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Kalydonian Boar Hunt

The Kalydonian Boar Hunt was a gathering of heroes who combined forces to slay the rampaging Kalydonian Boar. In the story, while Meleanger killed the boar it was Atlanta who drew first blood.
The following is a list of the Kalydonian Boar Hunters

* Admetos
* Akastos
* Alkon
* Amphiaraus
* Ankaeus
* Asklêpios
* Atalantê
* Deukalion
* Dryas of Kalydon
* Ekhion
* Enaesimus
* Epokhus
* Euphemus
* Eurypylus
* Eurytion
* Eurytos
* Eurytos
* Hippasus
* Hippothous
* Hyleus
* Iason
* Idas
* Iolaus
* Iphikles
* Kaeneus
* Kastor
* Kepheus
* Kometes
* Kteatus
* Laërtes
* Lelex
* Leukippus
* Lynkeus
* Meleagros
* Mopsus
* Nestor
* Panopeus
* Peleus
* Phoenix
* Phyleus
* Pirithous
* Plexippus
* Polydeukes
* Prothous
* Telamon
* Theseus of Athens
* Toxeus
Ketô

Keto was the goddess of the dangers of the sea and, more specifically, of sea-monsters, whales and large sharks (all called *ketea* in Greek). She consorted with her brother Phorkys.

## Family

### Children

Possibly Ekhidna (by Phorkys)

Pephredo (by Phorkys)

Enyo (by Phorkys)

Deino (by Phorkys)

Ladon aka Drakon Hesperios (by Phorkys)

Sthenno (by Gorgo Aix)

Euryale (by Gorgo Aix)

Medousa (by Gorgo Aix)

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Kleitos (Son of Aigyptos)

Kleitos 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
Iphimedousa

Iphimedousa was the daughter of Danaus and either Atlanteia or Phoibe (both Hamadryad nymphs of Libya in north Africa as well as wives of King Danaus). Asteria would be one of the Daniads who murdered her husband (Eukhenor) following the mass marriage of the daughters of Danaus to the sons of Aigyptos.

## 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 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Eratô (Danaid)

Eratô was the daughter of Polyxô 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 Bromius. That night she and forty-eight of the other forty-nine daughters killed their respective husbands with daggers provided to them by Danaus.

## Punishment

When Eratô and the other Danaids who had murdered their husbands they were sent to Tartarus and were forced to carry water from the river Styx in a bowls (or jars according to some) with holes over to a tub which leaks at multiple parts.  Erato and the others were told only when they filled the tub could they wash away their sins.  The Danaids continue this essentially impossible task to this very day.

## Classical Text

"The twelve sons of a Naias Nymphe named Caliadne [and Aigyptos] drew lots for the daughters of Polyxô, also a Naias [and Danaus]. The sons were named Eurylochos, Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermos, Dryas, Potamon, Cisseus, Lixos, Imbros, Bromios, Polyctor, and Chthonios; the girls were Autonoe, Theano, Electra, Cleopatra, Eurydice, Glaucippe, Antheleia, Cleodore, Euippe, Eratô, Stygne, and Bryke."

*- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5*
Ixion

## Myth

Ixion had fallen in love with Hera, when Hera learned of this she approached her husband Zeus. Since Zeus had originally favored Ixion he decided not to smite him without proof of Hera's claim. Zeus therefore took a cloud (Nephelê) and shaped it into a likeness of Hera. When Ixion attempted to make love to what appeared to be a sleeping Hera, Zeus had Ixion tied to a wheel which was set a flame and sent through the sky. Other versions cite the location of the flaming wheel in Tartarus.

## Classical Text

“If you only would bear in mind the fate of Ixion, you would never have dreamed of falling in love with beings so much above you. For he, you remember is bent and stretched across the heaven like a wheel.”
 - Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.40
Kalydonian Boar Hunters

The following is a list of the Kalydonian Boar Hunters

1. Admetos
2. Akastos
3. Alkon
4. Amphiaraus
5. Ankaeus
6. Asklêpios
7. Atalantê
8. Deukalion
9. Dryas of Kalydon
10. Ekhion
11. Enaesimus
12. Epokhus
13. Euphemus
14. Eurypylus
15. Eurytion
16. Eurytos
17. Eurytos
18. Hippasus
19. Hippothous
20. Hyleus
21. Iason
22. Idas
23. Iolaus
24. Iphikles
25. Kaeneus
26. Kastor
27. Kepheus
28. Kometes
29. Kteatus
30. Laërtes
31. Lelex
32. Leukippus
33. Lynkeus
34. Meleagros
35. Mopsus
36. Nestor
37. Panopeus
38. Peleus
39. Phoenix
40. Phyleus
41. Pirithous
42. Plexippus
43. Polydeukes
44. Prothous
45. Telamon
46. Theseus of Athens
47. Toxeus
Hêphaistos

