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Andraemon in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Andraemon, or Andraimôn, was the husband son Oxylus and husband of Dryope. A different Andraemon was the husband of Gorge and the father of Thoas. - Wikipedia...

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Anteros in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

[EROS.] - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Arachne in Wikipedia

In Greco-Roman mythology, Arachne (pronounced /əˈrækni/) was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Minerva, the Latin parallel of Pallas Athena, goddess of crafts. Arachne refused to acknowledge that her knowledge came, in part at least, from the goddess. The offended goddess set a contest between the two we...

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Alectryon in Wikipedia

Alectryon (Greek: άλεκτρυών) is the Ancient Greek word for "rooster". In Greek mythology, Alectryon was a youth, charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep, and Helios, the sun, walked in on the couple. Ares turned Alectryon into a rooster, which never forgets to announ...

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Amphitrite in Wikipedia

In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη) was a sea- goddess and wife of Poseidon.[1] Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea. In Roman mythology, the consort of Neptune, a comparatively minor figure, was Salacia...

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Andraemon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀνδραίμων). 1. The husband of Gorge, the daughter of the Calydonian king Oeneus, and father of Thoas. When Diomedes delivered Oeneus, who had been imprisoned by the sons of Agrius, he gave the kingdom to Andraemon, since Oeneus was already too old. (Apollod. 1.8. §§ 1 and 6; Hom. Il. 2.638; Paus. 5.3.5.) Antoninus Liberalis (37) represents Oe...

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Antigone in Wikipedia

Antigone (pronounced /ænˈtɪɡəni/; Greek Ἀντιγόνη) is the name of two different women in Greek mythology. The name may be taken to mean "unbending", coming from "anti-" (against, opposed to) and "-gon / -gony" (corner, bend, angle; ex: polygon), but has also been suggested to mean "opposed to motherhood" or "in place of a mother" based from the...

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Arachne in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

a Lydian maiden, daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in purple. His daughter was greatly skilled in the art of weaving, and, proud of her talent, she even ventured to challenge Athena to compete with her. Arachne produced a piece of cloth in which the amours of the gods were woven, and as Athena could find no fault with it, sh...

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Althaea in Wikipedia

Althaea (also commonly spelled Althea, Ancient Greek: Ἀλθαία - Althaía) was in Greek mythology the daughter of King Thestius and Eurythemis, and was sister to Lecla, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Euippus, &c.[1] She was also the wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of five sons, Meleager, Melanippe (one of the Meleagrids), Troxeus, Thyreu...

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Amphitrite in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀμφιτρίτη), according to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 243) and Apollodorus (1.2.7) a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus (1.2.2, 1.4.6) calls her an Oceanid. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon. In the Homeric poems she does not occur as a goddes...

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