eriphyle
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
- Alcmaeon - child
- Demonassa - child
- married - Amphiaraus
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Eteocles
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 37
A king of Orchomenus. He was the successor or Andreus, son of Peneus, a Potamoi.
He was credited with having founded two tribes one of which received the name Cephisias after his possible father, and the other one was named after himself. He assigned a little of his land to Almus, son of Sisyphus, who was believed to have given his name to the village Olmonas. Eteocles was also said to have been the first to offer sacrifices to the Charites, and to have recognized three as the true number of the goddesses.
The mythological connection between Eteocles and the Charites is confirmed by the account of Theocritus, who refers to the Charites as "divine daughters of Eteocles". Strabo also credits Eteocles with founding the temple of the Charites, and mentions that Eteocles "was the first to display both wealth and power; for he honored these goddesses either because he was successful in receiving graces, or in giving them, or both."
The three daughters of Eteocles fell into a deep well while singing and dancing in honour of the Graces and drowned. Gaia, in pity, transformed them all into tall and proud cypresses. The author notes that this is why colloquially the cypresses were also called graces.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Euippe
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Leucon. She bore Kephisos a son, Eteocles, king of Orchomenus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eumelus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Succeeded his father Admetus as the King of Pherae, and his mother was Alcestis, daughter of King Pelias of Iolcus. Eumelus married Iphthime, daughter of Icarius of Sparta, and possibly by her, became the father of Zeuxippus. Eumelus was one of the "suitors of Helen" and thus, led Pherae and Iolcus in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. Although one of the best Achaean charioteers, he was the fifth and last in the chariot races because of Athena's sabotage at Patroclus's funeral. Eumelus was also one of the Greeks in the Trojan Horse.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurydice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eldest daughter of Clymenus, was the wife of Nestor. However, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, the wife of Nestor and mother of his children (daughters Pisidice and Polycaste, and sons Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes) was Anaxibia.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Eurymedon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Defender of the Hypsistan gate at Thebes during the military campaign of the Seven against Thebes. He is the son of Faunus(Pan).
Life Stages: Saytr
Relationships:
- child - Pan
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Eurypylus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Telestor and father of Asterodia who became the wife of Icarius of Sparta.
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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Gaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 3
(Gaia) NORMAL GAEA, NOT ORPHICLife Stages: Tree I, Protogenoi
Relationships:
- The Nesoi - child
- Enceladus - child
- Charybdis - child
- Cyprian Centaurs - child
- The Gegenees - child
- Alpos - child
- The Gigantes - child
- Damasen - child
- Hyllus - child
- Anax and Asterius - child
- Drakon Maionios - child
- Dorus - child
- Laestrygon - child
- Azeus - child
- partner - Epaphus
- pollinated - Ouranos
- partner - Poseidon
- pollinated - Zeus
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Gaia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 2
(SPECIFICALLY ORPHIC)Life Stages: Tree I, Protogenoi
Relationships:
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Galateia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 26
Life Stages: Tree I, Nereid
Relationships:
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Galatos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 26
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Gargoris
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A mythical king of the Cynetes, considered part of the people of Tartessos, and, according to legend, the inventor of beekeeping.
He exiled his own son, Habis, who was adopted by a female deer and saved from the sea, and who later inherited the kingdom.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Habis
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary king of the Spanish region of Tartessos. The only source of the legend of Habis and his father Gargoris is the work Epitome by Justin, who copied it from the now lost work Philippic Histories by Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus.
According to legend, Habis's story began when his mother was stung by a bee. Her father, Gargoris, the king of Tartessos, hurried to heal her. As he knelt to soften her wound with his mouth, a passion came over both, thus procreating the baby. Due to the shame of having committed incest, the king ordered the child to be abandoned on the prairies outside the kingdom. Eventually the boy was raised by the deer in there, acquiring deer features. He was later found and recognized as the true heir to the kingdom, and later accordingly named.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Arganthonios - child
- child - Gargoris
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Haemus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Thrace, was the son of Boreas, the north wind. Haemus was vain and haughty and compared himself and his wife, Queen Rhodope, to Zeus and Hera. The gods changed him and his wife into mountains (respectively Haemus Mons, now known as the Balkan Mountains, and the Rhodope Mountains). In ancient Greek, the Balkan Peninsula was thus known as the "Peninsula of Haemus" (Χερσόνησος τοῦ Αἵμου), a name which retains some currency in modern Greek.
Life Stages: King
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Hebros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river-god of Kikonia (Ciconia) in eastern Thrake (modern day northern Greece, southern Bulgaria).
