Echemmon appears in the epic and mythographic record as one of the many named children of Priam, king of Troy, preserved in Homeric-index style lists and later summaries of Trojan genealogies and death-lists. Primary attestations are catalogue-style references within the Trojan War corpus (see indices to the Iliad and later mythographic registers). These sources present him not as a founder or divine figure but as an aristocratic combatant whose death is recorded among the casualties of the siege of Troy. The literary record preserves variant traditions about his death: the most-cited account names Diomedes as the slayer of Echemmon and his brother Chromius (aligned with Iliadic death-list traditions), an alternate account attributes the slaying of Echemmon and a brother named Aretus to Odysseus, and a separate brief notice records an Echemmon described as a friend of Thoas who was killed by Eurypylus of Mysia—possibly a distinct minor figure sharing the same name.
The sources provide no physical description of Echemmon. He is presented only in genealogical and death-list entries (as a son of Priam and as a slain combatant), and surviving summaries and indexes do not preserve details of his armor, stature, or iconography. Later mythographic compilations and reference pages likewise record his name and fate without descriptive material.
Echemmon is represented in the sources strictly as a mortal Trojan prince/warrior; there are no accounts of supernatural powers, magical skills, or extraordinary feats in the provided material. His principal role in the tradition is genealogical and narrative—he participates as one of Priam's sons in the Trojan War and is recorded as slain, an action treated as a narrative fate rather than an ability.
Diomedes
Diomedes (Ancient Greek: Διομήδης) is a hero of Greek myth, foremost among Achaean warriors in the Trojan War, later a king of Argos and a legendary founder of cities in Italy; some traditions report he received cult after death. The name also appears for other historical and modern persons and places but within the supplied sources refers primarily to the mortal heroic figure(s) of classical tradition.
Odysseus
Odysseus is a legendary mortal king of Ithaca from ancient Greek epic tradition, best known as the protagonist of Homer's Odyssey. Celebrated for his intellect, craft (mêtis), and long nostos (homecoming), he functions as an exemplar of heroic cunning rather than a supernatural being.
Eurypylus
Eurypylus (Ancient Greek: Εὐρύπυλος, 'wide-gated') is an anthroponym in Greek myth borne by several distinct mortal or semi-divine figures — kings, princes, and warriors — attested across regional heroic-age narratives (Thessaly, Mysia, Cos, Thebes, Tiryns) and the Trojan War cycle. The name functions genealogically and narratively rather than as a single supernatural being.
*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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