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In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [3] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [4] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [5]
Demeter is notable as the mother of Persephone, described by both Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter as the result of a union with her younger brother Zeus. [83] An alternate recounting of the matter appears in a fragment of the lost Orphic theogony, which preserves part of a myth in which Zeus mates with his mother, Rhea , in the form ...
The seer Tiresias predicts that if a son of Creon voluntarily throws himself off the wall, the city will be saved. Then Menoeceus decided to sacrifice himself and jumped off the wall. When his dead body was carried on the shoulders by a few people, Eurydice bursts through town in a wail of:
Peter Demeter (/ ˈ d ɛ m ə t ər /; born 19 April 1933) is a Hungarian-born Canadian former real estate developer convicted in 1974 of arranging the murder of his wife.It was the longest trial in Canadian history to that date, and revealed that both husband and wife may have been plotting to murder the other to collect a CA$1 million (equivalent to $6 million in 2023) insurance policy.
[11] [12] In one account, his death was caused by his impiety to the statue of Demeter instead. [13] Servius, in his commentary upon Virgil's Aeneid, states that Iasion was killed by his brother Dardanus, [14] whereas Hyginus attributes his death to horses. [15] Ovid, in contrast, says that Iasion lived to an old age as the husband of Demeter. [16]
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Nyx is the offspring of Chaos, alongside Erebus (Darkness), by whom she becomes the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day). [7] Without the assistance of a father, Nyx produces Moros (Doom, Destiny), Ker (Destruction, Death), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain, Distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), the Keres ...
Shocking new charges have been brought in the case of a family that was brutally murdered in their homes on Halloween night in 2015.. Cathy Scott, her husband Michael Scott, Mr Scott's mother ...
Iapetus' wife is usually described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys named either Clymene (according to Hesiod [9] and Hyginus) or Asia (according to Apollodorus). In Hesiod's Works and Days, Prometheus is addressed as "son of Iapetus", and no mother is named. However, in Hesiod's Theogony, Clymene is listed as Iapetus' wife and the mother of ...