| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Xanthippus" | Greek | One of the sons of Melas, who revolted against Oeneus, and were slain by Tydeus. Greek |
"Xantho" | Greek | One of the Nereides. Greek |
"Xanthos" | Greek | Achilles' wonderful horse. Being chid by his master for leaving Patroclos on the field of battle, the horse turned his head reproachfully, and told Achilles that he also would soon be numbered with the dead, not from any fault of his horse, but by the decree of inexorable destiny. Iliad, xix. |
"Xenea" | Greek | A Naiad who fell in love with Daphnis and made him promise never to form a connexion with any other maiden. Greek |
"Xenia" | Greek | And the masculine Xenios, are epithets of Athena and Zeus, describing them as presiding over the laws of hospitality, and protecting strangers. Greek |
"Xenocleia" | Greek | A Delphian priestess, who refused to give an oracular response to Heracles before he was purified of the murder of Iphitus |
| Nymph name "Xenodamus" | Greek | A son of Menelaus and the Cretan nymph Cnossia. |
"Xenodice" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. |
"Xenodice" | Greek | A daughter of Syleus, at Aulis, was slain by Heracles, together with her father. |
| King name "Xuthus" | Greek | A son of Hellen by the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus and Aeolus. He was king of Peloponnesus, and the husband of Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he became the father of Achaeus and Ion (Apollodorus i). Greek |
"Y" | Greek | Y, called the Pythagorean letter because the Greek letter upsilon was taken represent the sacred triad, formed by the duad proceeding from the monad; and also because it represents the dividing of the paths of vice and virtue in the development of human life. |
"Zacynthus" | Greek | A son of Dardåñuś of Psophis who is said to have led a colony to the island of Zacynthus, which derived its name from him. Greek |
"Zagreus" | Greek | A surname of the mystic Dionysus, whom Zeus, in the form of a dragon, is said to have begotten by Persephone, previously to her being carried off by Pluto. Greek |
| God name "Zalmoxis" | Greek | A legendary social and religious reformer, regarded as the only true god by the Thracian Dacians. According to Herodotus (IV), the Getae, who believed in the immortality of the soul, looked upon death merely as going to Zalmoxis, as they knew the way to become immortals. Greek |
"Zelus" | Greek | The personification of zeal or strife, a son of Pallas and Styx, and a brother of Nice. Greek |
| God name "Zephyrus" | Greek | The god of the west wind |
| God name "Zethos" | Greek | God. Theban twin god who had mortal weaknesses. Comparable to Kastor.... |
| God name "Zeus" | Greek | The god of the sky & ruler of the Olympian gods |
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