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Isus

In Greek mythology, Isus (Ancient Greek: Ἶσόν) was a minor character mentioned in Homer's Iliad, one of the sons of King Priamos by an unidentified woman. He was killed by Agamemnon. Little is known of Isus other than brief mentions or relatives. He was known as a brother of Antiphus, son of Priamos and Hekabe.

## Classical Text

"But even as he rushed straight upon him the king smote him on the forehead with his sharp spear, nor was the spear stayed by his helm, heavy with bronze, but passed through it and through the bone, and all his brain was spattered about within; so stayed he him in his fury. These then did Agamemnon, king of men, leave there, [100] gleaming with their naked breasts, when he had stripped off their tunics, and went on to slay Isus and Antiphus, two sons of Priam, one a bastard and one born in wedlock, the twain being in one car: the bastard the reins, but glorious Antiphus stood by his side to fight. These twain had Achilles on a time bound with fresh withes amid the spurs of Ida, taking them as they were herding their sheep, and had set them free for a ransom. But now the son of Atreus, wide-ruling Agamemnon, struck Isus on the breast above the nipple with a cast of his spear, and Antiphus he smote hard by the ear with his sword, and cast him from the chariot."
*Homer, Iliad 11.95 - 11.109*
Delphin

DELPHIN (Δελφιν) was a dolphin-shaped sea daimon in the service of the god Poseidon. When his master was wooing the Nereid Amphitrite and she fled, Delphin was sent to find the nymphe and persuade her to agree to the marriage. For his service Poseidon placed the dolphin amongst the stars as the constellation Delphinus.
Kydnos

Kydnos (Κυδνος) was a river-god of Kilikia (Cilicia) in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

The River Kydnos had its headwaters in the Tarsos Mountains on the Kilikian border with Syria and flowed into the Mediterranean near the city of Tarsos. The most important neighboring rivers were the Lamos to the west and the Syrian Orontês in the south-east.
Karya

The Greek word karya was used for three types of nut tree, but usually the walnut and hazel. The walnut is a deciduous tree growing 25 to 35 metres tall. The male flowers are drooping catkins which fruit in autumn with green, fleshy husks containing an edible nut. Walnuts, as well as hazelnuts and sweet chestnuts were harvested by the ancients.
Ianthe

The Okeanid of "violet flowers" or the colour "violet". She may have been a Nephelai of the violet tinged clouds of dawn, or more likely an Anthousa (flower-nymph) of violets.

## Classical Text

*"From Oceanus and Tethys [were born] the Oceanides--namely yaea, Melite, Ianthe, Admete, Stilbo, Pasiphae, Polyxo, Eurynome, Euagoreis, Rhodope, lyris, Clytia, Teschinoeno, Clitenneste, Metis, Menippe, Argia."*
Ilagus

## Classical Text

"SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF PRIAM TO THE NUMBER OF LV: Hector, Deiphobus, Cebriones, Polydorus, Helenus, Alexander, Hipposidus, Antinous, Agathon, Dius, Mestor, Lysides, Polymedon, Ascanius, Chirodamas, Evagoras, Dryops, Astynomus, Polymelus, Laodice, Ethionome, Phegea, Henicea, Demnosia, Cassandra, Philomela, Polites, Troilus, Palaemon, Brissonius, Gorgythion, Protodamas, Aretus, Dolon, Chromius, Eresus, Chrysolaus, Demosthea, Doryclus, Hippasus, Hyperochus, Lysianassa, Iliona, Nereis, Evander, Proneos, Archemachus, Ilagus, Axion, Binates, Hippothous, Deiopites, Medusa, Hero, Creusa."
Lamos

Lamos (Λαμος) was a river-god of Kilikia in Anatolia or Boiotia in central Greece. His daughters, the Lamides, may have been the nurses of Dionysos.

Dionysos was born from the thigh of Zeus on Mount Nysa beside the stream of the Lamos. Both the mountain and the river were variously identified. Nonnus, in his epic *Dionysiaca*, identifies the Lamos as the Kilikian river of the same name lying west of the river Kydnos. Another candidate was the Boiotian stream Lamos which Pausanias describes rising near the peaks of Mount Helikon and flowing south through the territory of the Thespians. The Lamian vale was hemmed in to the south by Mount Kithairon-- a center of the Dionysian orgies. Kithairon was probably the Mount Nysa of the Dionysian myth.
Hyas

HYAS was a minor god (*daimon*) of seasonal rains heralded by the rising of the constellation Aquarius. He was a brother of the Hyades (Rain-Nymphs) and a son of the sky-bearing Titan Atlas.

As a young boy Hyas was killed by a lion while fetching water and was afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aquarius. His five mourning sisters and the lion were also elevated to the sky as the constellations Hyades and Leo. Aquarius and Leo do not share the sky at the same time--one sets as the other rises--, an eternal chase playing out in the heavens.
Idmon

In Greek mythology, **Idmon** was one of two of the Argonauts' seers. Allegedly a son of Apollo, he had Abas (or Ampykus) as his mortal father (foster father). His mother was Asteria, daughter of Koronus, or Kyrene, or else Antianeira, daughter of Pheres. By Laothoe he had a son Thestor. Idmon was skilled in seeing the future by recognizing omens from birds (a method used by an augr) and burnt offerings.  Idmon foresaw his own death (being gored by a wild boar) in the Argonaut expedition, but joined anyway. During the outbound voyage of Argo, a boar killed him in the land of the Mariandyni, in Bithynia.
Kêphisos (Tributary of the Inakhos)

Kêphisos (Cephisus) was a river-god of Argos in the Peloponnese, southern Greece.

The Kephisos stream was a small tributary of the Inakhos river of Argos. Like that river and the Asterion it ran dry in summer.

"The oldest tradition in the region now called Argolis is that when Inakhos was king he named the river after himself and sacrificed to Hera. There is also another legend which says that Phoroneos (Phoroneus) was the first inhabitant of this land, and that Inakhos, the father of Phoroneos, was not a man but the river. This river, with the rivers Kephisos and Asterion, judged concerning the land between Poseidon and Hera. They decided that it belonged to Hera, and so Poseidon made their waters disappear. For this reason neither Inakhos nor either of the other rivers I have mentioned provides any water except after rain. In summer their streams are dry except those at Lerna."

-Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 15. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
Laelaps

A magical dog destined to always catch its prey. Zeus had given it Europa as a gift, and it was later handed down to King Minos and then to Prokris of Athens.  Prokris' husband Amphitryon who had been given the task of catching the Teumessian Fox which had been ravishing the countryside of Thebes used the dog in his effort.  The fox, however, was destined never to be caught.  Zeus, perplexed by the conflicting fates of the two animals turned them both to stone and set them in the sky as Canis Major (Laelaps) and Canis Minor (Teumessian Fox).

## Classical Text

"Teumesia. Those who have written on Theban affairs have given a full account of the Teumesian Fox (Alopekos Teumesia). They relate that the creature was sent by the gods to punish the descendants of Kadmos (Cadmus), and that the Thebans therefore excluded those of the house of Kadmos from the kingship. But they say a certain Kephalos (Cephalus), the son of Deion, an Athenian, who owned a Hound [Lailaps (Laelaps)] which no beast ever escaped, had accidentally killed his wife Prokris (Procris), and being purified of the homicide by the Kadmeans, hunted the Fox with his Hound, and when they had overtaken it both Hound and Fox were turned into stones near Teumessos (Teumessus). These writers have taken the story from the Epic Cycle."
Iphikles

Iphikles shared the womb with Herakles.  Iphikles took part in the Kalydonian Boar Hunt.  This is one of if not the only heroic activity which Iphikles ever took part in.  Ironically, despite his many exploits Iphikles' brother Herakles took no part in the hunt as he was in the service of Queen Omphale of Lydia.

## Spouse & Lovers

Automedusa
Pyrrha

## Children

Iolaus
Unknown Child with Pyrrha
Unknown Child with Pyrrha
Kerberos

Kerberos was the gigantic, three-headed hound of Hades which guarded the gates of the underworld and prevented the escape of the shades of the dead.

Kerberos was depicted as a three-headed dog with a serpent's tail, mane of snakes, and a lion's claws. According to some he had fifty heads although this count may have included the serpents of his mane.

Herakles was sent to fetch Kerberos as one of his twelve labors, a task which he accomplished with the aid of the goddess Persephonê.

Kerberos' name perhaps means "Death-Daemon of the Dark" from the ancient Greek words kêr and erebos.
Kepheus (King of Tegea)

In Greek mythology, **Cepheus** (/ˈsiːfiəs, -fjuːs/; Ancient Greek: Κηφεύς *Kephéus*) was the successor of his father Aleus as the king of Tegea, Arcadia. He and his brother Amphidamas are counted among the Argonauts.

## Family

### Parents

Cepheus' mother was named as Neaera or Cleobule, and he was the brother of Amphidamas, Lycurgus of Arcadia, Auge and Alcidice. Cepheus had twenty sons, one of whom was named Aeropus, and at least three daughters, Sterope, Aerope and Antinoe.

## Mythology

Cepheus and his sons joined Heracles in his campaign against Hippocoon, while Sterope was given by Heracles a lock of Medusa to protect Tegea in the absence of men. According to various authors, Cepheus lost either all or seventeen of his sons, and himself was killed in that campaign.

The city of Caphyae was believed to have received its name from Cepheus. Cepheus was said to be the founder of the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus.
Kholkikos Drakon

The **Kholkikos Drakon** was the ever awake serpent that guarded the Golden Fleece in a grove sacred to Ares in Kolkhis. When the Argonauts came to acquire the Fleece, they had to get past it. There are two theories as towards how they past the Drakon, either Medea put the monster to sleep so Iason could grab the fleece while it slumbered or Jason slew it.  There is also a belief that the monster swallowed Jason and then regurgitated him thanks to the power of Medea, so that Jason could then slay the beast. After the monster was killed, its teeth were taken, and just as Kadmos did they were planted in the earth. From the teeth were grown the Spartoi.

The Kholkikos Drakon is associated with the Ismenian Drakon not only because both caused Spartoi to grow from its teeth (both Drakons had their teeth planted in the ground) but because the Ismenian Drakon was a son of Ares and the Kholkios Drakon guarded a grove sacred to Ares.

The Kholkikos Drakon is sometimes confused with the Hesperian Drakon because both guarded sacred objects in a location (the Hesperian Drakon guarding the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides) but because just as the Kholkikos Drakon was unresting, the fact that Ladon had one-hundred heads meant that he was rarely completely asleep.
Kalypso (Okeanid)

An Okeanid whose name means "hidden", "covered"or "veiled". She may have been the Naiad of a covered or hidden spring or the Aurai of invisible breezes.

## Classical Text

"Then beautiful Persephone answered her thus: "Mother, I will tell you all without error. When luck-bringing Hermes came, swift messenger from my father the Son of Cronos and the other Sons of Heaven, bidding me come back from Erebus that you might see me with your eyes and so cease from your anger and fearful wrath against the gods, I sprang up at once for joy; but he secretly put in my mouth sweet food, a pomegranate seed, and forced me to taste against my will. Also I will tell how he rapt me away by the deep plan of my father the Son of Cronos and carried me off beneath the depths of the earth, and will relate the whole matter as you ask. All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leucippe and Phaeno and Electra and Ianthe, Melita also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe, fair as a flower, Chryseis, Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows: we were playing and gathering sweet flowers in our hands, soft crocuses mingled with irises and hyacinths, and rose-blooms and lilies, marvellous to see, and the narcissus which the wide earth caused to grow yellow as a crocus. That I plucked in my joy; but the earth parted beneath, and there the strong lord, the Host of Many, sprang forth and in his golden chariot he bore me away, all unwilling, beneath the earth: then I cried with a shrill cry. All this is true, sore though it grieves me to tell the tale."-Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter
Idyia

Idyia (Ιδυια) was an Okeanid-nymph of the town of Kolkhis in Aia at the eastern end of the Black Sea. She was the wife of King Aeetes and the mother of the witch Medea.

Idyia's name was derived from the Greek word eidô meaning "to see" or "to know." She probably personified the power of the eye which in Greek superstition was the source of a witch's supernatural powers. As an Okeanid-nymph she was presumably also the Naiad of the main well or fountain of Kolkhis--the marriage of founding-king and local Naiad is a common motif in Greek myth. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, she was the youngest of the Ôkeanides.

## Family

### Children

Medea
Khalkiope
Absyrtos
Kepheus

In Greek Mythology, *Kephéus* (Κηφεύς) was the son of Aleus and Neaera or Kleobule, and brother of Amphidamas, Lykoûrgos of Arkadia, Auge and Alkidike. He and his brother Amphidamas are counted among the Argonauts.

Kepheus succeeded his father as the king of Tegea, Arkadia. He had twenty sons (one of whom was named Aeropus) and at least three daughters, Sterope, Aerope (Daughter of Kepheus) and Antinoe. Kepheus and his sons joined in his campaign against Hippocoon, while Sterope was given by Herakles a lock of Medusa to protect Tegea in the absence of men. According to various authors, Kepheus lost either all or seventeen of his sons, and himself was killed in that campaign

The city of Kaphyae was believed to have received its name from Kepheus.

Kepheus was said to be the founder of the town of Kyrenia in Kyprus.
Iphigenia

## Mythology

Iphianassa being sacrificed by her father on the altar of the "Virgin of the Crossways"

## Classical Text

[E.3.21] "But when they had put to sea from Argos and arrived for the second time at Aulis, the fleet was windbound, and Calchas said that they could not sail unless the fairest of Agamemnon's daughters were presented as a sacrifice to Artemis; for the goddess was angry with Agamemnon, both because, on shooting a deer, he had said, “Artemis herself could not (do it better),” 70 and because Atreus had not sacrificed to her the golden lamb."
Kynokephaloi

The Kynokephaloi (Κυνοκεφαλοι) were a tribe of dog-headed men native to Africa and India. The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed from the Greek words *kuôn* "dog" and *kephalos* "head".

The legend probably originated in ancient travellers' accounts of African baboons which were mistaken for a tribe of men. Indeed the name Kynokephalos was later used by the Greeks for this very animal.

## Classical Text

"For the eastern region of Libya, which the Nomads inhabit, is low-lying and sandy as far as the Triton river; but the land west of this, where the farmers live, is exceedingly mountainous and wooded and full of wild beasts. In that country are the huge snakes and the lions, and the elephants and bears and asps, the horned asses, the Kunokephaloi (Cynocephali) (Dog-Headed) and the Headless Men that have their eyes in their chests, as the Libyans say, and the wild men and women, besides many other creatures not fabulous."

- *Herodotus, Histories 4. 191. 3 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) :*
Karpô

KARPO (Carpo) was the goddess of the fruits of the earth. She was numbered amongst the Horai (Seasons). Karpo was worshipped in Athens alongside the goddesses Auxo (Growth) and Hegemone (Leader).

Karpo (Fruiting) was probably originally just a title of Demeter as the goddess of the earth's fruits, just as Auxo (Growth) was a title of Persephone as the goddess of spring growth, and Hegemone (Leader) was a title of Artemis or Hekate as leader of the processions the Mysteries.
Laodokus (Argonaut)

Laodokus (Λαόδοκος) whose name was sometimes spelled Leodokus (Λαοδόκος) means "receiving the people" was (along with his brothers Areius and Talaus was an Argonaut. Talaus was the king of Argos and one of the Argonauts. He was the son of Bias and Pero. His wife was Lysimache, daughter of Polybus. He was the father of Adrastus, Aristomakhus, Astynome, Eriphyle, Mecisteus, Metidike, and Pronax.

## Classical Text

*"From Argos came Talaus and Areius, sons of Bias, and mighty Leodocus, all of whom Pero daughter of Neleus bare..."*

- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.118
Khersidamas

Khersidamas was one of the bastard sons of Priam. He was killed by Odysseus as he had just jumped down from his chariot.

## Classical Text

"By other women Priam had sons, to wit, Melanippus, Gorgythion, Philaemon, Hippothous, Glaucus, Agathon, Chersidamas, Evagoras, Hippodamas, Mestor, Atas, Doryclus, Lycaon, Dryops, Bias, Chromius, Astygonus, Telestas, Evander, Cebriones, Mylius, Archemachus, Laodocus, Echephron, Idomeneus, Hyperion, Ascanius, Democoon, Aretus, Deiopites, Clonius, Echemmon, Hypirochus, Aegeoneus, Lysithous, Polymedon; and daughters, to wit, Medusa, Medesicaste, Lysimache, and Aristodeme."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.5

"Which of the noble Greeks has given you praise or sought your company? Yet Diomed has shared his deeds with me and praises me, and, while Ulysses is with him, is brave and confident. 'Tis worthy of regard, when out of many thousands of the Greeks, a man becomes the choice of Diomed! It was not lot that ordered me to go; and yet, despising dangers of the night, despising dangers of the enemy, I slew one, Dolon, of the Phrygian race, who dared to do the very things we dared, but not before I had prevailed on him to tell me everything, by which I learned perfidious actions which Troy had designed. Of such things now, I had discovered all that should be found out, and I might have then returned to enjoy the praise I had deserved. But not content with that, I sought the tent of Rhesus, and within his camp I slew him and his proved attendants. Having thus gained as a conqueror my own desires, I drove back in a captured chariot,—a joyous triumph. Well, deny me, then. The arms of him whose steeds the enemy demanded as the price of one night's aid. Ajax himself has been more generous. Why should I name Sarpedon's Lycian troops among whom I made havoc with my sword? I left Coeranos dead and streaming blood, with the sword I killed Alastor, Chromius, Alcander, Prytanis, Halius, and Noemon, Thoon and Charops with Chersidamas, and Ennomus—all driven by cruel fate, not reckoning humbler men whom I laid low, battling beneath the shadow of the city walls. And fellow citizens, I have my wounds honorable in the front. Do not believe my word alone. Look for yourselves and see!” Then with one hand, he drew his robe aside. “Here is a breast,” he cried, “that bled for you! But Ajax never shed a drop of blood to aid his friends, in all these many years, and has a body free of any wound."

