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Greek mythology. Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion 's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities ...
- Greek Mythological Creatures
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids...
- Titans
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: οἱ Τῑτᾶνες,...
- Classical Mythology
Classical mythology. Classical mythology, also known as...
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- Ancient Greek Folklore
Ancient Greek folklore consists of the folklore of the...
- Leda
Leda and the Swan, ancient fresco from Pompeii. In Greek...
- Greek Mythological Creatures
Pandion I, a king of Athens. Pandion II, a king of Athens. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he sailed with the Argonauts and participated in the Calydonian boar hunt. Pelias, a king of Iolcus and usurper of Aeson's rightful throne. Pelops, a king of Pisa and founder of the House of Atreus.
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In literature, Tyche might be given various genealogies. She has been described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, thus one of the Oceanids, or of Zeus, or even Prometheus. She was connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon("good spirit"). She is sometimes named as the mother of Plutus, the god of wealth; usually, however, he is the son of Demeter and Iasion.
Hero myths
According to the Pausanias in his Description of Greece, Palamedescreated the first pair of dice and gave them as an offering to Tyche.
Tyche was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as Tyche Protogeneia, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia ("firstborn"), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city. In Alexandria the Tychaeon, the Greek temple of Tyche, was described by Libaniusas one of the most magnificent of the entire Hellenistic world. Stylianos Spyridacis c...
Tyche appears on many coins of the Hellenistic period in the three centuries before the Christian era, especially from cities in the Aegean. Unpredictable turns of fortune drive the complicated plotlines of Hellenistic romances, such as, Leucippe and Clitophon or Daphnis and Chloe. She experienced a resurgence in another era of uneasy change, the f...
In late Roman sets the figures, usually four, represented the Tychai of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and either Antioch (more usual, as in the Esquiline Treasure of about 380 AD) or Trier, as in the Calendar of 354. The Tychai may be seen wearing a mural crown(a crown like the walls of the city). Another common depiction of Tyche in the Greco-...
In the early years of the Parthian Empire, Parthian kings, starting with Mithridates I (165 BC) utilized imagery of the Olympian gods in their coinage, often with the term ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ (friend of the Greeks) as a conciliatory gesture to subject Greek people living in the former Seleucid Empire lands. However, by the time of Vologases I (51 AD), the o...
Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann...Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online versio...Zephyrus. In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus ( Ancient Greek: Ζέφυρος, romanized : Zéphuros, lit. 'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, and Astraeus, Zephyrus is the most gentle and ...
- Horse, swan
- Sky
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Athena [b] or Athene, [c] often given the epithet Pallas, [d] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft [3] who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. [4] Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely ...
In Greek mythology, Gaia (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ ə, ˈ ɡ aɪ ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetic form of Γῆ (Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'), also spelled Gaea (/ ˈ dʒ iː ə /), is the personification of Earth. Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life.
