Mythology Names

Faustulus was the name of the shepherd who found the babies Romulus and Remus in the she-wolf's lair. His name seems to be related to ...

Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers ( Latin flos, floris, 'flower'). She was the goddess who was responsible for the flowering o...

Fortuna was a Roman goddess rather vaguely believed to bring her worshippers good luck, rather as a lucky mascot or Cornish pixy (or pisky)...

Furies (Latin Furiae) were the female spirits of justice and venge­nce. They were said to have been born from the blood of Uranus that fel...

Gaia (or Ge) was the great primeval earth goddess, the first creature to be born from Chaos. The name is simply the Greek for 'earth...

Galanthis (also Galanthias and Galen) was the slave girl of Alcmene. Her name means 'weasel' (galen) into which she was turned by Il...

Galatea was the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and as Handel's opera reminds us she was loved by Acis. Galatea lived in the sea off Sic...

Ganymede was the son either of Tros , the founder of Troy, or of Laomedon , the father of the Trojan king Priam . He was a beautiful boy, an...

Gasterocheires was the collective name for the seven Cyclopes who built Argos and Tiryas. It derives from gaster, 'stomach' (as in ...

Geilissa was Orestes' old nurse. According to one story, she sent her own son to bed in the royal nursery so that he would be killed by...