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Lampetia
In Greek mythology, Lampetia ( or ) also spelled Lampetie, was a nymph or goddess and a daughter of the sun god, Helios. She and her sister Phaethusa watched over their father's prized herds of cattle and sheep on the island of Thrinacia (Sicily). Lampetia wielded an orichalcum staff and herded the cattle.Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''4.922/ref> Family Lampetia is most commonly described as a daughter of Helios and Neaera, a minor goddess or nymph. In this telling, she had one younger sister: Phaethusa, but had many half-siblings through her father.Homer, ''Odyssey''12.111/ref> Lampetia has alternately been named as one of the Heliades, which would have made her the daughter of Helios and Clymene, an Oceanid.Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''2.301/ref> As one of the Heliades, she would have had up to seven biological sisters: Merope, Helie, Aegle, Phoebe, Aetherie, Phaethusa, and Dioxippe. However, different authors have named different combinations and numbers of Heliades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phaethusa
In Greek mythology, Phaethusa or Phaëthusa ( ''Phaéthousa'', "radiance") was a nymph or goddess and a daughter of the sun god, Helios. She and her sister Lampetia watched over their father's sacred herds of cattle and sheep on the island of Thrinacia (Sicily or Malta). Phaethusa wielded a silver crook and herded the sheep.Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''4.922/ref> Family Phaethusa is most commonly described as a daughter of Helios and Neaera, a minor goddess or nymph. As a daughter of Neaera, she would have had one older biological sister, Lampetia, and many half-siblings through her father.Homer, ''Odyssey''12.111/ref> Alternately, Phaethusa has been named as one of the Heliades. This would have made her the daughter of Helios and Clymene, one of the Oceanids.Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''2.301/ref> As one of the Heliades, she would have had up to seven biological sisters: Merope, Helie, Aegle, Phoebe, Aetherie, Lampetia, and Dioxippe. However, authors have named differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helios
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Helios (; ; Homeric Greek: ) is the god who personification, personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining"). Helios is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. Though Helios was a relatively minor deity in Classical Greece, his worship grew more prominent in late antiquity thanks to his identification with several major solar divinities of the Roman period, particularly Apollo and Sol (Roman mythology), Sol. The Roman Emperor Julian (emperor), Julian made Helios the central divinity of his short-lived revival of Religion in ancient Rome, traditional Roman religious practices in the 4th century AD. Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heliades
In Greek mythology, the Heliades (Ancient Greek: Ἡλιάδες means 'daughters of the sun') also called Phaethontides (meaning "daughters of Phaethon") were the daughters of Helios and Clymene, an Oceanid nymph. Names According to one version recorded by Hyginus, there were seven Heliades: Merope, Helie, Aegle, Lampetia, Phoebe, Aetherie and Dioxippe. Aeschylus's fragmentary ''Heliades'' names Phaethousa and Lampetia, who are otherwise called daughters of Neaera. A scholiast on the ''Odyssey'' gives their names as Phaethusa (Φαέθουσα), Lampetia (Λαμπετίην) and Aegle (Αἴγλην). Mythology Their brother, Phaëthon, died after attempting to drive his father's chariot (the sun) across the sky. He was unable to control the horses and fell to his death (according to most accounts, Zeus struck his chariot with a thunderbolt to save the Earth from being set afire). The Heliades grieved for four months and the gods turned them into poplar trees a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxen Of The Sun
In Greek mythology, the Cattle of Helios (, ''Ēelíoio bóes''), also called the Oxen of the Sun, are cattle pastured on the island of Thrinacia, or ''Thrinakia'' (in later sources identified with Sicily or Malta). Mythology Helios, who in Greek mythology is the god of the Sun, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. In the ''Odyssey'', Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (), wide-browed (), fat, and straight-horned (). The cattle were guarded by Helios's daughters, Phaëthusa and Lampetië, and it was known by all that any harm to any single animal was sure to bring down the wrath of the god. Tiresias and Circe both warn Odysseus to shun the isle of Helios (Thrinacia). Odysseus and his crew arrive at Thrinacia after passing Scylla and Charybdis. When Eurylochus begs to be allowed to land to prepare supper, Odysseus grudgingly agrees on condition that the crew swear that if they come upon a herd of cattle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neaera (consort Of Helios)
