Categories: Mythology stubs | Greek mythological people | People who fought in the Trojan War From hippos (horse) and damazo (to tame), Tamer of horses. ... In Greek mythology, Pirithous (also transliterated as Perithoos or Peirithoos) was the King of the Lapiths and husband of Hippodamia. ... Thessaly (Θεσσαλια; modern Greek Thessalía) is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Acheans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Helen was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. ... 19th century etching of the Trojan Horse The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, though it does not figure in the part of the war narrated in Homers Iliad. ... In Greek mythology, Kalkhas Thestórides, or Calchas (brazen) for short, was a powerful prophet. ... In Greek mythology, Patroclus, or Pátroklos (gr. ... Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt). ... Phthia (Greek Φθίη) is an ancient region of Greece, at the southern part of Magnesia, on the both sides of Othrys mountain. ... Aitolos (Αίτολος) the son of Endymion in Greek mythology, reigned as King of Elis. ... Penelope represented as a statue in the Vatican, Rome Penelope (Πηνελοπεια) is a character of the Odyssey, one of the two great epic poems (the other being the Iliad; both are attributed to Homer) of ancient Greek literature. ... Odysseus and the Sirens. ... Thesprotia (Greek: Θεσπρωτία) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ...