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Celaeno
In Greek mythology, Celaeno (; ''Kelaino'', lit. 'the dark one', also Celeno or Kelaino, sometimes Calaeno) referred to several different figures. * Celaeno, one of the Pleiades. She was said to be mother of Lycus and Nycteus, of King Eurypylus (or Eurytus) of Cyrene, and of Lycaon, also by Poseidon *Celaeno, one of the Harpies, whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys. *Celaeno, one of the Danaïdes, the daughters of Danaus. Her mother was Crino. She married and killed Hyperbius, son of Aegyptus and Hephaestine. She was also believed to have had a son Celaenus by Poseidon. *Celaeno, a Phocian princess as the daughter of King Hyamus of Hyampolis, son of Lycorus. Her mother was Melantheia ( Melantho), daughter of Deucalion In Greek mythology, Deucalion (; ) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene (mythology), Clymene, Hesione (Oceanid), Hesione, or Pronoia (mythology), Pronoia.A Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celaeno (Pleiad)
In Greek mythology, Celaeno (; , also Celeno or Kelaino, sometimes [misspelled] Calaeno) was one of the Pleiades (Greek mythology), Pleiades. Mythology Celaeno was the daughter of Atlas (mythology), Atlas and Pleione (mythology), Pleione or Aethra (mythology), Aethra. She was said to bore to Poseidon numerous children which includes: Lycus (mythology), Lycus and Nycteus; of King Eurypylus (or Eurytus) of Cyrene, Libya, Cyrene, and Lycaon (Greek myth), Lycaon.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 4.1561 Modern references The following modern uses derive from the Ancient Greek mythical name: * Celaeno (star), Celaeno, a star in the Pleiades open cluster of stars. * USS Celeno (AK-76), USS ''Celeno'' (AK-76), a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship Ship Celaeno builder A. HALL & Co Aberdeen. Rig: SHIP. Construction: Wood. Yard Number: 233. Completed in June 1863. Weighed 702 tons and measured 173.0 feet x 30.2 feet x 18.7 feet. The Celaeno mad Notes Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harpies
In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, , ; ) is a half-human and half-bird mythical creature, often believed to be a personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems. Descriptions Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness. Pottery art depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures. Hesiod To Hesiod, they were imagined as fair-locked and winged maidens, who flew as fast as the wind: Aeschylus Even as early as the time of Aeschylus, harpies were thought to be ugly creatures with wings, and later writers carried their notions of the harpies so far as to represent them as most disgusting monsters. The Pythian priestess of Apollo compares the appearance of the Erinyes, chthonic goddesses of vengeance, with those of harpies in the following lines of The Eumenides: Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danaïdes
In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes (; ), also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Ancient Libya, Libya. Danaus and the Danaids feared that Danaus's twin brother, Aegyptus, was plotting to overthrow and kill them. So, they fled to Argos, Peloponnese, Argos, where Danaus became king. However, Sons of Aegyptus, Aegyptus's 50 sons soon followed them there. The Danaids were then forced to marry the 50 sons. In the most common version of the myth, all but one of the Daniads, Hypermnestra, Hypermenstra, killed their husbands on their wedding night. The Danaids were then condemned to spend eternity carrying water in a sieve or perforated jug. The myth of the Danaids is found in numerous written mythological accounts from antiquity, such as in the writings of Bibliotheca (Apollodorus), Apollodorus, Pindar, and Pausanias (geographer), Pausanius. The names of the Danaids are inscribed in lists from Apollodorus and Gaius Julius Hyginus, Hyginus, though the lists di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleiades (Greek Mythology)
The Pleiades (; , ), were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were sometimes called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus. The Pleiades were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain. Etymology The name Pleiades ostensibly derived from the name of their mother, Pleione, effectively meaning "daughters of Pleione". However, etymologically, the name of the star-cluster likely came first, and Pleione's name indicated that she was the mother of the Pleiades. According to another suggestion ''Pleiades'' derived from πλεῖν (''plein'', "to sail") because of the cluster's importance in delimiting the sailing season in the Mediterranean Sea: "the season of navigation began with their heliacal rising". Family The Pleiades' parents were the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poseidon
Poseidon (; ) is one of the twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, Poseidon was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes, with the cult title "earth shaker"; in the myths of isolated Arcadia, he is related to Demeter and Persephone and was venerated as a horse, and as a god of the waters.Seneca quaest. Nat. VI 6 :Nilsson Vol I p.450 Poseidon maintained both associations among most Greeks: he was regarded as the tamer or father of horses, who, with a strike of his trident, created springs (the terms for horses and springs are related in the Greek language).Nilsson Vol I p.450 His Roman equivalent is Neptune. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycus (mythology)
