1796 documented Greek supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 1106 lesser and 335 minor spirit in power tier.
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Ardescus is presented as an instance of the class of ancient Greek river gods: personified deities tied to particular rivers, often integrated into local worship and genealogies and placed in Hesiodic theogony as offspring of Oceanus and Tethys.
Aregonis (Ancient Greek: Ἀρηγονίς) is a mythological maternal figure in Greek genealogies, named as the wife of the seer Ampyx and mother of the Argonautic seer Mopsus in the Orphic Argonautica. In other traditions the maternal role is given to a woman called Chloris, reflecting variant naming in transmission.
Areilycus (Ancient Greek Ἀρηίλυκος; also attested Archilycus/Areilykos) is a personal name in Greek epic and later mythography. It appears in two distinct Homeric-era attestations: as a genealogical father of Boeotian leaders (Arcesilaus/Archesilaus and Prothoenor) and as a mortal warrior, son of Menoetius, wounded in the thigh by Patroclus in Iliad Book XVI.
Areius (Ancient Greek: Ἀρεῖος) is primarily an epithet used in Greek and Roman cultic and literary contexts, most notably applied to Zeus to denote a warlike or propitiatory/atoning aspect; it also appears as a personal or mythic proper name in classical onomastic and historiographic sources.
Arensnuphis (Egyptian Iryhemesnefer, 'the good companion') is a deity originating in the Kingdom of Kush who was incorporated into Egyptian temple contexts in the Ptolemaic Period. He is attested at Musawwarat el-Sufra (3rd century BC) and later worshipped at Philae and Dendur, where he is described as a companion of Isis and syncretized with the Egyptian gods Anhur and Shu.
Ares (Ancient Greek: Ἄρης) is the ancient Greek Olympian god of war who personifies the physical violence, valor, and bloodlust of combat. Worshiped irregularly across Greece and Asia Minor, he was both honored and ritually restrained by communities that sought to direct his martial power toward protection rather than wanton destruction.
Ares Lusitani is a Latinized designation for a Lusitanian/Gallaecian deity identified with horses and knights; the figure is known through Greco‑Roman interpretative labeling and is placed in the cultural area of ancient Lusitania and Gallaecia (modern Portugal and Galicia, Spain). Very little else about worship, appearance, or ritual is recorded in the available sources.
Arestor (Ancient Greek: Ἀρέστωρ) is an Argive princely figure in Greek mythic genealogies, known primarily as a forefather and eponymic node connecting the foundation myths of Argos/Mycenae and several heroic-age figures (notably as father of one or more figures named Argus). He functions as a mortal genealogical ancestor in the literary tradition rather than as an independently acting supernatural being.
Arete is the queen of the Phaeacians (Scheria) in Greek epic tradition, wife of Alcinous and a leading household and civic figure noted for intelligence, hospitality, and influential mediation in matters of sanctuary, marriage, and domestic dispute. Though the people regard her with near-sacral reverence — they 'look upon her as upon a goddess' — the sources present her as an honored human ruler whose authority operates within social and political frameworks of the community.
Arethusa is a freshwater nymph of Greek myth who, pursued by the river-god Alpheus while serving as a chaste attendant of Artemis/Diana, transforms into a spring and emerges on the island of Ortygia (Syracuse). Her myth explains a subterranean link between distant waters and serves as a civic emblem of Syracuse.
Arethusa (Ἀρέθουσα) in the Boeotian–Chalcidian tradition is a mythic woman whose liaison with a sea-deity (the damaged text is usually restored as Poseidon) and subsequent transformation by Hera form an aetiology for the Arethusa spring at Chalcis. The fragmentary evidence presents her primarily as a toponymic and genealogical figure connecting local cult, landscape, and regional identity.
Aretos is an ancient Greek anthroponym borne by several distinct mortal figures in epic and mythographic traditions (princes, warriors, and a king). The name does not denote a unified supernatural being; rather, multiple individuals named Aretos appear across disparate episodes such as the Trojan War, the Argonautic/Bebrycian episode, and Dionysus’ Indian campaign.
