Greek mythology
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- Achilles: son of the sea nymph Thetis (daughter of sea god Nereus), and Peleus, king of the Myrmidons.
- Actaeon: son of Aristaeus and Autonoë, Boeotian prince who was turned into a stag by Artemis and torn to pieces by his own hounds. [2]
- Aeacus: son of Zeus and Aegina who was the daughter of a river god. He was the father of Telamon and Peleus and grandfather of Ajax and Achilles.
- Aeëtes: son of Helios. He was the king of Colchis and played a key role in the story of the Argonauts. His daughter Medea married the famous hero Jason. [3]
- Aeneas: Trojan hero, son of Aphrodite, goddess of love and Prince Anchises. He fled to Italy and became the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.
- Amphion: son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus.
- Arcas: son of Zeus and Callisto, a nymph and minor goddess associated with Aphrodite.
- Aristaeus: son of Apollo and Cyrene, a Thessalian princess. He was a shepherd who was made a god after inventing skills such as cheese-making and bee-keeping. [4]
- Asclepius: son of Apollo and Coronis, who achieved divine status after death. He became such a great healer, that he could bring back the dead. Zeus killed him for this, but raised him from the dead as the god of healing and medicine.
- Augeas: son of Helios, king of Elis. Heracles had to clean his stables as one of his famed twelve labours. [5]
- Autolycus: son of Hermes. He was a famous thief and ancestor of Odysseus who was also Heracles' wrestling teacher. [6]
- Bellerophon: according to Homer's Iliad, son of Glaucus and Eurymede of Corinth. According to Apollodorus and Hesiod's catalogues by Hyginus, he was a son of the sea god Poseidon by Eurymede.
- Calais: son of Boreas (the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter) and Oreithyia, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens. His brother was Zethes, and they are collectively known as Boreads. [7]
- Ceyx: son of Eosphorus, King of Trachis and husband of Alcyone.
- Codrus: son of Poseidon and King of Athens, forefather of Ariston of Athens, father of Plato [8]
- Dardanus: son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas.
- Deucalion: son of Prometheus. He and his cousin-wife Pyrrha repopulated the earth after the Great Flood that ended the Bronze Age. [9]
- Dionysus: son of Zeus and Semele, born a mortal, later became the god of wine. Also called Bacchus by the Romans.
- Epaphus: son of Zeus and Io, a priestess of the goddess Hera (Zeus' wife).
- Harmonia: according to Greek mythology was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. [10] However, in Samothrace mythology, she was the daughter of Zeus and Electra. [11]
- Heracles: son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Alcmene, a mortal woman.
- Helen of Sparta, also known as Helen of Troy: According to older sources, daughter of king Tyndareus and Leda, [12] but Homer also calls her daughter of Zeus and Leda. Wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta.
- Hippolyta: daughter of Ares, a Queen of the Amazons.
- Hyacinthus: son of the Muse Clio and Oebalus of Sparta, lover of Apollo.
- Iasion: son of Zeus and Electra (one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione). He was the brother of Dardanus.
- Ion: son of Apollo and Creusa of Athens. Creusa abandoned Ion when he was just a child, so he was raised by a priestess of Delphi. They eventually reunited many years later.
- Memnon: son of Tithonus and Eos, a Titan goddess of the dawn.
- Minos: son of Zeus and Europa, and king of Crete. He commissioned Daedalus to build him the Labyrinth, where he hid the Minotaur, a bull-man creature born from the union of his wife Pasiphae and a bull. [13]
- Narcissus: son of the river-god Cephissus and Liriope. A Boeotian hero who scorned many of his lovers, including Echo. Cursed by Nemesis, he ended up falling in love with his own reflection. [14]
- Neleus: son of Poseidon and Tyro and king of Pylos. He was the twin brother of Pelias, who played a key role in the story of the Argonauts. He and most of his sons were killed by Heracles, leaving only one survivor. [15]
- Orion: son of Poseidon (the sea god) and Euryale, a Cretan princess. Along with Hippolytus, he is one of the only male hunters who followed Artemis.
- Orpheus: son of Calliope and the god Apollo.
- Pasiphae: daughter of Helios. She was a powerful sorceress who married King Minos of Crete. Due to a curse from Aphrodite, she fell in love with the Cretan Bull. Her union with the bull produced the Minotaur. [16]
- Pelias: son of Poseidon and Tyro and king of Iolcus. He was the twin brother of Neleus, and played a key role in the story of the Argonauts. He challenged his nephew Jason to sail to Colchis and bring back the legendary Golden Fleece. His daughters were tricked into killing him by Jason's wife Medea. [15]
- Penthesilea: daughter of Ares and Otrera, a Queen of the Amazons.
- Perseus: son of Zeus and mortal princess Danae, whom he impregnated as a golden shower.
- Phaethon: son of Helios and Clymene, famous for crashing the sun chariot.
- Polydeuces, also known by his Roman name of Pollux: one of the Dioscuri and twin brother of Castor. He was son of Zeus and the mortal Leda while his twin had a mortal father, king Tyndareus (Leda's husband).
- Pyrrha: daughter of Epimetheus and the first woman Pandora. She and her cousin-husband Deucalion repopulated the earth after the Great Flood that ended the Bronze Age. [9]
- Sciron: son of Poseidon, a Corinthian bandit who was defeated by Theseus on his way to Athens. [17]
- Tantalus: son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto, a Lydian king, father of Pelops and Niobe. [18]
- Telegonus: son of the minor goddess Circe and Odysseus. He accidentally killed his father with a lance tipped with the venom of a stingray. He married his father's wife Penelope. [19]
- Theseus: son of Poseidon (the sea god) and Aethra, the wife of king Aegeus.
- Tityos: a giant, son of Zeus and Elara.
- Zethes: son of Boreas (the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter) and Oreithyia, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens. His brother was Calais, and they are collectively known as Boreads.
- Zethus: son of Zeus and Antiope, twin brother of Amphion, co-founder of Thebes.
