Aethra

In Greek mythology, Aethra was a daughter of King Pittheus of Troezena and, with Aegeas, or in some versions, Poseidon, mother of Theseus. Aegeas (King of Athens) went to Troezena (a city located SW of Athens) and met with Aethra, daughter of Troezena's king, Pittheus. They had sexual intercourse and then, in some versions, Aethra waded out to the sea to Sphairia and became pregnant through Poseidon. When she got pregnant, Aegeas decided to go back to Athens. Before leaving, he covered his sandals, shield and sword under a huge ...

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Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen - Etymology. The name has been compared to Vedic Saraṇyū, daughter of Tvastar, who is abducted in RV 10.17.2; the name may then be from a PIE root *sel "to elope" and go back to a Proto-Indo-European abduction myth. The name is in any case unrelated to Hellenes, as is sometime ...

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• Helen - Etymology
• Helen - Helen in Greek mythology
• Helen - Birth
• Helen - Marriage to Menelaus
• Helen - Seduction by Paris
• Helen - Fall of Troy
• Helen - Fate
• Helen - Helen in modern literature
• Helen - Timeline
• Helen - Sources

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Hades (Greek: ᾍδης - Hadēs or Ἅιδης - Háidēs) ("unseen") means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that underworld. The word originally referred to just the god; haidou, its genitive, was short for "the house of Hades", and eventually the nominative, too, came to designate the abode of the dead. (A related Hebrew word, She'Ol, for the abode ...

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• Hades - Hades: the place
• Hades - Hades: the entity
• Hades - Worship
• Hades - Hades in art
• Hades - Persephone
• Hades - Orpheus and Eurydice
• Hades - Minthe and Leuce
• Hades - Theseus and Pirithous
• Hades - Heracles
• Hades - Other names
• Hades - Usages in the New Testament
• Hades - Other usages
• Hades - Hades in Neopaganism

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In Greek mythology, Castor (or Kastor) and Pollux (sometimes called Polydeuces) were the twin sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. They are known as the Gemini, Latin for twins. According to Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, kastor is Greek for "beaver", and poludeukeis means "very sweet". They are called the Dioscuri (dios kouroi), meaning the "Sons of Zeus", although the story of their parentage is confused, as it is for their sisters Helen ...

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In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, Classical Greek Persephónē, Modern Greek Persefóni) was the queen of the Underworld, the Kore or young maiden, and the daughter of Demeter. Persephone ("she who destroys the light") is her name in the Ionic Greek of epic literature. In other dialects she was known under various other names: Persephassa, Persephatta, or simply Kore. The Romans first heard of her from the Aeolian and Dorian cities of Magna Graecia, ...

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• Persephone - Overview
• Persephone - The Abduction Myth
• Persephone - Modern Scholarship on Persephone
• Persephone - Persephone Before the Greeks?
• Persephone - Life-Death-Rebirth
• Persephone - Consorts/Children
• Persephone - The 1911 Britannica's account of the myth

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In Greek mythology, Aegeus, also Aigeus, Aegeas or Aigeas, was the father of Theseus and an Athenian King. He was the son of Pandion II and a brother of Pallas, Nisos, and Lykos. Upon the death of Pandion, Aegeus and his brothers took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion. They divided the government in four but Aegeas became king. His first wife was Meta and the second was Chalciope. Still without a male heir, Aegeus asked the Oracle at Delphi for advice. Her cryptic words were "Do not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin until you have reached ...

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In Greek mythology, Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was the god of the sea. In Etruscan and Roman mythology he was known as Neptune (Nethuns and Neptunus, respectively). Poseidon was also the god of earthquakes and horses. Poseidon - Prehistory. In the heavily sea-dependent Mycenean culture, Poseidon's importance was that of Zeus, if surviving Linear B clay tablets can be trusted. The name PO-SE-DA-WO-NE (Poseidon) occurs with greater frequency than does DI-U-JA (Zeus). A feminine variant, ...

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• Poseidon - Prehistory
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• Poseidon - In Rome
• Poseidon - Myth
• Poseidon - Birth and childhood
• Poseidon - Lovers
• Poseidon - Other stories
• Poseidon - Consorts/children
• Poseidon - Spoken-word myths - audio files

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(Most of the gods and goddesses had Roman equivalents.) See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatures. List of Greek mythological characters - Immortals. List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus. Aphrodite - Goddess of beauty and Love Apollo - God of healing, light, and poetry, patron of scribes Arês - God of war Artemis - Goddess of the hunt and the moon Athena - G ...

