ABA A Thracian nymph loved by Poseidon.

ABARBAREE A Mysian nymph loved by the Trojan prince Bucolion.

ACESO (Akeso) The goddess of curing illness and healing wounds.

ACHELOIDES (Akheloides) The naiad daughters of the river Achelous who attended on the god in his river-bed palace.

ACHELOUS (Akheloios) A river of Aetolia and its god. He wrestled Heracles for the hand of Deianeira but lost the contest and with it his horn.

ACHELOUS

ACHERON (Akheron) The underworld river of pain and its god.

ACHILLES (Akhilleus) The great Phthian hero of the Trojan War.

ACHLYS (Akhlys) The ugly hag who personified misery.

ACIS (Akis) A boy loved by the Nereid Galatea who was crushed beneath a rock by the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus and on his death transformed into a Sicilian River-God.

ACMON (1) (Akmon) One of the Dactyls.

ACMON (2) (Akmon) One of the monkey-like Cercopes.

ACRAEA (Akraia) A naiad daughter of the river Asterion. With her sisters Euboea and Prosymna she nursed Hera as a child.

ACRATUS (Akratos) The daemon of unmixed wine and incontience.

ACTE (Akte) The ninth of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of one of the afternoon hours.

ADEPHAGIA The goddess of gluttony.

ADICIA (Adikia) The female personification of injustice.

ADRASTEIA One of the nurses of Zeus in Crete.

AEA (Aia) A Nymph loved by the Colchian river-god Phasis.

AEACUS (Aiakos) One of the three Judges of the Underworld. He was a king of Aigina appointed to this position after death.

AEDOS (Aidos) The female personification of modesty and respect. She and Nemesis were the last of the good spirits to depart from the earth in the final and most corrupted age of mankind.

AEGAEON (1) (Aigaios) An ancient Sea-God and ally of the Titans.

AEGAEON (2) (Aigaion) One of the Gigantes.

AEGAEUS (Aigaios) A river of Scheria (island of the Phaeacians) and its god.

AEGEIRUS (Aigeros) The Hamadryad nymph of the poplar tree.

AEGINA (Aigina) A naiad daughter of the river Asopus. She was loved by Zeus who carried her off to the island of Aegina. When her father pursued them Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt.

AEGIPAN (Aigipan) The fish-goat god. When Typhon attacked Olympus Aegipan suggested the gods flee to Egypt and hide there in the form of animals. In this exodus he took the form of a goat with the tail of a fish. Later he helped to free the captured Zeus and was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capricorn.

AEGLE (1) (Aigle) Goddess of the splendour of good health.

AEGLE (2) (Aigle) The nymph mother of the Charites by Helios.

AELLO One of the Harpies.

AEOLUS (Aiolos) God of the winds. Aeolus kept the violent storm winds locked inside the floating island of Aeolia releasing them at the request of the gods.

AEON (Aion) The protogenos (primeval god) of time.

AERGIA The female personification of sloth.

AETHER (Aither) The protogenos (primeval god) of the brightly shining blue of the atmosphere or upper air.

AETNA (Aitna) One of the Ourea (Mountain-gods), Aetna was the goddess of the Sicilian volcano.

AEX (1) (Aix) The goat-nymphe wife of the god Pan.

AEX (2) (Aix) The elder Gorgon slain by Zeus. He made his aegis cloak from its skin.

AGANIPPE A naiad daughter of the river Termessus. She was the nymph of a sacred spring of the Muses whose waters had the power of inspiration.

AGDISTIS A creature born when Zeus accidentally impregnated the Earth in his sleep. It was born with both male and female genitals which so alarmed the gods they castrated it. Agdistis became a goddess in the retinue of Cybele (Rhea).

AGLAEA (Aglaia) Goddess of beauty and one of the three Charites. She was married to Hephaestus after his divorce from Aphrodite.

AGON The male personification of contest.

AGREUS The sea god of fishing.

