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Polyhymnia in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

[POLYMNIA.] - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Pontus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Pontus (or Pontos (Πόντος), English translation: "sea") was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the protogenoi, the "first-born". Pontus was the son of Gaia, the Earth: Hesiod [1] says that Gaia brought forth Pontus out of herself, without coupling. For Hesiod, Pontus seems little more than a personification of the sea...

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Procris in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Procris (Ancient Greek: Πρόκρις, gen.: Πρόκριδος) was the daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens and his wife, Praxithea. She married Cephalus, the son of Deioneus. Procris had at least two sisters, Creusa and Orithyia. Sophocles wrote a tragedy called Procris which has been lost, as has a version contained in the Greek Cyc...

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Phrixus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Fri/cos), a son of Athamas and Nephele or of Athamas and Themisto (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 2.1144), and brother of Helle, and a grandson of Aeolus (Apollon. 2.1141). In consequence of the intrigues of his stepmother, Ino (others state that he offered himself), he was to be sacrificed to Zeus; but Nephele removed him and Helle, and the two t...

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Plutus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Ploutos ("wealth" Πλοῦτος), usually Romanized as Plutus, was equally a son of the pre-Hellenic Cretan Demeter-[1] and the demigod Iasion, with whom she lay in a thrice-ploughed field- and, in the mythic context of Eleusinian Demeter, also the divine child, the issue of the ravisher, the child and boy-double of the "wealthy"...

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Polyneices in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Πολυνείκης), the son of Oedipus and Iocaste, and brother of Eteocles and Antigone. (Hom. Il. 4.377; ADRASTUS.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Pontus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Po/ntos), a personification of the sea, is described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of Gaea, and as the father of Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own mother. (Hes. Th. 132, 233, &c.; Apollod. 1.2.6.) Hyginus (Fab. praef. p. 3, ed. Staveren) calls him a son of Aether and Gaea, and also assigns to him somewhat differ...

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Procris in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Pro/kris), a daughter of Erechtheus in Athens, was married to Cephalus (Apollod. 3.15.2; comp. CEPHALUS). A second Procris was a daughter of Thespius. (Apollod. 2.7.8.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Pirithous in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Pirithous - Πειρίθοος (also transliterated as Perithoos, Peirithoos or Peirithous) was the King of the Lapiths in Thessaly and husband of Hippodamia, at whose wedding the famous Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs occurred. He was a son of "heavenly" Dia, fathered either by Ixion or by Zeus[1]. His best friend was Theseus. In Il...

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Plutus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Plou=tos), sometimes also called Pluton (Aristoph. Pl. 727), the personification of wealth, is described as a son of Iasion and Demeter (Hes. Th. 969, &c.; Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 491, Od. 5.125). Zeus is said to have blinded him, in order that he might not bestow his favours on righteous men exclusively, but that he might distribute his gift...

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