NAMES FOR YOUR BOOK

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Names For Girls

1. Adrasteia - a Cretan nymph, daughter of Melisseus, who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant Zeus in secret, to protect him from his father Cronos
2. Anthea - goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths
3. Aphrodite - goddess of love
4. Astraea - virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity and precision
5. Atalanta - famous Greek huntress and exceptional athlete with impressive skills, courage and noble character
6. Briseis - virgin priestess of Apollo
7. Calliope - she's the Muss who presided over eloquence and epic poetry; "Chief of all Muses"
8. Cassandra - was a woman cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed
9. Clio - muse of history or muse of lyre playing
10. Danae - mother of Perseus by Zeus
11. Daphne - dryad, daughter of the river god Peneus
12. Dike - goddess of justice and moral order
13. Erato - goddess of music, song and dance
14. Euphrosyne - goddess of good cheer, mirth, merriment and joy
15. Europa - the beauty of Europa inspired the love of Zeus
16. Evadne - daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus, mother of Ecbasus, Peiras, Epidaurus and Criasus
17. Gaia - is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess
18. Hebe - goddess of youth or the prime of life
19. Hecate - goddess of witchcraft
20. Helen - "the most beautiful woman in the world"
21. Hera - goddess of marriage & birth, queen of the gods and wife and sister of Zeus
22. Hestia - virgin goddess of hearth
23. Ianthe - was a Cretan girl who was betrothed to Iphis who was a woman raised as a man; she also fell in love with Ianthe and prayed to the gods to allow two women to marry
24. Iphigenia - daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae
25. Iris - goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods
26. Kallisto - she was one of the followers of Artemis who attracted Zeus
27. Kalypso - daughter of the Titan Atlas, a beautiful nymph of the mystical island Ogygia
28. Lachesis - was the second of the Three Fates, or Moirai: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos
29. Larisa - was the name of two different figures that appears in various accounts: Larisa, daughter Pelasgus; Larisa, daughter of Piasus
30. Melaina - Corycian nymph, or member of of the prophetic Thriae, of the springs of Delphi in Phocis, who was loved by Apollo and bore him Delphos
31. Melete - muse of thought and meditation
32. Nyx - goddess/personification of the night
33. Penelope - wife of the hero Odysseus, daughter of Icarus of
34. Persephone - goddess of spring, wife of Hades and daughter of Demeter
35. Phaedra - daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae of Crete
36. Phoebe - Titan, mother of Leto, Asteria and Hecate
37. Semele - mother of Dionysus by Zeus
38. Selene - goddess of the moon
39. Tethys - was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, sister and wife of Titan Oceanus
40. Terpsichore - goddess of dance and chorus
41. Thalia - goddess of festivity and daughter of Zeus
42. Tisiphone - is the avenger of murder; her name means "voice of revenge"

Names For Boys

1. Achilles - was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War and was a demigod because of his mother Thetis
2. Adonis - was the god of beauty and desire
3. Aeson - was the Father of Jason and Promachus with Polymede, the daughter of Autolycus
4. Ajax - Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea
5. Apollo - god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.
6. Ares - god of war, son of Zeus and Hera
7. Argus - is a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology
8. Aristaeus - was a minor god, protector and creator of various arts, such as cheese making and bee keeping
9. Atlas - was a titan condemned to hold up the celestial heavens for eternity after the Titanomachy
10. Bacchus - was essentially a copy of the Greek god Dionysus: he was the god of agriculture and wine and the son of Jupiter (Zeus). He wandered the earth, showing people how to grow vines and process the grapes for wine
11. Castor - the Dioscuri were the twin brothers Castor and Pollux, their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers. Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, was the father of Castor (hence a mortal), while Zeus was the father of Pollux (a demigod)
12. Cephalus - son of the ruler of Phocis, Deion, and Diomede, he was married to Procris, daughter of the king of Athens Erectheus and Praxithea. However, he was kidnapped by the goddess of dawn, Eos, and they became lovers
13. Cepheus - was the name of two kings in Aethiopia, grandfather and grandson. The better known Cepheus is the son of Agenor and grandson of the other Cepheus. He was married to Cassiopeia, with whom he had a beautiful daughter, Andromeda.
14. Cerberus - often called the "hound of Hades", is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving
15. Charon - is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead
16. Chryses - was a Trojan priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy
17. Daedalus - was a skillful craftsman and artist, and was seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and power
18. Damocles - is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote commonly referred to as "the Sword of Damocles," an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power
19. Damon - son of Damonides, was a Greek musicologist of the fifth century BC
20. Dardanos - son of Zeus and Electra, and ancestor of the Trojans
21. Dionysus - god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, fertility, ritual madness, theater, and religious ecstasy
22. Eros - is the Greek was a culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws, and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, ...god of love and sex
23. Evander - was a culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws, and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome
24. Hector - was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War
25. Helios - was the god of the sun
26. Hermes - was god of trade, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and border crossings, guide to the Underworld
27. Jason - was an hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson and married to the sorceress Medea
28. Koios - was the Titan-god of the inquisitive mind, his name meaning "query" or "questioning"
29. Kreios - was one of the Titans, children of Uranus and Gaia
30. Leander - was a young man from Abydos, who lived on the eastern shores of the Hellespont, he fell in love with Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite
31. Linus - the personification of lamentation
32. Lycus - was a ruler of the ancient city of Ancient Thebes
33. Melanthios - provides the best goats of the herd for a feast for the suitors of Penelope 34. Morpheus - god of sleep and dreams
35. Okeanos - was the Titan god of the river Okeanos
36. Paris - son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Of these appearances, probably the best known was the elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War.
37. Perseus - is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus
38. Poseidon - god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses and is considered one of the most bad-tempered, moody gods
39. Proteus - the prophetic old man of the sea and shepherd of the sea's flocks
40. Thanatos - the personification of death. Thanatos was the son of Nyx, the goddess of night, and the brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep
41. Theseus - great hero of Attic legend, son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen (in Argolis), or of the sea god, Poseidon, and Aethra
42. Zeus - often referred to as the "Father of Gods and men", he is a sky god who controls lightning (often using it as a weapon) and thunder. Zeus is king of Mount Olympus, the home of Greek gods, where he rules the world and imposes his will onto gods and mortals alike