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Althepus. Son of
Poseidon and Leis,
daughter of Orus 1. Althepus renamed the land
Oraea, which he ruled, and called it Althepia.
These are the former names of the land about
Troezen. He was
succeeded by Saron [Pau.2.30.5].
Alxion. Father of
Oenomaus 1
[Pau.5.1.6].
Alycus. Son of Sciron, either by Pandion
4's daughter, or by Chariclo 3. Alycus was killed
by Theseus near
Aphidnae in a battle cause by
Theseus' abduction of
Helen [CYP.11;
Plu.The.32.5].
Alyzeus. Brother of Leucadius and king in
Acarnania. Alyzeus was son of Icarius 1, either by
Periboea 3 or by Polycaste 1 [Strab.10.2.9,
10.2.24].
Amalthea. A Naiad, nurse of
Zeus, who owned a horn
which could supply food in abundance. She is also
said to have been a goat or to have owned a
she-goat who suckled
Zeus [see also
CONSTELLATIONS
and BESTIARY].
Amalthea's father was Haemonius [Apd.2.7.5;
Ara.Phae.162; Cal.Ze.48; Dio.5.70.3; Hyg.Ast.2.13;
Hyg.Fab.139; Ov.Fast.5.115; Nonn.27.298].
Amarsyas was mother of Phereclus 3, pilot
of the ship in which
Theseus sailed to
Crete. Yet some say
that the pilot was Nausithous 3, a Salaminian
[Plu.The.17.5].
Amarynceus 1, son of Pyttius, was one of
the kings of Elis at the
time when the government was shared. His children
were Hippostratus and Diores 1, one of the
ACHAEAN
LEADERS. Amarynceus 1 was buried in Buprasium,
a coastal city in northwestern
Elis [Apd.1.8.4;
Hom.Il.23.630; Pau.5.1.10-11, 5.3.4].
Amarynceus 2. See
ACHAEAN
LEADERS.
Amarynthus. One of
Actaeon's dogs. See
Actaeon [Apd.3.4.4].
Amastris. A warrior in the army of Perses
3 against Aeetes. He
was killed by Argus 3, one of the
ARGONAUTS
[Val.6.554].
Amastrus 1, son of Hippotes 4, was one of
Aeneas' warriors in
Italy. He was killed by Camilla [Vir.Aen.11.673].
Amastrus 2. A Dolionian killed by
Nestor during the
battle between the Dolionians and the
ARGONAUTS
[Val.1.145].
Amata wished to marry her daughter to
Turnus and not to
Aeneas. Because of
this dispute there was war to decide which of them
should marry Lavinia 2. Amata, who hanged herself,
had been married to King Latinus 1, who was
succeeded by Aeneas in
the throne of Latium [Ov.Fast.4.879; Vir.Aen.7.52,
7.343ff., 12.602].
Amathia. See
NEREIDS.
AMAZONS.
Ambenus. A warrior in the army of Perses
3 against Aeetes
[Val.6.251].
Ambracia. After her the city Ambracia in
Epirus was named. Ambracia was daughter of Melaneus
5, son of Apollo, and
of Oechalia [Lib.Met.4; Pau.4.3.10, 4.33.5].
Ambrax was King of Ambracia when the
exiled Aeneas came to
the city. He was son of Dexamenus 2, son of
Heracles 1
[DH.1.50.4].
Ambrosia. One of the
HYADES 1
[Hyg.Ast.2.21; Hyg.Fab.182, 192; Nonn.21.3, 21.26,
21.296].
Ambrosius. A Dolionian killed by
Peleus during the
battle between the Dolionians and the
ARGONAUTS
[Val.1.138].
Amestrius. See
Heracles 1.
Amisodarus is said to have reared the
Chimera [see
Bellerophon]. He
was father of Maris and Atymnius 2 [see
TROJANS]
[Hom.Il.16.328].
Ammon 1 (see
Zeus). The name of
Zeus in Africa
[Ov.Met.5.17].
Ammon 2, brother of Broteas 3, is one of
the ETHIOPIAN CHIEFS who were in the court of
Cepheus 1 when the fight between Phineus 1 and
Perseus 1 broke up.
He was killed by Phineus 1 [Ov.Met.5.107].
Ammon 3. This is the Ethiopian who
predicted deliverance from the flood and a monster
that Poseidon sent
against the land, because of the boasts of Queen
Cassiopea 2 against the
NEREIDS, if the
queen's daughter
Andromeda were
exposed as a prey to the monster [Apd.2.4.3].
Amollius (see Amulius). [Strab.5.3.2].
Amopaon. See
TROJANS.
Ampelus. See
METAMORPHOSES.
Amphalces.Son of King Antiphates 3 of
Argos and Zeuxippe 4
[Dio.4.68.5].
Ampheres. One of the first ten kings of
Atlantis. Son of
Poseidon and Cleito
2, and twin brother of Evaemon 3 [Pla.Cri.113Dff.].
Amphiale. A Rhodian woman, mother by
Lernus 3 of Cleodorus [see
ACHAEANS]
[QS.10.221].
