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• Pan (mythology)
  '''Pan''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Πάν, genitive Πανός) is the [[Greek mythology|Greek god]] who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He has the hindqu [[Echo (mythology)|Echo]] was a nymph who was a great singer and dancer and scorned the love
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• Nessus (mythology)
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• Theban kings - Greek mythology
  The dynastic history of [[Thebes]] in [[Greek mythology]] is crowded with a bewildering number of kings between the city's foundati [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Colchis
  ...r district in Caucasus. Now the western part of Georgia, it was in [[Greek mythology]] the home of [[Aeetes]] and [[Medea]] and the destination of the [[Argonau == Colchis in Greek mythology ==
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• Aglaea
  ...' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Αγλαΐα) is the name of five figures in [[Greek mythology]]. ...hining one") was [[Hephaestus]]' wife and [[Asclepius]]' daughter in Greek mythology. Other sources cite her and her sisters as the daughters of [[Zeus]] and th
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• Euphrosyne
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Euphrosyne''' (Ευφροσύνη) was one of the [[Charites]], known [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Chryses
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Chryses''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Χρύσης, '''Khrýsēs''') [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Thanatos
  ...onification of death (Roman equivalent: Mors), and a minor figure in Greek mythology. Thanatos was a son of [[Nyx]] (Night) and [[Erebus]] and twin of [[Hypnos] According to mythology, Thanatos could occasionally be outwitted, a feat that [[Sisyphus]] twice a
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• Hestia
  ...ring at every sacrifice in the household, but had no public cult. In Roman mythology her approximate equivalent was Vesta, who personified the public hearth, an ...r rescued them and led them in a war against Cronus and the other [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]]. Hestia vowed to forever remain a virgin and refused [[Poseidon]]
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• Andromache
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Andromache''' was the wife of [[Hector]] and daughter of [[Eetion]], [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Cronus
  ...os''', was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]], divine descendants of [[Gaia]], the earth, and [[Uranus]], the s ==In Roman mythology and later culture==
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• Briseis
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Brisēis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Βρισηίς) was a [[Troy|Tr [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Mount Olympus
  In [[Greek mythology]], Mount Olympus is the home of the [[Twelve Olympians]], the principal god [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Parnassus
  ...iews of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. According to [[Greek mythology]], this mountain was sacred to [[Apollo]], the [[Corycian]] [[nymph]]s, and ==Parnassus in mythology==
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• Charon
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Charon''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]] Χάρων, ''fierce brightness'') [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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• Andromeda
  In [[Greek mythology]], Andromeda was the daughter of [[Cepheus, King of Aethiopia|Cepheus]] and ...ot the kingdom, and include the great hero [[Heracles]]. According to this mythology, Perses is the ancestor of the [[Persians]].
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• Themis
  ...[[Gaia]] and [[Uranus]], that is, of Earth with Sky. Among these [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]] of primordial myth, few were venerated at specific sanctuaries in ...nt of divine order, law and custom. When Themis is disregarded, [[Nemesis (mythology)|Nemesis]] brings just and wrathful retribution, thus Themis shared the Nem
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• Maia
  ...[Atlas]]<ref>Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 938; Hymn to Hermes</ref> and [[Pleione (mythology)|Pleione]]<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheke'' 3.110.</ref>. She and h .../ref> to protect him from [[Hera]], who had turned his mother, [[Callisto (mythology)|Callisto]], into a bear. Arcas is the eponym of [[Arcadia]].
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• Admetus
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Admetus''' was a king of [[Pherae]] in [[Thessaly]], succeeding his f ==Mythology==
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• Myrmidons
  ..., the name literally means "ant-people") were an ancient nation of [[Greek mythology]]. The story of their origins was first mentioned by the poet Ovid. Initial * [http://www.online-mythology.com/myrmidons/ Myrmidons at ''Online Mythology'']
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• Acastus
  '''Acastus''' is a character in [[Greek mythology]]. He sailed with [[Jason]] and the [[Argonauts]], and participated in the ...&c.</ref><ref name="DGRBM">''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'' by William Smith (1867).</ref> He thereafter became king of Iolcus.
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• Iolaus
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Iolaus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ΄Ιόλαος) was a [[Thebes|T Heracles gave his wife, [[Megara (mythology)|Megara]], to Iolaus – ostensibly because the sight of her reminded him o
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• Sisyphus
  '''Sisyphus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Σίσυφος), in [[Greek mythology]], was a king punished in the [[Hades|underworld]] by being set to roll a h ...a which later became the city of [[Corinth]]. When [[Zeus]] took [[Aegina (mythology)|Aegina]], Sisyphus told her father, the river god Asopus, her whereabouts.
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