| NOUN | person | mythical being | an imaginary being of myth or fable |
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| Meaning | An imaginary being of myth or fable. | |
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| Instances | Achilles | A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad |
| Aegisthus | (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him | |
| Aeneas | A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War | |
| Agamemnon | (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War | |
| Ajax | A mythical Greek hero | |
| Alcyone, Halcyon | (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher | |
| Andromeda | (Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia | |
| Antigone | (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death | |
| Arjuna | (Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God | |
| Atreus | (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus | |
| Augeas | (Greek mythology) the mythical Greek king who for 30 years did not clean his stables which contained his vast herd of cattle | |
| Bellerophon | (Greek mythology) a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus (especially killing the monster Chimera) | |
| Cassiopeia | (Greek mythology) the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda | |
| Cepheus | (Greek mythology) king of Ethiopia and husband of Cassiopeia | |
| Clytemnestra | (Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon who had him murdered when he returned from the Trojan War | |
| Creon | (Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus | |
| Daedalus, Daedal | (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos | |
| Dardanus | (Greek mythology) founder of Troy | |
| Electra | (Greek mythology) the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra | |
| Enkidu | legendary friend of Gilgamish | |
| Eurydice | (Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus | |
| Fenrir | (Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin | |
| Galatea | (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers | |
| Ganymede | (Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods | |
| Gilgamish | legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics | |
| Hector | (Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War | |
| Helen, Helen of Troy | (Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris | |
| Hercules, Heracles, Herakles, Alcides | (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength | |
| Hero | (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her | |
| Hyperborean | (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind | |
| Icarus | (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus | |
| Iphigenia | (Greek mythology) the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon | |
| Jason | (Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece | |
| Jocasta | (Greek mythology) queen / queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus | |
| Laertes | (Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus | |
| Laius | (Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus | |
| Laocoon | (Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse | |
| Leander | (Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her | |
| Leda | (Greek mythology) a queen / queen of Sparta who was raped by Zeus who had taken the form of a swan | |
| Medea | (Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father | |
| Menelaus | (Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War | |
| Midas | (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold | |
| Myrmidon | (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy | |
| Narcissus | (Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection | |
| Nibelung | (German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried | |
| Niobe | (Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all | |
| Odysseus | (Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero | |
| Oedipus, King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex | (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta | |
| Orestes | (Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra | |
| Orion | (Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis | |
| Orpheus | (Greek mythology) a great musician | |
| Pandora | (Greek mythology) the first woman | |
| Paris | (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War | |
| Patroclus | (Greek mythology) a friend of Achilles who was killed in the Trojan War | |
| Pegasus | (Greek mythology) the immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa | |
| Peleus | A king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles | |
| Penelope | (Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity | |
| Perseus | (Greek mythology) the son of Zeus who slew Medusa (with the help of Athena and Hermes) and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster | |
| Priam | (Greek mythology) the last king of Troy | |
| Procrustes | (Greek mythology) a mythical giant who was a thief and murderer | |
| Psyche | (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him | |
| Pygmalion | (Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it | |
| Remus | (Roman mythology) the twin brother of Romulus | |
| Romulus | (Roman mythology) founder of Rome | |
| Sarpedon | (Greek mythology) a son of Zeus who became king of Lycia | |
| Scylla | (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait | |
| Siegfried | (German mythology) mythical German warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied who takes possession of the accursed treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards / guards it and awakens Brynhild and is eventually killed | |
| Sigurd | (Norse mythology) mythical Norse / Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild | |
| Sisyphus | (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill | |
| Sita | wife of the Hindu god Rama | |
| Stentor | The mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes | |
| Tantalus | (Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus | |
| Theseus | (Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds | |
| Tiresias | (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother | |
| Ulysses | (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus | |
| Valkyrie | (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla | |
| Volund | (Norse mythology) a wonderful smith | |
| Wayland, Wayland the Smith, Wieland | (European mythology) a supernatural smith and king of the elves | |
| Yggdrasil, Ygdrasil | (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together | |
| Ymir | (Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world | |
| Narrower | Amazon | (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively) |
| Gog and Magog | biblical names of the enemies of God's people who wage war against God at the end of the world | |
| golem | (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means | |
| halcyon | A mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves | |
| hero | (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits | |
| houri | (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise | |
| mythical monster, mythical creature | A monster renowned in folklore and myth | |
| phoenix | A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix | |
| Broader | imaginary being, imaginary creature | A creature / creature of the imagination |
| Spanish | ser mítico | |
| Catalan | ésser mític | |
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