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Castalia / k ə ˈ s t eɪ l i ə / (Ancient Greek: Κασταλία, romanized: Kastalia), in ancient Greek and Roman literature, [1] was the name of a spring near Delphi, sacred to the Muses; it is also known as the Castalian Spring.
Only Apollo answered his prayer, and appearing to him, took him to Olympia. There, Apollo taught him the art of prophecy and gave him the power to understand and explain the voices of birds. Iamus later founded the Iamidae , a family of priests from Olympia .
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When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of Smilax; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant. [4] In the tradition in which his mother was Acacallis, the daughter of Minos, fearing her father's wrath, exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.
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Borysthenes, one of the three Muses that were daughters of Apollo. Her sisters were Apollonis and Cephisso. [1] the Scythian Earth-and-Water goddess Api, who was called Borysthenis because she was the daughter of the god of the Borysthenēs river (now the Dnipro river). [2] [3]
According to a scholium on Pindar, she was the daughter of either Apollo, Perses or Oceanus. [2] Chariclo together with her mother-in-law Philyra the Oceanid, were the nurses of the young Achilles. [3] Chariclo, a nymph devotee of Athena, who became pregnant by a shepherd, Everes, giving birth to the prophet Tiresias. Tiresias was struck blind ...
A 1772 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting Niobe attempting to shield her children from Artemis and Apollo. In Greek mythology, Niobe (/ ˈ n aɪ. ə. b iː /; Ancient Greek: Νιόβη: Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa.