The name Chloris (Greek Χλῶρις, from χλωρός chlōrós, 'greenish-yellow', 'pale green', 'fresh') appears attached to several mythic women rather than a single unified origin narrative. In the collected summaries of Greek tradition a Chloris is described as a nymph loved by Zephyrus (the West Wind), situating that figure among nature-spirits associated with winds and vegetation; another Chloris is named as the wife of Neleus, king of Pylos, embedding her in royal genealogies and heroic-era dynastic history; yet another is listed among the Niobids (the children of Niobe) and thus connected to the Niobid cycle of familial tragedy; and a Chloris identified as daughter of Orchomenus is said to have married the seer Ampyx (Aregonis variant) and borne the famed seer Mopsus. Sources note that some references clearly point to distinct characters while others may refer to the same named figure with variant details, reflecting the multiplicity and local variation inherent in Greek mythic naming and genealogical traditions (Wikipedia: Chloris).
The surveyed sources do not supply consistent or detailed iconographic descriptions for a single Chloris figure. Because Chloris functions as a personal name applied to multiple women—nymphs and mortal queens—the extant summary material records roles (a wind-loved nymph; a queen of Pylos; a Niobid; a mother in a seerly lineage) without unified bodily or sartorial attributes. The etymology of the name (from χλωρός, 'green/pale/fresh') implies an evocative association with greenness and vegetal imagery in poetic contexts, but the provided materials do not record canonical physical descriptions tied to any one Chloris (Wikipedia: Chloris).
The sources do not ascribe a standardized set of supernatural powers to Chloris as a category. Individual attestations place Chloris within roles that carry narrative functions—consortship with a god (the nymph loved by Zephyrus), dynastic motherhood (wife of Neleus; mother of Mopsus), or membership in a tragic sibling group (a Niobid)—but they do not attribute explicit magical faculties, hostile behaviors, hauntings, or ritual agency to Chloris herself. Where connected to a prophetic figure (her son Mopsus), the prophetic ability is ascribed to the offspring rather than to Chloris in the provided summaries (Wikipedia: Chloris).
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
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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.
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.
Community Record
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- [2]Chloris (Wikidata entry). Wikidata item Q2147082 (notes homonymous uses including plant genus)other
- [3]Chloris: Luminarium Renascence Editions (Smith). Luminarium (collection referencing classical names and usages)other
- [4]Chloris (plant). Wikipedia, 'Chloris (plant)' (used here to distinguish botanical homonymy from mythic name)wiki
- [5]Chloris (archive audio listing: Grønirisk/Chloris chloris). Archive listing demonstrating non-mythic uses of the lexical item 'Chloris' (bird name), included to clarify homonymy in the datasetother