Category: Greek Mythology

Hyperboreans (beyond-the-north-wind men) In Greek mythology, a people who lived in everlasting springtime north of the great river Oceanus, or at the North Pole, or…

Hymen (skin) In Greek mythology, god of marriage, son of either Dionysus and Aphrodite or of Apollo and one of the Muses, Urania, Calliope, or…

Hylas (of the woods) In Greek mythology, an Argonaut, male lover of Heracles; son of Theiodamas, king of the Dryope, and Menodice, a nymph. When…

Alectryon (rooster, cock) In Greek mythology, a youth who was to watch for the approach of the sun when Ares was making love to Aphrodite…

Alecto (Allecto) (the enticer) In Greek and Roman mythology, one of the three Furies, or Erinyes. The others were Megaera and Tisiphone. Alecto is cited…

Alcyoneus (kingfisher) In Greek mythology, son of Uranus, whose blood touched Gaea, the earth; eldest and mightiest of the Titans. Alcyoneus could not be overtaken…

Alcyone (kingfisher) In Greek mythology, wife of Ceyx; daughter of Aeolus and Enarete. When she learned that her husband, Ceyx, had been drowned on his…

Alcmene (steadfast strength) In Greek mythology, daughter of King Electryon of Argos and Anaxo; wife of Amphitryon; mother of Heracles by Zeus. When she died…

Alcithoe (swift might) In Greek mythology, daughter of Minyas; sister of Arsippe and Leucippe. She and her sisters were changed into bats for refusing to…