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Ariadne bore Dionysus famous children, including Oenopion, Staphylus, and Thoas. Dionysus set her wedding diadem in the heavens as the constellation Corona Borealis. Ariadne was faithful to Dionysus. In one version of her myth, Perseus killed her at Argos by turning her to stone with the head of Medusa during Perseus' war with Dionysus. [22]
In Greek mythology, Benthesikyme or Benthesicyme (/ b ɛ n θ ə ˈ s ɪ s ɪ m iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Βενθεσικύμη, romanized: Benthesikýmē) was, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the foster mother of Eumolpus. [2]
Staphylus died a sudden death the next morning after the feast; to console his wife and son, Dionysus named grape bunches after Staphylus, drunkenness after Methe, and grapes after Botrys. [5] [6] Staphylus, son of Oenomaus, who fought on Dionysus' side against Poseidon in the conflict of the two gods concerning Beroe. [7]
In Greek mythology, Thalia or Thaleia (/ ˈ θ eɪ l i ə / [1] or / θ ə ˈ l aɪ ə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Θάλεια, romanized: Tháleia, lit. 'the joyous, the abundance') was one of the three Charites or Graces, along with her sisters Aglaea and Euphrosyne.
In Greek mythology, Staphylus (/ ˈ s t æ f ɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Στάφυλος, 'grape cluster') was the son of wine-god Dionysus [1] and Ariadne. [2] His brothers include Oenopion, Thoas, Peparethus, Euanthes [3] and Phanus. [4] Another source stated that Staphylus's brothers were Maron, Thoas, and Eunous. [5]
The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed. He holds a fennel staff, tipped with a pine-cone and known as a thyrsus. Later images show him as a beardless, sensuous, naked or half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or "man-womanish". [303]
Castor [a] and Pollux [b] (or Polydeuces) [c] are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. [d]Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. [2]