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In Greek mythology, Talaus was King of Argos. He was the son of Nias and Pero. Talaus sailed with the Argonauts.
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In Greek mythology, Talos was a bronze man given to Europa by Zeus to guard Crete. He would clutch people to his breast and jump into a fire so that they were burnt alive. When the Argonauts in their wanderings came to Crete, and he resisted their landing, Medea killed him.
In Greek mythology, Talos was a nephew of Daedalus, the inventor. Talos was credited with the invention of the saw, compasses, the potters' wheel and other tools. His skill aroused the envy of Daedalus who killed him.
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In Greek mythology, Tantalus was a son of Zeus. He was king of Phrygia, Lydia. He was admitted to the table of the gods, but displeased them and was punished by being put in a lake such that he just couldn't reach the water with his lips, and being tempted by fruit above him which again was just out of reach.
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In Roman legend, Tarpeia was a daughter of the governor of the Capitol, who when the Sabines were besieging the fortress, was bribed by their golden bracelets and collars to open one of the gates to them. On entering they threw their shields on her, killing her. Her name was given to the
Tarpeian rock, a cliff on the Capitol over which malefactors were thrown.
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In Greek mythology, Tartarus was the part of Hades where the wicked were punished. It was surrounded by a brazen wall and veiled in perpetual and impenetrable darkness.
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In Greek mythology, Telegonus was a son of Odysseus by the enchantress Circe. When he grew to manhood his mother sent him out into the world to find his father. Shipwrecked on the coast of Ithaca, began to ravage the country. Odysseus and his son Telemachus went to meet the stranger, and ignorant of his father's identity, Telegonus killed Odysseus.
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In Greek mythology, Telemachus was a son of Odysseus and Penelope. While he was a small child his father left to take part in the Trojan War. After twenty years Telemachus set out to find his father, and upon returning home found his father returned. He assisted his father in slaying the suitors for Penelope's hand.
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In Greek mythology, Telephus was a son of Hercules, who became king of Mysia. Having married Laodice, daughter of King Priam, he opposed the Greek expedition against the Trojans when they attempted to land on the Mysian coast, and in the fighting was wounded by Achilles. An oracle having declared that the wound could only be cured by the man who inflicted it, Telephus assisted Achilles in the taking of Troy and Achilles cured his wound.
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Telepylos was the capital city of the Laestrygones.
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Telesphorus was the god of that which sustains the convalescent. He is depicted with Aesculapius and Hygea.
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Terminus was the Greek and Roman god of boundaries and frontiers. In Roman culture, when a boundary was fixed, an animal sacrifice was made, a trench dug, and the body and other offerings placed in the trench before a fire of pine branches was burnt in the trench and the stone emblem of Terminus erected upon the ashes.
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In Greek mythology, Terpsichore was the muse of dancing.
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In Roman mythology, Terra or Tellus was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Gaea. Terra was the personification of the fruitful power of the soil and was usually represented as a matron with a cornucopia.
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In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titan woman.
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There are two descriptions for Teucer, both refer to Greek mythology. The first is that Teucer was the first King of Troy. He was a son of the river god Scamander and Idaea. The second that Teucer was son of Telamon and Hesione and the best archer in the Greek army in the Trojan War. He would have shot Hector if Zeus had not broken his bowstring.
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In Greek mythology, Thalia was the muse of comedy and burlesque. She was believed by some to also preside over husbandry and planting. She is represented leaning against a column holding a mask in her right hand.
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In Greek mythology Thanatos (Mors in Roman Mythology) was the god of death, a son of Night and the twin brother of Sleep. He was frequently regarded with submission, or as coming opportunely, and was represented in the form of a quiet, pensive youth, winged, standing with his legs crossed, often beside an urn with a wreath on it, and holding an extinguished torch reversed. Or, as a personification of endless repose, he appeared in the form of a beautiful youth leaning against the trunk of a tree, with one arm thrown up over his head - an attitude by which ancient artists usually expressed repose. It was probably owing to the spread of the belief that death was a transition from life to Elysium, that in later times this more attractive representation of the god of death took the place of the former repulsive representations, whether as a powerful and violent god, or as a black child in the arms of his mother, Night. Among the figures sculptured on the chest of Cypselas, a description of which we have still in Pausanius, was that of Night carrying twin children in her arms - the one white, representing Sleep, and the other black, representing Death.
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In Greek mythology, Thebe was a Boeotian nymph, the wife of Zethus. She gave her name to the city of Thebes.
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In Greek mythology, Thelxiepeia was one of the Sirens.
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In Greek mythology, Themis was a daughter of Uranus and Gaea. She was the Greek goddess of human rights, the personification of law and order, and presided over the oracle at Delphi before Apollo. The wife of Zeus before Hera, among her children by Zeus were the three Horae or Hours and the Fates.
