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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Aethra | | | |  Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Theseus - HippolyteTheseus assists Heracles in his ninth labour - obtaining the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons. After succeeding in the task, Theseus kidnaps Hippolyte's sister, Antiope, causing the Amazons to attack Athens to rescue her.
In many versions Theseus marries either Antiope or Hippolyte, having a son Hippolytus. Theseus eventually marries Phaedra, having left his wife, or his wife having died after childbirth. In the version where Theseus is married to, and leaves, Hippolyte, Hippolyte tries to exact revenge by bringing the Amazon ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Theseus: Encyclopedia II - Theseus - Hippolyte |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur In those days, Athens was required to pay tribute to Crete, the controlling power in the region, a situation that sets the myth in the mid-second millennium BCE: each year, seven young men and seven young women were to be sent to Crete as sacrifices to the Minotaur, a bull-headed monster in the Labyrinth constructed by Daedalus. Theseus, determined to end this horror, volunteered to be one of the sacrifices, and the fourteen chosen saile ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Theseus: Encyclopedia II - Theseus - Ariadne and the Minotaur |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Hades - Other usages 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 Sain 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 ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Hades: Encyclopedia II - Hades - Other usages |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - 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, PO-SE-DE-IA, is also found, indicating the existence of a now-forgotten consort goddess. Tablets from Pylos record sacrificial goods destined for "the Two Queens and Poseidon" and to "the Two Queens and the King" compounding the mystery further. The most obvious identification for the "Two Queens" ...
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 Read more here: » Poseidon: Encyclopedia II - Poseidon - Prehistory |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Persephone - Modern Scholarship on Persephone
Persephone - Persephone Before the Greeks?.
Many modern scholars have argued that Persephone's cult was a continuation of Neolithic or Minoan goddess-worship. Among classicists, this thesis has been argued by Gunther Zuntz (Zuntz 1973) and cautiously included by Walter Burkert in his definitive Greek Religion.
More daringly, the mythologist Karl Kerenyi has identified Persephone with the nameless "mistress of the labyrinth" at Knossos.
On the other hand, the hypothesis of a universal cult of the Earth Mother has come under increasing criticism in recent years. ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Persephone: Encyclopedia II - Persephone - Modern Scholarship on Persephone |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Persephone - Overview The figure of Persephone is a well-known one today. Her story has great emotional power: an innocent maiden; a mother's grief at the abduction and the return of her daughter. It is also cited frequently as a paradigm of myths that explain natural processes, with the descent and return of the goddess bringing about the change of seasons.
But the Greeks knew another face of Persephone as well. She was also the terrible Queen of the dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was named simply "The Maiden". Her central myth, for all ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Persephone: Encyclopedia II - Persephone - Overview |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Poseidon - Worship In the historical period, Poseidon was often referred to by the epithets Enosichthon, Seischthon and Ennosigaios, all meaning "earth-shaker" and referring to his role in causing earthquakes.
Poseidon was a major civic god of several cities: in Athens, he was second only to Athena in importance; while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia he was the chief god of the polis.
According to Pausanias, Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the Oracle at Delphi before Olympian Apollo took it over. Apollo and ...
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 Read more here: » Poseidon: Encyclopedia II - Poseidon - Worship |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - 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 - Goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war, Zeus's favorite daughter
Dêmêtêr - Goddess of agriculture
Hephaestus (Hepháistos) - God of fire and the forge
Hêra - Goddess of marriage, wife of Zeus
Hermê ...
See 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 Read more here: » List of Greek mythological characters: Encyclopedia II - List of Greek mythological characters - Immortals |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Hades - Usages in the New Testament The Greek New Testament uses hades several times, with various connotations of bodily decay and the power of death, none of them applicable to the Hades of Greek mythology, unless it were Luke 16:23.
16:23 (King James Version)- "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."
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See also: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 Read more here: » Hades: Encyclopedia II - Hades - Usages in the New Testament |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Hades - Hades: the place There were several sections of Hades, including the Elysian Fields (contrast the Christian Paradise or Heaven), and Tartarus, (compare the Christian Hell). Greek mythographers were not perfectly consistent about the geography of the afterlife.
A contrasting myth of the Afterlife concerns the Garden of the Hesperides, often identified with the Isles of the Blessed.
In Roman mythology, an entrance to the underworld located at Avernus, a crater near Cumae, was the route Aeneas used to descend to the Underworld. By synecdoche, "Avernus" could be substituted for the underworld as a whole. The Inferi ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Hades: Encyclopedia II - Hades - Hades: the place |
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| | | | | Aethra: Encyclopedia II - Helen - Helen in modern literature Helen is often called "the face that launched a thousand ships", though this phrase is post-classical, from Christopher Marlowe:
Is this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
In Goethe's Faust (Part 2), Helen has a son by Faust named Euphorion.
In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Helen along with Paris in the second circle of Hell, where they ha ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Helen: Encyclopedia II - Helen - Helen in modern literature |
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