Mediterranean & Near East

Aeacus
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East Aeacus (Greek Aiakos) is a heroic king of Greek mythology, especially associated with the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. Son of Zeus and the river god’s daughter Aegina, he was remembered as a ruler of exceptional…

Adonis
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East Adonis is a figure of Greek mythology associated with extraordinary beauty, erotic desire, hunting and untimely death. His story became especially influential in Greek and Roman literature, but his name and some features…

Adephagia
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East Adephagia was a Greek personification associated with gluttony, insatiable appetite and excessive eating. Her name, written Ἀδηφαγία in Greek, is generally understood as meaning “insatiability” or “gluttony,” from words …

Adrasteia
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East 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
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East 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
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East 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
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East 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
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East 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
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East 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…

Achelois
Greek mythology · Mediterranean & Near East Achelois is a Greek mythological name associated with healing, relief, and the soothing of pain. In surviving ancient material, the name does not belong to a single, fully developed goddess with a large myth cycle. Inste…

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