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Parthenius implies that Narcissus did not die, saying that "with his deathless blood there bloomed a lovely plant." A version of the myth by Conon, a contemporary of Ovid, has an even bloodier ending (Narrations, 24), relating how a young man named Ameinias fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his suitors, all of whom were male ...
Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph , Echo , into the story of Narcissus , the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
According to Ovid, Myrrha was the daughter of King Cinyras and Queen Cenchreis of Cyprus. Ovid says that Cupid was not to blame for Myrrha's incestuous love for her father, Cinyras; he comments that hating one's father is a crime, but that Myrrha's love was a greater crime, [ 23 ] and blames it instead on the Furies .
According to some authorities, it was Solon who erected the sanctuary of Aphrodite Pandemos, either because her image stood in the agora, or because the hetairai had to pay the costs of its erection. [4] The worship of Aphrodite Pandemos also occurs at Megalopolis in Arcadia, [5] and at Thebes. [6] A festival in honour of her is mentioned by ...
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves
The Cerastae were a people in Cyprus who offered to Zeus human sacrifice in the form of slaughtered guests. For breaking two taboos, the Cypriot goddess Aphrodite punished them by turning them all into bulls. [25] Cercopes: Monkeys: Zeus The Cercopes were a pair of unlawful and uncivilized brothers who were turned into monkeys by Zeus.
Polynices offering Eriphyle the necklace of Harmonia; Attic red-figure oenochoe ca. 450–440 BC. Louvre museum. The Necklace of Harmonia, also called the Necklace of Eriphyle, was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill-fated House of Thebes.
There were once a king and queen, [11] rulers of an unnamed city, who had three daughters of conspicuous beauty. The youngest and most beautiful was Psyche, whose admirers, neglecting the proper worship of Aphrodite (love goddess Venus), instead prayed and made offerings to her. It was rumored that she was the second coming of Venus, or the ...