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Aedon planned to kill the eldest of Niobe's sons, but by mistake killed her own son Itylus. Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose songs are Aedon's lamentations about her child. The story was an ancient one; for example, Homer's listeners were expected to know the allusion, when Penelope reveals to the still ...
As later authors on Homer would clarify and expand, Aëdon the wife of King Zethus killed her son accidentally while trying to kill another boy, Amaleus, the son of her sister-in-law Niobe (the wife of Zethus's twin brother Amphion), envious of Niobe's vast progeny when she had born only one child. [26]
Aëdon mourned her only son greatly, and thus Zeus, the father of Amphion and Zethus, transformed her into a nightingale when Zethus began to hunt her down following Itylus's murder. [17] A Homeric scholiast attributed the story of Aëdon killing her son in her effort to murder Niobe's to Pherecydes , a historian who lived during the fifth ...
Demeter rejoiced, for her daughter was by her side. The myth of the capture of Persephone seems to be pre-Greek. In the Greek version, Ploutos (πλούτος, wealth) represents the wealth of the corn that was stored in underground silos or ceramic jars (pithoi). Similar subterranean pithoi were used in ancient times for funerary practices. At ...
Persephone; raped by her uncle Hades and in Orphic tradition by her father Zeus disguised as a snake or as Hades himself. This resulted in the birth of Zagreus and Melinoë. Philomela; raped by her brother-in-law Tereus. Procris; raped by Minos. Rhea; raped by her son Zeus. Tyro; raped by Poseidon in the form of her beloved, the river-god Enipeus.
Persephone's abduction by Hades [f] is mentioned briefly in Hesiod's Theogony, [41] and is told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades.
In her third labor Ops bore another set of twins, Pluto and Glauce. (Pluto in Latin is Dis pater; [156] some call him Orcus.) Saturn was shown his daughter Glauce but his son Pluto was hidden and removed. Glauce then died young. That is the pedigree, as written, of Jupiter and his brothers; that is how it has been passed down to us in holy ...
He asked her to nurse Demophon – his son by Metanira. As a gift to Celeus, because of his hospitality, Demeter planned to make Demophon a god by anointing and coating him with ambrosia , breathing gently upon him while holding him in her arms and bosom, and making him immortal by burning his mortal spirit away in the family's hearth every night.