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Aether in Wikipedia

Aether (mythology) originally was the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven, in Greek mythology....

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Ajax in Wikipedia

Ajax or Aias (Greek: Αἴας, gen. Αἴαντος) was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis[1]. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus (Ajax the Lesser), he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater A...

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Aeacus in Wikipedia

Aeacus (also spelled Eäcus, Greek Αἰακός, "bewailing" or "earth borne"[citation needed]) was a mythological king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. He was son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus.[1] He was born in the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been carried by Zeus to secure her from the anger...

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Aeneas in Wikipedia

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (Greek: Αἰνείας, Aineías, derived from Greek Αἰνή meaning "to praise"; pronounced /ɪ ˈniːəs/ in English) was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was also the second cousin of King Priam of Troy. The journey of Aeneas from Troy (with help from Aphrodite), which led ...

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Aether in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Αἰθήρ), a personified idea of the mythical cosmogonies. According to that of Hyginus (Fab. Pref. p. 1, ed. Staveren), he was, together with Night, Day, and Erebus, begotten by Chaos and Caligo (Darkness). According to that of Hesiod (Hes. Th. 124), Aether was the son of Erebus and his sister Night, and a brother of Day. (Comp. Phornut. De Nat...

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Aeneas in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ai)nei/as). Homeric Story. Aeneas was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and born on mount Ida. On his father's side he was a great-grandson of Tros, and thus nearly related to the royal house of Troy, as Priam himself was a grandson of Tros. (Hom. Il. 20.215, &c., 2.820, 5.247, &c.; Hes. Th. 1007, &c.) He was educated from his i...

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Ajax in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ai)/as). 1. A son of Telamon, king of Salamis, by Periboea or Eriboea (Apollod. 3.12.7; Paus. 1.42.4; Pind. I. 6.65; Diod. 4.72), and a grandson of Aeacus. Homer calls him Ajax the Telamonian, Ajax the Great, or simply Ajax (Il. 2.768, 9.169, 14.410; comp. Pind. I. 6.38), whereas the other Ajax, the son of Oileus, is always distinguished fro...

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Achilles in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀχιλλεύς). In the legends about Achilles, as about all the heroes of the Trojan war, the Homeric traditions should be carefully kept apart from the various additions and embellishments with which the gaps of the ancient story have been filled up by later poets and mythographers, not indeed by fabrications of their own, but by adopting those supple...

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Aeëtes in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Aeetes (also spelled Æetes) (Greek: Αἰήτης), (Laz: Ayet), (Georgian აიეტი), was a son of the sun- god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis (a daughter of Oceanus), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus. King of Colchis (ancient kingdom of Lazs and Georgia). According to others, he was brother o...

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Aethra in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Aethra or Aithra (Ancient Greek: Αἴθρα, the "bright sky"[1]) was a name applied to three individuals: Æthra was a daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and, with the king Aegeus of Athens - or in some versions, Poseidon -father of Theseus. Ægeus went to Troezen, a city southwest of Athens that had as its patrons Athena and P...

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