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Leda and the Swan, 16th-century copy after the lost painting by Michelangelo. Leda was the daughter of the Aetolian King Thestius hence she was also called Thestias. [2] Her mother was possibly Leucippe, [3] Deidameia, daughter of Perieres, [4] Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea, [5] or Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron. [6]
Atalanta (/ ˌ æ t ə ˈ l æ n t ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀταλάντη, romanized: Atalántē, lit. 'equal in weight') is a heroine in Greek mythology. There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia, [1] whose parents were Iasus and Clymene [2] [3] and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts; [4] and the other from Boeotia, who ...
Toponyms and Slavic mythology iewrn Macedonia. Numerous toponyms relate to Slavic gods or mythological creatures. Veles - (Macedonian: Велес) is a city in Macedonia that has the name of the Slavic god Veles.
[3] [97] Through the medium of Latin and the works of Ovid, Greek myth influenced medieval and Renaissance poets such as Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante in Italy. [3] The Lament for Icarus (1898) by Herbert James Draper. In Northern Europe, Greek mythology never took the same hold of the visual arts, but its effect was very obvious on literature ...
[3] [4] [5] After the 18th century, there was a distinction between strzyga and upiór; the first one was more connected to witchcraft, while the latter was more of a flying, vampiric creature. [6] [2]
The latter name is the origin of the Modern Greek stikhio (στοιχειό), denoting various kinds of spirits in Greek folklore, such as those fighting for the well-being of their village or area against adverse spirits from elsewhere. [3] According to linguists Petar Skok and Norbert Jokl, stuhać stems from the Albanian stuhí/stihí "storm ...
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Today it is the poetic word for 'spring' in Slovene (where February is occasionally known as vesnar), [1] Croatian, [5] Czech and Slovak. In Serbo-Croatian variants, the word v(j)esnik (ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *věstь, "message") [6] is used to denote someone or something that heralds an upcoming event, commonly used in the collocation v(j)esnici proljeća ("heralds of spring ...