Two versions of the parentage of Hêphaistos exist. The lesser accepted version is that Hera who grew tired of Zeus siring offspring with other women decided to do something similar so she conceved Hêphaistos with no husband. The greater accepted theory is that he was a child of both Zeus and Hêphaistos (which makes him the only full sibling of Ares). What is undeniable is that when he was born he was so disfigured that Hera kicked him from Olympus
Iôkê

Iôkê was the female personification (daimona) of onslaught, battle-tumult, pursuit and rout. She was one of the spirits of the aigis (aegis)--the tasselled arm-guard of Zeus--alongside Alkê (Battle-Strength), Eris (Strife) and Phobos (Terror). Alke was perhaps the same as Proioxis and was likely numbered amongst the Makhai (Machae) (Battle-Spirits).
Idas

In Greek mythology, Idas (Greek: Ἴδας) was a son of Aphareus and Arene and brother of Lynkeus. He and Lynkeus loved Hilaeira Phoebe and fought with their rival suitors, Kastor and Polydeukes, killing the mortal brother Kastor. He was also one of the Argonauts and a participant in the hunt for the Kalydonian Boar. He kidnapped Marpessa. Apollôn also desired her and Zeus made the girl choose. She chose the mortal Idas, fearing that Apollôn could abandon her when she grew old. With Marpessa, Idas had one daughter named Kleopatra.

## Time As An Argonaut

Idas was the Argonaut who on their journey to fetch the Golden Fleece, avenged the death of fellow fallen Argonaut Idmon, the son of Apollo. Idas did this by slaying the wild boar that wounded and killed the seer. Other than that not much is not quite known but he joined along with his two brothers.

## Kalydonian Boar Hunt

His role is hunt was not defined but Hyginus lists him among those who were involved in The Kalydonian Boar Hunt.

## Classical Text

"The sons of Aphareus, Lynceus and proud Idas, came from Arene, both exulting in their great strength; and Lynceus too excelled in keenest sight, if the report is true that that hero could easily direct his sight even beneath the earth."

- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.151

"Castor and Pollux, sons of Jove. Eurytus son of Mercury . . . Parth\* . . . Echion, son of Mercury [from Thebes]. Aesculapius, son of Apollo. Jason, son of Aeson [fom Thebes]. Alcon, son of Mars, from Thrace. Euphemus, son of Neptune. Iolaus, son of Iphiclus. Lynceus and Idas, sons of Aphareus. Peleus, son of Aeacus. Telamon, son of Aeacus. Admetus, son of Pheres. Laertes, son of Arcesius. Deucalion, son of Minos. Theseus, son of Aegeus. Plexippus . . . [Ideus Lynceus] sons of Thestius, brothers of Althaea. Hippothous, son of Cercyon. Caeneus, son of Elatus, Mopsus, son of Ampycus. Meleager, son of Oeneus. Hippasus, son of Eurytus. Ancaeus, son of Lycurgus. Phoenix, son of Amyntor. Dryas, son of Iapetus. Eneasimus, Alcon, Leucippus, sons of Hippocoon from Amyclae. Atlanta, daughter of Schoeneus."

- Hyginus. Fabulae, 173
Kaeneus

Kaeneus was described as the daughter of  Elatus, a Lapith leader and Hippea. In other version, Kaeneus was described as the daughter of Atrax, the son of the river god Peneus and Bura.

Sea god Poseidon was attracted towards Kaeneus stunning beauty and lusted after her. Kaeneus tried to escape Poseidon embraces, but Poseidon forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. Afterwards Poseidon promised to grant her anything she wished. Kaeneus wished to become a man, so that nothing like this could ever happen to her again.

Poseidon granted her wish, and in addition, made her/him invulnerable to all weapons. Kaeneus then changed his name to Kaeneus and became a warrior, traveling all over Thessaly.

Not only was Kaeneus an Argonaut but he was among the company of heroes that hunt the Kalydomian Boar.

At the wedding of Pirithous, when fighting broke out between the Lapiths and the Centaurs, Kaeneus slew many of the Centaurs but remained unharmed himself.In revenge for this, a mob of centaurs piled pine-tree trunks and stones upon him, since he was immune to weapons.

The Centaur could not kill him, and he was crushed or smothered beneath the great weight. After Kaeneus death, he fall directly into Tartarus. Other version described that he flew away from the pile of tree trunks as a golden-winged bird.

## Mythology

### Time as an Argonaut

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Hylaios (Kentauroi Peloponnesioi)

## 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,153 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.154 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.155 And by Melanion, or Ares, Atalanta had a son Parthenopaeus, who went to the war against Thebes."

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

Kakos was a monstrous, cannibal fire-breathing giant who dwelt in a cave on the Aventine Hill in Latium (later the site of Rome). He was slain by Herakles as the hero was on his way back to Greece after fetching the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia. Herakles rested, Kakos took the cattle and hid them in his cave. When Herakles could not find the cattle, he was approached by Kaka (Kakos' own sister) who told Herakles where he could find Kakos. Herakles found the cave decorated with the heads of his victims.

