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Pages in category "Children of Zeus" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Achaeus (mythology)
The poet Theocritus (about 300 BC) wrote about the love between Heracles and Hylas: "We are not the first mortals to see beauty in what is beautiful. No, even Amphitryon's bronze-hearted son, who defeated the savage Nemean lion, loved a boy—charming Hylas, whose hair hung down in curls. And like a father with a dear son, he taught him all the ...
Aeolus' extended family, via both sons and daughters, is notable for a concentration of fantastical narratives and folk elements of a sort largely absent from the Homeric poems, beginning with the doomed, hubristic love of Ceyx and Alcyone, who called one another "Zeus" and "Hera" and were turned into the kingfisher and halcyon as punishment ...
Son of Hephaestus and foster son of Lernus, crippled in both feet like his father but strong and dauntless [1] 202 Iphitus 2 Son of Naubolus, from Phocis; he once hosted Jason when he went to Pytho to ask the oracle about the voyage [1] 207 Zetes: Son of the wind god Boreas by Oreithyia, from Thrace; he has wings at his ankles and temples
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]
“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “A mother is a son’s first true love. A son, especially that first son, is a mother’s last true love.” — Denzel Washington
Experts and therapists weigh in on the Boy Mom trend and where it comes from, and real women explain what it’s like to date the son of a Boy Mom. These Women Dated the Sons of Boy Moms and Lived ...
Amphion's wife Niobe had many children, but had become arrogant and because of this she insulted the goddess Leto, who had only two children, Artemis and Apollo. Leto's children killed Niobe's children in retaliation (see Niobe). Niobe’s overweening pride in her children, offending Apollo and Artemis, brought about her children’s deaths. [5]