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Melas

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

## Ancient Text

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

- Hyginus, Fabulae, 21
Sthenelos (Perseid)

Sthenelos (Σθένελος) whose name means "strong one" or "forcer", was a king of Mykenae.

## Family

### Children

Eurystheus
Alkyone
Medusa.

## Mythology

Sthenelus exiled Amphitryon, for the murder of his brother Electryon. Amphitryon was also the husband of his niece, Alcmene. As heir, Sthenelus was the successor to the throne of Mycenae. He was in turn succeeded by his son Eurystheus.
Lykidas

## 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.)
Periboia (Okeanid)

Periboia (Περιβοια) was the Okeanid-nymph wife of the Titan Lêlantos and the mother of Aura, goddess of the breeze.

She and her husband may have been associated with the Lelantian plain of Euboia. Nonnus however locates their daughter in Phrygia.

Periboia's name means "Surrounding Cattle" from the Greek words *peri-* "around" and *bous* "cattle"--which perhaps suggests she was a nymph of pastureland or a small stream.
Medesikaste (Daughter of Priam)

Medesikaste was an illegitimate daughter of Priamos and wife of Imbrius.

## Classical Text

"And Teucer, son of Telamon, was first to slay his man, even the spearman Imbrius, the son of Mentor, rich in horses. He dwelt in Pedaeum before the sons of the Achaeans came, and had to wife a daughter of Priam that was born out of wedlock, even Medesicaste; but when the curved ships of the Danaans came..."

Homer, Illiad 13.171 - 13.174
Periboia

Periboia (Περιβοια) was the youngest daughter of giant-king Eurymedon and the mother by Poseidon of Nausithoos, the first king of the Phaiakes (Phaeacians). The Phaiakes were a mythical sea-faring race famed for their encounter with the hero Odysseus.

Periboia's name means "Surrounding the Cattle" or "Around the Cattle" from the Greek words *peri* and *bous*. She was probably a giantess (*gigantis*) like the wife and daughter of the Laistrygon Antiphates described elsewhere in the *Odyssey*. If her father Eurymedon was the same figure as Alkyoneus--the usual king of the giants--Periboia would be numbered amongst the sea-calming Alkyonides.
Melia

MELIA was the Naiad-nymph of the spring or fountain of the main town of the Aegean island of Keos (Ceos). She was loved by the god Apollôn and bore him Keos, the eponymous king of the island.

Melia's name was derived from the Greek word *meli* "honey-sweet", an adjective often applied to the waters of a spring.
Lysianassa (Daughter of Priam)

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."
- Hyginus. Fabulae, 90
Telemos

**Telemus** (Greek: Τήλεμος, translit. *Telemos*) was a figure of Greek mythology, a prophet, son of Eurymus. Telemus warned the Cyclops Polyphemus that he would lose his sight to a man named Odysseus.

'Alas!

Now an ancient prophecy about me

has truly been fulfilled! Telemus,

fine, tall son of Eurymus, a seer

who surpassed all men in prophecy,

reached old age among the Cyclopes

as a soothsayer. He said all these things

would come to pass someday—I'd lose my sight

at the hand of someone called Odysseus.

—
Ketea Indikoi

THE KETEA INDIKOI (Indian Cetea) were fabulous, multi-formed sea-monsters believed to inhabit the Indian Ocean. They had the foreparts of land animals--such as lions, leopards, rams and wolves--and the serpentine tails of fish.

The Ketea also included a breed of mermaid-like creatures with the heads of women, the tails of fish, and sharp spines for hair.

The Ketea were closely related to the Hippokampoi (Fish-Tailed Horses) and Tritones of Greek myth.
Maiandros

Maiandros (Μαιανδρος) was a river-god of Karia in Anatolia.

The River Maiandros had its headwaters the highlands of southern Phrygia and, flowing west through Karia, entered the Aegean Sea opposite the town of Miletos. The major neighboring rivers were the Kaystros to the north and the Indos to the south.
Pephredo

Pephredo was one of three sea hags who personified the white foam of the sea. They were grey-haired from birth and shared amongst themselves a single, detatchable eye and tooth. The hero Perseus stole these when he was searching for the gorgons, compelling the hags to reveal the location of their sister.

The Graiai were usually depicted as old crones. According to Aeschylus, however, they were Seiren-shaped monsters with the head and arms of old women and the bodies of swans.

It is worth comparing the Graiai with the monster Lamia whom Greek writers likewise describe as a monstrous Libyan woman with removable eyes.
Nauplius (Argonaut)

Nauplius was an Argonaut who ruled island of Nauplia. He was named after his was great-great-grandfather the founder of Nauplia. Like two others who bore the same name, Nauplius ruled over Nauplia (although other accounts say he ruled in Euboea).

## Myth

### As An Argonaut

Nauplius was one of the Argonauts who volunteered to steer the Argo after Tiphys' the original helmsman died. He was credited with discovery of the constellation Ursa Major. The Kretan king Katreus, fearful of the possibility of being killed by one of his own children, gave his two daughters, Aerope and Clymene, to Nauplius to sell them away. Instead, Nauplius married Clymene and gave Aerope in marriage to Atreus (or Pleisthenes); Clymene later bore to Nauplius three sons, named Palamedes, Oeax and Nausimedon. Some authors held that Nauplius' wife was named Philyra or Hesione. In a local Tegean version, Auge was also given to Nauplius by her father to be drowned in the sea as she had been raped by Heracles and was about to give birth to Telephus.

### Feud With Akhaeans

Nauplius' son Palamedes fought in the Trojan War, but was killed by fellow Akhaeans as a result of Odysseus' intrigues. Nauplius went to Troy to demand justice for the death of his son, however no one listened to him and all supported Agamemnon who helped Odysseus kill Palamedes. Consequently, Nauplius swore revenge against King Agamemnon and the other Greek leaders. As the Greeks were sailing home from Troy after the close of the war, Nauplius lit beacon fires along the perilous coastline of Euboea, and many ships were shipwrecked as a result.  Before this point, he also convinced many of the lonely wives of the Greek commanders to be unfaithful to their husbands, and to conspire against them - including Klytemnestra, (Agamemnon 's wife) who joined with Aigisthos, Aegiale (wife of Diomedes) who committed adultery with Kometes and others, and Meda (wife of Idomeneus ) who was unfaithful with Leukos Oeax and Nausimedon were apparently killed by Pylades as they arrived to aid Aegisthus.
Pisenor

## 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.)
Theiodámas

Theiodamas, a seer, son of Melampus. He followed Adrastos in the war of the Seven against Thebes and was chosen to replace Amphiaraus, who had been swallowed up by the earth, and the leader of a night attack, proposed by him himself on divine inspiration, on sleeping Thebans surrounding the Argive camp after the latter's death.
Rhyndakos

**Rhyndakos** was the god of the River Rhyndakos flowed through Mount Didymos in eastern Mysia (a region of north-western Anatolia) is an important small Asian river that today in its course.  It rises on the northern slope of what is now known as Murat Daği in Phrgia It flows in a northwesterly direction through Mysia south on Mysian Olympus past, then north turned by the Artyniasee (Lake Uluabat) takes in Miletopolis. The Makestos flows into the Sea of Marmara.
Lion

Like her mother Rhea, the lion is sacred to Hera

## Rhea

Rhea was sometimes seen riding on a lion at other times she is seen riding in a chariot drawn by lions.

## Hera

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## Nemeios Lion

The Nemios Lion was a lion whose skin was impenetrable to all weapons. Herakles was sent to kill it. Despite its reputation for being impenetrable to weapons he did try with both arrows and his club. When neither worked, Herakles attacked it with his bare hands. He wrestled it, choking it and breaking its ribs.
Polypheides

Polypheides, son of Mantius and brother of Cleitus. He was granted prophetic skills by Apollo and became the best seer among mortals after the death of Amphiaraus; he dwelt in Hyperesia and had a son Theoclymenus. A slightly different account of his life was given by Pherecydes: according to it, Polypheides married Aechme, daughter of Haemon, and settled in Eleusis, where two sons, Theoclymenus and Harmonides, were born to him.
Phrixos

Phrixos was a

## Classical Text

"Of the Centaurs which were killed the most renowned were Daphnis, Argeius, Amphion, also Hippotion, Oreius, Isoples, Malanchaetes, and Thereus, Doupon, and Phrixus. As for those who escaped the peril by flight, every one of them later received a fitting punishment: Homadus, for instance, was killed in Arcadia when he was attempting to violate Alcyonê, the sister of Eurystheus. And for this feat it came to pass that Heracles was marveled at exceedingly; for though he had private grounds for hating his enemy,39 yet because he pitied her who was being outraged, he determined to be superior to others in humanity."

- *Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.12.7*
Pyretos

Pyretos was a Kentauroi Thessalioi.

## Classical Text

“Another sight still comes before my eyes, the centaur Phaeocomes with his log. He wore six lion skins well wrapped around his body, and with fixed connecting knots they covered him, both horse and man. He hurled a trunk two yokes of oxen scarce could move and struck the hapless son of Olenus a crushing blow upon the head. The broad round dome was shattered, and his dying brains oozed out through hollow nostrils, mouth, and ears, as curdled milk seeps down through oaken twigs; or other liquors, crushed out under weights, flow through a well-pierced sieve and, thick, squeeze out through numerous holes. As he began to spoil his victim—and your father can affirm the truth of this—I thrust my sword deep in the wretch's groin. Chthonius, too, and Teleboas fell there by my sword. The former had a two-pronged stick as his sole weapon, and the other had a spear, with which the wounded me. You see the scar. The old scar still is surely visible! Those were my days of youth and strength, and then I ought to have warred against the citadel of Pergama. I could have checked, or even vanquished, the arms of Hector: but, alas, Hector had not been born, or was perhaps a boy. Old age has dulled my youthful strength. What use is it, to speak of Periphas, who overcame Pyretus, double-formed? Why tell of Ampyx, who with pointless shaft, victorious thrust Echeclus through the face? Macareus, hurling a heavy crowbar pierced Erigdupus and laid him low. A hunting spear that Nessus strongly hurled, was buried in the groin of Cymelus. Do not believe that Mopsus, son of Ampycus, was merely a prophet of events to come, he slew a daring two-formed monster there. Hodites tried in vain to speak, before his death, but could not, for his tongue was nailed against his chin, his chin against his throat.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.429-12.458 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)
Thersander

**Thersander** (Θέρσανδρος) whose name means "bold man" (derived from θέρσος *thersos* "boldness, braveness" and ανδρος *andros* "of a man") was one of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes. This is in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the war of the Seven against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing.

## Mythology

Thersander may have bribed Eriphyle with the robe of Harmonia so that she sent her son, Alcmaeon, to fight with him. His father did the same with Harmonia's necklace to convince her to send her husband with the original attackers. The attack of the Epigoni was successful, and Thersander became the king of Thebes. Thersander intended to fight for the Greeks during the Trojan War, but was killed by Telephus before the war began, while the Greeks had mistakenly stopped in Mysia. Pindar refers to Thersander as gaining honor after Polynices' death and preserving the house of Adrastus for later generations.
Thoas (Son of Iason)

**Thoas** (Θόας) whose name means "fleet or swift" was a son of Iason and Hypsipyle, and a grandson of the Lemnian king Thoas, and the twin brother of Euneus. Thoas and Euneus took part in the funeral games of the Nemean king Lycurgus' infant son Opheltes, after which they succeeded in rescuing their mother Hypsipyle from her servitude.
Thrasymedes

In Greek mythology, Thrasymedes (Ancient Greek: Θρασυμήδης) was a prince of Pylos and a participant in the Trojan War.

## Family

Thrasymedes was the oldest son of King Nestor and Eurydice (or Anaxibia) and the elder brother of Antilochus. His other siblings were Peisistratus, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, and Antilochus.

## Mythology

### Iliad

Thrasymedes was one of the more prominent younger leaders portrayed in the Iliad, though not to the extent of his brother. He fought bravely throughout the entire war. In the Iliad he was one of the lead sentries and was present at night when the Greek wall was built. When Diomedes and Odysseus went on a spying expedition he gave the former his armour and sword before they left. When his brother was killed by Memnon he helped his father fight for possession of the dead body, but due to Memnon's superior strength they were forced to withdraw and enlist the help of Achilles. Once he whipped Odysseus, mistaking him for a beggar after the latter stole the Luck of Troy. He was also one of the Danaans to enter the Trojan Horse.

Thrasymedes survived the war and returned home with his father, presumably inheriting his kingdom when his father died. However he is said to have fought for many years against invaders who sacked Pylos in the 12th century BC — the ancestors of the Spartans — and this was just the beginning of the centuries long struggle between Messini and Sparta.

### Odyssey

In the Odyssey, Telemachus visited him at Pylus whilst searching for news on his lost father Odysseus.
Phrixus

In Greek mythology Phrixus (Greek: Φρίξος) was the son of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele (a goddess of clouds). His twin sister Helle and he were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all of Boeotia's crop seeds so they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus and Helle. Before they were killed, though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying (or swimming) ram with golden wool sent by Nephele, their natural mother; their starting point is variously recorded as Halos in Thessaly or Orkhomenus in Boeotia. During their flight Helle swooned, fell off the ram and drowned in the Dardanelles, renamed the Hellespont (sea of Helle), but Phrixus survived all the way to Kolkhis, where King Aeëtes, the son of the sun god Helios, took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Khalkiope, in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeëtes hung in a tree in the holy grove of Ares in his kingdom, guarded by a dragon that never slept.

