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Rhoikos

## Classical Text

"Lycurgus had sons, Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasus, by Cleophyle or Eurynome. And Amphidamas had a son Melanion and a daughter Antimache, whom Eurystheus married. And Iasus had a daughter Atalanta by Clymene, daughter of Minyas. This Atalanta was exposed by her father, because he desired male children; and a she bear came often and gave her suck, till hunters found her and brought her up among themselves. Grown to womanhood, Atalanta kept herself a virgin, and hunting in the wilderness she remained always under arms. The centaurs Rhoecus and Hylaeus tried to force her, but were shot down and killed by her. She went moreover with the chiefs to hunt the Calydonian boar, and at the games held in honor of Pelias she wrestled with Peleus and won. Afterwards she discovered her parents, but when her father would have persuaded her to wed, she went away to a place that might serve as a racecourse, and, having planted a stake three cubits high in the middle of it, she caused her wooers to race before her from there, and ran herself in arms; and if the wooer was caught up, his due was death on the spot, and if he was not caught up, his due was marriage. When many had already perished, Melanion came to run for love of her, bringing golden apples from Aphrodite, and being pursued he threw them down, and she, picking up the dropped fruit, was beaten in the race. So Melanion married her. And once on a time it is said that out hunting they entered into the precinct of Zeus, and there taking their fill of love were changed into lions. But Hesiod and some others have said that Atalanta was not a daughter of Iasus, but of Schoeneus; and Euripides says that she was a daughter of Maenalus, and that her husband was not Melanion but Hippomenes. And by Melanion, or Ares, Atalanta had a son Parthenopaeus, who went to the war against Thebes."

*- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca iii. 9.2*
Protodamas

In Fabulae, Hyginus Protodamas is listed as one of the sons of King Priamos. Hyginus is the only source to list him. Protodamas's mother's name is not provided.

## 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."
Polyphemos (Argonaut)

In Greek mythology, Polyphemus (Πολύφημος) was a Greek hero and also an Argonaut.

Family

Polyphemus was the son of Elatus by Hippea, and thus, possibly the brother of Caeneus, Ischys and Ampycus. According to one source, he was married to Laonome, sister of Heracles.

Mythology

Polyphemus, as a Lapith, was remembered for having fought against the Centaurs in the days of his youth. In Iliad, Nestor numbers "the godlike Polyphemus" among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe (i.e. centaur) whom they utterly destroyed." No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic.

Years later, he joined the expedition of the Argonauts. During their stay in Bithynia, Polyphemus was the one to hear Hylas cry as the youth was being dragged away by the nymphs, and when he helped Heracles search for Hylas, both were left behind by the Argo. Having settled in Mysia, Polyphemus founded the city Cius of which he became king. Later, however, he set out to search for his fellow Argonauts and died in the land of the Chalybes. He was buried at the seashore under a poplar tree.
Phlias

**Phlias** (Ancient Greek: Φλίας) or **Phlius** /ˈflaɪəs/ or **Phliasus** /ˈflaɪəsəs/ was the son of Dionysus and Chthonophyle in Greek mythology. A native of Araithyrea in Argolis, he is mentioned as one of the Argonauts. Pausanias cites a version in which Philas is given as son of Ceisus, but himself maintains that Phlias was the son of Dionysus by Araethyrea (daughter of Aras), whereas Chthonophyle was his wife and mother of his son Androdamas. Hyginus calls him Phliasus, and a son of Dionysus and Ariadne. In the *Argonautica Orphica*, it is simply stated that his mother was a nymph, without mention of her name. The town of Phlius (formerly called Araithyrea) was believed to have derived its name from him.
Thoe (Okeanid)

Not much is known about **Theo** other than her name means "swift" which means she could be a Naiad, Nephelai or Aurai. Thoe is however mentioned by Hesiod in Theogony.

## Classical Text

"Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping -- to this charge Zeus appointed them -- Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed far and wide, and in every place alike serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are glorious among goddesses."[1]

- Hesiod, Theogony 346
Polyktor (Son of Aigyptos)

Polyktor was one of the 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.)
Tinjis

When Herakles fought against Antaios (The Giant son of Gaia and Poseidôn) he took away the husband of a woman named Tinjis. before departing he took what could be described as a trophy, Herakles slept with Antaios' wife Tinjis and left her pregnant with a son Sophax.

## Spouse & Lovers

Antaios (husband)
Herakles (lover)

## Children

Iphinoe (daughter with Antaios)
Sophax (with Herakles)
Phorbas

AGREUS, NOMIOS and PHORBAS were a trio of Panes--goat-legged daimones of the mountain wilds. They presided over hunting, herding and grazing respectively.

Agreus "Hunter", Nomios "Of the Pastures" and Phorbas "Of the Grazing" or "Frightener" were really just three aspects of the primal god Pan. Pan Nomios, the son of Hermes and Penelope, was the god's most familiar form. The first two names were also titles of the rustic god Aristaios (Aristaeus) of northern Greece.
Telkhis

Telkhis (Τελχίς) was a king said to have reigned after Apis; accounts vary both as to the domain and genealogy of the two.

