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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos
This article also covers the family trees of the rulers of the post-Greco-Bactrian state of Dayuan and Oxyartes's family tree and his relationship to the Greco-Bactrian kings. To find more information on the various dynasties, see these articles: Greco-Bactria , Indo-Greeks , Diodotids , Euthydemids , Eucratids , Menanderids , Indo-Scythians ...
The title page of Étienne Clavier's 1805 edition and French translation of the Bibliotheca. The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD. [1]
The Scythian genealogical myth was an epic cycle of the Scythian religion detailing the origin of the Scythians.This myth held an important position in the worldview of Scythian society, and was popular among both the Scythians of the northern Pontic region and the Greeks who had colonised the northern shores of the Pontus Euxinus.
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.
In Greek mythology, Augeas (or Augeias, / ɔː ˈ dʒ iː ə s /, Ancient Greek: Αὐγείας), whose name means "bright", was king of Elis and father of Epicaste.Some ancient authors say that Augeas was one of the Argonauts. [1]
ɒ n / (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων, romanized: Amphíōn)) and Zethus (/ ˈ z iː θ ə s /; Ζῆθος Zēthos) were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus) [2] by Antiope. They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls. Zethus or ...
Oeneus was the son of King Porthaon and Euryte, and thus, brother of Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope.He married Althaea and became the father of Deianeira, Meleager, [3] Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus (or Ageleus), Thyreus (or Phereus or Pheres), Gorge, Eurymede, Melanippe and Perimede [4] (although Meleager's and Deianeira's fathers could also have been Ares and Dionysus ...