Once he found the cave, Herakles stormed towards it. A terrified Kakos blocked the entrance with a vast, immoveable boulder. Herakles was forced to tear it the top of the mountain to reach Kakos. In a desperate attempt to fight off the hero, Kakos attacked by spewing fire and smoke. Herakles responded by throwing tree branches and rocks the size of millstones. After Herakles exausted all his patience, he leapt into the cave. Herakles looked for the area where the smoke was heaviest (knowing that would be where Kakos would be. Herakles charged towards Kakos and grabbed him and strangled the monster to death. Herakles moved the stone and brought the cattle out and continued his journey to bring the cattle of Geryon.
Leonteus

Leonteus, son of Coronus (the son of Caeneus) and Cleobule, was one of the commanders of the Lapiths during the Trojan War. Together with his associate, Polypoetes (son of Pirithous), he led the soldiers from the Thessalian cities of Argissa, Gyrtone, Orthe, Elone and Oloosson. He was credited with killing five people during the war.
Kôrykia

Kôrykia (Κωρυκια) was a Naiad-nymph of the springs of the Korykian (Corycian) Cave of Delphoi in Phokis (central Greece). She was one of three Korykiai.

Kôrykia may have been identified with Kastalia (Castalia), nymph of the sacred springs of Mount Parnassos, Kleodora, the mother of Parnassos, and Melaine, the mother of Delphos.
Iamos

Iamos (Ιαμος) was instructed by his father Apollon in the art of prophecy. He later travelled to the shrine of Olympia and established himself in the sanctuary as the official diviner and seer. The Iamidai "House of Iamos" who held this illustrious position in historical times, claimed to be descendants of the hero.
Korônis (Hyad)

Koronis (Κορωνις) whose name means arched or curved is one the star nymphs known as the Hyades.  They were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione.

## Myth

After their brother Hyas was killed by a lion she and the other four Hyades wept so much that the tear-soaked sisters were placed amongst the stars as the constellation  Hyades. Hyas himself was transformed into the constellation Aquarius. The setting of their constellation in November marked the start of the rainy season in Greece, hence the star nymphs were known as "the Rainy Ones." Write the first paragraph of your page here.
Klonie

One of the Amazons who came with Penthesileia to the Trojan War. Killed by Podarkes at Troy.

## Classical Text

And with her followed twelve beside, each one a princess, hot for war and battle grim, far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her: Penthesileia far outshone them all. As when in the broad sky amidst the stars the moon rides over all pre-eminent, when through the thunderclouds the cleaving heavens open, when sleep the fury-breathing winds; so peerless was she mid that charging host. Clonie was there, Polemusa, Derinoe, Evandre, and Antandre, and Bremusa, Hippothoe, dark-eyed Harmothoe, Alcibie, Derimacheia, Antibrote, and Thermodosa glorying with the spear. All these to battle fared with warrior-souled Penthesileia: even as when descends Dawn from Olympus' crest of adamant, Dawn, heart-exultant in her radiant steeds amidst the bright-haired Hours; and o'er them all, how flawless-fair soever these may be, her splendour of beauty glows pre-eminent; so peerless amid all the Amazons unto Troy-town Penthesileia came. To right, to left, from all sides hurrying thronged the Trojans, greatly marvelling, when they saw the tireless War-god's child, the mailed maid, like to the Blessed Gods; for in her face glowed beauty glorious and terrible. Her smile was ravishing: beneath her brows, her love-enkindling eyes shone like to stars, and with the crimson rose of shamefastness bright were her cheeks, and mantled over them unearthly grace with battle-prowess clad.

- *Quintus Smyrnaeus. Fall of Troy i, 40 - i 72.*
Klite

Klite was one of three daughters of Memphis and Danaus (the other two being Sthenele and Khrysippe)  Klite 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.
King Danaus

**King Danaus** who was the twin brother of King Aigyptos. Danaus had fifty daughters (known collectively as the Danaids) from various women and Aigyptos had fifty sons. There was an arranged mass marriage where The daughters of Danaus and the sons of Aigyptos wed one another. Danaus however had given each of his daughters knives and instructed them to kill their respective spouses that night. Forty-nine of the daughters did so, Hypermnestra however refused because her husband, Lynkeus, honored her wish to remain a virgin.

