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.

North and his supporters gained the allegiance of half of the remaining national sections, with the Greek, Spanish and Peruvian sections splitting and the German, Australian, and Sri Lankan sections, as well as a fraternal grouping in Ecuador, supporting North.

Grove City College housing groups are collections of similarly-interested students which enjoy block housing, yet are not fraternal or Greek in nature.

The College also has non -" Greek " collegiate fraternal organizations, including Alpha Phi Omega ( APO ) ( service ), Sigma Alpha Iota ( SAI ) ( music ), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia ( music ), Epsilon Sigma Alpha ( ESA ) ( Service ), Alpha Psi Omega ( ΑΨΩ ) ( theater ), and others.

It is the second oldest Greek fraternal organization in the United States, and the oldest in continuous existence.

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* Originally called itself a " fraternal order ", but as of the 2012-2013 The Men of Harambee now identify themselves as a Fraternity, though the group is not part of Greek Life or the Inter-Greek Council.

A significant number of Straight Left faction members had developed close personal friendships with members of fraternal communist parties, particularly the Iranian, Iraqi, South African and Greek parties, who were well organised on most British University campuses.

One of the most obvious examples is the recurrent depiction of twins such as the Indic Asvins ' horsemen ,' the Greek horsemen Castor and Pollux, the legendary Anglo-Saxon settlers Horsa and Hengist [...] or the Irish twins of Macha, born after she had completed a horse race.

The association of Cor with horses, and his twin brother Corin with boxing, recalls the traditional associations of the Spartan twins Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology.

In Greek mythology, some twins were conceived when a woman slept with both a mortal and a god on the same day.

In Greek mythology, Apollo and Artemis are twins, and Apollo was adopted as the sun god with Artemis as the moon goddess.

Other horse twins are: Greek, Dioskuri ( Polydeukes and Kastor ); borrowed into Latin as Castor and Pollux ; Irish, the twins of Macha ; Old English, Hengist and Horsa ( both words mean ' stallion '), and possibly Old Norse Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse born of Loki ; Slavic Lel and Polel ; possibly Christianized in Albanian as Sts.

One other explanation is that the boys referred to are the twins Castor and Pollux, both of whom appear in Greek mythology.

| Adele Dramis, an Italian woman of Greek origin, gave birth to twins, a boy, Vicenzo, and a girl, Rosa, in Naples, Italy, in late December 2008, at the age of 53.

Castor and Pollux ( Greek Polydeuces ) were the Dioscuri, the " twins " of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus ( Jupiter ) and Leda.

In the Hellenic Age the island was named " Didyme " ( Δίδυμη ), a Greek name which refers to the two mountains as " twins ".

# Greek Freaks ( Villains: Xerxes twins )

In Greco-Roman mythology the god Zeus and the queen Leda produced the dioscuri, known in Greek mythology as Kastor and Polydeukes or Castor and Pollux in Roman mythology.

According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.

* Castor of Rhodes, Greek grammarian and rhetorician

In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux or Polydeuces were twin brothers, together known as the Dioscuri.

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy ( in Greek,, Helénē ), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda ( or Nemesis ), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

In Greek mythology, Tyndareus or Tyndareos () was a Spartan king, son of Oebalus ( or Perieres ) and Gorgophone ( or Bateia ), husband of Leda () and father of Helen, Castor and Polydeuces, Clytemnestra, Timandra, Phoebe and Philonoe.

Most ancient Greek and Roman chroniclers, poets, grammarians and scholars ( Eratosthenes, Varro, Apollodorus of Athens, Ovid, Censorinus, Catullus, and Castor of Rhodes ) believed in a threefold division of history: ádelon ( obscure ), mythikón ( mythical ) and historikón ( historical ) periods.

Varro and Castor of Rhodes also wrote something very similar ; however, some ancient Greek and Romans attempted to calculate the date for the creation by using ancient sources or records of mythological figures.

* Castor and Pollux, twin brothers in Greek and Roman mythology

In Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux share a bond so strong that when Castor dies, Pollux gives up half of his immortality to be with his brother.

The names Castor and Pollux come from a pair of brothers in Greek mythology that make up the Gemini constellation.

* Castor and Polydeuces, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology.

Pollux was the twin of Castor in Greek mythology ; the name had previously been carried on a Fire Fly Class locomotive.

Castor was the twin of Pollux in Greek mythology.

Pollux was the twin of Castor in Greek mythology ; the name was later transferred to a Hawthorn class locomotive.

In Greek mythology, Polydeuces is another name for Pollux, twin brother of Castor, son of Zeus and Leda.