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Acoetes was the name of four men in Greek and Roman mythology.
Aglaurus or Agraulus is a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.
In Greek mythology, Epopeus was the name of the following figures:
In Greek mythology, Arcas was a hunter who became king of Arcadia. He was remembered for having taught people the arts of weaving and baking bread and for spreading agriculture to Arcadia.
In Greek mythology, several characters were known as Cycnus or Cygnus. The literal meaning of the name is "swan", and accordingly most of them ended up being transformed into swans.
In Greek mythology, Aethra or Aithra was a name applied to four different individuals:
Dictys was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology.
In Greek mythology, Theano may refer to the following personages:
In Greek mythology, Geras, also written Gēras, was the god of old age. He was depicted as a tiny, shriveled old man. Gēras's opposite was Hebe, the goddess of youth. In Latin, he is referred to as Senectus. He is known primarily from vase depictions that show him with the hero Heracles; the mythic story that inspired these depictions has been lost.
Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Augustus, and reputed author of the Fabulae and the Astronomia, although this is disputed.
In Greek mythology, Rhodope may refer to two different characters:
In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes, also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In the Metamorphoses, Ovid refers to them as the Belides after their grandfather Belus. They were to marry the 50 sons of Danaus' twin brother Aegyptus, a mythical king of Egypt. In the most common version of the myth, all but one of them killed their husbands on their wedding night and are condemned to spend eternity carrying water in a sieve or perforated device. In the classical tradition, they came to represent the futility of a repetitive task that can never be completed.
In Greek mythology, Clytus is a name that may refer to:
Argia, Argea, or Argeia may refer to several figures in Greek mythology:
In Greek mythology, the name Leuconoe may refer to:
Astynome is a name which may refer to one of the following characters in Greek mythology:
In Greek mythology, the name Canthus may refer to:
In Greek mythology, the name Clytie or Clytia may refer to:
In Greek mythology, the name Alke or Alce may refer to:
Merope was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology.