In the genealogical corpus of Greek myth as represented in the available sources, Cleophyle is named as the wife of Lycurgus of Arcadia (son of Aleus and Neaera) and as mother of his sons Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasius. Her attestation appears in compilatory and summarizing traditions that preserve regional genealogies; some sources and summaries also record that the maternal role attributed to Lycurgus’s sons is given alternatively to women named Eurynome or Antinoe. Thus Cleophyle’s role in the tradition is to secure and explain descent for these heroic figures rather than to provide an independent narrative or cultic identity.
The cited sources record no physical description, iconography, or attributive portrait of Cleophyle. Her presence in the tradition is nominal and genealogical—she is attested only by name and familial relation, with no attendant visual or descriptive material provided in the available texts and summaries.
No supernatural abilities, notable deeds, or particular behaviors are attributed to Cleophyle in the provided material. The sources report only her familial roles—marriage to Lycurgus and maternity of named sons. While her son Ancaeus is independently credited in other myths with participation in the Argonauts and the Calydonian boar hunt, those deeds are not ascribed to Cleophyle and the sources contain no narrative of her own actions.
Eurynome
Eurynome (Εὐρυνόμη) is a name applied to multiple distinct female figures in ancient Greek myth and cult: a pre-Olympian queen paired with Ophion in some cosmogonic accounts; an Oceanid and local goddess worshipped in parts of the Peloponnese; and several mortal or semi-divine women appearing in genealogical and epic traditions (mothers, wives, handmaids). The name derives from Greek elements meaning "broad" and "pasture" or "law."
Antinoe
Antinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀντινόη) is primarily attested as a proper name in classical and later sources: several mortal women in Greek myth (founding and tragic narratives) and as the place-name Antinopolis/Antinoë in Roman Egypt. The surveyed materials do not present Antinoe as a discrete supernatural being, nor record rituals or wards directed against an entity by this name.
*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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