Phrixus and Khalkiope had four sons, who later joined forces with the Argonauts. The oldest was Argus, Phrontis, Melas, and Kytisorus.
Theano (Danaid)

Theano was one of the fifty daughters born to Danaus and Polyxo.  She along with her sisters (and half-sisters) were married to sons of Aigyptos (by his various wives).  For Theano her spouse would be Phantes.  That night, Theano as well as forty-eight of her forty-nine siblings killed their husbands.
Sykeus

Sykeus (Συκευς) was one of the one-hundred Gigantes created for the purpose of waging war on the Olympians and other gods. Sykeus was one of only four who survived the war. Skyeus fled from the battlefield and was pursued to Kilikia by Zeus. To stop Zeus from killing Sykeus, Gaia hid him in her bosom and transformed him into the first fig-tree.
Polyphemos (Kyklops)

Polyphemos (Πολυφημος) was a man-eating kyklops (cyclops) giant--a monster with a single, orb-shaped eye in the middle of his forehead. Odysseus encountered him on his return from Troy and became trapped in the giant's cave. To escape the hero plied him with wine and as he slept plunged a burning stake into his eye. The blinded giant tried to prevent Odysseus' flight by tossing boulders at his ship but, failing that, prayed to his father Poseidon to exact revenge.

Polyphemos also loved the nereid-nymph Galateia and wooed her with music and song. She spurned him for the love of the shepherd Akis, but when the giant spied the pair together he crushed the boy beneath a stone.
Sôstratos

Sôstratos was a youth of the Akhaian town of Dyme loved by Herakles. He died young and was interred by the hero outside the town.

Sôstratos' name means "Saviour of the Army" from the Greek words *sôzô* and *stratos*. It suggests he was somehow connected with the story of Herakles' war against King Augeias of Elis. Strabo mentions Herakles' was allied with the Epeians of Dyme in this conflict.

## Classical Text

"A little before the city of Dyme [in western Akhaia (Achaea)] there is, on the right of the road, the grave of Sostratos (Sostratus). He was a native youth, loved they say by Herakles, who outliving Sostratos made him his tomb and gave him some hair from his head as a primal offering. Even today there is a slab on the top of the mound, with a figure of Herakles in relief. I was told that the natives also sacrifice to Sostratos as to a hero."

*Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 17. 8 (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :*
Thetis

Thetis was a goddess of the sea and the leader of the fifty Nereides. Like many other sea gods she possessed the gift of prophesy and power to change her shape at will.

Because of a prophesy that she was destined to bear a son greater than his father, Zeus had her marry a mortal man. Peleus, the chosen groom, was instructed to ambush her on the beach, and not release his grasp of the struggling goddess as she metamorphosed into a host of shapes. The couple were afterwards married in a ceremony attended by all the gods of heaven. She bore a son, the celebrated hero Akhilles.

In her desperate attempts to protect her son during the Trojan War, Thetis called in many favors from the gods. These included Hêphaistos and Dionysos, both of whom she had given refuge in the sea as they faced crises of youth, and Zeus, whose throne she had protected by summoning the giant Briareus-Aigaion (Aegaeon) when the gods had sought to bind him.

Thetis's name is connected with the ancient Greek words thesis "creation" and têthê "nurse".
Nikippe (Daughter of King Thespius)

Nikippe 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 Antimakhus.

## Parents

King Thespius and Queen Megamede or potentially one of Thespius' Mistress (Mother)

## Ancient Text

*"by Nikippe he* [Herakles] *had Antimakhus"*

- Apollodorus.Biblioteca, 2.7.8
Swine

## Aphrodite

Aphrodite had a curious relationship with the pig. The goddess supposedly hated the creature because her lover Adonis had been gorged to death by a wild boar. Therefore arose the proverb 'he sacrificed a pig to Aphrodite' used to refer to someone who gave an innappropriate or unwanted gift.

However, in Argos and Kypros at least, pigs were sacrificed to the goddess during the Hysteria (of the pigs) festival. The sacrifice was probably to assuage her grief for the loss of Adonis, who was slain by a wild pig.

## Demeter

Pigs were offered as a sacrifice to Demeter to ensure crop fertility. They were connected with the goddess in a myth of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Queen Omphale

Omphale (Ὀμφάλη) was a daughter of Iardanus, either a king of Lydia, or a river-God. Omphale was queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor; according to Bibliotheke she was the wife of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain king of Lydia; after he was gored to death by a bull, she continued to reign on her own.

