Category Greekmythology Category Oceanids Category Mortal parents of demigods in Classical mythology Category Theseus Category Troezenian mythology cs Aithra de Aithra el es Etra eo Etro fr thra fille de Pitth e it Etra ka lt Aetra nl Aethra mythologie ja pl Ajtra c rka ...other uses Aethra disambiguation Image Demophon Aithra Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2687.jpg thumb right Demophon King of Athens Demophon ? freeing Aethra, Attica Attic white ground kylix drinking cup kylix , 470 460 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen Inv. 2687 . In Greekmythology , Aethra or Aithra Ancient Greek , IPA el i t ra pron , IPAc en lang i r , the bright sky ref Robert Graves , The Greek Myths , 1955 1960 index, s.v. Aethra . ref was a name applied to four different individuals Mother of Theseus Aethra was a daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and the mother of Theseus his ... and bring his weapons back. Aethra did as she was told, and Theseus, recovering the weapons that were ... Theseus kidnapped Helen of Troy Helen , he gave her to Aethra for safekeeping. Helen s brothers, the Dioscuri , took Helen back and kidnapped Aethra in revenge. She went to Troy with Helen of Troy ... alterations to the character, a version of this Aethra appears as Aithra , a sorceress and concubine ... Helen . Oceanid Aethra is also the name of one of the Oceanids , the 3000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys mythology Tethys . She is sometimes called the wife of Atlas mythology Atlas and mother of the Pleiades Greekmythology Pleiades and the Hyades mythology Hyades more usually the offspring of Pleione mythology Pleione . ref Gaius Julius Hyginus Hyginus . Astronomica , http www.theoi.com Text HyginusAstronomica2.html 21 2.21 . ref Wife of Hyperion A figure called Aethra possibly the Oceanid is, in one source, called the wife of Hyperion mythology Hyperion , rather than Theia , and mother ... Text HyginusFabulae1.html Preface . ref Wife of Phalanthus Another Aethra was the wife of the Spartan ... more details
Aethra or AETHRA may refer to AethraGreekmythologyAethra , GreekmythologyAethra genus Aethra , a genus of crab in the family Aethridae AETHRA Componentes Automotivos AETHRA , a Brazil ian auto testing company Aethra, a fictional moon in the Colony Wars franchise. It is the eighth and outermost satellite of the gas giant Galatea Fact date December 2008 132 Aethra , an M type main belt asteroid Category Videotelephony disambig br Etra dishe velout de Aithra Begriffskl rung el fr thra nl Aethra pl Ajtra ... more details
an elongated or irregular shape for its body. It is named after AethraGreekmythologyAethra , the mother of Theseus in Greekmythology . References references External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov ... bodies DEFAULTSORT Aethra Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named from Greekmythology ... , 132 Aethra is an M type asteroid M type main belt asteroid . It has a rather eccentricity orbit ... such Mars crosser asteroid to be identified. As a Mars crosser asteroid, Aethra is the lowest numbered ... by Mars. With an original observation arc of only 22 days, 132 Aethra was a lost asteroid between ... of 132 Aethra journal Astronomical Journal volume 47 issue 1081 pages 17 23 year 1938 doi 10.1086 ... asteroids Beltasteroid stub ast 132 Aethra de 132 Aethra el 132 es 132 Aethra eo 132 Etro eu 132 Aethra fa fr 132 thra it 132 Aethra la 132 Aethra hu 132 Aethra ja no 132 Aethra nn 132 Aethra pl 132 Aethra ru 132 sk 132 Aethra sl 132 Etra sr 132 Aethra sv 132 Aethra tl 132 Aethra th 132 Aethra uk 132 vi 132 Aethra yo 132 Aethra zh ... more details
Italic title Taxobox name Aethra regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a subphylum Crustacean Crustacea classis Malacostraca ordo Decapoda infraordo Crab Brachyura familia Aethridae genus Aethra genus authority Pierre Andr Latreille Latreille in Georges Cuvier Cuvier , 1816 Aethra is a genus of crab s in the family Aethridae , containing the following species ref cite web author P. Davie year 2010 title Aethra Latreille in Cuvier, 1816 publisher World Register of Marine Species url http www.marinespecies.org aphia.php?p taxdetails&id 439183 accessdate December 6, 2010 ref Aethra edentata small Edmondson, 1951 small Aethra scruposa small Linnaeus, 1764 small Aethra scutata small Smith, 1869 small Aethra seychellensis small Takeda, 1975 small References reflist Category Crabs Crab stub ... more details
