Greek Mythology & Sparta API

A free JSON API of 144 entries: Greek gods, monsters, heroes, places, events and the customs of ancient Sparta. No API key, no sign-up, no rate limit, CORS enabled. Every entry says whether it is attested in ancient sources and cites them (Hesiod, Herodotus, Plutarch, Xenophon, Apollodorus and others).

The data is the lexicon of the novel Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer. Entries marked "attested_in_ancient_sources": false belong to the novel's world only; filter on that field if you want strictly classical material.

Quick start

fetch("https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/medusa.json")
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(j => console.log(j.data.name, j.data.summary));

curl https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/categories/creatures.json

Random entry, client side:

const {data} = await (await fetch("https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries.json")).json();
const pick = data[Math.floor(Math.random() * data.length)];

Endpoints

Categories

Entry fields

id, name, category, pronunciation, summary, description,
attested_in_ancient_sources, ancient_sources[], url, api

License

CC BY 4.0. Free for any use, including commercial, with attribution: "Source: Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer Lexicon" and a link to this page. Each response includes an attribution field you can display as is.