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Oceanids in Wikipedia

In Greek and, later, Roman mythology, the Oceanids (Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανίδες, pl. of Ὠκεανίς) were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. One of these many daughters was also said to have been the consort of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite. Each was the patroness of a particular spring, river, ocean, lak...

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Oedipus in Wikipedia

Oedipus (pronounced /ˈɛdɨpəs/ in American English and / ˈiːdɨpəs/ in British English; Greek: Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen-footed") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family. This legend has been retold in many versi...

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Orestes in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Orestes (pronounced /oʊˈrɛstiːz/; Greek: Ὀρέστης) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older ones.[1] Orestes has a root in ὄρος (óros), "mountain". The metaphoric mea...

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Neoptolemus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Neopto/lemos), i. e. a young warrior, a son of Achilles and Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes, was also called Pyrrhus (Apollod. 3.13.8; Hom. Od. 11.491, &c.). According to some, however, he was a son of Achilles and Iphigeneia (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 133; Eustath. ad Hoom. p. 1187), and after the sacrifice of his mother he was carried by his...

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Niobe in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Νιόβη). 1. A daughter of Phoroneus, and by Zeus the mother of Argus and Pelasgus. (Apollod. 2.1.1; Paus. 2.22.6; Plat. Tim. 22, b.) In other traditions she is called the mother of Phoroneus and wife of Inachus. 2. A daughter of Tantalus by the Pleiad Taygete or the Hyad Dione (Ov. Met. 6.174; Hyg. Fab. 9), or, according to others, a daughter ...

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Oceanides in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Neptune in Wikipedia

Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of water and the sea[1] in Roman mythology, a brother of Jupiter and Pluto. He is analogous with but not identical to the god Poseidon of Greek mythology, and is imaged often according to Hellenistic canons in the Roman mosaics of north Africa.[2] The Roman conception of Neptune owed a great deal to the Etr...

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Nona in Wikipedia

In Roman mythology, Nona was the equivalent of Clotho in Greek mythology. She, along with Decima and Morta formed the Parcae (Roman) / Moirae (Greek). Nona was also referred to as "Ninth", the Roman goddess of pregnancy. She was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was due to be born. - Wikipedia...

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Oedipus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Oi)di/pous), the son of Lains and Iocaste of Thebes. The tragic fate of this hero is more celebrated than that of any other legendary personage, on account of the frequent use which the tragic poets have made of it. In their hands it also underwent various changesand embellishments ; but the common story is as follows. Laius, a son of Labdac...

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Orestes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（᾿ορέστης the only son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, and brother of Chrysothemis, Laodice (Electra), and Iphianassa (Iphigeneia; Hom. Il. 9.142, &c., 284; comp. Soph. Elect. 154; Eur. Orest. 23). According to the Homneric account, Agamemnon his return from Troy did not see his son, but was murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra before h...

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