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Xanthippe (/ z æ n ˈ θ ɪ p i /; Ancient Greek: Ξανθίππη [ksantʰíppɛː]; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as 40 years. [1]
Artemis (seated and wearing a radiate crown), the beautiful nymph Callisto (left), Eros and other nymphs. Antique fresco from Pompeii. In Greek mythology, Callisto (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ s t oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλλιστώ Ancient Greek pronunciation: [kallistɔ̌ː]) was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon; the myth varies in such details.
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is the son of Tros of Dardania, [6] [7] [8] from whose name "Troy" is supposedly derived, either by his wife Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [9] [10] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [11] Depending on the author, he is the brother of either Ilus, Assaracus, Cleopatra, or Cleomestra. [12]
In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster.Post-classical sources name her Galatea.. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [1]
Cassiopeia (/ ˌ k æ s i. oʊ ˈ p iː. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κασσιόπεια Kassiópeia, Modern Greek: Κασσιόπη Kassiópē) or Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια Kassiépeia), a figure in Greek mythology, was Queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus of Ethiopia. She was arrogant and vain, characteristics that led to her ...
Zethus's wife and Niobe's sister-in-law was Aëdon, who had a single child, Itylus. Aëdon was jealous of the vast progeny Niobe had produced, so she conceived a plan to kill Niobe's firstborn, a boy named Amaleus. Aëdon instructed her son to sleep in the back of the room, or in the innermost position of the bed that night, but Itylus forgot ...
Feimster, who met Jax Smith in 2015 before getting engaged in 2018 and married in 2020, jokes about her close bond with her mom in her new Netflix special 'Fortune Feimster: Crushing It'
In Metamorphoses (8 AD), the poet Ovid tells of Juno (Hera in Greek mythology) and the jealousy she felt over her husband Jupiter's (Zeus in Greek mythology) many affairs. . Though vigilant, whenever she was about to catch him, Echo distracted her with lengthy conversati