## Family

### Spouse & Lovers

Tmolus (husband)
Herakles (lover and in some versions second husband)

### Children

Agelaus (with Herakles)
Maleus (with Herakles)
Tyrsenus (with Herakles)

## Time with Herakles

The theme of penalty for "inadvertent" murder, for his murder of Iphitus, the great hero Herakles, was, by the command of the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, remanded as a slave to Omphale for the period of a year. compensation to be paid to Eurytus, who refused to accept it. During the time with him Omphale would wear his Nemean Lion pelt and made him dress in women's clothes and do domestic work (classically reserved for women). During his stay there Omphale forced Heracles to be her lover and then to marry her. After his year of servitude Heracles stayed a while longer. She bore Agelaus, Maleus & Tyrsenus.
Stilbo

Stilbo is a lesser known Okeanid, she is however mentioned by the second century Roman mythographer Hyginus in preface.

## Family

### Classical Text

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

Proteus was a prophetic old sea-god and the herdsman of Poseidon's seals. Menelaüs, a hero of the Trojan War, encountered Proteus during his return voyage to Greece, and upon capturing him compelled the god to prophesize the future.

Proteus was specifically associated with the island of Lemnos, the nearby Thrakian peninsular of Pallene, and the Egyptian island of Pharos.

## Family

### Children

Eidothea

Kabeirô

Theoklymenos

Polygonos

Telegonos
Thesis

THESIS was the primordial goddess of creation, a divinity related to Physis (Mother Nature). She occurs in the Orphic Theogonies as the first being to emerge at creation alongside Hydros (the Primordial Waters) and Mud. Thesis was sometimes portrayed as the female aspect of the first-born, bi-gendered god Phanes (Life).

Thesis also appears in myth in the guise of Metis, the creator-goddess devoured by Zeus, and Tethys the nurse, mother of all creation. However, in extant literature, Metis and Tethys are only distantly related to the cosmic creator-goddess described in Alcman's Theogony and by the Orphics.
Thaumas (Kentauroi Thessalioi)

## 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.)
Perimêdês

## Classical Text

And there was the strife of the Lapith spearmen gathered round the prince Caeneus and Dryas and Peirithous, with Hopleus, Exadius, Phalereus, and Prolochus, Mopsus the son of Ampyce of Titaresia, a scion of Ares, and Theseus, the son of Aegeus, like unto the deathless gods. These were of silver, and had armour of gold upon their bodies. And the Centaurs were gathered against them on the other side with Petraeus and Asbolus the diviner, Arctus, and Ureus, and black-haired Mimas, and the two sons of silver, and they had pinetrees of gold in their hands, and they were rushing together as though they were alive and striking at one another hand to hand with spears and with pines.
- *Hesiod, Shield of Herakles 178-190*
Promêtheus

Prometheus (Gr: Προμηθεύς) was the wisest Titan. His name means "forethought" and he was able to foretell the future. He was the son of Iapetos. When Zeus revolted against Kronos, Prometheus deserted the other Titans and fought on Zeus' side.

By some accounts he and his brother Epimetheus were delegated by Zeus to create man. In all accounts, Prometheus is known as the protector and benefactor of man. He gave mankind a number of gifts including fire. He also tricked Zeus into allowing man to keep the best part of the animals sacrificed to the gods and to give the gods the worst parts.

For this Zeus punished Prometheus by having him chained to a rock with the Kaukasios Eagle tearing at his liver. He was to be left there for all eternity or until he agreed to disclose to Zeus which of Zeus children would try to replace him. This is well known. What is less well known is Prometheus’ second gift. In Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound,” the chained Titan is pitilessly interrogated by the chorus. They ask him whether he gave human beings anything else. Yes, he says, “I stopped mortals from foreseeing doom.” How did you do that, they ask? His response is revealing: “I sowed in them blind hopes (elpides)." The chorus replied saying, "This was a great benefit you gave to mortals." This was a reference to Pandora's jar, a curse concocted by Zeus to punish mankind for the theft of fire. Prometheus seems to be saying that he was the one who stayed Hope inside the jar, when the other evils escaped. He was eventually rescued by Herakles without giving in to Zeus.

## Spouse & Lovers

Pronoia or Asie--Both Pronoia and Asie are listed as Prometheus'

## Children

Deukalion (by Pronoia)

Hellen (by Asie)

## Siblings

* Atlas

* Epimetheus

* Menoitios

* Ankhiale

## Ancient Text

"The Titanes had children . . . Atlas who holds the sky on his shoulders, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoitios whom Zeus struck with a thunderbolt in the Titane battle and confined to Tartaros, were all sons of Iapetos and Asia."- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 8 (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)
Selemnos

Selemnos was a river-god of Akhaia in the Peloponnese, southern Greece. He was once a mortal boy who loved the sea-nymph Argyra. When the nymph abandoned him, Aphroditê transformed the weeping youth into a river.

