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Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [12] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...
The myth of Io has many forms and embellishments. Generally, Io was a priestess of Hera at the Heraion of Argos. Zeus lusted after her and either Hera turned Io into a heifer to hide her from Zeus, or Zeus did so to hide her from Hera but was discovered. Hera had Io tethered to an olive-tree and set Argus Panoptes (lit.
Io is sometimes confused as the daughter of Inachus and Melia but she is the daughter of Inachus alone. [13] Io was born from Inachus' mouth. [ citation needed ] Aside from the Inachians of whom he was simply the back-formed eponym , his other children include Mycene , [ 14 ] the eponym of Mycenae , the spring nymph Amymone , Messeis , Hyperia ...
According to the historian Hesychius of Miletus, [3] as Io, changed into a heifer and being chased by a gadfly on behalf of the jealous Hera, was passing through Thrace, she gave birth to a girl, Keroessa, on the banks of the Golden Horn, by the altar of the nymph Semystra. According to legend, Keroessa's birthplace is called Semystra (today ...
Hesychius' preferred account says the city received its name from Io, daughter of the Argive king, who was raped by Inachus and then transformed into a cow. Zeus had fallen in love with Io, and in a jealous fit, Hera sent a gadfly to drive Io from one place to another in torment until she arrived in Thrace , giving birth to Ceroessa , the ...
Hera After Hera detained Io, now transformed into a cow, from Zeus, she placed her under the careful guard of Argus. Zeus sent Hermes to retrieve Io, who did so by killing Argus. Hera honoured her faithful guardman by transforming him into a peacock (in some versions, she placed his one hundred eyes on the tail of her peacock). Arne: Jackdaw ...
Set in the direct aftermath of WWII and spanning the rest of the 20th century, Corporon’s “Daughter of Ruins,” which hit shelves Oct. 8, is full of the history, culture and myths of Greece.
In Greek mythology and legendary history, Callithyia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ θ aɪ. ə /; Ancient Greek: Καλλίθυια; also Callithoe (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ θ oʊ i /; Καλλιθόη), [1] Callithea (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ θ i ə /; Καλλιθέα), [2] or Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /; Ἰώ Ancient Greek:), "the best among women as well as among men", [3] was an Argive princess as the daughter of King Peiras ...