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Leukothea, Goddess of Sailors. In Greek mythology, Leucothea (/ lj uː ˈ k oʊ θ i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λευκοθέα, romanized: Leukothéa, lit. 'white goddess'), sometimes also called Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, romanized: Leukothóē), was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph.
In Greek mythology, Ino (/ ˈ aɪ n oʊ / EYE-noh; Ancient Greek: Ἰνώ [1]) was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia.After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess."
In Greek mythology, Halia (Ancient Greek: Ἁλία, romanized: Halía, lit. 'dweller in the sea', [1] also spelled Ἁλίη) was a woman who according to Rhodian tradition became the sea-goddess Leucothea. [2] She was a lover of the sea-god Poseidon to whom she bore seven children.
In Greek mythology, Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη) may refer to the following figures: Painting of Apollo caressing the Nymph Leucothea, by French Painter Antoine Boizot. Leucothoe, the Nereid of the sea's brine [1] and one of the fifty marine-nymph daughters of the Old Man of the Sea Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [2] [3]
Terra cotta head depicting Catha or Leucothea. From Pyrgi, Italy. Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia. Ca, fourth century BCE. Catha (Etruscan: 𐌀𐌈𐌀𐌂, romanized: Catha, also written 𐌈𐌀𐌂, Cath, 𐌀𐌈𐌖𐌀𐌂, Cautha, or 𐌀𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌊, Kavtha) is a female Etruscan lunar or solar deity, who may also be connected to childbirth, and has a connection to the ...
In Greek mythology Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, from λευκός, "white", and θοός, "quick, swift") was a Babylonian princess. The daughter of Orchamus, a king of Persia, Leucothoe was either a lover of the sun god Helios or a victim of rape.
In Greek mythology, maenads (/ ˈ m iː n æ d z /; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus. Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι ( maínomai , “to rave, to be mad; to rage, to be angry”), [ 1 ] literally translates as 'raving ones'.
Halia or Halie (Ancient Greek: Ἁλίη or Ἁλία [1] Haliê means 'the dweller in the sea' [2] or 'the briney' [3]) is the name of the following characters in Greek mythology: Halie, the "ox-eyed" Nereid , [ 4 ] sea- nymph daughter of the ' Old Man of the Sea ' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris .