Callirhoe

Callirhoe or Callirrhoe may mean: Callirhoe (genus), a genus of plant within the Mallow family Callirrhoe (moon), a moon of Jupiter Callirhoe or Callirrhoe is the name of several women from Greek mythology: Callirrhoe (naiad), a daughter of Oceanus and mother of Echidna, one of the Oceanids Callirhoe, the daughter of Achelous, who berothed her to Alcmaeon Callirhoe, a Calydonian woman who scorned a priest of Dionysus who in turn threatened to inflict all the wom ...

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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
• 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
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In Greek mythology, Geryon (Geryones,Geyron), son of Chrysaor and Callirhoe, was a winged giant made from three entire human bodies conjoined at the waist. Geryon lived on the island of Erytheia, in the far west of the Mediterranean. He owned a two-headed hound, named Orthrus, which was the brother of Cerberus, and a herd of cattle that were guarded by Orthrus, and a man named Eurythion. Geryon - Herakles' Journey to Erytheia location of the Cattle of Geryon. Heracles was required to obtain th ...

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• Geryon - Herakles' Journey to Erytheia location of the Cattle of Geryon
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Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace — as well as the patron deity of both agriculture and the theater. Greeks borrowed Dionysus' figure and within the Olympian tradition he i ...

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• Dionysus - Bacchanalia
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• Dionysus - Childhood
• Dionysus - Midas
• Dionysus - Other stories
• Dionysus - Consorts/Children
• Dionysus - Parallels with Christianity
• Dionysus - Modern interpretations
• Dionysus - Dionysus in Neopaganism
• Dionysus - names with the origin Dionysus
• Dionysus - Bibliography

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In Greek mythology, Achelous (Greek: Αχελώος), was the patron deity of the river by the same name, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its own river spirit. His name translates as "he who washes away care". Some legends say that Achelous was the son of Poseidon, others say that he was the son of Earth and Helios. However, ancient Greeks generally believed that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all river gods. Achelous was a suitor for Deianeira, daughter of Oene ...

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Chrysaor - Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, Chrysaor (Greek Χρυσάωρ, "golden falchion", from χρυσός, gold, and ἄορ, sword, falchion) was a giant, the son of Poseidon and Medusa. He was conceived on the floor of a temple to Athena who, enraged at the desecration, turned Medusa into a Gorgon. As such, Chrysaor and his brother, the winged horse, Pegasus, were not born until Perseus chopped off Medusa's head. They were born from the drops of blood; some say that they sprang from Medusa's ...

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An ancient Greek (c. 450 B.C.) scientist-philosopher who discovered that the brain is the seat of understanding. Also in Greek mythology, Alcmaeon, or Alkmáon, was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the Seven Against Thebes raid, though he knew he would die. Eriphyle was convinced to support the battle by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia. Amphiaraus asked his sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus, to avenge his death, and Alcmaeon killed his mother when A ...

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In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus, or Amphiaraos ("doubly-cursed") was the son of Oicles and husband of Eriphyle. Amphiaraus was the King of Argos along with Adrastus, brother of Eriphyle, and Iphis. Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the Seven Against Thebes raid, though he knew he would die. She had been persuaded by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite. Amphiaraus reluctantly agreed to join the battle and asked his sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus to avenge his death. In the ...

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(from [1]) A tip for readers: The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores vary considerably. If you want to buy a volume, it is probably quickest to look it up on HUP's Web site, get the ISBN, and then search for that. Likewise, the volumes are not always listed consistently in library catalogues, so you may find them more easily if you search by ISBN or the translator's name. Loeb Classical Library - Greek. L145) Volume I. Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes L146) Volume ...

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(from [1]) A tip for readers: The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores vary considerably. If you want to buy a volume, it is probably quickest to look it up on HUP's Web site, get the ISBN, and then search for that. Likewise, the volumes are not always listed consistently in library catalogues, so you may find them more easily if you search by ISBN or the translator's name. Loeb Classical Library - Greek. L145) Volume I. Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes L146) Volume ...

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The offspring of Typhon and Echidna were: Nemean Lion Cerberus Ladon Chimera Sphinx Lernaean Hydra Ethon Orthrus According to Herodotus ((3, c. 108), Hercules had three children by her: Agathyrsus Gelonus Scytha ...