Italic title Taxobox name Kurtzia aethra image image caption regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusca classis Gastropoda unranked superfamilia clade Caenogastropoda br clade Hypsogastropoda br clade Neogastropoda superfamilia Conoidea familia Mangeliidae ref name Conoidea http mollus.oxfordjournals.org content 77 3 273.full Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. 2011 A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 273 308. ref subfamilia genus Kurtzia species K. aethra binomial Kurtzia aethra binomial authority Dall, 1919 synonyms ref ref name WoRMS synonyms Philbertia aethra small Dall, 1919 small Kurtzia aethra is a species of sea snail , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family biology family Mangeliidae . ref name WoRMS WRMS species 434164 Kurtzia aethra Dall, 1919 9 August 2011 ref Description Empty section date March 2010 Distribution Empty section date March 2010 References reflist External links Use dmy dates date January 2011 DEFAULTSORT Kurtzia Aethra Category Kurtzia aethra conidae stub pt Kurtzia aethra vi Kurtzia aethra ... more details
Taxobox image status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Odonata familia Libellulidae genus Aethriamanta species A. aethra binomial Aethriamanta aethra binomial authority Ris, 1912 synonyms Aethriamanta aethra is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae . It is found in Malaysia , Singapore , Thailand . In April 2011, this species was discovered in the mangrove forest of U Minh Thuong National Park , Kien Giang Province , southern Vietnam . ref http www.monre.gov.vn v35 default.aspx?tabid 675&CateID 58&ID 99800&Code H7RCA99800 New dragon fly species found in southern park ref References reflist Category Libellulidae dragonfly stub nl Aethriamanta aethra pl Aethriamanta aethra vi Chu n chu n tr m ... more details
This article is about a Brazil ian auto testing company. For Greekmythology , see AethraGreekmythologyAethra . AETHRA is a Brazil ian company, founded in 1974 in Minas Gerais , that attempts to progress and advance the auto industry in Brazil. External links http www.aethra.com.br index.php?get nivel apl 380&get codaplicacao 82 Official website Category Companies of Brazil Category Companies based in Minas Gerais Brazil company stub ... more details
, Vatican City Vatican Greek myth Greekmythology is the body of myth s and legends belonging ... encyclopedia title Volume Hellas, Article GreekMythology encyclopedia Encyclopaedia The Helios year 1952 ref Greekmythology is embodied, explicitly, in a large collection of narratives, and implicitly ... Pausanias . Archaeological findings provide a principal source of detail about Greekmythology ... the existing literary evidence. ref name Br cite encyclopedia title GreekMythology encyclopedia Encyclop dia Britannica year 2002 ref Greekmythology has exerted an extensive influence on the culture ... from Greekmythology and have discovered contemporary significance and relevance in these mythological themes. ref J.M. Foley, Homer Simpson s Traditional Art , 43 ref Sources of GreekmythologyGreekmythology is known today primarily from Greek literature and representations on visual media dating ... mythology and heroic legends. ref name Hard1 R. Hard, The Routledge Handbook of GreekMythology , 1 ... incidents. ref name Klatt Brazouskixii Klatt Brazouski, Ancient Greek nad Roman Mythology , xii ... in the fifth century manuscript, the Vergilius Romanus , preserved details of Greekmythology in many ..., both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greekmythology s surviving .... Thus Greekmythology unfolds as a phase in the development of the world and of humans. ref name Dowden11 K. Dowden, The Uses of GreekMythology , 11 ref While self contradictions in these stories ... name Klattx Klatt Brazouski, Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology , 10 ref The most widely accepted ... Guirand, Felix year 1987 origyear 1959 title New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology chapter Greek ... title GreekMythology encyclopedia Encyclop dia Britannica year 2002 br K. Algra, The Beginnings .... Nagy, GreekMythology and Poetics , 54 ref In the wide variety of myths and legends that Greekmythology ... is known as the heroic age . ref name Kelsey30 F.W. Kelsey, An Outline of Greek and Roman Mythology ... more details
