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Achilles
Thetis attempted to make him immortal but was
prevented by Peleus. He
is said to have married
Iphigenia or
Helen after death and
lives with one of them in the White Isle. Or else
he married Medea and lives
with her in the Islands
of the Blest. However it is also said that
Odysseus met him as a
complaining shadow in
Hades.
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Aegipan 1
Attained immortality through becoming a star. Aegipan 1 is the son of Pan & Aex, the nurse of Zeus who had a beautiful body but a most horrible face. Aegipan 1 was nourished with Zeus and
recovered, together with
Hermes,
Zeus' sinews which Typhon
had severed.
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Aeson
Was caused to die by King
Pelias 1 of Iolcus, but
he is also said to have been restored to youth by
Medea, and after that
there is no account of his death.
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Ajax 1
Was seen after his death by Leonymus in the
White Isle.
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Ajax 2
Was seen after his death by Leonymus in the
White Isle.
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Alcestis
Died instead of her husband but returned from
the dead.
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Amphiaraus
King Amphiaraus of
Argos vanished in the
course of the war of the
SEVEN AGAINST
THEBES and became immortal.
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Andromeda
Andromeda, wife of
Perseus 1, became
immortal as she was put among the stars.
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Antilochus
Antilochus, Leader of the Pylians against Troy,
who as a child was suckled by a bitch, was
according to some, killed by
Memnon at
Troy, but others say that
Hector 1 killed him
during the Trojan War.
Leonymus says that he saw Antilochus' soul in the
White Isle.
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Arcas 1
Arcas 1, after wom Arcadia was named, is
son of Zeus &
Callisto. He became
immortal through becoming a star.
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Ariadne
Ariadne, daughter of
King Minos 2 of
Crete, was made immortal
but it is also told that she died.
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Aristaeus
Aristaeus was taught by the
MUSES the arts of healing
and of prophecy. Grieved by the death of his son
Actaeon, he migrated to
Sardinia. He competed with his honey against the
wine of
Dionysus 2 but
Zeus gave the first prize
to the wine. Aristaeus was
never seen again and received immortal honours.
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Asclepius
Asclepius is
immortal but he is also said to have been killed by
Zeus.
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Bolina
Bolina, after whom a city in
Achaea was called, fled
from Apollo who was in
love with her. She threw herself into the sea, but
Apollo made her immortal.
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Cadmus
Was sent to the
Elysian Fields or
else he dwells in the
Islands of the Blest.
Cadmus is the founder of
Thebes and
Europa's brother.
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Callisto
Became immortal through turning into a star, but
she is also said to have been killed by
Artemis.
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Capaneus
Capaneus is one of the
SEVEN AGAINST
THEBES. Zeus smote him
with a thunderbolt when he was climbing the walls
of Thebes, but he was
raised from the dead by
Asclepius.
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Cassiopea 2
Mother of
Andromeda,
Perseus 1's wife. She
is immortal as she is among the constellations.
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Cepheus 1
He is among the constellations, which is one way to immortality. Cepheus 1 was king of Ethiopia and father of Andromeda,
Perseus 1's wife.
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Ceteus 1
Immortal through becoming a star. Ceteus 1 is son of impious Lycaon 2,
and some say he was
Callisto's father.
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Circe
Circe is to be
considered as an immortal, as she could bestow
immortality on others. Besides she was the daughter
of Helius (see also Odysseus).
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Clitus 3
Clitus 3 should be immortal, as Eos (Dawn), who snatched him
on account of his beauty, took him to live with the
gods.
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Crotus
Immortal through becoming a star. Crotus was a
hunter and a companion of the
MUSES. He is son of
Pan & Eupheme 1, one of Zeus' nurses.
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Cynosura
Nurse of Zeus, immortal
through becoming a star.
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Demophon 2
Demeter tried to make
him immortal by putting him into the fire, but he
died consumed by the flames.
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Deucalion 1
The man who survived the
Flood. He is probably
immortal as he was put among the stars.
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DIOSCURI
They shared immortality with each other.
Originally only Polydeuces was
immortal.
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Erichthonius 2
King of Athens.
Immortal through becoming a star.
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Erigone 2
Erigone 2 hanged herself when she discovered that her father Icarius 2 was dead. Immortal through becoming a star.
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Erulus
Had three lives and had to be killed thrice. He was killed by Evander 2, the wise Arcadian [see Romulus].
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Ganymedes
Was taken to live among the gods and he also
became a star.
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Glaucus 4
Son of King Minos 2 of Crete. He drowned in honey
but he was raised from the dead by Asclepius or the seer Polyidus 1, son of Coeranus 1, son of Abas 3, son of the seer King Melampus 1 of Argos, son of Amythaon 1, who lived in Pylos, son of Cretheus 1, the founder of Iolcus, son of Aeolus 1, the Thessalian, son of Hellen 1, the eponym of the Hellenes, son of Deucalion 1, the man
who survived the Flood.
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Harmonia 1
The wife of Cadmus,
who received as wedding presents the fatal Robe & Necklace. She
was sent to the Elysian
Fields after her death.
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Helen
Said to be born immortal. She was taken to
heaven by Apollo. Or else
she went with Menelaus to the Elysian
Fields. She is also said to have wedded Achilles in the White
Isle after death. Nevertheless it is also told that
she died.
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Heracles 1
Attained immortality at the moment of death. He
descended once to
Hades and came up
again.
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Hersilia
Romulus' wife. She
went up with a star to heaven and became immortal.
