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Arne (Greek Myth)
In Greek mythology, Arne (; ) may refer to four different characters: * Arne, the nymph nurse of Poseidon. She was previously called Sinoessa (Σινόεσσα) but when she took the young god from Rhea to raise and denying him to Cronus, she was named Arne afterwards. When Cronus searched after his son, Arne is said to have declared that she knew not where he was. From her the town of Arne was believed to have received its name which was also called Sinoessa in earlier times. * Arne (daughter of Aeolus), daughter of Aeolus (son of Hellen) and mother of Aeolus (son of Poseidon) and Boeotia by Poseidon.Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.3–5 * Arne, mother by Aeson of JasonTzetzes ad Lycophron, 872 and possibly Promachus. In some accounts, Jason's mother was called (1) Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus; (2) Polymede (Polymele or Polypheme), daughter of Autolycus; (3) Amphinome;Diodorus Siculus4.50.2/ref> (4) Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus;Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'6.979/ref> (5) Theognete, daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion's view of the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, nature of the world; the lives and activities of List of Greek deities, deities, Greek hero cult, heroes, and List of Greek mythological creatures, mythological creatures; and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' cult (religious practice), cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars study the myths to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece, and to better understand the nature of mythmaking itself. The Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral tradition, oral-poetic tradition most likely by Minoan civilization, Minoan and Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean singers starting in the 18th century&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcimede (mother Of Jason)
In Greek mythology, Alcimede (; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμέδη means 'mighty cunning') was one of the matrilineal Minyan daughters, the daughter of Clymene, Minyas' daughter. Family Alcimede's father was King Phylacus, eponymous founder of Phylace, and sister of Iphiclus and Clymenus. She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. She met Aeson in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly, a chthonic lair where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias. In some accounts, Alcimede was called the daughter of Autolycus; the same was said of Polymele, another possible mother of Jason. Mythology The old story of Alcimede's son Jason and the quest for the golden fleece is most familiar from a late version, the ''Argonautica'' of Apollonius of Rhodes. A hint of matrilineal descent in archaic times among the Boeotian Minyans of Greece is in Apollonius' aside concerning Jason's heritage: :"So many then were the helpers who assembled to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polypheme (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Polypheme () may refer to the following: * Polypheme, daughter of Autolycus and the possible mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. She was also called Polymele or Polymede; otherwise the mother of the hero was either (1) Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus;Apollonius Rhodius1.47 (3) Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus;Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'6.979/ref> (4) Theognete, daughter of Laodicus;Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius1.45with Andron on Epitome of ''Affinity'' as the source and lastly, (5) Arne or (6) Scarphe.Tzetzes ad Lycophron872/ref> * Polypheme, another form of the name Polyphemus, the Cyclops who was encountered by Odysseus in one his adventures to go back home at Ithaca (island), Ithaca. Notes References * Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Apollodorus, ''Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes'', Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1921. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalogue Of Women
The ''Catalogue of Women'' ()—also known as the ''Ehoiai '' (, )The Latin transliterations ''Eoeae'' and ''Ehoeae'' are also used (e.g. , ); see Catalogue of Women#Title and the ē' hoiē-formula, Title and the ''ē' hoiē''-formula, below. Though rare, ''Mulierum Catalogus'', the Latin translation of , might also be encountered (e.g. ). The work is commonly cited by the abbreviations ''Cat''., ''CW'' (occasionally ''HCW'') or ''GK'' (= ''Gynaikon Katalogos'').—is a Lost literary work, fragmentary Ancient Greek literature, Greek Epic poetry, epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The "women" of the title were in fact heroines, many of whom lay with gods, bearing the heroes of Greek mythology to both divine and mortal paramours. In contrast with the focus upon narrative in the Homeric ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', the ''Catalogue'' was structured around a vast system of genealogy, genealogies stemming from these unions and, in Martin Litchfield West, M. L. West' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesiod
Hesiod ( or ; ''Hēsíodos''; ) was an ancient Greece, Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.M. L. West, ''Hesiod: Theogony'', Oxford University Press (1966), p. 40.Jasper Griffin, "Greek Myth and Hesiod", J.Boardman, J.Griffin and O. Murray (eds.), ''The Oxford History of the Classical World'', Oxford University Press (1986), p. 88. Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are ''Theogony'', which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and ''Works and Days'', a poem that describes the five Ages of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such as Pandora's box. Hesiod is generally regarded by Western authors as 'the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject.' Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek relig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polymele
