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...ho leads in battle" or "champion"<ref>Robin Hard. ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (2004)''<br /></ref>) is a name that refers to several diff *Promachus, son of [[Aeson]]. King of [[Iolcus]], and [[Alcimede]] or [[Amphinome]]. He was killed by [[Pelias]] ...

...marte, IV sec ac. 01.jpg|thumb|Etruscan [[cista]] depicting the immersion of Maris]] ...Mythologies'' (University of Chicago Press, 1992, from the French edition of 1981), p. 29.</ref> ...

{{Short description|Chthonic deity or epithet of Zeus in Greek mythology}} ...chios sitting on the [[Acheloos River]], with Hermes, Heracles, the Mother of the Gods, and Callirrhoe. Found in the [[Ilisos]] River, near Athens. Early ...

{{Short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}} ...r | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 89 | pu ...

...d in the [[Archaic Greek alphabets#Corinthian|archaic Corinthian]] variant of the [[Greek alphabet]].)]] ...aulon.jpg|thumb|Ancient Greek mosaic in [[Caulonia (ancient city)|Kaulon]] of a cetus sea serpent]] ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek personification of the rainbow}} | caption = [[Gaetano Matteo Monti]], ''Iris as goddess of the rainbow'' (1841, marble) at [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] in [[Vienna]], ...

{{Short description|Bronze statue of Athena}} ...by the painter [[Leo von Klenze]] in 1846, who portrayed the great statue of Athena Promachos as visible from far away, as reported in ancient texts.|al ...

...72}}</ref> this cup shows [[Hecamede]] mixing [[kykeon]] for Nestor. Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup, c.&nbsp;490 BC. From [[Vulci]].]] ...({{langx|grc|Νέστωρ Γερήνιος}}, ''Nestōr Gerēnios'') was a legendary king of [[Pylos]]. He is a prominent secondary character in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]] ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek hero and founder of Mycenae}} | caption = ''[[Perseus with the Head of Medusa]]'' by [[Benvenuto Cellini]] (1554) ...

{{other|Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Tivoli)}} |name=Temple of Hercules Victor ...

...Giovanni Pastrone]]. He is featured throughout the history of the [[cinema of Italy]] from the 1910s to the mid-1960s. ...is massive strength to achieve heroic feats that ordinary men cannot. Many of the 1960s Italian movies featuring Maciste were retitled in other countries ...

| name = Temple of Hephaestus/Theseion | caption = [[Greek temple|Temple]] of [[Hephaestus]], [[Athens]] ...

{{Short description|God of the underworld in Greek mythology}} ...e group of Persephone (as Isis) and Pluto (as Serapis), from the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Gortyna, mid-2nd century AD, Heraklion Archaeological ...

{{about|the famous Greek poet|the less well-known poet|Bacchylides of Opus}} ...mpbell (1982), p. 415</ref> making them an ideal introduction to the study of [[Greek lyric|Greek lyric poetry]] in general and to Pindar's verse in part ...

[[File:Pompeii - Temple of Isis - Io and Isis - MAN.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|A Roman wall painting showin ...in ancient Greece|ancient Greek religious concepts and practices]], [[List of Greek deities|deities]], and [[Greek mythology|myths]], [[Comparative mytho ...

{{Short description|Mesopotamian god of death}} | god_of = God of war, disease, and death ...

{{short description|Goddess from Greek mythology, wife and sister of Zeus}} ...The ''[[Giampietro Campana|Campana]] Hera'', a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] copy of a [[Hellenistic]] original, from the [[Musée du Louvre|Louvre]] ...

{{Short description|Religious beliefs and practices of the Thracians}} ...mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the [[Thracians]], a collection of closely related ancient [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] peoples w ...

{{short description|Name embedding the name of a god}} ...ge is theophorous because besides the [[eponymous]] Asura, each individual of high or low status has a [[personal name]]."</ref> ...

{{Short description|Early attempts at describing the surface of Mars}}{{Multiple image ...= Mars, as seen through a small telescope in 2003, showing the patterns of brightness and color known as albedo features. ...