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Numbering of namesakes: Numbers are consistently added to the names of characters for identification purposes only. They do not represent a chronological order. The absence of a number indicates that there is only one mythological character with that particular name.


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"As a general thing we find that the ancient myths do not give us a simple and consistent story; consequently it should occasion no surprise if we find, when we put the ancient accounts together, that in some details they are not in agreement with those given by every poet and historian." (Diodorus Siculus, 80-20 BC, The Library of History 4.44.5).

"… the gods of Greece and of freedom—they are identical …" (Aelian, ca. AD 170-235, Varia Historia 12.1).

"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822, Hellas).

"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881).

"There is properly no history; only biography." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882).


Chiron

Chronos (Time)

Cinyras 1

Circe

Cleobis and Biton

Clytaemnestra

Creon 2

Croesus

Cronos

Cyrene

DaedalusDédalo

Danae

Daphne 1

Demeter

Deucalion 1

DidoDido

Dike (Justice)

Diomedes 2

Dionysus 2

Echo

Eirene 1 (Peace) | Irene 1 (Paz)

Electra 2

Endymion

Envy

Eos

Eris

Eros

Eumaeus 1

Europa

Eurystheus

Gaia

Ganymedes

Geras (Old Age)

Hades | Hades

Hebe

Hecabe 1

Hecate

Hector 1

Helen

Helenus 1

Helius

Hephaestus

Hera

Heracles 1

Hermaphroditus

Hermes

Hermione

Hero & Leander | Hero y Leandro

Hesione 2

Hestia | Hestia

Hyacinthus 1

Hygia

Hylas

Hypnos

Io - Isis

Ion 1

Iphigenia

Iris 1

Ixion

Jason

Laius 1

Laocoon 2

LedaLeda

Leto

Lucretia 2

Lycaon 2

Madness (Lyssa, Mania)

Marsyas

Medea

Medusa 1Medusa 1

Meleager

Memnon

Menelaus

Mentor 4

Midas | Midas

Minos 2

Minotaur | Minotauro

Minyas

Mnemosyne (Memory)

Narcissus

Nausicaa

Neleus

Nemesis

Neoptolemus

Nestor

Nike

Nyx (Night)

Oceanus

Odysseus | Odiseo

OedipusEdipo

Oenomaus 1

Orestes 2

Orion

Orpheus

Palamedes

Pan

Pandora 1 | Pandora 1

Paris

Patroclus 1

Peleus

Pelias 1

Pelops 1

Penelope

Pentheus 1

Persephone

Perseus 1 | Perseo 1

Phaedra

Phaethon 3

Pheme (Fame) | Feme (Fama)

Philemon & Baucis

Philoctetes

Phineus 2

Phoenix the bird

Phoroneus

Pirithous

Plutus (Wealth)

Polyphemus 2

Polyxena 1

Poseidon

Priam 1

Priapus

Procris 2

Prometheus 1

Proteus 2

Proteus 3

PsychePsique

Pygmalion 1

Pyramus & Thisbe 1

Rhea 1

Rhesus 2

Romulus

Scylla 1

Selene

Semele

Sibyl 6 Cumaean

Silenus

Sinon

Sisyphus

SphinxEsfinge

Talos 1

Tantalus 1

Telemachus

Telephus

Tereus 1

Thanatos (Death)

Themis

Thersites

Theseus

Tiresias | Tiresias

Triptolemus

Troilus

Tyche (Fortune)

Tydeus 2

Tyndareus

Uranus

Vertumnus

Zeus

The Seven Sages of Greece:
Thales, Solon, Chilon, Pittacus, Bias, Cleobulus, Periander, Anacharsis, Myson, Epimenides, Pherecydes


Characters (Silver Version)
Longer articles are at Biographies
Geographical names
Longer articles are at Places & Peoples


Abarbarea 1 to Aetius
Aetnaeus to Althaemenes
Althepus to Antilochus
Antimache to Arsippe
Artaceus to Boetis
Boeus to Cephisus
Cerambus to Clytodora
Clytomedes to Damarmenus
Damasen to Dracius
Draco to Ereuthus
Ergeus to Eurytele
Eurythemis to Hecale
Hecamede to Hygia
Hylactor to Isander
Ischepolis to Leucopeus
Leucophrye to Meander
Mecionice to Mineus
Minis to Nyctimene
Nyctimus to Orthosie
Orthus to Perius
Pernis to Phylius
Phylleus to Priapus
Prias to Sancus
Sandocus to Talasius
Talaus to Thoos
Thoosa to Zorus

Numbering of namesakes: The numbers following the names of individuals are for identification purposes only; they do not point out a chronological order, and are consistent throughout all texts. The numbers do not belong originally to the names, and the absence of a number indicates that there is only one mythological character with that particular name.


Characters Gold Version

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Abae to Byzeres
Cabeiraea to Elysium
Emathia to Lycastus
Lyceum to Phicium
Phigalia to Zone

Map of Greece & Asia Minor


In the geographical reference ancient names are usually kept (for example Libya = Africa).

The geographical index is virtually complete regarding the following authors and works:

Apollodorus, The Library and Epitome.
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica.
Callimachus, Hymns.
Hesiod, Theogony.
Homer, The Iliad.
Homer, The Odyssey.
Hyginus, Fabulae.
Nonnus, Dionysiaca
Ovid, Metamorphoses.

and selective regarding the following:

Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities.
Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
Herodotus, History.
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women and Eoiae.
Hesiod, The Melampodia.
Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses.
Ovid, Fasti.
Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
Pindar, Pythian Odes.
Plutarch, Moralia (Greek Questions).
Plutarch, Moralia (Greek and Roman Parallel Stories).
Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Romulus).
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy.
Strabo, Geography.
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica.
Virgil, The Aeneid.




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