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Melinoë (/ mɪˈlɪnoʊiː /; Ancient Greek: Μηλινόη, romanized: Mēlinóē pronounced [mɛːlinóɛː]) is a chthonic goddess invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns (2nd or 3rd centuries AD?), and represented as a bringer of nightmares and madness. In the hymn, Melinoë has characteristics that seem similar to Hecate and the Erinyes, [1 ...
Potamides. Semystra. Thriae. v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Eidothea or Idothea (Ancient Greek: Εἰδοθέα) was the name of the following women: Idothea, a daughter of Oceanus and possibly Tethys, thus considered to be one of the Oceanids. Together with her sisters Adrasta and Althaea (Amalthea [1]), she was one of the nurses of young Zeus.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Adrasteia (/ ˌ æ d r ə ˈ s t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀδράστεια, Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια), also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, Adastreia or Adrasta, originally a Phrygian mountain goddess, probably associated with Cybele, was later a Cretan nymph, and daughter of Melisseus, who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant ...
Melinoë (. Hades. ) Melinoë is a character in the upcoming video game Hades II. She is the game's protagonist, being the sister of Hades protagonist Zagreus and daughter of its antagonist, Hades. She is a witch, and is able to use magic techniques as well as weapons in combat, tasked with saving her father by killing the Titan Chronos.
Acis and Galatea (/ ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /, / ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː. ə / [1] [2]) are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
Arethusa (mythology) Silver decadrachm of Arethusa, minted in Syracuse, Sicily (405–400 BCE) In Greek mythology, Arethusa (/ ˌærɪˈθjuːzə /; ‹See Tfd› Greek: Ἀρέθουσα) was a nymph who fled from her home in Arcadia beneath the sea and came up as a fresh water fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. Greek deities.
Leuce (mythology) In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce, also spelled Leuke (Ancient Greek: Λεύκη, "white", specifically "white poplar"), was a nymph, an Oceanid; a daughter of the Titan Oceanus and his wife, Tethys.
Melinoë – The goddess of ghosts, who lives in the underworld. She appears only in The Demigod Files in the short story "Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades", where she scares people by showing them the ghosts of deaths they regret.