- Ovid. Metamorphoses xiii, 238-267
Khrysippe

Khrysippe was the daughter of Memphis and Danaus. She took part in the mass marriage of the fifty daughters of King Danaus to the fifty sons of King Aigyptos. She would wed Khrysippos. That night she and forty-eight of the other forty-nine daughters killed their respective husbands with daggers provided to them by Danaus.
Idaios

## Classical Text

Ilus, the father of Laomedon, had, he says, a plume of horsehair and, among the sons of Priam, Melanippos and Idaios likewise.  Xanthe and Balios, the horses of Achilles, once belonged to giants and they were the only ones to fight alongside the gods against their brothers.  When Odysseus had a shipwreck close to Thyla in Sicily, the shield of Achilles was thrown ashore near the monument of Ajax; placed next to the monument, it was struck by lightening the next day.
- Photius, Bibliotheca 190.37
Kisseus

Kisseus was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos who married the fifty daughters of King Danaus

## Classical Text

"The twelve sons of [Aigyptos and] a Naias Nymphe named Kaliadne drew lots for the daughters of [Danaus and] Polyxô, also a Naias. The sons were named Eurylokhos, Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermos, Dryas, Potamon, Kisseus, Lixos, Imbros, Bromios, Polyktor, and Khthonios; the girls were Autonoe, Theano, Êlektrê, Kleopatra, Eurydike, Glaukippe, Antheleia, Kleodore, Euippe, Eratô, Stygne, and Bryke."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Khimaira

The **Khimaira** (Χιμαιρα) is a child of Typhôeus and Ekhidna. It was slain by Bellerophontês.

## Appearance

The Khimaira had a head of a lion, and in some depictions, the head of a goat in addition to the lion, the body of a goat, or a lion, and the tail of a living serpent. This beast is able to breathe fire as well as give a poisonous bite.

## Powers

The lion and goat heads are able to breathe fire. The serpent gives a poisonous bite to make it more dangerous.

## Death

Khimaira was finally slain by the joint effort Bellerophontês and Pegasos.
Hylas

Hylas was a close companion of Herakles and even joined the crew of the Argo being one of the original Argonauts.

## Abduction

At some point The Argonauts stopped at Mysia and Hylas was sent to get water. Hylas went to a spring at Askanios in eastern Mysia When Hylas approached it a Mysian Nymph named Dryope who had already spotted and fallen immediately in love with Hylas grabbed him into a kiss with one arm and seized him by the elbow with the other and abducting him. Though Herakles and Polyphemus searched extensively they never found him and Dryope made him her lover (in some versions her husband).

## Classical Text

"Hylas whom Herakles (Heracles) loved, while off on a mission to fetch water [for the Argonauts in Mysia], was kidnapped by Nymphai (Nymphs) because of his beauty."

*- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 117* (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Laodike (Daughter of Priam)

Laodike In Greek mythology (Ancient Greek: Λαοδίκη), was the daughter of Priam of Troy and Hekaba. She was described as the most beautiful of Priam's daughters. The Iliad mentions Laodike as the wife of Heliaon, son of Antenor, although according to *Hyginus* she was the wife of Telephus, king of Mysia and son of Herakles.

## Mythology

Before the outbreak of the Trojan war Laodike fell in love with Acamas, son of Theseus, who had come to Troy to try to recover Helen through diplomatic means. She became pregnant and bore him the son Munitus. Munitus was given to Acamas'kgrandother Aethra, who was then a slave to Helen. After the war had ended, camas took his son with him. Much later, unitus was bitten by a snake while hunting with his father in Thrace and died.

According to the Bibliotheca and several other sources, in the night of the fall of Troy Laodice feared she might become one of the captive women and prayed to the gods. She was swallowed up in a chasm that opened on the earth.

Pausanias, however, mentions her among the captive Trojans painted in the Lesche of Delphi. He assumes that she was subsequently set free because no poet mentions her as a captive, and he further surmises that the Greeks would have done her no harm, since she was married to a son of Antenor, who was a guest-friend of the Greeks Menelaus and Odysseus.
Karmanor

KARMANOR (Carmanor) was a Kretan demi-god of the harvest. He was a consort of the goddess Demeter and the father of Euboulos (Eubulus), demi-god of ploughing, Khrysothemis (Chrysothemis), demi-goddess of the harvest-festival, and Akakallis (Acacallis) "the Daffodil." His grand-daughter Karme (Carme) shared his name and function.

Karmanor's name means "the Shearer" from the Greek words *karma* "cropped" and *keirô*, "to crop or shear".

Karmanor was perhaps identified with Iasion, the Samothrakian consort of Demeter who was sometimes also located in Krete.
Khrysolaus

## Classical Text

"SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF PRIAM TO THE NUMBER OF LV: Hector, Deiphobus, Cebriones, Polydorus, Helenus, Alexander, Hipposidus, Antinous, Agathon, Dius, Mestor, Lysides, Polymedon, Ascanius, Chirodamas, Evagoras, Dryops, Astynomus, Polymelus, Laodice, Ethionome, Phegea, Henicea, Demnosia, Cassandra, Philomela, Polites, Troilus, Palaemon, Brissonius, Gorgythion, Protodamas, Aretus, Dolon, Chromius, Eresus, Chrysolaus, Demosthea, Doryclus, Hippasus, Hyperochus, Lysianassa, Iliona, Nereis, Evander, Proneos, Archemachus, Ilagus, Axion, Binates, Hippothous, Deiopites, Medusa, Hero, Creusa."

- Hyginus, Fabulae 90
Khromis

## Classical Text

"I saw Petraeus when he strove to tear up from the earth, an acorn-bearing oak. And, while he struggled with it, back and forth, and was just ready to wrench up the trunk, Pirithous hurled a well aimed spear at him, transfixed his ribs, and pinned his body tight, writhing, to that hard oak: and Lycus fell and Chromis fell, before Pirithous. They gave less glory to the conqueror than Helops or than Dictys. Helops was killed by a javelin, which pierced his temples from the right side, clear through to his left ear. And Dictys, running in a desperate haste, hoping in vain, to escape Ixion's son, slipped on the steep edge of a precipice; and, as he fell down headlong crashed into the top of a huge ash-tree, which impaled his dying body on its broken spikes.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.327-12.340 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)
Kaikos

Kaikos was a river-god of Teuthrania in southern Mysia, Anatolia (modern Turkey).

The headwaters of the River Kaikos were located in the Temnos Mountains and it entered the Aegean Sea near the town of Pitane on the Mysian border with Lydia. The most important neighboring rivers were the Satnioeis to the north-west and Hermos to the south.
Iphitos (Son of Naubolus)

Iphitos, son of Naubolus and king of Phocis, others say his father was the son of Hippasus from Peloponessus. He entertained Jason when he consulted the Delphic Oracle and later joined the Argonauts. Iphitus an ally of Thebans in the war of the Seven against Thebes. He was the leader of men from Phocis and the cities of Panope, Daulis, Cyparissos, Lebadia and Hyampolis during the war. By his wife Hippolyte, Iphitos became the father of Schedius and Epistrophus who led the Phocians in the Trojan war.
Karnus

In Greek mythology, **Carnus** (also spelled **Carneus** and **Carneius**) (Ancient Greek: Κάρνος) was a seer from Acarnania, who was instructed in the art of divination by Apollo. According to the poet Praxilla, he was a son of Zeus and Europa, who was brought up by Apollo and Leto. Alternatively, he was Apollo's lover in some accounts.

Carnus accompanied the Heracleidae, and was killed by Hippotes with a spear for giving obscure prophecies. Apollo then struck the Dorians with plague; having consulted an oracle, they banished Hippotes from their camp and established a cult of Apollo Carneius to propitiate the god.
Latreus

## Classical Text

"Five of the centaurs Caeneus put to death: Styphelus, Bromus, and Antimachus, Elymus, and Pyracmos with his axe. I have forgot their wounds but noted well their names and number. Latreus, huge of limb, had killed and stripped Emathian Halesus. Now in his armor he came rushing out, in years he was between old age and youth; but he retained the vigor of his youth; his temples showed his hair was mixed with grey. Conspicuous for his Macedonian lance and sword and shield, facing both sides -- each way, he insolently clashed his arms; and while he rode poured out these words in empty air. `Shall I put up with one like you, O Caeneus? For you are still a woman in my sight. Have you forgot your birth or that disgrace by which you won reward—at what a price you got the false resemblance to a man?! Consider both your birth, and what you have submitted to! Take up a distaff, and wool basket! Twist your threads with practiced thumb! Leave warfare to your men!’ While puffed-up pride was vaunting out such nonsense, Caeneus hurled a spear and pierced the stretched out running side, just where the man was joined upon the horse. The Centaur, Latreus, raved with pain and struck with his great pike, the face of Caeneus. His pike rebounded as the hail that slants up from the roof; or as a pebble might rebound from hollow drum. Then coming near, he tried to drive a sword into the hard side of Caeneus, but it could not make a wound. ‘Aha!’ he cried, ‘this will not get you off. The good edge of my sword will take your life, although the point is blunt!’ He turned the edge against the flank of Caeneus and swung round the hero's loins with his long, curving arm. The flesh resounded like a marble block, the keen blade shattered on the unyielding skin. And, after Caeneus had exposed his limbs unhurt to Latreus, who stood there amazed, `Come now,’ he said, `and let us try my steel against your body!’ And, clear to the hilt, down through the monster's shoulder-blade he plunged his deadly sword and, turning it again, deep in the Centaur's entrails, made new wounds within his wound.

- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.459-12.493 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)
Karmê

Karmê was a Kretan demi-goddess of the harvest. She was a daughter of Eubouleus, demi-god of ploughing, and the mother of the huntress Britomartis by Zeus. Karme's male counterpart was her grandfather Karmanor, a Kretan consort of the goddess Dêmêtêr.

Karme's name was derived from the word *karma* "cropped" and *keirô* "to crop or shear."
Kaanthos

In Greek mythology, **Kaanthos** (Καάνθου) was the son of Okeanos and Tethys, and the brother of Melia, who was the consort of Apollo, and an important cult figure at Thebes. According to the second-century geographer Pausanias, Caanthus was commanded by his father Oceanus to seek his sister Melia, who had been abducted by Apollo. But being unable to get Melia away from Apollo, Caanthus set fire to the Apollo's sanctuary, and Apollo shot and killed him.

The story of Caanthus is a close parallel to the more famous story of Cadmus, the founder and first king of Thebes. Like Caanthus, Cadmus' sister Europa is abducted by an Olympian god (in this case Zeus), and Cadmus is sent by his father to bring Europa back home, and like Caanthus, Cadmus is unsuccessful. Caanthus' story is perhaps also related to the story of the Theban Amphion. According to Hyginus, Amphion, like Caanthus, was shot and killed by Apollo because of an attack on his temple.

