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Étienne-Barthélémy Garnier, One of the Minyades showing the dismembered body of Hippasus.. At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia, and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchic joy, these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god.
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]
Ariadne is a major character in Mary Renault's historical novel The King Must Die (1958) about the Bronze Age hero Theseus. An adaptation of the narrative of Ariadne appears in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Death in the Andes. Ariadne is the subject of W. N. Herbert's poem Ariadne on Broughty Ferry Beach (1983). [44]
Concerning Telete's birth, it is related that Nicaea was ashamed of having been made pregnant by Dionysus, and even attempted to hang herself; nevertheless, in due time a daughter was born to her. The Horae were said to have served as midwives at Telete's birth. [ 1 ]
The Leucrotae are held off by a gate that will open at 7:00 and devour the children. In the meantime, Hal uses his abilities to predict the children's futures. Thalia will die, but live on afterwards (as seen in The Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse ), while Luke will be involved in some kind of betrayal (as seen in The Lightning Thief ...
Evanthes, brother of Oenopion, [1] son of Ariadne and Dionysus. His mother was probably the nymph Helice and his only sister was Merope ( Aero ) who was raped by the giant Orion . Together with his brothers, Talus , Melas , Salagus and Athamas , they followed their father when he sailed from Crete to settle in Chios . [ 2 ]
Dionysus gave the three daughters the power to change whatever they wanted into wine, wheat, and oil. [5] When the Greeks landed on Delos while on their way to Troy , Anius prophesied that the Trojan War would not be won until the tenth year, and insisted that they stay with him for nine years, promising that his daughters would supply them ...