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In Greek mythology, Scylla [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ l ə / SIL-ə; Ancient Greek: Σκύλλα, romanized: Skýlla, pronounced) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so ...
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
Telephassa (/ ˌ t ɛ l ɪ ˈ f æ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Τηλέφασσα, Tēléphassa, "far-shining"), also spelled Telephaassa (/ ˌ t ɛ l ɪ f i ˈ æ s ə /; Τηλεφάασσα) and Telephe [1] (/ ˈ t ɛ l ɪ f iː /; Τηλέφη), is a lunar epithet in Greek mythology that is sometimes substituted for Argiope the wife of Agenor ...
Isis and Telethusa by Picart, 1732.. In Greek and Roman mythology, Iphis (/ ˈ aɪ f ɪ s / EYE-fis or / ˈ ɪ f ɪ s / IF-iss; Ancient Greek: Ἶφις, romanized: Îphis, gen. Ἴφιδος Íphidos) was a child of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete, born female and raised as male, who was later transformed by the goddess Isis into a man.
In Greek mythology and religion, Eurus (Ancient Greek: Εὖρος, romanized: Euros, lit. 'east wind') is the god and personification of the east wind, although sometimes he is also said to be southeast specifically. [1] He is one of the four principal wind gods, the Anemoi, alongside Boreas (north wind), Zephyrus (west wind) and Notus (south ...
According to Celoria, the elements pha-and phe-in the names of Periphas and Phene can both be traced to the ancient Greek verb φαίνω (phaino), meaning 'to appear'. [2] According to Beekes it has no clear etymology, and its alternative spelling φίνις ( phínis ), points to a pre-Greek origin, which according to him is the most likely ...
In Greek mythology, Gorgophone (Ancient Greek: Γοργοφόνη "Gorgon-Slayer") was the name of two different women. Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus. [1] Gorgophone, a Libyan princess as one of the 50 Danaïdes. She married and murdered Proteus, son of King Aegyptus of Egypt, on their wedding night obeying the command of their father, King ...
Staphylus (/ ˈ s t æ f ɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Στάφυλος "grape cluster") is one of several personages of ancient Greek mythology, almost always associated with grapes or wine: Staphylus, son of wine-god Dionysus and Ariadne. [1] Staphylus, beloved of Dionysus, from the island of Thasos. It is thanks to Dionysus' love for him that ...