In Greek mythology, Neaera (; Ancient Greek: , ''Néaira''), also Neaira (), is the name of a minor goddess, a lover of Helios the god of the sun and the mother by him of twins Phaethusa and Lampetia. Mythology In the ''Odyssey'', Circe informs Odysseus that after Neaera bore and nursed her daughters, she sent them to the island of Thrinacia, the island where Helios kept his sacred cows, to tend to the flocks of their father. Homer calls her "divine" without giving her any parentage; Hesychius of Alexandria wrote that 'Neaera' is the name of an Oceanid nymph, though it is not clear whether this Neaera is the same person. Neaera's name, roughly meaning "younger", relates to Helios, as do the names of their daughters, since the sun is new and young each morning, adding to the symbolism of the Oxen of the Sun episode.W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, ''Commentary on the Odyssey''12.132/ref> See also * Rhodos * Perse * Clymene Notes {{Reflist References * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nymph
A nymph (; ; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore. Distinct from other Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature; they are typically tied to a specific place, landform, or tree, and are usually depicted as Virginity, maidens. Because of their association with springs, they were often seen as having healing properties; other divine powers of the nymphs included divination and shapeshifting. In spite of their divine nature, they were not immortality, immortal. Nymphs are divided into various Nymph#List, broad subgroups based on their habitat, such as the Meliae (ash tree nymphs), the Dryads (oak tree nymphs), the Alseids (Grove (nature), grove nymphs), the Naiads (Spring (hydrology), spring nymphs), the Nereids (sea nymphs), the Oceanids (ocean nymphs), and the Oreads (mountain nymphs). Other nymphs included the Hesperides (evening nymphs), the Hyades (mythology), Hyades (rain nymphs), and the Pleiade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merope (Greek Myth)
Merope (; Ancient Greek: Μερόπη "with face turned" derived from μερος ''meros'' "part" and ωψ ''ops'' "face, eye") was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology. * Merope, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. She married Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children with him: Phaethon and the girls called Heliades.Hyginus, ''Fabulae'154/ref> * Merope, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione. * Merope, one of the Heliades, daughter of either Helios and Clymene or of Clymenus (Helios' son) and Merope, one of the Oceanids. * Merope, an Athenian princess as the daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and possibly Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogenia. She may have been the mother of Daedalus. The latter was attributed to various parentage: (1) Eupalamus and Alcippe, (2) Metion and Iphinoe, (3) Phrasmede or (4) Palamaon. * Merope, also called Aero Aero is a Greek p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metamorphoses
The ''Metamorphoses'' (, , ) is a Latin Narrative poetry, narrative poem from 8 Common Era, CE by the Ancient Rome, Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his ''Masterpiece, magnum opus''. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its Creation myth, creation to the deification of Julius Caesar in a mythico-historical framework comprising over 250 myths, 15 books, and 11,995 lines. Although it meets some of the criteria for an epic poem, epic, the poem defies simple genre classification because of its varying themes and tones. Ovid took inspiration from the genre of metamorphosis poetry. Although some of the ''Metamorphoses'' derives from earlier treatment of the same myths, Ovid diverged significantly from all of his models. The ''Metamorphoses'' is one of the most influential works in Western culture. It has inspired such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Numerous episodes from the poem have been depicted in works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three Western canon, canonical poets of Latin literature. The Roman Empire, Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegy, elegists.Quint. ''Inst.'' 10.1.93 Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus Exile of Ovid, exiled him to Constanța, Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars. Ovid is most famous for the ''Metamorphoses'', a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe (mythological Characters)
In Greek mythology, Phoebe ( ; ) is the name or epithet of the following characters: * Phoebe (Titaness), one of the twelve Titans, sister-wife of Coeus and mother of Leto and Asteria. * Phoebe (daughter of Leucippus), daughter of Leucippus of Messenia, Leucippus. * Phoebe, a hamadryad who became one of King Danaus's many wives or concubines and possible mother of some of these Danaïdes: Hippodamia, Danaïdes, Rhodia, Cleopatra (Danaid), Cleopatra, Asteria (mythology), Asteria, Glauce, Hippomedusa, Gorge (mythology), Gorge, Iphimedusa (mythology), Iphimedusa and Danaïdes, Rhode.Apollodorus2.1.5/ref> Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Apollodorus only identified these daughters of Danaus by Phoebe and Atlanteia, Atlantia (another hamadryad), not specifying who was the daughter of the other. These ten women joined the Sons of Aegyptus, sons of Aegyptus who were begotten by Eurryroe, traditionally seen as an Arabs, Arabian woman, a naiad, daughter of Nilus (mythology), Nilus (the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
