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In Greek and Roman mythology, Nephele (/ ˈ n ɛ f ə l iː /; Ancient Greek: Νεφέλη, romanized: Nephélē, lit. 'cloud, mass of clouds'; [1] corresponding to Latin nebula) is the name of two figures associated with clouds, sometimes confused with each other, who figures respectively in the stories of Ixion and in the story of Phrixus and Helle.
Greek deities were abundantly used in Greco-Buddhist art, so too Boreas and its velificatio depiction element. Boreas became the Japanese wind god Fujin through the Greco-Buddhist Wardo /Oado and Chinese Feng Bo /Feng Po ("Uncle Wind"; among various other names).
' black theta ') or theta infelix (lit. ' unlucky theta ') is a symbol of death in Greek and Latin epigraphy. [1] Isidore of Seville notes the letter was appended after the name of a deceased soldier and finds of papyri containing military records have confirmed this use. [1] Additionally it can be seen in the Gladiator Mosaic.
For later Greek poets the very ancient pre-Homeric association of the asphodel flower with a positive form of afterlife as well as the enlarged role of Elysium as it became the destination of more than just a few lucky heroes, altered the character of the meadows. Greek poets who wrote after Homer's time describe them as untouched, lovely, soft ...
Epiales was also known as Melas Oneiros (Black Dream). [1]"The words epialos, epiales and epioles denote (1) the feverish chill (2) the daimon who assaults sleepers. Homer and most writers have epioles with the e; the form in -os means something different, namely the feverish chill . . .
Achlys / ˈ æ k l ɪ s / (Ancient Greek: Ἀχλύς "mist"), [1] in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification of sorrow. In Homer, achlys is the mist which fogs or blinds mortal eyes (often in death). Her Roman counterpart Caligo was said to have been the ...
When disaster struck Autonous and his family, Zeus and Apollo took pity in them and changed them into birds. Autonous became a stone-curlew (oknos in Greek, meaning "slow", because he was slow in saving his son Anthus). The family's unnamed manservant became a heron, although not the same heron as Erodius, another of Autonous's sons, turned into.
In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, Anzû is a divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds. [4] This demon—half man and half bird—stole the "Tablet of Destinies" from Enlil and hid them on a mountaintop. Anu ordered the other gods to retrieve the tablet, even though they all feared the demon.