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10 mars 2023 · Adonis, son of the Eastern king Cinyras and his daughter Myrrha, was an exceptionally handsome young man. He was so handsome, in fact, that the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone competed for his love. Though they were ultimately forced to share the young man, Adonis favored Aphrodite and was best known as her lover.
9 mars 2023 · Persephone, often known simply as Kore (“Maiden”), was a daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Her mythology tells of how she was abducted by her uncle Hades one day while picking flowers. Demeter, distraught, wandered the entire world in search of her daughter. When Demeter at last located Persephone in the Underworld, she demanded that her ...
8 déc. 2022 · Overview. The woman who came to be known as Helen of Troy was actually born Helen of Sparta. She was the daughter of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Leda, a mortal woman and the wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus. Helen’s siblings included the heroic twins Castor and Polydeuces (also known as the Dioscuri) and the murderous Clytemnestra.
8 mars 2023 · Thomas Apel is a historian of science and religion who received his PhD in History from Georgetown University. Apollo was the Roman god who inspired prophecy, poetry, music, and medicine. Incorporated directly from the Greeks after a plague devastated Rome, he was both the bringer of and guardian against pestilence.
30 août 2023 · Achelous was the name of both the largest river in Greece—flowing from the Pindus Mountains to the Ionian Sea—and the god of that river. A child of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, Achelous was an ancient and powerful god. He fought Heracles for the hand of the princess Deianira, but was ultimately defeated.
2 oct. 2023 · Daphnis was a herdsman who lived on the island of Sicily. Often said to be a son of Hermes, he was known for his good looks. There were different versions of the myth of Daphnis, but most told of how he lost his eyesight (or even his life) as a punishment for betraying his nymph lover. Daphnis invented pastoral poetry and spent the rest of his ...
But if you tell all and foolishly boast that you lay with rich-crowned Aphrodite, Zeus will smite you in his anger with a smoking thunderbolt. Now I have told you all. Take heed: refrain and name me not, but have regard to the anger of the gods.”. When the goddess had so spoken, she soared up to windy heaven.
19 sept. 2023 · Hermaphroditus (as the name suggests) was a hermaphroditic deity, half-male and half-female. In myth, he was said to have been born to the gods Hermes and Aphrodite; indeed, his name is a portmanteau of his parents’ names. According to the best-known origin myth, Hermaphroditus was originally a handsome young man from Anatolia.
26 mai 2023 · Liber (also known as Liber Pater or Bacchus) was the Roman god of fertility and wine, identified from an early period with the Greek god Dionysus. He was worshipped alongside Ceres and Libera on the Aventine Hill in Rome. Liber, like the Greek Dionysus, represented the more unrestrained aspects of life.
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