## Spouse & Lovers

Queen Elephantis

Polyxô

Pieria

Atlanteiê

Herse

Europe

Phoibê

Memphis

Krino

Unnamed Eithiopian Woman

## Children

Adiate

Agave

Aktaia

Amymone

Anaxibia

Antheleia

Asteria

Automate

Autonoe

Bryke

Dioxippe

Dorium

Elektra

Erato

Euippe

Euippe

Eurydike

Glauke

Glaukippe

Gorge

Gorgophone

Hippodameia

Hippodameia

Hippodike

Hippomedousa

Hyperippe

Hypermnestra

Iphimedousa

Kallidike

Kelaino

Khrysippe

Kleodore

Kleopatra

Kleopatra

Klite

Mnestra

Nelo

Oeme

Okypete

Phartis

Phylodamia

Pirene

Podarke

Pylarge

Rhode

Rhodia

Skaea

Sthenele

Stygne

Theano
Kerketes

Kerketes was one of the fifty sons of King Aigyptos. Kerketes' mother was an unnamed phoenikian woman. The same woman that gave birth to Kerketes bore six other sons to Aigyptos. In the mass wedding of the sons of Aigyptos to the daughters of Danaus, Kerketes wed Dorion.

## Classical Text

"Agaptolemus got Pirene; Cercetes got Dorium; Eurydamas got Phartis; Aegius got Mnestra; Argius got Evippe; Archelaus got Anaxibia; Menemachus got Nelo. These seven sons were begotten on a Phoenician woman and the maidens on an Ethiopian woman"

- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Klytiê (Okeanid & Lover of Helios)

Klytie (Κλυτιη) was an Okeanid whose name means renown and glorious. She and who was in love with the sun god Helios as was he her. Helios however he abandoned her for the love of Leukothoe. When Helios left her, she pined away and was transformed into the sun-gazing, purple flower of the heliotrope.

Klytie is often identified with another Okeanid Klymene, who by Helios was the mother of Phaethon and seven daughters. Just as Klytie was transformed so were the daughters of Klymene.
Idomeneus of Krete

In Greek mythology, **Idomeneus** (Ἰδομενεύς) was a Kretan commander, father of Orsilokhus, Kleisithyra and Iphiklus, son of Deukalion and Kleopatra, grandson of Minos and king of Crete. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War  and was also one of Helen's suitors as well as a comrade of the Telamonian Ajax. Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms.

## Mythology

In Homer's *Iliad*, Idomeneus is found among the first rank of the Greek generals, leading his troops and engaging the enemy head-on, and escaping serious injury. Idomeneus was one of Agamemnon's trusted advisors. He was one of the primary defenders when most of the other Achaean heroes were injured, and even fought Hector briefly and repulsed his attack. Like most of the other leaders of the Greeks, he is alive and well as the story comes to a close. He was one of the Achaeans to enter the Trojan Horse. Idomeneus killed twenty men and at least three Amazon women, including Bremusa, at Troy.

A later tradition, preserved by the mythographer Apollodorus of Athens, continues the story as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm. He promised Poseidon that he would sacrifice the first living thing he saw when he returned home if Poseidon would save his ship and crew. The first living thing was his son, whom Idomeneus duly sacrificed. The gods were angry at the murder of his own son and sent a plague to Crete. The Cretans sent him into exile in Calabria (ancient name of the Salento in Apulia), Italy and then Colophon in Asia Minor where he died. According to Marcus Terrentius Varro, the gens Salentini descended from Idomeneus, who had sailed from Crete to Illyria, and then together with Illyrians and Locrians from Illyria to Salento, see Grecìa Salentina.

Alternatively, Idomeneus was driven out of Crete by Leucus, his foster son, who had seduced and then killed Idomeneus' wife Meda and usurped the throne of Crete.
Imbrius

In Greek mythology, Imbrius (Ἵμβριος) whose name means "native of Imbros", was the son of Mentor. Imbrius was a defender of Troy. According to the Iliad, Imbrius originated from Pedaeum and was married to Medesikaste, an illegitimate daughter of King Priam. When the Greeks landed at Troy, Imbrius moved to the house of his father-in-law, who treated him like his own son. Imbrius fought at the walls of Troy and was killed by Teûkros.
Kyllaros

## Classical Text

"Cyllarus, beauty did not save your life—if beauty is in any of your tribe—your golden beard was in its early growth, your golden hair came flowing to your shoulders. in your bright face there was a pleasing glance. The neck and shoulders and the hands and breast: and every aspect of his human form resembled those admired statues which our gifted artists carve. Even the shape of the fine horse beneath the human form was perfect too. Give him the head and neck of a full-blooded horse, and he would seem a steed for Castor, for his back was shaped so comfortable to be sat upon and muscle swelled upon his arching chest. His lustrous body was as black as pitch, and yet his legs and flowing tail were white as snow. Many a female of his kind loved him, but only Hylonome gained his love. There was no other centaur maid so beautiful as she within the woods. By coaxing ways she had won Cyllarus, by loving and confessing love. By daintiness, so far as that was possible in one of such a form, she held his love; for now she smoothed her long locks with a comb; and now she decked herself with rosemary and now with violets or with roses in her hair; and sometimes she wore lilies, white as snow; and twice each day she bathed her lovely face, in the sweet stream that falls down from the height of wooded Pagasa; and daily, twice she dipped her body in the stream. She wore upon her shoulders and left side a skin, greatly becoming, of selected worth. Their love was equal, and together they would wander over mountain-sides, and rest together in cool caves; and so it was, they went together to that palace-cave, known to the Lapithae. Together they fought fiercely in this battle, side by side. Thrown by an unknown hand, a javelin pierced Cyllarus, just below the fatal spot where the chest rises to the neck—his heart, though only slightly wounded, grew quite cold, and his whole body felt cold, afterwards, as quickly as the weapon was drawn out. Then Hylonome held in her embrace the dying body; fondled the dread wound and, fixing her lips closely to his lips endeavored to hold back his dying breath. But soon she saw that he indeed was dead. With mourning words, which clamor of the fight prevented me from hearing, she threw herself on the spear that pierced her Cyllarus and fell upon his breast, embracing him in death.