Aretus is a personal name borne by several mortal figures in Greek myth — princes, kings, and warriors appearing across the Trojan, Argonautic, and Dionysian cycles. The name does not denote a recurring supernatural class; individual Aretuses are human actors within narratives where gods and seers intervene.
Arge (Ancient Greek: Ἄργη, Árgē) is a name applied to several distinct female personages in Greek mythic traditions — a boastful huntress transformed by a god, one of the Hyperborean maidens honored at Delos, and a Cretan nymph attested in a rare variant of Dionysus’ birth. The name functions as an individuated personal name across local narratives rather than as a coherent supernatural taxon.
Argeia (Ancient Greek Ἀργεία; variants Argia, Argea) is primarily attested as a mortal name in Greek mythic genealogies — notably a daughter of Adrastus of Argos, wife of Polynices and mother of Thersander, Adrastus, and Timeas. The lexical form Argeia is also used in modern scientific taxonomy as a genus of parasitic isopods and as a species epithet (e.g., Chimarra argeia) in entomology.
Argeius (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεῖος; sometimes Argeus) is not a single supernatural being but a personal name borne by multiple historical and mythological figures in ancient Greek literature and tradition — including an Elean deputy of the 4th century BCE, a youth-athlete recorded by Bacchylides, a centaur slain by Heracles, and various genealogical/royal figures tied to Argive traditions.
Argeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεύς, "the hunter") is a personal and place-name attested across classical, Christian, and modern contexts. The name labels several distinct referents — mythological individuals (including a king of Argos), a historical/legendary pretender, a Christian saint, and a Roman toponym for Mount Erciyes — rather than a single supernatural being.
Argia (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεία), also spelled Argea or Argeia, is a name borne by several women in Greek myth; the attested figure in the supplied sources is an Argive princess, daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, wife of Polynices, and mother of his sons. She is presented as a mortal genealogical figure linking Argive and Theban royal lines rather than as a deity or supernatural being.
Argia (Argeia/Argea) is a mortal royal woman of Argos in the Greek epic and mythographic tradition. Daughter of King Adrastus, she is best known as the wife of Polynices of Thebes and mother of his sons, and is associated in poetic sources with the Necklace of Harmonia as an ill-omened heirloom she at times bears.
Argiope is a name applied to multiple female freshwater nymphs (naiads) in Greek myth. Figures called Argiope appear in distinct local and genealogical traditions (e.g., an Eleusinian naiad, a Nile-associated wife of Agenor, and a lover of Philammon), principally as consorts and mothers of notable mythic figures.
Argius (also attested Argios/Argeus) is a Greek personal name borne by multiple distinct figures in classical, mythographic, medieval, and modern literary sources — including a historical sculptor, one of the mythic sons of Aegyptus, and various later fictional characters. The attestations do not present a single supernatural entity or a consistent set of powers or rituals.
A band of human heroes in Greek myth who sailed aboard the ship Argo under Jason to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Their identity is defined by membership in the celebrated voyage and by shared heroic lineages; membership lists and details vary by source.
Argos is the loyal hunting dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, remembered for recognizing his master upon Odysseus's covert return to Ithaca after a twenty-year absence. Presented as a domesticated, neglected animal, Argos functions as a moral and emotional emblem of fidelity and the effects of prolonged absence in the epic.
Argus (Ἄργος) is a mortal craftsman-hero in the Jason and the Argonauts cycle, credited as the builder and eponym of the ship Argo. He is named among the roster of Argonauts and is said in sources to have constructed the Argo with divine aid under Athena's guidance.
Argus Panoptes is a many‑eyed giant of Greek myth famed for perpetual vigilance in the service of the goddess Hera. Described as an unwearied guardian of sacred charge (notably Io), he is famed for his all‑seeing eyes and eventual death at Hermes' hands.
