the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities and of the way their...

infant god Dionysus, the "God of Nysa." Though the worship of Dionysus is sometimes presumed to have arrived in Mycenaean Greece from Asia Minor (where...

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to...

List of Roman deities List of Mycenaean deities Lists of legendary creatures List of Greek mythological creatures March, Jennifer (2014). Dictionary of classical...

deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world, listed by region or culture. North Africa Berber deities Guanche deities Egyptian...

sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Damocles was a courtier in the court of Dionysius...

trading fleece dyed murex-purple for Georgian gold. List of mythological objects Absyrtus Gold mining Order of the Golden Fleece Gideon, another motif represented...

Daidalos seems to be attested in Linear B, a writing system used to record Mycenaean Greek. The name appears in the form da-da-re-jo-de, possibly referring...

mythology, the Cattle of Helios (Greek: Ἠελίοιο βόες, Ēelíoio bóes), also called the Oxen of the Sun, are cattle pastured on the island of Thrinacia, or Thrinakia...

of several Greek and Roman deities, particularly those associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance, such as personifications of Earth...

for his beauty which was noticed by all, regardless of gender. According to the best known version of the story, by Ovid, Narcissus rejected all advances...

from the modern Western conception of a dragon, it is both the etymological origin of the modern term and the source of many surviving Indo-European myths...

Γοργώ) or the Gorgon, was one of the three Gorgons. Medusa is generally described as a woman with living snakes in place of hair; her appearance was so...

the god and personification of fear and panic in Greek mythology. Phobos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Deimos. He does not have a...

Minoan and Mycenaean singers starting in the 18th century BC; eventually the myths of the heroes of the Trojan War and its aftermath became part of the oral...

(1998), first part to his Nantucket series of alternate history novels, Odikweos ("Odysseus" in Mycenaean Greek) is a "historical" figure who is every...

in southern Cilicia of a weather deity associated with thunder and lightning. The proponents of this etymology adduce the role of Pegasus, reported as...

Palmer (1963). The Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 79. Gregory Nagy. "The best of the Achaeans". CHS. The Center for...

Greek mythology, was the King of the Lapiths of Larissa in Thessaly, as well as best friend to Theseus. Pirithous was a son of "heavenly" Dia, fathered either...

Nilsson (2023). The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology. University of California Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780520335899. The Great Cameo of Constantine, formerly...

are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War...

ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter...

therefore is a "sacker [of cities]"; that is, a soldier by occupation, a fitting name for the first Mycenaean warrior. The further origin of perth- is more obscure...

tool of Poseidon (Greek) or Neptune (Roman) used for the protection of the sea realms, the god of the sea in classical mythology. Other sea deities such...

ships, are also represented in artifacts of the Minoan/Mycenaean era; the image on a seal found in the palace of Knossos, dated around 1200 BC, which depicts...

the perspective of Eurydice, and the myth features as one of the tales told in Mary Zimmerman's play Metamorphoses. Katabasis List of Orphean operas Pierian...

published in 1916, in which he suggested that the prototype of Hermes was an "Oriental deity of Babylonian extraction" represented in his earliest form as...

reliefs in a marble votive relief of the fourth century BCE. One depicts Kore crowning her mother Demeter, the deities at the second altar are Persephone...

 "afterthought") is the twin brother of Prometheus, the pair serving "as representatives of mankind". Both sons of the Titan Iapetus, while Prometheus...

son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. His mother was named either Astydameia, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, or Laonome, daughter of Guneus...