for the Roman goddess Ops In Greekmythology , the name Ops may refer to Ops male , son of Peisenor and father of Eurycleia . ref Homer , Odyssey , 1. 429 2. 347 20. 148 ref He may or may not be the same as Ops , father of Melas mythology Melas . ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 8. 28. 5 ref Ops female , mother of Eurypylus by Euaemon. ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 97 ref References reflist Greek myth stub Category Greekmythology ... more details
In Greekmythology, a miasma is a contagious power that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe. ref Armstrong, chapter 2. ref An example is Atreus who invited his brother Thyestes to a delicious stew containing the bodies of his own sons. A miasma contaminated the entire family of Atreus, where one violent crime led to another, providing fodder for many of the Greek heroic tales. However, attempts to cleanse a city or a society from miasma may have the opposite effect, that of reinforcing the miasma. References references DEFAULTSORT Miasma GreekMythology Category Greekmythology hu miazma ... more details
Acacus , in Greekmythology , was a king of Acacesium in Arcadia , the son of Lycaon mythology Lycaon , and the foster father of the infant Hermes . Maia mythology Maia gave birth to Hermes at dawn in a sacred cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, and he was raised by Acacus. He was believed to be the founder of the Arcadia n town of Acacesium where he was king. ref Pausanias. Description of Greece , viii. 3. 1 ref References reflist Category Mythological kings of Arcadia Greek myth stub ar ca Acacos de Akakos es Acaco fr Acacos it Acaco lt Akakas pl Akakos pt Acaco ... more details
In Greekmythology , the name Thero feral, beastly may refer to A reputed nurse of Ares . Local inhabitants of Therapne in Sparta believed that Theriates , a surname of Ares, had been derived from her name. Pausanias remarks that outside Therapne, Thero was completely unknown to the Greeks, and supposes that this mythological figure could have been of Colchian origin, considering the fact that the statue of Ares Theriates was believed to have been brought from Colchis by the Dioscuri . ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 3. 19. 8 ref Daughter of Phylas and Leipephilene , and sister of Hippotes . By Apollo she became mother of Chaeron, eponym of Chaeronea . ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 9. 40. 6 ref ref Stephanus of Byzantium , s. v. Khaironeia ref A follower of Artemis . ref Claudian , De consulatu Stilichonis , 3. 250 & 309 ref References reflist External links http www.theoi.com Nymphe NympheThero.html Theoi Project Thero nurse of Ares Greek myth stub Category Greekmythology Category Mortal parents of demigods in Classical mythology ... more details
orphan date March 2010 The genesis of modern understanding of Greekmythology is regarded by some scholars ... exerted an intense influence on intellectual life in Germany. ref name Graf9 F. Graf, GreekMythology ... and mythology. ref name Burkert24 W. Burkert, Greek Religion , 24 ref Psychoanalytic interpretations ... out of it. ref name Br cite encyclopedia title GreekMythology encyclopedia Encyclopaedia Britannica ... mythology, gave up his early views of myth, in order to apply Jung s theories of archetypes to Greek myth. ref name Graf38 F. Graf, GreekMythology , 38 ref Origin theories see also Similarities between Roman, Greek, and Etruscan mythologies The origins of Greekmythology remain a fascinating and open ... including Greekmythology are derived from the narratives of the Scriptures , though the real facts ... for Jonah etc. ref name Bulfinch241 T. Bulfinch, Bulfinch s Greek and Roman Mythology , 241 ref ... Sea . ref name Bulfinch241 242 T. Bulfinch, Bulfinch s Greek and Roman Mythology , 241 242 ref ... T. Bulfinch, Bulfinch s Greek and Roman Mythology , 242 ref Image IngresJupiterAndThetis.jpg ... and linguistics have been applied to the origins of Greekmythology with some interesting results. Historical ... Greek Zeus Latin Jupiter mythology Jupiter Old Norse Tyr . ref name Allen12 D. Allen, Religion , 12 ... for power, found their way the route is not