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In Greek mythology, Pheme (/ ˈ f iː m iː / FEE-mee; Greek: Φήμη, Phēmē; Roman equivalent: Fama), also known as Ossa in Homeric sources, [1] was the personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath being scandalous rumours.
In Greek mythology, Persephone, daughter of Demeter (goddess of the harvest), was abducted by Hades (god of the dead), and taken to the underworld as his queen. The myth goes on to describe Demeter as so distraught that no crops would grow and the "entire human race [would] have perished of cruel, biting hunger if Zeus had not been concerned" (Larousse 152).
Originally, she may have been a homonym independent of the Greek Maia, whose myths she absorbed through the Hellenization of Latin literature and culture. [ 14 ] In an archaic Roman prayer, [ 15 ] Maia appears as an attribute of Vulcan , in an invocational list of male deities paired with female abstractions representing some aspect of their ...
The Greek name Γαῖα (Gaia Ancient Greek: or ) is a mostly epic, collateral form of Attic Γῆ (Gē), and Doric Γᾶ (Ga), [3] perhaps identical to Δᾶ (Da), [6] both meaning "Earth". Some scholars believe that the word is of uncertain origin. [7] Beekes suggested a probable Pre-Greek origin. [8]
Idaea or Idaia (Ancient Greek: Ἰδαία), which means "she who comes from Ida" or "she who lives on Ida", [1] referring to either the Cretan Mount Ida, or the Phrygian Mount Ida in the Troad, is the name of several figures in Greek mythology: Idaea, a nymph, who was the mother, by the river-god Scamander, of King Teucer. [2]
Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown.Roman marble, c. 50 AD.Getty Museum. Cybele (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl iː / SIB-ə-lee; [1] Phrygian: Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; [2] Lydian: Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybélē, Κυβήβη Kybēbē, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the ...
According to Callimachus, when she was young, Anticlea served the goddess Artemis, and accompanied her in hunting, bearing arrow and quiver. [7]According to some later sources, including a fragment of Aeschylus' lost tragedy The Judgment of Arms, Odysseus was the child of Anticlea by Sisyphus, not Laërtes.
In Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion, Mnemosyne (/ n ɪ ˈ m ɒ z ɪ n iː, n ɪ ˈ m ɒ s ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μνημοσύνη, pronounced [mnɛːmosýːnɛː]) is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus.