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Minyades
The Minyades () were three Orchomenian ( Arcadian) princesses in Greek mythology. These sisters were protagonists of a myth about the perils of neglecting the worship of Dionysus. Names and family The names of the Minyades were Alcathoe (or Alcithoe), Leucippe and Arsippe (although instead of "Arsippe", Claudius Aelianus calls the latter "Aristippa", and Plutarch "Arsinoe (Greek mythology), Arsinoë"; Ovid uses "Leuconoe" instead of "Leucippe"). They were daughters of Minyas (mythology), Minyas, king of Orchomenus, Boeotia. Mythology At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia, and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchanalia, Bacchic joy, these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god. Dionysus punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. Plutarch, Claudius Aelianus, Aelian, and Antoninus Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippasus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Hippasus or Hippasos () is the name of fourteen characters. *Hippasus, son of King Eurytus of Oechalia and one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. *Hippasus from the Pellene district of the Peloponnese, father of Actor, Iphitus, Asterion, Amphion, and Naubolus. The latter four are otherwise ascribed different parentage. * Hippasus, a Centaur. Killed by Theseus at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. * Hippasus, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of Priam. *Hippasus, a Thessalian killed by Agenor in the Trojan War. * Hippasus, son of King Ceyx of Trachis and possibly, Alcyone, daughter of Aeolus, and thus, brother to Hylas, favorite of Heracles and Themistonoe, wife of Cycnus. Hippasus was killed in battle whilst fighting alongside Heracles against King Eurytus of Oechalia. * Hippasus, son of Leucippe, one of the Minyades. He was killed by his mother and her sisters. * Hippasus from Phlius opposed his fellow citizens, who wished to accede to the wis ... [...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] |
Maenad
In Greek mythology, maenads (; ) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the '' thiasus''. Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι (''maínomai'', “to rave, to be mad; to rage, to be angry”), literally translates as 'raving ones'. Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae , or Bacchantes in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox skin. Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes. These women were mythologized as the "mad women" who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa. Lycurgus "chased the Nurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsinoe (Greek Mythology)
In Greek mythology, Arsinoe, sometimes spelled Arsinoë, (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη), was the name of the following individuals. * Arsinoe, one of the Nysiads (Dodonides), nurses of the infant Dionysus in Nysa (mythology), Mount Nysa. * Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus (mythology), Leucippus and possibly Philodice (mythology), Philodice. She was also the sister of Hilaeira and Phoebe (Leucippid), Phoebe, who were abducted by the Castor and Pollux, Dioscuri. By the god Apollo, Arsinoe bore Asclepius, 'leader of men' and Eriopis 'with the lovely hair'. Otherwise, the mother of Asclepius was called Coronis (mythology), Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas because it is said that Asclepius being the son of Arsinoe, was a fiction invented by Hesiod, or by one of Hesiod's interpolators, just to please the Messenians.Pausanias2.26.6/ref> At Sparta she had a sanctuary and was worshipped as a heroine. * Arsinoe, one of the Minyades, according to Plutarch. These daughter of Minyas (mythology), Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucippe
In Greek mythology, Leucippe ( means 'white horse') is the name of the following individuals: *Leucippe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. Leucippe, along with her sisters, was one of the companions of Persephone when the maiden was abducted by Hades, the god of the Underworld. *Leucippe, one of the Minyades, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus. *Leucippe, the wife of King Thestius of Pleuron and mother of Iphiclus and Althaea. *Leucippe, a queen of Troy as the wife of Ilus, founder of Ilium. By him, she became the mother of Laomedon and possibly, Themiste, Telecleia and Tithonus. In some accounts, the wife of Ilus was called Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus or Batia, daughter of Teucer. *Leucippe, another Trojan queen as the wife of King Laomedon.Tzetzes ad Lycophronprologue18/ref> According to the mythographer Apollodorus, she and Laomedon had five sons, Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, and Priam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minyas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Minyas (; Ancient Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1093 ff. Family As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H.J. Rose. Accounts vary as to his own parentage: * Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon; * Poseidon either by (1) the Oceanid Callirhoe;Scholia ad Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'14.5c Tzetzes ad Lycophron875/ref> (2) Tritogeneia, daughter of Aeolus; (3) Euryanassa, daughter of HyperphasScholia ad Homer, ''Odyssey'11.326= Hesiod, fr. 62 ( Loeb edition, 1914) or lastly, Chrysogone, daughter of Almus; * father is only mentioned as (1) Aeolus; (2) Sisyphus; (3) Chryses, son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia; (4) Eteocles or (5) Ares (6) Aleus and lastly (7) Halmus (Almus). Minyas was married to Tritolenia (TritogeneiaScholia ad Pindar, ''Pythian Odes'4.122 Tzetzes ad Lycophron875/ref>), Clytodora, or Phanosyra, da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leutogi
Leutogi was a Polynesian goddess, originally a Samoan princess later turned goddess, and once worshiped in the Samoan archipelago in the central South Pacific ocean. Myth The Tuitoga Manaia had two wives: one Tongan and the other Samoan. The Samoan wife, Leutogitupa'itea, was the daughter of Mulianalafai. Before leaving Samoa, her brother, Taoulupo'o, advised her to send a sign if she ever needed his help. In time, the Tongan wife bore a child, while Leutogi remained childless. Jealous and tormented by the Tongan woman's taunts, Leutogi decided to kill the child. One day, while at their common bathing place, Leutogi took a tuaniu (a thin spine from a coconut leaf) and fatally pierced the child's skull. The Tongan woman, hearing her child's cries, returned to find her child dead. Leutogi was suspected, and the Tuitoga, enraged by the murder, ordered her to be burned alive. Recalling her brother's advice, Leutogi stirred the ocean, sending waves to Samoa as a signal for help. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camazotz
In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz ( from Mayan ) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language. In Mesoamerica generally, the bat is often associated with night, death, and sacrifice. Etymology Camazotz is formed from the Kʼicheʼ language, Kʼicheʼ words ''kame'', meaning "death", and ''sotz, meaning "bat". Mythology In the ''Popol Vuh'', Camazotz are the bat-like spirits encountered by the Maya Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque during their trials in the underworld of Xibalba. The twins had to spend the night in the House of Bats, where they squeezed themselves into their own blowguns in order to defend themselves from the circling bats. Hunahpu stuck his head out of his blowgun to see if the sun had risen and Camazotz immediately snatched off his head and carried it to the Mesoamerican ballcourt, ballcourt to be hung up as the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoninus Liberalis
Antoninus Liberalis () was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between the second and third centuries AD. He is known as the author of ''The Metamorphoses'', a collection of tales that offers new variants of already familiar myths as well as stories that are not attested in other ancient sources. Work Antoninus' only surviving work is the ''Metamorphoses'' (, ''Metamorphṓseōn Synagogḗ'', ), a collection of forty-one very briefly summarised tales about mythical metamorphoses effected by offended deities, unique in that they are couched in prose, not verse. The literary genre of myths of transformations of men and women, heroes and nymphs into stars (see '' Catasterismi''), plants and animals, or springs, rocks and mountains, were widespread and popular in the classical world. This work has more polished parallels in the better-known ''Metamorphoses'' of Ovid and in the ''Metamorphoses'' of Lucius Apuleius. Like them, its sources, where they can be traced, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicander Of Sparta
Nicander (, reigned from 750 to 725 BC) was king of Sparta and a member of the Eurypontid dynasty. Sparta was a diarchy, having two kings at the same time, an Agiad and a Eurypontid. The Agiad king at the time of Nicander was Teleclus, who was allegedly assassinated by the neighbouring Messenians. Nicander was the son of the previous Eurypontid king, Charilaus and was succeeded as Eurypontid king by his own son, Theopompus of Sparta. As king, Nicander and his allies the Asinaeans carried out a raid on nearby Argolis Argolis or Argolida ( , ; , in ancient Greek and Katharevousa) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese, situated in the eastern part of the Peloponnese penin ..., causing the Argives to attack Asine in return. References 8th-century BC monarchs 8th-century BC Spartans Eurypontid kings of Sparta {{AncientGreece-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