certain into Greekmythology. Our prime source is the great ... have speculated on the debts of Greekmythology to the still poorly understood pre Hellenic societies ... Thebes and Orchomenus Boeotia Orchomenus figure so large in later Greekmythology. ref name Burkert23 ... References Reflist 2 DEFAULTSORT Modern Understanding Of GreekMythology Category Greekmythology ... to Jane Ellen Harrison s A Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion , xv ref In Germany , by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greekmythology. In G ttingen Johann Matthias Gesner began to revive Greek studies and a new humanism humanistic spirit. His successor, Christian ... more details
otheruses Nana disambiguation In Greekmythology , Nana Greek was a daughter of the Phrygia n water deity river god Sangarius mythology Sangarius , the river Sakarya River Sakarya is located in present day Turkey . She became pregnant when an almond from an almond tree fell on her lap. The almond tree had sprung from the spot where the hermaphroditic Agdistis was castrated, becoming Cybele , the Mother of the Gods. Nana abandoned the baby boy, who was tended by a He goat Religion.2C mythology.2C and folklore he goat . The baby, Attis , grew up to become Cybele s consort and lover. Primary sources Pausanias , Description of Greece , http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0160 3Abook 3D7 3Achapter 3D17 3Asection 3D11 7. 17. 11 Arnobius , Adversus Nationes , http www.thelatinlibrary.com arnobius arnobius5.shtml 5. 6. 7 the source for character s name External links http www.theoi.com Nymphe NympheNana.html Theoi project Nana http macedonianissues.blogspot.com 2010 04 macedonian names and makedonski pseudo 14.html Macedonianissues.blogspot.com Nana Category Nymphs Category Greekmythology Category Cybele Category Phrygian goddesses Greek deity stub de Nana Mythologie el es Nana mitolog a griega fr Nana mythologie it Nana mitologia sr uk ... more details
greek myth Dragons play a role in Greekmythology . Ladon Main Ladon mythology Ladon was the serpent like dragon that twined round the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the Golden apple golden apples . Ladon was also said to have as many as one hundred heads. He was overcome and possibly slain by Heracles. After a few years, the Argonauts passed by the same spot, on their chthonic return journey from Colchis at the opposite end of the world, and heard the lament of shining Aigle, one of the Hesperides, and viewed the still twitching Ladon Argonautica , book iv . The creature is associated ... Python mythology In Greekmythology Pythons was the earth dragon of Delphi, always represented in the vase ... of which placed him at an archaic level in Greek myth the offspring of Ceto , joined in love with Phorcys ... mythology Echidna Bibliotheke 2.113 Hyginus , Preface to Fabulae or of Gaia mythology Gaia herself ... of Typhon and Echidna mythology Echidna . The creature was said to have anywhere between five ... as being either male or female a drakaina mythology drakaina . ref http www.theoi.com Ther DrakainaPython.html ... Main Jason lang ka This immense serpent, a child of Typhon and Echidna mythology Echidna ...&dq jason argonauts&as brr 4 v onepage&q jason 20argonauts&f false A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ref It was said to never sleep, rest, or lower its vigilance. According to Ovid ... Mark coauthors Robert Lenardon title Classical Mythology publisher Oxford University Press location ... Theoi.com Drakon Ismenios excerpts of Greek myth in translation. ref It was the offspring of Ares , who later turned the hero into a snake serpent . See also Portal Greekmythology European dragon Drakaina mythology Drakaina References references External links http www.theoi.com Ther DrakonHesperios.html Theoi Project Drakon Hesperios Greek religion Category Greek legendary creatures Category Dragons Category Greek dragons als Drachen in der griechischen Mythologie id Drakon ... more details
