The sources present Lysidice as a daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia within the Pelopid genealogical tradition. She appears only in genealogical listings and summaries preserved by classical authors and compilers (for example Plutarch's Theseus passage and the genealogical material summarized under Apollodorus), where she functions as an ancestral link tying Pelops's descendants to later figures such as Alcmena and to offspring like Hippothoe (by Mestor). No independent birth‑narrative, foundation myth, or cultic origin story for Lysidice is preserved in the cited materials.
Ancient sources cited in the provided materials give no physical description of Lysidice. She is named and located only by familial relation (daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia; in some lists mother of Hippothoe by Mestor). The surviving attestations are genealogical entries rather than narrative accounts that would include bodily description.
The cited texts do not attribute any supernatural powers, deeds, or distinctive personal exploits to Lysidice. Her role in the sources is strictly genealogical: a named mortal woman used to record lines of descent within the Pelopid house. There are no accounts of actions, miracles, or behaviors associated with her in the provided materials.
Pelops
Pelops is a mythic heroic-royal figure of ancient Greek tradition, an eponymous founder-ancestor of the Peloponnesus, ruler of Pisa/Olympia, and progenitor of dynasties (notably the House of Atreus). He is both a cult hero venerated at Olympia with chthonic libations and a narrative focal point whose deeds generate a long-lasting familial curse.
Mestor
Mestor (Ancient Greek: Μήστωρ, 'adviser, counsellor') is primarily an Ancient Greek personal name borne by several mortal figures in mythic genealogies (sons of Perseus, Pterelaus, Priam, Ajax and one of Poseidon's ten Atlantean princes in Plato). In modern popular culture the name was reused for a human antagonist in the Doctor Who serial 'The Twin Dilemma'.
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Abarbarea
Abarbarea is a name attested in classical Greek and Roman sources for freshwater nymphs (naiads). The name appears for at least two individual mythic figures — a naiad wife of Bucolion and a naiad counted among ancestors of the Tyrians — and Hesychius records plural forms that may indicate the name was also used as a class-name (Abarbareai / Abarbalaiai).
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.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Abomination of Desolation
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
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.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
Community Record
- [1]Theseus (Plutarch) — family genealogy passage. Plutarch, Theseus (translated). Passage noting: 'For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus, and Alcmena of Lysidice, and Lysidice and Pittheus were brother and sister, children of Hippodamia and Pelops.'literary
- [2]Apollodorus (summary via Frazer) — genealogical entry. Apollodorus (as summarized in the cited episode material): entry indicating 'Mestor had Hippothoe by Lysidike, Lysidice, daughter of Pelops.'literary
- [3]Theoi Project — Pelops family summary. Theoi summary material listing daughters of Pelops (including Lysidice/Lysidike) and noting genealogical attributions such as Mestor's daughter Hippothoe by Lysidike.other
- [4]Lysidice — Wikipedia (disambiguation/summary). Modern summary noting occurrences of the name Lysidice in mythic genealogies and later usages; does not expand upon primary narrative details.wiki
- [5]Lysidice — Wikidata entry. Wikidata item recording attestations of the name Lysidice in classical sources and modern references.wiki