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• List of Greek mythological characters - Greek mythological characters
• List of Greek mythological characters - Immortals
• List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus
• List of Greek mythological characters - Other deities
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• List of Greek mythological characters - Titans
• List of Greek mythological characters - The Hundred-Handed
• List of Greek mythological characters - Cyclopes
• List of Greek mythological characters - River gods
• List of Greek mythological characters - Nymphs
• List of Greek mythological characters - Giants
• List of Greek mythological characters - Mortals
• List of Greek mythological characters - A-B
• List of Greek mythological characters - C-G
• List of Greek mythological characters - H-L
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• List of Greek mythological characters - R-Z

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In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father: according to Hesiod's Theogony, Persephone was the daughter produced by the union of Zeus and Demeter. "And he [Zeus] came to the bed of bountiful Demeter, who bore white-armed Persephone, stolen by Hades from her mother's side". Unlike every other offspring of an Olympian pairing, however, Persephone has no stable position at Olympus. Persephone used to live far away from the other gods, a goddess within Nature before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In th ...

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Persephone, Persephone - Overview, Persephone - The Abduction Myth, Persephone - Modern Scholarship on Persephone, Persephone - Persephone Before the Greeks?, Persephone - Life-Death-Rebirth, Persephone - Consorts/Children, Persephone - The 1911 Britannica's account of the myth

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Helen - Birth. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. As the story goes, Zeus took the form of a swan and had sexual relations with Leda on the same night as her husband, King Tyndareus. To Zeus, she gave birth to Helen and Polydeuces, and to Tyndareus: Clytemnestra and Castor. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that ...

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Helen, Helen - Etymology, Helen - Helen in Greek mythology, Helen - Birth, Helen - Marriage to Menelaus, Helen - Seduction by Paris, Helen - Fall of Troy, Helen - Fate, Helen - Helen in modern literature, Helen - Timeline, Helen - Sources

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Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens, in Aethra, daughter of Troezen's king, Pittheus. On their wedding night Aethra waded through the sea to the island Sphairia that lay close to the coast and lay there with Poseidon. By the understanding of sex in Antiquity, the mix of semen gave Theseus a mix divine as well as mortal characteristics in his nature. When Aethra became pregnant, Aegeus decided to return to Athens. But before leaving, he buried his sandals, shield, and sword ...

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Theseus, Theseus - Birth and the six labours of Theseus, Theseus - Medea and the Marathonian Bull, Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur, Theseus - The return to Athens, Theseus - Hippolyte, Theseus - Pirithous, Theseus - Theseus and Pirithous meet Hades, Theseus - Phaedra and Hippolytus, Theseus - Theseus and the founding myth of Athens, Theseus - Other stories and his death, Theseus - Books

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In Greek mythology, Hades (the "unseen"), the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as two younger brothers, Poseidon and Zeus: together they accounted for half of the Olympian gods. Upon reaching adulthood Zeus managed to force his father to disgorge his siblings. After their release the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gather, challenged their parents and uncles for power in Titanomachy, a divine war. The war lasted for ...

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Hades, Hades - Hades: the place, Hades - Hades: the entity, Hades - Worship, Hades - Hades in art, Hades - Persephone, Hades - Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades - Minthe and Leuce, Hades - Theseus and Pirithous, Hades - Heracles, Hades - Other names, Hades - Usages in the New Testament, Hades - Other usages, Hades - Hades in Neopaganism

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Poseidon - Birth and childhood. Poseidon was a son of Cronus and Rhea. Like his brothers and sisters save Zeus, Poseidon was swallowed by his father. He was regurgitated only after Zeus forced Cronus to vomit up the infants he had eaten. Zeus and his brothers and sisters, along with the Hecatonchires, Gigantes and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. According to other variants, Poseidon was raised by the Telchines on Rhodes, just as Zeus was raised by the Korybantes on Crete. When the world was divided in three, Zeus received the earth and sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea. See also:

Poseidon, Poseidon - Prehistory, Poseidon - Worship, Poseidon - Role in society, Poseidon - In art, Poseidon - In Rome, Poseidon - Myth, Poseidon - Birth and childhood, Poseidon - Lovers, Poseidon - Other stories, Poseidon - Consorts/children, Poseidon - Spoken-word myths - audio files

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(Most of the gods and goddesses had Roman equivalents.) See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatures. ...

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List of Greek mythological characters, List of Greek mythological characters - Greek mythological characters, List of Greek mythological characters - Immortals, List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus, List of Greek mythological characters - Other deities, List of Greek mythological characters - Primeval gods, List of Greek mythological characters - Titans, List of Greek mythological characters - The Hundred-Handed, List of Greek mythological characters - Cyclopes, List of Greek mythological characters - River gods, List of Greek mythological characters - Nymphs, List of Greek mythological characters - Giants, List of Greek mythological characters - Mortals, List of Greek mythological characters - A-B, List of Greek mythological characters - C-G, List of Greek mythological characters - H-L, List of Greek mythological characters - M-P, List of Greek mythological characters - R-Z

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Theseus's best friend was Pirithous, Prince of the Lapiths. Pirithous had heard stories of Theseus's courage and strength in battle but wanted proof, so he rustled Theseus's herd of cattle and drove it from Marathon, and Theseus set out in pursuit. Pirithous took up his arms and the pair met to do battle, but were impressed with each other they took an oath of friendship and joined the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. Later, Pirithous was preparing to marry Hippodamia. The centaurs were guests at the wedding feast, but got drunk and tried to abduct the women, including Hippodamia ...