The River Hebros had its headwaters on Mount Rhodope in northern Thrake and emptied into the Aegean Sea near the Greek colony of Ainos (Aenus) opposite the island of Samothrake. The closest neighbouring rivers personified by the Greeks were the Istros (Ister) (Danube) to the north, and the Nestos to the west. The Ardeskos (modern-day Maritsa), a tributary of the Hebros, was also personified.Life Stages: Potamoi
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Helen
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
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Hellen
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
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Henioche
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Armenius, the descendant of Admetus. She was the consort of Andropompus and mother by him of Melanthus, who in his turn was father of Codrus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Andropompus - partner
- Melanthus - child
- child - Armenius
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Heracles
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, Hero
Relationships:
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Hermione
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: The daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon. According to Apollodorus, she was nine years old when her mother eloped with Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam.
During the war, Menelaus promised her to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus. After the war ended, he sent Hermione away to the city of Phthia (the home of Peleus and Achilles), where Neoptolemus was staying. The two were married, yet, soon afterwards, Neoptolemus traveled to Delphi to exact vengeance against Apollo for having caused his father's death, only to be killed there. With Neoptolemus dead, Hermione was free to marry Orestes, with whom she had a son, Tisamenus.Life Stages: Mortal
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Hippalcimus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father, by Asterope, of Peneleos.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Hippocoon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Spartan king. Hippocoon was the son of the Spartan King Oebalus and Bateia. Names of Hippocoön's sons include Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Euteiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Eurytus, Hippothous, Hippocorystes, Alcinous, Alcimus, Dorceus, Sebrus, Eumedes, Enaesimus, Alcon and Leucippus (the last three were among the Calydonian hunters). Diodorus Siculus states that there were twenty of them, but gives no individual names.
When their father died, Tyndareus became king. Hippocoön, with the help of his sons, overthrew him, took the throne and expelled his brothers from the kingdom . Later, Hippocoön refused to cleanse Heracles after the death of Iphitus. Because of that, Heracles became hostile to Hippocoön, killed him and reinstated Tyndareus. All of Hippocoön's sons were also slain by Heracles, as a revenge for the death of the young Oeonus, son of Licymnius, whom they had killed because he had stoned their dog in self-defense. Heracles's allies in the war against Hippocoön were Cepheus of Arcadia and his twenty sons, who all, as well as Heracles's brother Iphicles, died in the battle (according to Diodorus Siculus, three of Cepheus' sons did survive).Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Hippodamia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
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Hoplodamus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (HOPLODAMOS) One of the Kouretes (Curetes) or Gigantes (Giants) who mustered his brothers in defence of the goddess Rhea when Kronos (Cronus) raged against her after learning that she had spirited away their infant son Zeus. His name means "Armed Man" from the Greek words hoples and damos.
Hoplodamos and his Gigante "Earth-Born" brothers were Kouretes--armed guardians of the infant Zeus. Hesiod and several other ancient authors name the Kouretes Gigantes.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- turned - The Curetes
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Hyamus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Melantheia - married
- Melaina - child
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Hydaspes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 34
Life Stages: Tree I, Potamoi
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Hydros
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 2
The god of the primordial waters.
In the Orphic Theogonies Hydros (Water), Thesis (Creation) and Mud were the first entities to emerge at the dawn of creation. Mud in turn solidified into Gaia (Earth) who, together with Hydros, produced Khronos (Chronos, Time) and Ananke (Compulsion). This latter pair then crushed the cosmic-egg with their serpentine coils to hatch Phanes (Life) and divide the cosmos into its constituent parts--Heaven, Air, Earth and Sea.
The Orphic Rhapsodies, which evolved from the older Theogonies, discarded the figures the Khronos and Ananke and instead have Phanes born directly of Hydros and Gaia.
The figure of Hydros was derived by the Orphics from Okeanos (Oceanus)--the earth-encircling, fresh-water river which Homer describes as the source of the gods. His consort Thesis was likewise the primordial counterpart of Okeanos' wife Tethys.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Hylas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A youth who served Heracles as companion and servant. Hylas was the son of King Theiodamas of the Dryopians and the nymph Menodice, daughter of Orion.
After Heracles killed Theiodamas in battle, he took on Hylas as his arms-bearer and taught him to be a warrior. Heracles took Hylas with him on the Argo, thus making him one of the Argonauts. Hylas was kidnapped by Naiads of the spring of Pegae in Mysia when they fell in love with him, and he vanished into the water with a cry. His disappearance greatly upset Heracles, who, along with Polyphemus, searched for him for a great length of time. The ship soon set sail without them. According to the Latin Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus, they never found Hylas because the latter had fallen in love with the nymphs and remained "to share their power and their love". In the version told by Apollonios Rhodios, the sea-god Glaucus informs the Argonauts that "a nymph has lost her heart to him and made him her husband". Theocritus, on the other hand, has the nymphs shutting his mouth underwater to stifle his screams for Heracles. Antoninus Liberalis says that the nymphs changed him into an echo which again and again echoed back the cries of Heracles.Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Mecionice / Menodice
- child - Theiodamas
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Hyllus
Status: alive
Pronouns: him
Biography: A giant of Lydia in western Anatolia for whom the river Hyllos was named.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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Hymen
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (Hymenaios) When the god Apollo saw the boy Hymenaeus, he was seized with love for him and would not leave the house of Magnes. Because of this, Hermes plotted to get the herd of the cattle belonging to Apollo that were pastured in the same place as the cattle of Admetus.
