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A panegyris (Ancient Greek: πανήγυρις "gathering"), is an Ancient Greek general, national or religious assembly. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Each was dedicated to the worship of a particular god . It is also associated with saint days and holy festivals. [ 3 ]
The Greek word κήρ means "the goddess of death" or "doom" [2] [3] and appears as a proper noun in the singular and plural as Κήρ and Κῆρες to refer to divinities. Homer uses Κῆρες in the phrase κήρες θανάτοιο, "Keres of death". By extension the word may mean "plague, disease" and in prose "blemish or defect".
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
In Greek mythology, river deities – such as Inachus, Scamander, and Peneus – are often progenitors of local genealogical lines. [2] In the Iliad, there are references to sacrifices being made to river deities, including the sacrifice of ephebes' hair. During military campaigns into foreign territory, there is evidence of sacrifices having ...
Title page of the Panegyric of Leonardo Loredan (1503), created in honour of Leonardo Loredan, 75th Doge of Venice, now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. A panegyric (US: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ ɪ r ɪ k / or UK: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ r ɪ k /) is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing. [1]
Aceso or Akeso (Ancient Greek: Ἀκεσώ, romanized: Akesó, lit. 'healing one' [ 1 ] ) was the Greek goddess of well-being and the healing process worshipped in Athens and Epidauros . [ 2 ]
In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (/ ˈ n ɪər i ɪ d z / NEER-ee-idz; Ancient Greek: Νηρηΐδες, romanized: Nērēḯdes; sg. Νηρηΐς, Nērēḯs, also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites. [1]
In Greek mythology Agreus or Argeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγρεύς, Ἀργεύς means 'hunter' or 'wild' [1]) and his brother Nomios (Νόμιος means "shepherd") are two of the Pans, creatures multiplied from the god Pan.