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In Greek mythology, Maia was the daughter of Atlas and the mother of Hermes.
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The manes were the souls of departed people in the Greek and Roman religions.
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Mars was the Roman name for the Greek god Ares.
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In Greek mythology, Marsyas was a satyr who took up the pipes thrown down by the goddess Athena and challenged the god Apollo to a musical contest. On losing, he was flayed alive.
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In Greek mythology, Medea was the sorceress daughter of the king of Colchis. When Jason reached Colchis, she fell in love with him, helped him acquire the Golden Fleece, and they fled together. When Jason later married Creusa, daughter of the king of Corinth, Medea killed his bride with the gift of a poisoned garment, and then killed her own two children by Jason.
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Meditrina was a Roman goddess of health. She was a sister of Hygea.
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Medusa was the youngest and most beautiful of the Gorgons. She loved Poseidon and desecrated the temple of Athene by meeting Poseidon there. For this she was punished by having her hair turned to snakes. The result was her appearance was so hideous to behold that it would turn the viewer to stone.
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In Greek mythology, Megapenthes was a son of Proteus and King of Argos. He exchanged his dominion with that of Perseus and afterwards killed Perseus.
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Melpomene was the muse of tragedy. She was the daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She was represented as veiled, and holding in her hand a tragic mask. her instrument was the lyre. She mated with Achelous and gave birth to the Sirens.
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Memnon was the son of Eos and Tithonus. He was the king of Ethiopia who helped the Trojans and killed many Greeks. He was killed by Achilles in single combat whilst Zeus weighed their fates in the balance.
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In Greek mythology, Menelaus was a king of Sparta, younger brother of Agamemnon and the husband of Helen of Troy.
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Mercury was the Roman name for the Greek god Hermes.
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In Greek mythology, Mermerus was a son of Jason and Medea. He was killed by his mother.
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In Greek mythology, Merope was a daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades and the wife of Sisyphus of Corinth, by whom she became the mother of Glaucus. In Greek mythology, Merope was a daughter of Oenopion in Chios. She was loved by Orion, who was in consequence blinded by her father.
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In Greek mythology, Midas was a king of Phrygia who was granted the gift of converting all he touched to gold. He soon regretted his gift, as his food and drink were also turned to gold. For preferring the music of Pan to that of Apollo, he was given ass's ears by the latter.
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Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts. She was said to have been born fully grown and armed, from the brain of Jupiter. She equates to the Greek goddess Athenea.
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In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete (son of Zeus and Europa). He was a philanderer, and this displeased his wife Pasiphae who blamed Aphrodite. He demanded a yearly tribute of young men and girls from Athens for the Minotaur. After his death, he became a judge in Hades.
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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a monster, half man and half bull, the offspring of Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull sent to Minos from Poseidon. The Minotaur lived in the Labyrinth built by Daedalus at Knossos, and its victims were seven girls and seven youths, sent in annual tribute by Athens, until Theseus, sent in one contingent with the express purpose of freeing Athens from tribute, killed the Minotaur, and with the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, found his way back out of the Labyrinth.
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Mnemosyne was the mother of the muses. She signified the memory of great events.
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Moerae was the Greek goddess of right and reason.
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Momus was the ancient Greek god of jeering. He jeered bitterly at the actions of both men and gods, sparing no one with his insinuations except Aphrodite, in whom he could find nothing to blame, and vexed himself to death in consequence.
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In Greek mythology, Morpheus was one form of the god of dreams (the other being Oneiros). His job was to fashion dreams, as the gods desired them to be sent to men. In this task he was assisted by Icelus, who fashioned those dreams that had all the appearance of reality, by Phobetor, the author of alarming dreams, and Phantasus, who tricked sleepers with innumerable and strange phenomena. But we find Morpheus also represented in the capacity of a sort of watchman and guardian of dreams, as Aeolus was of the winds.
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Mors was the Roman version of the Greek god Thanatos.
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In Greek mythology, Mount Dicte was a mountain in Crete in which the infant Zeus was said to have been sheltered. It is also said to have been the home of the Harpies.
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The muses were nymphs of the springs.
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Myrtilus was the son of Hermes.
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