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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
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Penn is a surname and given name. People with the surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abram Penn (1743–1801), noted landowner and Revolutionary ...
His name is attested in Mycenaean Greek as ze-pu 2-ro (Linear B: ๐ฝ๐๐ซ), [4] which points to a possible Proto-Hellenic form *Dzépสฐuros. [5] Further attestation of the god and his worship as part of the Anemoi is found in the word-forms ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ , a-ne-mo-i-je-re-ja , ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ , a-ne-mo i-je ...
English name Greek name Description The twelve Titans Coeus: Κοแฟος (Koîos) God of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Crius: Κρεแฟος (Kreîos) The least individualized of the Twelve Titans, he is the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Implied to be the god of constellations. Cronus ...
The names designated as kalos are characteristic of aristocratic Athenian citizens. [2] Some kalos inscriptions are associated with certain vase painters or pottery workshops. The Antimenes Painter , for instance, is named for the kalos inscription to Antimenes on his pots, and the Leagros Group pottery workshop is named for the youth Leagros ...
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (/ s ษช ห l iห n iห /; Ancient Greek: Σελฮฎνη pronounced [selษฬหnษห] seh-LEH-neh, meaning "Moon") [3] is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene (MEH-neh), she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and ...
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.