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Ancile in Wikipedia

The Ancile, in ancient Rome, is the legendary buckler shield of the god Mars, said to have fallen from heaven, upon Numa Pompilius. At the same time, a voice was heard which declared that Rome should be mistress of the world while the shield was preserved. The Ancile was, as it were, the palladium of Rome. Different authors give different etym...

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Anteros in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Anteros (Greek: Ἀντέρως, Antérōs) was the god of requited love, literally "love returned" or "counter-love" and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love. Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as ...

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Apollo in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀπόλλων). 1. one of the great divinities of the Greeks, was, according to Homer (Hom. Il. 1.21, 36), the son of Zeus and Leto. Hesiod( Hes. Th. 918) states the same, and adds, that Apollo's sister was Artemis. Neither of the two poets suggests anything in regard to the birth-place of the god, unless we take Λυκηγενὴς (Il. 4.101) in the sense ...

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Alecto in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

[FURIAE.] - 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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Amphion in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀμφίων). 1. A son of Zeus and Antiope, the daughter of Nycteus of Thebes, and twin-brother of Zethus. (Ov. Met. 6.110, &c.; Apollod. 3.5.5.) When Antiope was with child by the father of the gods, fear of her own father induced her to flee to Epopeus at Sicyon, whom she married. Nycteus killed himself in despair, but charged his brother Ly...

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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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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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