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In Greek mythology, Theseus was a son of Aegeus and Aethra. He was king of Athens. Stories about him include his slaying of the Minotaur.
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Thesmophoria was a festival in honour of Demeter, celebrated by women only, in various parts of Greece. It commemorated the institution of laws and civilization, which were attributed to Demeter. At Athens the festival was held in October.
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In Greek mythology, Thetis was one of the Nereids, the sea-nymphs,. She was the wife of Peleus and the mother of Achilles.
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In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the brother of Atreus, king of Argos.
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A thyrsus was a wand wreathed with ivy or vine leaves, and topped with a pine-cone carried by the Ancient Greeks as a symbol of Bacchus.
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In Greek mythology Tiresias was a blind prophet. He was the son of Everus and Chariclo. There are at least two versions of how he became to be blind. In the first he was out hunting and found two snakes coupling in a clearing. He killed the female one at which point Gaea changed him into a woman. Seven years later by chance he (then a she) found another two snakes in the same place and this time killed the male, and was immediately changed back into a man. As he had several lovers while both a man and a woman, Zeus and Hera decided he could settle an argument over which gave better satisfaction in sex, a man or a woman. Tiresias agreed with Zeus that men do, and Hera blinded him in rage, but Zeus rewarded him with prophetic powers. In a second variation, he went blind after seeing Athene bathing, and after pleas from his mother Athene compensated Tiresias for his blindness with prophetic powers.
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In Greek mythology, the Titans were the twelve sons of Ge and Uranus.
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Titanomachia was the ten-year war waged in Thessaly by Zeus and the Olympian gods against Cronos and the Titans led by Atlas. The war deposed the Titans.
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In Greek mythology, Tithonus was a son or brother of Laomedon the king of Troy by a river nymph. He was made immortal by Zeus at the request of the goddess Eos who loved him and he had by her the hero Memnon.. However, she neglected to ask that Tithonus be given the gift of eternal youth, so that he withered away in an ever increasing decrepitude. Eventually, he begged Eos to revoke her gift, and the goddess changed him into a grasshopper. The name Tithonus thus became proverbial for a decrepit old man.
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In Greek mythology, Tityos was a son of Gaea and one of the giants. He offered violence to Leto and was killed by Zeus or Apollo. By way of punishment in Tartarus he was stretched on the ground, while two vultures perpetually devoured his liver.
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In Greek mythology, Tlepolemus was a son of Hercules. He became king of Argos, but after killing his uncle Licymnius, he had to flee the country. In obedience to an oracle, he settled in Rhodes, and there founded the cities of Lindos, Isalysos and Cameirus. He joined the Greeks in the Trojan war, and was killed by Sarpedon, king of Lycia.
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In Greek mythology, Triptolemus was a son of Celeus, king of Eleusis. In gratitude for the hospitality shown to her by Celeus when she was wandering over the earth in search of her daughter Persephone, the goddess Demeter gave Triptolemus a chariot with winged dragons with which to visit the whole world and give mankind seeds of corn. On his return Triptolemus instituted the festival of the Thesmophoria, one of the two great festivals to Demeter.
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Triton was a Herald of Neptune. In Greek mythology the Tritons were sea-gods with the upper half of a human and the lower part of the body that of a fish. They carried a trumpet which the blew to soothe the waves at the command of Poseidon.
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Tros was the grandson of Dardanus and the father of Ilus. He gave his name to the city of Troy.
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In Roman mythology, Turnus was the son of King Daunus and the nymph Venilia. He was a favourite of Juno, who granted him invulnerability in battle so long as he was pure, honourable and steadfast. In the war between
Turnus' people, the Rutulians and the Trojan settlers led by Aeneas, Turnus showed all these qualities, leading his troops with as much dignity and honour as Aeneas himself. But he let his guard slip for an instant, killing the young prince Pallas who had rashly challenged him to single combat and wore his belt as a trophy. Juno withdrew her protection and Aeneas killed him in hand-to-hand combat.
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Tyche was the Greek goddess of luck. She was the daughter of Zeus and identified by the Romans as Fortuna.
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Tydeus was the son of Oeonus and Calydon. After committing a murder whilst a youth he fled to the court of Adrastus.
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Tyndareus was the king of Sparta. He was deposed by his brother Hippocoon, and reinstated by Hercules.
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In Greek mythology Typhoeus was a hundred-headed monster who fought with Zeus and was slain by a thunderbolt. Zeus then caged him under Mount Etna.
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In Greek mythology, Typhon was a one-hundred headed, fire-breathing monster. He was the father of destructive and fierce winds. He is derived from the Egyptian Set or Seth. According to Homer, he was buried underground by Zeus.
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