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Niobe is an abstract painting by Károly Patkó. [ 27 ] In classical music, Italian composer Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728) dedicated his opera " Niobe, Queen of Saba " to her myth, and Giovanni Pacini too wrote an opera on this myth. Benjamin Britten based one of his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid on Niobe.
Phoebe is a Titaness, one of the twelve (or thirteen) divine children born to Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). Phoebe's consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, first Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and then Asteria, a star goddess who bore an only daughter, Hecate. [5] Hesiod in the Theogony describes Phoebe as ...
The caoineag (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʰɯːɲak]) is a female spirit in Scottish folklore and a type of Highland banshee, her name meaning "weeper". She is normally invisible and foretells death in her clan by lamenting in the night at a waterfall, stream or Loch, or in a glen or on a mountainside. Unlike the related death portent ...
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion 's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities of deities ...
(A similar myth of immortalizing a child in fire is seen in the case of Demeter and the infant Demophoon). In a variant of the myth first recounted in the Achilleid , an unfinished epic written between 94 and 95 AD by the Roman poet Statius , Thetis tried to make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx (one of the five rivers ...
Zephyrus. In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus (Ancient Greek: Ζέφυρος, romanized: Zéphuros, lit. 'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, and Astraeus, Zephyrus is the most gentle and ...
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is the son of Tros of Dardania, [ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ] from whose name "Troy" is supposedly derived, either by his wife Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [ 10 ][ 11 ][ 12 ] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [ 13 ] Depending on the author, he is the brother of either Ilus, Assaracus, Cleopatra, or Cleomestra.
The Last Watch of Hero by Frederic Leighton, depicting Hero anxiously waiting for Leander during the storm. Hero and Leander (/ ˈ h iː r oʊ /, / l iː ˈ æ n d ər /) is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώ, Hērṓ; [hɛː.rɔ̌ː]), a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and ...