Life Stages: Tree II, Erotes, Olympian
Relationships:
- child - Magnes
- child - Terpsichore
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Iasus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
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Icarius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Iphthime
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Icarius, a sister of Penelope and Perileos. She became the wife of Eumelus from Pherae and possibly, the mother of his son, Zeuxippus. In Homer's Odyssey, Athena creates an image in Iphthime's likeness and sends this to a sleeping Penelope. This image conveys encouragement to Penelope after the latter confides in it her worries for her husband Odysseus and her son Telemachus.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Itonus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: He was the father of Electryon, Hippalcimus, Archilycus (Areilycus) and Alegenor; his grandsons were the Trojan War heroes Leitus, Peneleos, Prothoenor, Arcesilaus and Clonius.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippalcimus - child
- child - Boeotus
- child - Eurythemista
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Ixion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Zeus took pity on Ixion and brought him to Olympus and introduced him at the table of the gods. Instead of being grateful, Ixion grew lustful for Hera, Zeus's wife, a further violation of guest–host relations and an act of hubris against the king of the gods. Zeus found out about his intentions and made a cloud in the shape of Hera, which became known as Nephele (from nephos "cloud") and tricked Ixion into coupling with it. From the union of Ixion and the false-Hera cloud came Centauros, who mated with the Magnesian mares on Mount Pelion, Pindar told, engendering the race of Centaurs, who are called the Ixionidae from their descent.
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
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Jocasta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Mortal
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Kalligeneia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 37
The nymph nursemaid of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone. She was worshipped as a goddess of the Eleusinian Mysteries.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Kephisos
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 36
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Liriope - married
- Lilaea - child
- Kalligeneia - child
- Eteocles - child
- Argiope - child
- Daulis - child
- Thyia - child
- Crytones Nymphs - child
- Thriae - child
- partner - Euippe
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Khaos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 2
Late classical authors redefined Khaos as the chaotic mix of elements which existed in the primordial universe, conflating it with the primal "Mud" of the Orphic cosmogony. The modern English word "chaos" derives from this.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Kynokephaloi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: Tree I, Legendary Tribe
Relationships:
- child - Epaphus
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Lacedaemon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Laestrygon
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: The son of Poseidon He was the father of Telepora or Telepatra, wife of Aeolus, keeper of the winds. According to one account, the giant cannibal race of the Laistrygonians was said to have borne from Laestrygon in the isle of Ortygia, Italy.
Life Stages: Giant, King
Relationships:
- The Laestrygonians - child
- child - Gaea
- child - Poseidon
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Lapithes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Larissa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Larisa was a nymph from Thessaly. She was described by Pausanias as a daughter of Pelasgus, son of Triopas, king of Argos. Hellanicus states that the sons of Poseidon and Larissa were Achaios, Phthios, and Pelasgus. These sons left Argos and arrived in Haemonia (Thessaly) where they drove out the barbarian inhabitants and divided the country into three parts, calling them, after their names, Phthiotis, Achaia and Pelasgiotis.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Leda
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
- Helen - child
- Clytemnestra - child
- married - Tyndareus
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Leucon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Themisto by Athamas His children were Erythras, Pisidice, Hyperippe and Euippe (mother of Eteocles by Kephisos). He was said to have died of a sickness.
Life Stages: Mortal
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Lilaea
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 36
Naiad of a spring of the same name. She was the daughter of the river god Cephissus.[1] The ancient polis of Lilaea, and the modern village of Lilaia in Phocis, and the asteroid 213 Lilaea are named after her.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Liriope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 36
Life Stages: Tree I, Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- Lilaea - child
- Kalligeneia - child
- Argiope - child
- Daulis - child
- Thyia - child
- Crytones Nymphs - child
- Thriae - child
- married - Kephisos
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Magnes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A son of Argos (son of Phrixus) and Perimele (daughter of Admetus). He lived in the region of Thessaly, in the land which men called after him Magnesia. Magnes had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymen by the muse Calliope.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Terpsichore - partner
- Hymen - child
- child - Argus
- child - Perimele
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Mecionice / Menodice
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Oreiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Hylas - child
- married - Theiodamas
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Medusa
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Beast, Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphisbaena - child
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Meganeira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Crocon and Saesara, first wife of Arcas before she died young.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Melaina
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of King Hyamus of Hyampolis and Melanthea (Melantho), daughter of Deucalion. Her sister was called Celaeno.
Relationships:
- child - Hyamus
- child - Melantheia
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Melantheia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Melanthus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Athens and son of Andropompus and Henioche.
Melanthus was among the descendants of Neleus (the Neleidae) expelled from Messenia, by the descendants of Heracles, as part of the legendary "Return of the Heracleidae", later associated with the supposed "Dorian invasion".
