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 Greek mythology, Achilles ' mother bathed him in the river Styx to give him immortality, and Hercules — as the son of Zeus — inherited near-godlike powers.

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.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Alexis (, c. 394 BC – c. 288 BC ) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.

The Amazons (, Amazónes, singular, Amazōn ) are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity.

Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BC – c. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

Generally a chronicle (, from Greek, from, chronos, " time ") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.

The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek (, " management of a household, administration ") from (, " house ") + (, " custom " or " law "), hence " rules of the house ( hold )".

Eris (, " Strife ") is the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia.

The Book of Ecclesiastes (; Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής ), originally called Qoheleth (, literally, " Preacher ") in Hebrew, is a book of the Tanakh's Ketuvim and the Old Testament.

The word is derived from the Greek, aitiologia, " giving a reason for " (, aitia, " cause "; and ,-logia ).

Epicurus (, " ally, comrade "; 341 BC – 270 BC ) was an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.

Elba (, ; ; Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλία, Aithalia ) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino.

Glaucus (, " greyish blue " or " bluish green " and " glimmering ") is a Greek name.

In Greek mythology, Hypnos (, " sleep ") was the personification of sleep ; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus.

Hephaestus (, or ; 8 spellings ; Ancient Greek Hēphaistos ) was the Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.

Ignatius of Antioch (, also known as Theophorus from Greek Θεοφόρος " God-bearer ") ( ca.

Jason (, Iásōn ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero who was famous for his role as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.