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Melinoë (/ m ɪ ˈ l ɪ n oʊ iː /; Ancient Greek: Μηλινόη, romanized: Mēlinóē pronounced [mɛːlinóɛː]) is a chthonic goddess invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns (2nd or 3rd centuries AD?), and represented as a bringer of nightmares and madness.
Epiales was also known as Melas Oneiros (Black Dream). [1]"The words epialos, epiales and epioles denote (1) the feverish chill (2) the daimon who assaults sleepers. Homer and most writers have epioles with the e; the form in -os means something different, namely the feverish chill . . .
In Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion, Mnemosyne (/ n ɪ ˈ m ɒ z ɪ n iː, n ɪ ˈ m ɒ s ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μνημοσύνη, pronounced [mnɛːmosýːnɛː]) is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus.
Goddess of memory and remembrance, and mother of the Nine Muses. Oceanus: Ὠκεανός (Ōceanós) God of the all-encircling river Oceans around the Earth, the fount of all the Earth's fresh-water. Phoebe: Φοίβη (Phoíbē) Goddess of the "bright" intellect and prophecy, and consort of Coeus. Rhea: Ῥέα (Rhéa)
In Greek mythology, Deimos / ˈ d aɪ m ɒ s / (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, lit. 'fear' [1] pronounced) is the personification of fear. [2] He is the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Phobos.
Melpomene by Joseph Fagnani (1869). Melpomene (/ m ɛ l ˈ p ɒ m ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μελπομένη, romanized: Melpoménē, lit. 'to sing' or 'the one that is melodious') is the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Adrasteia (/ ˌ æ d r ə ˈ s t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀδράστεια, Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια), also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestia, Adrestea, Adastreia or Adrasta, originally a Phrygian mountain goddess, probably associated with Cybele, was later a Cretan nymph, and daughter of Melisseus, who was charged by Rhea with nurturing ...
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phobetor (Ancient Greek: Φοβήτωρ; [1] 'Frightener' from Ancient Greek: φόβος, phobos, 'fear' 'panic'), [2] so called by men, or Icelos (Ancient Greek: Ἴκελος; 'Like'), [3] so called by the gods, is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos). He appeared in dreams "in ...