Lycus ( ; ) is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology: *Lycus, one of the Telchines who fought under Dionysus in his Indian campaign. He is otherwise said to have erected a temple to Apollo Lycius on the banks of Scamander, Xanthus river. *Lycus, son of Prometheus and Celaeno, brother of Chimaerus. The brothers are said to have had tombs in the Troad; they are otherwise unknown. *Lycus of Athens, a wolf-shaped herο, whose shrine stood by the jurycourt, and the first jurors were named after him. *Lycus, an Egyptian prince as one of the Sons of Aegyptus, sons of King Aegyptus. He suffered the same fate as his other brothers, save Lynceus of Argos, when they were slain on their wedding night by their wives who obeyed the command of their father King Danaus of Ancient Libya, Libya. Lycus was the son of Aegyptus by Argyphia (mythology), Argyphia, a woman of royal blood and thus full brother of Lynceus, Proteus (mythological character), Proteus, Enceladus, son of Aegyptus, Encel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaon (Greek Myth)
In Greek mythology, Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Ancient Greek: wiktionary:Λυκάων, Λυκάων) may refer to: * Lycaon or Lycon (mythology), Lycon, an Arcadia (region), Arcadian hero and prince as son of the giant Aezeius, one of the first Peloponnese, Peloponnesian kings, by a nymph. He was the father of Deianira (mythology), Deianira, mother of the impious Lycaon below. * Lycaon of Arcadia, Lycaon, king of Arcadia (region), Arcadia and son of Pelasgus. He tried to feed Zeus human flesh; in some myths he is turned into a wolf as a result. *Lycaon, son of Ares and possibly Pelopia or Pyrene (mythology), Pyrene, and thus, the brother of Cycnus (son of Ares), Cycnus. Like his brother, he was also killed by Heracles in one of his adventures. *Lycaon, also called Lycus (mythology), Lycus, son of Poseidon and Celaeno, one of the Pleiades (Greek mythology), Pleiades. He was the brother of King Eurypylus of Cyrene, Eurypylus of Cyrene, Libya, Cyrene. *Lycaon, son of the above Eurypylu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crino
In Greek mythology, the name Crino (; means "white lily") may refer to: *Crino, one of the many consorts of King Danaus of Libya, mother of the Danaïdes Callidice, Oeme, Celaeno and Hyperippe. These daughters wed and slayed their cousin-husbands, sons of King Aegyptus of Egypt and Hephaestine during their wedding night. According to Hippostratus, Danaus had all of his progeny by a single woman, Europe, daughter of the river-god Nilus. In some accounts, he married his cousin Melia, daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre. *Crino, daughter of Antenor and Theano, and the sister of Acamas, Agenor, Antheus, Archelochus, Coön, Demoleon, Eurymachus, Glaucus, Helicaon, Iphidamas, Laodamas, Laodocus, Medon,Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.484 Polybus, and Thersilochus. Pausanias mentions a painting of her by Polygnotus, where she is portrayed standing next to her father, with a baby in her arms.Pausanias, 10.27.4 __TOC__ Notes References * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyperbius
In Greek mythology, the name Hyperbius (Ancient Greek: Ὑπέρβιος ''Ὑpérvios'' means "of overwhelming strength") may refer to: *Hyperbius, son of Ares, reputedly the first to have killed an animal. *Hyperbius, son of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Celaeno, or by Eupheme. *Hyperbius, son of Oenops, a defender of Thebes in the war of the Seven against Thebes, appointed by Eteocles to defend the Oncaidian Gate against Hippomedon. He had an image of Zeus on his shield. *Hyperbius, an Athenian, brother of Agrolas or Euryalus. The two brothers were credited with inventing the technique of building with bricks, and with construction of the first brick houses in Athens,Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'7.57/ref> as well as of the wall around Acropolis. *Hyperbius, a Corinthian credited with invention of the potter's wheel.Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' 7.57; Scholia on Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' 13.27c Notes References * Aeschylus, trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celaenus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Celaenus (Ancient Greek: Κελαινός ''Kelainos'') may refer to the following figures: * Celaenus, son of Poseidon and the Danaid Celaeno. *Celaenus, son of the autochthon Phlyus and father of Caucon. * Celaenus or Celaeneus, father of Tragasia, the possible spouse of Miletus and mother of Byblis and Caunus. Parthenius11from Aristocritus' ''History of Miletus'' and the ''Foundation of Caunus'' by Apollonius of Rhodes Notes References * Parthenius, ''Love Romances'' translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.Online version at the Topos Text Project.* Parthenius, ''Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1''. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeneid
The ''Aeneid'' ( ; or ) is a Latin Epic poetry, epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy, Trojan who fled the Trojan War#Sack of Troy, fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Ancient Rome, Romans. Written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the ''Aeneid'' comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the ''Iliad''. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Ancient Rome, Rome and his description as a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous ''pietas'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyamus
In Greek mythology, Hyamus (Ancient Greek: Ὕαμος) was a son of Lycorus. It was related of him that after the Great Deluge, he became king over a people dwelling around Mount Parnassus, and founded Hyampolis. He was married to Melantheia, a daughter of Deucalion, and had at least two daughters, Celaeno and Melanis,Scholia on Euripides, ''Orestes'' 1094 of whom either might have been mother of Delphus In Greek mythology, Delphus (; Ancient Greek: Δέλφος, ''Delphos'') was the person from whom the town of Delphi was believed to have derived its name. Biography Delphus was said to be the son of Poseidon and Melantho ( Melantheia), daught .... Notes References * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
