| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Kuretes" | Greek | The nine dancers who venerate Rhea, who clashed their spears and shields to drown out the wails of infant Zeus. Greek |
"L?laps" | Greek | A very powerful dog given by Diana to Procris; Procris gave it to Cephalos. While pursuing a wild boar it was metamorphosed into a stone. Greek |
"Lachesis" | Greek | One of the fates. Greek |
| Goddess name "Lachesis" | Pre - Homeric Greek | Goddess of lot-casting. According to Hesiod one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. One of an ancient trio of MOIRAI with KLOTHO and ATROPOS, she sustains the thread of life and is depicted carrying a scroll.... |
"Lactåñuś" | Greek | Lactans, Lacturnus, and Lacturcia, Lactura, Roman divinities, who were believed to protect the young fruits of the field. Some believe that Lactans and Lacturcia are mere surnames of Ops, and that Lacturnus is a surname of Saturnus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Lactura" | Greek | A grain goddess |
"Ladogenes or Ladonis" | Greek | A name by which the poets sometimes designated Daphne, the daughter of Ladon. Greek |
"Ladon" | Greek | The dragon who was believed to guard the apples of the Hesperides. He is said to have been able to åśśume various tones of voice, and to have been the offspring of Typhon and Echidna but he is also called a son of Ge, or of Phorcys and Ceto. He had been appointed to watch in the gardens of the Hesperides by Juno, and never slept; but he was slain by Heracles and the image of the fight was placed by Zeus among the stars. Greek |
"Lais" | Greek | A courtesan or Greek Hetaira. There were two of the name; the elder was the most beautiful woman of Corinth, and lived at the time of the Peloponnesian war. The beauty of the latter excited the jealousy of the Thessalonian women, who pricked her to death with their bodkins. She was contemporary with Phryne, her rival, and sat to Apelles as a model. |
"Lamia" | Greek | The friend and charioteer of Antilochus. Greek |
| Hero name "Lamia" | Greek | A daughter of Poseidon, became by Zeus the mother of the Sibyl Herophile. Greek<.li>. |
"Lamia" | Greek | Lamia by John Keats, A son of Apollo and Phthia, a brother of Dorus and Polypoethes, in Curetis, was killed by Aetolus. |
"Lamia" | Greek | A son of Bias and Pero, and a brother of Talaus, took part in the expedition of the Argonauts, and in that of the Seven against Thebes. Greek |
| King name "Lamia" | Greek | A female phantom, by which children were frightened. According to tradition, she was originally a Libyan queen, of great beauty and a daughter of Belus. She was beloved by Zeus, and Hera in her jealousy robbed her of her children. Lamia, from revenge and despair, robbed others of their children, and murdered them; and the savage cruelty in which she now indulged rendered her ugly, and her face became fearfully distorted. Zeus gave her the power of taking her eyes out of her head, and putting them in again. Greek |
"Lamp of Phoebus" | Greek | The Sun. Phoebus is the mythological personification of the Sun. Greek |
"Lampos and Phaeton" | Greek | The two steeds of Aurora. One of Act?on's dogs was called Lampos. Greek |
"Lampus" | Greek | The name of two horses, one belonging to Eos, the other to Hector. Greek |
"Lampus" | Greek | A son of Laomedon, and father of Dolops, was one of the Trojan elders. Greek |
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