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night-ranging Zagreus, performing his feasts of raw flesh; and raising torches high to the mountain Mother among the Curetes, [18] and were consecrated and received the title of "bacchus". [19] This passage associates Zagreus with the cult of Zeus at Cretan Mount Ida, where the infant Zeus was guarded by the Cretan Curetes. According to West ...
This Macaria is attested in a single source, the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, according to which she is a daughter of Hades, the king of the Underworld; [3] no mother is mentioned. Nothing else is known about her, as she is neither explicitly stated to be an immortal goddess nor a mortal woman, nor confirmed to live in the ...
Melinoë is the daughter of Persephone and was fathered by Zeus, [6] who tricked her via "wily plots" by taking the form of Hades, indicating that in the hymn Persephone is already married to Hades. [7]
Macaria or Makaria (Ancient Greek: Μακαρία, romanized: Makaría, lit. 'blessed one, blessedness' [1]) is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology:
Danaus was angered that his daughter refused to do as he ordered and took her to the Argives courts. Lynceus killed Danaus as revenge for the death of his brothers, and he and Hypermnestra started the Danaid Dynasty of rulers in Argos. In other versions of the myth, Danaus himself united Hypermnestra and Lynceus instead. [2]
In 2020's Hades, Tisiphone appears, along with Megaera and Alecto, as one of the three potential Fury boss fights during an escape attempt.She is depicted wearing a mask and can initially only speak the words "murder" or "murderer", though she eventually learns protagonist Zagreus's name if confronted enough times.
Anaxarete sees the dead Iphis, 1602–7 engraving. In Greek mythology, Arsinoë (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη, romanized: Arsinóē, lit. 'elevated-minded' pronounced [arsinóɛː]) is a Cypriot princess who was punished by being turned into stone at the hand of the goddess of love Aphrodite for turning down a potential suitor named Arceophon. [1]
Zagreus is a god in Greek religion and mythology. Zagreus may also refer to: Zagreus (audio drama), based on the British television series Doctor Who; Zagreus , the protagonist of the video game Hades; Zagreus Ridge, an ice-free ridge on the Oscar II Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula. Papilio zagreus, a South American butterfly