Melanthus fled to Athens, along with other of the expelled Neleidae, Alcmaeon and the sons of Paeon. There he helped king Thymoetes of Attica battle against Xanthos the Boeotian, who was waging war against Athens, by taking Thymoetes' place in an arranged duel between the two that would determine the outcome of the conflict.
As Melanthus approached Xanthos on the battlefield, he complained to his opponent that the duel was unfair, since there was a second man in a black goat skin (identified with Dionysus) behind him. As Xanthos turned his back to look at the supposed man that was with him, Melanthus struck Xanthos with his weapon, killing him and ending the war. He returned victorious to Athens and became its new king. Another version of events by Pausanias, states that it was Melanthus' father Andropompus who killed Xanthos. This event became the base upon which the festival of Apaturia was created. Melanthus was later succeeded by Codrus, who was considered to be a forefather to the Greek philosopher Plato. According to Diogenes Laertius who cited Thrasylus as his source, Codrus and Melanthus also trace their descent from Poseidon.
Melanthus was also a shipmate of Acoetes who attempted to kidnap Dionysus.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Codrus - child
- child - Andropompus
- child - Henioche
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Melite
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of Mount Melite on the mythical island of the Phaiakes (Phaeacians)--later identified with Greek island of Korkyra (Corcyra). According to some she was the mother of Hyllos by Herakles (Deianeira, however, was usually named as the boy's mother).
Melite was probably identified with the honey-nymph Makris. Their fathers also appear to be connected--Aigaios (Of the Goats) and Aristaios Nomios (Of the Pastures).Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
- child - Aegaeus
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Menelaus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Sparta. According to the Iliad, the Trojan War began as a result of Menelaus's wife, Helen, fleeing to Troy with the Trojan prince Paris. Menelaus was a central figure in the Trojan War, leading the Spartan contingent of the Greek army, under his elder brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey, Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy, the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus.
He was the younger brother of Agamemnon, and the husband of Helen of Troy. According to the usual version of the story, followed by the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and Aerope, daughter of the Cretan king Catreus. However, according to another tradition, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus's son Pleisthenes, with their mother being Aerope, Cleolla, or Eriphyle. According to this tradition Pleisthenes died young, with Agamemnon and Menelaus being raised by Atreus. Agamemnon and Menelaus had a sister Anaxibia (or Astyoche) who married Strophius, the son of Crisus.
According to the Odyssey, Menelaus had only one child by Helen, a daughter named Hermione; and an illegitimate son, Megapenthes, by a slave. The mythographer Apollodorus, tells us that Megapenthes's mother was a slave "Pieris, an Aetolian, or, according to Acusilaus, ... Tereis", and that Menelaus had another illegitimate son Xenodamas by another slave girl, Cnossia,Life Stages: Hero, King, Mortal
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Metanira
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: A queen of Eleusis as wife of King Celeus. She was the daughter of Amphictyon, the king of Athens.
While Demeter was searching for her daughter, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis in Attica. He asked her to nurse Demophoon, his son by Metanira. As a gift to Celeus, because of his hospitality, Demeter planned to make Demophoon immortal by burning his mortal spirit away in the family hearth every night. She was unable to complete the ritual because Metanira walked in on her one night and screamed at seeing her child in flames, which distracted the goddess. Some theories suggested that Demophoon, as a result, was destroyed by the flames, but in other sources he suffered no harm. the baby was Triptolemus and not Demophoon, although in most other versions he was an adult by the time; some sources state that even his parentage was different. However, all versions agree that Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus the art of agriculture and, from him, the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops. He flew across the land on a winged chariot while Demeter and Persephone cared for him, and helped him complete his mission of educating the whole of Greece on the art of agriculture. Some mythological traditions tell that Metanira's son Abas mocked Demeter and as punishment was turned into a lizard; others, however, relate this of Ascalabus, son of Misme.Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Triptolemus - adopted
- Callithoe - child
- Callidice - child
- Demo - child
- Cleisidice - child
- Saesara - child
- Demophon - child
- child - Amphictyon
- married - Celeus
- child - Cranaë
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Minos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Minyas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Persephone - child
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Mynes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Lacedamonian father of Pedias, wife of the autochthonous King Cranaus of Athens, who bore him three daughters: Cranaë, Cranaechme, and Atthis.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Pedias - child
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Neaera
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Neleus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Argonaut, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Neonus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Phthian prince as the son of King Hellen of Thessaly, the son of Deucalion, the Hellenic progenitor. His mother was the nymph Orseis, and thus he was the brother to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and Xenopatra. Neonus was the father of Dotus, eponym of Dotium in Thessaly.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Nephele
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Nephele was the name of a minor goddess of clouds and rain; she was created by Zeus—via parthenogenesis and apotheosis—sculpted from a cloud in the image of Hera, all in order to deceive Ixion after the latter had violated Zeus' Xenia attempting to force himself on Hera. Hera told Zeus of Ixion's attempt and, in order to test him, Zeus made a cloud in the image of Hera, which Ixion later assaulted, an act for which he was punished by Zeus.[4] As the immortal creation of an immortal being, Nephele's creation could not be undone, and her assault by Ixion left her pregnant. Nephele later gave birth to a monstrous son, which she raised and named Centaurus.