In one tradition Telkhis was an early king of Sicyon, son and successor of Europs, thus grandson of the primeval king Aegialeus, and was in his turn succeeded by his own son Apis, to whom was subsequently born Thelxion. In another version Telkhis and Thelxion, whose genealogy is not stated, are said to have deposed and killed the Argive Apis, son of Phoroneus and Teledice, who had left no offspring. Apis' death was later avenged on them by Argos Panoptês.
Tanagra

Tanagra was one of the twenty daughters of Asôpos and Metope.  She was desired by both Ares and Hermes.  In order to decide who would have her as a lover, Ares and Hermes had a boxing match.  In the end Hermes triumphed.  Tanagra laid with Hermes, it is unknown if she ever bore him a child but he gave her name to Boiotian town in central Greece where she would become the naiad nymph to a spring, well or fountain.  Later, Tanagra would wed Poimandros and bare him two sons.

## Spouse & Lovers

Hermes (Lover)
Poimandros (Husband)

## Children

Leukippos (by Poimandros)
Ephippos (by Poimandros)
Syrbotai

THE SYRBOTAI (Συρβοται) were a tribe of twelve foot tall African men.

## Classical Text

*Pliny the Elder, Natural History 6. 194 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :*

"On the African side [of the Aethiopian kingdom of Meroe] are the Medimni, and then a Nomad tribe that lives on the milk of the dog-faced baboon [the Cyncophali], the Alabi, and the Syrbotae who are said to be 12 feet high."
Toxeus (Brother of Althaea)

Toxeus is the uncle of While Meleager. He was one of the Kalydonian Boar Hunters. Toxeus was one of the hunters who was against Atlanta joining "The Kalydonian Boar Hunt" because she was a woman. When Meleager gave the head to boar to Atlanta (she having drawn first blood), Toxeus and his brother Plexippus further protested. Toxeus, Plexippus got in a fight with Meleager and killed them.
Termêssos

Termêssos was a river-god of Boiotia in central Greece.

The Termêssos (also known as Permêssos) stream had its headwaters on Mount Helikon in Boiotia. It flowed north past the town of Askra to empty into Lake Kopais. The most important neighboring rivers were the Kêphisos to the north-west, the Lamos to the south, Ismênos to the south-east, and Pleistos to the west.

## Family

### Children

1. Aganippê
2. Askrê
3. Euphêmê
4. Libêthrias
5. Petra
6. Telphousa
7. Thisbê
Priamos

**King Priam** was a Trojan King.  When his father Laomedon did not make good on a deal with Herakles to save Hesione's life, Herakles killed all of Laomedon's sons with the exception of Priam.

## Children

* Aegeoneus
* Agathon
* Aisakos
* Antiphus
* Aretus
* Aristodeme
* Aristomakhe
* Arkhemakhus
* Askanius
* Astygonus
* Atas
* Axion
* Bias
* Deiopites
* Deiphobos
* Demnosia
* Demokoon
* Demosthea
* Dius
* Dryops
* Ekhemmon
* Ekhephron
* Ethionome
* Evagoras
* Evander
* Glaukus
* Gorgythion
* Hektor
* Helenus
* Henikea
* Hippodamas
* Hipponous
* Hippothous
* Hyperion
* Hypirokhus
* Idomeneus
* Iliona
* Isus
* Kassandra
* Kebriones
* Khaon
* Khersidamas
* Khromius
* Klonius
* Kreusa
* Laodike
* Laodokus
* Lusimákhē (Daughter of Piam)
* Lysithous
* Medesikaste
* Medousa
* Melanippus
* Mestor
* Mylius
* Nereis
* Palaemon
* Pammon
* Paris
* Phegea
* Philaemon
* Philomela
* Polymedon
* Philomela
* Polites
* Polydorus
* Polymelus
* Polyxena
* Proneos
* Protodamas
* Telestas
* Troilus
Polupoitēs

Polupoitēs (Πολυποίτης) was a son of Hippodamia and Pirithous. A native of the Thessalian city of Gyrtone (Γυρτώνη), he led the armies of Thessaly on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was among those who vied for Helen's hand in marriage, and later occupied the Trojan horse. Following the death of Patroclus, he won an early version of quoits, winning a 5-year supply of iron. After the war, he was present at the funerals of Kalkhas and Patroklos. His close companion was Leonteus.
Toxikrate

Toxikrate was one of the daughters of Thespius, King of Thespiae, Boeotia. She was one of the forty-nine of his fifty daughters to sleep with Herakles while he was in Thespia. She would bare him Lykoûrgos.

## Family

### Parents

King Thespius and Queen Megamede or potentially one of Thespius' lovers

## Classical Text

"by Toxikrate he [Herakles] had Lykurgus"

- Apollodorus, Biblioteca 2.7.8
Skamandros

Skamandros (Σκαμανδρος) was a River-God of the Troad in north-western Anatolia. During the Trojan War Skamandros took sides with the Trojans and attempted to drown the hero Akhilles. Hêphaistos however created a great fire drying up the headwaters of Skamandros and forcing the river-god to fall back.