Amphialus 1. Son of
Neoptolemus and
Andromache
[Hyg.Fab.123].
Amphialus 2. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Amphialus 3 was a young
Phaeacian
nobleman, who competed in the games arranged to
honour Odysseus. He
was son of Polyneus, son of Tecton 2
[Hom.Od.8.111].
Amphialus 4. A man in the crew of
Menelaus during his
return from Troy
[Pau.10.25.3].
Amphianax. King of Lycia. When Acrisius
drove Proetus 1 from
Argos, he came to the
court of Amphianax [see also Iobates]. He had a
daughter Stheneboea, also called Antia, who married
Proetus 1 [Apd.2.2.1].
Amphiaraus.
See also SEVEN
AGAINST THEBES.
Amphicles. Son of Agis 1, son of
Eurysthenes 1, son of Aristodemus, son of
Aristomachus 2, son of Cleodaeus 2, son of Hyllus
1, son of Heracles
1. Amphicles had a son Amphisthenes
[Pau.3.16.9].
Amphiclus 1. See
TROJANS.
Amphiclus 2 succeeded Oenopion 1 (the man
who blinded Orion) and
his sons on the throne of Chios, the Aegean island
off the coast of Ionia
in Asia Minor [Pau.7.4.9].
Amphicomone. See
DANAIDS.
Amphictyon. See
AUTOCHTHONOUS.
Amphictyon's Daughter. Daughter of
Amphictyon and Atthis, daughter of Cranaus [see
Athens]. She had by
Poseidon a son
Cercyon 1, and by Rarus she was mother of
Triptolemus [see
also Demeter]
[Pau.1.2.6, 1.14.3].
Amphidamas 1. Son of Lycurgus 2, son of
Aleus, son of Aphidas 1, son of Arcas 1, son of
Zeus and
Callisto. His mother
was either Cleophyle or Eurynome 1. Amphidamas 1 is
father of Melanion, who married
Atalanta, and of
Antimache, who married
Eurystheus, the
tormenter of Heracles
1 [Apd.3.9.2].
Amphidamas 2. See
ARGONAUTS.
Amphidamas 3. A man from Opus, a city in
Locris, father of Clitonymus, who was killed while
still a boy by
Patroclus 1 over a
game of dice [Apd.3.13.8].
Amphidamas 4. Son of King Busiris 2 of
Egypt, killed along with his father by
Heracles 1
[Apd.2.5.11].
Amphidamas 5. Father of Nausidame, bride
of Helius and mother
by him of Augeas, whose stables
Heracles 1 cleaned
[Hyg.Fab.14].
Amphidamas 6. See
ACHAEANS.
Amphidicus (Asphodicus). Defender of
Thebes against the
SEVEN.
Amphidicus, son of Astacus, killed Parthenopaeus,
son of Atalanta,
during the war [Apd.3.6.8].
Amphilochus 1. See
ACHAEANS.
Amphilochus 2. See
ACHAEANS.
Amphilochus 3. Son of Dryas 7 and husband
of Alcinoe 2 [Parth.27.1].
Amphimachus 1. See
ACHAEAN
LEADERS.
Amphimachus 2 was the son of King
Electryon 1 of
Mycenae and Anaxo 1.
He was killed by the sons of Pterelaus, who claimed
of Electryon 1 the kingdom of their ancestor Mestor
1 [see Mycenae]
[Apd.2.4.5-6].
Amphimachus 3. See
TROJAN LEADERS.
Amphimachus 4. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Amphimachus 5. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Amphimachus 6. King of
Elis. His father
Polyxenus 2 gave him this name because of his
friendship with Amphimachus 1 who died at
Troy. Amphimachus 6 had
a son Eleius 2, who succeeded him in the throne
[Pau.5.3.4-5].
Amphimachus 7. See
ACHAEANS.
Amphimarus. Son of
Poseidon and father
by the Muse Urania 2 of Linus 1 [Pau.9.29.6].
Amphimedon 1. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Amphimedon 2. One of the ETHIOPIAN CHIEFS
killed by Perseus 1. He was a companion of Phineus
1 [Ov.Met.5.74].
Amphimedon 3. See
TROJANS.
Amphinome 1. See
NEREIDS.
Amphinome 2 was wife of Aeson and mother
of Jason and Promachus
2. She and her husband were persecuted by King
Pelias 1 of Iolcus;
Amphinome 2 then killed herself with a sword, but
before dying she pronounced a curse against the
king [Dio.4.50.2].
Amphinome 3. Wife of Arizelus and mother
of Harpalion 3 [see
ACHAEANS]
[QS.10.75].
Amphinomus 1. Father of Hyrie
[Lib.Met.12].
Amphinomus 2. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Amphinomus 3. Son of
Diomedes 2 and the
daughter of King Daunus of Apulia in Italy
[Lib.Met.37].
Amphinous 1. See
TROJANS.
Amphinous 2. See
TROJANS.
Amphion 1.
Amphion 2. See
ARGONAUTS.
Amphion 3. See
ACHAEANS.
Amphion 4. See
CENTAURS.
Amphion 5. See
ACHAEANS.
