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Mythology (10)

Constellations

Historic figures

Aegeus

AEGEAN SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE

Aege

Queen of the mythical people of Amazon of Libya.

Icarus

IKARIAN SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE
Son of Daedalus, native of the Deme Daedalidae of Attica, flies too high and falls into the sea. The island Icaria also named after after him.

Myrtilus

MYRTOO SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE
But when Pelops learned that from her, he threw Myrtilus into the sea, called after him the Myrtoan Sea, at Cape Geraestus ; and Myrtilus, as he was being thrown, uttered curses against the house of Pelops.

Myrtilus (Murtilos). Son of Hermes, by Cleobule or Myrto. He was the charioteer of Oenomaus, whose defeat by Pelops in the race was due to his treachery. When he demanded the reward that had been settled, the half of the realm of Oenomaus, Pelops threw him into the sea near Geraestus, in Euboea, and that part of the Aegean was thence called the Myrtoan Sea. He was placed among the stars as the constellation Auriga.

Nymphs

Glauconome

AEGEAN SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE
Glauconome, (Glaukonome), one of the daughters of Nereus. (Hes. Theog. 256; Apollod. i. 2.7.)

Halimede

Halimede, one of the Nereides. (Hes. Theog. 25; Apollod. i. 2.6.)

Personifications

Galene

Galene, a personification of the calm sea, and perhaps identical with Galateia, one of the Nereides, is called by Hesiod (Theog. 244) a daughter of Nereus and Doris.

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