Month: December 2017

Ambrosia (immortal) In Greek mythology, the honey-flavored food of the gods, as nectar was their drink. Doves daily brought ambrosia from the far west to…

Amazons (without breast) In Greek mythology, tribe of female warriors who lived in Cappadocia in Asia Minor. They had only one breast, one having been…

Amalthea (tender) In Greek mythology, a goat nymph or goat who suckled the newborn Zeus. According to one account, Amalthea was the daughter of the…

Altis (grove) In Greek cult, a grove sacred to Zeus near Olympia in which the Olympic Games were celebrated. Statues of the champions were placed…

Alphesiboea (bringing many oxen, much courted) In Greek mythology, daughter of Phegeus and first wife of Alcmaeon as Arsinoe. Though Alcmaeon was unfaithful to her,…

Alope (vixen) In Greek mythology, daughter of Cercyon of Eleusis and, by Poseidon, mother of Hippothoon. After Hippothoon’s birth she exposed him in the woods…

Nessus (young bird or animal) In Greek mythology, a centaur, son of Ixion and a cloud, who attempted to rape Deianira, wife of Heracles. Nessus…

Sisyphus (shrewd or wise) In Greek mythology, first king of Corinth, a trickster noted for shrewdness and cleverness; son of Aeolus, king of Thessaly, and…

Sirens (those who bind with a cord, or those who wither) In Greek mythology, three water nymphs, Ligeia, Leucosia and Parthenope, who with their singing…

Sinon (plunderer) In Greek mythology, a young Greek soldier, a relative of Odysseus, who pretended to desert to Troy and convinced the Trojans to bring…