In the mythographic tradition summarized by later compilers, Damno is presented as a daughter of King Belus of Egypt. Several sources and summaries (citing Pherecydes among earlier mythographers) record that she married Agenor—sometimes described as her paternal uncle—and by him became mother to figures named Isaia (Isaie) and Melia. Her attestation appears in genealogical listings that link Egyptian, Phoenician and Greek founding families; she is used to explain kinship ties among these mythic houses rather than to provide a narrative of personal deeds.
No physical description of Damno is provided in the supplied sources. She is attested only as a named member of royal genealogies; no iconography, detailed portrayal, or descriptive phrases are recorded in the materials consulted.
The sources do not attribute supernatural powers, magical abilities, or heroic exploits to Damno. Her role is familial and genealogical: marriage and motherhood that establish descent lines. Secondary commentary (e.g., Rawlinson summarizing Pherecydes) explicitly notes that she "has really no personality separate from his," indicating the absence of independent action or attributed abilities in the surviving accounts.
Antiphus
Antiphus (Ancient Greek Ἄντιφος) is a personal name borne by several mortal men in Greek myth and epic traditions rather than a single supernatural being. Multiple figures named Antiphus appear in genealogies and narratives as princes, warriors, companions of heroes, colonists, and victims in the heroic age (generation of Heracles, the Trojan War, and the Odyssey).
Bebryces
The Bebryces (Greek: Βέβρυκες) are a legendary people or tribe attested in Greek mythographic and geographic tradition, primarily located in Bithynia (northwestern Anatolia). They appear in heroic-age narratives as local rulers and warriors—not as supernatural beings—and are associated with episodes involving Heracles, the Argonauts, and named kings such as Amycus and Mygdon.
Caletor
Caletor (Ancient Greek: Καλήτωρ) is a personal name borne by at least two mortal figures in the Trojan War cycle: a Trojan defender, son of Clytius, who attempted to burn an Achaean ship and was slain by Ajax; and a separate Caletor attested as the father of the Achaean warrior Aphareus. He is treated in the sources as a human participant in epic narrative and genealogy.
Ctimenus
Ctimenus (Ancient Greek: Κτιμένου) is attested in Greek mythographic records as a human genealogical figure — named as the father of the Argonaut Eurydamas and associated with Ctimene in Dolopian Thessaly. He is not described as a supernatural being; extant sources record only his genealogical role and note an alternative tradition giving Eurydamas different parentage.
Diores
Diores (Ancient Greek: Διώρης, Diṓrēs) is not a single supernatural entity but a recurring personal name borne by several distinct mortal figures in Greek and Roman epic and mythographic tradition. The name appears attached to at least four human characters — fathers, leaders, princes, and husbands — across Homeric, mythographic, and Virgilian narratives.
Dotis
Dotis (Ancient Greek: Δωτίς or Δωτίδος) is a personal name attested in ancient Greek mythographic and lexicographic sources. The name is borne by multiple mythic individuals known from genealogical notices (one male, two female in the cited traditions) rather than a single, coherent supernatural being or class of entity.
Echemela
Echemela is a variant personal name attested in Greek mythographic and commentarial traditions as the wife (bride) of Megapenthes, the illegitimate son of Menelaus. The name appears alongside other onomastic variants (Iphiloche, Echemelos) in manuscript and commentary transmissions rather than as an independent supernatural figure.
Egremus
Egremus is a named mortal figure in Greek myth attested only as a combatant who fell in the war between Eumolpus and Eleusis. He is identified by the patronymic 'son of Eurynomus' and appears only in genealogical/war-list context in the cited source.
Epistrophus
Epistrophus is a personal name borne by several mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and epic narratives. In the Homeric and later mythographic tradition he is attested primarily as a heroic-age leader — notably a leader of the Phocians in the Trojan War cycle — and appears in catalogue-lists, genealogical summaries, and death-notes rather than as a supernatural being.
Haemon
Haemon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων, Haímōn) is a mortal Theban prince in the dynastic cycle of Thebes and a principal human character in Sophocles' Antigone; he is Creon's son and Antigone's fiancé whose choices and fate exemplify conflicts between filial duty and civic authority. He is a human tragic figure, not a supernatural being.
Laophonte
Laophonte (Ancient Greek: Λαοφόντη) is attested in Greek mythographic genealogies as a mortal woman — daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe and sister of Agenor, Sterope, and Stratonice. Some traditions name her as wife of Thestius and mother of Iphiclus, Leda, and Althaea; other authors (e.g., Alcman) offer conflicting parentage for Leda. The name is also reused in zoological taxonomy as a genus of copepods (family Laophontidae).
Medon
Medon (Μέδων) is a Greek personal name attested across mythic, epic, and civic sources for multiple distinct mortal figures (herald, warriors, local notable) and once for a centaur; it functions as a name-cluster rather than a single supernatural being. The name also recurs in modern taxonomic and toponymic usages, which are homonymous transfers rather than indications of a unified mythic entity.
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- [2]Isaia (mythology) — Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors, 'Isaia (mythology)', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopediawiki
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