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BALANIS
-The Hamadryad-nymph of the acorn tree.
BATIA (Bateia)
-The nymph wife of a king of Sparta.
BALIUS (Balios)
- An immortal horse gifted to the hero Peleus at his wedding by the gods. It drove the chariot of his son Achilles in the Trojan War.
BELLEROPHON (Bellerophontes)
-A Greek hero who tamed the winged-horse Pegasus and rode it into battle against the fire-breathing monster Chimera.
BENDIS
-The Thracian goddess of the moon and the hunt who was worshipped with wild Bacchic orgies.
BENTHESICYME (Benthesikyme)
-A sea-nymph daughter of Poseidon who married an Ethiopian king.
BEROE
-The goddess-nymph of the Phoenician city of Beruit. The gods Poseidon and Dionysus fought a battle in the contest for her hand in marriage.
BIA
-The goddess of force. She was of one of the henchmen of the god Zeus who stood beside him in the Titan-war.
BLEMMYAE (Blemmyai)
-A fabulous tribe of headless, African men whose faces were set upon their chests.
BOLBE
- The goddess-nymph of the Boeotian lake Bolbe.
BOLINA
-A maiden who leapt into the sea to escape the god Apollo and was transformed into a nymph.
BOOTES
-The agricultural demigod of the plough and wagon.
BOREAS
-The purple-haired, winged god of the north-wind whose chill breath brought on the cold of winter.
BRIAREUS (Briareos)
-A hundred-handed Hecatoncheir-giant who dwelt in the depths of the Aegean Sea. He came to the aid of Zeus when the other gods rebelled against him.
BRITOMARTIS
-The maiden goddess of the nets. When she was pursued by King Minos of Crete she leapt into the sea and was rescued in the nets of fishermen.
BRIZO
-A goddess of the island of Delos. She was a patron of fishermen and the sender of oracular visions in dreams.
BRONTES
-One of the three metal-working Cyclopes who crafted the lightning-bolts of Zeus.
BRYCHON
-A river of the Thracian Chersonese and its bull-horned god who supported the Gigantes (Giants) in their war with the gods.
BYBLIS
-A princess of Caria who cast herself off a mountainside and was transformed into a Hamadryad by the nymphs.
BYTHOS
-One of the Ichthyocentaurs (fish-tailed centaurs) who carried the goddess Aphrodite ashore after her birth in the sea-foam.
BYZE
-A Naiad daughter of the river-god Erasinus. She was an attendant of the goddess Britomartis.
credits to: Theoi Project (www.theoi.com)