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Hippolytus 4
Son of Theseus and an Amazon, either Antiope 4 or Hippolyte 3. He was raised from the dead by Asclepius [see also Romulus].
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Icarius 2
Immortal through becoming a star. Icarius 2 was killed by some shepherds who imagined they were bewitched after having drunk the wine of Icarius 2, which Dionysus 2 had given
him.
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Ino
Ino is the mortal woman who plotted against the
children of her husband's first wife, attempting to
arrange their death. These, however, could escape
to Colchis borne through the sky by the Ram with
the Golden Fleece [see ARGONAUTS]. Ino cast
herself into the sea, but became a goddess called
Leucothea.
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Iphigenia
This is Agamemnon's
daughter, who sometimes is said to have been
sacrificed at Aulis [see
Trojan War]. She
married Achilles after
death in the White Isle.
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JUDGES OF THE DEAD
Immortals, because they judge the souls of those
who descend to Hades.
They are Minos 2, Aeacus and Rhadamanthys.
Rhadamanthys is also said to dwell in the Elysian
Fields [see Underworld].
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Juturna
Juturna became a goddess of lakes and rivers in
return for the maidenhood Zeus had ravished. Juturna
was the daughter of King Daunus of Apulia (Italy)
& Venilia.
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Lycurgus 1
King of the Edonians (Thrace) or else the
Arabians, who was the first to expel Dionysus 2. He used,
when he met wandering wayfarers, to have them bound
and dragged to his house, and then sacrificed to Ares. They were cut to
pieces, and he took their extremities to decorate
his gates. Some say he was killed by the Edonians.
Others say that he, driven mad by Dionysus 2, killed
himself. But still others say that the MAENADS almost killed
him but he was saved by Hera (who always opposed Dionysus 2) and made
immortal.
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Lycurgus 4
Son of Pronax, son of King Talaus of Argos. He was raised from
the dead by Asclepius.
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Lycus 2
Was sent by his father Poseidon to dwell in
the Islands of the
Blest. His mother was the Pleiad Celaeno 2.
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Medea
Was married to Achilles after death
and they live in the Islands of the Blest.
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Melicertes
Originally a mortal child, but when he died he became a deity and was called Palaemon 3. Ino, his mother [see above in this list], threw him into a boiling cauldron. Then, carrying it with the dead child, she cast herself into the sea, and while she became the sea-deity Leucothea, he became a new god, Palaemon 3.
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Memnon
Son of Tithonus 1 & Eos (Dawn). King Memnon of the Ethiopians
came with a great force to Troy to fight against the
Achaean invaders. After being killed by Achilles, he was made
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Menelaus
Went after death to the Elysian Fields with Helen.
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Myrtilus
Immortal through becoming a star [his story at Pelopides].
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Nisus 1
His immortality depended on a purple hair in his
head; when the hair was pulled out he died [see Megara].
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Odysseus
Was offered immortality by Calypso 3, but he
refused. Odysseus is
among those who descended to Hades and returned
[see also Map of the
Underworld].
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Orsilochus 6
This is the man from Argos invented the
four-horse chariot. Immortal through becoming a
star (constellation Charioteer = Auriga).
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Parthenos
Immortal through becoming a star (constellation
Virgin = Virgo). Parthenos died very young. She
hurled herself down from a rock in fear of her
father's severity as a swine destroyed the wine she was watching, a drink which had only recently been discovered. Daughter of Staphylus 1 & Chrysothemis 2.
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Pasiphae
Wife of King Minos 2 of Crete. She was immortal
probably just for being the daughter of Helius.
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Patroclus 1
This good friend of
Achilles came after
death to the White Island, as Leonymus said.
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Peleus
Achilles' father. He
dwells in the Islands of
the Blest.
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Pelops 1
Was cut into pieces by his father and served as
a meal, but the gods restored him to life [see also Pelopides].
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Penelope
Odysseus' wife. She
was made immortal by the witch Circe and sent to the Islands of the Blest together with Telegonus 3, but she is also reported to have died.
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Perseus 1
Became immortal when he turned into a star (constellation Perseus). Otherwise he is said to have being killed by Megapenthes 2.
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Phylonoe
Daughter of Tyndareus & Leda. She was made immortal
by Artemis.
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Pterelaus
Was immortal but his immortality depended on a
golden hair in his head. So when the hair was
pulled out he died. Pterelaus was King of Taphos at
the time when Amphitryon, the
step-father of Heracles 1, ravaged the islands of the Taphians. He was betrayed by his daughter Comaetho 1, who pulled out the golden hair from his head.
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Romulus
Was taken by his father
(Ares) to heaven, but he is
also said to have been murdered.
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Semele
Was raised from Hades by her son Dionysus 2 and made
immortal by Zeus.
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Telegonus 3
Was sent by his mother Circe to the Isles of the
Blest together with Penelope.
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Theseus
Was killed but he attained immortality through
becoming a star.
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Tithonus 1
Became immortal when his wife
Eos (Dawn) asked
Zeus immortality for him.
But she forgot to ask for youth and he grew old.
Finally he could not move his limbs but he was
unable to die.
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Triopas 2
Attained immortality through becoming a star
(Serpent-Holder = Ophiuchus). He tore down the
temple of Demeter, and
she sent a serpent to plague him. By her will he
was put among the stars, but this immortality
implies punishment, because the serpent still hunts
him the sky.
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Tyndareus
King of Sparta. Was
raised from the dead by
Asclepius.
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