Amphion 6 was a defender of
Thebes against the
SEVEN
[Stat.Theb.9.778].
Amphiro. See
OCEANIDS.
Amphissa (Isse). After her the city in
Locris was named.
Apollo made love to
her, taking the form of a shepherd. Amphissa was
daughter of Macar 2 and Canace, who were siblings,
although they are sometimes given different
parentages [see Aeolus
1 and Aeolus 2]
[Ov.Met.6.124; Pau.10.38.4].
Amphissus, being himself the son of the
Nymph Dryope 1, founded a sanctuary to honour the
NYMPHS. His father was
Apollo [Lib.Met.32;
Ov.Met.9.356].
Amphisthenes. Son of Amphicles and father
of Irbus [Pau.3.16.9].
Amphithea 1. Queen Amphithea 1 of
Argos was daughter of
Pronax, son of Talaus, son of Bias 1, son of
Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of
Aeolus 1, son of the
eponym of the
Hellenes, Hellen 1,
son of Deucalion
1, the man who survived the
Flood. She was married
to King Adrastus 1,
who led the SEVEN
AGAINST THEBES. Her children by him are: Argia
1 (wife of Polynices, son of
Oedipus), Deipyle
(mother of Diomedes
2), Aegialia (wife of
Diomedes 2,
sometimes called daughter of Aegialeus 1),
Aegialeus 1 (said to be father of Aegialia), and
Cyanippus (king of
Argos, also called son
of Aegialeus 1) [Apd.1.9.13].
Amphithea 2. Wife of King Lycurgus 3 of
Nemea, and mother of Opheltes 1, who was devoured
by a serpent while still a child when the
SEVEN AGAINST
THEBES had reached Nemea [Apd.1.9.14].
Amphithea 3. Wife of Autolycus 1 and
mother by him of Anticlia 1,
Odysseus' mother,
and of Polymede,
Jason's mother
[Apd.1.9.16; Hom.Od.19.415].
Amphithea 4. Wife of
Aeolus 2, the ruler
of the winds. She had by him six daughters and six
sons (among which Macar 2) [Plu.PS.28].
Amphithemis 1 (Garamas). Son of
Apollo and Acalle,
daughter of Minos 2.
He had by a Tritonian Nymph two sons, Caphaurus and
Nasamon [Arg.4.1490ff.].
Amphithemis 2. One of the CENTAURS HORNED
[See BESTIARY].
Amphithoe. See
NEREIDS.
Amphitrite, the Queen of the Sea, was
daughter of Oceanus
and Tethys (that is, one of the
OCEANIDS), or
daughter of Nereus and Doris 1 (in this case, one
of the NEREIDS). She
married Poseidon,
the lord of the sea, and had by him children:
Triton, Rhode 2, and Benthesicyme [Apd.1.2.2,
1.2.7, 1.4.5, 3.15.4.; Col.21; Hes.The.243, 930;
Hyg.Ast.2.5].
Amphitryon.
Amphius 1. See
TROJAN LEADERS.
Amphius 2. See
TROJANS.
Amphoterus 1. Son of Alcmaeon 1 and
Callirrhoe 2. Amphoterus 1, just like his brother,
suddenly became grown-up in order to avenge his
father. The sons of Phegeus 1, who had killed
Alcmaeon 1, were carrying the Necklace of Harmonia
1 to Delphi to
dedicate it, and came to the house of Agapenor at
the same time as Amphoterus 1 and his brother
Acarnan 1. These, then, killed their father's
murderers, and going to Psophis and entering the
palace they slew both Phegeus 1 and his wife [see
Robe & Necklace of
Harmonia 1] [Apd.3.7.2-6].
Amphoterus 2. See
TROJANS.
Amphrysos. See
RIVER GODS.
Ampycus 1 (Ampyx 4). See
SEERS.
Ampycus 2 was a priest of
Demeter. He is one of
the ETHIOPIAN CHIEFS who were in the court of
Cepheus 1 at the time of the fight between Phineus
1 and Perseus 1. He
was killed by Phineus 1 [Ov.Met.5.110].
Ampyx 1. See
LAPITHS.
Ampyx 2 is one of the ETHIOPIAN CHIEFS
who were in the court of Cepheus 1 at the time of
the fight between Phineus 1 and
Perseus 1. He was
turned into a stone when
Perseus 1 showed him
the head of Medusa 1
[Ov.Met.5.184].
Ampyx 3 is an ancestor of Patreus, the
founder of Patrae. He was son of Pelias 2, son of
Aeginetes 1, son of Dereites, son of Harpalus 1,
son of Amyclas 1, son of Lacedaemon, son of
Zeus and the Pleiad
Taygete. Ampyx 3 was father of Areus, father of
Agenor 9, father of Preugenes, father of Patreus
[Pau.7.18.5].
Ampyx 4 (see Ampycus 1) [AO.948;
Pau.5.17.10].