The River Selemnos river flowed north from Mount Panakhaikos, emptying into the Korinthian Gulf near the town of Argyra. The most important neighboring rivers were the Elissôn to the east and Erymanthos to the south.
Skythian Drakaina

Herakles while searching for his straying mares came across a creature half serpent and half woman. When asked if she had seen his horses she told him that she had them and would not return them unless he had intercourse with her. So wanting to get his horses back he mated with her. Eventually she gave him back his horses and she was rewarded with three sons.

Before he left she wanted to know what was to be done about her three sons once they grew up. Herakles answered by giving her his bow and a belt with a golden vessel on the end of its clasp and said “When you see the boys are grown up, do as follows and you will do rightly: whichever of them you see bending this bow and wearing this belt so, make him an inhabitant of this land; but whoever falls short of these accomplishments that I require, send him away out of the country.” So as her sons were born she named them Agathyrsus and Gelonus and Skythes. Remembering what Herakles said she told them the task. She ended up casting out two of her sons for they could not fulfill the requirements, but Skythes, the youngest, fulfilled them and was allowed to stay. From him the whole line of kings of Skythia originated and to this day the Skythians still carry vessels on their belts.

## Children

Agathyrsus
Gelonus
Skythes
Strymôn

Strymôn was a river-god of Edonia in Thrake, north of Greece.

The Strymon River emptied into the Aegean Sea between the Khalkidike peninsular and the island of Thasos. The major neighboring rivers were the Nestos to the east and Axios to the west. The small Brykhon stream west of the Strymôn was also personified.
Pêneios

Pêneios was a River-God of Thessalia (Thessaly) in northern Greece.

The Peneios is the main river of the Thessalian plain, flowing down from the Pindaros Mountains, to enter the Aegean Sea via the Vale of Tempe, cutting a path between the Mount Olympus and Ossa. The most important neighboring rivers were the Baphyras to the north, and the Anauros and Sperkheios to the south. Several of its tributaries were also personified, such as the Enipeus, Titarêssos, and Apidanos.
Telkhines

The Telkhines (Τελχινες) were four mysterious sea-god magicians and smiths native to the islands of Keos and Rhodes. They invented the art of metal-working and were said to have crafted the sickle used by Kronos used to castrate his father Ouranos and possibly the magical trident for Poseidôn which the god used to lever mountains into the sea to create the island of the Aegean. Their malignant use of magic later angered Zeus, who cast them beneath the sea or into the pit of Tartaros. These strange sea-daimones were sometimes described as having the heads of dogs and fish-fins for hands.
Phorkus of Phrygia

Phorkus (Φόρκυς) was a Phrygian ally of King Priam in the Trojan War. Phorkus appears in *The Iliad* as the leader of the Phrygians, a son of Phaenops. The *Bibliotheca*, however, refers to him as a son of Aretaon and brother of Askanius, another Phrygian leader. Phorkus is mentioned among the Trojan allies whom Hector addresses with a speech in Book 17 of the *Iliad*. He was killed in battle by the Greek hero Ajax the Greater.

Phorcys is referenced in Pausanias' *Description of Greece*: the author explains that Phorcys was referred to as "shieldless" in the *Iliad* because he was wearing a two-piece corselet, which was thought to provide enough protection in the battle.

## Classical Text

"And Aias in his turn smote wise-hearted Phorcys, son of Phaenops, full upon the belly as he bestrode Hippothous, and he brake the plate of his corselet, and the bronze let forth the bowels there-through; and he fell in the dust and clutched the earth in his palm. Thereat the foremost fighters and glorious Hector gave ground, and the Argives shouted aloud, and drew off the dead, even Phorcys and Hippothous, and set them to strip the armour from their shoulders."

- Homer, Iliad, 17.312-17.318
Semelê

Semelê was the mother of Dionysos and the goddess of the Bacchic frenzy which seized female devotees of the god during the Orgies.

Thyone's mortal name was Semele. She was a Theban princess loved by the god Zeus. When his wife Hera learned of their affair, she tricked the girl into having Zeus swear an oath to appear before her in his full glory. Bound by his pledge the god did so and Semele was consumed by the fire of his lightning-bolts. Zeus recovered their son Dionysos from her womb and upon reaching adulthood he fetched her from the underworld to join the gods on Olympos.
Teiresias

In Greek mythology, Tiresias (Τειρεσίας) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Khariklo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Kadmos himself.
Prokris

Prokris (Πρόκριδος) was the eldest daughter of Thespius King of Thespiae, Boeotia. When Herakles came to stay in Thespiae, Thespius told Herakles "you may have my eldest daughter Prokris as your bedfellow." Though in actuality Heracles only slept for her for one night. By Herakles she would bear the twins Antileon and Hippeus.

