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When Orpheus was later killed by the Maenads at the orders of Dionysus, his soul ended up in the Underworld, where he was reunited with Eurydice. [7] [6] The story in this form belongs to the time of Virgil, who first introduces the name of Aristaeus and the tragic outcome. [8]
A 1772 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting Niobe attempting to shield her children from Artemis and Apollo. In Greek mythology, Niobe (/ ˈ n aɪ. ə. b iː /; Ancient Greek: Νιόβη: Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa.
This Macaria is attested in a single source, the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, according to which she is a daughter of Hades, the king of the Underworld; [3] no mother is mentioned. Nothing else is known about her, as she is neither explicitly stated to be an immortal goddess nor a mortal woman, nor confirmed to live in the ...
'blessed one, blessedness' [1]) is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology: Macaria, daughter of Heracles and Deianira who willingly accepted to be sacrificed in order to save her people. [2] Macaria, daughter of Hades, king of the Underworld. [3]
Alcippe a daughter of Ares; raped by Halirrhothius, the son of Poseidon. Alcmene; raped by Zeus in form of her husband Amphitryon, resulting in the birth of Heracles. Apemosyne; raped by Hermes, after slipping on skinned hides that he placed on her path. Atalanta; attempted rape by the centaurs Rhoecus and Hylaios, both of whom she slew with ...
Persephone's abduction by Hades [f] is mentioned briefly in Hesiod's Theogony, [39] and is told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades.
Caeneus' son was the Argonaut Coronus, who was killed by Heracles while leading a war against the Dorians and their king Aegimius. [4] According to the mythographer Hyginus, Caeneus' mother was Hippea —the daughter of a Thessalian from Larissa named Antippus—and his brothers were Ischys and the Argonaut Polyphemus .
Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, she aided her brother Orestes in plotting revenge against their mother for the murder of their father Europa , a Phoenician woman, abducted by Zeus Hecuba (Ἑκάβη), wife of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of nineteen of his children