Amulius (Amollius) governed in Italy fter
his father Proca, seizing power by force. Some say
he divided his and his brother Numitor 2's
inheritance into two parts, setting the treasures
and the gold which had been brought from
Troy over against the
kingdom. Numitor 2 then chose the kingdom, but
Amulius, being in possession of the treasure, and
made more powerful by it, took the kingdom away
from his brother. It is said that he had twins
(Romulus and Remus 1)
by Numitor 2's daughter Ilia, and that he ordered
them to be sunk in the river. By another woman he
had a son Antho. Amulius was killed by
Romulus who restored
the kingdom to his grandfather Numitor 2
[DH.1.71.5, 1.77.1; Dio.7.5.12; Ov.Fast.3.49, 3.67;
Ov.Met.14.772; Plu.Rom.3.2-3, 4.2, 8.6].
Amyclas 1. King of Laconia and
Lacedaemon, and founder of Amyclae. Amyclas 1 is
son of Lacedaemon and Sparta. He succeeded his
father in the throne and, marrying Diomede 2,
daughter of Lapithus 1, son of
Apollo and Stilbe, the
daughter of the river god Peneus, had many children
by her: Leanira, Cynortes,
Hyacinthus 1,
Argalus, Polyboea 1, Harpalus 1, Laodamia 3 and
Daphne 1. On the
death of Amyclas 1 he was succeeded by Argalus [see
also Sparta]
[Apd.3.9.1, 3.10.3; Parth.15.1; Pau.3.1.3, 3.19.4,
7.18.5, 10.9.5.].
Amyclas 2. See
NIOBIDS.
Amycus 1 was the King of the Bebrycians
in northern Asia Minor, who compelled strangers to
box as a way of killing them. Amycus 1, son of
Poseidon and Melie,
a Bithynian Nymph, was killed by Polydeuces, one of
the DIOSCURI, during
the expedition of the
ARGONAUTS [AO.659;
Apd.1.9.20; Arg.2.1, 2.94; Hyg.Fab.17; Val.4.101,
4.150, 4.290ff.].
Amycus 2. See
CENTAURS.
Amycus 3. One of
Aeneas' companions in
Italy. He was killed by Turnus [Vir.Aen.1.222,
9.771].
Amycus 4 was married to Theano 3, a
Trojan woman remembered for having given birth to
Mimas 3 the same day that
Paris was born
[Vir.Aen.10.702].
Amycus 5. One of
Aeneas' companions in
Italy. He was killed by Turnus [Vir.Aen.12.509].
Amymone 1. See
DANAIDS.
Amymone 2 (see Beroe 5). [Nonn.41.153].
Amyntor 1. King of Ormenium, a city near
Mount Pelion, in Magnesia, known for cherishing his
concubine Phthia 3 and scorning his wife. His son
Phoenix 2, who later accompanied
Achilles to
Troy, was blinded by
Amyntor 1, after having been accused of seduction
by Phthia 3. When
Heracles 1 came to
Ormenium, king Amyntor 1 took arms and forbade him
to march through the country, but
Heracles 1 slew
him. Amyntor was son of Ormenus 3, son of Cercaphus
2, son of Aeolus 1. He was also father of Astydamia
2, who had a son Ctessipus 1 by
Heracles 1
[Apd.2.7.7-8, 3.13.8; Hom.Il.9.448; Strab.9.5.18].
Amyntor 2. One of the sons of Aegyptus 1
[see DANAIDS].
Amythaon 1 dwelt in
Pylos. He was the son
of Cretheus 1, son of
Aeolus 1, and of
Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus, son of
Aeolus 1. Amythaon 1
married his niece Idomene, daughter of Pheres 1
(founder of Pherae in Thessaly), and had children
by her: Bias 1, Melampus 1, Aeolia and Perimele 3.
Some have said, however, that Amythaon 1's wife was
Aglaia 5 [Apd.1.9.11, 1.7.7; Dio.4.68.3, 4.69.3;
Hes.CWE.13; Hom.Od.11.258].
Amythaon 2 was a Lemnian living at the
time when the Lemnian women killed all men in the
island of Lemnos, which happen shortly before the
arrival of the ARGONAUTS to that island
[Val.2.162].
Anabesineus was young
Phaeacian
nobleman, who competed in the games arranged to
honour Odysseus
[Hom.Od.8.111].
Anactor. Son of Electryon 1, son of
Perseus 1, and of
Anaxo 1, daughter of Alcaeus 1, son of
Perseus 1. Anactor
was killed by the sons of Pterelaus who claimed the
kingdom of their ancestor Mestor 1, son of
Perseus 1 [see
Mycenae]
[Apd.2.4.5-6].
Ananke.
Anaphlystus, son of Troezen 1, son of
Pelops 1, is
reported, along with his brother Sphettus, to have
migrated from Troezen
to Attica [Pau.2.30.9].
Anapis is Cyane 1's husband. This is the
Naiad who opposed Hades
when he ravished
Persephone
[Ov.Met.5.409ff.].
Anatole (Antolia). See
HORAE.
Anausis was a warrior in the army of
Perses 3 against
Aeetes. He was killed
by King Styrus of Albania [Val.6.272].
