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Pink roses in Athens, Greece.. Rhodanthe (/ r oʊ ˈ d æ n θ i / roh-DAN-thee, [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ῥοδάνθη, romanized: Rhodánthē, lit. 'rose flower') is the name of a supposed Corinthian queen in Greek mythology who attracted a great number of suitors due to her beauty.
The second-century AD Greek travel writer Pausanias associates the rose with the story of Adonis [6] Book Eleven of the ancient Roman novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius contains a scene in which the goddess Isis, who is identified with Venus, instructs the main character, Lucius, who has been transformed into a donkey, to eat rose petals from a ...
Print of Clio, made in the 16th–17th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library. [2]The word Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men-(the basic meaning of which is 'put in mind' in verb formations with transitive function and 'have in mind' in those with intransitive function), [3] or from root *men ...
Firstly, the rose's connotation with secrecy dates back also to Greek mythology. In Hellenistic and later Roman mythology , Aphrodite / Venus gave a rose to her son, Eros / Cupid (the god of love), who, in turn, gave it to Harpocrates , the god of silence (and a Greek name for a form of Horus), to ensure that his mother's indiscretions (or ...
In Greek mythology, Melampus of Pylos used hellebore to save the daughters of the king of Argos from a madness, induced by Dionysus, that caused them to run naked through the city, crying, weeping, and screaming. [46] During the Siege of Kirrha in 585 BC, hellebore was reportedly used by the Greek besiegers to poison the city's water supply ...
Chloris was abducted by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind (which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Orithyia), who transformed her into a deity known as Flora after they were married.
Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, lotophages or the lotus-eaters (Ancient Greek: λωτοφάγοι, romanized: lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree off of coastal Libya (Island of Djerba), [1] [2] a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic imitation. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight. Since the Renaissance she has mostly been shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument often associated with Apollo. [2]