The River Skamandros was the largest river of the Trojan plain. Its headwaters were located in the foothills of Mount Ida and its mouth near the entrance to the Hellespont. Several of its tributaries were also personified as River-Gods, such as the Simoeis, Heptaporos, and Kebrên. The most significant neighboring rivers were the Rhodios to the east and Satnioeis in the south.

## Family

### Children

Teûkros
Kallirrhoê
Strymô
Nymphai Trôiades
Glaukia

## Classical Text

"Driving the Trojans in a body to the Skamandros, where he [Akhilleus] destroyed many, including Asteropaios, the son of the river Axios' son Pelegon. In fury the River rose up against him. But Hephaistos chased the river with a great flame and dried up its stream."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E4. 7 - 8 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Thyia

THYIA was the Naiad-nymph of a spring on Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece). Her shrine was the site for the gathering of the Thyiades--woman celebrants of the Orgies of the god Dionysos.

She was loved by the god Apollon and bore him Delphos, the eponymous founder of the village of Delphoi near the oracle. Thyia was closely associated with the prophetic Kastalian (Castalian) spring from which she was sometimes said to have been born.

Thyia was surely identified with Kastalia (Castalia), the nymph of the spring, Melaine (Melaena), the mother of Delphos in an alternate account, and the Nymphai Korykiai (Corycian Nymphs), Naiades of the sacred Korykian cave.
Polúeidos

Polúeidos (Πολύειδος) whose name means "seeing many things" was a famous seer from Corinth.

## Family

Polyidus was a descendant of another renowned seer, Melampus. Given that Melampus had two sons, Abas and Mantius, different sources made Coeranus, father of Polyidus, son or grandson of either of the two. Briefly, the two alternate lineages were:

1. Melampus – Abas – Coeranus – Polyidus
2. Melampus – Mantius – Cleitus – Coeranus – Polyidus

According to a scholiast on Homer' s *Iliad*, Polyidus had two sons, Euchenor and Cleitus, by Eurydameia, daughter of Phyleus. Pausanias makes Polyeidus father of Coeranus, Manto and Astycrateia, and calls Euchenor his grandson through Coeranus.

## Mythology

### Glaucus

The best known myth concerning Polyidus is the one that deals with him saving the life of Glaucus, which runs as follows. One day, Glaucus, son of King Minos and Queen Pasiphaë of Crete, was playing with a mouse and suddenly disappeared. The Kuretes told Minos: "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child."

They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd. Three times a day, the calf changed color from white to red to black. Polyidus ( or Asclepius, god of medicine) observed the similarity to the ripening of the fruit of the mulberry or the blackberry, and Minos sent him to find Glaucus.

Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an owl driving bees away from a wine-cellar in Minos' palace. Inside the wine-cellar was a cask of honey, with Glaucus dead inside. Minos demanded Glaucus be brought back to life and shut Polyidus up in the wine-cellar with a sword. When a snake appeared nearby, Polyidus killed it with the sword. Another snake came for the first, and after seeing its mate dead, the second serpent left and returned with an herb which then brought the first snake back to life. With the herb Polyidus resurrected the child.

Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of divination. Polyidus did so, but then, at the last second before leaving, he asked Glaucus to spit in his mouth. Glaucus did so and forgot everything he had been taught.

The story of Polyidus and Glaucus was the subject of a lost play of Euripides, his *Bellerophon*, and of one by Aeschylus, and Sophocles' lost *The Mantises*.

### Other stories

It is related that Polyidus advised Bellerophon as to how to find and tame Pegasus, in order to kill the Chimera.

Polyidus was said to have come to Megara to purify Alcathous, son of Pelops, for the accidental murder of the latter's son Callipolis. The tomb of his two daughters was shown at Megara.

Polyidus also appears in one of the stories collected in Pseudo-Plutarch's *On Rivers*: he explains to Lysippe, mother of Teuthras, the source of her son's insanity.
Thymoetes

Thymoetes, one of the elders of Troy (also spelled Thymoetus) son of Laomedon A soothsayer had predicted that, on a certain day, a boy would be born by whom Troy would be destroyed. On that very day Paris was born to Priam, king of Troy, and Munippus to Thymoetes. Priam ordered Munippus and his mother Cilla to be killed in order to prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled while sparing his own son. It is believed that Thymoetes, in order to avenge his family, advised to draw the wooden horse into the city.
Presbon

**Presbon** was one of four (or five) sons of Phrixus and Chalciope. He was also a grandson of King Aeëtes of Colchis.

Presbon and his brothers were raised in Colchis, 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 Fleece. Jason also questioned Phrontis and his brothers on the layout and security of the land. After the Fleece was retrieved from Colchis, Phrontis and his brothers returned with the Argo's crew to Greece. His brothers were Kytissorus, Phrontis, Argus and Melas.
Python

Python was a monstrous dragon-serpent set by Gaia (the Earth) to guard the sacred oracle of Delphoi (Delphi). According to some the creature was born from the rotting slime left behind by the Great Deluge. When the god Apollo laid claim to the shrine, he slew Python with a volley of a hundred arrows. The oracle and festival of Delphoi were afterwards named Pytho and Pythian from the rotting (*pythô*) corpse of the beast. Some say Apollo slew the monster to avenge his mother Leto who had been relentlessly pursued by the dragon during her long pregnancy.