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Echidna mythology, Echidna mythology - Echidna and Typhon's Offspring, Echidna mythology - External links

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In Greek mythology, Chrysaor (Greek Χρυσάωρ, "golden falchion", from χρυσός, gold, and ἄορ, sword, falchion) was a giant, the son of Poseidon and Medusa. He was conceived on the floor of a temple to Athena who, enraged at the desecration, turned Medusa into a Gorgon. As such, Chrysaor and his brother, the winged horse, Pegasus, were not born until Perseus chopped off Medusa's head. They were born from the drops of blood; some say that they sprang from Medusa's neck as Perseus beheaded her, a "higher" birth, like the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus. Chrysaor ...

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Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the Thracian mysteries, he wears the "bassaris" or fox-skin, symbolizing new life. His own rites the Dionysian Mysteries were the most secretive of all (See also Maenads) Many scholars believe that Dionysus is a syncretism of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from ...

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When the sun reaches the constellation of Gemini, it meets the constellation of Auriga. Many ancient beliefs associated the daily path of the sun across the sky with the sun god using a fiery chariot, and so, here, the sun's yearly path (its transit) obtains the fiery chariot (Auriga) of the sun's daily path. Later Greek mythology considered the sun to use a cup to traverse the sky. Also in this region of the sky is a vast space without easily visible stars (now occupied by the modern constellations of Lynx, and by Camelopardalis), wh ...

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It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; both were said to have been born from a mortal woman but fathered by a god, to have returned from the dead, and to have transformed water into wine. The modern scholar Barry Powell also argues that Christian notions of eating and drinking "the flesh" and "blood" of Jesus was influenced by the cult of Dionysus. Certainly the Dionysus myth contains a great deal of cannibalism, in its links to Ino (however, on ...

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Dionysus, Dionysus - Worship, Dionysus - Bacchanalia, Dionysus - Appellations, Dionysus - Birth, Dionysus - Childhood, Dionysus - Midas, Dionysus - Other stories, Dionysus - Consorts/Children, Dionysus - Parallels with Christianity, Dionysus - Modern interpretations, Dionysus - Dionysus in Neopaganism, Dionysus - names with the origin Dionysus, Dionysus - Bibliography

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Although some serious classicists spurn the Loebs (which have only a minimal apparatus criticus) as amateurish, and many non-classicists, conversely, are unimpressed by the relatively pedestrian prose of the English translations (necessary because of the desire to remain as literal as possible), the Loeb editions are nonetheless ubiquitous, still the "handy books of a size that would fit in a gentleman's pocket" that they were in ...

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Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Cadmus), a mortal woman, and his father Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus's wife, Hera, a jealous and vain goddess, discovered the affair while Semele was pregnant. Appearing as an old crone, Hera befriended Semele, who confided in her that her husband was actually Zeus. Hera pretended not to believe her, and planted seeds of doubt in Semele's mind. Curious, Semele demanded of Zeus that he reveal himself in al ...

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Dionysus, Dionysus - Worship, Dionysus - Bacchanalia, Dionysus - Appellations, Dionysus - Birth, Dionysus - Childhood, Dionysus - Midas, Dionysus - Other stories, Dionysus - Consorts/Children, Dionysus - Parallels with Christianity, Dionysus - Modern interpretations, Dionysus - Dionysus in Neopaganism, Dionysus - names with the origin Dionysus, Dionysus - Bibliography

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Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Cadmus), a mortal woman, and his father Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus's wife, Hera, a jealous and vain goddess, discovered the affair while Semele was pregnant. Appearing as an old crone(in other stories a nurse), Hera befriended Semele, who confided in her that her husband was actually Zeus. Hera pretended not to believe her, and planted seeds of doubt in Semele's mind. Curious, Semele demanded of Zeus th ...

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Dionysus, Dionysus - Worship, Dionysus - Bacchanalia, Dionysus - Appellations, Dionysus - Birth, Dionysus - Childhood, Dionysus - Midas, Dionysus - Other stories, Dionysus - Consorts/Children, Dionysus - Parallels with Christianity, Dionysus - Modern interpretations, Dionysus - Dionysus in Neopaganism, Dionysus - names with the origin Dionysus, Dionysus - Bibliography

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