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Though Amphitrite does not figure in Greek cultus, at an archaic stage she was of outstanding importance, for in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, she appears at the birthing of Apollo among, in Hugh G. Evelyn-White's translation, "all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite"; more ...
Despoina or Despoena (/ d ɛ s ˈ p iː n ə /; [1] Greek: Δέσποινα, romanized: Déspoina) was the epithet of a goddess worshipped by the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece as the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and the sister of Arion. [2]
She was the wife of either Cephalus [26] or Phylacus, [27] and mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede. [28] [29] Some sources call her Periclymene [28] or Eteoclymene, [30] while according to others, Periclymene and Eteoclymene were the names of her sisters. [31] Alternately, this Clymene was the wife of Iasus and mother by him of Atalanta. [32]
The Pre-Greek name may be related to a-sa-sa-ra , a possible interpretation of some Linear A texts. [18] Although Linear A is not yet deciphered, Palmer relates tentatively the word a-sa-sa-ra-me which seems to have accompanied goddesses, with the Hittite išhaššara , which means "lady or mistress", and especially with išhaššaramis (my lady).
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.
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In Greek mythology, Evadne (/ iː ˈ v æ d n iː /; Ancient Greek: Εὐάδνη) was a name attributed to the following individuals: Evadne, a daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Peiras, Epidaurus and Criasus. [1] Evadne, a daughter of Poseidon and Pitane [2] who was raised by Aepytus of Arcadia.
Lysianassa (/ ˌ l ɪ ʒ i ə ˈ n æ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Λυσιάνασσα means 'the redeeming mistress' [1] or 'lady deliverance' [2]) is the name of four characters in Greek mythology: Lysianassa, the Nereid of royal delivery [2] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [3]