. References references External links http www.mythindex.com greekmythology N Neaera.html Myth ... NympheNeaira3.html Theoi.com Neaira consort of Theiodamas Category Greekmythology Category Women in Greekmythology Category Nymphs Category Nereids Category Oceanids ...Neaera or Neaira Greek lower ref A Greek English Lexicon compiled by H. G. Liddel and R. Scott. 10th edition with a revised supplement. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. p. 1164 http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper morph?l neiai 2Fra&la greek lexicon ref is the name of multiple female characters in Greekmythology Neaera, a nymph of Mount Sipylus in Lydia , mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas . ref Quintus Smyrnaeus , Fall of Troy , 1. 290 291 ref Neaera, mother of Evadne by Strymon mythology Strymon . ref Pseudo Apollodorus , The Library 2. 1. 2 ref Neaera, an Oceanid ref Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Neaira ref nymph of Thrinacia , mother of Lampetia and Phaethusa by Helios ref Homer , The Odyssey 12. 133 ff ref Neaera, a daughter of Pereus, mother of Auge , Cepheus, King of Tegea Cepheus , and Lycurgus of Arcadia Lycurgus by Aleus . ref Pseudo Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1 http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus3.html ref ref Tzetzes on Lycophron , 206 ref In another version she married Autolycus ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Description of Greece 8. 4. 6 ref . Neaera, mother of Aegle mythology Aegle by Zeus . Neaera, a daughter of Autolycus , mother of Hippothous , eventually killed herself after hearing of the death of her son. ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 243 http www.theoi.com Text HyginusFabulae5.html ref Neaera, a Nereid and possibly the mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes ref Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica , 3. 242 ref . Neaera, one of the Niobids ref Pseudo Apollodorus, Bibliotheca , 3. 5. 6 ref . Neaera of Lemnos , a friend of Eurynome in whose guise Pheme came to warn Eurynome of her husband s infidelity ref Gaius Valerius Flaccus ... more details
In Greekmythology , the name Coronus may refer to Coronus, king of the Lapiths , the son of Caeneus , counted among the Argonauts . ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 14 ref His own children were Leonteus mythology Leonteus ref Homer , Iliad , 2. 746 Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca 3. 10. 8 ref and Lysidice . ref Stephanus of Byzantium , s. v. Philaidai ref He lead a war against King Aegimius and was killed by Heracles . ref Pseudo Apollodorus of Athens Apollodorus , Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca 2. 7. 7 ref ref Diodorus Siculus , Library of History , 4. 37. 3 ref Coronus, king of Sicyon , son of Apollo and Chrysorthe, and father of Lamedon mythology Lamedon and Corex. Coronus inherited the kingdom of Sicyon from his maternal grandfather Orthopolis. Corex succeeded to his father s power, but himself left no heirs so the kingdom was usurped by Epopeus , after whose death the it went back to Lamedon. ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 2. 5. 8 2. 6. 1 & 2. 6. 3 ref Coronus, son of Thersander . He and his brother Haliartus were adopted by Athamas after the latter had lost all of his own sons. He was given land by Athamas and founded Coronea Coroneia . ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 9. 34. 7 ref ref Stephanus of Byzantium , s. v. Kor neia ref two briefly mentioned figures that may or may not be identical with one of the above Coronus, father of Asteria possible mother of Idmon ref Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica , 1. 139 ref Coronus, father of Anaxirhoe the mother of Hyrmine ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 5. 6. 1 ref References reflist Category Greekmythology Category Thessalian mythology Category Boeotian mythology Category Mythological kings Category Offspring of Apollo Category Lapiths Category Argonauts de Koronos el uk ... more details
