Greek mythology Greek mythology Acacetus from the Greek language: a - not, kakos - bad, means one who does nothing badly. Homer used the term to describe Hermes in the Iliad, and Hesiod for Prometheus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acacetus"
The Achaeans (also Akhaians, Greek Αχαιοί) is the collective name given to the Greek forces in Homer's Iliad. An alternative name, used interchangeably, is Danaans. More specifically, Achaea in Homer is the province of Agamemnon, chief commander of the Greek forces, the northern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, roughly corresponding to the modern prefectures of Achaea and Corinth. The Homeric Achaeans would have been a part of the Mycenaean civilization that dominated Greece from ca. 1600 BC, with a history as a tribe that may have gone back to the prehistoric Hellenic immigration in the late 3rd millennium BC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Achaeans"
In Greek mythology, Acherusia was an underground cavern, through which Heracles dragged Cerberus as one of his Twelve Labors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acherusia"
Achilles' heel refers to a fatal weakness in a powerful person that leads or may lead to his downfall. It references a vulnerability that the individual may possess. While the mythological reference is physical, this can often be used as a description of an attribute or quality of a person that can lead to their downfall. In Greek mythology, Achilles is made invulnerable by being dipped in the river Styx by his mother, Thetis. However, his mother held him by the heel, and the patches of skin covered by her thumb and forefinger were left unprotected. Many years later, during the Trojan war, Achilles was killed by Paris with an arrow fired into his heel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Achilles' heel"
* There are two characters named Acmon in Greek mythology. The first Acmon was one of the Dactyls, associated with the anvil. The second Acmon was a Phrygian king who gave his name to the district known as Acmonia; he was the father of Mygdon, his successor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acmon"
In Greek mythology, Actis was one of the Heliadae, a son of Rhodus and Helios. Actis, along with his brothers, Triopas, Macar and Candalus, were jealous of a fifth brother, Tenages's, skill at science. They killed him. Actis escaped to Egypt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Actis"
A nymph in Greek mythology, Adamanthea helped raise the infant Zeus to hide him from his father, Cronus. Reacting to a prophesy from his mother Gaia that his own offspring would overthrow his supreme position in the pantheon, Cronus swallowed all of his children immediately after birth. Rhea, Zeus' mother and Cronus' wife, deceived Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus, whom she instead gave to Adamanthea to nurse. Since Cronus ruled over the earth, the heavens and the sea, she hid him by dangling him on a rope from a tree, suspended between earth, sea and sky, and thus invisible to his father. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adamanthea"
In Greek mythology, Aeaea, or Aiaia, was the home of the sorceress Circe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aeaea"
Aegea is a back-formation from " Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymous Aegeus in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) mentioned an Aegea, queen of the Amazons, as an alternative eponym of the Aegean Sea, and Aegea was the name of the wife of the Roman proconsul of Achaia whom the apostle Andrew converted and baptised, according to Jacob de Voragine's Golden Legend, De Sancto Andrea Apostolo. "Aegea" is found in modern baby-name books and carried by some contemporary women. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aegea"
Aether ("upper air"), in Greek mythology, was the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven. He is the pure, upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to "aer", which mortals breathed. In Hesiod's Theogony he was the son of Erebus and Nyx, and brother of Hemera, both noted in passing in Cicero's De Natura deorum. He is the soul of the world and all life emanates from him. The aether was also known as Zeus' defensive wall; the bound that locked Tartaros from the cosmos. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aether (mythology)"
In Greek mythology and Roman mythology there are four characters known as Aethon ...more on Wikipedia about "Aethon"
Aganippe is the name of a fountain and the nymph (a Crinaea) associated with it in Greek mythology. Aganippe was the daughter of Ternessus. The well is in Boeotia, near Thespiae, at the base of the mountain Helicon. It was created by the hooves of Pegasus and was associated with the Muses as a source of poetic inspiration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aganippe"
In Greek mythology, Agelasta ("joyless") was the name of the stone on which Demeter rested during her search for Persephone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agelasta"
In history and Greek mythology, Agenor (which means "very manly") was a king of Tyre. His wife was Telephassa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agenor"
The Ages of Man are the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Classical mythology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ages of Man"
The Aithiopis (Greek: Αἰθιοπίς; Latin: Aethiopis) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the "Trojan" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Aithiopis comes chronologically immediately after that of the Homeric Iliad, and is followed by that of the Little Iliad. The Aithiopis was attributed by ancient writers to Arktinos of Miletos. The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aithiopis"
*Aitne is a Greek word derived from "Aitho", meaning "I burn". ...more on Wikipedia about "Aitne"
A legendary hero in Greek mythology, Akademos (originally Hekademos) or, less correctly, Academus was linked to the archaic name for the site of Plato's Academy, the Hekademeia, outside the walls of Athens. By classical times the name of the place had evolved into the Akademeia and was explained by linking it to an eponymous Athenian hero, a legendary "Akademos," at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC. The site was sacred to Athena and other immortals; it had sheltered religious cult since the Bronze Age, which was perhaps associated with the hero-gods, the Dioskouroi (Castor and Polydeukes), for the hero Akademos associated with the site was credited with revealing to the Divine Twins where Theseus had hidden Helen of Troy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Akademos"
In Greek mythology, Alcaeus, or Alkaios was one of the Perseidae, a son of Perseus and Andromeda. He was King of Tiryns and father of Amphitryon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alcaeus (mythology)"
Alcyone was a Greek demi-goddess, sometimes regarded as one of the Pleiades. More often she was thought of as the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx, son of Eosphorus and the king of Thessaly. They were very happy together, but, when Ceyx perished in a shipwreck, Alcyone (whose name means "queen who wards off storms") threw herself into the sea. Out of compassion, the gods changed them into the halcyon birds. When Alcyone made her nest on the beach, waves threatened to destroy it. Aeolus restrained his winds and made the waves be calm during seven days in each year, so she could lay her eggs. These became known as the "halcyon days", when storms never occur. The halcyon has become a symbol of tranquillity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alcyone"
The Alkyonides were, in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Alkyoneus. When their father was slain by Heracles, they threw themselves into the sea, and were transformed into halcyons ( kingfishers) by Amphitrite. They were Alkippe, Anthe, Asteria, Drimo, Methone, Pallene and Phthonia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alkyonides"
In Greek mythology, the Aloadae were Otus and Ephialtes or Ephialtis, sons of Iphimidea and Aloeus. They were strong and aggressive giants, fifty-four feet tall at age nine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aloadae"
In Greek mythology, Aloeus was the son of Poseidon and Canace, husband first of Iphimedia and later of Eeriboea, and father of Salmoneus (who founded Elis), Otus and Ephialtes, collectively known as the Aloadae. In Vergil's Aeneid the twins of Aloeus are found in Dis, the Roman name for Hades, and there Aeneas sees them being punished by Rhadamanthus. This scene from Virgil was a precursor to Dante's depiction of Hell, and is found in Book 6 of the Aeneid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aloeus"
In Greek mythology, Alphesiboea was the daughter of Phegeus and wife of Alcmaeon. Some myths claim her to be the mother of Adonis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alphesiboea"
In Greek mythology, Althaea was the daughter of Thestius, wife of Oeneus and mother of Meleager, Melanippe (one of the Meleagrids), and Deianeira. ...more on Wikipedia about "Althaea (Greek mythology)" http://www.shortopedia.com moments.
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