The name Evippus appears as a personal name across independent mythic traditions rather than as a single origin narrative. One bearer is listed as a son of King Thestius and Eurythemis and placed among the royal house of Pleuron/Calydon, associated with the conflict of the Curetes and the Calydonians and possibly slain in the internecine fighting of that cycle (a tradition summarized in modern references to Apollodorus and genealogical compilations). Another Evippus is a Lycian warrior who appears in the Trojan War catalogue/narrative and is reported killed by Patroclus in Homeric tradition. A third is named as son of Megareus and Iphinoe of Megara and is said, in Pausanias' local reports as relayed in modern summaries, to have been killed by the Cithaeronian lion. A fourth appears in an Arcadian context: at the wedding of Adrastus' daughters an Evippus' shield fell from the highest summit of the temple of Athena and was read as a portent of future misfortune. Collectively these attestations show the name recurring among mortal aristocratic/heroic figures across the Greek mythic landscape.
Classical sources and the provided summaries do not supply a standardized physical description for any Evippus. Individual bearers are identified by genealogy, deeds, or manner of death rather than bodily features: the son of Thestius is recorded in genealogical lists (no portrait described), the Lycian Evippus is named among warriors slain in battle in the Iliad (Homeric listings do not include detailed personal appearance for every minor combatant), the Megarean Evippus is noted as a victim of the Cithaeronian lion in Pausanias' local myth reports (the focus is the event, not physical description), and the Arcadian Evippus is known through the omen of a falling shield at a temple. Thus no consistent corporeal depiction is attested in the cited sources.
No supernatural powers or extraordinary abilities are attributed to any Evippus in the provided material. Each bearer functions as a mortal actor within heroic narratives: the Thestius-line Evippus participates in dynastic and martial contexts and 'might have been killed by his nephew Meleager' in the Curetes vs. Calydonians conflict; the Lycian Evippus is a warrior recorded as slain by Patroclus during the Trojan War (Homeric tradition); the Megarean Evippus is a victim of the Cithaeronian lion (local monster-slaying motif); and the Arcadian Evippus figures in an omen narrative when his shield falls from a temple summit at a wedding. Their behaviors are those of princes, warriors, and unlucky victims rather than bearers of magical faculties.
Weaknesses
- othermortal vulnerability (death in war or by beasts)
Wards
None recorded.
Patroclus
Patroclus is a mortal heroic figure of the Greek epic tradition associated with the Trojan War, famed as Achilles' close companion and the Myrmidons' commander in Achilles' stead; his death and subsequent ghost-appearance in Homeric narrative drive Achilles' return to battle and demand proper funerary rites.
Adrastus
Adrastus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος or Ἄδρηστος) is a legendary king of Argos in the Greek mythic-historical tradition, best known as the leader of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and as a figure tied to oracular counsel, dynastic marriages, and local hero cults.
*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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- [2]Evippus (Person entry) — UVic Mythology. University of Victoria, Myth Index entry for Evippus (genealogical listing)literary
- [3]Evippus — Pantheon / classical summaries. Pantheon summary entries aggregating classical references to figures named Evippusother
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- [5]Pausanias (summary reference via modern compilations) — Cithaeronian lion episode. Modern summary referencing Pausanias' account of the Megarean Evippus killed by the Cithaeronian lionliterary
- [6]Wikidata: Q15905727 (Evippus). Wikidata entry for Evippus (structured-data pointer to attestations)wiki