The sources record three separate individuals named Deipylus. One is described as a son of Jason and Hypsipyle, born on Lemnos after the Argonauts' visit; he is presented as a twin brother of Euneus and in some accounts bears variant names such as Thoas or Nebrophonus. A second Deipylus is a Thracian prince, the son of King Polymestor of the Bistonians and Iliona (daughter of Priam); Iliona raised him alongside her own brother Polydorus in a protective disguise, but Polymestor later killed Deipylus after being bribed by the Achaeans, mistaking him for Polydorus. The third is an Achaean warrior in the Trojan War, a companion of Sthenelus who was sent to take Aeneas' horses back to the Achaean camp after Diomedes had wounded Aeneas. These accounts come from epic-cycle summaries and mythographic sources and present Deipylus as mortal participants in genealogical and martial narratives.
The cited materials do not supply physical descriptions for any of the individuals named Deipylus. They are attested by name and relational identifiers (parentage, sibling relationships, or military companionship) without specific details about bodily features, clothing, or distinguishing marks.
No supernatural powers or magical abilities are attributed to any of the Deipyluses in the cited sources. Their recorded behaviors are social and narrative: the Lemnian Deipylus functions as an offspring in a dynastic context (son and twin of Hypsipyle and Jason), the Thracian Deipylus figures in a narrative of protective deception and political violence (being reared alongside Polydorus and later killed by Polymestor), and the Achaean Deipylus performs a martial/logistical task on the battlefield (retrieving Aeneas' horses on Sthenelus' mission).
Weaknesses
- conditionordinary mortal vulnerabilities
- othersubject to political violence and familial betrayal (as attested in the Polymestor episode)
Wards
None recorded.
Jason
Jason (Ancient Greek: Ἰάσων, Iásōn) is a mortal hero of Greek myth, leader of the Argonauts whose quest for the Golden Fleece establishes his place in the heroic age. He is depicted as a prince of Iolcos, son of Aeson, and husband of the sorceress Medea.
Euneus
Euneus is a mythic dynastic and heroic figure of ancient Greek tradition, son of Jason and Hypsipyle and later king of Lemnos. He appears in epic and mythographic accounts as a local ruler who provisioned Greek fleets, ransomed a Trojan prisoner, and served as ancestor-eponym for a Lemnian clan of cithara-players.
Polydorus
Polydorus (Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, 'many-gifted') is a personal name borne by several distinct mortal figures in Greek myth and later cultural references, including Theban and Trojan princes, a warrior in the Trojan cycle, historical/legendary rulers, and a Roman-period sculptor. The name recurs across genealogies and narratives rather than denoting a single supernatural class or spirit.
Sthenelus
Sthenelus (Ancient Greek: Σθένελος, Sthénelos) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and epic tradition. The name recurs for several princes, kings, and warrior-companions whose actions matter for succession, warfare, and the chains of events around better-known heroes such as Perseus, Heracles, and participants in the Trojan cycle.
Argonauts
A band of human heroes in Greek myth who sailed aboard the ship Argo under Jason to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Their identity is defined by membership in the celebrated voyage and by shared heroic lineages; membership lists and details vary by source.
*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.
Community Record
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