Laconian mythology

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; , Menélaos) was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta. According to the Iliad, the Trojan War began as a result of Menelaus's wife, Helen, fleeing to Troy with the Trojan prince Paris. Menelaus was a central figure in the Trojan War, leading the Spartan contingent of the Greek army, under his elder brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey, Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy, the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus.

daughter of Thestius in Greek mythology

In Classical Greek mythology, Taygete (; , , ) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to the Bibliotheca (3.10.1) and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals", with its likely roots in prehistory. Mount Taygetos in Laconia, dedicated to the goddess, was her haunt.

daughter of Perseus and Andromeda in Greek mythology

mother of Theseus

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

In Greek mythology, Thestius (; ) was a king of Pleuronians in Aetolia. He is not to be confused with Thespius, who was sometimes referred to as "Thestius". The patronymic "Thestias" may refer to one of his daughters, Leda or Althaea, and "Thestiades" to his son Iphiclus.

In Greek mythology, Phyleus (; Ancient Greek: Φυλεύς probably derived from φυλή phylē "tribe, clan, race, people") was an Elean prince and one of the Calydonian boar hunters.

mythical daughter of Triopas

son of Poseidon in Greek mythology

son of Aratos in Greek mythology

helmsman of Menelaus in Greek mythology

Cranae or Kranai ( ) (also called Marathonisi) is a Greek island on the Mani Peninsula in the southern Peloponnese. Located just off the coast of the port town Gytheio (ancient Gythium), the island is linked to the mainland by a causeway built in 1898.

In Greek mythology, the name Polycaon (; ") may refer to the following individuals:

son of Menelaus and Helen of Troy

personification of laughter in Greek mythology

Diomede (; Ancient Greek: Διομήδη Diomēdē) is the name of four women in Greek mythology:

Alyzeus () was in Greek mythology a son of Icarius and Polycaste, and brother of Penelope and Leucadius. After his father's death, he reigned in conjunction with his brother over Acarnania, and is said to have founded the town of Alyzeia (modern Alyzia) there.

set of mythological characters