Python was variously described as a male or female Drakon. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo--and some ancient Greek art--equates her with Ekhidna, a half-woman, half-serpent drakaina which consorted with the giant Typhoeus.

In the image right, Apollo, seated upon the omphalos stone at Delphoi, slays Python with his arrows. Here she is depicted as Ekhidna, a she-serpent with a woman's head and breast.
Rhodê (Danaid)

**Rhodê** was the daughter of Danaus and either Atlanteiê or Phoibê (both Hamadryad nymphs of Libya in North Africa as well as wives of King Danaus).  Rhode would be one of the Danaids who murdered her husband (Hippolytos) following the mass marriage of the daughters of Danaus to the sons of Aigyptos.
Phôlos (Kentauroi Peloponnesioi)

Phôlos was a Kentauros who made his home in a cave on Mount Pholoe. He once entertained Herakles who was passing through the region in search of the Erymanthios Boar. But when Phôlos opened his wine-skin to serve the hero the other Kentauroi, driven into a mad frenzy by the aroma, attacked. Herakles slew most of them with his arrows and the rest fled south. Phôlos himself also suffered a mishap--for as he was examining the hero's poisoned-arrows he dropped one on his foot and died. The gods rewarded him for his show of hospitality by placing him amongst the stars as constellation Centaurus and his wine-cup as the adjacent Krater.

## Classical Text

"About this time that Heracles was performing these Labours, there was a struggle between him and the Centaurs, as they are called, the reason being as follows. Pholus the Centaur, from whom the neighbouring mountain came to be called Pholoê, and receiving Heracles with the courtesies due to a guest he opened for him a jar of wine which had been buried in the earth. This jar, the writers of myths relate, had of old been left with a certain Centaur by Dionysus, who had given him orders only to open it when Heracles should come to that place. And so, four generation after that time, when Heracles was being entertained as a guest, Pholus recalled the orders of Dionysus."

"Now when the jar had been opened and the sweet odour of the wine, because of its great age and strength, came to the Centaurs dwelling near there, it came to pass that they were driven mad; consequently they rushed in a body to the dwelling of Pholus and set about plundering him of the wine in a terrifying manner."

"At this Pholus hid himself in fear, but Heracles, to their surprise, grappled with those who were employing such violence. He had indeed to struggle with beings who were gods on their mother’s side, who possessed the swiftness of horses, who had the strength of two bodies, and enjoyed in addition the experience and wisdom of men. The Centaurs advanced upon him, some with pine trees which they had plucked up together with the roots, others with great rocks, some with burning firebrands, and still others with axes such as are used to slaughter oxen."

- Diodorus Siculus 4.12.3 - 4.12.5
Rhodia (Okeanid)

The Okeanis named "of the roses" or "rose-colored" was an Anthousai (flower-nymph).

## Ancient 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, Leucippe9 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."

- *Hom. Hymn. 2. 405-433*
Rhodope (Okeanid)

Rhodope (Ροδοπη) is one of the Okeanides.  Rhodope's name means rosey-eyed.  Rhodope was probably an Anthousa flower-nymph or possibly one of the Nephele in which case she would be the rose-colored clouds of dawn.

Rhodope is mentioned in a Homeric Hymn as being one of the Okeanides who was picking flowers with Persephone when Hades came and abducted Persephone.

## Ancient 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."

- *Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.)*

"[Persephone to Demeter:] All we were playing in a lovely meadow, [the Okeanides] Leukippe and Phaino and Elektra and Ianthe, Melita also and Iakhe with Rhodea and Kallirhoe and Melobosis and Tykhe and Okyrhoe, fair as a flower, Khryseis, Ianeira, Akaste and Admete and Rhodope and Plouto and charming Kalypso; Styx too was there and Ourania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas [Athena] 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-blosoms and lilies, marvellous to see, and the narcissus which the wide earth caused to grow yellow as a crocus.’"

- *Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 415*
Saggarios

Saggarios (Sangarius) was a river-god of Phrygia and central Bithynia in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

The Sangarios was the largest and most important river of central Phrygia, rising in the Phrygian highlands it flowed north across the plateau to central Bithynia where it empited into the Black Sea. The most important neighboring rivers were the Askanios (Ascanius) to the west, Phyllis to the north and Nymphaios to the east.

## Family

### Spouse & Lovers

Metôpê
Kybele

### Children

Hekabe
Nana
Okyrhoê
Nikaiê
Alke
Sagaritis
Melia
Pênelopeia

PENELOPEIA (Penelope) was an Epimelid-nymph of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia (southern Greece) who was the mother by Hermes of the goat-legged god Pan. Her father Dryopos "Oak-Face" was probably the craggy, old god of the mountain.

Penelopeia was frequently confounded with Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, and many ancient writers constructed stories to explain how that woman came to abscond to Arkadia and give birth to a goatish god.

The nymph's name was perhaps derived from the Greek words *pênê* and *lopas* meaning "needle and thread," or else from *pan* and *lopos* "to peel-away-all"--which might suggest the shearing of sheep or the skinning of animals. The latter would certainly be an appropriate name for the mother of a god of hunting and flocks.

