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Medea About to Murder Her Children by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1862) In Euripides's play Medea, she is a woman scorned, rejected by her husband Jason and revenge seeking. Deborah Boedeker writes about different images and symbolism Euripides used in his play to evoke responses from his original Athenian audience. [36]
In Greek mythology, Apate (/ ˈ æ p ə t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀπάτη Apátē) is the goddess and personification of deceit. Her mother is Nyx, the personification of the night. [1] [2] In Roman mythology her equivalent is Fraus (Fraud), while her male counterpart is Dolus (Deception), and her opposite number Aletheia, the goddess of truth.
In Greek mythology, Coronis (/ k ɒ ˈ r ə ʊ n ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Κορωνίς, romanized: Korōnís) is a Thessalian princess and a lover of the god Apollo.She was the daughter of Phlegyas, [1] king of the Lapiths, and Cleophema.
Theseus carries Antiope off, from the pediment of Apollo's temple at Eretria, 500s BC.. In Greek mythology, Antiope (/ æ n ˈ t aɪ ə p i /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη, derived from αντι anti, "against, compared to, like," and οψ ops, "voice" or "confronting" [1]) was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe, Hippolyta, Penthesilea and possibly Orithyia, queens of the ...
Ephialtes (/ ˌ ɛ f i ˈ æ l t iː z /; Greek: Ἐφιάλτης Ephialtēs) [a] was a Greek renegade during the Greco-Persian Wars.Born to Eurydemus (Εὐρύδημος) of Malis, [1] he betrayed his homeland and people to the Achaemenid Empire by revealing the existence of a path around the Greek coalition's position at Thermopylae. [2]
Thereafter, Ixion lived as an outlaw and was shunned. By killing his father-in-law, Ixion was reckoned the first man guilty of kin-slaying in Greek mythology. This act alone would warrant Ixion a terrible punishment, but Zeus took pity on Ixion and brought him to Olympus and introduced him at the table of the
Children by Greek mythological figure (18 C) E. Epigoni (8 P) N. Niobids (11 P) Pages in category "Children in Greek mythology" This category contains only the ...
In Greek mythology, Aerope (Ancient Greek: Ἀερόπη) [1] was a Cretan princess as the daughter of Catreus, king of Crete. She was the sister of Clymene , Apemosyne and Althaemenes . After an oracle said he would be killed by one of his children, Catreus gave Aerope to Nauplius to be sold abroad. [ 2 ]