Apseudes is listed among the fifty daughters of Nereus, the 'Old Man of the Sea,' and the Oceanid Doris. As a member of this collective, her origin is genealogical: she belongs to the Nereid tribe that personifies aspects of the sea and serves as a retinue of marine nymphs associated with greater sea deities. The supplied sources attest her presence in classical name-lists (notably Hyginus's enumeration of the Nereids) and modern summaries of the Nereid roster; they do not provide an independent narrative or myth in which she acts as a distinct protagonist.
No individualized physical description of Apseudes is given in the sources. As a Nereid she would be conventionally conceived as a female sea-nymph or marine spirit within Greek portrayals of Nereids, but the sources contain no unique iconography, attributes, or bodily details specific to Apseudes herself.
The sources do not ascribe particular powers or deeds to Apseudes beyond what is typical for Nereids as a group: Nereids are sea-nymphs who commonly accompany Poseidon and may act as friendly or helpful spirits to sailors. Apseudes's name is glossed in the sources as 'truthful' or 'she who never lies,' an attested lexical meaning that links her nominal identity to veracity; however, no narratives or episodes document active truth-telling, prophetic roles, or counsel performed by Apseudes specifically. Her significance in the record is primarily nominal and genealogical.
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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)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Abarbarea
Abarbarea is a name attested in classical Greek and Roman sources for freshwater nymphs (naiads). The name appears for at least two individual mythic figures — a naiad wife of Bucolion and a naiad counted among ancestors of the Tyrians — and Hesychius records plural forms that may indicate the name was also used as a class-name (Abarbareai / Abarbalaiai).
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
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
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.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
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.
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- [1]Nereids (Wikipedia). Wikipedia, 'Nereids' entry — general description of the Nereids as fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris who often accompany Poseidon and can be helpful to sailors.wiki
- [2]Apseudes (mythology) (Wikipedia). Wikipedia, 'Apseudes' entry — lists Apseudes among the fifty Nereids and glosses the Ancient Greek Ἀψευδής as 'truthful' or 'the shiner' and 'she who never lies.'wiki
- [3]LP0076 - II ARGONAUTS - Ino & Phrixus, from the Fables of Hyginus (archive). Archive reproduction including Hyginus's list of Nereids, which names Apseudes among the daughters of Nereus and Doris.literary
- [4]Wikidata: Apseudes. Wikidata entry for Apseudes, linking the mythological name to structured data records (name, identifiers).other
- [5]Nemertes (mythology) (Wikipedia). Wikipedia, 'Nemertes' entry — cited as a parallel Nereid whose name is glossed 'the unerring' or 'truthful,' used in sources to illustrate name-meaning parallels among Nereids.wiki
- [6]Panarthropoda. Apseudes. Cepon elegans. (archive). Archive material showing modern zoological use of 'Apseudes' as a genus name in crustacean taxonomy; noted as a homonymous, non-mythological usage.other