- *Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.393-12.428 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)*
Kaukasios Eagle

The Kaukasios Eagle was a gigantic eagle sent by Zeus to feed upon the ever-regenerating liver of the Titan Promêtheus after he was chained to a peak of the Kaukasos Mountains as punishment for stealing fire from the gods.

The eagle was variously described as a drakaina Ekhidna and sometimes as a bronze automaton constructed by the god Hêphaistos.

When Herakles set out to free Prometheus from his bonds, he felled the eagle with a volley of arrows.
Koios

In Greek mythology, Koios (Ancient Greek: Κοιος) was one of the elders the Titans, sons of Ouranos and Gaia. He married his sister Phoibê and became the father of Lêlantos, Lêtô and Asteria. He is one of the titans who ruled during the Golden Age. Koios is the titan of resolve and intelligence. Titan is the god of the north.

## Family

### Children

Lêtô
Ateria
Lêlantos
Iphis

Iphis was one of the daughters of Thespius, King of Thespiae, Boeotia and Megamede, daughter of Arneus. She was one of the forty-nine of his fifty daughters to sleep with Herakles while he was in Thespiae. She would bare him Keleustanor.

## Classical Text

*"by Iphis he* [Herakles] *had Keleustanor"*

- Apollodorus, Biblioteca 2.7.8
Lamia

Lamia (Λαμια) was a child-devouring sea-monster or night-haunting daemon. She was a daughter of Poseidôn and mother of the monsters Skylla and Akheilos.

Lamia was originally a Libyan queen loved by Zeus. When his jealous wife Hera learned of their affair she stole away Lamia's children and the woman, driven mad with grief, tore out her own eyes. Zeus then transformed her into a monster allowing her to exact revenge by devouring the children of others.

Lamia was often described as a bogeyman--a night-haunting daemon which preyed on children. She was sometimes pluralized into host of ghostly, vampiric Lamiai.

Lamia was no doubt first envisaged, however, as a sea-monster for she was a daughter of Poseidon and her name is simply the ancient Greek word for a large, dangerous lone-shark. She was probably identified with the sea-goddess Keto for both are described as the mother of the monstrous Skylla. Her other child, Akheilos "the lipless one", was transformed into a small shark by Aphrodite.
Krommyonian Sow

The Krommyonian Sow was a giant pig who was one of the children of Ekhidna and Typhon. The sow would constantly attack the countryside by Krommyon so its owner (Phaia) could come and take food and supplies from the area where the Krommyonian Sow had just raised havoc.

## Mythology

As one of the Labors of Theseus, he slew the sow and its owner, Phaia.
Inakhos

Inakhos (Ιναχος) was a River-God of Argolis in the Peloponnesos, southern Greece. When the gods Poseidôn and Hera contested for dominion over Argos, Inakhos was appointed arbiter and decided in Hera's favor. In retalation Poseidôn dried up his stream.

The Inakhos River flowed south through western Argos, emptying into the Argolic Gulf between the towns of Argos and Tiryns. Its stream ran dry in mid-summer. Three other Argive streams were personified: the stream Erasinos and two small tributaries of the Inakhos, the Asteriôn and Kêphisos. The most important neighboring rivers were the Asôpos in Sikyonia to the north, the Ladon of Arkadia to the west, and Eurotas of Lakedaimonia to the south-west.

## Family

### Children

Aegialeus
Amymonê
Iô
Messeis
Mykênê
Naias Argia
Phoroneus
Kymopoleia

Kymopoleia (Κυμοπολεια) was a sea goddess and the daughter of the Olympian Poseidon and his wife Amphitrite. She is also the wife of the hundred-handed, storm-giant Briareôs. She was a goddess of the violent storm waves generated by her husband.

## Classical Text

"But the glorious allies of loud-crashing Zeus [i.e. the three Hekatonkheires] have their dwelling upon Okeanos' (Oceanus') foundations, even Kottos (Cottus) and Gyes; but Briareos (Briareus), being goodly, the deep-roaring Earth-Shaker [Poseidon] made his son-in-law, giving him Kymopoleia (Cymopoleia) his daughter to wed."
Kebriones

Kebriones was the son of Priam and an unnamed slave. He fought in the Trojan War. Kebriones was killed by Patroklus who threw a jagged stone at his head and caused a fatal blow to the head.

