Heracles

male
Alexander, Peloponnese, Alexander IV, hero, greekmythology, greek
Heracles was the name of an illegitimate son born to Alexander III of Macedon by his mistress Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia in...

Hesiod

male
poet, ancient greek, homer, greek, aristarchus, greekmythology
Hesiod (Greek: "Hesiodos") was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often...

Oedipus

male
Laius, sphinx, pronounce, greekmythology, greek, homer…Greek mythological
Oedipus ("'"' - "Oidĭpous" [<font/>pronounce ], most likely meaning "swollen-footed") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. Oedipus was the son of L...

Hecuba

female
Troilus, iliad, Sangarius, Dymas, Troilius, The Wheel of Fortune…Greek Εκάβη, Greek mythological, greekmythology
Hecuba (also Hekabe Greek: "Εκάβη") was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy. She was of Phrygian birth; her father was Dymas...
Apollodorus

Apollodorus

male
Caesar and Cleopatra, cleopatra, chronicle, poet, BC death, Bibliotheca…greekmythology, greek, ancient greek
Apollodorus (born ca. 180 BC) was a Greek language grammarian, a writer most famous for his verse "Chronicle" of Greek history from the fall of...

Menelaus

male
trojan war, Ruler of Sparta, atreus, greekmythology, Greek mythological, 2nd millennium BC
Menelaus (&Mu;&epsilon;&nu;&epsilon;&amp;lambda;&alpha;&omicron;&sigmaf;) in Greek mythology was one of the two most known Atrides kings and king of...

Philoctetes

male
Diomêdês, Poeas, Chryse, Meliboea, Lemnos, Little Iliad…Greek mythological, greekmythology
In Greek mythology, Philoctetes was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant...

Anchises

male
Hieromneme, Hippodameia, Elysian Fields, trojan, ELYSIUM, naiad…Greek mythological, greekmythology
In Greek mythology, Anchises was a son of Capys and Themiste (daughter of Ilus, son of Tros) or Hieromneme, a naiad. Anchises' major claim to fame...

Sarpedon

male
lycia, greekmythology, Trojans, Greek mythological, Pederastic heroes and deities
In Greek mythology, Sarpedon referred to at least three different people.

Neoptolemus

male
trojan war, trojan horse, palladium, greekmythology, heracles, Greek mythological
In Greek mythology Neoptolemus, also Neoptólemos or Pyrrhus, was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamea. Achilles' mother f...