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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 ...
In Greek mythology, Aethra or Aithra (Ancient Greek: Αἴθρα, romanized: Aíthra, lit. 'bright sky', [1] [2] pronounced, English: / ˈ iː θ r ə /) was a name applied to four different individuals: [3] Aethra, name of one of the Oceanids, the 3000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.
Clymene, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She was the mother of Atlas , Epimetheus , Prometheus , and Menoetius ; [ 6 ] other authors relate the same of her sister Asia . [ 7 ]
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]
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).
Lysianassa (/ ˌ l ɪ ʒ i ə ˈ n æ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Λυσιάνασσα means 'the redeeming mistress' [1] or 'lady deliverance' [2]) is the name of four characters in Greek mythology: Lysianassa, the Nereid of royal delivery [2] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [3]