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Achelous

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Achelous (also Acheloos or Acheloios) (Ancient Greek: Ἀχελώϊος, and later Ἀχελῷος, Akhelôios) was the god associated with the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece.

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Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

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Adonis

In Greek mythology, Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone.

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Aeacus

Aeacus (also spelled Eacus; Ancient Greek: Αἰακός) was a king of the island of Aegina in Greek mythology.

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Aeneas

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (from) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus).

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Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aenē̆is or) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Ars Amatoria

The (The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid.

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Asclepius

Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Boreas (god)

Boreas (Βορέας,; also Βορρᾶς) is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter.

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Centaur

A centaur (kéntauros), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in the mountains of Thessaly.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Cupid

In classical mythology, Cupid (Cupīdō, meaning "passionate desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection.

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Cyparissus

In Greek mythology, Cyparissus or Kyparissos (cypress) was a boy beloved by Apollo or in some versions by other deities.

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Daedalion

In Greek mythology, Daedalion or Daidalion (Daidalíon) was a son of Hesperos, the god of the Evening Star or Phosphorus, god of the Morning Star and the brother of Ceyx.

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Daphne

Daphne (Δάφνη), a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.

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Diana (mythology)

Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon.

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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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Dryope (daughter of Dryops)

In Greek mythology, Dryope (Δρυόπη derived from δρῦς drys, "oak"; dryope "woodpecker") is the daughter of Dryops, king of Oeta ("oak-man") or of Eurytus (and hence half-sister to Iole).

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Epithet

An epithet, also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing.

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Europa (consort of Zeus)

In Greek mythology, Europa (Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē) was a Phoenician princess from Tyre and the mother of King Minos of Crete.

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Glaucus

In Greek mythology, Glaucus (glimmering) was a Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Hecuba

Hecuba (also Hecabe; Hekábē) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.

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Hellenistic period

In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.

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Hesiod

Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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Hippolytus of Athens

''The Death of Hippolytus'', by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) In Greek mythology, Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος, Hippolytos 'unleasher of horses') is the son of Theseus and either Hippolyta or Antiope.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Jason

Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature.

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Lapiths

The Lapiths (Λαπίθαι, Lapithai, sing. Λαπίθης) were a group of legendary people in Greek mythology, who lived in Thessaly in the valley of the Pineios and on the mountain Pelion.

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Latin literature

Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language.

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Lycian peasants

The Lycian peasants, also known as Latona and the Lycian peasants, is a short tale from Greek mythology centered around Leto (known to the Romans as Latona), the mother of the Olympian gods Artemis and Apollo, who was prohibited from drinking from a pond in Lycia by the people there.

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Lycius (son of Clinis)

Lycius (Lúkios, meaning 'Lycian' or 'wolf-like') is a minor Babylonian figure in Greek mythology, who features in two minor myths concerning the god Apollo.

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Marsyas

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

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Midas

Midas (Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.

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Muses

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.

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Nestor (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia (Νέστωρ Γερήνιος, Nestōr Gerēnios) was a legendary king of Pylos.

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Niobe

In Greek mythology, Niobe (Νιόβη: Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa.

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Nymph

A nymph (νύμφη|nýmphē;; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore.

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Odysseus

In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Orpheus

In Greek mythology, Orpheus (Ancient Greek: Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation) was a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Peleus

In Greek mythology, Peleus (Ancient Greek: Πηλεύς Pēleus) was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles.

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Pelias

Pelias (Ancient Greek: Πελίας) was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Roman mythology

Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore.

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Scholia

Scholia (scholium or scholion, from σχόλιον, "comment", "interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of the manuscript of ancient authors, as glosses.

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Scylla

In Greek mythology, Scylla (lang|Skýlla) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis.

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Semele

Semele, or Thyone in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.

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Sol (Roman mythology)

Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.

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Statius

Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE.

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Thebaid (Latin poem)

The Thebaid (lit) is a Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Statius.

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Thetis

Thetis (Θέτις) is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles.

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Tiresias

In Greek mythology, Tiresias (Teiresías) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.

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Troy

Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.

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