Historical and Mythological Latin Names

the ruling nation among the Greeks in historic times

son of Peleus and Thetis

son of Faunus loved by Galatea

a huntsman torn to pieces by his own dogs for having seen Diana bathing

son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, beloved by Venus; beautiful young man

father of Theseus

victor over Perseus, king of Macedon, at Pydna in 168 BC

son of Anchises and Venus

god of the winds

king of Mycenae, commander-in-chief of the Greek forces at Troy

(361-289 BC) king of Sicily, celebrated for his victory over the Carthaginians to win Sicily

governor of Britain for seven years (77-84 AD)

name of two Greek heroes in the Trojan War

(356-23 BC) king of Macedon from 336 to 23 BC)

son of Amphiaraus, who killed his mother Eriphyle

wife of Ceyx; she was changed into a kingfisher

in Virgil’s Aeneid, the wife of Latinus and mother of Lavinia

wife of Neptune; goddess of the sea

father of Aeneas

wife of Hector

daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope; rescued by Perseus from a sea-monster

in Virgil’s Aeneid, sister of Dido

(83-30 BC) the lover of Cleopatra defeated by Octavius Caesar at Actium in 31 BC

Egyptian dog-headed god

renowned Greek painter

god of the sun, prophecy, music and poetry, archery and medicine, son of Jupiter and Leto

a Lydian woman who challenged Athena to a contest of weaving and was turned into a spider

twin-brother of Pollux, son of Tyndareus

supposedly a conspirator against the Roman state when Cicero was consul (63 BC), killed on the battlefield near Pistoria in 62 BC

(234-149 BC) censor, author of the phrase ‘delenda est Carthago’

an opponent of Caesar; committed suicide at Utica when his cause was defeated, 49 BC

a wild race of Thessaly, half-man, half-horse

husband of Procris, beloved by Eos (Dawn); he accidentally killed his wife

three-headed dog, guarding the entrance to Hell

ferryman of the Lower World

a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a she-goat, and tail of a snake

a Centaur who tutored Aesculapius, Hercules and Achilles

(106-43 BC) one of the greatest politicians, writers and lawyers of the ancient world

Roman dictator (485 BC)

a famous sorceress

queen of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes; loved by Mark Antony

the Muse of History

one of the Fates (who span the thread of life)

wife of Agamemnon

became an enemy of his countrymen, the Romans

a member (with Julius Caesar and Pompey) of the First Triumvirate; killed by the Parthians near Carrhae in 53 BC

in Virgil’s Aeneid, daughter of the Trojan king Priam and his wife Hecuba, and mother of Ascanius

king of Lydia; a (proverbially) rich man

love god, son of Venus

the great Phrygian mother goddess

a one-eyed giant, workman in Vulcan’s smithy

legendary Athenian craftsman and inventor, creator of the labyrinth and father of Icarus

mother of Perseus

daughter of the river god Peneus, loved by Apollo

ancestor of the Trojan dynasty

a title of Mars

father of Hannibal

Punic surname; the great Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War, son of Hamilcar

Punic surname; opponent of Hannibal

mythical rapacious monsters, half-bird, half-woman

(1) brother of Hannibal; (2) son-in-law of Hamilcar

goddess of youth, cupbearer to the gods

goddess of the Lower World, worshipped as goddess of spells and enchantments

warrior son of Priam and Hecuba

(1) daughter of Jupiter and Leda, wife of Menelaus; (2) mother of Constantine the Great

after the fall of Troy, husband of Hector’s widow Andromache and king of Chaonia, a part of Epirus

daughter of Athamas, king of Boeotia, who was drowned in the narrow sea called after her

son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a demigod and divine hero

daughters of Erebus and the Night; they lived in an island garden beyond Mt. Atlas and guarded the golden apples which Juno received on her wedding

son of Atlas, or of Cephalus, and Aurora; planet Venus as evening-star

the Hours, goddesses of the seasons

beautiful youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by him

seven-headed serpent, killed by Hercules

beautiful youth who accompanied Hercules on the Argonautic expedition

son of a Titan and the Earth; the Sun

son of Aeson, king of Thessaly, Grecian hero

son of Daedalus; tried to fly from Crete and fell into the sea

daughter of Inachus; beloved of Zeus, turned into a cow and pursued by Argus

daughter of Agamenon and Clytemnestra; sacrificed at the beginning of the Trojan War

daughter of Thaumus and Electra, messenger of the gods and goddess of the rainbow

Egyptian goddess, wife of Osiris

son of Tereus and Procne; made into a stew and served up to his father

son of Oeneus and Althaea, who took part in the Calydonian boar hunt; his survival depended on the continuing existence of a fire brand

one of the Muses, later associated with tragedy

son of Tithonus and Aurora, king of the Ethiopians

brother of Agamemnon

faithful friend of Ulysses

son of Jupiter and Maia, the messenger of the gods; the god of eloquence and of merchants and thieves

in Virgil’s Aeneid, a brutal tyrant of Caere in Etruria

king of Phrygia; all he touched was turned into gold

daughter of Zeus, goddess of wisdom, of the arts, of handicraft and women’s works

son of Zeus and Europa, king of Crete

monster with the head of a bull in the Labyrinth of Crete

in Virgil’s Aeneid, the Trojan trumpeter who roused the jealousy of the sea-god Triton and was drowned

Memory, the mother of the Muses

god of dreams

one of the nine patron goddesses of the arts

son of Cephissus, enamoured of his own beauty and turned into a flower named after him

goddess of retribution

(also called Pyrrhus) son of Achilles and Deidamia, the brutal killer of the Trojan king Priam