Anax. According to the Milesians in Asia
Minor, Anax, son of Gaia
ruled the country that was then called Anactoria
after him. His son Asterius 4, succeeded him in the
throne, but later, Miletus, son of
Apollo, or of Asterius
5, son of King Minos 2
of Crete, landed with a
Cretan army in Anactoria, occupied the country and
called it after himself [Pau.1.35.6, 7.2.5]
Anaxagoras. King of
Argos. It was under his
reign that the women were smitten with madness. As
it is said they were cured by Melampus 1, who
received then two-thirds of the kingdom in return
for his assistance. Anaxagoras is called either son
of Argeus 1, or son of Megapenthes 2. Argeus 1 was
son of Megapenthes 2, who in turn was son of
Proetus 1, uncle of
Danae. Anaxagoras had a
son Alector 1, who was also king of
Argos [Dio.4.68.4;
Pau.2.18.4-5]
Anaxandra was mother of King Agis 1 of
Sparta, after whom the
family of Eurysthenes 1, her husband, is called the
Agiadae. She was daughter of Thersander 3, son of
Agamedidas, a great-grandson of Ctesippus 1, son of
Heracles 1
[Pau.3.2.1, 3.16.6].
Anaxarete was loved by Iphis 5, but
mocked him. He hanged himself and she was turned
into stone [Ov.Met.14.698ff.].
Anaxias (see Anogon) [Pau.3.18.13].
Anaxibia 1. See
DANAIDS.
Anaxibia 2. Daughter of Bias 1, son of
Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of
Aeolus 1. She married
King Pelias 1 of
Iolcus, the man who sent
Jason to fetch the
Golden Fleece, and had by him children: Acastus,
Pisidice 2, Pelopia 1, Hippothoe 2,
Alcestis, and Medusa
4. But some say that the wife of
Pelias 1 was
Phylomache [Apd.1.9.10; Hyg.Fab.24].
Anaxibia 3, daughter of Cratieus, has
been called wife of
Nestor; but so has
Eurydice 8. Nestor's
children by either of them were: Pisidice 3,
Polycaste 2, Perseus 2, Stratichus, Aretus 2,
Echephron 2, Pisistratus 1, Antilochus, and
Thrasymedes 1 [see also Anaxibia 4] [Apd.1.9.9].
Anaxibia 4 (Astyoche 6) is mother, by
Strophius 1, of Pylades, the well known friend of
Orestes 2. She was
daughter either of Plisthenes 1 and Aerope 1, or of
Atreus and Aerope 1,
or of Plisthenes 1 and Cleolla. Anaxibia 4 is
sister of
Agamemnon, and she
could be the wife of
Nestor [Apd.3.2.1;
Apd.Ep.3.12; Dictys 1.1; Hes.CWE.69; Pau.2.29.4].
Anaxiroe, daughter of Coronus 4, married
King Epeius 1 of Elis
and had a daughter Hyrmina by him [Pau.5.1.6].
Anaxis (see Anogon) [Pau.2.22.5].
Anaxo 1. Daughter of Alcaeus 1, son of
Perseus 1, either by
Astydamia 1, or by Laonome, or by Hipponome. Anaxo
1 married King Electryon 1 of
Mycenae (her uncle)
and became mother of
Alcmena (mother of
Heracles 1),
Stratobates, Gorgophonus, Phylonomus, Celaeneus 1,
Amphimachus 2, Lysinomus, Chirimachus, Anactor, and
Archelaus 3 [Apd.2.4.5].
Anaxo 2. This is a maiden from
Troezen who was
carried off by
Theseus
[Plu.The.29.1].
Ancaeus 1. See
CALYDONIAN
HUNTERS.
Ancaeus 2, King of Samos, was son of
Poseidon, either by
Althaea or by Astypalea. He married Samia, daughter
of the river god Meander, and had children by her:
Perilaus 1, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses, and
Parthenope 2. Ancaeus 2 is counted among the
ARGONAUTS and the
SUITORS OF HELEN
[Hyg.Fab.14, 81; Pau.7.4.1; Val.1.413].
Anchemolus was an ally of Turnus during
the war against
Aeneas. He was killed
by Pallas 6 [Vir.Aen.10.388].
Anchiale. See
NYMPHS.
Anchialus 1. See
ACHAEANS.
Anchialus 2. A Taphian prince, father of
Mentes 2, the man in whose appearance
Athena visited
Telemachus
[Hom.Od.1.180].
Anchialus 3. A young
Phaeacian
nobleman, who competed in the games arranged to
honour Odysseus
[Hom.Od.8.111].
Anchinoe. Daughter of the river god
Nilus, wife of Belus 1 and mother by him of
Aegyptus 1, Danaus 1 (father of the
DANAIDS), Cepheus 1
(father of
Andromeda), Phineus
1, Phoenix 1, and Agenor 1 (father of
Cadmus) [Apd.2.1.4;
Nonn.3.296, 3.297].
Anchiroe 1. See
NYMPHS.
Anchiroe 2. Argive daughter of the river
god Erasinus. She is known for having received
Britomartis [Lib.Met.40].
