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In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (/ ɛ p ɪ ˈ m iː θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐπιμηθεύς, lit. 'afterthought') [1] is the brother of Prometheus, the pair serving "as representatives of mankind". [2] Both sons of the Titan Iapetus, [3] while Prometheus
Epimetheus: God of afterthought and the father of excuses. Λήλαντος (Lēlantos) Lelantos: God of moving unseen and The father of the nymph Aura by Periboea: Λητώ (Lētṓ) Leto: Goddess of motherhood and mother of the twin Olympians, Artemis and Apollo. Μενοίτιος (Menoítios) Menoetius: God of violent anger, rash action ...
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given.
Pandora's mother was Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen and Thyia. [4] Her other possible siblings were Protogeneia, [5] Pronoos, Orestheus, Marathonius, [6] Amphictyon, [7] Melantho [8] and Candybus. [9] According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Pandora was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus.
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.
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In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (/ ˈ p ɪ r ə /; Ancient Greek: Πύῤῥα, romanized: Pýrrha) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora II and Thyia.