The name Celadon occurs as the proper name of multiple minor personages in Greek mythographic listings — for example, one Celadon is described as an Ethiopian chief present in the court of Cepheus at the time of the clash between Phineus and Perseus. Separately, the name was taken up by Honoré d'Urfé in his 17th-century pastoral romance L'Astrée, where Celadon appears as an idealized shepherd-lover figure. European connoisseurs later applied the literary Celadon's pale-green dress detail to nominate a pale jade-green glaze and colour term for ceramics; this etymological connection between d'Urfé's Celadon and the pottery term is the most commonly accepted account in the provided sources.
No consistent supernatural iconography is recorded for 'Celadon' across the sources. The pastoral Celadon in L'Astrée is specifically noted for wearing pale green ribbons — a costume detail repeatedly cited in etymological accounts as the trait that linked the literary name to the pale-green colour term. Greek-mythic occurrences of characters named Celadon in the provided material lack detailed physical description.
The sources do not describe supernatural powers or recurring magical behaviours for any bearer of the name Celadon. Instances are narrative: mythographic listings place a Celadon among observers/participants in epic episodes (e.g., the Cepheus court during Perseus's encounter with Phineus), while the pastoral Celadon functions as a lover-character whose grief leads him, in one retelling, to throw himself into a river (a plot action rather than a supernatural ability).
*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]Celadon (Wikipedia: etymology section). Wikipedia, 'Celadon', etymology section noting the link from Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée (1627) and the pale green ribbonswiki
- [2]Celadon (mythology) (Wikipedia). Wikipedia, 'Celadon (mythology)', noting multiple distinct characters named Celadon and identifying one as an Ethiopian chief present in Cepheus's court during the Perseus–Phineus conflictwiki
- [3]Reverse Shot — review referencing the Celadon–Amelia tale. Review/critical commentary noting the pastoral episode in which 'Grief-stricken, Celadon throws himself into a river. In the eyes of Astree, the village, and family, he dies. He doesn’t die, of course.'literary
- [4]Wikidata entry for Celadon. Wikidata item showing 'Celadon' as an attested male given name and linking related dataother