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Following is the translation by Apostolos Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow, of the hymn to Melinoe: I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, whom revered Persephone bore by the mouth of the Kokytos river upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus. In the guise of Plouton Zeus tricked Persephone and through wiley plots bedded her;
Persephone and Dionysos. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th–3rd century B.C. Marble. Hermitage.. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/ p ər ˈ s ɛ f ə n iː / pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized: Persephónē, classical pronunciation: [per.se.pʰó.nɛː]), also called Kore (/ ˈ k ɔːr iː / KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized: Kórē, lit.
Ascalaphus is the son of the stygian river god, Acheron, and the Lampad nymph, Orphne, and who was the custodian of Hades ' orchard in the Underworld. He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds in the Underworld. Because she had tasted food in the underworld, Persephone was obliged to return to the Underworld and spend ...
The 1st century BC historian Diodorus Siculus says that according to "some writers of myths" there were two gods named Dionysus, an older one, who was the son of Zeus and Persephone, [40] but that the "younger one [born to Zeus and Semele] also inherited the deeds of the older, and so the men of later times, being unaware of the truth and being ...
Melinoe is a chthonic nymph, daughter of Persephone, invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns and propitiated as a bringer of nightmares and madness. [82] She may also be the figure named in a few inscriptions from Anatolia, [83] and she appears on a bronze tablet in association with Persephone. [84]
The Erinyes (/ ɪˈrɪni.iːz / ih-RI-nee-eez; sing. Erinys / ɪˈrɪnɪs, ɪˈraɪnɪs / ih-RIN-iss, ih-RY-niss; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), [2] also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Melinoe, in the Hymns, seems to be the offspring of Zeus and Persephone, and is associated with Hecate, [154] also being mentioned on a bronze tablet from Pergamon. [155] According to Morand, this epigraphic evidence, which is roughly contemporaneous with the Orphic Hymns , [ 156 ] indicates deities such as Mise and Hipta were not invented by ...
Perseis' name has been linked to Περσίς (Persís), "female Persian", and πέρθω (pérthō), "destroy" or "slay" or "plunder". [citation needed]Kerenyi also noted the connection between her and Hecate due to their names, denoting a chthonic aspect of the nymph, as well as that of Persephone, whose name "can be taken to be a longer, perhaps simply a more ceremonious, form of Perse ...