| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Amphilochus" | Greek | A son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and brother of Alcmaeon. (Apollodorus iii) When his father went against Thebes, Amphiloehus was, according to Pausanias, yet an infant, although ten years afterwards he is mentioned as one of the Epigoni, and according to some traditions åśśisted his brother in the murder of his mother. |
"Amphion" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Antiope, the daughter of Nycteus of Thebes, and twin-brother of Zethus. |
| God name "Amphion" | Greek | God. Theban variant on the god POLYDEUKES.... |
"Amphistratus" | Greek | With his brother Rhecas were the charioteers of the Dioscuri. Greek |
| Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | According to Hesiod (Theogony) and Apollodorus a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus calls her an Oceanid. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon. |
| Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | Sea goddess. According to Theogony (Hesiod), one of the fifty daughters of NEREUS and DORIS. Considered to calm stormy seas, traveling in a boat made of mussels. She was among those present at the birth of APOLLO.... |
| King name "Amphitryon" | Greek | Or Amphitruo a son of Alcaeus, king of Troezen, by Hipponome, the daughter of Menoeceus. Pausanias calls his mother Laonome. |
| Nymph name "Ampulus" | Greek | A Hamadryad nymph of the Vine tree. |
| Nymph name "Amycus" | Greek | A son of Poseidon by Bithynis, or by the Bithyaiian nymph Melia. He was ruler of the country of the Bebryces, and when the Argonauts landed on the coast of his dominions, he challenged the bravest of them to a boxing match. |
| Goddess name "Amymone" | Greek | A goddess of springs |
"Amymone" | Greek | One of the daughters of Danaus and Elephantis. When Danaus arrived in Argos, the country, according to the wish of Poseidon, who was indignant at Inachus, was suffering from a drought, and Danaus sent out Amymone to fetch water. |
"Amythaon" | Greek | A son of Cretheus and Tyro and brother of Aeson and Pheres. He dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene became the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia. |
| Goddess name "Ananke" | Greek | Goddess of destiny. Considered to be a universal presence. Depicted holding a spindle.... |
| Goddess name "Anat / Athene" | Greek | Anat and Athene In a Cyprian inscription the Greek goddess Athêna Sôteira Nikê is equated with Anat. Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes (that is Anubis) councelled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uråñuś. However, in the Baal cycle, that rôle is åśśigned to Asherah / Elat and Anat is there called the "Virgin." |
"Anaxibia" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Bias and wife of Pelias, by whom she became the mother of Acastus, Peisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, and Alcestis. (Apollodorus) 2. A daughter of Cratieus, and second wife of Nestor. (Apollodorus) 3. A daughter of Pleisthenes, and sister of Agamemnon, married Strophius and became the mother of Pylades. |
"Anaxibia" | Greek | wife of Archelaos. |
"Anaxithea" | Greek | One of the daughters of Danaus and the mother of Olenus by Jupiter. |
| God name "Ancaeus" | Greek | 1. A son of the Arjadian Lycurgus and Creophile or Eurynome, and father of Agapenor. He was one of the Argonauts and partook in the Calydonian hunt in which he was killed by the boar. (Apollodorus i. 9.) 2. A son of Poseidon and Astypalaea or Alta, king of the Leleges in Samos, and husband of Samia, the daughter of the river-god Maeander, by whom he became the father of Perilaus, Enodos, Samos, Alitherses, and Parthenope. |
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