| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Giants" | Greek | Of Greek mythology, sons of Tartaros and Ge. When they attempted to storm heaven, they were hurled to earth by the aid of Hercules, and buried under Mount Etna. |
| God name "Gigantes" | Greek | According to Homer, they were a gigantic and savage race of men, governed by Eurymedon, and dwelling in the distant west, in the island of Thrinacia; but they were extirpated by Eurymedon on account of their insolence towards the gods. Greek |
| God name "Gilgamesh" | Greek | A demigod of superhuman strength who built a great wall to defend his people from external threats, a sort of Sumerian equivalent to the Greek Heracles. |
"Glauca" | Greek | wife of Alcis. |
"Glaucippa" | Greek | wife of Potamon. |
| God name "Glaucus" | Greek | This sea god went around muttering prophesies |
"Glaucus" | Greek | A grandson of Aeolus, son of Sisyphus and Merope, and father of Bellerophontes. Greek |
| God name "Glaukos" | Greek | A sea god, a rather bizarre story like many other god claims |
| God name "Glaukos" | Greek | Sea god. Allegedly an impoverished fisherman who ate a sea-gråśś with magical properties, dived into the ocean and remained there as a guardian deity of fishermen and their nets.See also PROTEUS.... |
"Golgus" | Greek | A son of Adonis and Aphrodite, from whom the town of Golgi, in Cyprus, was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Gorga" | Greek | wife of Hyppothooa. |
"Gorge" | Greek | A daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, and the wife of Andraemon. When Artemis metamorphosed her sisters into birds, on account of their unceasing lamentations about their brother Meleager, Gorge and Deianeira alone were spared. Greek |
"Gorgo" | Greek | According to the Odyssey, was one of the frightful phantoms in Hades. In the Iliad the Aegis of Athena contains the head of Gorgo, the terror of her enemies. |
"Gorgophon" | Greek | wife of Proteus. |
| King name "Gorgophone" | Greek | A daughter of Perseus and Andromeda. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon. Gorgophone is a central figure in the history of Sparta, having been married to two kings, Oebalus of Sparta (actually Lakonia, Sparta's region) and Perieres of Messenia, the region to the west of Lakonia which Sparta, in the late 8th or early 7th century B.C. enslaved. Greek |
"Graces" | Roman | Roman version of the Greek Charities. Roman |
"Graces/ Gratiae" | Roman | These are the Roman version of the Greek Charities |
"Graeae" | Greek | That is, " the old women," were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They had grey hair from their birth. Hesiod mentions only two Graeae, viz. Pephredo and Enyo; Apollodorus adds Deino as a third, and Aeschylus also speaks of three Graeae. Greek |
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