From Amazons to Typhon, the great mythological heroes from Antiquity are listed on this page.
Alexander and Prometheus: an episode from the reign of Alexander the Great, who saw what he believed to be the cave of Prometheus in the Hindu Kush Mountains.
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Amazons (Greek Ἀμαζόνες): in Greek myth, a foreign nation of female warriors.Foreign Female Fighters
Achilles kills Penthesileia, shown on the Mausoleum of…
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Cadmus (Greek Κάδμος): name of the mythological founder of Thebes.
Europa and the bull
According to Greek myth, Cadmus was the son…
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Chimaera (Χίμαιρα. "she-goat"): a monster from the ancient Greek mythology, killed by Bellerophon.
Greek plate with a picture of the Chimaera.…
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Cyclopes (Greek Κύκλωπες): name of mythological giants who had one round eye, set in the middle of the forehead. The most famous story about a Cyclops is Homer’s tale of Polyphemus, who was blinded by Odysseus.Homeric shepherds
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Heracles (Latin: Hercules): most important of the Greek demigods. Several dynasties, like the twin royal houses of Sparta and the Argeads of Macedonia, claimed to descend from this son of Zeus.Youth
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Lamassu: Babylonian protective demon with a bull's body, eagle's wings, and a human head.
A lamassu from Khorsabad
The name lamassu is…
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Nimrod (Hebrew נִמְרוֹד): legendary hero, mentioned in the Bible and known from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.Original Story
Relief of a…
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Phoenix: mythological bird from Egypt. The Egyptian mythology and its Greek interpretations must be distinguished.
Purple heron
In Egyptian mythology, the bird…
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Semiramis (Greek: Σεμίραμις): legendary queen of Assyria and founder of Babylon, known from Greek, Armenian, and Jewish sources.The name
An Assyrian…
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Sphinx (Greek: Σφίγξ): mythological creature with the body of a lion and a human head.
A Phoenician sphinx from Carthage; there…
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Typhon (Greek Τυφῶν): in Greek mythology a giant monster, opponent of the supreme god Zeus and the Olympian gods.
Typhon
The first…
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