| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Chthonia" | Greek | May mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, Nyx and Melinoe, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
| King name "Cinyras" | Greek | A famous Cyprian hero. According to the common tradition, he was a son of Apollo by Paphos, king of Cyprus, and priest of the Paphian Aphrodite, which latter office remained hereditary in his family, the Cinyradae. Greek |
| Goddess name "Circe" | Greek | A mythical sorceress, whom Homer calls a fair-locked goddess, a daughter of Helios by the oceanid Perse, and a sister of Aeetes. Greek |
| Nymph name "Cirrha" | Greek | A nymph from whom the town of Cirrha in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| King name "Cithaeron" | Greek | A mythical king in Boeotia, from whom mount Cithaeron was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Cithara" | Greek | One of the most ancient stringed instruments, traced back to 1700 B.C. among the Semitic races, in Egypt, Assyria, Asia Minor, Greece and the Roman empire, whence the use of it spread over Europe. Greek |
"Clanis" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses. (xii) Greek |
"Clarius" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, derived from his temple at Claros in Asia Minor. Greek |
"Claudia" | Greek | One of the vestal virgins. Greek |
"Cleodora" | Greek | wife of Lixos. |
"Cleolla" | Greek | According to Hesiod, Catalogues of Women, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes by Cleolla the daughter of Dias. Greek |
| Goddess name "Cleone" | Greek | Goddess of water. One of the daughters of Asopus, from whom the town of Cleonae in Peloponnesus was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Cleopatra" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager, is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone. 2. A Danaid, who was betrothed to Etelces or Agenor. There are two other mythical personages of this name in Apollodorus iii. Greek |
| Goddess name "Clio" | Greek | Goddess of history Roman / Greek |
| Goddess name "Clio" | Greek / Roman | A goddess of history |
"Cloacina / Cluacina" | Greek | a surname of Venus, under which she is mentioned at Rome in very early times. |
"Clodones" | Greek | There were revels in Parnåśśus, in Phocis, Messenia, Arcadia, even Sparta. The festivals were held on mountains, with blazing torches, in dark Winter nights. The votaries were in large part women, and were known by many names,--Maenads, Thyiads, Clodones, Mimallones, Båśśarides, etc. They were clothed in fawn skins, carried thyrsi and in their ecstasies used to hunt wild animals, tear them in pieces, and sometimes eat them raw. Greek |
"Clotho" | Greek | One of the Three Fates. She presided over birth, and drew from her distaff the thread of life, Atropos presided over death and cut the thread of life, and Lachesis spun the fate of life between birth and death. Greek |
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