Life Stages: Nephelai, Sky God
Relationships:
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Nestor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A legendary king of Pylos. He is a prominent secondary character in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, where he appears as an elderly warrior who frequently offers advice to the other characters.
Relationships:
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Norax
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Gargoris - child
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Nymphai Aiaia
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Naiad- and Dryad-nymph handmaidens of the goddess-witch Kirke (Circe) on the mythical island of Aiaia
Life Stages: Dryad Nymph, Naiad Nymphs
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Oebalus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Oedipus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Orestes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He was also known by the patronymic Agamemnonides (Ἀγαμεμνονίδης), meaning "son of Agamemnon." He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness, revenge, and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older works. In particular Orestes plays a main role in Aeschylus' Oresteia. Orestes is a member of the doomed house of Atreus, which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe. He is absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returns from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. Seven years later Orestes returns from Athens and avenges his father's death by slaying both Aegisthus and his own mother, Clytemnestra.
In the Odyssey Orestes is held up as a favorable example to Telemachus, whose mother, Penelope, is plagued by suitors.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hermione - married
- Tisamenus - child
- child - Agamemnon
- child - Clytemnestra
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Orseis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
Relationships:
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Orsinome
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Ouranos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Protogenoi
Relationships:
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Pan
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, Rustic, Saytr
Relationships:
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Pasiphaë
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Sky God
Relationships:
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Pedias
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Lacedamonian daughter of Mynes. She married the autochthonous King Cranaus who reigned in Athens and bore him three daughters: Cranaë, Cranaechme, and Atthis.
Life Stages: Tree I, Mortal
Relationships:
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Pelasgus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Son of Triopas and Sois, and a brother of Iasus, Agenor, and Xanthus. According to Greek legends, he founded the sanctuary of Demeter in Argos and for this reason she was worshipped at this temple under the name Pelasgian Demeter.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Pelasgus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Argive prince as son of Poseidon and Larissa, daughter of the Pelasgus, son of Triopas. Together with his brothers Phthius and Achaeus, they left Achaean Argos with a Pelasgian contingent for Thessaly. They then established a colony on the said country naming it after themselves: Pelasgiotis, Phthiotis and Achaea. Pelasgus was also the founder of the Thessalian Argos. He was also said to be the father of Phrastor by the nymph Menippe. Pelasgus is also said to have been the ancestor of the Tyrrhenians through the following lineage: Pelasgus - Phrastor - Amyntor - Teutamides - Nanas. In the latter's reign, the Pelasgians were believed to have left Greece and to have settled in a new land that later came to be named Tyrrhenia.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
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Pelias
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Philomache - married
- Alcestis - child
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Pelops
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Hippodamia - married
- Atreus - child
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Peneleos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Achaean soldier in the Trojan War. Before the war began he was said to have sailed with the Argonauts; he also was one of the suitors of Helen, which obliged him to join in the campaign against Troy. He came from Boeotia and commanded 12 ships. t is also said that Peneleos was chosen to command the Boeotian troops because Tisamenus, son and successor of Thersander, was still too young.
When Poemander attempted to avoid serving in the Trojan War, he accidentally slew his own son Leucippus, and Peneleos was among those who escorted him to be purified by Elephenor on Chalcis.
Peneleos killed two Trojans, Ilioneus and Lycon, was wounded by Polydamas and was killed by Eurypylus (son of Telephus). He left a son Opheltes, whose own son (Peneleos' grandson) Damasichthon succeeded Autesion, son of Tisamenus, as the ruler over Thebes.Life Stages: Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Asterope
- child - Hippalcimus
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Peneus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Potamoi
Relationships:
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Penthilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Messenia, son of Periclymenus. Penthilus married Anchirhoe and became the father of Andropompus, father of King Melanthus of Athens.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Anchirhoe - married
- Andropompus - child
- child - Periclymenus
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Periclymene
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Periclymenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A Pylian prince as the son of King Neleus and Chloris. He was one of the Argonauts. His grandfather, Poseidon gave him the ability to shapeshift into various animals. He was killed by Herakles at Pylos, although he tried to escape in the form of an eagle. He was the father of Penthilos.
Life Stages: Tree I, Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
- Penthilus - child
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Perimele
Status: alive
Biography: Daughter of Admetus and Alcestis, mother of Magnes by Argus (son of Phrixus and Chalciope).
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Persephone
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Daughter of Minyas wife of Amphion (son of Iasus) and mother of Chloris and Phylomache, respectively the wives of Neleus and Pelias
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Phanes
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Pg 2
Primordial god of creation in the Orphic cosmogony. He was the generator of life--the driving force behind reproduction in the early cosmos. Phanes was hatched from the world-egg, a primordial mix of elements split into its constituent parts by Khronos (Chronos) (Time) and Ananke (Inevitability).
Phanes was the first king of the universe who handed the royal sceptre over to his daughter Nyx (Night), who in turn handed it down to her son Ouranos (Uranus) (Heaven). It was then seized by the Titan Kronos (Cronus), and afterwards by Zeus, the ultimate ruler of the cosmos. Some say Zeus devoured Phanes in order to absorb his power and redistribute it among a new generation of gods--the Olympians he would sire.
The Orphics equated Phanes with the elder Eros (Desire) of Hesiod's Theogony. Phanes also incorporated aspects of other primordial beings described by various ancient writers such as Thesis, Physis and Ophion. Phanes also echoes the figures of Metis (i.e. Thesis, Creation), the goddess devoured by Zeus, and Tethys, nurse of all.
Phanes was described as a beautiful, golden-winged, hermaphroditic deity wrapped in the coils of a serpent. His name means "bring to light" or "make appear" from the Greek verbs phanaô and phainô.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Pheres
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Periclymene - married
- Admetus - child
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Philammon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree II, Argonaut, Mortal
Relationships:
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Philomache
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phrixus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Phthius
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Eponymous ruler of Phthiotis in southern Thessaly. Phthius was the son of Poseidon and Larisa, daughter of Pelasgus. He was the brother of Achaeus and the younger Pelasgus. Phthius became the father of Amphictyone who bore to Asterius a son, Dotius (Dotis). The latter being one of the possible eponyms of Dotium (Dotion) in Thessaly.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Amphictyone - child
- child - Larissa
- child - Poseidon
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Physis
Status: alive
Pronouns: any
Biography: Pg 2
Primordial goddess of the origin and ordering of nature. The Orphics titled her Protogeneia "the First Born."
Physis was similar to the primordial deities Eros (Procreation), Phanes and Thesis (Creation). The creator-god was regarded as both male and female.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Polynices
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia, and the brother of Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene. When Oedipus discovered that he had killed his father and married his mother, he blinded himself and left Thebes, leaving Polynices and Eteocles to rule jointly. However, due to a curse placed upon them by Oedipus, their agreement quickly fell apart, and a war for the kingdom ensued. During battle, the brothers killed each other.
Polynices married Argia, a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos and his wife Amphithea. Together they had three sons: Adrastus, Thersander, and Timeas.
In the Thebaid, the brothers were cursed by their father for their disrespect towards him on two occasions. The first of these occurred when they served him using the silver table of Cadmus and a golden cup, which he had forbidden. The brothers then sent him the haunch of a sacrificed animal, rather than the shoulder, which he deserved. Enraged, Oedipus prayed to Zeus that the brothers would die by each other's hand. However, in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus desired to stay in Thebes but was expelled by Creon. His sons argued over the throne, but Eteocles gained the support of the Thebans and expelled Polynices, who went to Oedipus to ask for his blessing to retake the city, but instead was cursed to die by his brother's hand. His son was Thersander.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Argia - married
- Thersander - child
- child - Jocasta
- child - Oedipus
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Poseidon
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Olympian
Relationships:
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Pygmaeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Ancestor of the Pygmies, a tribe of diminutive men living at the southernmost shores of the great earth-encircling river Okeanos. He was the son of Dorus, son of King Epaphus of Egypt.
Life Stages: King
Relationships:
- The Pygmies - child
- child - Dorus
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Pygmalion
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I (840–832 BC).
During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone discussion below), and, according to tradition, Carthage. For the story surrounding the founding of Carthage, see Dido.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- child - Belus
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Pyrrha
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II
Relationships:
- Amphictyon - child
- married - Deucalion
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Rhodope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Oreiad- and Naiad-nymph of Kikonia (Ciconia) in Thrake (north of Greece). She was a daughter of the river-god Hebros and wife of the Kikonian king Haimos (Haemus). She and her husband were transformed into mountains as punishment for impersonating Zeus and Hera.
The couple were similar to the Ourea--minor gods of individual mountain peaks which were not usually the subjects of worship.
the wife of Haemus and queen of Thrace. She and her husband were punished together by being transformed into mountain ranges after daring to compare themselves to Zeus and Hera, the highest gods. The Rhodope Mountains, nowadays shared between Bulgaria and Greece, were named after this queen.Life Stages: Oreiad Nymph
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Rhodope
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Oceanid nymphs. She was one of the playmates of Persephone in the meadows of Sicily when the latter was abducted by her uncle Hades to be his queen in the underworld.