Apis in Greekmythology can refer to King of Argos Apis was a king of Argos . He was a son of Phoroneus by the nymph Laodice , and brother of Niobe. During his reign he established a tyrannical government and called the Peloponnesus after his own name Apia but he was killed in a conspiracy headed by Thelxion, king of Sparta, and Telchis. ref Pseudo Apollodorus of Athens Apollodorus , Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca 2. 1. 1 ref Argus Panoptes , the descendant of his sister Niobe , avenged his murder by putting Thelxion and Telchis to death. ref Pseudo Apollodorus of Athens Apollodorus , Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca 2. 1. 2 ref In another tradition, Apis is said to have given up his kingdom to his brother Argus and to have gone to Egypt where he reigned for a number of years. ref Eusebius , Chronicon Eusebius Chronicle , n. 271 ref ref Augustine of Hippo Augustine , De Civitate Dei , 18. 5 ref This statement shows that Egyptian myths were mixed up with the story of Apis, see Apis Egyptian mythology . King of Sicyon A son of Telchis, and father of Thelxion. He was king at Sicyon , and is said to have been such a powerful prince, that previous to the arrival of Pelops , Peloponnesus was called after him Apia. ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 2. 5. 6 7 ref Apis the Healer According to Aeschylus , ref The Suppliants Aeschylus The Suppliants 249 70 ref Apis was a healer, a son of Apollo . He came from Naupactus and freed the Apian land from the plagues throngs of snakes , which Earth, defiled by the pollution of bloody deeds of old, had caused to spring ... GreekMythology Category Kings in Greekmythology Category Kings of Argos Category Sicyon Category Offspring of Apollo Category Epirotic mythology Category Aetolian mythology Category Mythological Greek physicians Greek myth stub am bg ca Apis rei de Apis griechische Mythologie ... participated in the funeral games of Azan mythology Azan and was accidentally killed by Aetolus , who ... more details
In Greekmythology , Angelos was a daughter of Zeus and Hera turned deity of the underworld. Her story only survives in scholia on Theocritus Idyll 2, and is as follows. Angelos was raised by nymphs to whose care her father had entrusted her. One day she stole her mother Hera s anointments and gave them away to Europa mythology Europe . To escape Hera s wrath, she had to hide first in the house of a woman in labor, and next among people who were carrying a dead man. Hera eventually ceased from prosecuting her, and Zeus ordered the Cabeiroi to cleanse Angelos. They performed the purification rite in the waters of the Acherusia Lake in the Greek underworld Underworld . Consequently, she received the world of the dead as her realm of influence, and was assigned an epithet katachthonia she of the underworld . ref Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 2. 12 referring to Sophron ref The story of Angelos is cited by the scholiast in a series of rare myths concerning the birth of Hecate , which makes it possible to think that Angelos was essentially equal to Hecate. This is to some extent confirmed by the fact that, according to Hesychius of Alexandria Hesychius , ref Hesychius s. v. , again referring to Sophron ref Angelos was a surname of Artemis in Syracuse, Sicily Syracuse , being that Artemis as goddess of the moon was identified with Hecate. ref Cf. e. g. scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 2. 33 ...she whom the author called Hecate above, is now referred to by him as Artemis, because there exists a certain similarity between the goddesses ref Angelos could be an early version of Hecate, the one that pertained both to the upper world and the underworld, similar to the situation of Persephone . ref Realencyclop die der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft , Band I, Halbband 2, Alexandrou Apollokrates 1894 , s. 2189 ref References reflist Category Greekmythology Category Greek death goddesses Category Offspring of Zeus Greek deity stub ... more details
05 01 refend DEFAULTSORT Pleiades GreekMythology Category Greekmythology Category Nymphs af Plejade ... heavenly sisters. These relationships resulted in the birth of their children. Maia mythology ... Pleiades Merope , youngest of the seven Pleiades, was wooed by Orion mythology Orion . In other ... sons. Mythology Image William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825 1905 Lost Pleiad 1884 .jpg thumb 200px Lost ..., Orion mythology Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves ... of their father, Atlas, or the loss of their siblings, the Hyades mythology Hyades . In turn Zeus, the ruler of the Greek gods, immortalized the sisters by placing them in the sky. There these seven stars formed the constellation known thereafter as the Pleiades. The Greek poet Hesiod mentions the Pleiades ... Commons category Pleiades mythology Alexandrian Pleiad Krittika Peleiades Pleiades star cluster ... more details