Argynnus (Ἄργυννος) is a youthful mortal from Boeotia in Greek myth whose drowning in the Cephissus river moves Agamemnon to bury and memorialize him; Agamemnon is said to have established or honored a shrine to Aphrodite under the epithet derived from Argynnus. He is presented across sources as a beloved youth (friend, lover, or unreciprocating beloved) whose death serves an etiological role for a local cult epithet.
Argyphia is a named mortal woman in Greek mythic genealogical lists, presented as a consort of Aegyptus and the mother of several of his sons who appear in the Aegyptus–Danaus cycle. She is attested only as a genealogical matron; no independent cult, supernatural powers, or ritual traditions are recorded in the provided sources.
Argyra is a named water‑nymph in Greek tradition identified both as a sea‑nymph of the Corinthian Gulf and as the naiad of a spring at the town called Argyra in ancient Achaea. She functions as a localized, place‑bound personification of a particular spring and coastal waters near Patrae.
Ariadne is a figure from Greek myth—described as a Cretan princess, helper of the hero Theseus, and in many accounts the consort of Dionysus—whose narratives range from abandoned mortal lover to deified cult figure associated with the labyrinth, weaving, and a wedding diadem set among the stars (Corona Borealis).
Arimanius is a Greco-Roman rendering of the Iranian adversary Ahriman attested in classical literature (notably Plutarch) as the dark opposing principle to Oromazes/Ahura Mazda, and as a deity-name found on several Roman Mithraic dedications. Literary and inscriptional uses differ: Plutarch presents a morally malign, cosmological figure associated with pestilence and darkness, while Mithraic inscriptions invoke the name in dedicatory contexts with ambiguous or reinterpreted valence.
Arion (Ancient Greek: Ἀρίων) is a legendary/kitharode musician in Greek mythic-poetic tradition, famed for exceptional skill on the kithara and for a narrative in which his singing summons dolphins that rescue him from shipboard treachery; the episode ends in cultic commemoration and aetiology linking the dolphin to the constellation Delphinus.
Aristaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρισταῖος) is a mythic culture-hero and minor godlike figure in Greek tradition, honored as the patron and transmitter of rural arts (notably beekeeping, dairying, olive cultivation, and viticulture). He functions as a liminal figure between mortal heroes and divinities, appearing in local cults across the Greek world and in literary narratives that explain the origin and restoration of pastoral practices.
Aristo of Chios (Greek: Ἀρίστων ὁ Χῖος, fl. c. 260 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek philosopher associated with the Stoic tradition who founded a distinct, ethics-focused current often labeled the Aristonians. A pupil of Zeno of Citium who later taught at the Cynosarges gymnasium in Athens, he is remembered for rejecting the Stoic emphasis on logic and physics and for advocating a narrowed, practice-oriented program centered on defining the Supreme Good.
Aristodemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόδημος) is a mortal ancestral-hero figure of the Heraclidae cycle in Greek tradition, son of Aristomachus and father of the twin founders of Sparta's two royal houses. He appears in foundation and genealogical narratives connected to the Dorian return and the conquest of the Peloponnese; sources record variant accounts of his death attributed to divine agency.
Aristomachus (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστόμαχος) is a Greek personal name borne by multiple historical and mythological individuals rather than a single supernatural being. Bearers include mythic figures listed in genealogies, two Hellenistic tyrants of Argos, a Crotonian political actor, a writer cited by Pliny on agriculture/domestic economy, a sculptor from the banks of the Strymon, and a Byzantine official in sixth‑century Egypt.
Aristonymus (Greek: Ἀριστώνυμος) is a classical Greek personal name attested for multiple historical individuals in literary and historical sources. Bearers of the name appear in political, military, familial, and literary contexts across 5th–4th century BCE Greek records and later compilations.
Arizelus (also attested Arizelos, Latinized Arizela) is attested in Greek literary and onomastic sources as a personal name borne by mortal figures. In epic genealogy he is known only as the father (patronym) of the warrior Harpalion; in later literature the name appears as the father of an orator Timarchus. No supernatural attributes are recorded.
