Arion

Arion is a horse. Not in a rude way, but its a 'divinely-bred', extremely swift horse, capable of speech, which is also invincible. I'm going to write a quote, just because i cannot put it in my own terms, its confusing.
 'Arion's siring by Poseidon in stallion form varies by author: according to the Pseudo-Apollodorus, the horse was foaled by Demeter while she was "in the likeness of a fury".' <- Wikipedia, because im that cool. Anyway, according to Pausanias, he reported that, according to Antimachus, the horse was foaled by Gaia, the earth herself. So really, this is all very confusing.
 That is actually about all it has to say, so i have written two short posts....:D

Arachne

In Greek-Roman mythology, Arachne is a great mortal weaver. She is said to have boasted her skill in waving greater than Minerva, the Latin version of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts. She refused to accept that at least part of her knowledge came from the goddess herself. This offended Athena/Minerva decided there would be a contest between them. 

 According to Ovid, who i know not. The goddess was so envious of her opponents tapestry and the mortals success, perhaps even offended by Arachne's chosen subjects, the loves and transgressions of the gods, that she tore the tapestry and slashed the mortals face. She then destroyed her own tapestry, and ultimately turned Arachne into a spider.

:D

Ambrosia

Okay, so, contrary to my other posts, Ambrosia is not a Greek hero. But rather, it is seen as the food of the gods. Its often depicted as giving ageless immortality upon anyone what consumes it. The gods gained it from the doves that carried it up to Olympus, so it may have been believed in Homeric tradition to be a kind of divine exhalation of earth.
 Ambrosia is closely related to another food for the gods, nectar, the two names may well have not originally been distinguished, but in Homers poems, nectar is the drink of the gods, ambrosia the food. With ambrosia, Hera 'cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh.' It also appears to be the means of which Athena gives the gift of immortality to mortals. Heracles was given ambrosia by Athena, but she refused Tydeus when she discovered him eating human brains. It would seem that those who 'eat' ambrosia have not blood in their veins, but ichor.
 Both the food and the drink of the gods, ambrosia and nectar, are fragrant, and used in perfumes. In the Odyssey, Menelaus and his men disguise themselves as seals in untanned seal skins, 'and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore, but the goddess saved us, she brought ambrosia and  put it under our nostrils.' In Homer's poems, he speaks of ambrosial raiment, ambrosial locks of hair, and even the god's ambrosial sandals.
 As I have written in my post about Achilles, there is a story that believes his mother, Thetis, anoints the baby hero in ambrosia, and puts him through a fire in an attempt to make her beloved child immortal, but her mortal husband, Peleus, stops her, thus leaving only his heel mortal.

Antigone

Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. From what I understand, Jocasta is Oedipus' mother. Her name (The daughter) may 'be taken to mean' -Wikipedia (yush Wikipedia) 'unbending' coming from 'anti' (against, opposed to) and 'gony' (Corner, bend, angle) but her name has also been suggested to mean 'opposed to motherhood'. 'in place of a mother' or 'anti generative'.
 She is the daughter of an accidentally Incestuous (intercourse etc. between closely related family members) because Jocasta is King Oedipus of Thebes mother. She is the main heroine in a popular story where she attempts to gain a respectable burial for her brother, Polynices, even though he was a tratior and the law forbade even to mourn him, on pain of death. In the oldest known version of the story, the funeral is conducted whilst her father, Oedipus, reigns over Thebes, but it is before he marries Jocasta, leading me into a confusion pit. Because if she is the result of there marriage, then how come she is alive whilst her 'parents' are not married? Anyway. In the more popular , the best known, versions, Sophocles' tragedies, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, it appears in the years after Oedipus' banishment and death, Antigone has to struggle against Creon. In the version by Sophocles, both of Antigone' brothers are killed in a battle against the state. Im assuming 'the state' is Thebes.
 Okay, enough for now. XD

Ajax or Aias

Ajax was a Greek hero, kinda obviously because this is about ancient Greek myths, and why would i put a baker in if he was not a hero? Anyway, Ajax was not a baker. His father was named Telamon and his mother Periboea. He was king of Salamis.
 He has an important role on Homers Iliad and the 'Epic Cycle', a series of poems about the Trojan War. To tell him apart from Ajax, son of Oileus, otherwise known as Ajax the lesser, he was called Telamonian Ajax, Greater Ajax or Ajax the Great. In something called Etruscan mythology, his name is Aivas Tlamunus.
 Ajax was the eldest son of Telamon, who's father was Aeacus. Ajax is the grandson of Zeus. Many Athenians, including Cimon, and a historian Thucydides traced their descent from Ajax.
 In the Iliad, he is placed of high stature, huge build and the strongest of all the Achaens. He was also trained by the centaur Chiron, who had also trained his father, but anyway, Ajax was trained at the same time as his cousin Achilles. Homer described him as fearless, strong and powerful, but he also had a very high level of combat intelligence.
 He is also seen as the second most valuable member of Agamemnon's army, as well as Diomedes. Though he's not seen as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus or Odysseus, but he's more powerful and just as intelligent. He is commander of a large army, wielding a huge shield made of seven cow hides and using a layer of bronze. Notably, he is not wounded in any of the described battles written in the Iliad. Also, he is the only main character on either side who does not receive personal help from the gods who take part in the battle.
 Like the vast majority of Greek leaders, Ajax is alive as the battle in the Iliad come to a close. When Achilles, his cousin, is killed by Paris, he is one of those to help fight of the Trojans to get the body back. He and Odysseus both claim to Achilles armour.  Ajax argues that he should have it, because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving ships, chasing people off with  a boulder and such alike.B But Odysseus proves more eloquent, and the council give him the armour. Ajax become enraged and falls upon his own sword, "conquered by his own sorrow.