Life Stages: Oceanid Nymph
Relationships:
- Hebros - child
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Saesara
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Eleusinian princess as the daughter of King Celeus and possibly Metaneira, and thus probably the sister of Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice, Callithoe, Demophon, and Triptolemus. She married Crocon and became the mother of Meganeira, wife of Arcas, son of Zeus and Callisto.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
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Sois
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Sparta
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree I, Mortal
Relationships:
- Amyclas - child
- married - Lacedaemon
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Syceus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Gigantes (Giants) or Titanes who waged war on the gods. Zeus pursued him to Kilikia (Cilicia) where his mother Gaia (the Earth) hid him in her bossom and transformed him into the first fig-tree.
Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- turned - The Gigantes
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Symaithis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Naiad-nymph of the River Symaithos in Sicily loved by the god Pan.
Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Symaithos
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A river-god of eastern Sikelia (Sicily).
The Symaithos river had its headwaters in the Nebrodes Mountains of north-eastern Sikelia, and flowed around Mount Aitna (Etna) to enter the Meditertanean Sea south of the town of Katana (Catana). Other personified Sicilian rivers included the Akis (Acis) to the north, Anapos to the south and Krimisos (Crimisus) to the west. The closest river on the Italian mainland was the Kaikinos (Caicinus) of Bruttium.Life Stages: Tree II, Potamoi
Relationships:
- Symaithis - child
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Taygete
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: One of the Pleiades and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals", with its likely roots in prehistory. Mount Taygetos in Laconia, dedicated to the goddess, was her haunt.
The Taygetus mountain on the Peloponnese was named after her.
As he mastered each of the local nymphs one by one, Olympic Zeus pursued Taygete, who invoked her protectress Artemis. The goddess turned Taygete into a doe with golden horns, any distinction between the Titaness in her human form and in her doe form is blurred: the nymph who hunted the doe in the company of Artemis is the doe herself. As Pindar conceived the myth-element in his third Olympian Ode, "the doe with the golden horns, which once Taygete had inscribed as a sacred dedication to Artemis Orthosia", ("right-minded" Artemis) was the very Ceryneian Hind that Heracles later pursued. For the poet, the transformation was incomplete, and the doe-form had become an offering. Pindar, who was a very knowledgeable mythographer, hints that the mythic doe, even when slain and offered to Artemis, also continues to exist, to be hunted once again (although not killed) by Heracles at a later time.
Taygete conceived Lacedaemon, the mythical founder of Sparta, through Zeus, and Eurotas. Pausanias noted, at Amyclae, that the rape of Taygete was represented on the throne.Life Stages: Pleiad Nymph
Relationships:
- Lacedaemon - child
- pollinated - Zeus
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Telephus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: The son of Heracles and Auge, who was the daughter of king Aleus of Tegea. He was adopted by Teuthras, the king of Mysia, in Asia Minor, whom he succeeded as king. Telephus was wounded by Achilles when the Achaeans came to his kingdom on their way to sack Troy and bring Helen back to Sparta, and later healed by Achilles. He was the father of Eurypylus, who fought alongside the Trojans against the Greeks in the Trojan War. Telephus' story was popular in ancient Greek and Roman iconography and tragedy. Telephus' name and mythology were possibly derived from the Hittite god Telepinu.
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Cyparissus - child
- child - Auge
- child - Heracles
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Telestor
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Father of Eurypylus
Life Stages: Mortal
Relationships:
- Eurypylus - child
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Terpsichore
Status: alive
Life Stages: Tree II, Olympian
Relationships:
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Thamyris
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Thracian singer. He is notable in Greek mythology for reportedly having been in love with Hyacinth before the latter's relationship with Apollo and having been the first mortal male to have loved another male. He was later punished by the Muses when he challenged them to a musical competition.
Thamyris was the son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope from Mount Parnassus.Life Stages: Mortal
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The Curetes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: (The Kouretes)
Life Stages: Tree I
Relationships:
- Anytus - turned
- Hoplodamus - turned
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The Gegenees
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: A tribe of six-armed giants who fought the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia.
Jason and the Argonauts landed on an island where the Gegenees resided. The Argonauts fought them and unknowingly left Heracles on the island where he continued to fight them. The Argonauts returned and were able to help Heracles fight them off.Life Stages: Giant
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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The Gigantes
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: Tree I, Giant
Relationships:
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The Laestrygonians
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Life Stages: Tree I, Giant, Legendary Tribe
Relationships:
- Antiphates - turned
- child - Laestrygon
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The Nesoi
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Primordial goddess of the origin and ordering of nature. The Orphics titled her Protogeneia "the First Born."
Physis was similar to the primordial deities Eros (Procreation), Phanes and Thesis (Creation). The creator-god was regarded as both male and female.Life Stages: Protogenoi
Relationships:
- child - Gaea
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The Pygmies
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: (THE PYGMAIOI) 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.
