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LAPITHS
People from Thessaly who became famous mainly because of
their battle against the CENTAURS.
LARES
See Other Deities.
LITAE
See Abstractions.
LYCAON 2'S OFFSPRING
The children of impious Lycaon 2.
 MAENADS. (BACCHANTS.)
MAIDENS
"Maidens" are called the three daughters of Scamander 2 and Acidusa, who are honoured in Boeotia up to this day
Scamander 2 was king in Boeotia. He named the Inachus river after himself, and the stream near by he called Glaucia from his mother. The spring Acidusa he named after his wife. Scamander 2 was son of Deimachus 4, a companion of Heracles 1 who took part in the
latter's expedition against Troy and fell fighting there. Deimachus 4 was son of Eleon, a Boeotian who brought up his grandson Scamander 2.
Scamander 2's mother Glaucia was a Trojan. She fell in love with Deimachus 4 when he was fighting against the Trojans. When he died Glaucia fled for refuge and told Heracles 1 of her love affair with Deimachus 4. Later, when she gave birth to Scamander 2, Heracles 1 delivered both the child and the mother to Eleon in Boeotia. Glaucia was a daughter of the river god Scamander 1 and Idaea 1.
MARES MAGNESIAN
These are the mares which gave birth to the CENTAURS after consorting with
Centaurus.
 MARES OF DIOMEDES 1
See HERACLES 1'S LABOURS.
MARES OF LAOMEDON 1
See Ganymedes.
MELEAGRIDS
Eurymede 2 and Melanippe 5, sisters of Meleager who grieved the death
of their brother and were turned into birds by Artemis.
MELIADS
See NYMPHS.
 METAMORPHOSES
Who transformed into what?
MINYADS
The daughters of Minyas, having gone mad, conceived a craving for human flesh, and drew lots for their children. The lot fell upon Leucippe 4 to contribute her son Hippasus 11 to be torn to pieces. See Minyas and the Minyans
MOERAE. (FATES)
The three sisters who decide on human fate.
MOLIONES. (See MOLIONIDES.)
MOLIONIDES. (MOLIONES.)
These were twin-brothers with two bodies and joined to one another (see Elis).
MOUNTAINS
Offspring of Gaia (Earth).
 MUSES
NAIADS
See NYMPHS.
NATURAL
PERSONIFICATIONS
Sidereal and Natural Personifications.
NEREIDS
The daughters of Nereus.
NIOBIDS
The children of Amphion 1 & Niobe 2 that were killed by Apollo and Artemis.
NYMPHS
Female spirits of nature.
NYMPHS DODONIDES.
See NYMPHS.
NYMPHS CABIROIDES
See NYMPHS.
NYMPHS CORYCIAN
See NYMPHS.
NYMPHS LAMUSIDES. (HYADES 2.)
See NYMPHS.
NYX'S OFFSPRING
The children of the Night.
OCEANIDS
The daughters of Oceanus and
Tethys.
ODYSSEUS IN HADES
Those whom Odysseus met when
he descended to the Underworld.
OLYMPIANS
The deathless gods who live in the house of Olympus.
OREADS
See NYMPHS.
PANS
Horned rockdwellers, children of Pan.
PENATES
See Other Deities.
PHORCIDES. (See GRAEAE.)
PIERIDES. (EMATHIDES.)
Nine sisters who defied the MUSES in a contest of song and were defeated. The MUSES themselves are sometimes
called by this name.
PLEIADES
The daughters of Atlas &
Pleione.
POSEIDON'S OFFSPRING
Children of Poseidon.
PRIAMIDES
Children of King Priam 1 of Troy
PROPOETIDES
These women denied the divinity of Aphrodite and, through the
goddess' wrath, they became the first to prostitute their
bodies.
 RIVER GODS
Collectively said to be the offspring of Oceanus & Tethys.
SAILORS
These are the Tyrrhenian sailors who attempted to delude Dionysus 2. They are also said
to have leapt ashore and captured Dionysus 2 whom they stripped of his possessions and tied with ropes running behind his back. However, the god saved himself by turning them into dolphins. The SAILORS were Acoetes 2, Aethalides 2, Alcimedon 2, Dictys 3, Epopeus 3, Libys, Lycabas 2, Medon 6, Melas 7, Opheltes 3, and Simon (according to Hyginus); or else they were Acoetes 2, Aethalion, Alcimedon 2, Dictys 3, Epopeus 3, Libys, Lycabas 2, Medon 6, Melanthus 2, Opheltes 3, and Proreus 2 (according to Ovid) (Hyg.Fab.134; Nonn.45.120ff., 45.167, 47.630; Ov.Fast.3.723; Ov.Met.3.581-691).
 SATYRS
Horned attendants of Dionysus 2.
SEERS
Those whose business is to judge the signs of what is
yet to come.
SERVANTS
Those who are reported to have been servants, maids,
slaves and attendants.
SEVEN AGAINST
THEBES
The seven leaders who followed Adrastus 1 in his war against Thebes.
SILENS
The oldest among the SATYRS; they
are a mortal race.
SIRENS
Seducers of passing sailors.
SOIL'S OFFSPRING. (See AUTOCHTHONOUS.)
SPARTI
Men born from the teeth of a dragon.
SUITORS OF HELEN
Those who wished to win the hand of Helen.
SUITORS OF HIPPODAMIA 3
Those who were obliged to win her hand through a chariot race with her father, who would kill them if they were overtaken in the race (see Oenomaus 1).
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE
Those who wished to marry Penelope and living in the
palace of Odysseus consumed his
herds at their feasts during his absence.
TELCHINES
See CORYBANTES.
THESPIUS' OFFSPRING
See Heracles 1.
THRIAE
Three sisters, virgin and winged, who were teachers in
divination and were inspired through eating honey.
TITANS
Lords of the universe before the OLYMPIANS.
TRITONS
See Divinities of Waters &
Landscapes.
TROJAN LEADERS
Those who led the forces of Troy and its allies against the ACHAEANS, and the peoples they
commanded.
TROJANS
Those who are reported to have fought against the ACHAEANS at Troy.
VULTURES
See BESTIARY.
 WINDS
The winds: Argestes, Boreas 1, Eurus, Notus and Zephyrus 1.
WINEGROWERS
Elais, Oeno and Spermo. Sisters who had the power of
producing oil, corn and wine from
the earth.
WOODEN HORSE
The "Trojan Horse". Those who hid themselves inside the
invention of Odysseus that Epeius 2 constructed, so that the ACHAEANS could come into Troy.
ZEUS' NURSES
Those said to have nursed Zeus.
ZEUS' OFFSPRING
Children of Zeus.
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