Category: Greek Mythology

Minotaur (Minos bull) In Greek mythology, a monster, half man and half bull, born of Pasiphaë, a wife of King Minos II, and the Cretan…

Minos In Greek mythology, one of the judges of the dead, once a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa; brother of Rhadamanthys and…

Midas (seed?) In Greek mythology, king of Phrygia; son of the goddess Cybele and a satyr. Midas helped Silenus, a follower of Dionysus (Bacchus), to…

Antenor (opponent) In Greek and Roman mythology, a Trojan, counselor to King Priam of Troy; son of Aesyetes and Cleomestra; husband of Athena’s priestess Theano,…

Antaeus (besought with prayers, rival) In Greek mythology, a Libyan giant son of Poseidon and Gaea (the earth); brother of Charybdis and Ogyges. Antaeus grew…

Anius (grievous, troublesome) In Greek mythology, son of Apollo by Rhoeo (or Creusa). Rhoeo’s father, Staphylus of Naxos, a son of Dionysus and Ariadne, put…

ANDROMEDA AND THE MONSTER BY JUAN ANTONIO FRIAS Y ESCALANTE Andromeda (ruler of men) In Greek mythology, heroine saved by Perseus; daughter of the Ethiopian…

Andromache (battle of men) In Greek mythology, wife of Hector and daughter of King Eetion of Cilician Thebes. In Homer’s Iliad she is considered one…

Androgeos (man of the earth) In Greek mythology, son of Pasiphae and Minos, king of Crete. He visited Athens at the first celebration of the…

Anchises (living close by) – In Greek and Roman mythology, father of Aeneas; king of the Dardania; loved by Aphrodite; son of Capys and Themiste.…