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Hyacinthus and the West Wind engaging in intercrural sex on a red-figure vase (5th century BCE) In Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a Spartan prince of remarkable beauty and a lover of the god of the sun Apollo. [13] He was also admired by Zephyrus, the god of the West wind, Boreas, the god of the North wind and a mortal man named Thamyris ...
The name comes from Greek mythology: Hyacinth was killed by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, jealous of his love for Apollo, who then transformed the drops of blood into flowers. Several species of Brodiaea , Scilla , and other plants that were formerly classified in the Liliaceae family and have flower clusters borne along the stalk also ...
The specific epithet non-scripta means "unlettered" or "unmarked" and was intended to distinguish this plant from the classical hyacinth of Greek mythology. This mythical flower, which was almost certainly not the modern hyacinth, [3] sprang up from the blood of the dying prince Hyacinthus. His lover, the god Apollo, shed tears that marked the ...
When Ajax killed himself during the Trojan War his blood that dripped on the ground gave rise to a white-and-reddish hyacinth flower which bore on its leaves the initial letters of his name ai, which also was an expressive of lament. In antiquity, hyacinth probably described the various species of delphinium, and not the modern hyacinth flower ...
Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name Hyacinthe.The name is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple. [1]English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia.
In Greek mythology, ... or "fresh") was a nymph/goddess who was associated with spring, flowers and new growth, ... Crocus, Hyacinthus and Narcissus into flowers. [1]
Daphne (/ ˈ d æ f n i /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel '), [1] a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
Hyacinthus's daughters, who were sacrificed either to Athena or Persephone, were known in the Attic legends by the name of the "Hyacinthides", which they derived from their father. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The names and numbers of the Hyacinthides differ in the different writers.