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Aphareus

Aphareus was the son of Perieres and Gorgophone, the daughter of Perseus. Aphareus was the brother of Leucippus. Aphareus married his cousin Arene ...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Perieres

Perieres (Περιήρης) was the son of Aeolus and Enarete. He was the brother of Cretheus, Athamas, Sisyphus and Salmoneus. At the death of Polycaon, k...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Glaucus

King of Ephyra (Corinth). Glaucus (Glaucos, Γλαύκος) was the son of Sisyphus and Merope, daughter of Atlas and Pleione (one of the Pleiades). Glauc...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Sisyphus

Sisyphus (Σίσυφος) was the king of Ephyra (Corinth). Sisyphus was the son of Aeolus and Enarete. He was the brother of Cretheus, Athamas, Perieres ...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Athamas

King of Orchomenus. Athamas (Ἀθάμας) was the son of Aeolus and Enarete. The goddess Hera arranged Athamas' first marriage to Nephele (Νεφέλη), who ...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Acastus

Argonaut. Acastus was the son of Pelias and Anaxibia or Phylomachus. Acastus joined his cousin Jason in the quest for the golden fleece. When Medea...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Pelias

King of Iolcus. Pelias (Πελιάς) was the son of Tyro and Poseidon. Pelias was the twin brother of Neleus. Pelias incurred Hera's enmity when he murd...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Tyro

King of Salmonia, in Elis, Salmoneus (Σαλμωνεύς) was the father of Tyro (Τυρώ) by Alicidice, daughter of Aleüs (Aleus), king of Arcadia. Not long a...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Melanippe

Heroine of two lost plays of Euripides. Melanippe (Μελανίππη) was the daughter of Aeolus, king of Thessaly, and of Hippo, daughter of the Centaur C...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Aeolus

Aeolus (Αἴολος) became a ruler in Thessaly after his father. Aeolus married Enarete (Ἐναρετη), daughter of Deïmacus (Deimacus), who bore him sons w...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Creusa and Ion

Xuthus was the son of Hellen and Orseïs (Orseis). Xuthus became the king of Iolcus. Xuthus was the father of Diomede, who married Deion, the son of...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe

Hellen

After the Deluge, Pyrrha bore Deucalion, king of Phthia, in Thessaly, five children: Hellen (Ἕλλην), Amphictyon, Protogeneia, Pandora and Thyia. Am...

April 27th, 1999

By Jimmy Joe