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This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Calchas (Κάλχας), a powerful Greek prophet and omen reader, who guided the Greeks through the war with his predictions. Diomedes (Διομήδης, also called "Tydides"), the youngest of the Achaean commanders, famous for wounding two gods, Aphrodite and Ares. Helen (Ἑλένη) the wife of Menelaus, the King of Sparta. Paris visits ...
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
Palamedes (mythology) Pandion (hero) Parrhasius (Greek myth) Peleus; Pelops; Perseus; Phaethon; Phalanthus (founder of Tarentum) Phoroneus; Pleuron (son of Aetolus) Podalirius; Podarkes; Prometheus; Protesilaus
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...
Ajax is the son of Telamon.Telamon was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.By Telamon, he is also the elder half-brother of Teucer.Through his uncle Peleus (Telamon's brother), he is the cousin of Achilles.
Greek mythological heroes (18 C, 70 P) H. Hercules ... Pages in category "Heroes in mythology and legend" ... (mythological character) B. Bizhan (Shahnameh)
The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis. [1] Some of these received the privilege as a reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example ...