GERANA, OINOE, NIKODAMOS, MOPSOSLife Stages: Legendary Tribe
Relationships:
- child - Pygmaeus
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Theiodamas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of the Dryopes, father of Hylas by the nymph Menodice, daughter of Orion. The Bibliotheca and Apollonius Rhodius relate of him that one day when he was working the land with a plough pulled by two bulls, he encountered Heracles. The latter, being short of food at the moment, slaughtered one of Theiodamas' bulls and consumed it. Theiodamas attempted to start a fight over the bull and was killed by Heracles. Apollonius Rhodius suggests that the incident was simply a pretext for Heracles to start a war against the unjust Dryopes; according to Apollodorus, Heracles did conquer the people in alliance with Ceyx of Trachis.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Mecionice / Menodice - married
- Hylas - child
- child - Dryops
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Themisto
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Life Stages: Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
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Thersander
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: One of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes. This is in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the war of the Seven against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing. Thersander was the son of Polynices and Argia. He was succeeded by his son Tisamenus, whose mother was Demonassa.
Thersander may have bribed Eriphyle with the robe of Harmonia so that she sent her son, Alcmaeon, to fight with him. His father did the same with the necklace of Harmonia, to convince her to send her husband with the original attackers. The attack of the Epigoni was successful, and Thersander became the king of Thebes. Thersander intended to fight for the Greeks during the Trojan War, but was killed by Telephus before the war began, while the Greeks had mistakenly stopped in Mysia. Pindar refers to Thersander as gaining honor after Polynices' death and preserving the house of Adrastus for later generations.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Thesis
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 2
Primordial goddess of creation, a divinity related to Physis (Mother Nature). She occurs in the Orphic Theogonies as the first being to emerge at creation alongside Hydros (the Primordial Waters) and Mud. Thesis was sometimes portrayed as the female aspect of the first-born, bi-gendered god Phanes (Life).
Thesis also appears in myth in the guise of Metis, the creator-goddess devoured by Zeus, and Tethys the nurse, mother of all creation. However, in extant literature, Metis and Tethys are only distantly related to the cosmic creator-goddess described in Alcman's Theogony and by the Orphics.Life Stages: Protogenoi
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Thriae
Status: alive
Pronouns: they/them
Biography: Ph 41
Three prophetic nymphs of Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece). They were minor goddesses of the art of divinitation by pebbles and of the birds of omen which were gifted to Hermes by the god Apollon. They were apparently envisaged as nymphs with the heads of women and the bodies of bees. The Thriai may have been identified with the Korykiai, nymphs of the prophetic springs of Mount Parnassos. They also appear to be related to the Melissai (Mellissae), bee and honey nymphs. Depicted as goddess with the head of a woman and the body of a bee.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Thyia
Status: alive
Pronouns: she/her
Biography: Pg 40
Naiad-nymph of a spring on Mount Parnassos in Phokis.
She was said to have been the first to sacrifice to Dionysus and to celebrate orgies in his honour. Hence, the Attic women, who every year went to Mount Parnassus to celebrate the Dionysiac orgies with the Delphian Thyiades, received themselves the name of Thyades or Thyiades (synonymous with Maenads). She was also closely associated with the prophetic Castalian Spring.
She was a close friend of Chloris, wife of Neleus, son of Poseidon.Life Stages: Naiad Nymphs
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Tisamenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: Tisamenus succeeded his father to the thrones of Argos, Mycenae and Sparta.
Tisamenus was later killed in the final battle with the Heracleidae, who sought to retake the Peloponnese as their ancestral land. Following his death, the victors divided his lands among them. Cresphontes became King of Messene, Oxylus of Elis and Temenus of Argos. The twin sons of Aristodemus, Eurysthenes and Procles jointly received the throne of Sparta. The historical Kings of Sparta belonged to the co-ruling houses of the Agiads and Eurypontids and claimed their respective descent from the brothers.Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Tisamenus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A king of Thebes, son of Thersander and Demonassa, the daughter of Amphiaraus. When Thersander died on Mysia in the Trojan War, Peneleos acted as regent for Tisamenus until he came of age. Little is known about his rule. He was succeeded by his son Autesion.
Life Stages: King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Autesion - child
- child - Demonassa
- child - Thersander
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Triopas
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
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Triptolemus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Agrarian God, Apotheosis
Relationships:
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Trochilus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Mortal
Relationships:
- Celeus - child
- Triptolemus - child
- married - Eleusis
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Tyndareus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: King of Sparta for 2 reigns, with his brother Hippocoon in between.
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, King, Mortal
Relationships:
- Leda - married
- Helen - child
- Clytemnestra - child
- child - Batea
- child - Oebalus
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Typhoeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Beast, Giant
Relationships:
- Caucasian Eagle - child
- married - Ekhidna
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Zeus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Life Stages: Tree I, Tree II, Olympian
Relationships:
- Taygete - pollinated
- Lacedaemon - child
- Gaea - pollinated
- Cyprian Centaurs - child
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Zeuxippus
Status: alive
Pronouns: he/him
Biography: A prince of Pherae as the son of King Eumelus and possibly, Iphthime, daughter of Icarius of Sparta. He was the father of Armenius, himself father of Henioche.
Life Stages: Mortal
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