Anchiroe 3. Daughter of the river god
Chremetes, wife of Psyllus, the man who made war
against the WINDS, and
mother by him of Crataigonos, a Libyan who joined
Dionysus 2 in his
Indian campaign [Nonn.13.380].
Anchises
1.
Anchises 2. Father of Echepolus 2
[Hom.Il.23.296].
Anchius. See
CENTAURS.
Anchurus. Son of King
Midas. Once the earth
yawned open at Celaenae, a city in Caria in Asia
Minor, and an oracle told
Midas that if he should
throw his most precious possession into the abyss,
it would close. He cast in gold and silver but
nothing happened. But Anchurus, reasoning that
there is nothing in life more precious than a human
life, rode on his horse into the abyss, and the
earth closed. Anchurus was married to Timothea
[Plu.PS.5].
Ancus Marcius. King of Rome after Tullus
Hostilius and founder of Ostia. He was the son of
Marcius 2 and Pompilia, daughter of King Numa 3,
son of Pompon 1, a Sabine. Marcius 2 was son of
Marcius 1, the kinsman of Numa 3 who induced him to
accept the throne of Rome [Plu.Num.9.4, 21.4;
Strab.5.3.5].
Ancyor. Son of the impious
Lycaon 2 [Apd.3.8.1].
Andania was a woman, otherwise unknown,
after whom a town in
Messenia was named
[Pau.4.33.6].
Andraemon 1. Father by Gorge 2, of Thoas
2, who led the Aetolians against
Troy [see
ACHAEAN
LEADERS]. Andraemon 1 was buried in the same
tomb as Gorge 2, who was daughter of King Oeneus 2
and Althaea [see
Calydon] [Apd.1.8.1;
Apd.Ep.3.12; Pau.10.38.5].
Andraemon 2 was father of Oxylus 2, the
guide of the
HERACLIDES. Oxylus
2 was banished for having unintentionally killed
his brother Thermius [Apd.2.8.3; Pau.5.3.7].
Andraemon 3. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Andraemon 4. Son of Oxylus 2, the guide
of the HERACLIDES,
and husband of Dryope 1, said to be the most
beautiful of the Oechalian girls [Lib.Met.32;
Ov.Met.9.333].
Andraemon 5. One of the sons of King
Codrus 1 of Athens.
Participating in the colonization of
Ionia in Asia Minor he
expelled the Carians from Lebedus, or else he
founded Lebedus and seized a place called Artis. At
his death he was buried near Colophon [Pau.7.3.5;
Strab.14.1.3].
Andreus 1 is the man after whom the
district Andreis in Boeotia was named. He was the
son of the river god Peneus, married Evippe 3,
daughter of Leucon 1, son of
Athamas 1 and,
according to some, had by her a son Eteocles 2, who
became king in Boeotia [Pau.9.34.6-8].
Andreus 2 was one of the generals of
Oenopion 1, son of
Ariadne, who received
the island of Andros, named after him [Dio.5.79.2].
Androcles was Lord of Sicily. He was the
son of Aeolus 2 and
Cyane 2, daughter of Liparus, son of Auson, an
Italian king [Dio.5.8.1].
Androclia was daughter of Antipoenus. It
is told that when
Heracles 1, leading
the Thebans, was about to engage in battle with the
Orchomenians, an oracle declared that success would
follow if the most famous among the Thebans would
die by his own hand. This was Antipoenus, but his
daughters Androclia and Alcis killed themselves in
the place of her father [Pau.9.17.1].
Androclus, who was appointed king of the
Ionians, sailed against Ephesus, and later made war
on Leogorus. Otherwise it is said that he was the
founder of Ephesus and the leader of the Ionian
colonisation. Androclus, who is one of the sons of
King Codrus 1 of
Athens, was killed in
a battle against the Carians [see also
Ionia] [Pau.7.2.8-9,
7.4.2; Strab.14.1.3].
Androdamas was son of Phlias (after whom
Phliasia near Sicyon
is called) and Chthonophyle, daughter of Sicyon
[Pau.2.6.6, 2.7.6].
Androgenia. This girl from Phaestus
(Crete) is mother by
Minos 2 of Asterius 5,
who commanded the Cretans who joined
Dionysus 2 in his
campaign against the Indians. He never returned to
Crete but settled among
the Colchians and called them Asterians. Asterius 5
has been called father of Miletus, Caunus and
Byblis, but other parentages have been given for
these three [Nonn.13.223, 13.245, 13.546ff.].
Androgeus was the son of
Minos 2, either by
Pasiphae or by Crete 1. He won the Panathenian
games and paid that triumph with his life, being
assassinated by his competitors. Others say,
however, that he was destroyed by the Marathonian
Bull or killed during the war between
Minos 2 and the
Athenians. He was the father of Alcaeus 2 and
Sthenelus 4 [Apd.2.5.9, 3.1.2, 3.15.7; Dio.4.60.4;
Hyg.Fab.41].
Andromache.
Andromachus 1. See
ACHAEANS.
Andromachus 2. One of the sons of
Aegyptus 1. See
DANAIDS.
Andromeda.
Andromedes 1. A fisherman who tried to
rape Britomartis [Lib.Met.40].
Andromedes 2. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Andropompus 1. King of
Messenia and son of
Borus 3, son of Penthilus 2, son of Periclymenus 1,
son of Neleus.
Andropompus 1 was father of Melanthus 1, father of
Codrus 1, father of those who colonized
Ionia [Pau.2.18.8].
Andropompus 2. A colonizer of
Ionia, founder of
Lebedus, a city in Caria, Asia Minor
[Strab.14.1.3].
Andros. King of the island he named after
himself. Apollo gave
him the power of augury. Andros was son of Anius,
the father of the
WINEGROWERS
[Ov.Met.13.649].
Anicetus. Son (in Heaven) of
Heracles 1 and
Hebe [Apd.2.7.7].
Anippe. Mother by
Poseidon of King
Busiris 2 of Egypt, who used to sacrifice strangers
[Plu.PS.38].
Anius. King of Delos and priest of
Apollo. He was the
father of the
WINEGROWERS,
Andros, Thasius and Lavinia 3. Himself he was the
son of Apollo and
Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus 1, son of
Ariadne. The last
time Anius was heard of was when
Aeneas landed in Delos
after the fall of Troy;
in that occasion Anius presented
Aeneas' father
Anchises 1 with a
sceptre [Apd.Ep.3.10; DH.1.50.1, 1.59.3;
Dio.5.62.1; Hyg.Fab.247; Ov.Met.13.640, 13.649].
Anna Perenna (see Anna 1 and Anna 2). See
NYMPHS and
Dido.
Anna 1 (Anna Perenna). Sister of
Dido. Hoping that
Dido would marry
Aeneas, she encouraged
her love for him. When Iarbas invaded the country
after her sister's death, she went into exile first
in Malta and afterwards in Italy where she met
Aeneas. He received
her, but she left the house by night compelled by
Dido's ghost, and was
transformed into a Nymph of the river Numicius,
being thereafter called Anna Perenna. Anna 1 was
daughter of Belus 2, an Assyrian king
[Ov.Fast.3.567-656; Vir.Aen.1.620, 4.9, 4.47ff.].
Anna 2 (Anna Perenna). A poor but
industrious old woman of the district of Bovillae
who used to mould country cakes and distribute them
among the people. When peace was made, they set up
a statue of Perenna because she had supplied them
in their time of need [Ov.Fast.3.667].
Anogon (Anaxis, Anaxias) was son of
Castor 1 and Hilaira, daughter either of Leucippus
2, son of Perieres 1, son of Cynortes, son of
Amyclas 1, son of Lacedaemon, son of
Zeus and Taygete, or of
Apollo. Castor 1 is
one of the DIOSCURI
[Apd.3.11.2].
Antaeus 1, son either of
Poseidon or of
Gaia. He is the ruler of
Libya who used to kill strangers by forcing them to
wrestle. He became stronger when he touched the
Earth, so Heracles
1 killed him by holding him in the air
[Apd.2.5.11; Dio.4.17.4; Hyg.Fab.31; Plu.The.11.1].
Antaeus 2. A front-rank soldier of
Turnus, the man who resisted
Aeneas in Italy.
Antaeus 2 was killed by
Aeneas
[Vir.Aen.10.561].
Antagoras. On his return from
Troy the six ships fleet
of Heracles 1
encountered a storm and was driven to the island of
Cos. There, seeing a shepherd tending his sheep, he
asked for one ram. But the shepherd Antagoras
replied that only if
Heracles 1 could
defeat him in wrestling he would allow him to carry
off a ram. However, in spite of this agreement the
Meropes came to help Antagoras and
Heracles 1's men
their captain, and a mighty battle ensued. Feeling
that he could not cope with his adversaries
Heracles 1 fled to
the house of a Thracian woman where he, disguised
as a female, escaped detection [Plu.GQ.58].
Antandre. See
AMAZONS.
Anteias. Son of
Odysseus and
Circe [DH.1.72.5].
Antenor 1.
Antenor 2. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Anteros. Son of
Aphrodite. Anteros,
twin brother of Eros, is
Love avenged, or returned [see also
Eros] [Ov.Fast.4.1;
Pau.1.30.1].
Anthas (Anthus 2). Founder of Anthea or
Anthedon (now Poros). Later he emigrated and
founded Halicarnassus. While still a child he
disappeared but her sister Hypera found him in
Pherae in the house of Acastus. Anthas was son of
Poseidon and the
Pleiad Alcyone 1. He had a son Aetius [see also
Troezen] [Pau.2.30.8,
9.22.5; Plu.GQ.19; Strab.8.6.14].
Anthea is one of the fifty daughters of
Thespius and Megamede, who spent fifty nights with
Heracles 1, one
each night [Apd.2.4.10, 2.7.8].
Anthedon. See
NYMPHS.
Antheias yoked the dragons to the chariot
of Triptolemus,
while this one was asleep, and tried to sow the
seed himself, but he fell off the chariot and died.
Antheias was son of Eumelus 4, the first to settle
in the land of Patrae in
Achaea [Pau.7.18.3].
