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Artemis
Artemis is one of the principal goddesses of ancient Greek religion. She is associated with the hunt, wild animals, forests, sudden death, childbirth, and the protection of girls and young people. Greek poets and worship…
Aglaurus
Aglaurus, also written Aglauros or Aglaura, is a figure in Greek mythology associated with Athens, the Acropolis and the royal family founded by Cecrops. She is best known as one of the daughters of Cecrops who were entr…
Aglaia
Aglaia is a figure of Greek mythology best known as one of the three Charites, or Graces. Her name, also written Aglaea or Aglæa in some transliteration systems, is associated with splendour, radiance, beauty and joyful …
Agdistis
Agdistis is a powerful and sexually dual figure associated with the Phrygian and Anatolian religious world, especially the city of Pessinus and the legends of Attis. The surviving accounts are mostly written in Greek or …
Agave
Agave is a figure of Greek mythology best known as the Theban woman who, while possessed by Dionysus, helped tear her own son Pentheus apart. Her story reaches its most powerful form in Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae, wh…
Aetna
Aetna (Greek Aitnē, Αἴτνη) is a figure associated with Mount Etna in eastern Sicily and with the Greek mythological imagination of volcanic landscapes. She is generally described as a mountain nymph or personification of…
Aethon
Aethon is a name given to several different figures, animals and beings in Greek and Greco-Roman mythology. It is not the name of one universally defined mythological character. The best-known Aethon is the eagle that ea…
Aether
Aether is a primordial figure and cosmic substance in Greek mythology, associated with the bright, pure upper air above the ordinary atmosphere. Unlike the air breathed by human beings, Aether was imagined as the clear r…
Aethalides
Aethalides is a minor but distinctive figure in Greek mythology, best known as an Argonaut and as the possessor of extraordinary memory. He was regarded as a son of the god Hermes and a mortal woman, and his exceptional …
Asclepius
Asclepius is the Greek god and legendary master of healing, one of the most important divine figures associated with medicine in the ancient Mediterranean. In myth he begins as a gifted mortal physician, but his skill be…
Aer
Aer is a name sometimes used for the personification of air in Greek mythology, especially the lower atmosphere or misty air close to the earth. The Greek word aēr (ἀήρ) primarily means “air,” “mist,” or “the atmosphere,…