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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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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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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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Aegeus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (Greek: Αἰγεύς), also Aigeus, Aegeas or Aigeas (Αιγέας), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens. The "goat-man" who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens. Upon the death of the king his father, Pa...

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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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Alcestis in Wikipedia

Alcestis (Ἄλκηστις) is a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband. Her story was popularised in Euripides's tragedy Alcestis. She was the daughter of Pelias, king of Iolcus, and either Anaxibia or Phylomache. In the story, many suitors appeared before King Pelias, her father, when she became of age to marry. It was declar...

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Actaeon in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Actaeon (pronounced /ækˈtiːən/) (Greek: Άκταίων), son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. [1] Like Achilles in a later generation. he was trained by the centaur Cheiron. He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis,[2] but the surviving details of his transgression vary: "the only ce...

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Aeolus in Wikipedia

Aeolus or Eolus[1] (Greek: Αἴολος Aiolos /ájjolos/, Modern Greek: /ˈe.olos/ ( listen)) was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which. D...

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Aethra in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ai)/qra). 1. A daughter of king Pittheus of Troezen. Bellerophon sued for her hand, but was banished from Corinth before the nuptials took place. (Paus. 2.31.12.) She was surprised on one occasion by Poseidon in the island of Sphaeria, whither she had gone, in consequence of a dream, for the purpose of offering a sacrifice on the tomb of Sph...

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