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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)
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 ...
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 ...
Love, she says, is neither fully beautiful nor good, as the earlier speakers in the dialogue had argued. Diotima gives Socrates a genealogy of Love , stating that he is the son of "resource (poros) and poverty (penia)". In her view, love drives the individual to seek beauty, first earthly beauty, or beautiful bodies.
“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
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
“Apparently it’s a known thing for Spanish sons to be “golden boys”—sons who can do no wrong in their mothers’ eyes and whose mothers only have eyes for them—and apparently I have a ...
In some accounts, Calliope is the mother of the Corybantes by her father Zeus. [6] She was sometimes believed to be Homer's muse for the Iliad and the Odyssey. [7] The Roman epic poet Virgil invokes her in the Aeneid ("Aid, O Calliope, the martial song!") [8] In some cases, she is said to be the mother of Sirens by the river-god Achelous. [9]