Cymothoe is listed in mythographic genealogies as one of the fifty daughters of Nereus (the 'Old Man of the Sea') and the Oceanid Doris. Sources that preserve Nereid lists (e.g., Hyginus' catalogue as transmitted in modern archives) enumerate her among the cohort of sea‑nymphs who personify aspects of the sea and serve as attendants in the marine divine household.
Classical literary and visual sources treat Cymothoe as a Nereid—a young female sea‑nymph—rather than providing a fixed physical portrait. Modern summaries gloss her name and epithets (one encyclopedic entry calls her 'cerulean' and associates her with 'gentle and quiet waves') and archaeological illustration attests to at least one mosaic depiction showing Cymothoe reclining on the serpentine tail of a sea‑god (an image catalogued in Theoi's gallery). Beyond these attestations, the supplied sources do not give a standardized, detailed bodily description.
Within the supplied corpus Cymothoe's demonstrable capacity is that of a Nereid: presence in the sea and the ability to act in maritime contexts. A referenced account in modern summaries credits her, alongside Triton, with helping Aeneas retrieve his ships after they were scattered by a storm (the Aeneid tradition). Genealogical and encyclopedic sources otherwise record her as a named member of the Nereid collective; no further independent powers, rites, or extended mythic agency are attested in the provided materials.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
Acanthis
Acanthis is a young woman in Greek myth, daughter of Autonous and Hippodamia, who is transformed into a thistle finch by the gods as an etiological explanation for the bird's name. The story is preserved chiefly in Antoninus Liberalis' Metamorphoses and summarized in modern reference works.
Acaste
Acaste (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάστη) is a named Oceanid — one of the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys — recorded among the companions of Persephone at the moment of her abduction; the name also appears separately as a nurse of the daughters of King Adrastus of Argos in later genealogical lists.
Achaeus
Achaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιός, Akhaiós) is an eponymous personal name borne by three mythological human figures in Greek tradition; best attested is Achaeus, son of Xuthus and Creusa, brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen, who is named as father of Archander and Architeles in Pausanias. The name is glossed as meaning "griever," from ἄχος (achos, "grief, pain, woe").
Aegle
Aegle (Ancient Greek: Αἴγλη, 'brightness' or 'dazzling light') is a name applied to several distinct female figures in Greek myth: a daughter of Asclepius associated with health, a Naiad mother of the Charites by Helios and Neaera, one of the Heliades transformed into a poplar after Phaeton's death, a named Hesperid, an alternate name for Coronis in some traditions, a daughter of Panopeus beloved by Theseus, and a nurse of Dionysus. The recurrence of the name links these figures by the themes of brightness, beauty, and filial or nymph-like status rather than by a single unified identity.
Aello
Aello (Ancient Greek: Ἀελλώ) is a named figure in Greek myth primarily attested as one of the Harpies—winged female personifications of storm-wind who harry, snatch, and torment. The name also appears in variant lists as applied to an Actaeonian hunting dog, showing onomastic fluidity in the tradition.
Aeneads
A collective term in Roman myth for the friends, family, and companions of the Trojan hero Aeneas who fled Troy and wandered before settling in Italy; treated as a retinue and ancestral cohort rather than independent supernatural beings.
Agaptolemus
Agaptolemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαπτόλεμος) is a mythic Greek prince, one of the fifty sons of King Aegyptus, best known as the husband of the Danaid Pirene who, like most of the Danaids, slew her husband on their wedding night at the command of her father Danaus.
Agave
Agave (Ancient Greek: Agaue/Agaúē) is a personal name borne by at least two distinct figures in Greek myth: a Nereid (one of the fifty sea-nymph daughters of Nereus) and a Theban princess, daughter of Cadmus, who appears in myths connected with Dionysus. The name is glossed in Greek sources as 'illustrious', 'noble', or 'high-born'.
Agrius
Agrius (Ancient Greek: Ἄγριος, 'wild') is an onomastic figure in Greek myth whose name is applied to multiple distinct personae—including a Giant, a centaur, a bear‑born twin, a princely son, a suitor of Penelope, and one of Actaeon's dogs—rather than a single unified supernatural being. Each attestation places an Agrius in different narrative registers (Gigantomachy, Heracles' labors, heroic genealogies, the Odyssean cycle, and the Actaeon hunt).
Agron
Agron (Ancient Greek: Ἄγρων, 'wild' or 'rustic') is a human/mortal figure attested in the summary of Antoninus Liberalis' Metamorphoses (as presented on Wikipedia) who, because of impiety toward certain gods, is transformed by Hermes into a plover. The tale functions as an etiological metamorphosis and moral exemplum about observing cult obligations.
Aitolos
Aitolos is a name that appears in Greek-language traditions referring to two distinct figures: Aetolus, a mythic genealogical ancestor in classical Greek myth (son of Endymion, descendant of Deucalion), and Kosmas Aitolos (St. Cosmas of Aetolia), a historical/hagiographic Orthodox teacher whose collected writings emphasize pastoral and ascetical themes. The sources do not present Aitolos as a single folkloric supernatural being.
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- [2]Cymothoe - Wikidata. Wikidata entry Q1766060other
- [3]LP0076 - II ARGONAUTS - Ino & Phrixus, from the Fables of Hyginus (archive). Archive transcription of Hyginus' material listing the Nereidsliterary
- [4]Nereid Cymothoe & Agreus - Ancient Greco-Roman Mosaic (Theoi Gallery). Theoi Project: image and caption noting a mosaic of Cymothoe reclining on a serpentine‑tailed sea‑godother
- [5]Mythology in Aeneid - Owl Eyes (analysis). Modern analysis referencing the Aeneid episode in which sea‑divinities aid Aeneas' shipsother