Greek and Roman Mythology

Michael Lahanas

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ

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Part 4 Ar - Az

Even in Arcadia, there am I... These words, issuing from the tomb, sadden their faces, and the smiles die upon their lips.

Arcadia (paradise)

Hermes carrying the infant Arcas, who was raised by Maia, the eldest of the daughters of Atlas, the so called Pleiades.

Among the gods who live on mount Olympus, you're the one I hate the most. For you love war, constant strife and battle. Zeus to Ares. Iliad

I begin to sing of Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of diseases, whom fair Koronis, daughter of Phlegyas, bare in the Dotian plain, a great joy to men, a soother of cruel pangs. Hail to thee, my lord; in my song I make prayer to thee! , Homeric Hymn to Asclepius

"I owe a cock to Asclepius" Socrates famous last words.

ha, bully! What says my Aesculapius?
my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is he dead,
bully stale? is he dead?"
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Asclepius /Aesculapius (Ασκληπιός)
Ascolia
Asia (Ασία )
Asius (son of Dymas) (Άσιος)
Asopus (Ασωπός)
Asterion (Αστερίων)( The House of Asterion)
Assaracus
Asphodelus ramosus
Aspledon
Astakides
Asteropaios
Asteropeia
Astraeus

Astyanax (Αστυάναξ)
Astylus
Astynome (Αστυνόμη)
Astynous
Astraea
Astydameia (Αστυδάμεια)
Astyoche ( Αστυόχη )
Astypalea

    Euaion painter, Atalante wearing a "bikini", Louvre CA2259

Atalanta (Αταλάντη), Atalanta (opera) , ( Asteroid 36 Atalante )
Ate
Athamas (Αθάμας)

Never will our city be destroyed by Zeus' decree,
or by the will of the blessed immortal gods,
For the great-hearted guardian spreads her hands over our city
Pallas Athena, born of a potent father. Solon

Athena maybe related to a-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja ( Athana potnia or Potnia Athenaie) from a Minoan text , c. 1400 BC

The First-century B.C.E. historian Diodorus Siculus described Atlas, the father of such an Atlantean civilization, as the man who “discovered the sphaerical nature of the heavens. , An Introduction to Pythagorean Sphaerics”

Automedon and the horses of Achilles

Automedon
Autonoe (Αυτονόη) (The Jupiter moon Autonoe)
Autonous (Αυτόνοος)
(Axieros , Axiokersa, Axiokersos) see Kabeiroi
Auxesia and Damia
Axioche
Axylus
Azan

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