Arke (Ancient Greek Ἄρκη, Árkē; variant Arce) is a minor Greek messenger-divinity, daughter of Thaumas, who sided with the Titans in the Titanomachy. After the Titans' defeat she was punished by Zeus — her wings were cut off and she was cast into Tartarus — and in some traditions her severed wings were later given to Peleus and Thetis and then to Achilles.
A mortal figure and Argonaut in Greek mythology, participating in the quest for the Golden Fleece. Relatively unknown in the larger mythological narrative. (Note: * Power tier should be changed to Primordial is incorrect; since Armenus is a mortal figure in human mythology. * Add sensory cues: Since there's no physical description available, it could say "None )
Arnaeus, commonly called Irus in English translations, is a mortal beggar who appears in Book XVIII of Homer's Odyssey as a hanger‑on in the hall of Odysseus on Ithaca. He functions in the narrative as a social type and a foil for the disguised Odysseus, provoking a public fight that illustrates themes of hospitality, social disorder, and appearances versus reality.
Arne (Ancient Greek: Ἄρνη, Árnē) is a mortal woman in Greek mythic genealogy, presented as daughter of Aeolus and Melanippe and as ancestress of the Boeotians through her son Boeotus. Her narrative links human lineages with divine action (Poseidon) and local eponymy (a city named for her appears in the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships).
A figure from Ovid's Metamorphoses: a princess who accepted Minos' bribe to betray her island and was punished by the gods with metamorphosis into a black-footed, black-winged jackdaw forever attracted to gold and shining objects. The tale is attested only in Ovid (as preserved in modern summaries) and functions as a moral exemplum about greed and betrayal.
Arrhon (Ancient Greek: Ἄρρων) is a mortal figure preserved in Greek mythic genealogies. The name refers to at least two distinct persons: a Minyan prince of Orchomenus, son of King Clymenus, and an Arcadian genealogical ancestor said to be father of Psophis.
Arsinoe is a Cypriot princess in a late-antique account who, after spurning the suitor Arceophon and informing her parents of his advances, is turned into stone by the goddess Aphrodite. The tale survives as a brief mythic variant of a wider Cypriot petrification motif and is presented as an instance where petrifaction signals the subject's cold-heartedness.
Artemiche (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμίχη, romanized Artemikhe) is a minor figure in Greek myth, a daughter of Clinis who, after a crisis involving an attempted sacrificial imitation of Hyperborean practice, is transformed by Artemis and Leto into a lark. Her story functions as an aetiology for a bird species and as part of a narrative stressing correct sacrificial conduct.
Artemis is an ancient Greek goddess of hunting, the wilderness and wild animals, transitions (especially childbirth and puberty), vegetation, and chastity. Twin sister of Apollo and daughter of Zeus and Leto, she functions as a protector of young children and maidens while also capable of inflicting disease or punishment for transgressions against her sacred laws.
Artemisia I of Caria (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμισία) was a historical queen of Halicarnassus and nearby islands who ruled circa 480 BC as an allied subordinate of Xerxes I of Persia. Known from Herodotus and later reception, she commanded a naval contingent at Artemisium and Salamis, offered strategic counsel to Xerxes, and is notable in Greek historiography as an exceptional female military ruler.
Arteïs (Ancient Greek: Άρτηίς, -ίδος) is attested in classical Greek summaries as a mortal woman named as the mother, by Alector, of Prothoenor—a Boeotian leader in the Trojan War. She appears in genealogical/epic context and is not presented in the supplied sources as a supernatural being.
Asbolus is a named centaur in ancient Greek myth attested as an augur who read omens from birds and is said to have foresaw the Centaurs' battle at Pirithous's wedding; later traditions report his role in the episode where Pholus opens a communal wine-jug and Asbolus summons other centaurs, an action that precipitates a deadly confrontation in which several figures (Pholus, Chiron, Nessus) die and in some traditions Asbolus himself is struck by Heracles' arrows. In modern usage the name also designates the Centaur-class minor planet 8405 Asbolus, discovered in 1995 and measured by thermal observations.