## Family

### Parents

King Thespius (Father) & Queen Megamede (Mother)

## Classical Text

*by Prokris he had Antileon and Hippeus (for the eldest daughter bore twins)* - Apollod. Bibliotheca 2.7.8
Meges

In Greek mythology, **Mégês Phyleïdês** (Greek: Μέγης Φυλεΐδης) was the commander of Epeans and/or Dulichians during the Trojan War.

## Family

Phyleus & and either Eustyokhe, Ktimene, Timandra, Hagnete or Ktesimakhe.

## Mythology

Meges was one of Helen's suitors and commanded the armies of the Echinadians and the Dulichians during the Trojan War, having summoned forty or sixty ships; he also led a contingent of Epeans who had once migrated to Dulichium together with his father.

Meges was credited with killing a number of opponents, including Pedaeus (a son of Antenor), Croesmus, Amphiclus, Itymoneus, Agelaus, Eurymenes, and Deiopites. Dolops attempted to strike him with a spear but the corselet Meges was wearing, a gift for his father from Euphetes of Ephyra, saved his life. Meges helped Odysseus to collect gifts for Achilles. He was one of the men to enter the Trojan Horse.

According to Dictys Cretensis, Meges fell at Troy. Pausanias mentions a painting of him wounded in the arm by a Trojan, Admetes the son of Augeas. Tzetzes relates that Meges, along with Prothous and a number of others, perished at Euboea.
Praxidikê

Praxidikê was the goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of exacting justice. She and her two daughters--Aretê (Virtue) and Homonoia (Concord)--together formed a divine triad known as the Praxidikai.

In the Orphic Hymns Praxidike is equated with Persephone, Soter with Zeus, and the Praxidikai with the goddess Erinyes. She was probably also connected with the daimona Poine (Retribution).

## Children

Ktêsios
Homonoia
Aretê
Pylaeus

In Greek mythology, **Pylaeus** (Ancient Greek: Πύλαιος), son of Lethus, son of Teutamides, descendant of Pelasgus. He was one of the allies to King Priam in the Trojan War; he commanded the Pelasgian contingent together with his brother Hippothous. Pylaeus is hardly ever mentioned separately from his brother; they are said to have fallen in battle together by Dictys Cretensis and to have been buried "in a garden" according to the late Latin poet Ausonius.

Strabo, in his comment on the Homeric passage referenced above, mentions that according to a local tradition of Lesbos, Pylaeus also commanded the Lesbian army and had a mountain on the island named Pylaeus after him.

## Classical Text

"And Hippothous led the tribes of the Pelasgi, that rage with the spear, even them that dwelt in deep-soiled Larisa; these were led by Hippothous and Pylaeus, scion of Ares, sons twain of Pelasgian Lethus, son of Teutamus."
- *Homer, Iliad, 2.840 - 2.843*
Phobos (Paneid)

Phobos 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.)
Thêreus (Kentauroi Thessalioi)

## Classical Text

"Aphareus, eager to avenge him tried to lift a rock from that steep mountain side; but as he heaved, the son of Aegeus struck him squarely with an oaken club; and smashed, and broke the huge bones of that centaur's arm. He has no time, and does not want to give that useless foe to death. He leaps upon the back of tall Bienor, never trained to carry riders, and he fixed his knees firm in the centaur's ribs, and holding tight to the long hair, seized by his left hand, struck and shattered the hard features and fierce face and bony temples with his club of gnarled strong oak. And with it, he struck to the ground Nedymnus and Lycopes, dart expert, and Hippasus, whose beard hid all his breast. And Rhipheus taller than the highest trees and Thereus, who would carry home alive the raging bears, caught in Thessalian hills. Demoleon could no longer stand and look on Theseus and his unrestrained success. He struggled with vast effort to tear up an old pine, trunk and all, with its long roots, and, failing shortly in that first attempt, he broke it off and hurled it at his foe. But Theseus saw the pine tree in its flight and, warned by Pallas, got beyond its range—his boast was, Pallas had directed him! And yet, the missle was not launched in vain. It sheared the left shoulder and the breast from tall Crantor. He, Achilles, was your father's armor bearer and was given by King Amyntor, when he sued for peace.
- *Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.341-12.365 (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)*
Sisyphus

