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Bellerophon Bellerophon ( ; Greek: Βελλεροφῶν ) or Bellerophontes (Βελλεροφόντης ) is a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", and his greatest feat was killing the Chimera, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "her breath came out in terrible blasts of burning flame." Bellerophon was born at Corinth and was the son of the mortal Eurynome by either her husband Glaucus, or Poseidon.
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Heracles Heracles ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς , "Hēraklēs", from "Hēra", "Hera"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος , "Alkaios") or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης , "Alkeidēs"), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι ), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.
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Dardanus In Greek mythology, Dardanus ( ; Greek: Δάρδανος) was a son of Zeus and Electra (daughter of Atlas) and founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad.
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Persephone In Greek mythology, Persephone ( , ; ), also called Kore ( ; "the maiden") or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter and is the queen of the underworld. Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic princess of the underworld, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead. Persephone was married to Hades, the god-king of the underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence, she is also associated with spring as well as the fertility of vegetation. Similar myths appear in the Orient, in the cults of male gods like Attis, Adonis, and Osiris, and in Minoan Crete.
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Hebe (mythology) Hebe ( ; Greek: Ἥβη ) in ancient Greek religion, is the goddess of youth (Roman equivalent: Juventas). She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles (Roman equivalent: Hercules); her successor was the divine hero Ganymede. Another title of hers, for this reason, is "Ganymeda". She also drew baths for her brother Ares and helped Hera enter her chariot.
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Hippomenes In Greek mythology, Hippomenes (Ancient Greek: Ἱππομένης ), also known as Melanion (Μελανίων or Μειλανίων), was a son of the Arcadian Amphidamas or of Megareus of Onchestus and the husband of Atalanta. He was known to have been one of the disciples of Chiron, and to have surpassed other disciples in his eagerness to undertake hard challenges. Inscriptions mention him as one of the Calydonian hunters.
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Minos In Greek mythology Minos ( or ; Greek: Μίνως , "Minōs") was the first King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld. The Minoan civilization of Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans. By his wife, Pasiphaë (or some say Crete), he fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus, Acacallis and Xenodice. By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son called Euxanthius. By Androgeneia of Phaestus he had Asterion, who commanded the Cretan contingent in the war between Dionysus and the Indians. Also given as his children are Euryale, possibly the mother of Orion with Poseidon, and Pholegander, eponym of the island Pholegandros.
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Balius and Xanthus Balius ( ; Ancient Greek: Βάλιος, "Balios", possibly "dappled") and Xanthus ( ; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος, "Xanthos", "blonde") were, according to Greek mythology, two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyrus; following another tradition, their father was Zeus.
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Alke In Greek mythology, the name Alke (Ἁλκή "prowess, courage"), also transliterated as Alce, may refer to:
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Aethalides Aethalides (Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλίδης ) was a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of Myrmidon. He was the herald of the Argonauts, and had received from his father the faculty of remembering everything, even in Hades. He was further allowed to reside alternately in the upper and in the lower world. As his soul could not forget anything even after death, it remembered that from the body of Aethalides it had successively migrated into those of Euphorbus, Hermotimus, Pyrrhus, and at last into that of Pythagoras, in whom it still retained the recollection of its former migrations.
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Alcyoneus (disambiguation) Alcyoneus is a Giant, and opponent of Heracles in Greek mythology.
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Almus (son of Sisyphus) In Greek mythology, Almus (Ἄλμος) was a son of Sisyphus and brother of Glaucus, Ornytion and Thersander. Most of the available information concerning him is recorded in Pausanias' "Description of Greece". According to said author, Almus received a small tract of land in Orchomenus from King Eteocles and dwelt there; a village was believed to have been named Almones (later Olmones) after him. This is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium, who refers to Pausanias' work but calls the character Olmus (Ὄλμος) to account for the most recent form of the village's name.
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Amphilochus (brother of Alcmaeon) In Greek mythology, Amphilochus (Greek: Ἀμφίλοχος ) was one of the Epigoni. He was the younger son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and the brother of Alcmaeon.
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Phaeax (mythology) In Greek Mythology, Phaeax (Greek: Φαίαξ ) was a son of Poseidon and Cercyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. Conon calls him the father of Alcinous and Locrus.
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Polyphemus Polyphemus ( ; Greek: Πολύφημος "Polyphēmos") is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's "Odyssey". His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphemus first appears as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the "Odyssey". Some later Classical writers link his name with the nymph Galatea and present him in a different light.
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Dione (mythology) Dione ( ; Διώνη "Dios" "She-Zeus" or "dios" "divine one") is the name of four women in ancient Greek mythology, and one in the Phoenician mythology of Sanchuniathon. "Dione" is translated as "Goddess", and given the same etymological derivation as the names "Zeus", "Diana", et al. Very little information exists about these nymphs or goddesses, although at least one is described as beautiful and is sometimes associated with water or the sea. Perhaps this same one was worshiped as a mother goddess who presided over the oracle at Dodona, Greece and was called the mother of Aphrodite.
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Paralus and Xanthippus Paralus and Xanthippus (Gr. Πάραλος and Ξάνθιππος ) were the two legitimate sons of Pericles, Xanthippus being the older one and Paralus the younger, and hence members of the Alcmaeonid family. Xanthippus was named after Pericles' father, while Paralus was named after the sacred trireme and flagship of the Athenian fleet.
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Alexicacus Apollo Alexicacus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξίκακος ), the "averter of evil", was an epithet given by the Ancient Greeks to several deities, such as Zeus, and Apollo, who was worshiped under this name by the Athenians, because he was believed to have stopped the plague which raged at Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian War. It was also applied to Heracles.
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Porthaon In Greek mythology, Porthaon (Greek: Πορθάων, genitive Πορθάονος ), sometimes referred to as Parthaon or Portheus (seems related to the verb "portheō" and "perthō", "destroy'), was the king of Calydon, husband of Euryte and father of Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus and Sterope, also of the Argonaut Laocoön by an unnamed female servant, or by Euryte too. He was the son of Agenor (by Epicaste) who was the son of Pleuron who was the son of Aetolus who was the son of Endymion. He was the brother of Demonice (also known as Demodice).
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Amalthea (mythology) In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Greek: Ἀμάλθεια ) is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus.
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Crinacus In Greek mythology, Crinacus was the son of Zeus, and the father of Macar.
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Heracles of Macedon Heracles of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς ; c. 327 – 309 BC) was a reputed illegitimate son of Alexander the Great of Macedon by Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia. Heracles was named after the Greek mythological hero of the same name, from whom the Argeads claimed descent.