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.