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The ancient Greek nymphē in the first line can mean "nymph", but also "bride" or "young woman". [4] Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness ) in their own Orphic hymns. [ 11 ]
Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.
In Greek mythology, Meline (Ancient Greek: Μηλίνη, romanized: Mēlínē, lit. 'apple-ish') is a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus [1] (or by one of his many wives [2]). She bore Laomedon to the hero Heracles. [3]
Ascalaphus is the son of the stygian river god, Acheron, and the nymph, Orphne, and who was the custodian of Hades' orchard in the Underworld.He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds in the Underworld.
In Greek mythology, Melaena or Melena / m ɪ ˈ l iː n ə / (Ancient Greek: Μέλαινα, romanized: Mélaina, feminine Ancient Greek: μέλᾱς, romanized: mélās "black, dark"), [1] Melane / ˈ m ɛ l ə n iː / (Koinē Greek: Μελανή, romanized: Melanḗ) or Melanis [2] was a Corycian nymph, or member of the prophetic Thriae, of ...
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (/ h ɛ ˈ s p ɛr ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West".
Greek rhetorician and grammar Athenaeus of Naucratis, in his work Deipnosophistae, Book II, cited that poet Ibycus, in his Melodies, described twins Eurytus and Cteatus as "λευκίππους κόρους" ("white-horsed youths") and said they were born from a silver egg, [3] - a story that recalls the myth of Greek divine twins Castor and ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Ascalabus (Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάλαβος), in Greek mythology, was a son of Misme. Mythology