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A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Pandion I, a king of Athens. Pandion II, a king of Athens. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he sailed with the Argonauts and participated in the Calydonian boar hunt. Pelias, a king of Iolcus and usurper of Aeson's rightful throne. Pelops, a king of Pisa and founder of the House of Atreus.
Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. Dancing Maenad Roman copy of Greek original attributed to Kallimachos c. 425 –400 BCE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Greek mythology, maenads (/ ˈmiːnædz /; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the ...
Her origin story in Greek mythology is also slightly ambiguous, with the Theogony claiming Nike to be the daughter of Styx and Pallas [10] while the Homeric Hymns describe Ares, the god of war, as being Nike's father. [11] Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Victoria.
The strīx (στρίξ, στριγός) [b] was a nocturnally crying creature which positioned its feet upwards and head below, according to a pre-300 BC Greek origin myth. [c][5] It is probably meant to be (and translated as) an owl, [6] but is highly suggestive of a bat which hangs upside-down. [7]
She has been compared to the nymph, the female character of ancient Greek mythology. [48] [49] She is said to inhabit water sources (rivers and wells), [50] similar to their ancient mythical counterpart, the Nereids (water nymphs). [51] [52] However, in modern speech, the term also encompasses fairy maidens from mountains and woodlands. [53]
The Stymphalian birds are man-eating birds with beaks of bronze, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous dung. These fly against those who come to hunt them, wounding and killing them with their beaks. All armour of bronze or iron that men wear is pierced by the birds; but if they weave a garment of thick cork ...
Crocotta. Crocotta, as illustrated in a medieval bestiary. The crocotta or corocotta, crocuta, leucrocotta, or leucrotta is a mythical dog - wolf of India or Aethiopia, linked to the hyena and said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs.