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In Ancient Greek astronomy, Pyroeis is the god of the planet Mars, one of the five planets visible to the naked eye.Astronomers of the time assigned these "planetae" various names, associated them with different gods, and ascribed various qualities to their apparent behaviour in the sky.
Pyrrho of Elis (/ ˈ p ɪ r oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Πύρρων ὁ Ἠλεῖος; c. 360 – c. 270 BC) was a Greek philosopher of Classical antiquity, credited as being the first Greek skeptic philosopher and founder of Pyrrhonism.
Pyro comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr), meaning fire. It may refer to: Businesses. Pyro Plastics Corporation, a plastic model kit maker 1940s through the ...
16th-century woodcut by Virgil Solis, illustrating lines 347–415 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (/ ˈ p ɪ r ə /; Ancient Greek: Πύῤῥα, romanized: Pýrrha) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora and Thyia.
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
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus (/ ˌ n iː ə p ˈ t ɒ l ɪ m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Νεοπτόλεμος, romanized: Neoptólemos, lit. 'new warrior'), originally called Pyrrhus at birth (/ ˈ p ɪ r ə s /; Πύρρος, Pýrrhos, 'red'), was the son of the mythical warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros. [1]
The Greek city of Tarentum, in southern Italy, fell out with Rome due to a violation of an old treaty that specified Rome was not to send warships into the Tarentine Gulf. [33] In 282 BC, the Romans installed garrisons in the Greek cities of Thurii (on the western end of the Tarentine Gulf), Locri , and Rhegium , and sent warships to Thurii.