Monday, April 13, 2009

famous greek epithets

  • Abantes
    • great-hearted
    • very helpfull
  • Achaeans
    • flowing-haired
    • bronzed-armored
    • strong-greaved
    • glancing-eyed
    • far-famed
  • Achilles
    • son of Peleus
    • swift-footed (podas ôkus)
    • god-like (dios)
    • shepherd of the people
    • leader of men
    • the great runner
  • Aeneas
    • lord of men
    • godlike
    • son of Anchises
    • counselor of the Trojans
    • lord of the Trojans
    • high-hearted
    • likes
  • Agamemnon
    • son of Atreus
    • wide-ruling
    • lord of men
    • the lord marshal
    • godlike
    • powerful
    • skilled breaker of horses
    • shepherd of the people
    • brilliant
  • Aias/Ajax
    • "Great" Aias
    • swift
    • gigantic
    • high-hearted
  • Aphrodite
    • laughing
    • daughter of Zeus
    • goddess of love
  • Apollo
    • distant deadly Archer
    • god of the silver bow
    • rouser of armies
    • son of Zeus
  • Ares
    • curse of men
    • sacker of cities
    • of the glinting helmet
    • manslaughtering
    • women raping
  • Athena
    • Pallas
    • gray-eyed
    • hope of soldiers
  • Artemis
    • the archer-goddess
    • of the golden distaff
  • Calypso
    • beautiful nymph
    • softly-braided nymph
    • divine
    • goddess most divinely made
    • lovely nymph
    • beautiful
  • Dawn
    • with her rose-red fingers ("rosy-fingered")
  • Diomedes
    • god-like
    • high-spirited
    • son of Tydeus
    • great spearman
    • horse tamer
    • master of the war cry
    • the powerful
  • Hector
    • tall
    • horse tamer
    • shepherd of the people
    • son of Priam
    • of the glinting helmet
    • brilliant
    • man-killing
  • Helen
    • long-dressed
    • lovely haired
    • daughter of a noble house
  • Hera
    • ox-eyed lady
    • goddess of the white arms
  • Hephaestus
    • the famous craftsman
    • the famous lame god
  • Hermes
    • messenger
    • son of Zeus
    • giant-killer
    • the strong one
  • Kronos
    • devious-devising
    • all-powerful
  • Menelaus
    • red-haired king
    • master of the war-cry
    • fair-haired
    • son of Atreus
    • war-like
    • spear-famed
  • Nestor
    • godlike
    • splendid
    • Gerenian charioteer
    • son of Neleus
    • Pylos born king
    • sweet spoken
    • high-hearted
  • Odysseus
    • brilliant
    • sacker of cities
    • god-like
    • resourceful ("man of many resources")
    • noble
    • tried
    • wise
    • loved of Zeus
    • great glory of the Aecheans
    • great-hearted
    • master mariner
    • mastermind of war
    • hotheaded
    • versatile
  • Pandaros
    • Lykaeon's splendid son
    • the strong and blameless son of Lykaon
    • godlike
  • Paris
    • Alexandros
    • godlike
    • son of Priam
  • Sea
    • wine-dark
    • grey
  • Thetis
    • lovely-haired
    • silver-footed
  • Tydeus
    • driver of horses
    • high-hearted
  • Zeus
    • mighty
    • son of Kronos
    • wide-seeing
    • the cloud-gatherer
    • father of gods and men
    • master of the bright lightning

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