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Pileus (hat) The pileus (Ancient Greek: πῖλος, pîlos; also pilleus or pilleum in Latin) was a brimless felt cap worn in Ancient Greece, Etruria, Illyria (especially Pannonia), [1][2][3][4] later also introduced in Ancient Rome. [5] The pileus also appears on Apulian red-figure pottery. The pilos together with the petasos were the most ...
Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. In Greek mythology, maenads (/ ˈmiːnædz /; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue.
From Crete. The polos crown (plural poloi; Greek: πόλος) is a high cylindrical crown worn by mythological goddesses of the Ancient Near East and Anatolia and adopted by the ancient Greeks for imaging the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele and Hera. [1][2] The word also meant an axis or pivot and is cognate with the English, 'pole'.
A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Roman Colosseum. In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/ s aɪ ˈ k l oʊ p iː z / sy-KLOH-peez; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; [1] singular Cyclops / ˈ s aɪ k l ɒ p s / SY-klops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures. [2]
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur [b] (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros), also known as Asterion, is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man [4] (p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
The earliest form of the name Hermes is the Mycenaean Greek *hermāhās, [12] written 𐀁𐀔𐁀 e-ma-a 2 (e-ma-ha) in the Linear B syllabic script. [13] Most scholars derive "Hermes" from Greek ἕρμα , [14] "stone heap." [3]: 177 The etymology of ἕρμα itself is unknown, but is probably not a Proto-Indo-European word. [12] R. S. P.
This form of Scylla was prevalent in ancient depictions, though very different from the description in Homer, where she is land-based and more dragon -like. [1] In Greek mythology, Scylla[a] (/ ˈsɪlə / SIL-ə; ‹See Tfd› Greek: Σκύλλα, translit. Skýlla, pronounced [skýlːa]) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side ...
The aegis (/ ˈiːdʒɪs / EE-jis; [1] Ancient Greek: αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon. There may be a connection with a deity named Aex, a daughter of Helios and a nurse of Zeus or alternatively a ...