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Demeter is notable as the mother of Persephone, described by both Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter as the result of a union with her younger brother Zeus. [83] An alternate recounting of the matter appears in a fragment of the lost Orphic theogony, which preserves part of a myth in which Zeus mates with his mother, Rhea , in the form ...
Alphesiboea, a Psophian princess as the daughter of King Phegeus in Arcadia. [3] She was the sister of Axion and Temenus, and married Alcmaeon who was purified by her father for the murder of his mother Eriphyle. Alphesiboea was deserted by her husband for the love of Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Achelous. In revenge, her brothers Axion ...
Chrysothemis, daughter of Danaus. She married (and killed) Asterides, son of Aegyptus. [6] Chrysothemis, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. [7] [8] Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest or enact vengeance against their mother for having an affair with Aegisthus and then killing their father.
Daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo. [71] She presided over transitions, [72] and was associated with hunting and the wild. [73] Her cult was the most far-reaching of any goddess, [74] and she presided over female (as well as male) initiation rites. [75] She is among the oldest of the Greek gods, and is closely linked with Asia ...
Distraught, Demeter searched high and low for her daughter. Because of her distress, and in an effort to coerce Zeus to allow the return of her daughter, she caused a terrible drought in which the people suffered and starved, depriving the gods of sacrifice and worship. As a result, Zeus relented and allowed Persephone to return to her mother. [19]
Her mother is mostly unnamed, but Hyginus wrote that it was Pleione, mother of the Pleiades, although Calypso was not traditionally counted among the Pleiades. [8] Hesiod and the anonymous author of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter mention either a different Calypso or possibly the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid nymphs, daughters of Tethys and ...
Despoina or Despoena (/ d ɛ s ˈ p iː n ə /; [1] Greek: Δέσποινα, romanized: Déspoina) was the epithet of a goddess worshipped by the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece as the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and the sister of Arion. [2]
There, Molpadia changed her name to Hemithea. [3] [4] [5] According to Hyginus, Chrysothemis herself was Apollo's lover, with whom she had the daughter Parthenos, who died young and was transformed into the Virgo constellation by Apollo. [6] Additionally, according to Pausanias, Chrysothemis had a son by Apollo, Philammon. [7]