AGRIUS (1) (Agrios) One of the Gigantes. He was clubbed to death by the Moirae in the Giant-War.

AGRIUS (2) (Agrios) One of a pair of man-eating Thracian giants who were half man, half bear.

AGROS The male personification of the produce of the fields.

ALCYONEUS

ALALA The female personification of the war-cry "alala."

ALASTOR A daemon who cursed a house with blood feuds, inflicting vengeance upon children for the sins of their fathers.

ALCE (Alke) The female personification of strength.

ALCON (Alkon) One of the Cabeiri.

ALCYONE (Alkyone) One of the Pleiades. She was loved by Poseidon.

ALCYONEUS (Alkyoneus) The strongest of the Gigantes. He was immortal but only within the boundaries of his homeland Pallene. In the Giant War Heracles shot him and dragged him away from his home to die.

ALCYONIDES (Alkyonides) Seven nymph daughters of the giant Alcyoneus who leapt into the sea after their father's death and were transformed into kingfishers.

ALECTO (Alekto) One of the three Erinyes.

ALETHEIA The personification of truth.

ALEXIARES An immortal son of Heracles and Hebe, he was the demi-god who wards off war.

ALEXIROE (Alexirhoe) A naiad daughter of the river Grenicus of Troy.

ALGEA The female personifications of sorrow.

ALOADAE (Aloadai) Two gigantic sons of Poseidon who tried to storm the heavens by piling mountains one upon the other. They were slain by Apollon and Artemis.

ALPUS (Alpos) A monstrous Sicilian giant slain by Dionysos.

ALPHEIUS (Alpheios) A river of Elis and its god. He fell in love with the nymph Arethusa and pursued her all the way to the island Ortygia. Artemis then transformed her into a spring to escape him but Alpheius guided his stream under the sea to Sicily so he could forever mingle his waters with hers.

ALSEIDES Dryad-nymphs of the groves.

AMALTHEIA Amaltheia was the she-goat nurse of the infant Zeus. She was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capra and her horn transformed into the cornucopia (horn of plenty).

AMECHANIA (Amekhania) The female personification of helplessness.

AMNISIADES The Naiad daughters of the river Amnisus. They were attendants of Artemis who were responsible for the care of her sacred golden-horned deer.

AMNISUS (Amnisos) A river of Crete and its god.

AMPELUS (Ampelos) The satyr loved by Dionysus in his youth. He was killed by a wild bull and transformed by the god into the very first grape-vine.

AMPHIARAUS A hero swallowed alive by the earth and transformed into an oracular daemon.

AMPHITRITE

AMPHILOGIAE (Amphilogiai) The personifications of disputes.

AMPHITRITE The goddess of the sea. She was one of the Nereides and Poseidon's Queen.

AMYMONE The Naiad of an Argive spring who was loved by the god Poseidon.

ANAIDEIA The female personification of ruthlessness.

ANANKE The primeval goddess of necessity whose serpentine tail was perpetually entwined with that of her consort Chronus, the god of time.

ANARESINEUS One of the fish-tailed sea gods.

ANATOLE The second of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the hour of dawn.

ANAX A Lydian giant.

ANCHIALE (Ankhiale) The Titan-goddess of drawing heat and igniting fire. She was the wife of Hecaterus, the Titan-god of the hands and the mother of the metal-working Dactyls (the Fingers).

ANCHINOE (Ankhinoe) An Egyptian Naiad.

ANCHIROE (1) (Ankhiroe) An Arcadian Naiad nymph.

ANCHIROE (2) (Ankhiroe) A Naiad daughter of the Libyan river Chrementes.

ANCHIROE (3) (Ankhiroe) A Naiad daughter of the river Erasinus who with her sisters was an attendant of Britomartis.

ANDROCTASIAE (Androktasiai) The personifications of manslaughters.

ANEMOI (1) The gods of the North, South, East & West winds named Boreas, Notus, Eurus and Zephyrus. They dwelt together either in a cave in Thrace or at the four corners of the earth. Each represented one of the seaons.

