Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Iapetos" | Greek | The father of Atlas and ancestor of the human race, called genus Iapeti, the progeny of Iapetus. By many considered the same as Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. Greek |
God name "Iapetos" | Greek | God. One of the sons of OURANOS (heaven) and a member of the TITAN race which clashed with the Olympian gods. He is the father of the heroes Atlas and PROMETHEUS.... |
"Iapis or Iapyx" | Greek | Was a son of Iasus, and a favourite of Apollo, who wanted to confer upon him the gift of prophecy and the lyre, but Iapis, wishing to prolong the life of his father, preferred the more tranquil art of healing to all the others. He also cured Aeneas of the wound he had received in the war against La- tinus. Greek |
Nymph name "Iasion" | Greek | Also called Iasius, was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Electra, tLe daughter of Atlas, and a brother of Dardåñuś (Theogony of Hesiod 970 ) but others called him a son of Corythus and Electra, of Zeus and the nymph Hemera, or of Ilithyius, or of Minos and the nymph Pyronia.Greek |
Goddess name "Iaso" | Greek | A daughter of Asclepius or Amphiaraus, and sister of Hygieia, was worshipped as the goddess of recovery. Greek |
"Iasus 1" | Greek | A son of Phoroneus, and brother of Pelasgus and Agenor, or Arestor. |
"Iasus 2" | Greek | A son of Argus and Evadne, a daughter of Strymon, or a son of Peitho, the father of Agenor, and father of Argus Panoptes. |
"Iasus 3" | Greek | A son of Argus Panoptes and Ismene, the daughter of Asopus, and the father of Io. |
"Iasus 4" | Greek | A son of Io. |
"Iasus 5" | Greek | A son of Triopas, grandson of Phorbas, and brother of Agenor. |
"Iasus 6" | Greek | An Arcadian, a son of Lycurgus and Cleophile or Eurynome, a brother of Ancaeus and Amphidamas, and the husband of Clymene, the daughter of Minyas, by whom he became the father of Atalante. |
"Iasus 7" | Greek | A son of Eleuther, and father of Chaeresileus. |
"Iasus 9" | Greek | A son of Sphelus, the commander of the Athenians in the Trojan war, was slain by Aeneias. |
God name "Icarius" | Greek | Also called Icarus and Icarion. An Athenian, who lived in the reign of Pandion, and hospitably received Dionysus on his arrival in Attica. The god showed him his gratitude by teaching him the cultivation of the vine, and giving him bags filled with wine. Icarius now rode about in a chariot, and distributed the precious gifts of the god; but some shepherds whom their friends intoxicated with wine, and who thought that they were poisoned by Icarius, slew him, and threw his body into the well Anygrus, or buried it under a tree. Greek |
"Ichthyocentaurus" | Greek | A fish-centaur, or a particular kind of Triton. Ichthyocentauri were fabulous beings, the upper part of whose body was conceived to have a human form, and the lower that of a fish, while the place of the hands was occupied by a horse's feet. Greek |
"Idaeus" | Greek | A son of Dardåñuś and Chryse, and brother of Deimas, went with his father from Peloponnesus, by way of Samothrace, to Phrygia, and settled on the mountains of Phrygia, which derived from him the name of Ida, or the Idaean mountains.Greek |
"Idas" | Greek | A son of Aphareus and Arene, the daughter of Oebalus, whence he and his brother Lyriceus are called Apharetides, or Aphareidae.Greek |
Goddess name "Idothea" | Greek | A goddess of the sea |