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Though Amphitrite does not figure in Greek cultus, at an archaic stage she was of outstanding importance, for in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, she appears at the birthing of Apollo among, in Hugh G. Evelyn-White's translation, "all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite"; more ...
Nauplius took Clymene to wife, and by him she became mother of Palamedes, Oeax and Nausimedon. [24] In some account, the possible mother of these children was either Hesione or Philyra. [25] Clymene, an Orchomenian princess as the daughter of King Minyas. She was the wife of either Cephalus [26] or Phylacus, [27] and mother of Iphiclus and ...
In Greek mythology, Iphianassa (/ ˌ ɪ f i ə ˈ n æ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Ίφιάνασσα Īphianassa means 'strong queen' or 'rule strongly' [1]) is a name that refers to several characters. Iphianassa, one of the 50 Nereids , marine- nymph daughters of the ' Old Man of the Sea ' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris .
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
In Greek mythology, Kymopoleia, Cymopoleia, or Cymopolia (/ ˌ s ɪ m ə p ə ˈ l aɪ. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κυμοπόλεια, romanized: Kymopoleia) was a daughter of the sea god Poseidon, and the wife of Briareus, one of the three Hundred-Handers. [2] Her only known mention occurs in the Hesiodic Theogony. [3]
The Pre-Greek name may be related to a-sa-sa-ra , a possible interpretation of some Linear A texts. [18] Although Linear A is not yet deciphered, Palmer relates tentatively the word a-sa-sa-ra-me which seems to have accompanied goddesses, with the Hittite išhaššara , which means "lady or mistress", and especially with išhaššaramis (my lady).
In another, more famous version Canace was a lover not of Poseidon, but of her own brother Macareus. This tradition made them children of a different Aeolus, the lord of the winds (or the Tyrrhenian king), [6] and his wife Amphithea. Canace fell in love with Macareus and committed incest with him, which resulted in her getting pregnant.
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.