## 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

"So spake he, and went back again, a god into the toil of men. Then unto wise-hearted Cebriones glorious Hector gave command to lash his horses into the battle. But Apollo went his way, and entered into the throng, and sent an evil panic upon the Argives, and vouchsafed glory to the Trojans and to Hector. But Hector let be the other Danaans, neither sought to stay them, but drave his strong-hoofed horses against Patroclus; and Patroclus over against him leapt from his chariot to the ground with a spear in his left hand, while with the other he grasped a stone, shining and jagged, that his hand compassed about. Firmly he planted himself, and hurled it, neither had he long awe of his foe, nor sped he his missile in vain, but smote the charioteer of Hector, even Cebriones, a bastard son of glorious Priam, upon the forehead with the sharp stone, as he was holding the reins of the horses. And both his brows did the stone dash together, and the bone held not, but the eyes fell to the ground in the dust even there, before his feet. And like a diver he fell from the well-wrought car, and his spirit left his bones. Then with mocking words didst thou speak to him, knight Patroclus: "Hah, look you, verily nimble is the man; how lightly he diveth! In sooth if he were on the teeming deep, this man would satisfy many by seeking for oysters, leaping from his ship were the sea never so stormy, seeing that now on the plain he diveth lightly from his car. Verily among the Trojans too there be men that dive."

- Homer, Illiad 16.726 - 16.749
Khaos

Khaos (also spelled Chaos) was the first of the Protogenoi and precedes the universe. He was followed in quick succession by Gaia and Tartaros. Khaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounded the earth - invisible air and gloomy mist. His name Khaos literally means the gap, the space between heaven and earth. Khaos was the father or grandfather of Nyx, Erebos. She was also the various emotion-affecting Daimones which drifted through it.

Khaos was later defined as the chaotic mix of elements that existed in the primeval universe, confusing it with the primeval Mud of the Orphic cosmogonies, but this was not the original meaning.

## Family

Protogenoi (children):

Ouranos
Gaia (sibling)
Nyx
Erebos
Erôs

## Classical Text

Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.

*- Hesiod, Theogony 116-138*
Kteatus

Kteatus and his brother Eurytus were twin brothers in Greek Mythology. Named the Moliones or Molionidai for their mother, Molione, they were the sons of either Aktor or Poseidon and nephew of Augeas. Greek legend maintains that the brothers were born conjoined with only one body but two heads, four arms and four legs, Homer however does not make mention of this.

Kteatus was one of the Kalydonian Hunters. His exact role of Kteatus in the hunt is unknown.

Both brothers went on expeditions of war to the Neleus and the Pylians, and later led an army marching against their uncle Augeas at the request of Herakles. After the brothers had finally appeared to have made peace with Herakles, they attacked Herakles and were subsequently killed by him outside Kleonae.

Kteates married Therenike one of the twin daughters of Dexamenus. Kteatus' son was Amphimachus, were counted among the Akhaean leaders in the Trojan War.
Hyperippe (Danaid)

Hyperippe was one of the fifty daughters of Danaus who took part in the mass wedding of the fifty daughters of Danaus to the fifty sons of Danaus' twin brother King Aigyptos.  Hyperippe was wed to Hippokorystes.  The night of the wedding she and all her sisters and half-sisters (with the exception of Hypermnestra) killed her husband.
Idomeneus

## 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
Krênaios

## Classical Text

"Victorious, then rushed he upon Evagrus, and Corythus and Dryas. First of these was youthful Corythus, whose cheeks were then just covered with soft down. When he fell dead, Evagrus cried, `What glory do you get, killing a boy?’ But Rhoetus did not give him time for uttering one word more. He pushed the red hot stake into the foeman's mouth, while he still spoke, and down into his lungs. He then pursued the savage Dryas, while whirling the red fire fast about his head; but not with like success, for, while he still rejoiced in killings, Dryas turned and pierced him with a stake where neck and shoulder meet. Rhoetus groaned and with a great effort pulled the stake out from the bone, then fled away, drenched in his blood. And Orneus followed him. Lycabas fled, and Medon with a wound in his right shoulder. Thaumas and Pisenor and Mermerus fled with them. Mermerus, who used to excell all others in a race, ran slowly, crippled by a recent wound. Pholus and Melaneus ran for their lives and with them Abas, hunter of wild boars and Asbolus, the augur, who in vain had urged his friends to shun that hapless fight. As Nessus joined the rout, he said to him, `You need not flee, for you shall be reserved a victim for the bow of Hercules!’ But neither Lycidas, Eurynomus nor Areos, nor Imbreus had escaped from death: for all of these the strong right hand of Dryas pierced, as they confronted him. Crenaeus there received a wound in front. Although he turned in flight, as he looked back, a heavy javelin between his eyes pierced through him, where his nose and forehead joined.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290-12.315 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)
Hypnos

Hypnos is the god of sleep, the son of Nyx, the twin brother Thanatos the god of peaceful death whom he shared a cave as his residence which was in the part of the underworld known Erebos (the land of eternal darkness beyond the gates of the rising sun). Hypnos rose into the sky each night following his mother (goddess of night). Hypnos was often paired with his twin brother His brother Thanatos letting people die in their sleep. Hypnos had 1,000 sons called the he Oneiroi who were gods daimons. Hypnos' sons were gods of dreams (the most popular of which were Ikelos-Phobetor Morpheus, and Phantasos).

