Homer's Iliad presents Guneus as an eponymous leader who "brought twenty-two ships from Cyphus" and was followed by the Enienes (Aenianes) and the valiant Perrhaebi, linking him to the Trojan War generation. Homer gives no parentage; later mythographers and local traditions supply variant genealogies: some name parents Ocytus and Aurophyte (or Tauropoleia / Hippodameia in alternate accounts), and a rare account calls his father Cyphos. Post-Homeric summaries and mythographic tradition report that Guneus survived the war and later settled in Libya near the Cinyps River, reflecting the common aetiological motif of heroic leaders founding or settling foreign places after Troy.
Surviving sources provide no physical or supernatural description of Guneus. He is attested as a named mortal leader and genealogical forebear; the literary attestations focus on his role, followers, parentage variants, and later settlement rather than on distinctive corporeal features.
Guneus is represented as a social and martial figure rather than a supernatural agent: in Homer he commands a contingent of ships (twenty-two) from Cyphus and leads the Enienes and Perrhaebi to Troy, indicating capacity as a chieftain and war-leader. In genealogical accounts he functions as an ancestor or father (for example, cited as father or ancestor of Laonome in some traditions), a role used by mythographers to link later notable houses into kinship networks. Sources record no supernatural powers.
Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
Adrastus
Adrastus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος or Ἄδρηστος) is a legendary king of Argos in the Greek mythic-historical tradition, best known as the leader of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and as a figure tied to oracular counsel, dynastic marriages, and local hero cults.
Ajax (Aias)
Ajax (Ancient Greek: Aias) is a human heroic figure of the Trojan-cycle tradition and the tragic protagonist of Sophocles' play Ajax. In the surviving tradition he is a mortal Salaminian warrior celebrated for physical strength and martial reputation whose wounded honor, rage, and resulting suicide are the focus of Sophocles' drama.
Ajax the Great
Ajax the Great (Ancient Greek: Αἴας, Aíās) is a mortal heroic figure of the Trojan War cycle, famed as a towering, steadfast Greek champion and defender of the Achaean ships. Prominent in Homer’s Iliad, he is portrayed as second only to Achilles in martial standing and as a paragon of defensive strength and reliability.
Alcinous
Alcinous (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκίνοος, Alkínoos, "mighty mind") is a legendary human king of the Phaeacians in Greek epic tradition. He is portrayed as an ideal hospitable monarch who receives wandering heroes (notably Odysseus and the Argonauts), presides over feasts and games, adjudicates disputes, and provides ships, gifts, and safe passage. Variant genealogies and island-identifications appear across sources, but his role as a beneficent royal host is consistent.
Alcmeonis
A lost early Greek epic poem (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμεωνίς / Ἀλκμαιωνίς) traditionally counted among the Theban cycle; known only from a small number of fragmentary references, it narrated the story of Alcmaeon’s killing of his mother Eriphyle in vengeance for the death of his father Amphiaraus.
Amphialus (Amphialos)
Amphialus (Ancient Greek: Άμφίαλος, Amphialus/Amphialos, lit. 'of two seas') is a recurring personal name in classical Greek epic, genealogical tradition, and later pastoral/romance literature. The name is applied to several distinct mortal figures — a Phaeacian athlete in the Odyssey, various seafaring companions and suitors in Homeric summaries, a son of Neoptolemus and Andromache in genealogical accounts, and a noble/warrior character in early modern Arcadian romances — rather than to a single supernatural being.
Amphinomus
Amphinomus (Ἀμφίνομος) is a personal name borne by several human figures in Greek tradition, most notably a princely suitor of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey; other bearers appear in local genealogies, a Catanian civic legend, and a later historical record as a geometer. The sources treat Amphinomus as mortal personages rather than a supernatural being.
Andromache
Andromache (Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομάχη) is a human figure of ancient Greek literary tradition: the wife of Hector of Troy who exemplifies virtuous fidelity, ritual mourning, and the losses suffered by women in war. She appears in Homeric epic and later classical sources as grieving spouse, captive concubine after Troy's fall, and later queen in post-war narratives.
Antimachus of Teos
Antimachus of Teos (Greek: Ἀντίμαχος ὁ Τήϊος) is an early Greco-Ionian epic poet cited in later antiquity as the putative author or ascription-anchor for fragmentary Theban-cycle material (notably sometimes the Epigoni). Later authors quote or reference him for sententiae and as a chronological marker; his identity is contested and sometimes conflated with the much later Antimachus of Colophon.
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).
Argos
Argos is the loyal hunting dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, remembered for recognizing his master upon Odysseus's covert return to Ithaca after a twenty-year absence. Presented as a domesticated, neglected animal, Argos functions as a moral and emotional emblem of fidelity and the effects of prolonged absence in the epic.
Community Record
- [1]Guneus — Wikipedia. Wikipedia entry 'Guneus' (summary of Homeric and mythographic attestations, etymology derived from gounos 'fruitful land').wiki
- [2]Iliad — Catalogue of Ships (summaries citing Guneus). Summary of Homeric passage: 'Guneus brought two and twenty ships from Cyphus, and he was followed by the Enienes and the valiant Peraebi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona.'literary
- [3]Apollodorus and related mythographic summaries (archival audio & compilations). Archival recording of Apollodoran material and later summaries noting genealogical connections (Laonome, links into Amphitryon/Heracles lineage) and postwar settlement in Libya near the Cinyps River.literary
- [4]ToposText — Guneus. Database entry summarizing Homeric and post-Homeric attestations for Guneus (place of origin Cyphus; followers and Catalogue listing).other
- [5]The Returns - Map and leader lists. Map and catalogue resources placing Guneus' followers in various regions (northwestern Greece / Thessaly) and noting postwar movements.other