Acacallis is presented in ancient Greek sources as a daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasiphae. In the Bibliotheca she appears under the variant Acalle. Traditions vary about her offspring and their fathers: some accounts make her the lover of Hermes (Mercury), by whom she is mother of Cydon (sometimes called Cydon or Lydon/Lydus in variant summaries) who is connected with the foundation of Cydonia on Crete; other accounts make her the consort of Apollo and mother of Miletus, whom she is said to have exposed out of fear of her father (a common exposure motif), with later versions describing the child’s survival and founding role. Sources differ regionally and textually about these attributions, reflecting the multiplicity of local traditions linking royal Cretan women to city-founders.
Literary and summary sources record no surviving physical description of Acacallis. She is known through genealogical listings and foundation-myth narratives rather than iconographic or descriptive passages; consequently ancient texts preserve her identity and relationships but do not supply details of her appearance.
No supernatural powers or magical abilities are attributed to Acacallis in the provided sources; she is treated as a mortal princess whose primary role is dynastic and etiological. Narratives emphasize her sexual relationships with gods (Hermes/Mercury and Apollo in differing traditions) and her maternity of figures tied to city-foundation myths. A behavioral detail recorded in summary accounts is that she 'exposed' the infant Miletus out of fear of her father—an action reflecting social motifs in myth rather than magical agency.
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
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Abarbarea
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Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Abomination of Desolation
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Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
Acanthis
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