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ABA
-A Thracian nymph loved by Poseidon.
ABARBAREE
-A Mysian nymph loved by the Trojan prince Bucolion.
ACESO (Akeso)
-The goddess of curing illness and healing wounds.
ACHELOIDES (Akheloides)
-The Naiad daughters of the river Achelous who attended the god in his river-bed palace.
ACHELOUS (Akheloios)
-A river of Aetolia in Greece and its god who wrestled Heracles for the hand of Deianeira but lost the contest with his horn.
ACHERON (Akheron)
-The underworld river of pain and its god.
ACHLYS (Akhlys)
-The ugly hag who personified the death-mist, the clouding of the eyes of the dead.
ACIS (Akis)
-A boy loved by the Nereid Galatea who was crushed beneath a rock by the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus and on his death transformed into a Sicilian river-god.
ACMON (1) (Akmon)
-One of the Dactyls.
ACMON (2) (Akmon)
-One of the monkey-like Cercopes.
ACRAEA (Akraia)
-A Naiad daughter of the river Asterion who with hher sisters Euboea and Prosymna nursed the infant goddess Hera.
ACRATUS (Akratos)
-The daemon of unmixed wine and incontinence.
ACTE (Akte)
-The ninth of the twelve Horai (Hours) and goddess of an hour of the afternoon.
ADEPHAGIA
-The goddess of gluttony.
ADICIA (Adikia)
-The female personification of injustice. Illustrated
ADRASTEIA
-One of the nurses of Zeus in Crete.
AEA (Aia)
-A Nymph loved by the Colchian river-god Phasis.
AEACUS (Aiakos)
-One of the three Judges of the Underworld who was a king of Aegina appointed to the position after death.
AEDOS (Aidos)
-The goddess of modesty and respect. She and Nemesis were the last of the good spirits to depart from the earth in the final, corrupt age of mankind.
AEGAEON (1) (Aigaios)
- An ancient sea-god allied with theTitans.
AEGAEON (2) (Aigaion)
-One of the Gigantes who made war on the gods.
AEGAEUS (Aigaios)
- A river of Scheria, island of the Phaeacians, and its god.
AEGEIRUS (Aigeros)
-The Hamadryad nymph of the poplar tree.
AEGINA (Aigina)
-A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus who was abducted by Zeus to the island of Aegina. When her father pursued them Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt.
AEGIPAN (Aigipan)
-The fish-goat god. When Typhon attacked Olympus Aegipan suggested the gods flee to Egypt and hide there in the form of animals. In the exodus he took the form of a goat with the tail of a fish. Later he helped to free the captive Zeus and was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capricorn.
AEGLE (1) (Aigle)
-Goddess of the splendour of good health.
AEGLE (2) (Aigle)
-The nymph mother of the Charites (Graces) by Helius the sun.
AELLO
-One of the Harpies.
AEOLUS (Aiolos)
-The god of the winds. He kept the storm-winds locked inside the floating island of Aeolia releasing them at the request of the gods.
AEON (Aion)
-The primordial god of time.
AERGIA
-The female personification of sloth.
AETHER (Aither)
-The primordial deity of the brightly shining, blue upper air.