The Greek word epialês was derived from the verb epiallô "to lay upon."

## Family

### Children

1,000 Oneiroi (including Ikelos-Phobetor Morpheus, and Phantasos)

## Physical Description

Hypnos was depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or brow. His attributes included either a horn of sleep-inducing opium, a poppy-stem, a branch dripping water from the river Lethe (river of forgetfulness), or holding an inverted torch.
Laokoön (Seer)

Laokoön was a Trojan seer who foresaw that the Trojan Horse would bring destruction to the Troy. When Laokoön begged the Trojans to set it on fire to the horse saying "Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans [Greeks], even those bearing gifts." Athena who had sided against the Trojans and had been angered by Laokoön caused the ground to shake below Laokoön's feet and painfully blind him. When they saw this, they interpreted this as Athena's anger for the doubting of Sinon (the Greek soldier sent left behind to convince the Trojans that the horse was merely a gift). Despite the Trojans ignoring Laokoön earlier warning, Laokoön did not cease his attempts to have the horse kept away. When Laokoön's first attempt to stop the horse from being brought he once again tried to warn the Trojans again, a pair of giant sea serpents sent by either Athena or Poseidon emerged and strangled Laokoön and his two sons further discrediting his warning and finally making them believe Sinon was telling the truth.
Iphitos

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.
Hyalê

Hyale whose name means "crystal" or "clear like crystal" was a Nephelai of rain. She was on the attendant Nymphs of Artemis and was one of a band of sixty of the younger Okeanid Nymphs which formed the core retinue of the goddess Artemis. The names of the sixty suggest they were Nephelai (Cloud Nymphs) and 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 who were nine years old.

## Classical Text

"‘And give me sixty daughters of Okeanos (Okeanines) for my choir--all nine years old, all maidens yet ungirdled; and give me for handmaidens twenty Nymphai of Amnisos (Amnisides) who shall tend well my buskins, and, when I shoot no more at lynx or stag, shall tend my swift hounds.’"
Kometes (Kentauroi Thessalioi)

## 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 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)*
Kuones Khryseos & Argyreos

"[The palace of Alkinous king of the Phaiakoi] Golden doors closed the palace in, and silver posts rose above the threshold; the lintel was of silver, the door-handle was of gold. Each side of the door were gold and silver watchdogs, deathless for ever and unageing, which Hêphaistos with his wit and cunning had fashioned as guardians for the great house."

*- Homer, Odyssey 7. 87 (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.)*
Khionê (Khios Naiad)

KHIONE was the Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the town of Khios (Chios) on the Aegean island of the same name. She was loved by the god Poseidon and, during a snowfall (*khios*), bore him a son named Khios--the eponymous first king of the island.

Another Khian Nymph was mother by Poseidon of Melos and Agelos, eponyms of the island's two other towns.
Laothoe

Laothoe 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 Antiphus.

## Family

### Parents

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

## Classical Text

"by Laothoe he [Herakles] had Antiphus"
- Apollodorus, Biblioteca 2.7.8
Iô

Iô was an Argive princess and Naiad-nymph who was loved by the god Zeus. When Hera suddenly interrupted their tryst, Zeus transformed the maiden into a white heifer. However the goddess was not so easily fooled and requested the animal as a gift. She then appointed the hundred-eyed giant Argos Panoptes as its guard. Zeus sent Hermes to slay the warden but Hera soon retaliated by inflicting the heifer-shaped Io with a gadfly. The stinging insect drove the cow-girl mad forcing her to wander miles across the expanses of Europe and Asia to eventually reach Aigyptos. Once there Zeus restored her form with a touch of the hand and she gave birth to their son Epaphos.

Io's descendants ruled Aigyptos and the East for many generations but later returned to Greece--Kadmos (Cadmus) founding the royal house of Thebes and Danaos that of Argos.

Io was sometimes identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis and her son Epaphos with the sacred bull Apis.
Hyperion (Son of Priam)

While when most think of **Hyperion** (Ancient Greek: Ὑπερίων), they think of the Titan of the East but it is also the name of one of King Priam's bastard sons.

## 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."

- Apollodorus, Library, 3.12.5
Klitomnos

Klitomnos (/klɪˈtʌmnəs) was a son of Okeanos and Tethys. He was the god of the Clitunno River in Umbria.

