The name Hippomedon (Ancient Greek Ἰππομέδων, gen. Ἰππομέδοντος) appears in Greek mythic genealogies and epic catalogues as the name of several mortal figures. In the Theban cycle he is listed as one of the Seven against Thebes. In Trojan-cycle material and later epic catalogues bearers of the name appear among defenders of Troy; specific notices record a Hippomedon (or a man of that name) killed by Neoptolemus and another who is father of Menoites, whose son was slain by Teucer. These attestations are preserved in classical reference compilations and epic summaries (references cited in modern summaries such as the Wikipedia entry, which in turn cites ancient authors like Apollodorus and Quintus Smyrnaeus). The medieval transmissions of the name (Ipomedon, Ipomadon) show its later literary reworking in Middle English romance.
Extant classical and summary sources cited in the supplied material furnish no physical description for bearers of the name Hippomedon; they are identified by role and genealogy rather than by bodily traits. Medieval romance receptions (attested by collections of Ipomedon/Ipomadon texts) rework the name into chivalric contexts where protagonists may be described according to the conventions of romance, but those specific descriptive details fall outside the provided source metadata. Thus, within the supplied material the name functions as a nominative marker for heroic/mortal personages without attendant physical portraiture.
No supernatural powers or magical faculties are attributed to the figures named Hippomedon in the provided sources. The recorded behaviors are those of mortal warriors: participation in warfare (one is enumerated among the Seven against Thebes) and combatant deaths in the Trojan War narrative (individuals named Hippomedon are reported as slain by known heroes such as Neoptolemus and, by genealogical relation, victims whose descendants are killed by Teucer). The sources treat them as ordinary heroic combatants within epic narrative economy rather than as endowed with extraordinary abilities.
*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.
Abdiel
Abdiel (Hebrew עֲבְדִּיאֵל) is primarily a theophoric Hebrew personal name meaning "servant of El/servant of God," attested once in the Hebrew Bible (1 Chronicles 5:15). In later literature—most notably John Milton's Paradise Lost—Abdiel is reimagined as a faithful seraph who opposes Satan's revolt. The provided sources do not treat Abdiel as an autonomous folkloric spirit type or record rituals or wards associated with the name.
Abiel
Abiel is attested in the supplied sources only as a male given name — borne by several historical American individuals and listed as two minor biblical figures. The provided materials contain no evidence presenting Abiel as a supernatural, mythological, or folkloric entity.
Abigail
Abigail is a female figure in the Hebrew Bible portrayed in 1 Samuel 25 as the intelligent and beautiful wife of Nabal who intervenes to prevent David from committing violence; later tradition regards her as one of the Tanakh's seven female prophets and as a model of beauty and wisdom.
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.
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- [2]Wikidata: Hippomedon (Q6485537). Wikidata item Q6485537 for Hippomedonwiki
- [3]Ipomedon in drei englischen Bearbeitungen (Archive.org). Ipomedon in drei englischen Bearbeitungen. Archive.org item metadata for medieval English adaptations (Ipomedon/Ipomadon).literary