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The Dactyli were the Greek name for the Roman Chalybes.
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In Greek mythology, Daedalus was an Athenian artisan whose skill rivalled that of Hephaestus. He was ordered by King Minos to construct a vast underground palace linked by a labyrinth of rooms into which Minos imprisoned his wife Pasiphae and her monstrous child the Minotaur. Daedalus fled from Crete because he knew the secret of the labyrinth and didn't trust Minos not to kill him. He fled with his son Icarus using wings made by them from feathers fastened with wax, Daedalus warning his son not to fly to close to the sun less the heat melted the wax. Icarus ignored his father's advice, the wax melted and he fell to his death. Daedalus however escaped to Sicily or mainland Italy, depending upon accounts.
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In Greek and Roman mythology, the daemons (or genii) were an order of invisible beings. The Greeks believed them to be inferior deities and that Zeus assigned one daemon to each man and woman at his birth, to attend, protect and guide him or her and at his or her death dying with him or her. They were nameless, and like the multitude of mankind, innumerable. Some of them acted as personal attendants to deities of a higher order, and in that case were represented under particular forms, and enjoyed distinctive names, while others were believed to watch over particular districts, towns or nations. The Romans believed them to be intermediate beings linking mankind with the gods.
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The Danaans were one of the three Nemedian families who survived the Fomorian victory. The brought the stone of destiny from Falias.
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In Greek mythology, Danae was daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. He shut her up in a bronze tower because of a prophecy that her son would kill his grandfather - thinking that held prisoner she might never receive a lover, and never bear a child. Zeus became enamoured of her and descended in a shower of gold. As a result of her union with Zeus she gave birth to the hero Perseus.
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In Greek mythology, the Danaides were the fifty daughters of Danaus who were forced to marry their fifty male cousins but killed them on their wedding night (except for Hypermestra who, genuinely loving her husband Lynceus spared him) with daggers provided by Danaus. The forty-nine murderers were subsequently condemned in the underworld to forever carry water in a sieve and try to fill a water jug with the water.
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In Greek mythology, Danaus was a king of Libya and the father of fifty daughters, the 'Danaides'. His brother Aegyptus, who had fifty sons, wanted a mass marriage, but Danaus fled with his daughters to Argos where he became king. Eventually Aegyptus' sons followed and demanded the Danaides. Danaus agreed, but gave each daughter a weapon with which she slew her husband on their wedding night, all except Hypermestra who spared her husband Lynceus. Lynceus killed Danaus and became king of Argos. In the underworld the Danaides were condemned to carry water in sieves for ever.
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Daphne was a daughter of Peneus and nymph of Diana. She was pursued by Apollo and asked to be turned into a laurel tree to escape him, which she was.
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Daphnis was a son of Hermes and a nymph. He was raised by Sicillian shepherds when his mother abandoned him.
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In Greek mythology, Dardanus was a son of Zeus and Electra. He was originally a king in Arcadia, he migrated to Samothrace and from there to Asia where Teucer gave him the site of his town, Dardania. He married Bateia.
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Deianeira was the daughter of Oeonus and the wife of Hercules.
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Deidamia fell in love with Achilles and bore him Neoptolemus.
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Demeter was a Greek goddess of the earth. She is also called Ceres. She was the nourishing mother, bringing forth fruits. She was a daughter of Cronos and Rhea.
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A demigod was a Greek hero. They were men who possessed god-like strength and courage and who had performed great tasks in the past.
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In Greek mythology, Deucalion was the son of Prometheus. Warned by his father of a coming flood,
Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha built an ark. After the waters had subsided, they were instructed by a god to throw stones over their shoulders which then became men and women.
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In Greek mythology, Dexames was a king of Olenus and the father of Deianeira, who married Hercules after having been saved by him from a forced marriage to the Centaur, Eurytion.
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In Greek mythology, Dia or Eioneus was a daughter of Deioneus and the mother of Peirithous by her husband, Ixion, according to one legend, or according to another, by Zeus. Peirithous is said to have received his name from the fact that Zeus when he attempted to seduce Dia ran around her in the form of a horse.
Dia is an alternative name for Hebe.
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In Roman mythology, Diana was an ancient Italian goddess, in later times identified with the Greek Artemis, With whom she had various attributes in common, being the virgin goddess of the moon and of the hunt, and as such associated with the crescent moon, bow, arrows, and quiver. The name is a feminine form of Janus. She seems to have been originally the patron divinity of the Sabines and Latins. She was worshipped especially by women, as presiding over births, no man being allowed to enter her temple.
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In Greek mythology, Dicte was a nymph from whom Mount Dicte received its name.
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In Greek mythology, Dictynna was an epithet applied to the Cretan goddess, Britomartis, thought by some to mean 'lady of the nets', by others to mean ' she of mount Dicte'.
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In Greek mythology, Dictys was a fisherman who became king of Seriphos. He was a brother of Polydectes and a son of Magnes.
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In Greek mythology, Dido or Elissa was the reputed founder of Carthage. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre, called by some Belus, by others Metten or Matgenus. After her father's death, her brother murdered her husband, Sichaeus, With the intention of obtaining his wealth. However, Dido, accompanied by many Tyrians of her party, fled with all the treasure over the sea, and landed on the coast of Africa, not far from the Phoenician colony of Utica, where she built a citadel called Byrsa (' the hide of a bull') on a piece of ground which she had bought from the Numidian king, Iarbas. The meaning of the word Byrsa gave rise to the legend that Dido bought as much land as could be encompassed with a bullock's hide. Once the agreement was concluded, she cut the hide into small thongs, and thus enclosed a large piece of ground, on which she built the city of Carthage. To avoid being compelled to marry Iarbas, she stabbed herself on a funeral pile, and after her death was honoured as a deity by her subjects.
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Dike was the attendant of justice to Nemesis.
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Dionysus was a Greek god of happiness. He was also called Bacchus and Iacchus.
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In Roman mythology, Dis was the god of the underworld, also known as Orcus.
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Discordia was the Roman goddess of strife.
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In Greek mythology the Dryades were nymphs of the woods and trees.
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