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Greek text available from the same website. Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary , ABC-Clio , 1991. ISBN 978-0-874-36581-8 .
A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
Alector (/ ə ˈ l ɛ k t ər /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλέκτωρ) refers to more than one person in classical mythology and history: [1] Alector, son of Magnes and Meliboea, eponyms of Magnesia and the town of Meliboea respectively. [2] Alector, the Boeotian father of Leitus. [3]
'blessed one, blessedness') is a very obscure figure in ancient Greek mythology, reportedly the daughter of Hades, the god and king of the Underworld. Macaria is not mentioned in any classical Greek or Roman text, and instead her single attestation comes from a medieval Byzantine encyclopedia of the tenth century, the Suda.
The Pleiades (/ ˈ p l iː ə d iː z, ˈ p l eɪ-, ˈ p l aɪ-/; [1] Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation:), were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. [2]
In Greek mythology, Aeolia (Ancient Greek: Αἰολία Aíolía) daughter of Amythaon and wife of Calydon, eponym of the city in Aetolia. She had two daughters namely Epicaste, wife of Agenor and Protogeneia, mother of Oxylus by Ares. [1] [2]
Calydon (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ d ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Καλυδών, Kalydōn) was a Greek city in ancient Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus, 7.5 Roman miles (approx. 11 km) from the sea. [1] Its name is most famous today for the Calydonian boar that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age.