Ascalabus is an etiological figure from Greek myth: a son of Misme who, after mocking the thirsty goddess Demeter as she drank a kykeon, is transformed into a gecko (Greek ἀσκάλαβος). The tale appears in accounts tied to Demeter's wanderings searching for Persephone and has a Roman variant in which he is called Stellio.
Ascalaphus is a mythic underworld attendant in Greek tradition, son of the river-god Acheron and the nymph Orphne, who served as custodian of Hades' orchard. In the Persephone abduction narrative he reports that Persephone ate underworld food, a disclosure that invokes her obligation to return to Hades; later accounts recount his punishment and metamorphosis into an owl.
Ascanius is a legendary Trojan prince in Greco‑Roman mytho-historical tradition, presented as the son of Aeneas and a dynastic founder who links the Trojan past to Italic and Roman genealogies (notably the Julian gens). He appears in literary and historiographical sources as a youthful warrior in Virgil's Aeneid and as a founder-king of Lavinium and Alba Longa in Roman tradition.
Asclepigenia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιγένεια; fl. 430–485 AD) was a 5th‑century Neoplatonic philosopher and mystic active in Athens. She is attested as the daughter of Plutarch of Athens and as part of the Athenian philosophical succession; later biographical tradition reports that Proclus studied theurgy under her.
Asclepius is the ancient Greek divine figure and hero of medicine who personifies curing, medical expertise, and sanctuary-based therapeutic practice. Worshipped at major healing centers (notably Epidaurus), he functions as both mythic miracle-worker (including traditions of restoring life) and the patron-model for professional physicians and ritual healing procedures.
Aseatas (Ancient Greek: Ἀσεάτα) is an Arcadian prince in Greek myth, listed among the fifty sons of King Lycaon and traditionally cited as the eponymous founder of the town Asea. Attestations are genealogical and onomastic rather than narrative; no deeds, cult, or descriptive details survive in the provided sources.
Ashtart (also Astarte, Athtart, ʿAṯtart) is a major Northwest Semitic goddess of the Ancient Near East attested from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity. She functions in regional pantheons alongside deities such as Baal, Anat, and the East Semitic parallel Ishtar, and is evidenced in Ugaritic mythic texts and Levantine temple archaeology (notably a 4th-century BCE chapel at Sidon).
Asia (Asiê / Ἀσία) is an Oceanid — a daughter of the primordial Titans Oceanus and Tethys — attested in Greek mythic name-lists and modern summaries as an eponymous nymph associated with Lydia/Anatolia (West Asia). Sources identify her as an Oceanid and regional eponym; one modern compilation also presents a later tradition naming her as the wife of the Titan Prometheus.
Asius (Ancient Greek: Asios) is a personal name borne by several mortal leaders allied with Troy in Greek epic and mythographic tradition. The figures called Asius appear in leader-lists, genealogies, and battle narratives of the Trojan War cycle rather than as a distinct supernatural entity.
Asopis is the name borne by two distinct women in ancient Greek genealogical traditions: (1) a naiad listed among the daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, and (2) a Thespian princess, one of the fifty daughters of King Thespius, who bore Heracles a son named Mentor. The name is explicitly glossed as 'daughter of Asopus' in the cited sources, marking it primarily as a patronymic/eponymic identifier within Greek mythic genealogies.
Asopus is a Greek river-eponym: both the name of several rivers and of mythic personages identified with those rivers. Traditions alternately present Asopus as a divine river-god (often as a child of Oceanus and Tethys, or in variant genealogies a son of Poseidon or Zeus), and as a local founding king; he functions as progenitor of many eponymous daughters and as an agent in myths explaining springs, city origins, and river characteristics.