ANEMOS

ANEMOI (2) The Storm-Wind demons, sons of the monster Typhon. They were kept locked up in the floating island by Aeolia by Aeolus who released them at the request of the gods to wreak their havoc.

ANGELIA The goddess of messages.

ANIA The female personification of trouble.

ANICETUS (Aniketos) An immortal son of Heracles and Hebe, he was the demi-god of inconquerability.

ANIGRIDES Naiad daughters of the river Angrus. They had a sacred grotto at the mouth of their father's river where those afflicted with skin diseases sought a cure.

ANIGRUS (Anigros) A river of Elis and its god.

ANIPPE A Naiad daughter of the River Nile loved by Poseidon.

ANTAEUS (Antaios) A Libyan giant who drew his strength directly from the Earth. He wrestled travellers passing through his homeland and lined the roof of the temple of his father Poseidon with their skulls. He was slain by Heracles.

ANTEROS The god of unrequited love. He was one of the Erotes and was armed with arrows of lead.

ANTHEIA The goddess of flowers and floral wreaths, Antheia was one of the attendants of Aphrodite.

ANTHEDON A Boeotian nymph.

ANTHRACIA (Anthrakia) One of the Arcadian nymph nurses of Zeus.

ANTIPHATES King of the Laestrygones, a tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus on his travels.

ANYTUS (Anytos) A Titan who reared Demeter's daughter Despoena.

APATE The female personification of deceit.

APELIOTES The demi-god of the East Wind.

APHRODITE The goddess of love, beauty and intercourse. Aphrodite was one of the twelve great Olympian gods. She was born of the sea foam generated from the castrated genitals of the sky-god Ouranos.

APHROS One of the two Ichthyocentaur or fish-tailed centaurs.

APOLLO (Apollon) The god of prophecy, music and healing and one of the twelve great Olympian gods. His arrows brought plague to men.

APOLLO

APORIA The personification of powerlessness and difficulties.

APOTHEOTHENAI Men and women who were granted immortality and eternal life amongst the gods.

ARAE (Arai) The female personifications of curses.

ARCE (Arke) A sister of Iris. She was the messanger-goddess of the Titans who was stripped of her wings and cast into Tartarus by Zeus.

ARES The god of war and one of the twelve great Olympian gods.

ARETE The goddesss of virtue and excellence.

ARETHUSA (Arethousa) The Naiad of a Sicilian spring. She was pursued all the way to the island from Greece by the River-God Alpheus.

ARGES One of the three ancient Cyclops.

ARGIOPE (1) A Nymphe of Mount Parnassos abandoned by the poet Philammon.

ARGIOPE (2) An Eleusinian nymph.

ARGUS PANOPTES (Argos Panoptes) A strange man-like creature whose body was covered from head to toe with eyes. He was set by Hera to watch over Zeus' love the cow-shaped Io, but was slain by Hermes.

ARGYRA A Sea Nymph loved by the hero Selemnus.

ARIADNE A princess of Crete. She helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur. Dionysos abducted her on the island of Naxos and made her his immortal wife on Olympus.

ARIMASPIANS (Arimaspoi) A one-eyed Scythian tribe who battled the eagle-lion Griffins for their mountain cache of gold.

ARION (Areion) An immortal horse famed for its swiftnes. It was the offspring of Demeter and Poseidon, who raped her in the form of a horse. Arion was owned by Heracles who gave it as a gift to the hero Adrastus.

ARISTAEUS (1) (Aristaios) A rustic god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, olive-growing and hunting. He was born mortal but joined the retinue of Dionysos as a god.

ARISTAEUS (2) (Aristaios) A giant who fled the war with the gods and was transformed into a dung-beetle.

ARTEMIS The goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth and children. She brought sudden death to women and girls with her arrows. She was one of the twelve great Olympian gods.

