In the surviving classical summaries and mythographic traditions Polybule appears as a Boeotian woman named in one tradition as the mother of the Argonaut Leitus by Alector. This attribution is one of several competing genealogies preserved in sources: other accounts name Lacritus and Cleobule as Leitus's parents or describe Leitus as earth-born (a son of Gaea). Polybule's role in these accounts is genealogical and regional, linking Leitus to a Boeotian lineage.
No physical description of Polybule is provided in the supplied sources; the materials record only her name and genealogical relation.
The provided sources attribute no supernatural powers, actions, or characteristic behaviors to Polybule. Her only attested role in the cited material is as a maternal progenitor in a particular local tradition.
Perimede
Perimede is an onomastic figure in ancient Greek mythic genealogies: a personal name applied to several mortal women (princesses or consorts) whose marriages and offspring connect regional dynasties. The name, etymologically 'very cunning', appears in variant traditions as a Thessalian princess, a consort or mother by the river-god Achelous, and in island or Boeotian genealogical lists.
Phoenix (son of Agenor)
Phoenix (Greek: Phoinix) is a legendary mortal prince in Greek mythic genealogies, named as a son of King Agenor of Tyre and presented as an eponymous ancestor of the Phoenicians. He functions primarily as a genealogical and ethnographic figure rather than a supernatural bird or deity.
Polong
A Malay familiar spirit produced from human blood and kept in a bottle by a human owner; it is deployed to afflict victims by possessing them, typically preceded by a smaller insect-like helper (pelesit). Victims are cured when the spirit is called off by its owner or through a shamanic exorcism that forces the polong to name its human 'parent.'
Poltergeist
A poltergeist is a German-derived ghostlore label for an unseen agent associated chiefly with noisy, kinetic, and disruptive physical phenomena in domestic settings. Modern summaries and case literature emphasize episodic outbreaks of object movement, loud noises, and occasional assaults or electrical/foul-smell disturbances, with competing explanations ranging from spirit activity to hoax, psychogenic projection, or natural physical causes.
Poludnitsa (Lady Midday / Noonwraith)
A Slavic folkloric personification of the dangers of the midday hour, depicted as a young woman who appears in agricultural fields at noon and is held responsible for heat-related collapse, neck pains, and occasional madness.
Polyboea
Polyboea (Ancient Greek Πολύβοια) is a name applied to several related personae in Greek myth and local cult — most notably a maiden of Amyclae (sister of Hyacinthus) who died a virgin and was reputed to have been taken to Elysium or admitted into the train of Artemis. The same name appears elsewhere in mythic genealogies and, in modern taxonomy, as a genus of Asian nursery-web spiders.
Polybotes
Polybotes (Ancient Greek: Πολυβώτης) is one of the Gigantes in Greek myth, an earth-born giant who fought the Olympian gods during the Gigantomachy and — in the most attested tradition — was pursued by Poseidon and crushed beneath an island (Nisyros or, in some variants, Cos). He appears in literary summaries and in archaic and classical vase imagery as a named combatant opposing Poseidon or Zeus.
Polybus
Polybus (Πόλυβος) is a personal name in ancient Greek tradition borne by multiple mortal figures; most prominently he is the king of Corinth who, with his wife (variously named Periboea, Merope, or Medusa), fostered the exposed infant Oedipus. He is portrayed as a human actor — a benign, paternal king — rather than a supernatural being.
Polycaon
Polycaon is a proper name in ancient Greek tradition borne by at least two mytho-historical individuals: one a son of Lelex associated with the foundation of Messenia alongside his wife Messene, and another a son of Butes who married into the descendants of Heracles. The name also appears as a modern biological genus homonym in taxonomic records.
Polycaste
Polycaste (Ancient Greek: Πολυκάστη) is the proper name borne by several distinct mortal women in Greek myth and genealogical tradition. The name is used for different princesses and household women (daughter, sister, wife, mother) who appear in separate narrative and genealogical contexts rather than denoting a single supernatural being.
Polyctor
Polyctor (Ancient Greek: Πολύκτωρ) is a proper name attested in classical Greek literary sources for several mortal figures (an Egyptian prince, a local Ithacan benefactor/father, and as an identity used in a Homeric disguise) and separately as a modern taxonomic name applied to certain butterflies/skippers. The name functions across distinct cultural and biological contexts rather than denoting a single supernatural entity.
Polydectes
Polydectes is a mortal king of the island of Seriphos in Greek myth who functions as an antagonistic royal figure in the Perseus cycle. In the best-known narrative he plots to remove the hero Perseus by sending him to fetch the Gorgon's head and is ultimately neutralized when Perseus reveals Medusa's severed head, which petrifies Polydectes and his nobles. An alternate tradition (recorded by Hyginus) presents Polydectes as a protector who marries Danaë and later dies peacefully.
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- [2]Lacritus (mythology). Wikipedia, entry 'Lacritus (mythology)' (accessed via provided notes)wiki