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creonenoun	A member of a tribe that lived in what is now part of Scotland.
antigonenoun	(Greek mythology) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology
thyestesnoun	(Greek mythology) A king of Olympia; the son of Pelops and Hippodamia; and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. He and his brother Atreus were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother Chrysippus.
ophionnoun	(Greek mythology) A Titan-king of heaven, before being overthrown by Cronus and Rhea.
agamemnonnoun	(Greek mythology) One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus. He is famous for rallying the Greeks in the Trojan War, yet infamous for the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the commencement of the war.
odysseusnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey.
atreusnoun	(Greek mythology) A mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia.
god-kingnoun	A statesman who holds all the state's powers and has religious significance to his constituency.
zagreusnoun	(Greek mythology) An obscure figure in Greek mythology who, according to Orphic tradition, was the son of Zeus and Persephone who was destroyed by the Titans but reborn through the intervention of Zeus as Dionysus.
jocastanoun	(Greek mythology) The mother and wife of Oedipus.
croesusnoun	(figuratively) A rich person.
orestesnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother, avenging his father's death, and was then pursued by the Furies.
eteoclusnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Iphis, who participated in the war on Thebes.
theseusnoun	A legendary Ancient Greek hero most famous for defeating the minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.
laertesnoun	(Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus
aegyptusnoun	A king of Egypt in Greek mythology.
procrisnoun	(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, the daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and his wife Praxithea.
oedipusnoun	(Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
clytemnestranoun	(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed after the Trojan War, whereupon was killed herself by their son Orestes
epigoninoun	(Greek mythology) The legendary sons of the Argive heroes of the first Theban War, who as legend has it, were themselves prosecutors of the second Theban War.