Antheis was one of the daughters of
Hyacinthus 2, who were sacrificed by the Athenians
to avoid famine and pestilence during their war
with Minos 2. Some
have said that it was Hyacinthus 2 himself who
killed them on behalf of the Athenians [Apd.3.15.8;
Hyg.Fab.238].
Anthelia. See
DANAIDS.
Anthemion. Father of Simoisius [see
TROJANS]
[Hom.Il.4.473].
Anthemone. Mother of
Aeneas' Daughter 2
[DH.1.49.2].
Antheus 1. Son of Nomion 1, and father of
Aegypius by Bulis, who slept with her own son
[Lib.Met.5].
Antheus 2. A companion of the exiled
Aeneas [Vir.Aen.1.510,
12.442].
Antheus 3. A warrior in the army of
Dionysus 2 during
the Indian War. Antheus 3, son of Agelaus 9, was
killed by King Deriades of India [Nonn.32.187,
35.382].
Antheus 4. A soldier in the army of the
SEVEN AGAINST
THEBES. He was killed in battle
[Stat.Theb.10.544].
Anthippe. One of the daughters of
Thespius and Megamede. She slept with
Heracles 1 and had
by him a son Hippodromus [Apd.2.4.10, 2.7.8].
Antho. Daughter of Amulius, who governed
in Italy after his father Proca. This woman saved
Ilia, mother of
Romulus and Remus 1.
For when Ilia, being a Vestal, was discovered with
child, she did not suffer the capital penalty, as
was the custom, because Antho successfully
interceded on her behalf [DH.1.79.2; Plu.Rom.3.3].
Anthracia. See
NYMPHS.
Anthus 1. It is told of Anthus 1, son of
Autonous 3 and Hippodamia 7 that he was devoured by
his father's horses and turned into a bird by
Zeus and
Apollo [Lib.Met.7].
Anthus 2 (see Anthas) [Plu.GQ.19].
Antia (see Stheneboea) [Apd.2.2.1;
Hom.Il.6.160].
Antiades. Son of
Heracles 1 and
Aglaia 3, one of the many daughters of Thespius and
Megamede [Apd.2.7.8].
Antianira 1. Daughter of Menetes and
mother by Hermes of
the ARGONAUTS
Echion 1 and Eurytus 2 [Arg.1.51ff.].
Antianira 2. See
AMAZONS.
Antibrote. See
AMAZONS.
Anticlia 1. Her father Autolycus 1 used
to steal from the herds of
Sisyphus, who could
not catch him.
Sisyphus knew who
was the thief because Autolycus 1's numbers
increased as his own decreased. In order to get at
him, he put a mark on the hooves of his cattle, and
when Autolycus 1 had stolen in his usual way,
Sisyphus came to him
and identified the cattle by their hooves, taking
them away. It was then, they say, that
Sisyphus, delaying
at Autolycus 1's house, seduced Anticlia 1. She,
whose mother was Amphithea 3, married in time
Laertes, and had by him children:
Odysseus and
Ctimene. But on account of
Sisyphus' visit,
some have said that
Odysseus was his
son. Anticlia 1 died of pain for her absent son, or
else killed herself on hearing a false report about
him. Odysseus met
his mother during his descent to the
Underworld
[Apd.Ep.3.12; Hom.Od.11.85, 15.353ff., 19.415;
Hyg.Fab.201, 243; Pau.10.29.8; Plu.GQ.43].
Anticlia 2. Mother by
Hephaestus of the
evildoer Periphetes 2 [Apd.3.16.1].
Anticlia 3 was daughter Diocles 1, son of
Orsilochus 1, son of the river god Alpheus. She
married Asclepius'
son Machaon and had by him sons: Nicomachus 1 and
Gorgasus [Pau.4.30.3].
Anticlus, son of Ortyx, is one of the
warriors that hid inside the
WOODEN HORSE. He
would have answered when
Helen went around the
WOODEN HORSE
imitating the voices of the wives of the warriors
who were inside it, but
Odysseus held fast
his mouth. Anticlus was married to Laodamia 4
[Apd.Ep.5.19; QS.12.314ff.; Try.178, 475].
Antigona. Daughter of Pheres 1, son of
Cretheus 1, son of Aeolus
1. Antigona was mother of Asterion 5, one of
the ARGONAUTS
[Hyg.Fab.14].
Antigone 1. Daughter of King Eurytion 2
of Phthia. She married
Peleus and had by him
a daughter Polydora 1. When Astydamia 3, wife of
Acastus, fell in love with
Peleus and he rejected
her, she sent a message to Antigone 1 saying that
Peleus was about to
marry her daughter Sterope 5. On hearing that,
Antigone 1 killed herself [Apd.3.13.1-3].
Antigone
2.
Antigone 3. This is the woman, daughter
of King Laomedon of
Troy, who set herself
against Hera. For this
the goddess turned her into a stork [Ov.Met.6.93].
Antigonus. See
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE.
Antileon. Son of
Heracles 1 and
Procris 1, one of the many daughters of Thespius
and Megamede [Apd.2.7.8].
Antilochus. See
ACHAEAN
LEADERS.
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