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Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton, who was a merman, and a daughter, Rhodos (if this Rhodos was not actually fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of Asopus as others claim). According to the mythographer Apollodorus , Benthesikyme was the daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
In Greek mythology, the Aloadae (/ ˌ æ l oʊ ˈ eɪ d iː /) or Aloads (Ancient Greek: Ἀλωάδαι Aloadai) were Otus or Otos (Ὦτος means "insatiate") and Ephialtes (Ἐφιάλτης "nightmare"), [1] Thessalian sons of Princess Iphimedia, wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon, [2] whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping ...
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language: Arranged According to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the Pronunciation of the Characters as Heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai or the Hàn-Yīng yùnfǔ 漢英韻府, compiled by the American sinologist and missionary Samuel Wells Williams in 1874, is a 1,150-page bilingual dictionary including 10,940 character headword entries ...
Nauplius took Clymene to wife, and by him she became mother of Palamedes, Oeax and Nausimedon. [24] In some account, the possible mother of these children was either Hesione or Philyra. [25] Clymene, an Orchomenian princess as the daughter of King Minyas. She was the wife of either Cephalus [26] or Phylacus, [27] and mother of Iphiclus and ...
For example, in the Yaoling dialect the colloquial reading of 物 'things' is [væʔ], [11] which is very similar to its pronunciation of Ba-Shu Chinese in the Song dynasty (960–1279). [12] Meanwhile, its literary reading, [ voʔ ], is relatively similar to the standard Mandarin pronunciation [ u ].
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (/ p ə ˈ s ɪ f i iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Πασιφάη, romanized: Pāsipháē, lit. 'wide-shining', derived from πᾶσι (dative plural) "for all" and φάος/φῶς phaos/phos "light") [2] was a queen of Crete, and was often referred to as goddess of witchcraft and sorcery.
In Greek mythology, Kymopoleia, Cymopoleia, or Cymopolia (/ ˌ s ɪ m ə p ə ˈ l aɪ. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κυμοπόλεια, romanized: Kymopoleia) was a daughter of the sea god Poseidon, and the wife of Briareus, one of the three Hundred-Handers. [2] Her only known mention occurs in the Hesiodic Theogony. [3]