Penelopeia was probably identified with the nymphs Sose and Thymbris who are otherwise named as the mother of Pan. As a daughter of Dryopos she was may have been confounded with Dryope, a Dryopian princess seduced by the god Apollon in the guise of a tortoise--a form perhaps more suited to Hermes in his seduction of the Arkadian daughter of Dryopos.
Thyros

A Thyros was a staff made from the wood of of a giant fennel. The staff was wrapped with either vine-leaves and grapes or ivy-leaves and berries. The staff was topped with a pine cone. The Thyros is Dionysos' sacred symbol and weapon of choice. Usually when he is depicted with his train of followers some can also be seen carrying Thyros' .
Polites

In Greek mythology, Polites (Πολίτης) the friend of Odysseus was a minor character in the epics by Homer. Polites was a member of Odysseus's crew. Odysseus refers to him as his dearest friend, though he is only mentioned twice, once as part of Eurylochus's scouting group on Circe's island (he is one of the first to enter Circe's palace) and then when, after a year, he convinces Odysseus to leave Circe. He is killed either by Scylla or the lightning bolt that Zeus throws at Odysseus' ship for his crew eating the cattle of Helios.
Tanais

Tanais (Ταναις) was a river-god of Skythia in north-eastern Europe (modern-day Russia).

The Tanais River flowed through the eastern steppeland of Skythia, issuing into the Palus Maeotis (Sea of Azov) in the north-eastern corner of the Black Sea. The most important neighboring rivers were the Borysthenês to the west and the Phasis of Kolkhis to the south.
Styx

Styx (Στυξ) whose name means "hated, abhorrent or gloomy" one of the Okeanides and was a second generation titaness and the goddess of the underworld River Styx. Styx is the eldest of the Okeanides. Additionally she was the personification of hatred. While her husband Pallas sided with the other titans, Styx was a firm ally of Zeus in the Titan Wars, she brought her children Bia, Kratos, Nikê and Zelos to stand beside the gods in battle. Zeus rewarded her by making her stream the agent of oaths which bound the gods.
Typhôeus

Typhôeus was the storm giant and was the final child of Gaia.

## Myth

### Gaia's final Child

After the Titanomachy, Gaia and Tartarus had an offspring, which was Typhon. Gaea was furious that the gods punished the titans, her children, and sent her final child to destroy them. Many of the gods went into hiding, mostly in Egypt, though Zeus and his five siblings remained. While Zeus was deciding what to do, Typhon and Ekhidna had children. Zeus and Typhon then did battle. Eventually Zeus won and imprisoned him under Mt. Etna.

## Children

* Teumessian Fox
* Kerberos
* Ladon
* Khimaira
* Lernaean Hydra
* Orthros
* Anemoi Thuellai
* Kaukasios Eagle

## Appearance

In some myths Typhon was described as a massive serpent with 100 heads and 100 tails, on each head was an eel or snake like head.

In some myths Typhon had been described as having the body of a man, the wings of a dragon and a hundred necks,at each end a human's head,each head speaking a different language.

## Trivia

* Typhon can be considered both a god and a monster.
Phrygios Drakôn

THE DRAKON PHRYGIOS (Phrygian Dragon) was a breed of giant serpent thought to inhabit the Phrygian highlands of central Anatolia. During the day they stood on the tips of their tails attracting birds with their magical breath and at night they ambushed shepherds returning from the hills with their flocks.
Sôsê

Sôsê was a prophetic Oreiad- or Naiad-nymph of Arkadia (southern Greece). She was the mother of the goat-legged god Pan Agreus (the Hunter) by Hermes.

Sôsê resembles Penelopeia and Thymbris--two Arkadian nymphs also named as the mother of Pan--and the Dryad Erato, a highland prophetess whose husband Arkas shared the cradle of Hermes.
Ploutos

Ploutos was the god of wealth. At first he was solely concerned with agricultural bounty but later came to represent wealth in general.

Ploutos was born to the goddess Demeter after she lay with the hero Iasion in a thrice-ploughed field. The young god was blinded by Zeus so he would distribute wealth indiscriminately and not favor the good.

Ploutos was usually depicted as a boy holding a cornucopia full of grain. In sculpture he was portrayed as an infant in the arms of Eirene, goddess of peace, or Tykhe, goddess of good fortune.

Ploutos was closely identified with Plouton (Pluton), the god Hades in his guise as lord of the earth's hidden bounty.
Sthenele (Danaid)

Sthenele was one of three daughters of Memphis and Danaus (the other two being Klite and Khrysippe) Sthenele was one of the fifty Daniads who took part in the mass marriage to Aigyptos' sons. The night of the marriage she and forty-eight of her forty-nine sisters slew their husbands with daggers their father provided to them.
Podarkes

In Greek mythology, **Podarkes** (Ποδάρκης) was a son of Iphiklus (son of Phylakus, founder of Phylake) by Diomedeia and brother of Protesilaus. In some accounts, he and his brother were called the sons of Phylakus and Astyokhe instead.