ARTEMIS

ASBETON The Daemon 'Charr' who plagued the craftsman potter.

ASCALAPHUS (Askalaphos) An underworld daimon who tended the orchards of the underworld. When he told Hades that Persephone had tasted the seeds of the pomegranate Demeter transformed him into a screech-owl.

ASCANIUS (Askanios) A River of Mysia and its god.

ASCLEPIUS (Asklepios) God of medicine. He was trained by Chiron as a physician and became so skilled in the art that he could bring the dead back to life. Zeus struck him dead with a thunderbolt for his arrogance but Apollon carried him out of Haides and made him a god on Olympos.

ASCRA (Askre) A Boeotian nymph loved by Poseidon.

ASIA (1) (Asie) The Oceanid wife of the Titan Iapetos. She gave her name to the continent.

ASIA (2) (Asie) The Oceanid wife of the Titan Prometheus. She gave her name to the continent.

ASOPIS A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus.

ASOPUS (Asopos) A river of Boeotia and Argos and its god. He had twenty beautiful daughters, most of whom were carried off by the gods. Asopus pursued Zeus when he abducted Aegina but was driven back by the god's thunderbolts.

ASTERIA The Titaness goddess of the prophesies of night . She was the mother of the goddess Hecate. When Asteria was pursued by Zeus she changed herself into a quail and leapt from heaven into the sea. There she metamorphosed (permanently) into the island of Delos.

ASTERION A river of Mycenae and its god.

ASTERIUS (Asterios) A Lydian giant.

ASTERODEIA A nymph of the Caucasus mountains loved by King Aeetes.

ASTEROPE An Oceanid loved by Zeus.

ASTRA PLANETA The gods of the Wandering Stars or Planets. The foremost of these were Hesperus (Venus) and Pyroeis (Mars).

ASTRAEA (Astraia) The younger Titan-goddess of justice. Astraea left the earth at the end of the Golden Age and entered the heavens as the constellation Virgo.

ASTRAEUS (1) (Astraios) The Titan-god of the stars, astronomy and astrology. He was the father of the Winds and the Stars by the dawn-goddess Eos.

ASTRAEUS (2) (Astraios) One of the Sileni, elderly satyr companions of the god Dionysos.

ASTRAPE The goddess of lightning, one of the attendants of Zeus.

ASTRIS A daughter of Helios and wife of the Indian River-God Hydaspes.

ASTROTHESIAI The immortal spirits of the heavenly constellations. Most were mortals granted a place of honour in the heavens.

ASTYOCHE (Astyokhe) A Naiad daughter of the Trojan river Simoeis. She married a Trojan king.

ATHENA

ATE The personification of error, delusion, ruin and blind folly. She led both the gods and men to rash and inconsiderate actions. Zeus threw her physically out of heaven.

ATHENA (Athene) Goddess of war and crafts who sprung fully grown and armed from the head of Zeus. She was one of the twelve great Olympian gods.

ATLANTEIA A Dryad nymph loved by the Egyptian king Danaus.

ATLANTEANS (Atlantes) The inhabitants of the lost continent of Atlantis.

ATLAS The Titan-god of daring. He led the Titan-army in the war against the gods and as punishment was condemned to bear the heavens upon his shoulders.

ATROPUS (Atropos) One of the three Fates.

ATTIS An immortal eunuch attendant of the goddess Rhea-Cybele and the master of her lion-drawn chariot. Attis castrated himself out of love for the goddess and was rewarded by spending eternity in her service.

AUGE The first of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the hour of first light.

AULONIADES Dryad-nymphs of the glens.

AURA The younger Titan-goddess of the breeze. She was raped by Dionysos.

AURAE (Aurai) Nymphs of the breezes.

AUTOMATONES Statues of animals and men crafted by the divine smith Hephaistos out of metal and endowed with living animation.

AUXESIA The Hora of spring growth.

AXIUS (Axios) A river of Paeonia and its god.