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Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [12] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...
Io is sometimes confused as the daughter of Inachus and Melia but she is the daughter of Inachus alone. [12] Io was born from Inachus' mouth. [ citation needed ] Aside from the Inachians of whom he was simply the back-formed eponym , his other children include Mycene , [ 13 ] the eponym of Mycenae , the spring nymph Amymone , Messeis , Hyperia ...
Scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, "Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos." At Argos in a Greek myth the priestess of Hera Phoronis ties her mistress to an aniconic pillar. At Samos Hera's plank was tied on a willow tree to ensure ...
In Greek mythology and legendary history, Callithyia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ θ aɪ. ə /; Ancient Greek: Καλλίθυια; also Callithoe (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ θ oʊ i /; Καλλιθόη), [1] Callithea (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ θ i ə /; Καλλιθέα), [2] or Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /; Ἰώ Ancient Greek:), "the best among women as well as among men", [3] was an Argive princess as the daughter of King Peiras ...
Epaphus: son of Zeus and Io, a priestess of the goddess Hera (Zeus' wife). Harmonia: according to Greek mythology was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. [10] However, in Samothrace mythology, she was the daughter of Zeus and Electra. [11] Heracles: son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Alcmene, a mortal woman.
In Greek mythology, Io was the daughter of Inachus, a river god. This painting by Correggio depicts her abduction by Zeus , who took the form of a cloud so as not to be found out by his jealous wife Hera .
Io (partially) Violet: Gaia When Zeus turned his mistress Io into a cow to hide her from Hera, Gaia pitied the girl and created the violet so Io could feed from it, and thus the flower "sprung from her from whom it has its name", going with folk etymology for Io's name and the Greek word for violet, ion. Despite that, the two words are not ...
The sacrifice of Argus liberated Io and allowed her to wander the earth, although tormented by a gadfly sent by Hera, until she reached the Ionian Sea, named after her, from where she swam to Egypt and gave birth to a love child of Zeus, according to some versions of the myth. According to Ovid, Argus had a hundred eyes. [11]