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Pales was a Roman god of cattle-rearing.
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In Roman mythology, Palinurus was the pilot of AEneas on his voyage from Troy to Italy. He was said to have fallen into the sea off the coast of Lucania.
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In Greek mythology Pallas was one of the Titans. He was a son of Crius and Eurybia and brother of Astraeus and Perseus. He married Styx and fathered Zelus, Cratos, Bia and Nike.
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Pan was the Greek god who looked after shepherds and their flocks. His parentage is unsure. In some accounts he is the son of Zeus, in others the son of Hermes. His mother was a nymph. In fear of the great Typhon, Pan changed himself into a goat and was made by Zeus one of the signs of the zodiac - Capricorn.
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In Greek mythology, Pandarus was the leader of the forces of Zeleia in Lycia at the Trojan War. He was the second best Greek archer (next to Paris) and fought in the Trojan War as an archer.
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In Greek mythology, Pandion was a son of Erichthonius, the King of Athens.
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Pandora was a woman made by the gods. She was taken to Epimetheus by Hermes. He made her his wife, against his brother's advice. Pandora came with a sealed vase. Her husband was tempted and opened the vase from which came all the troubles, weariness and illnesses that mankind is now burdened with.
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In Greek mythology, Paris was a prince of Troy whose abduction of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, caused the Trojan War. Helen was promised to him by the goddess Aphrodite as a bribe, in his judgment between her beauty and that of two other goddesses, Hera and Athena. Paris killed the Greek hero Achilles by shooting an arrow into his heel, but was himself killed by Philoctetes before the capture of Troy.
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In Greek mythology, Pasiphae was the wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of Phaedra and of the Minotaur. After blaming Aphrodite for her husbands philandering, Pasiphae was punished by being filled with lust for an enormous fire-breathing white bull. Pasiphae persuaded Daedalus to build her a cow shaped wooden framework, and hid inside it while he trundled it into the bull's pasture. The bull mounted the framework and mated with
Pasiphae inside. She then became pregnant with the Minotaur.
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Patroclus was a cousin and close friend of Achilles. He was killed by Hector in the Trojan wars.
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Pax is an alternative name for Eirene.
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Pegasus was the winged horse offspring of Medusa and Poseidon.
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In Greek mythology, Peirithous was a King of the Lapiths and a son of Ixion and Dia. He waged war against the Centaurs and helped Theseus carry off the Amazon Antiope and later Helen. He tried to abduct Persephone, but was bound to a stone seat by her husband Hades and remained a prisoner in the underworld.
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Pelias was king of Iolcus and half-brother of Jason.
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In Greek mythology, Pelops was son of the Lydian king Tantalus, either by the goddess Dione or by a Pleiad. As a child he was killed and cooked by his father who served his flesh to the gods. The gods restored Pelops to life and his lover, the god Poseidon, presented him with a gift of a wonderful horse. Pelops became very skilled at chariot driving and when Oenomaus, king of Pisa, offered the hand of his daughter, Hippodamia, in marriage to anyone who could beat him in a chariot race - though to lose was to be executed - Pelops entered the race and bribed the king's charioteer Myrtilus to sabotage the king's chariot, resulting in the king crashing and being killed. Pelops married the princess and succeeded her father as king, and murdered Myrtilus by drowning him in the sea, though not before Myrtilus could let forth a curse on Pelops and his descendents with his dying breath.
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In Greek mythology, Penelope was the wife of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca; their son was Telemachus. While Odysseus was absent at the siege of Troy she kept her many suitors at bay by asking them to wait until she had woven a shroud for her father-in-law, but unravelled her work each night. When Odysseus returned, after 20 years, he and Telemachus killed her suitors.
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Peneus was a river god. He was a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
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Persephone was a Greek goddess (known to the Romans as Proserpine). She was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Hades obtained sanction from Zeus to carry her off by force and marry her.
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In Greek mythology, Perseus was son of Zeus by Danae, and was raised at the court of king Polydectes, at whose request he killed Medusa. Perseus found Medusa asleep and cut her head off. He married Andromeda, and upon his return used Medusa's head to turn Polydectes and his followers to stone, before presenting Medusa's head to Athene who had helped him in his quest to kill Medusa. While visiting Argos, Perseus accidentally killed Argos' mother. Perseus later became king of Tiryns and founded the dynasty of Perseidae.
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In Greek mythology, Phaea was the Crommyonium Sow a wild pig said to have been the offspring of Echidna and Typhon. It ravaged the town of Crommyon on the Isthmus of Corinth until it was destroyed by Theseus.
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In Greek mythology, Phaedra was a daughter of Minos, King of Crete and Pasiphae. Her unrequited love for Hippolytus led to his death and her suicide. She became renowned as a minor goddess of the moon, barley, myrtle, rain-making and the death of kings. A siren-like Enchantress.
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In Roman mythology, Phaethon was the son of the sun and the ocean-nymph Clymene. He tried to ride the Sun's chariot across the sky, but unable to control the horses skimmed the surface of the earth charring tilled ground to desert and drying up seas, until Gaia complained to Jupiter who toppled
Phaethon with a thunderbolt, causing him to fall into the river Po where he drowned. Clymene and her nymphs collected Phaethon's body and buried it, and then stood weeping on the banks of the river until the Sun taking pity on them turned them into alders.
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In Greek mythology, and later Roman mythology, Pheme was the goddess of fame. She was a daughter of Gaea.
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In Greek mythology, Philemon and Baucis were a devoted couple from whom Zeus and Hermes received hospitality. The gods took them to the top of a hill, from which they saw their village destroyed by a flood and their own cottage turned into a temple. On being told by Zeus that any particular wish they desired would be granted, they begged to be allowed to serve in the temple and end their days together. This was granted and at death they were simultaneously changed into trees standing side by side.
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In Greek mythology, Philyra was the shape-shifting goddess of beauty, perfume, healing, writing and divination. She was the discoverer of paper.
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In Greek mythology, Phoebe was the goddess of waxing and waning cycles. Ruler of the sapphire- regioned moon and cloven-hoofed animals. In Greek mythology, Phoebe was a Titan, a daughter of Uranus and Ge, and the mother of Leto and Asteria by her brother Coeus.
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Phoebus was the Greek god of enlightenment, a form of the god Apollo.
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In Greek mythology, Phyllis was a goddess of spring, trees, wisdom, women's secrets and the genetic knowledge contained in seeds.
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Picus was a Roman god. He was the son of Saturnus and father of Faunus. His wife was Canens. He was a prophet and god of the forest.
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Pitho was the daughter of Aphrodite. She was the goddess of persuasion.
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The Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. They were turned into doves by Zeus and their image put into the stars to save them from the attentions of Orion.
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In Greek mythology, Pleuron was a son of Aeolus and Pronoe and brother to Calydon. He married Xanthippe by whom he fathered Agenor, Sterope, Stratonice and Laophonte. He is said to have founded the town of Pleuron in Aetolia.
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Pluto was the Roman name for the Greek god Hades.
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Poena was the attendant of punishment to Nemesis.
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Polites was a son of Priam and Hecate. He was killed before them by Neoptolemus.
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Pollux was the Roman name for Polydeuces.
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Polybus was king of Corinth. He raised Oedipus as his own son.
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Polydeuces was twin brother of Castor. He was a son of Zeus and Leda. He was born from an egg after Zeus visited Leda disguised as a swan.
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In Greek mythology, Polydorus was a son of Cadmus and Harmonia. he was King of Thebes and husband of Nycteis by whom he fathered Labdacus.
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Polymnia was the muse of song and oratory, and believed to be the inventor of harmony. She was the daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She was represented sometimes veiled in white, holding a sceptre in her left hand, and with her right hand raised.
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In Greek mythology, Polynices was a son of Oedipus. He and his brother Eteocles were supposed to rule Thebes in alternate years, but Eteocles refused to relinquish the throne, and Polynices sought the help of Adrastus.
Polynices and Eteocles killed each other in single combat.
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In Greek mythology Polyphemus was the most famous of the Cyclops. He is described as a giant cannibal living alone in a cave on Mount Etna. Odysseus and his companions unwarily sheltered in his cave, and Polyphemus killed and ate four of them before Odysseus intoxicated him with wine and when he fell asleep poked his eye out with a blazing stake. Polyphemus was also the despised lover of Galatea.
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Pomona was a Roman goddess of garden fruits.
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Poseidon was the Greek god of the sea. He was a son of Cronos.
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In Greek mythology, Priam was the son of Laomedon and Placia. He was originally called Podarces and was still a baby when his father promised his sister Hesione to Hercules and then broke his word. Hercules sacked Troy and killed Laomedon and all his sons except Podarces whom he sold in the slave market. He was bought by Hesione and she changed his name to Priam.
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Priapus was the Greek god of fertility in nature. He was a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. He was blighted in the womb by Hera, and was born impotent, ugly and so foul natured that the gods refused to have him in Olympus and threw him down to earth where he was brought up by shepherds.
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In Greek mythology, Procne was a daughter of King Pandion and Zeuxippe. She married Tereus.
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In Greek mythology, Procris was a daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Cephalus. Artemis gave her the hound Laelaps which she gave to her husband.
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In ancient Greek legends, Procrustes was a robber. He robbed people whilst they slept. If his victim was too short for his bed he was stretched to death. If the victim was too long for his bed, his feet or legs were cut off. Theseus treated Procrustes in the same way.
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Prometheus was a Greek hero. He was a son of the Titan Japetus and the sea nymph Clymene. Prometheus obtained fire for mankind from Zeus.
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In Greek mythology, Proteus was a son of Abas and the twin brother of Acrisius. In a dispute between the two brothers over the kingdom of Argos,
Proteus was defeated and expelled. He fled to Iobates in Lycia and married his daughter Stheneboea. Iobates restored Proteus to his kingdom by force and Acrisius then agreed to share it, surrendering Tiryns to him. When Bellerophon came to Proteus to be purified for a murder, Stheneboea fell in love with him. Bellerophon refused her and she charged him with making improper proposals to her. Proteus then sent him to Iobates with a letter asking Iobates to murder Bellerophon.
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In Roman mythology, Psyche was the personification of the passion of love. She was the youngest daughter of the king and queen of Sicily. She was the most beautiful person on the island and suitors flocked to ask for her hand. In the end she boasted that she was more beautiful than Venus herself, and Venus sent Cupid to transfix her with an arrow of desire and make her fall in love with the nearest person or thing available. But even Cupid fell in love with her and took her to a secret place and eventually married her and had her made a goddess by Jupiter.
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In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus who made an image in ivory of a maiden. He fell in love with the image and asked Venus to endow it with life. She did, and Pygmalion married the maiden.
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In Greek mythology, Pylades was son of Strophius and Anaxibia. He assisted Orestes in murdering Clytemnestra and eventually married his sister Electra.
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In Greek mythology, Pyrrhus was the birth name of Achilles' son who was renamed Neoptolemus when he went to Troy.
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