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Abderus

In Greek mythology, Abderus or Abderos (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος) was a divine hero, reputed by some to be one of Heracles' lovers (eromenoi), and reputedly a son of Hermes by some accounts, and eponym of Abdera, Thrace.

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Amazons

In Greek mythology, the Amazons (Ancient Greek:, singular; in Latin) are portrayed in a number of ancient epic poems and legends, such as the Labours of Heracles, the Argonautica and the Iliad.

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Amphion and Zethus

Amphion () and Zethus (Ζῆθος Zēthos) were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus) by Antiope.

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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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Arcadia (region)

Arcadia (Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese.

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Ares

Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) is the Greek god of war and courage.

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Argus Panoptes

Argus or Argos Panoptes (Ἄργος Πανόπτης, "All-seeing Argos") is a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology.

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Artemis

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity.

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Athena

Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Athenaeus

Athenaeus of Naucratis (Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

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Attica

Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.

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Bakırçay

Bakırçay (Caicus) is a river in Turkey.

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Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: label), also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century CE.

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Boeotia

Boeotia, sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (Βοιωτία; modern:; ancient) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Danaïdes

In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes (Δαναΐδες), also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya.

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Daphnis

In Greek mythology, Daphnis (Δάφνις, from δάφνη, daphne, "Bay Laurel") was a legendary Sicilian cowherd who was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.

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Demeter

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

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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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Epaphus

In Greek mythology, Epaphus (Ancient Greek: Ἔπᾰφος), also called '''Apis''' or Munantius, was a son of the Greek God Zeus and king of Egypt.

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Gaia

In Greek mythology, Gaia (Γαῖα|, a poetic form of, meaning 'land' or 'earth'),,,. also spelled Gaea, is the personification of Earth.

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Gaius Julius Hyginus

Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus.

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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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Greek underworld

In Greek mythology, the Greek underworld, or Hades, is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death.

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Hades

Hades (Hā́idēs,, later), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Hera

In ancient Greek religion, Hera (Hḗrā; label in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.

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Hermaphroditus

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus (Hermaphróditos) was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes.

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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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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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Io (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Io (Ἰώ) was one of the mortal lovers of Zeus.

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John Tzetzes

John Tzetzes (Iōánnēs Tzétzēs;, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who lived at Constantinople in the 12th century.

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Libya of Egypt

Libya (mythology) (Libýē) is the daughter of Epaphus, King of Egypt, in both Greek and Roman mythology.

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Lycaon (king of Arcadia)

In Greek mythology, Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Λυκάων, Lukáо̄n) was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing to recognize human flesh.

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Lycophron

Lycophron (Lukóphrōn ho Chalkidéus; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra is attributed (perhaps falsely).

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Megalopolis, Greece

Megalopoli (Μεγαλόπολη) is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia, southern Greece.

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Mercury (mythology)

Mercury (Mercurius) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon.

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Metis (mythology)

Metis (Μέτης; Modern Greek: Μέτης), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, was one of the Oceanids.

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Nonnus

Nonnus of Panopolis (Νόννος ὁ Πανοπολίτης, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs, 5th century CE) was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Imperial Roman era.

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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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Oceanids

In Greek mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (Ōkeanídes, pl. of label) are the nymphs who were the three thousand (a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable") daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.

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Oceanus

In Greek mythology, Oceanus (Ὠκεανός, also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.

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Ocyrhoe

Ocyrhoe (Ancient Greek: Ὠκυρόη) or Ocyrrhoe (Ὠκυρρόη) refers to at least five characters in Greek mythology.

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Odyssey

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

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Pan (god)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD.

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Penelope

Penelope (Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Asterodia.

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Peneus

In Greek mythology, Peneus (Ancient Greek: Πηνειός) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers (Potamoi), a child of Oceanus and Tethys.

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Persephone

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (Persephónē), also called Kore (the maiden) or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.

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Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam (Πρίαμος) was the legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War.

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Priapus

In Greek mythology, Priapus (Πρίαπος) is a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia.

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Sacrifice

Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship.

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Stilbe

Stilbe (Ancient Greek: Στίλβη, Stílbē, "glittering", "gleaming") in Greek mythology may refer to the following personages.

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Suda

The Suda or Souda (Soûda; Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas (Σουίδας).

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Syracuse, Sicily

Syracuse (Siracusa; Sarausa) is a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse.

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Tanagra

Tanagra (Τανάγρα) is a town and a municipality north of Athens in Boeotia, Greece.

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Tanagra (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Tanagra (Ancient Greek: Τανάγρα or Τάναγραν) was the daughter of Aeolus or the river-god Asopus and Metope, daughter of Ladon.

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Tethys (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Tethys (Tēthýs) was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.

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Theogony

The Theogony (i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed.

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Thronia

In Greek mythology, the name Thronia (Ancient Greek: Θρωνία) or Thronie (Θρωνίη) may refer to.

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Twelve Olympians

relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver) and Apollo (lyre) from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.

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Underworld

The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living.

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Walter Burkert

Walter Burkert (2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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