According to Pausanias, Caanthus was buried near a spring above the Ismenion, the Temple of Apollo at Thebes. Pausanias identified the spring as the famous spring of Ares, where Cadmus killed the dragon guarding it.
Kôkytos

Kôkytos, (Greek: Κωκυτός) meaning "wailing," one of the Potomoi. In Greek Mythology, he is the god of one of the infernal rivers of the underworld. Like most of the river gods, the river he has domain over bears his name. The river is known as the river of lamentation where souls wail their regrets.

The Kôkytos river flows into the river Akherôn, across which is the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead. The deities of the other rivers (and the rivers which they govern) are Styx (whose river is perhaps the most famous), Pyriphlegethon, Lethe and Akherôn. All five of the infernal rivers are governed by a Potamoi or one of the elder Okeanides.
Ketô (Okeanid)

Keto was an Okeanid naiad nymph.  She was loved by the god Helios.  Keto bore him a daughter Astris who was born a star nymph and became the wife of the river-god of Indian river Hydaspes.  It is possible that Keto also was from India.  Very little information about Keto exists and she is only identified by Nonnus in Dionysiaca.

## Spouse & Lovers

Helios (lover)
Hydaspes (husband)

## Ancient Text

"Astris daughter of Helios (the Sun), happy in her offspring--men say that her mother was Keto (Ceto), a Naias (Naiad) daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus)."
Killa

A daughter of Laomedon and Plakia or Leukippe, and a sister of Priamos. At the time when Hekabe was pregnant with Paris, the seer Aisakos declared that mother and child must be put to death in order to avert a great calamity; but Priam, who referred this prophetic declaration to Cilla and her son Munippus by Thymoetus, made them suffer instead of Hekabe and Paris.
Istros (Son of Aigyptos)

Istros (Ἰστρίη) or Istrus was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos. Istros' mother was an unnamed arabian woman. The same woman that gave birth to Istros bore nine other sons to Aigyptos. In the mass wedding of the sons of Aigyptos to the daughters of Danaus, Istros wed Hippodamia.

## Classical Text

"[The daughters of Danaus married the sons of Aigyptos:] Hippodameia went to Istros, Rhodia to Khalkodon, Kleopatra to Agenor, Asteria to Khaetos, Phylodameia to Diokorystos, Glauke to Alkes, Hippomedusa to Alkmenor, Gorge to Hippothous, Iphimedusa to Eukhenor, and Rhode to Hippolytos. These ten sons had an Arabian mother, while the girls were the daughters variously of Atlanteia and Phoibe, two Hamadryas Nymphai."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 17 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Kalypsô

Kalypso (Καλυψω) was the goddess-nymph of the mythical island of Ogygia and a daughter of the Titan Atlas. She detained the hero Odysseus for many years in the course of his wanderings after the fall of Troy but was eventually commanded by Zeus to release him.

## Children

* Nausithous (by Odysseus)
* Nausinous (by Odysseus)
Khthonios (Son of Aigyptos)

Khthonios is one of the fifty sons of Aigyptos

## Classical Text

"The twelve sons of [Aigyptos and] a Naias Nymphe named Kaliadne drew lots for the daughters of [Danaus and] Polyxô, also a Naias. The sons were named Eurylokhos, Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermos, Dryas, Potamon, Kisseus, Lixos, Imbros, Bromios, Polyktor, and Khthonios; the girls were Autonoe, Theano, Êlektrê, Kleopatra, Eurydike, Glaukippe, Antheleia, Kleodore, Euippe, Eratô, Stygne, and Bryke."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Kleodore

Kleodore was the daughter of Polyxô and King Danaus. She took part in the mass marriage of the fifty daughters of King Danaus to the fifty sons of King Aigyptos. She would wed Lixus. That night she and forty-eight of the other forty-nine daughters killed their respective husbands with daggers provided to them by Danaus.
Kalydonian Boar

**The Kalydonian Boar** (*Hus Kalydonios*) was a huge boar that was summoned by Artemis.

## Mythology

After King Oineus of Kalydon, refused to offer the gods the first fruits that were harvested, Artemis summoned the boar and sent it to attack the countryside.

After the King was informed about the beast he summoned various heroes to kill the beast. King Oineus' son Meleagros led the Kalydonian Boar Hunt and also killed the boar himself. He gave the head to Atalanta for drawing the first blood. Atalanta offered the skin to Artemis by hanging it from a tree in her sacred Arkadian grove.
Ialmenus

In Greek mythology, Ialmenus /aɪˈælmɪnəs/ or Ialmenos (Ancient Greek: Ἰάλμενος) was a son of Ares and Astyoche, and twin brother of Ascalaphus. Together with his brother, he sailed with the Argonauts, was among the suitors of Helen and led the Orchomenian contingent in the Trojan War.

Unlike Ascalaphus, Ialmenus survived the war. He was said to have ended up in Colchis, where he founded a colony, the inhabitants of which were later referred to as the "Achaeans of Pontus".
Krokalê

Krokale was one of sixty young Okeanid Nymphs which formed the core retinue of the goddess Artemis. Their names suggest they were Nephelai (Cloud Nymphs). Since many of the younger Okeanides were cloud nymphs quite a few found themselves as attendants of Aretemis. This is because Artemis once approached her father and asked for followers (see below).
Khromius (Son of Priam)

Khomius was one of the bastard sons of Priam. He was killed by Diomedes.

## Classical Text

"By other women Priam had sons, to wit, Melanippus, Gorgythion, Philaemon, Hippothous, Glaucus, Agathon, Chersidamas, Evagoras, Hippodamas, Mestor, Atas, Doryclus, Lycaon, Dryops, Bias, Chromius, Astygonus, Telestas, Evander, Cebriones, Mylius, Archemachus, Laodocus, Echephron, Idomeneus, Hyperion, Ascanius, Democoon, Aretus, Deiopites, Clonius, Echemmon, Hypirochus, Aegeoneus, Lysithous, Polymedon; and daughters, to wit, Medusa, Medesicaste, Lysimache, and Aristodeme."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.5

"Then took he two sons of Priam, Dardanus' son, Echemmon and Chromius, the twain being in one car. Even as a lion leapeth among the kine and breaketh the neck of a heifer or a cow as they graze in a woodland pasture, so did Tydeus' son thrust both these in evil wise from their car, sorely against their will, and thereafter despoiled them of their armour; and the horses he gave to his comrades to drive to the ships."

- Homer, Iliad 5.159-5.165
Kadukeus

The Kadukeus is the sacred symbol of Hermes. It is a winged scepter (not a staff) with two snakes intertwined around around it. The Kadukeus is often shown at medical locations which is ironic since despite the fact that Hermes is a jack of many trades one which he is not is medicine or anything related to it.
Iphitos (Oekhalian Prince)

In Greek mythology, Iphitos or Īphitus (/ˈɪfɪtəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἴφιτος) was an Oechalian prince and one of the Argonauts.

## Family

Iphitus was the son of King Eurytus of Oechalia and Antiope or Antioche,

## Mythology

It is told that after Herakles finished his 12 labours, he came to Oechalia to compete in archery for the hand of Iole; he won and yet he was refused the bride by Eurytus and his sons (except Iphitus who said that Iole should be given to Heracles), on the ground that he could once more kill his offspring as he had done to his children by Megara. Shortly after some cattle were stolen by the notorious thief Autolycus, and Heracles was held responsible; but Iphitus did not believe it and, having gone to meet him, he invited him to seek the cattle with him. Heracles promised to do so but suddenly he went mad again and he threw Iphitus from the walls of Tiryns killing him.

During his search for the cattle, Iphitos met Odysseus in Messenia, befriended him, and gave Odysseus his father Eurytus's bow.
Hypermnestra

Hypermnestra was one of the Danaides (the fifty daughters of Danaus) who were married to the fifty sons of Aigyptos.  Despite the fact that Danaus ordered his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night, Hypermnestra did not kill hers (Lynkeus).  She did so because he had respected her desire to stay a virgin on her wedding night.

## Classical Text

"First, they picked out Hypermnestra as the eldest to be the wife of Lynceus, and Gorgophone to be the wife of Proteus; for Lynceus and Proteus had been borne to Egyptus by a woman of royal blood, Argyphia"

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.4
Kentauroi Thessalioi

Abas
Amykos
Antimakhos
Aphareus
Aphidas
Areos
Arktos
Asbolos
Astylos
Biênôr
Bromos
Demeleôn
Diktys
Dolyas
Dryalos

Ekheklos
Elymos
Erigdoupos
Eurynomos
Eurytiôn
Gyreneus
Helops
Hippasos
Hodites
Hylaios
Hylês
Hylonomê
Imbreus
Iphinoos
Khromis
Khthionios
Klanis
Kometes
Krênaios
Kyllaros
Latreus
Lykabas
Lykas
Lykidas
Lykopês
Medôn
Melaneus
Mimas
Mônykhos
Myles
Nêdymnos
Nessos
Orneios
Oureios
Peisênor
Perimêdês
Petraios
Peukeus
Phaiokomês
Phlegraios
Phobas
Pholos
Pisenor
Pyraimôn
Pyrakmos
Pyretos
Rhoitos
Ripheus
Styphelos
Têleboas
Thaumas
Thêreus
Kottos

Kottos (Κοττος) was one of the Hekantonkheires, three primordial hundred-handed, fifty-headed storm giants. He was more specifically a god of sea-storms and in this guise he was often named Aigaion (Of the Aegean). Kottos and his brother Gyês, were appointed guardians of the gates of the storm-pit Tartaros. Kottos' name was derived from the Greek words *kotos, and koteô*) meaning "grudge" or "rancour."
Khrysēís

Khrysēís (Χρυσηΐς) is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Khryses. Khrysēís, her apparent name in the *Iliad*, means simply "Chryses' daughter." The poet Tzetzes describes her to be *"very young and thin, with milky skin; had blond hair and small breasts; nineteen years old and still a virgin"*.

## Mythology

Khrysēís was sent by her father for protection, or, according to others, to attend the celebration of a festival of Artemis in Hypoplacian Thebe or in Lyrnessus where she was taken as prisoner by Akhilles. According to some, she was the wife of Eetion, king of Lyrnessus who was killed by the son of Peleus during his campaigns against the allies of Troy.

In the first book of the *Iliad*, during the distribution of the booty brought by Akhilles, she was given to Agamemnon by unanimous decision in view of his kingly office. As a war prize, Agamemnon who admitted that she was finer than his own wife Klytemnestra, enslaved Khrysēís and refused to allow her father to ransom her even though the priest of Apollo offered the Mycenaean king gifts of gold and silver. Apollo then sent a plague sweeping through the Greek armies and Agamemnon was forced to give Khrysēís back in order to end it. He sent Odysseus to return the maiden to Khrysēís. Agamemnon compensated himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Akhilles, an act that offended Achilles who refused to take further part in the Trojan War.

After the attack on Rhesus and his Thrakian armies, Khryses came to the Greeks to thank them for returning his daughter, Khrysēís. Because of this kindness, and because he knew that his daughter had been properly treated, he brought her back for Agamemnon to have. A later Greek legend, preserved in Hyginus' *Fabulae*, states that she had a son named after her father by Agamemnon. In the city of Thebes in Asia Minor, Khryseis gave birth to Khryses and declared him to be a son of Apollo. This took place when she was released shortly as a prisoner and allowed to return to her hometown.

A few years later, when the children of Agamemnon, Orestes and Iphigenia took refuge in the Island of Sminthos, now the home of Khrysēís and her family, she proposed surrendering the fugitives to King Thoas. Her son Khryses, learning they were his half-siblings, helped them to kill the Taurian king.
Hylês

Hyles was one of the Thessalioi. The best known story about the Thessalioi Kentauroi is when they and one Kentaurid named Hylonome were invited to attend the wedding of their half-brother Peirithoos, the Lapith king. The Thessalioi Kentauroi became drunk and attempted to carry off the bride and the female guests. In the battle which ensued the Kentauroi were all but wiped out. Hylês was killed by Peleus.

