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The Hyades are also thought to have been the tutors of Dionysus, in some tellings of the latter's infancy, [4] and as such are equated with the Nysiads, the nymphs who are also believed to have cared for Dionysus, [14] as well as with other reputed nurses of the god—the Lamides, [15] the Dodonides [6] and the nymphs of Naxos. [16]
The mythological use for a Hyas, apparently a back formation from Hyades, may simply have been to provide a male figure to consort with the archaic rain-nymphs, the Hyades, a chaperone responsible for their behavior, as all the archaic sisterhoods— even the Muses— needed to be controlled under the Olympian world-picture (Ruck and Staples).
Dionysus was entrusted as a child to Ambrosia and her sisters, the Hyades. Later, Lycurgus assaulted the child Dionysus who was crossing his lands on Mount Nysa , escorted by the hyades. Lycurgus pursued and killed Ambrosia during this assault while her other sisters escaped and took refuge with Thetis . [ 3 ]
Sterope, also Asterope, mother of King Oenomaus of Elis by Ares or wife of Oenomaus instead. [18] Merope, youngest of the Pleiades. [19] In other mythic contexts, she married Sisyphus [20] and, becoming mortal, faded away. Merope bore Sisyphus several sons including Glaucus. [21]
There are several characters in Greek mythology by the name Coronis (Ancient Greek: Κορωνίς, -ίδος "crow" or "raven", among others [1]). These include: Coronis, one of the Hyades. Corone, a daughter of King Coronaeus of Phocis who fled from Poseidon and was changed into a crow by Athena. [2] Coronis, a Maenad who was raped by Butes ...
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In Greek mythology, the mountainous district of Nysa (Ancient Greek: Νῦσα, romanized: Nûsa), variously associated with Ethiopia, Libya, Boeotia, Thrace, India, or Arabia by Greek mythographers, was the traditional place where the rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant god Dionysus, the "God of Nysa."
Hades (/ ˈ h eɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Hā́idēs, Attic Greek: [háːi̯dεːs], later [háːdεːs]), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. [2]