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Alcmene in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀλκμήνη), a daughter of Electryon, king of Messene, by Anaxo, the daughter of Alcaeus. (Apollod. 2.4.5.) According to other accounts her mother was called Lysidice (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 7.49; Plut. Thes. 7), or Eurydice. (Diod. 4.9.) The poet Asius represented Alcmene as a daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. (Paus. 5.17.4.) Apollodorus menti...

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Admetus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)/Admhtos), a son of Pheres, the founder and king of Pherae in Thessaly, and of Periclymene or Clymene. (Apollod. 1.9.2, 9.14.) He took part in the Calydonian chase and the expedition of the Argonauts. (Apollod. 1.9.16; Hyg. Fab. 14. 173.) When he had succeeded his father as king of Pherae, he sued for the hand of Alcestis, the daughter of P...

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Aegyptus in Wikipedia

Aegyptus is the Latin name of ancient Egypt, a civilization in northeastern Africa that thrived for over 3,000 years. The civilization was known for its rich culture, advanced technology, and intricate religious beliefs. Aegyptus played a significant role in the development of human history, with achievements such as the construction of massive py...

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Aeson in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Aeson or Aison (Greek: Αἴσων) was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, who also had his brothers Pheres and Amythaon. Aeson was the father of Jason and Promachus with Polymede, the daughter of Autolycus.[1] Other sources say the mother of his children was Alcimede[2] or Amphinome.[3] Aeson's mother Tyro had two other sons, Neleus ...

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Aglaia in Wikipedia

Aglaea or Aglaïa (Greek: Ἀγλαΐα) is the name of five figures in Greek mythology.Charis - The youngest of the Charites, Aglaea or Aglaia ("splendor, brilliant, shining one") was Hephaestus' wife and Asclepius' daughter in Greek mythology. Other sources cite her and her sisters as the daughters of Zeus and the Oceanid Eurynome. Her other two sist...

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Alcyone in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Alcyone (Ancient Greek: Ἁλκυόνη Halkyónē) was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale. She married Ceyx, son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star. They were very happy together in Trachis, and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's account, often sacrilegiously called each other "Zeus" and "Hera".[1] This angered Zeus, so ...

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Achilles in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: Ἀ÷éeeåýò, Achilleus) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy. Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the first century AD) state that...

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Achelous in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Achelous (English pronunciation: /ækɨˈloʊ.əs/; Greek: Ἀχελῷος Achelōos) was the patron deity of the "silver-swirling"[1] Acheloos River, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its own river spirit. His name is pre-Greek, its meaning unknown. The Greeks invented etymologi...

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Acheron in Wikipedia

In ancient Greek mythology, Acheron was known as the river of pain, and was one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld. In the Homeric poems the Acheron was described as a river of Hades, into which Cocytus and Phlegethon both flowed. The Roman poet Virgil called it the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and Cocytus both sprang. T...

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Acheron in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀχέρων). In ancient geography there occur several rivers of this name, all of which were, at least at one time, believed to be connected with the lower world. The river first looked upon in this light was the Acheron in Thesprotia, in Epirus, a country which appeared to the earliest Greeks as the end of the world in the west, and the locality of t...

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