In the traditions sampled, Lycurgus is a son of King Aleus of Tegea (and in at least one account the son of Aleus and Neaera) and therefore belongs to the line descending from Arcas and Callisto. He appears in ancient genealogical lists as brother to figures variously named (Amphidamas, Cepheus, Auge, Alcidice) and as father or ancestor to figures such as Ancaeus; these placements serve to link Tegean dynasts to wider heroic cycles (for example, the Argonauts). Sources record variant genealogies (for instance, some traditions make Cepheus son of Aleus while others place him as son of Lycurgus), reflecting multiple local versions rather than a single unified origin tale.
The supplied sources do not provide physical descriptions of Lycurgus son of Aleus. He is attested in the materials primarily through genealogical and literary notices as a royal/mortal figure; no surviving iconographic or textual portrait (height, complexion, clothing, distinctive marks) is recorded in the excerpts provided.
No supernatural powers, magical abilities, or miraculous deeds are attested for Lycurgus son of Aleus in the supplied materials. He is presented as a legendary mortal — a king, husband and father — whose primary narrative function is genealogical: to locate and legitimate other mythic figures within Arcadian and pan-Hellenic networks (such as ties to the Argonauts).
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Aleus
Aleus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεός) is a mythic-historical king of Tegea in Arcadia, presented in classical Greek genealogies as an eponymic founder (of the city Alea and the epithet Athena Alea) and as a dynastic ancestor whose family narratives intersect with Heracles, the Argonauts, and oracular prophecy.
Amphidamas
Amphidamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιδάμας) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal men in Greek mythic tradition. Various distinct figures called Amphidamas appear in genealogies, epic rosters (Argonauts, companions of Odysseus), and local king-lists rather than forming a single supernatural archetype.
Auge
Auge (Ancient Greek: Αὐγή, Augḗ, lit. "sunbeam, daylight, dawn") is an Arcadian princess and virgin priestess of Athena Alea in Greek myth, mother of the hero Telephus by Heracles. Her narrative (in multiple variant traditions) treats oracular fate, the sanctity and vulnerability of a priestess, exposure/abandonment motifs, and the foundation of cross-regional ties when she and Telephus come to Mysia and are received by King Teuthras.
*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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