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Adrasteia
Adrasteia is a figure of Greek mythology whose identity varies between different ancient traditions. She is best known as a nymph who helped protect and raise the infant Zeus in Crete, but the name Adrasteia was also use…
Adamanthea
Adamanthea is not a widely established figure in Greek mythology, and the name itself appears to be rare, obscure, and potentially variant in transmission. Because of that, any discussion of Adamanthea must begin with ca…
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, desire, beauty, attraction, and sexual pleasure. In Greek religion and myth, she belongs to the divine world of Olympus, but her identity is broader and more complex than a simple …
Achilles
Achilles is one of the most famous heroes of Greek mythology, best known from the Iliad, where he stands at the center of the Trojan War. In the ancient Greek tradition, he is not a god, but a mortal warrior of extraordi…
Acheron
Acheron is best known in Greek mythology as a river of the underworld, one of the great boundary streams associated with the realm of the dead. In later tradition it could also be imagined as a place, a power, or even a …
Achelous
Achelous is an ancient Greek river god, one of the best-known and most enduring of the river deities in Greek tradition. He is usually associated with the River Achelous in western Greece, but in myth he is more than a l…