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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
The most important surviving accounts of Greek mythology can be found in Homeric epic, which tells of encounters between gods and mortals, and Hesiod's Theogony, which explicates a genealogy of the gods. [25]
Palamedes (mythology) Pandion (hero) Parrhasius (Greek myth) Peleus; Pelops; Perseus; Phaethon; Phalanthus (founder of Tarentum) Phoroneus; Pleuron (son of Aetolus) Podalirius; Podarkes; Prometheus; Protesilaus
Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background. Key: Dotted lines show a marriage or affair. Key: Solid lines show children.
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 ...
The following is a list of mortals in Greek mythology, including heroes, mythical kings, and notable women. In Greek mythology, humans are created by the Titan Prometheus, who fashions them in the likeness of the gods. [1] While the Greek gods are immortal and unaffected by aging, the mortality of humans forces them to move through the stages ...
Menetus (mythology) Menippe and Metioche; Mermerus (mythology) Merope (daughter of Oenopion) Metamorphoses in Greek mythology; List of minor Greek mythological figures; Molion; Molossus (son of Neoptolemus) Molurus; Molus (Argive soldier) Molus (mythology) Mopsus; Mopsus (Argonaut) Mopsus (son of Manto) Myconus (mythology) Mygdon
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.