Laconia Greek A region in the southeast Peloponnesus whose capital was Sparta.
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Laconia Greek A region in the southeast Peloponnesus whose capital was Sparta. In Greek mythology, Helen, wife of Menelaus and legendary cause of the Trojan War, was sometimes said to have been an ancient goddess of fertility in Laconia. She was worshiped there as a goddess of beauty.
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- Dioscuri (Sons of Zeus) Greek A title used in Greek and Roman mythology for the twin brothers Castor and Polydeuces, whose Roman name was Pollux.
- Iphicles Greek Halfbrother of the hero Heracles; son of Amphitryon, a prince of Tiryns, and his wife, Alcmene, who was a daughter of the king of Mycenae; husband to Automedusa, and later, to the youngest daughter of King Creon of Thebes.
- Ixion Greek King of the Lapiths in Thessaly, the largest ancient region of north-central Greece.
- Leda Greek The daughter of King Thestius of Aetolia; wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta.
- Medusa Greek One of the three Gorgons, the only one who was not immortal; her sisters were Stheno and Euryale.