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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]
[98] [h] Demeter found and met her daughter in Eleusis, and this is the mythical disguise of what happened in the mysteries. [ 100 ] In his 1985 book on Greek Religion, Walter Burkert claimed that Persephone is an old chthonic deity of the agricultural communities, who received the souls of the dead into the earth, and acquired powers over the ...
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [3] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [4] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [5]
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 ...
In Hyginus' Fabulae, Iasion is called the son of Ilithyius. [7] With Demeter, Iasion was the father of Plutus, the god of wealth. [8] According to Hyginus' De Astronomica, Iasion was also the father of Philomelus, [9] while, according to Diodorus Siculus, he was the father of a son named Corybas with Cybele. [10]
Of these twelve names, eight match Hesiod. [9] Hyginus, at the beginning of his Fabulae, lists sixteen names, while elsewhere he gives the names of ten others. [10] Of these 26 names, only nine are found in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymn, or Apollodorus. Many other names are given in other ancient sources.
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In addition to the Eris who was the daughter of Nyx (Night), Hesiod, in his Works and Days, mentions another Eris. He contrasts the two: the former being "blameworthy" who "fosters evil war and conflict", the latter worthy of "praise", have been created by Zeus to foster beneficial competition: [ 87 ]