## Classical Text

"Wine is many a man's undoing, when he gulps his draught and will never drink discreetly. Wine it was that darkened the wits of Eurytion the Kentauros (Centaur) in the palace of bold Peirithoos. The kentauros had come to the Lapithai's country, and now with wine he clouded his understanding and in his frenzy did monstrous things in the very hall of Peirithoos. The heroes were seized with indignation; they leapt up, they dragged the kentauros across the courtyard and out of doors, they lopped off his ears and nose with the ruthless bronze, and the frenzied creature went his way, taking his retribution with him in his still darkened mind. From this beginning came the long feud between men and Kentauroi (Centaurs), but it was Eurytion first of all who brought chastisement on himself by his drunkenness."

- Homer, Odyssey 21. 293 ff (Greek epic C8th B.C.)
Khariklô

Khariklô (Chariclo) was a nymph of Mount Pelion in Magnesia (northern Greece) who was the wife of the wise centaur Kheiron (Chiron). She was the foster-mother of many of the great heroes of myth including Peleus, Akhilleus (Achilles), Aristaios (Aristaeus) and Asklepios (Asclepius).

Khariklo's name means "Graceful Spinner" from the Greek words kharis "grace" and klôsis "to spin". In the vase-painting (right) she accompanies Leto, mother of the god Apollon, in the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis.
Kytissorus

**Kytissorus** was one of four (or five) sons of Phrixus and Khalkiope. He was also a grandson of King Aeëtes of Kolkhis .

Phrontis and his brothers were raised in Kolkhis, but after their father died, he and his brothers set out to avenge their father's ill treatment in the hands of king Athamas of Orchomenus and were stranded on the Island of Ares the War God in the Black Sea until they were rescued from the island by the Jason and the Argonauts. Once Jason received discovered that Phrontis and his brothers were grandsons of King Aeëtes of Colchis, Jason convinced Phrontis and his brothers to return with him to Colchis and help him to obtain the Golden Fleec. Jason also questioned Phrontis and his brothers on the layout and security of the land. After the Fleece was retrieved from Kolkhis, Phrontis and his brothers returned with the Argo's crew to Greece. His brothers were Argus, Phrontis and Melas and, according to some accounts, Presbon was another one of his brothers.

## Classical Text

*When the Argonauts had entered the sea called Euxine through the Cyanean Cliffs, which are called Rocks of the Symplegades, and were wandering there, by the will of Juno they were borne to the island of Dia. There they found shipwrecked men, naked and helpless – the sons of Phrixus and Chalciope – Argus, Phrontides, Melas, and Cylindrus. These told their misfortunes to Jason, how they had suffered shipwreck and been cast there when they were hastening to go to their grandfather Athamas, and Jason welcomed and aided them. They led Jason to Colchis, bade the Argonauts conceal the ship.*

- Hyginus, Fabulae, 21
Ketô (Nereid)

The Nereid of "sea-monsters" is sometimes confused with Keto goddess of sea-monsters.  The only one of the Greek poets who recognizes her is *Apollodorus*.

## Classical Text

To Nereus and Doris were born the Nereids, whose names are Cymothoe, Spio, Glauconome, Nausithoe, Halie, Erato, Sao, Amphitrite, Eunice, Thetis, Eulimene, Agave, Eudore, Doto, Pherusa, Galatea, Actaea, Pontomedusa, Hippothoe, Lysianassa, Cymo, Eione, Halimede, Plexaure, Eucrante, Proto, Calypso, Panope, Cranto, Neomeris, Hipponoe, Ianira, Polynome, Autonoe, Melite, Dione, Nesaea, Dero, Evagore, Psamathe, Eumolpe, Ione, Dynamene, Ceto, and Limnoria.

- Apollodorus. *Library*, 1.2.7
Kirkê

Kirkê is best known for her part in The Odyssey where she turned Odysseus' fellow crewmates into swine. Odysseus however had eaten the Moly Plant allowing him to resist Kirkê's magic. He overpowered the witch and forced her to change them back. Kirkê enamored with the hero's bravery had him become her lover and bare him four children.

## Family

### Spouse & Lovers

Odysseus
Tēlemakhos
Poseidôn

### Children

Agrios (by Odysseus)
Latinos (by Odysseus)
Telegonos (by Odysseus)
Nausithous (by Odysseus)
Latinos (by Telemakhos)
Phaunos (by Poseidon)
Klazomenaian Sow

The Klazomenaian Sow was a giant pig with wings. Every day he terrorized the town of Klazomenai. The Sow was well known for its speed, eventually it would be killed by Theseus.

## Ancient Text

"I have heard that on Klazomenai[an island west of Smyrna] there was a sow with wings, and it ravaged the territory of Klazomenai. And Artemon records this in his Annals of Klazomenai. That is why there is a spot named and celebrated as ‘The Place of the Winged Sow,’ and it is famous. But if anyone regards this as myth, let him do so."

- Aelian, On Animals 12. 38 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) :
Kleodaees

## Classical Text

"Omphalê was pleased with the courage Heracles displayed, and on learning who he was and who had been his parents she marveled at his valour, set him free, and marrying him bore him Lamus. Already before this, while he was yet a slave, there had been born to Heracles by a slave a son Cleodaeus."
- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.31.8
Kleodôra

KLEODORA (Cleodora) was a nymph of Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece). She was loved by the god Poseidon and bore him Parnassos, eponym of the mountain and founder of the pre-Deluge town of Delphoi. She was probably the Naiad-nymph of a spring or fountain of the town and was perhaps numbered amongst the Korykiai (Coryciae)--nymphs of sacred Korykian cave.

Kleodora may have been identified with Melaine and Thyia, mothers of Delphos, and Korykia, mother of Lykoras, by the god Apollon.