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TALOS
-A bronze giant which guarded the island of Crete, pelting passing ships with stones. He was slain by the Argonauts and the magic of the witch Medea. Illustrated
TANAGRA
-A Naiad-nymph daughter of the river Asopus. The gods Ares and Hermes competed a boxing match to win her love.
TARAXIPPOI
-Horse-frightening ghosts or spirits which haunted the race-courses of Olympia, Nemea and the Isthmus.
TARTARUS 1 (Tartaros)
-The primordial deity of the storm-wracked pit of Tartarus who fathered the monstrous, giant Typhoeus.
TARTARUS 2 (Tartaros)
-The vast, stormy pit beneath the earth, prison of the Titan-gods. The walls of the Tartarean pit and the solid dome of the sky together enclosed the cosmos in an egg-shaped shell.
TAYGETE
-The starry Pleiad-nymph of Mount Taygetus loved by the god Zeus. She was the ancestress of the kings of Sparta.
TELCHINES (Telkhines)
- Evil magic-working daemons of the island of Rhodes. They were foster parents of the god Poseidon but were later destroyed by Zeus because of their destructive magic.
TELEDICE (Teledike)
- The nymph wife of the first mortal king Phoroneus.
TELESPHORUS (Telesphoros)
-The god of convalescence, a son of the medicine-god Asclepius.
TELETE
-The female personification of initiation into the orgiastic cult of the god Dionysus.
TELPHUSA (Telphousa)
-The Naiad-nymph of the Boeotian spring Telphusia. Apollo buried her waters beneath a pile of stones when she attempted to deceive him.
TELPHUSIA (Telphousia)
CA Boeotian Erinys who was the mother of the Ismenian dragon by the god Ares.
TEREINE
-A Thracian Naiad-nymph loved by the god Ares.
TERPSICHORE (Terpsikhore)
-The goddess-Muse of choral dance and song. Illustrated
TETHYS
-The Titan-goddess of fresh-water, subterranean acquifers, and the nursing of the young. She was the wife of the Titan Oceanus who bore him three-thousand fresh-water nymphs and innumerable river-gods. Illustrated
TEUMESSIAN FOX (Alopex Teumessios)
-A giant fox which ravaged the countryside of Thebes. It was destined never to be caught, so the hero Cephalus set the hunting-dog Laelaps on its spoor--a beast which was destined to always catch its mark. Zeus, perplexed by the paradox, turned the pair of beasts to stone.
THALASSA
-The primordial goddess of the sea. Illustrated
THALIA (1) (Thaleia)
- A Sicilian nymph loved by the god Zeus. Fearing the wrath of Hera she prayed to be swallowed up by the earth. Her sons, the Palici gods, were born as geysers.
THALIA (2)
-The goddess of festive good-cheer. She was one of the three Charites.
THALIA (3) (Thaleia)
-The goddess Muse of comedy.
THALLO
-The Hora goddess of the green buds and shoots of spring.
THANATUS (Thanatos)
-The god of (non-violent) death, twin-brother of Hypnos (Sleep). Illustrated
THAUMAS
-The god of the wonders of the sea. He was the father of Iris the Rainbow and whirlwind Harpies.
THEA (Theia)
-The Titan-goddess of sight and shining blue of the sky. She was the mother of the Sun, Moon and Dawn.
THEAI
-The ancient Greek word for "goddesses".
THEBE
-A Naiad-nymph daughter of the river Asopus abducted to the town of Thebes by Zeus..