In Greek mythology, the name Polymela or Polymele () may refer to the following figures: * Polymele, daughter of Autolycus and one of the possible mothers of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. She was also called Polymede or Polypheme, otherwise the mother of the hero was either (1) Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus; (2) Amphinome;Diodorus Siculus4.50.2/ref> (3) Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus;Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'6.979/ref> (4) Theognete, daughter of Laodicus;Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius1.45with Andron on Epitome of ''Affinity'' as the source and lastly, (5) Scarphe or (6) Arne.Tzetzes ad Lycophron872/ref> * Polymele, daughter of Peleus and one of the possible mothers of Patroclus by Menoetius, the other two being StheneleApollodorus3.13.8 Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius1.69 ad Homer, ''Iliad'' 16.14 and Periopis; some refer to her as " Philomela". In some accounts, Damocrateia, daughter of Aegina and Zeus, was also called the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus. * Poly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polymede
In Greek mythology, the female name Polymede () may refer to: *Polymede, daughter of Autolycus by Mestra, Neaera or Amphithea; and the possible mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. She was also called Polymele or Polypheme; otherwise the mother of the hero was either (1) Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus; (2) Amphinome;Diodorus Siculus4.50.2/ref> (3) Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus;Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'6.979/ref> (4) Theognete, daughter of Laodicus;Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius1.45with Andron on Epitome of ''Affinity'' as the source and lastly, (5) Arne or (6) Scarphe.Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 872 *Polymede, mother of Nestor by Neleus, king of Pylos. Otherwise, Nestor's mother was known as Chloris,Tzetzes, ''Allegories of the Iliad'' Prologue 516 a Minyan princess and daughter of King Amphion of Orchomenus.Scholia ad Homer, ''Odyssey'11.281citing Pherecydes; Apollodorus1.9.9/ref> Notes References * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyginus (Fabulae)
The ''Fabulae'' is a Latin handbook of mythology, attributed to an author named Hyginus, who is generally believed to have been separate from Gaius Julius Hyginus. The work consists of some three hundred very brief and plainly, even crudely, told myths (such as Agnodice) and celestial genealogies. Date, authorship, and composition In the earliest published edition of the ''Fabulae'', produced in 1535 by Jacob Micyllus, the work is attributed to "Gaius Julius Hyginus, freedman of Augustus", an ascription which may have been present in the manuscript itself, or may have added by Micyllus himself. There were numerous works which were attributed in antiquity to Gaius Julius Hyginus, and, though the work may not have been composed after his lifetime (1st century BC/AD), modern scholarship, for the most part, rejects the idea that this Hyginus was the author of the work. According to R. Scott Smith, it is reasonable to suppose that the Hyginus who authored the work lived during the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus (; died ) was a 1st-century Roman poet who flourished during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty, and wrote a Latin ''Argonautica'' that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic. Gaius Valerius Flaccus at Britannica.Tim Stover, Valerius Flaccus at Oxford Bibliographies. Life The only widely accepted mention of Valerius Flaccus by his contemporaries is by (10.1.90), who laments t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pherecydes Of Athens
Pherecydes of Athens () (fl. c. 465 BC) was a Greek mythographer who wrote an ancient work in ten books, now lost, variously titled "Historiai" (''Ἱστορίαι'') or "Genealogicai" (''Γενελογίαι''). He is one of the authors (= '' FGrHist'' 3) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's ''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker''. He is generally thought to be different from the sixth-century Pre-Socratic philosopher Pherecydes of Syros, who was sometimes mentioned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece and was reputed to have been the teacher of Pythagoras. Although the ''Suda'' considers them separately, he is possibly the same person as Pherecydes of Leros.Sweeneypp. 47–48 ''Suda The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; ; ) is a large 10th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine encyclopedia of the History of the Mediterranean region, ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas () or Souidas (). It is an ...'Φ 217 Notes Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odyssey
The ''Odyssey'' (; ) is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the ''Iliad'', the ''Odyssey'' is divided into 24 books. It follows the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, and his homecoming journey after the ten-year long Trojan War. His journey from Troy to Ithaca lasts an additional ten years, during which time he encounters many perils and all of his crewmates are killed. In Odysseus's long absence, he is presumed dead, leaving his wife Penelope and son Telemachus to contend with a group of unruly suitors competing for Penelope's hand in marriage. The ''Odyssey'' was first written down in Homeric Greek around the 8th or 7th century BC; by the mid-6th century BC, it had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship was taken as true, but contemporary sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer
Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his authorship, Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history. The ''Iliad'' centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The ''Odyssey'' chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Homer's Ithaca, Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The epics depict man's struggle, the ''Odyssey'' especially so, as Odysseus perseveres through the punishment of the gods. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language that shows a mixture of features of the Ionic Greek, Ionic and Aeolic Greek, Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe that the poems w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
