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Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.
The ancient Greek nymphē in the first line can mean "nymph", but also "bride" or "young woman". [4] Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness ) in their own Orphic hymns. [ 11 ]
In Greek mythology, Metion (/ ˈ m iː ʃ ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μητίων, gen. Μητίονος) was an Athenian prince as the son of King Erechtheus and Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia. [1]
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.
Mestra had the ability to change her shape at will, a gift of her rapist Poseidon according to Ovid. [6] Erysichthon exploited this gift in order to sate the insatiable hunger with which he had been cursed by Demeter for violating a grove sacred to the goddess. [7]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Ascalabus (Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάλαβος), in Greek mythology, was a son of Misme. Mythology
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (/ h ɛ ˈ s p ɛr ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West".
In Greek mythology, Meline (Ancient Greek: Μηλίνη, romanized: Mēlínē, lit. 'apple-ish') is a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede, daughter of Arneus [1] (or by one of his many wives [2]). She bore Laomedon to the hero Heracles. [3]