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LACHESIS (Lakhesis)
-One of the three Fates.
LADON (1)
-A hundred-headed dragon which guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. It was slain by Heracles. Illustrated
LADON (2)
-A river of Arcadia and its god. Illustrated
LAELAPS (Lailaps)
-A magical dog that was destined to always catch is prey. It was turned to stone by Zeus when it was set to chase the Teumessian Fox--a beast whose paradoxical fate was never to be caught.
LAESTRYGONES (Laistrygones)
- A tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus on his travels.
LAMIA (1), LIBYAN (Lamia Libys)
-A terrifying phantom which preyed on children. She had the ability to pluck out and replace her eyes.
LAMIA (2), CORINTHIAN (Lamia Korinthia)
-A she-vampire who seduced a young Corinthian man to drink his blood. Her illusions were exposed by a sage and she was driven away.
LAMIAE (Lamiai)
-Vampiric monsters which appeared as ghostly, handsome women. They lured young men to their beds to drink their blood and feed on their flesh.
LAMIDES
-Naiad-nymphs of the river Lamos who nursed the infant god Dionysus.
LAMOS
-A river of either Cilicia or Mount Helicon in Boeotia and its god. He and his sons and daughters cared for the young god Dionysus.
LAMPADES
-Torch-bearing nymphs of Hades. They accompanied the goddess Hecate in her night-time jaunts.
LAMPETIA
- A nymph daughter of the sun-god Helius who tended her father's sheep-flocks on the island of Thrinacia.
LANGIA
-The Naiad-nymph of a Nemean spring.
LELANTUS (Lelantos)
- The Titan-god of stealth and moving unseen.
LENAE (Lenai)
-The Satyrs or Silens of the wine-trough who treaded the grapes of Dionysus with a merry dance. Illustrated
LENEUS
-One of the drunken old Silens in the train of the god Dionysus. He was the demigod of the treading of grapes in the wine trough.
LEON
-A lion-headed Gigante slain and stripped of his skin by Heracles in the Giant-War.
LETHE (1)
-The female personification of forgetfulness.
LETHE (2)
-The goddess of the underworld river of oblivion.
LETO
-The Titan-goddess of motherhood and womanly demure. She was loved by Zeus and, after a long pregnancy hounded across the earth by Hera, she gave birth to the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. Illustrated
LEUCE (Leuke)
-An Oceanid-nymph loved by the god Hades. She was abducted to Elysium and transformed into a holy white-poplar tree.
LEUCIPPIDES
-Two maidens loved by the Dioscuri twins who were granted immortality as their wives. Illustrated
LEUCOTHEA (Leukothea)
-A princess of Thebes who was transformed into a goddess after leaping into the sea with her infant son. She came to the aid of sailors in distress. Illustrated
LIBETHRIDES (Leibethrides)
-Naiad-nymphs of the sacred Boeotian and Pierian springs of the goddess Muses.
LIBYA (Libye)
-The Oceanid-nymph eponym of the continent of Libya (that is, Africa).
LILAEA (Lilaia)
-A Naiad-nymph daughter of the river Cephisus.
LIMNAEE
-A Naiad-nymph of the Indian river Ganges.
LIMNATIDES
-Naiad-nymphs of lakes.
LIMONIDES (Leimonides)
-Nymphs of the flowery water-meadows.
LIMOS
-The emaciated female personification of hunger.
LIPS
-The god of the south-west wind.
LIRIOPE
-A Naiad-nymph loved by the river Cephisus who was the mother of the vain youth Narcissus.
LITAE (Litai)
-The frail and elderly goddesses of prayers who followed in the wake of Ate, the bringer of ruin.
LOTIS
-A Naiad-nymph who fled the embrace of the god Priapus and was transformed into a lotus flower.
LOXO
-A Hyperborean nymph attendant of Artemis.
LUPA (Lupe)
-The female personification of pain.
LYCANTHROPES (Lykanthropoi)
- Men who could assume the shape of wolves. They are regarded as "proto-werewolves" as the source of later folklore.
LYCUS (Lykos)
-One of three satyr-messengers of the god Dionysus.
LYSSA
- The female personification of mad rage. Illustrated
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