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Theseus, Theseus - Birth and the six labours of Theseus, Theseus - Medea and the Marathonian Bull, Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur, Theseus - The return to Athens, Theseus - Hippolyte, Theseus - Pirithous, Theseus - Theseus and Pirithous meet Hades, Theseus - Phaedra and Hippolytus, Theseus - Theseus and the founding myth of Athens, Theseus - Other stories and his death, Theseus - Books

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In Dungeons & Dragons, Hades is one of the seven lower planes of existence. More commonly referred to as the Gray Wastes, the plane is a place of disease and corruption, with apathy and despair emanating from the very land. While the plane and its inhabitants are dangerous and evil enough by themselves, Hades is especially hazardous because it's the main battlefield in the Blood War. in the manga Saint Seiya (that is partly based in greek mythology) hades is the king of the kingdom of the dead he has an army of 108 phantoms (his saint warrios), seiya and his friends must f ...

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Hades, Hades - Hades: the place, Hades - Hades: the entity, Hades - Worship, Hades - Hades in art, Hades - Persephone, Hades - Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades - Minthe and Leuce, Hades - Theseus and Pirithous, Hades - Heracles, Hades - Other names, Hades - Usages in the New Testament, Hades - Other usages, Hades - Hades in Neopaganism

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List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus. Aphrodite - Goddess of beauty and Love Apollo - God of the Sun music, healing, light, and poetry, patron of scribes Arês - God of war Artemis - Goddess of the hunt and the moon Athena - Goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war, Zeus' favorite daughter Dêmêtêr - Goddess of agriculture Hephaestus (Hepháistos) - God of fire and the forge Hêra - Goddess of marriage, wife of ZeusSee also:

List of Greek mythological characters, List of Greek mythological characters - Greek mythological characters, List of Greek mythological characters - Immortals, List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus, List of Greek mythological characters - Other deities, List of Greek mythological characters - Primeval gods, List of Greek mythological characters - Titans, List of Greek mythological characters - The Hundred-Handed, List of Greek mythological characters - Cyclopes, List of Greek mythological characters - River gods, List of Greek mythological characters - Nymphs, List of Greek mythological characters - Giants, List of Greek mythological characters - Mortals, List of Greek mythological characters - A-B, List of Greek mythological characters - C-G, List of Greek mythological characters - H-L, List of Greek mythological characters - M-P, List of Greek mythological characters - R-Z

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Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus's son by Hippolyte. According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a devotee of Artemis, so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment. He rejected her. Alternatively, Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her mistress's love and he swore he would not reveal the nurse as his source of information -- even after Phaedra killed herself and blamed it on his seduction of her in her suicide note. In revenge, Phaedra wrote Theseus a letter claiming that ...

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Theseus, Theseus - Birth and the six labours of Theseus, Theseus - Medea and the Marathonian Bull, Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur, Theseus - The return to Athens, Theseus - Hippolyte, Theseus - Pirithous, Theseus - Theseus and Pirithous meet Hades, Theseus - Phaedra and Hippolytus, Theseus - Theseus and the founding myth of Athens, Theseus - Other stories and his death, Theseus - Books

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When Theseus arrived at Athens, he did not reveal his true identity immediately. He was welcomed by Aegeas, who was suspicious of the stranger. Aegeus's wife, Medea, tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull. On the way to Marathon, Theseus took shelter from a storm in the hut of an ancient woman named Hecale. She swore to make a sacrifice to Zeus if Theseus was successful in capturing the bull. Theseus did capture the bull, but when he returned to Hecale's hut, she was dead. In her honor Theseus gave her name to one of the demes of Attic ...

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Theseus, Theseus - Birth and the six labours of Theseus, Theseus - Medea and the Marathonian Bull, Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur, Theseus - The return to Athens, Theseus - Hippolyte, Theseus - Pirithous, Theseus - Theseus and Pirithous meet Hades, Theseus - Phaedra and Hippolytus, Theseus - Theseus and the founding myth of Athens, Theseus - Other stories and his death, Theseus - Books

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Sailing back to Athens, Theseus forgot to change the black sails for white ones, as he had promised his father he would do if he survived. His father, watching from the cliffs at Sounion Head, jumped to his death in despair over his son's presumed demise. When he finally reached Athens, Theseus had to put a stop to Pallas, who was organizing a rebellion to take the city away from him. He was succe ...

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Theseus, Theseus - Birth and the six labours of Theseus, Theseus - Medea and the Marathonian Bull, Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur, Theseus - The return to Athens, Theseus - Hippolyte, Theseus - Pirithous, Theseus - Theseus and Pirithous meet Hades, Theseus - Phaedra and Hippolytus, Theseus - Theseus and the founding myth of Athens, Theseus - Other stories and his death, Theseus - Books

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