The name Pelagon appears for multiple distinct figures in Greek mythic genealogies and heroic narratives. Attestations include: Pelagon, king of Phocis and son of Amphidamas, who gave Cadmus the cow that guided him to Boeotia; a Pelagon (also called Pelasgus) described as son of the river-god Asopus and the naiad Metope; a Pelagon named as father of the Paeonian warrior Asteropaeus in the Iliad (suggesting an eponymous link to Pelagonia); and individuals named Pelagon who appear among suitors, as one of the Calydonian hunters, or as companions in Trojan War narratives. These references come from the curated summaries of classical sources (as collected in the supplied Wikipedia/Apollodorus/Homer material) and represent separate mythic personages rather than a single supernatural class.
Classical sources provided in the surveyed material do not ascribe a consistent or distinctive physical appearance to a supernatural Pelagon; the name is used for human or semi-divine persons and no common iconography or monstrous description is recorded. Where parentage is noted (for example, a Pelagon son of the river-god Asopus and the naiad Metope), the implication is ordinary heroic/mortal form embedded in divine genealogy rather than a shared nonhuman appearance.
No supernatural powers are attributed to Pelagon in the supplied sources. The recorded functions and behaviors derive from individual biographies: acting as a king and host (the Phocian Pelagon who assists Cadmus), serving as an eponymous ancestor or genealogical father (father of Asteropaeus and possible founder figure for Pelagonia), and participating in heroic activities (Calydonian hunt, presence among suitors, companionship of noted warriors in the Trojan cycle). These roles are social, martial, and genealogical rather than magical.
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.
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.
Acarnan
Acarnan (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαρνάν) is an anthroponym attested in Greek mythic and epic tradition as the name of at least two distinct mortal figures: a son of Alcmaeon and Callirrhoe, and a human suitor of Penelope from Dulichium. The lexical form also appears adjectivally/ethnically (Acarnanian), linking the word to the region Acarnania; etymologically the name is reported as derived from a Greek fish-name (akarnan).
Acastus
Acastus is a mortal heroic figure of ancient Greek tradition: son of Pelias who became king of Iolcus, an Argonaut who sailed with Jason, and an actor in the post-Argonautic cycle involving Medea, Peleus, and the aftermath of Pelias’s death. He is attested as performing civic and ritual actions (burying Pelias, instituting funeral games, purifying Peleus) and as a participant in vendetta episodes that end in violent reprisals.
Acmon
Acmon (Ancient Greek: Ἄκμων, 'anvil') is a polyvalent personal name in Greek myth borne by several distinct minor figures — a Dactyl (artisan), a Phrygian eponymous king, a mischievous woodland creature, companions in epic cycles (one companion of Diomedes transformed into a bird; an Aenead), and in some brief traditions an alleged father of Uranus. The name therefore functions across artisanal, topographical, trickster, and metamorphosis motifs rather than denoting a single unified supernatural species.
Acrisius
Acrisius (Ancient Greek: Ἀκρίσιος, Akrisios) is a mythic-historical king of Argos in Greek tradition whose narrative is defined by an oracular prophecy foretelling his death by his daughter's son. He is portrayed as a mortal ruler entangled with dynastic rivalry, oracular authority, and the eventual accidental fulfillment of fate.
Aeacidae
The Aeacidae are a dynastic lineage in Greek myth and historiography descended from the hero Aeacus, son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina. The name functions as a patronymic designation for those 'of Aeacus' and is used to claim genealogical legitimacy and political prestige in regions such as Aegina and Molossian Epirus.
Aegipan
Aegipan (Αἰγίπαν / Αἰγίπανος) is an ancient Greek mythological figure associated with goat attributes and with the sea‑goat imagery of the constellation Capricornus. He appears in classical myth as a semi‑divine helper (notably in the Typhon episode) and, in later natural‑history and medieval bestiary reception, the name is applied to satyr‑like or ape‑like wild men in distant lands.
Aegisthus
Aegisthus (Greek Αἴγισθος, Aigisthos) is a mortal member of the House of Atreus in Greek myth who, born of incestuous circumstances and raised by shepherds and a goat, participates in dynastic murder and usurpation — notably the slaying of Atreus in some accounts and the conspiracy (with Clytemnestra) that results in Agamemnon's death — and is later killed by Orestes, an episode that figures in narratives about inherited guilt, vengeance, and the transition from private retribution to public justice.
Aepytus
Aepytus (Ancient Greek: Αἴπυτος, Aíputos/Aípytos, lit. 'steep, high, lofty') is a personal name in Greek myth borne by several legendary kings tied to Arcadian and Heraclid genealogies. The figures named Aepytus function as ancestral/dynastic nodes in literary genealogies and later literary receptions rather than as supernatural beings.
Aeson
Aeson (Ancient Greek: Αἴσων) is a legendary mortal king of Iolcus in Thessaly in Greek myth, best known as the father of the hero Jason. His fate—imprisonment by his half-brother Pelias and either suicide or a miraculous restoration performed by Medea—provides the dynastic and moral background for the Argonautic cycle.
Aethalides
Aethalides is a personal name borne by two distinct figures in ancient Greek myth: one listed among the Argonauts as a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, and another named among the Tyrrhenian sailors who attempted to deceive Dionysus and was transformed into a dolphin. The sources treat Aethalides as named human mythic personages appearing in separate narrative contexts rather than as a class of supernatural being.
Community Record
- [1]Pelagon — Wikipedia. Wikipedia entry 'Pelagon', summarizing classical attestions of multiple mythic figures named Pelagon (king of Phocis; son of Asopus and Metope; father of Asteropaeus; hunter/suitor/companion).wiki
- [2]Pelagonema — Wikidata (name similarity noted in surveyed set). Wikidata entry for Pelagonema (included in surveyed materials as a homonymous modern taxonomic name; not evidence of mythic attributes).other
- [3]Europa (LP0020) — Archive (Apollodorus/Homeric legendary passages referenced in surveyed corpus). Archive item containing material from the legendary corpus (Apollodorus/Homeric traditions) referenced in the surveyed set that underlie the genealogical and heroic contexts where Pelagon appears.literary
- [4]Sabato De Polito — Ana Di Las Poetas De La Antigua Grecia (Anthology index). Anthology index listing an item 'para Pelagón' indicating a later poetic address to a Pelagón; cited in the surveyed materials as a modern literary reuse of the name.literary
- [5]Terraform (1986) — Pelagon Software (archive entry). Archive record for a 1986 computer release by 'Pelagon Software' — included in the surveyed materials to show modern homonymous uses of the name distinct from classical mythic attestations.other
- [6]Pelagon Software (product/company reference). Web index entry for Pelagon Software; cited among modern, non-mythic occurrences of the name in the surveyed materials.other