1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Pleiades – Pyrrhus

Pleiades

A name given to seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. They were placed after death in the heavens, and formed a constellation.

Pollux

A son of Jupiter and Leda, brother to Castor.

Polybus

King of Corinth, by whom Oedipus was brought up.

Polycrates

Tyrant of Samos, and one of the most powerful of all the Greek tyrants.

Polyhymnia

One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over singing and rhetoric.

Polyphemus

A celebrated Cyclops, son of Neptune and Thoosa, the daughter of

Priamides

A son of Priam, by which name Hector, Paris, Helenus, Deiphobus, and the other sons of Priam are frequently called.

Psyche

A nymph who married Cupid. Venus put her to death because of this, but Jupiter, at the request of Cupid, granted immortality to her.

Pudicitia

A personification of modesty, was worshipped both in Greece and at Rome.

Pyrrho

The founder of the Skeptical or Pyrrhonian school of philosophy.

Pyrrhus

See Neoptolemus.

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