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Encyclopedia - Danaë: Encyclopedia - Danaë
In Greek mythology, Danaë (Greek: Δανάη, "parched") was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Eurydice (no relation to Orpheus' ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeneas: Encyclopedia - Aeneas
Aeneas (Greek: Αινείας, Aineías) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus in Roman sources)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autolycus: Encyclopedia - Autolycus
The name Autolycus refers to several people: In Greek mythology, Autolycus, or Autólykos was the son of Chione and Hermes and father of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andromache: Encyclopedia - Andromache
In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology
Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia
The Boast of Cassiopeia is a story from Greek mythology, associated with Perseus. Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth. The story is set in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia - Helen
Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women
The Catalogue of Women (Greek: γυναικῶν κατάλογος, gynaikon katalogos) is an epic of ancient Greek literature. Ancient...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollodorus: Encyclopedia - Apollodorus
Apollodorus, sometimes anachronistically called Apollodorus of Athens, (born c. 180 BC) was a Greek writer most famous for a verse chroni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calydonian Boar: Encyclopedia - Calydonian Boar
The Calydonian Boar is one of the many monsters in Greek mythology, which met its end in the Calydonian Hunt, a popular subject in classi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andromeda Mythology: Encyclopedia - Andromeda Mythology
In Greek mythology, Andromeda ("ruler of men") was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the Ethiopians. Cassiopeia, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lynceus: Encyclopedia - Lynceus
Lynceus is the name of two people from Greek mythology. Lynceus was a descendant of Belus through Aegyptus, twin brother of Danaus, who h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cassandra: Encyclopedia - Cassandra
In Greek mythology, Cassandra ("she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra) was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cadmus: Encyclopedia - Cadmus
Cadmus, or Kadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia and brother of Europa. His father is ei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argonauts: Encyclopedia - Argonauts
In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his ques...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia - Medea
In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (now a territory of modern Georgia), niece of Circe, and later wife ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tantalus: Encyclopedia - Tantalus
Persephone Hades Minos Aeacus Rhada- manthys Charon Cerberus Acheron Cocytus Tartarus Lethe Elysion Styx Phlegethon Asphodel Ereb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegeus: Encyclopedia - Aegeus
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 a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daedalus: Encyclopedia - Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tityas: Encyclopedia - Tityas
In Greek mythology the minor figure of Tityas (more commonly Tityus), a Titan-like figure of unbridled lust, was the son of Elara, who wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia Ii - Helen - Helen In Greek Mythology
Helen - Birth. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Cast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odysseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Odysseus - Journey Home To Ithaca
Odysseus - The Ciconians. After Odysseus and his men depart from Troy, they are greeted by friendly and calm waters. The ships near lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalogue Of Women - Title And Date
In antiquity the poem was also known as the Ehoiai (Greek: Ἠοῖαι or Ἠ' οἷαι; Latin: Eoeae, Ehoeae, Eoiae, etc.), from the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tantalus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tantalus - Story Of Tantalus
Tantalus is known for having been welcomed to Zeus' table in Olympus. There he stole nectar and ambrosia, brought them back to his people...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia Ii - Medea - Medea In Music
Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia Ii - Boast Of Cassiopeia - The Myth
The story is set in the royal household of Aethiopia (not to be confused with Ethiopia, the modern name of Axum). King Cepheus (Greek for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The span of stories and characters in Greek mythology is incredibly far-reaching. Events ranging from the atrocities of the early gods to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argonauts: Encyclopedia Ii - Argonauts - Story
Pelias, king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos), had been warned to be on his guard against a man with one shoe and, o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talos: Encyclopedia Ii - Talos - Interpretation
A political interpretation of the myth tells that Talos is the Minoan fleet armed with metallic weapons. When the Greeks from the Argo de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The scope of Greek mythology is enormous. It extends from the horrific crimes of the early gods and the bloody wars of Troy and Thebes, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Nature And Sources Of Greek Mythology
The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Did The Greeks Believe Their Myths?
"Our own myths we call reality" is one of the axioms with which Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples commence The World of Classical Myth; to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Did The Greeks Believe Their Myths?
"Our own myths we call reality" is one of the axioms with which Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples commence The World of Classical Myth; to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalogue Of Women - Content
The complete epic comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Each book may have been up to 1000 lines long. The poem is not a h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalogue Of Women - Reception And Influence
As noted above, the poem has similarities to many passages in Homer. This implies that they share a common genre in some respects: the Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalogue Of Women - Fragmentary Epic
The poem is fragmentary, meaning that it survives in quotations, scraps of ancient papyrus, and second-hand references in other authors. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boast Of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia Ii - Boast Of Cassiopeia - Origin Of The Myth
Four constellations are associated with the myth, and their relative positions create a scene which may be the origin of a proportion of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tantalus: Encyclopedia Ii - Tantalus - Related Terms
Tantalus is the origin of the English word "tantalize". The idea being that when a person tantalizes someone else, that person is making ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argonauts: Encyclopedia Ii - Argonauts - The Argonauts On Film
Two movies titled Jason and the Argonauts have been made. Jason and the Argonauts (1963), directed by Don Chaffey, shows Jason hosting Ol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Nature And Sources Of Greek Mythology
The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odysseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Odysseus - During The Trojan War
Odysseus was one of the main Achaean characters in the Trojan War. The others were godlike Achilles, Agamemnon lord of men, Menelaus, Nes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odysseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Odysseus - Odysseus Reaches Ithaca
In Ithaca, Penelope was fending off countless suitors while Odysseus' mother, Anticlea, had died of grief. Odysseus, upon landing, disgui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, authors like Herodotus speculated that the Greeks had borrowed their gods wholesale from the Egyptians. Later, Christian wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Odysseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Odysseus - Other Stories
Odysseus is one of the most recurrent characters in Western literature. He has been used by innumerable writers, who often interpret his ...   » Read the article