Sisyphus or Sisyphos was a criminal who was condemned to push a boulder. He was condemned to this crime for attempting to cheat death not once but twice. The first time, Sisyphus captured Thanatos. Eventually death escaped and came for Sisyphus. Before death caught up with him, he told his wife not to bury his body or perform traditional funeral sacrifices. When he was in the underworld, he convinced Persephone to allow him to return to the land of the living to punish his wife before returning. Once there he did not return until finally years later Thanatos caught up with him again. He was sent to Tartarus for his punishment.
Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse was a wooden construction left in front of the walls of Troy by the greek army. It appeared to be as a gift of surrender left behind. The Trojans brought the horse inside the virtually impenetrable walls of Troy. That night after Trojans had gotten drunk and fallen asleep, several greek soldiers most of whom were Akhaean Chiefs had been hidden. The soldiers hidden (Menelaüs, Odysseus, Sthenelos, Diomedes, Philoktetes, Menestheus, Antilokhus, Thoas, Polupoitēs, Ajax, Eurypylus, Thrasymedes, Idomeneus, Meriones, Podaleirios, Eurymakhus, Teûkros, Ialmenus, Thalpius, Antimakhus, Leonteus, Eumelus, Euryalus, Amphimakhus, Demophoon, Agapenor,Akamas, Meges, Phyleus and Epeius) emerged from the horse and opened the walls of Troy. This allowed the greek armies who had doubled back to enter Troy and begin massacring Trojans who were drunk or sleeping.

## Classical Text

"Into that cavernous Horse Akhilles' son first entered, strong Menelaus followed then, Odysseus, Sthenelus, godlike Diomede, Philoctetes and Menestheus, Anticlus, Thoas and Polypoetes golden-haired, Aias, Eurypylus, godlike Thrasymede, Idomeneus, Meriones, far-famous twain, Podaleirius of spears, Eurymachus, Teucer the godlike, fierce Ialmenus, Thalpius, Antimachus, Leonteus staunch, Eumelus, and Euryalus fair as a God, Amphimachus, Demophoon, Agapenor, Akamas, Meges stalwart Phyleus' son -- yea, more, even all their chiefest, entered in, so many as that carven Horse could hold. Godlike Epeius last of all passed in, the fashioner of the Horse; in his breast lay the secret of the opening of its doors and of their closing: therefore last of all he entered, and he drew the ladders up whereby they clomb: then made he all secure, and set himself beside the bolt. So all in silence sat 'twixt victory and death.
Seilênos

Seilênos (Σειληνος) was the old rustic god of wine-making and drunkenness.

He was the foster-father of the god Dionysos who was entrusted to his care by Hermes after his birth from the thigh of Zeus. The young god was raised by Seilênos and nursed by the Nysiad nymphs in a cave on Mount Nysa.

Once, when Dionysos was travelling through Phrygia, Seilênos became lost and was captured by King Midas. The king treated him hospitably and as a reward Dionysos granted him his golden touch.

Seilênos was the father or grandfather of the tribes of Satyroi (Satyrs) and Nymphs. He was sometimes multiplied into a triad or large band of Seilenoi (Silens).

Seilênos was depicted as a jovial old man, hairy and balding, with a pot-belly, snub-nose, and the ears and tail of an ass. He rode in the train of Dionysos seated on the back of a donkey.

Seilênos was, in essence, the spirit of the treading dance of the wine-press, his name being derived from the words seiô, "to move to and fro," and lênos, "the wine-trough."

Seilênos was closely identified with a number of other minor rustic divinities. These include:-- Hekateros, grandfather of the Satyroi and Oreiades; Nysos and Lamos.
Prothoenor

In Greek mythology, **Prothoenor**[*pronunciation?*] (Ancient Greek: Προθοήνωρ) was one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War, from Thespiae in Boeotia, son of Areilycus and Theobule, brother of Arcesilaus; he commanded eight ships. John Tzetzes makes him a son of Alector and Arteis, and thus a half-brother of Leitus and Clonius. According to the *Iliad*, he was killed by Polydamas, who immediately began to boast about it.
Psamathê

Psamathê was one of the fifty sea goddesses who were the daughters of Doris and Nêreus (known collectively the Nereids. Psamathê is the goddess of sand. and the wife of Prôteus, herder of seals.

Psamathê was seduced by the Aiginetan king Aiakos who ambushed her on the beach. She tried to escape his grasp by transforming herself into a seal but he refused to release his hold and so she conceded, bearing him a son named Phokos "the Seal". The boy was his father's favourite and his half-brothers Peleus and Telamon grew jealous and murdered him. Psamathe sent a giant wolf to avenge Phokos by harrassing the flocks of Peleus but he managed to assuage her wrath with proper sacrifices.

Psamathe's name means "Sand-Goddess" from the Greek words *psammos* (sand) and *theia* (goddess).

## Family

### Spouse & Lovers

Prôteus (Husband)

Aiakos

### Children

Phokos (by Aiakos)

Eidothea (by Proteus}