The name Pelagon appears for multiple distinct figures in Greek mythic genealogies and heroic narratives. Attestations include: Pelagon, king of Phocis and son of Amphidamas, who gave Cadmus the cow that guided him to Boeotia; a Pelagon (also called Pelasgus) described as son of the river-god Asopus and the naiad Metope; a Pelagon named as father of the Paeonian warrior Asteropaeus in the Iliad (suggesting an eponymous link to Pelagonia); and individuals named Pelagon who appear among suitors, as one of the Calydonian hunters, or as companions in Trojan War narratives. These references come from the curated summaries of classical sources (as collected in the supplied Wikipedia/Apollodorus/Homer material) and represent separate mythic personages rather than a single supernatural class.
Classical sources provided in the surveyed material do not ascribe a consistent or distinctive physical appearance to a supernatural Pelagon; the name is used for human or semi-divine persons and no common iconography or monstrous description is recorded. Where parentage is noted (for example, a Pelagon son of the river-god Asopus and the naiad Metope), the implication is ordinary heroic/mortal form embedded in divine genealogy rather than a shared nonhuman appearance.
No supernatural powers are attributed to Pelagon in the supplied sources. The recorded functions and behaviors derive from individual biographies: acting as a king and host (the Phocian Pelagon who assists Cadmus), serving as an eponymous ancestor or genealogical father (father of Asteropaeus and possible founder figure for Pelagonia), and participating in heroic activities (Calydonian hunt, presence among suitors, companionship of noted warriors in the Trojan cycle). These roles are social, martial, and genealogical rather than magical.
*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
- [1]Pelagon — Wikipedia. Wikipedia entry 'Pelagon', summarizing classical attestions of multiple mythic figures named Pelagon (king of Phocis; son of Asopus and Metope; father of Asteropaeus; hunter/suitor/companion).wiki
- [2]Pelagonema — Wikidata (name similarity noted in surveyed set). Wikidata entry for Pelagonema (included in surveyed materials as a homonymous modern taxonomic name; not evidence of mythic attributes).other
- [3]Europa (LP0020) — Archive (Apollodorus/Homeric legendary passages referenced in surveyed corpus). Archive item containing material from the legendary corpus (Apollodorus/Homeric traditions) referenced in the surveyed set that underlie the genealogical and heroic contexts where Pelagon appears.literary
- [4]Sabato De Polito — Ana Di Las Poetas De La Antigua Grecia (Anthology index). Anthology index listing an item 'para Pelagón' indicating a later poetic address to a Pelagón; cited in the surveyed materials as a modern literary reuse of the name.literary
- [5]Terraform (1986) — Pelagon Software (archive entry). Archive record for a 1986 computer release by 'Pelagon Software' — included in the surveyed materials to show modern homonymous uses of the name distinct from classical mythic attestations.other
- [6]Pelagon Software (product/company reference). Web index entry for Pelagon Software; cited among modern, non-mythic occurrences of the name in the surveyed materials.other