## Mythology

In Homer's *Iliad*, Podarkes and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen was kidnapped by Paris. After Protesilaus was killed by Hektor, Podarkes led the Phylakian troops in the Trojan War, on the side of the Greeks. According to the *Posthomerica*, by Quintus of Smyrna, he was killed by Penthesileia, the Queen of the Amazons.
Screech Owl

The Screech Owl is a bird sacred to Hades. It is one of the few types of Owl that is not sacred to Athena.

The Screech Owl is the sacred bird of Hades because it was his way of showing honor to Askalaphus. Askalaphus was a servant of Hades who had testified that Persephone had eaten some of the food of the dead and as such Persephone was forced to spend time in the Underworld. Demeter let loose her wrath the first time by burying Asklaphus under a boulder

## Myth

### Askalaphus' Transformation

Centuries after being trapped under the boulder, Herakles performing his twelfth labor went to the underworld and came across Askalaphus buried under the stone. As Herakles had great strength he was able to remove the stone freeing Askalaphus. Demeter learned that Askalaphus had been freed and while she did not begrudge Herakles for liberating Askalaphus she had not and would never forgive. As such Demeter transformed Askalaphus into a Screech Owl. Unlike Demeter, Hades viewed Askalaphus as a loyal servant who had twice been punished by Demeter for his loyalty to the Lord of the Underworld. Though it was not within Hades power to transform Askalaphus back he compensated him by making the Screech Owl a sacred anima
Pygmaioi

THE PYGMAIOI (Pygmies) were a tribe of diminutive African men who lived on the southernmost shores of the great earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus) where they were engaged in an endless war with flocks migrating cranes.

The Pygmaioi were described as tiny, black-skinned men who grew to a height of one "pygme"--a "pygme" being the length from a man's elbow to his nuckle-bone (approximately 1 1/2 foot).

The Pygmies were located by ancient geographers in India (eastern "Aithiopia") and Sub-Saharan Africa (western "Aithiopia") at the southernmost reaches of the world.
Phoibê (Hamadryad)

Phoibê along with her fellow Libyan Hamadryad-nymph Atlanteiê from north Africa were wives (or lovers) of the Libyan King Danaus who collectively bore him ten of his fifty Danaid daughters.

## Family

### Children

Asteria (Possibly)
Glauke (Possibly)
Gorge (Possibly)
Hippodameia (Possibly)
Hippodameia (Possibly)
Hippomedusa (Possibly)
Iphimedousa (Possibly)
Kleopatra (Possibly)
Rhodê (Possibly)
Rhodia (Possibly)
Tlepolemos

Tlepolemos (Τληπόλεμος) was the leader of the Rhodian forces in the Trojan War.

## Mythology

Tlepolemus fled to Rhodes after slaying Licymnius, Heracles' aged maternal uncle. According to the *Bibliotheca*, this was an accident—Tlepolemus was beating a servant when Licymnius ran between the two, suffering a fatal blow—, but Pindar states that the death was intentional and motivated by anger. Accompanied by his Argive wife Polyxo, Tlepolemus made passage to Rhodes and divided the island into three parts, founding three Rhodian city-states: Cameirus, Ialysus and Lindus.

Hyginus lists Tlepolemus among the suitors of Helen; thus bound by the oath of Tyndareus, he was among the Greek allies in the campaign against Troy, leading a force of nine ships.

He encountered Sarpedon on the first day of fighting recounted in the *Iliad* and taunted him saying that he lacked courage and could not really be the son of Zeus. Tlepolemus then attacked him, and although he wounded Sarpedon, he was slain by the latter.

According to Pausanias, Polyxo killed Helen to avenge for her husband's death, though Polyaenus says that Menelaus had dressed up a servant in Helen's clothes and that the Rhodians killed her instead as Menelaus and Helen escaped.
Thriai

The Thriai (Θριαι) were three prophetic nymphs of Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece). They were minor goddesses of the art of divinitation by pebbles and of the birds of omen which were gifted to Hermes by the god Apollon. They were apparently envisaged as nymphs with the heads of women and the bodies of bees.

The Thriai may have been identified with the Korykiai, nymphs of the prophetic springs of Mount Parnassos, or with the Nymphai Themeides, daughters of the oracular goddess Themis. They also appear to be related to the Melissai, bee and honey nymphs.

N.B. An ancient relief in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston depicting a goddess with the head of a woman and the body of a bee may be one of the Thriai.I (Thriae) were three prophetic nymphs of Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece). They were minor goddesses of the art of divinitation by pebbles and of the birds of omen which were gifted to Hermes by the god Apollon. They were apparently envisaged as nymphs with the heads of women and the bodies of bees.

The Thriai may have been identified with the Korykiai, nymphs of the prophetic springs of Mount Parnassos, or with the Nymphai Themeides, daughters of the oracular goddess Themis. They also appear to be related to the Melissai (Mellissae), bee and honey nymphs.

