Ancient sources and modern summaries record multiple, sometimes incompatible traditions bearing the name Presbon rather than a single harmonized origin. In one tradition Presbon is a son of Phrixus and Chalciope (Iophassa), daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis; this Presbon reportedly returned from Colchis to Boeotia and received his grandfather Athamas' kingdom back from the adoptive heirs Haliartus and Coronus, with the kingdom later passing to his son Clymenus. Other traditions list a Presbon as a son of Minyas and Clytodora, as the father of Aspledon by Sterope, or as a young son of Clymenus (Periclymenus) slain by Harpalyce and served as a meal in revenge. These variant accounts are preserved in later summaries of mythic genealogies and are presented as alternative local or literary traditions rather than reconciled history.
No ancient source provides a physical description of Presbon. The surviving references treat Presbon as a named mortal within genealogical lists and narratives; there are no attested iconographic attributes, clothing, or distinguishing physical traits recorded in the cited material.
The sources attribute no supernatural powers or magical abilities to Presbon. The figure's recorded actions are mundane and genealogical: being named as son or father in family trees, receiving or transmitting kingship, or (in one variant) being the victim of a violent familial revenge. Ancient texts and modern summaries use Presbon to register kinship and succession rather than to describe habits, powers, or ritual behaviors.
Phrixus
Phrixus is a mortal prince in ancient Greek heroic tradition, son of King Athamas and the cloud-goddess Nephele. Rescued from a plotted sacrifice by a divine golden ram, he flees to Colchis, marries King Aeëtes' daughter, sacrifices the ram and gives the Golden Fleece to Aeëtes, thereby linking Boeotian royal lines to Colchis and providing the origin of the fleece that motivates the Argonauts' quest.
Athamas
Athamas is a legendary Boeotian king from Greek myth whose tragic family conflicts, madness induced by a deity, and subsequent exile are used etiologically to explain place-names (e.g., Hellespont), cultic transformations (Ino → Leucothea; Melicertes → Palaemon), and the origin of the Athamanian people and region.
Clymenus
Clymenus (Ancient Greek Κλύμενος, Klúmenos, lit. "famous, infamous") is a recurring personal name in Greek myth applied to multiple mortal figures — kings, princes, an Argonaut, and a suitor — and in one minor late attestation appears as a title or epithet of Hades. The name functions primarily within genealogical, foundation, and local heroic narratives rather than as a single coherent supernatural being.
*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.
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- [2]Presbon — Wikidata. Wikidata entry Q3910877, 'Presbon', http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3910877 (accessed)wiki