Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Iphthime, daughter of Icarius, a sister of Penelope and Perileos. She became the wife of Eumelus from Pherae and possibly, the mother of his son, Zeuxippus . [ 2 ] In Homer 's Odyssey , [ 3 ] Athena creates an image in Iphthime's likeness and sends this to a sleeping Penelope.
Icarius was the son of either Perieres and Gorgophone [1] or of Oebalus and Bateia [2] and thus brother of Hippocoon and Tyndareus.By the naiad Periboea, he became the father of Penelope, Perileos, Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes and Iphthime. [3]
In Greek mythology, Imeusimus (Ancient Greek: Ἰμεύσιμος) is the son of Icarius and the naiad Periboea.He was the brother of Penelope, Perileos, Thoas, Damasippus, Aletes [1] and possibly Iphthime.
Penelope. Drawing after Attic pottery figure. Penelope encounters the returned Odysseus posing as a beggar. From a mural in the Macellum of Pompeii. Penelope (/ p ə ˈ n ɛ l ə p i / [1] pə-NEL-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) [2] is a character in Homer's Odyssey.
The Odyssey is a nostos that recalls the story of Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca, finally completed twenty years after the Trojan War began. Odysseus, however, does not directly appear in the narrative until Book 5. Instead, the Telemachy ' s subject is the effect of Odysseus' absence on his family, Telemachus in particular.
In Greek mythology, Perileos (/ p ə ˈ r ɪ l i ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Περίλεως) or Perilaus (/ ˌ p ɛ r ɪ ˈ l eɪ ə s /; Περίλᾱος) is a name that may refer to: . Perileos, is the Spartan son of Icarius and the naiad Periboea, he was the brother of Penelope, Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes [1] and probably Iphthime.
Laodamia, alternate name for Iphthime, daughter of Icarius of Sparta and Asterodia, daughter of Eurypylus. She was the sister of Penelope, Amasichus, Phalereus, Thoon, Pheremmelias, Perilaos. [21] Laodamia was also called Laodice, [22] Mede and Hypsipyle. [21] Laodamia or Arsinoe, nurse of Orestes.
Illustration from Gustav Schwab of Odysseus killing the suitors Ulysses' revenge on Penelope's suitors (Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814). In the Epic Cycle, Antinous (also Antinoüs; Latin: Antinous) or Antinoös (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος, romanized: Antínoös), was the Ithacan son of Eupeithes, best known for his role in Homer's Odyssey.