Reference to Clitumnus is best attested in Pliny the Younger "Letters" 8.8: "Hard by is an ancient and sacred temple, where stands Jupiter Clitumnus himself clad and adorned with a toga praetexta, and the oracular responses delivered there prove that the deity dwells within and foretells the future."

The Roman Emperor Caligula visited the sacred grove prior to his invasion of Germany, presumably to consult the oracle of Clitumnus.
Hyperiôn

Hyperiôn whose name means "he who watches from above" was one of the elder titans

## Mythology

### Overthrowing Ouranos

With the exception of Okeanis (who stayed neutral) Hyperion and his brothers conspired against their father who had taken control over the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. Iapetos, Krios, Koios, and Hyperion each hid in each of the farthest corners of the earth when Ouranos descended to earth to lie with Gaia. Iapetos, Koios, Krios & Hyperion grabbed onto Ouranos. Kronos snuck up under him, castrated him and cut him to pieces and seized power. Iapetos was given control over the northern part of earth (which is why Kriod only stayed on the western part of the south).

### Imprisonment

After the Titanomachy, Hyperion was imprisoned with his brothers in Tartarus. S
Kelaineus

Kelaineus was one of the paneides who were twelve young Panes, goat-legged rustic spirits or gods. The Panes, were, sons of the elder god Pan. They joined Dionysos in his war against the Indians.

## Classical Text

"Now [in India] the hill the summit of which is inhabited by the sages is, according to the account of our travellers, of about the same height as the Akropolis of Athens; and it rises: straight up from the plain, though its natural position equally secures it from attack for the rock surrounds it on all sides. On many parts of this rock you see traces of cloven feet and outlines of beards and of faces, and here and there impressions of backs as of persons who had slipt--and rolled down. For they say that Dionysos, when he was trying to storm the place together with Herakles, ordered the Panes to attack it, thinking that they would be strong enough to take it by assault; but they were thunderstruck by the sages and fell one, one way, and another, another; and the rocks as it were took the print of the various postures in which they fell and failed."

- Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3. 13 (trans. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.)
Korkyra

KORKYRA (Corcyra) was the Naiad-nymph of the springs or fountain of the main town of the island of Korkyra in the Ionian Sea. She was a daughter of the Argive river Asopos who was abducted to the island by the god Poseidon where she bore Phaiax (Phaeax), the eponymous founding-king of the Phaiakoi (Phaeacian) nation.
Iasiôn

Iasiôn was an agricultural hero and the springtime consort of Demeter in the Samothracian Mysteries.

Iasiôn lay with the goddess in a thrice-ploughed field during the wedding celebrations of Kadmos and Harmonia on the island of Samothrake. When Zeus learned of the affair he slew Iasion with a thunderbolt. According to some Iasiôn and the agricultural hero Triptolemos were afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Gemini.

Iasiôn was perhaps equated with Attis, the dying consort of the Phrygian goddess Kybele, and Karmanor, Demeter's consort on the island of Krete. Hesiod appears to equate the two when he places Iasiôn in Krete. The meaning of the name Iasion is obscure but it may connected with the Greek word for bindweed, a small white-flowering vine commonly found growing in wheat fields entwined around the grain-stalks.
Ismênos

Ismênos (Ισμηνος) was a River-God of Boiotia in central Greece. There were two quite distinct traditions about this River-God. According to some he was a son of the river Asopos who emigrated to the region. According to others the river's first god was a son of Okeanos named Kaanthos (Caanthus). When Apollon abducted his sister Melia--Naiad-nymphe of the Ismenian spring--he set fire to the god's temple in Thebes. Apollon was wroth and shot him dead. Kaanthos was then succeeded as River-God by his nephew Ismenos, the son of Apollon and Melia.

The Ismenos River had its headwaters in the western foothills of Mount Kithairon (Cithaeron). Flowing east it passed the town of Thebes, before turning north and emptying into Lake Hylika. The stream was fed by a number of well-known springs including the Dirke (Dirce), Strophie and Ismene. The most important of the neighboring rivers were the Termêssos to the north, Lamos in the west and Asôpos in the south-east.
Kleopatra (Danaid-Daughter of Danaus & Phoibe or Atlanteia)

Two of Danaus' fifty daughters (the Danaides) were named Kleopatra (one whose mother was Polyxô (Daughter of Neilos) the other the daughter of Phoibê or Atlanteiê). The two along with their sisters (and half-sisters) were married to sons of King Aigyptos (by his various wives).  The night of the wedding, Kleopatra as did all but one of the Daniads killed her husband.

## Punishment

When Kleopatra and the other Danaids who had murdered their husbands they were sent to Tartarus and were forced to carry water from the river Styx in a bowls (or jars according to some) with holes over to a tub which leaks at multiple parts. Kleopatra and the others were told only when they filled the tub could they wash away their sins. The Danaids continue this essentially impossible task to this very day.

## 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.)