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In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/ ˈ s ɪ s ɪ f ə s /; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Isis and Telethusa by Picart, 1732.. In Greek and Roman mythology, Iphis (/ ˈ aɪ f ɪ s / EYE-fis or / ˈ ɪ f ɪ s / IF-iss; Ancient Greek: Ἶφις, romanized: Îphis, gen. Ἴφιδος Íphidos) was a child of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete, born female and raised as male, who was later transformed by the goddess Isis into a man.
Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.
In classical mythology, Cupid / ˈ k j uː p ɪ d / (Latin: Cupīdō [kʊˈpiːdoː], meaning "passionate desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars. He is also known as Amor / ˈ ɑː m ɔːr / (Latin: Amor, "love"). His Greek ...
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
In Greek mythology, Tiresias (/ t aɪ ˈ r iː s i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Τειρεσίας, romanized: Teiresías) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. [1]
Mythology portal; Ancient Greece portal; Aurora; Cumaean Sibyl, another mortal who was granted an extended lifetime but not eternal youth; Tithonus (The X-Files), an episode of the X-Files that is a modern retelling of the story. Selemnus, a mortal man who was abandoned by his immortal lover after growing old; Myia, another mythological insect.