Agamemnon

Agamemnon was the brother of Menelaus, and husband of Clytemnestra, he was father to Electra and Orestes. His mother and father where King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae. Legends make him King of Mycenae/ Argos, thought to be differant names for the same area.
 The Trojan war started when Helen was kidnapped, or taken away, by Paris. Helen was married to Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus, and thus Agamemnon commanded all greek soilders to fight troy to win her back.
 When Agamemnon returned from Troy he was murdered. (according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey Book 11, l.409f.) by Aegisthus, his wife's lover. The story says that the scene of the murder was in the house of Aegisthus, involving ambush and death of Agamemnon's followers. In later accounts, his wife does the killing, or both her and her lover, inside the palace.
 However, If Agamemnon was murdered in his wife's lovers home, this would suggest Agamemnon knew of the cheating, and/or he was friends with Aegisthus. Well, thats what i have just worked out anyway.
It is beleived, that the murder was induced not only by Clytemnestra's love for Aegisthus, but also because he went to war over Helen of Troy. Which, to be honest, is a fair point, she could have beleived he loved her.

Actaeon

I have not heard of this Greek person before, I mean, i recognise the name. But not really its story.

Apparently, Actaeon's father was a priestly herdsman, called Aristaeus, his mother was Autonoe. He was, like Achilles in later times, trained by the wise centaur Chirion. None really know this story well, the details vary quite considerably. The only certianty is that Actaeon suffered from the wrath of Artemis, goddess of the animals, her wrath proved fatal to him, and that he was turned into a stag and ripped apart by his own hunting hounds.

The now standard version of this tale, offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, is that Artemis was bathing in the woods, and Actaeon stumbled apon her whilst hunting. He stopped and stared at her, caught up in her ravashing beauty, and in doing so he saw her naked. When Artemis noticed him, she forbade that he speak, if he did so, she would turn him into a stag, as punishment for seeing the naked form. Unfortunatly, once she had said this, Actaeon heard his hunting party, and he called out to them. On doing so, he was turned into a stag, and his hunting hounds, not recognishing him, tore him apart. In some accounts, the dogs where so upset by the death of their master that Chirion made them a statue so lifelike that the dogs thought it was there deceased master. But there are so many accounts. One is that he was Zeus' rival for Semele, his mothers sister, and in a nother account, by Euripides' Bacchae, he boasted that he was a better hunter than Artemis.

The names of the hounds.

According to Ovid.

Males: Melampus, Ichnobates (Echnobas), Pamphagos, Dorceus, Oribasus, Nevrophonus, Laelap, Theron, Pterelas, Hylaeus, Nape, Ladon, Poemenis (Therodanapis), Aura, Lacon, Harpyia, Aello, Dromas, Thous Canache, Cyprius, Sticcte, Labros, Arcas, Agriodus, Tigris, Hylanctor, Alce, Harpalus, Lycisca, Melaneus (..a greeks name, think the was a king..), Lachne, Leucon.

Females: Melanchaetes, Agre, Theridamas, Orestitrophos

Other than Ovid.

Dogs: Acamas, Syrus, Leon, Stilbon, Agrius, Charops, Aethon, Corus, Boreas, Draco, Eudromus, Dromius, Zephyrus, Lampus, Haemon, Cyllopodes, Harpalicus, Machimus, Ichneus, Melampus, Ocydromus, Borax, Ocythous, Pachylus, Obrimus;

Bitches: Argo, Arethusa, Urania, Theriope, Dinomache, Dioxippe, Echione, Gorgo, Cyllo, Harpyia, Lynceste, Leaena, Lacaena, Ocypete, Ocydrome, Oxyrhoe, Orias, *Sagnos, Theriphone, *Volatos, *Chediaetros

"ὁρᾷς τὸν Ἀκτέωνος ἄθλιον μόρον,ὃν ὠμόσιτοι σκύλακες ἃς ἐθρέψατοδιεσπάσαντο, κρείσσον' ἐν κυναγίαιςἈρτέμιδος εἶναι κομπάσαντ', ἐν ὀργάσιν."

Translation

"Look at Actaeon's wretched fatewho by the man-eating hounds he had raised,was torn apart, better at huntingthan Artemis he had boasted to be, in the meadows."