In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

Love affairs ascribed to Apollo are a late development in Greek mythology.

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In Greek mythology Asia was a Titan goddess in Lydia.

The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the " Sea of Atlas ".

In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death.

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Athene is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.

Actaeon (; ), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

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Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (; Greek:, Aineías, derived from Greek meaning " to praise ") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

Achilles, the greatest warrior of the age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost the Greek armies the war.

He is the cousin of Achilles, the most remembered Greek warrior, and is the elder half-brother of Teucer.

In his response, Achilles points out that while Hector was terrorizing the Greek forces now, while he himself had fought in their front lines, Hector had ' no wish ' to take his force far beyond the walls and out from the Skiaian Gate and nearby oak tree.

In classical antiquity, hero cults that venerated deified heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and Achilles played an important role in Ancient Greek religion.

Nereus was father to Thetis, one of the Nereids, who in turn was mother to the great Greek hero Achilles, and Amphitrite, who married Poseidon.

She is consequently married off to the mortal Peleus, and bears him a son greater than the father — Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War.

When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back.

Asteroids in the group are named after Greek heroes ( the " Greek node or camp " or " Achilles group "), and those at the point are named after the heroes of Troy ( the " Trojan node or camp ").

In the Trojan War cycle of myth, the wedding of Thetis and the Greek hero Peleus is one of the precipitating events in the war, leading also to the birth of their child Achilles.

Plutarch mentions an interesting element of Epirote folklore regarding Achilles: In his biography of King Pyrrhus, he claims that Achilles " had a divine status in Epirus and in the local dialect he was called Aspetos " ( meaning unspeakable, unspeakably great, in Homeric Greek ).

The centrepiece of the gardens is a marble statue on a high pedestal, of the mortally wounded Achilles ( Greek: Αχιλλεύς Θνήσκων, Achilleús Thnēskōn, Achilles Dying ) without hubris and wearing only a simple cloth and an ancient Greek hoplite helmet.

In Greek mythology, Phoenix ( Φοῖνιξ, gen .: Φοίνικος Phoinix ), son of Amyntor and Cleobule, is one of the Myrmidons led by Achilles in the Trojan War.

Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.

In his book Greek Religion, Walter Burkert notes the connection with the motif of far-off Dilmun: " Thus Achilles is transported to the White Isle, which may refer to Mount Teide on Tenerife, whose volcano is often snowcapped and as the island was sometimes called the white isle by explorers, and becomes the Ruler of the Black Sea, and Diomedes becomes the divine lord of an Adriatic island ".

The Anger of Achilles, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo depicts the Greek hero attacking Agamemnon.

The genus name Achillea is derived from mythical Greek character, Achilles, who reportedly carried it with his army to treat battle wounds.

The Greek Thersites mockingly jeered at Achilles's treatment of Penthesilea's body, whereupon Achilles killed him.

Ahmed I's mother was Valide Sultan Handan Sultan, an ethnic Greek who was originally named Helena.

He was married twice, to Valide Sultan Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan, originally named Maria, a Greek, mother of Osman II, and to Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan or Mahpeyker, originally named Anastasia, a Greek, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim I.

His mother was Mâh-Pâre Ummatullah ( Emetullah ) Râbi ' a Gül-Nûş Valide Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek.

Nero even threatened his mother he would abdicate the throne and would go to live on the Greek Island of Rhodes, a place where Tiberius had lived after divorcing Julia the Elder.

In Greek mythology, Alcmene or Alcmena () was the mother of Heracles.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

* Arene ( mythology ), the wife of Aphareus and mother of Idas and Lynceus in Greek mythology

* Ananke ( mythology ), in Greek mythology, the mother of the Moirai and Adrasteia, Goddess of destiny, necessity, and fate

Sakharov's mother was Yekaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova ( née Sofianos and of Greek ancestry ).

His mother was Valide Sultan Gülçiçek Hatun who was of ethnic Greek descent.

Bayezid II married Ayşe Hatun, a convert of Greek ethnicity, who was the mother of Selim I.

The Hebrew of the original calls the child's mother a " young woman ", but the Greek-speaking 1st century CE author of Matthew 1: 23, using the Hellenistic Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred texts, interpreted it as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos ( in Greek mythology ).

* Cassiopeia ( mythology ) ( or Casseipeia ), a queen of Ethiopia and mother of Andromeda in Greek mythology.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

The word " metropole " comes from the Greek metropolis " μητρόπολις "—" mother city ".

* Elara ( mythology ), the mother of Tityas in Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

The woman may also refer to Mnemosyne, the Greek personification of memory and mother of the muses, referring directly to Coleridge's claimed struggle to compose this poem from memory of a dream.