Alcippe or Alkipp was a name attributed to a number of figures in Greekmythology . ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Alciphron editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 103 104 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0112.html ref Alcippe, the daughter of Ares and Aglaulus . When Halirrhotius , son of Poseidon , raped her or merely attempted to , Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus , named, according to this etiology etiological myth , after Ares. He was acquitted in court by all of the other Olympian gods . ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Description of Greece 1. 21. 7 ref ref Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca 3. 14. 2 ref Alcippe, an Amazons Amazon who vowed to remain a virgin. She was killed by Heracles during his ninth labor. ref Diodorus Siculus . Library of History , http www.theoi.com Text DiodorusSiculus4A.html 24 4.16.3 . ref Alcippe, the mother of Daedalus by Eupalamus , son of Metion . ref Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus3.html 15 ref Alcippe, one of the Alkyonides Alcyonides , daughters of Alcyoneus . Along with her sisters she threw herself into the sea and was turned into a kingfisher. ref Suda s. v. Alkyonides ref ref http www.theoi.com Nymphe NymphaiAlkyonides.html Theoi Project ... Evenus mythology Evenus , son of Ares and Sterope and bore a daughter Marpessa . ref Pseudo Plutarch . Greek and Roman Parallel Stories , http www.theoi.com Text PlutarchParallelStories.html 40 . ref References reflist 2 Category Greekmythology Category Greek mythological Amazons Category Offspring of Ares Category Offspring of Poseidon Category Demigods of Classical mythologyGreek deity stub ... more details
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Other uses Chelone disambiguation In Greekmythology , Chelone , Khel n was a nymph or a mortal woman who was changed into a tortoise by the gods. Khel n means tortoise in Greek language Greek , and the tortoise was a symbol of silence in ancient times cn date February 2012 . The main source for the myth of Chelone is Servius s commentary on Virgil s Aeneid , where Chelone is a nymph transformed by Hermes for refusing to attend the wedding of Hera and Zeus . For his wedding with Juno Hera , Jupiter Zeus ordered Mercurius Hermes to invite all the gods, the men and the animals to the wedding. Everyone invited by Mercurius Hermes came, except for Chelone who did not deign to be there, mocking the wedding. When Mercurius noticed her absence, he went back down to the earth, threw in the river the house of Chelone that was standing over the river and changed Chelone in an animal that would bear her name. Chelone is said testudo tortoise in Latin. ref Servius , On Virgil s Aeneid 1. 505 ref Certain parts of the myth cn date February 2012 tell that Chelone was taking too long to be ready for the feast, which caused Zeus to become angry. In retribution, he crashed her house over her, and thus condemned her to drag her house forever as a tortoise. Although Chelone s transformation was not mentioned in sources other than Servius, what is clearly a version of the same myth is found in Aesop s Fables , where the main character is a tortoise to begin with, but does not initially have a shell Zeus invited all the animals to his wedding. The tortoise alone was absent, and Zeus did not know why, so he asked the tortoise khelone her reason for not having come to the feast. The tortoise said, Be it ever so humble, there s no place like home. Zeus got angry at the tortoise and ordered ... Nymphe NympheKhelone.html Theoi Project Chelone Greek myth stub Category Greekmythology Category Metamorphoses in Greekmythology Category Animal gods de Chelone Mythologie el es Quelona ... more details
Pygmy GreekMythology Category Greek legendary creatures Category Asia in Greekmythology Category Africa in Greekmythology Category Classical elements Category Mythological peoples Category Legendary ... needed date February 2007 Later Greek geographers and writers attempted to place the Pygmies in a geographical ... named after the Greek mythological creatures by European explorers in the 19th century. See also Chalybes Dactyl mythology Telchines References reflist Sources Kubi ovych, Volodymyr and Shevchenka, Naukove ... more details
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