N.B. An ancient relief in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston depicting a goddess with the head of a woman and the body of a bee may be one of the Thriai.
Rhoitos

## Classical Text

"Then Rhoetus snatched a blazing brand of plum-wood from an altar and whirling it upon the right, smashed through the temples of Charaxus, wonderful with golden hair. Seized by the violent flames, his yellow locks burned fiercely, as a field of autumn grain; and even the scorching blood gave from the sore wound a terrific noise as a red-hot iron in pincers which the smith lifts out and plunges in the tepid pool, hissing and sizzling. Charaxus shook the fire from his burnt locks; and heaved up on his shoulders a large threshold stone torn from the ground—a weight sufficient for a team of oxen. The vast weight impeded him, so that it could not even touch his foe—and yet, the massive stone did hit his friend, Cometes, who was standing near to him, and crushed him down. Then Rhoetus, crazed with joy, exulting yelled, `I pray that all of you may be so strong!’ Wielding his half-burnt stake with heavy blows again and again, he broke the sutures of his enemy's skull, until the bones were mingled with his oozing brains."
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.271-12.289
Khrysippos

Khrysippos was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos

## Classical Text

"The sons of Egyptus by Tyria got as their wives, without drawing lots, the daughters of Danaus by Memphis in virtue of the similarity of their names; thus Clitus got Clite; Sthenelus got Sthenele; Chrysippus got Chrysippe."

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
Swan

The **Swan** symbolizes grace and beauty. It is a bird associated with love, music, poetry; it is often pictured singing to a lyre. In Greek mythology, the swan is a bird sacred to Aphrodite and Apollo.

## Appearance in Myths

When Apollo entered the world, sacred swans circled the island seven times for it was the seventh day of the month. At once Zeus lavished many gifts upon his son including a golden miter, a chariot drawn by swans, and a lyre since legend has it at birth Apollo said, "Dear to me shall be the lyre and bow, and in oracles I shall reveal to men the inexorable will of Zeus." The god commanded his so to find sanctuary at Delphi. But before taking Apollo to Delphi, the swans flew him north to their own country on the edge of the ocean, which was home to the Hyperborean people, who was a supremely happy race for whom life was sweet.

Aphrodite has a chariot (created for her by Hephaestus) sometimes it is seen being pulled by swans, but usually it is pulled by doves. She is often depicted riding a swan.

**Leda and the Swan** is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda.
Tithorea

Tithorea (Τιθορεα) was the Dryad-nymph eponym of the village of Tithorea on Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece).

## Classical Text

"The natives say that Tithorea [a village on Mount Parnassos in Phokis] was so called after a Nymphe of the same name, one of those who in days of old, according to the story of the poets, grew out of trees and especially out of oaks."
- *Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 32. 9 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :*
Polydeukes

Polydeukes was the twin brother of Kastor, together known as the Dioskouri, and the brother of Helen. When Kastor was killed, Polydeukes asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini.

He sailed with the Argonauts, and took part in a boxing contest and defeated King Amykus of the Bebrykes, a savage mythical people in Bithynia. After returning from the voyage, the Dioskouroi helped Jason and Peleus to destroy the city of Iolkus in revenge for the treachery of its king Pelias.

## Children​

* Mnesileos
* Mnasinous

## Gigantomachia

   Kastor and Polydeukes also took part in the war against the giants.
Prothous (Son of Tenthredon)

Prothous, son of Tenthredon and either Eurymache or Cleobule the daughter of Eurytus, commander of the Magnetes who dwelt around mount Pelion and the river Peneus, was one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War; he brought forty ships to Troy. According to one version, Prothous, together with Meges and a number of others, died as a result of a shipwreck near Cape Caphereus of Euboea; in another version, Prothous, Eurypylus and Guneus ended up in Libya and settled there.
Troglodytoi

Troglodyti (Τρωγλοδύται), which means "cave goers", were people mentioned in various locations by many ancient Greek and Roman geographers and historians, including Herodotus, Agatharchides, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, to name a few. Herodotus claims they were hunted by Garamantes and he said that the Troglodyti were the swiftest runners. of all humans known and that they ate snakes, lizards, and other reptiles. According to Claudius Aelianus, Troglodytes believe that the king of the beasts is the Ethiopian Bull, because it possesses the courage of a lion, the speed of a horse, the strength of a bull, and is stronger than iron.

## Classical Text

"It seems that those Aithiopian (Ethiopian) Bulls which they call ‘flesh-eaters’ are the most savage of animals. They are twice the size of Bulls in Greece, and their speed is very great. Their hair is red, their eyes blue-grey, more so than the eyes of lions. In normal times they move their horns as they do their ears, but when fighting they raise them, making them stand strongly up, and so do battle; and once raised in passion owing to some truly wonderful natural cause their horns do not go aslant. No spear, no arrow can wound them: iron, you see, does not penetrate their hide, for the Bull raises its bristles and throws off the weapons showered upon it in vain. And it attacks herds of horses and also wild animals. Accordingly herdsmen who wish to protect their flocks dig deep concealed ditches and by these means ambush the Bulls. And when they fall into these ditches they are choked with rage. Among the Troglodytoi (Troglodytes, Cave-Dwellers) this is judged to be the king of beasts, and rightly so, for it possesses the courage of a lion, the speed of a horse, the strength of a bull, and is stronger than iron."
*- Aelian, On Animals 17. 45 (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.)*
Phoibê

Phoibe (Φοιβη) was the Titaness goddess of the bright intellect. She was wife of the Titan Koios "the Inquiring" and the grandmother of Apollôn, Artemis and Hekate. Phoibe was the third goddess to hold the great oracle of Delphoi (Delphi) which she in turn bestowed upon her grandson Apollo. Her name was derived from the Greek words phoibos "bright" or "radiant", phoibazô "to prophecy" and phoibaô "to purify".

## Family

### Children

Lêtô
Ateria
Lêlantos
Têthys

Têthys was one of the female Titan daughters of Gaia and Ouranos. Têthys married her brother Ôkeanos and bore 3,000 daughters (known as the Ôkeanides) who were nymphs and goddesses who presided over the sources of earth's fresh-water. Têthys also bore 3,000 sons (known as the Potamoi) who were the gods of rivers.
Triopas (Son of Helios)

one of the Heliadae, sons of Helios and Rhodos and grandson of Poseidon. Triopas, along with his brothers, Macar, Actis and Candalus, were jealous of a fifth brother, Tenages's, skill at science, and killed him. When their crime was discovered, Triopas escaped to Caria and seized a promontory which received his name (the Triopian Promontory). Later he founded the city of Knidos. There was a statue of him and his horse at Delphi, an offering by the people of Knidos.
Tykhê

Tykhê (Tyche) was the goddess of fortune, chance, providence and fate. She was usually honored in a more favorable light as Eutykhia (Eutychia), goddess of good fortune, luck, success and prosperity.

Tykhê was depicted with a variety of attributes--holding a rudder, she was conceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the affairs of the world, and in this respect she was called one of the Moirai; with a ball she represented the varying unsteadiness of fortune, unsteady and capable of rolling in any direction; with Ploutos (Plutus) or the cornucopia, she was the symbol of the plentiful gifts of fortune.

Nemesis (Fair Distribution) was cautiously regarded as the downside of Tykhê, one who provided a check on extravagant favors conferred by fortune. The pair were often depicted as companions in Greek vase painting. In the vase painting (right) Nemesis (Indignation) with her arm around Tykhê (Fortune) points an accusing fingure at Helene, who Aphrodite has persuaded to elope with Paris.
Tekmessa

Tekmessa, daughter of Teuthras, king of Teuthrania in Mysia, or Teleutas, king of Phrygia. During the Trojan War, Telamonian Ajax kills Tekmessa's father and takes her captive; his reason for doing so may have been, as the 1st century BC Roman poet, Horace, wrote, that Ajax was captivated by Tekmessa's beauty. In Sophocles’ Ajax, Tekmessa unsuccessfully tries to dissuade Ajax from committing suicide. She is the first to find his corpse, which she promptly covers with her own clothing to prevent further heartache. Their infant son, Eurysakes, however, survives the incident.
Teleon

Teleon (Τελέων) was known as the father of two of the Argonauts, Butes and Eribotes. Hyginus names Zeuxippê, daughter of the river god Êridanos, as his spouse and mother of Butes. Apollonius describes Teleon as "virtuous" (ἀγαθός), but beyond that, no information on this figure is available.

A scholiast on Argonautica considers Teleon, father of Butes, and Teleon, father of Eribotes, to be two distinct figures. This probably makes sense given that the two Argonauts came from different regions of Greece, and there are no direct indications that they were brothers.
Polyxena

A daughter of Priam and Hekabe. She was beloved by Akhilles, and when the Greeks, on their voyage home, were still lingering on the coast of Thrace, the shade of Akhilles appeared to them demanding that Polyxena should be sacrificed to him. Neoptolemus accordingly sacrificed her on the tomb of his father.

According to some Akhilles appeared to the leaders of the Greeks in a dream, or a voice was heard from the tomb of Akhilles demanding a share in the booty, whereupon Kalkhas proposed to sacrifice Polyxena. For there was a tradition that Akhilles had promised Priam to bring about a peace with the Greeks, if the king would give him his daughter Polyxena in marriage. When Akhilles, for the purpose of negotiating the marriage, had gone to the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo, he was treacherously killed by Paris.

Quite a different account is given by Philostratus, according to whom Akhilles and Polyxena fell in love with each other at the time when Hektor's body was delivered up to Priam. After the murder of Achilles Polyxena fled to the Greeks, and killed herself on the tomb of her beloved with a sword.
Poeas

In Greek mythology, **Poeas**, or **Poias** was a king of Meliboea in Thessaly and one of the Argonauts. He was the son of Thaumacus and friend of Herakles.

## Mythology

As an Argonaut, Poeas is identified as the greatest archer of the group. When facing the giant Talos, some accounts say Medea drugged the bronze giant and Poeas shot an arrow to poison him in his heel. Other sources cited his son Philoctetes as one of the Argonauts instead of him.

More famously, Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of Heracles. When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it. As none of his own men would light the pyre, a passer-by (Poeas) was asked by Heracles to light it. In return for this favor Heracles bestowed his famed bow and poison arrows upon Poeas. Other versions had his son Philoctetes as the passer-by or that Poeas assigned Philoctetes the task.