Category: Greek Mythology

Amycus (without bellowing) In Greek mythology, a giant son of Poseidon and Melië, a nymph. Amycus would force everyone who landed on the Bithynian coast…

Amphitryon (harassing on either side) – In Greek mythology, king of Tiryns, son of Alcaeus and Astydameia, Hipponome, or Laonome; first husband of Alcmena; father…

Amphion and Zethus In Greek mythology, the Boeotian Dioscuri, twin sons of Antiope by Zeus. A variant account says Zethus was the son of Epopeus.…

Amphilochus (double ambush) – In Greek mythology, son of the Argive seer Amphiaraus and Eriphyle; Alcmaeon’s brother. Amphilochus also was a seer and according to…

Amphiaraus (Amphiorax) (doubly cursed) In Greek mythology, a hero, son of Oicleus and Hypermnestra; married Eriphyle; father of Alcmeon, Amphilocus, Demonassa, and Eurydice; great-grandson of…

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,…