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Marsyas in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Marsu/as), a mythological personage, connected with the earliest period of Greek music. He is variously called the son of Hyagnis, or of Oeagrus, or of Olympus. Some make him a satyr, others a peasant. All agree in placing him in Phrygia. The following is the outline of his story, according to the mythographers. Athena having, while playing ...

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Lavinia in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

a daughter of Latinus and Amata, and the wife of Aeneas, by whom she became the mother of Ascanius or Silvius. (Liv. 1.1; Verg. A. 7.52, &c., 6.761; Dionys. A. R. 1.70.) Some traditions describe her as the daughter of the priest Anius, in Delos. (Dionys. A. R. 1.50; Aur. Vict. Orig. Gent. Rom. 9.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biograph...

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Maia in Wikipedia

In Roman mythology, Maia was identified with Maia Maiestas (also called Fauna, Bona Dea (the 'Good Goddess') and Ops), a goddess who may be equivalent to an old Italic goddess of spring. The month of May was named for her;[7] the first and fifteenth of May were sacred to her. On the first of May the flamen of Vulcan sacrificed to her a pregnan...

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Medea in Wikipedia

Medea (Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia, Georgian: მედეა, Medea) is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis,[1] niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Cor...

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Leander in Wikipedia

Leander, from the Hero and Leander myth, is a character from Greek myth - Wikipedia...

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Meleager in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Mele/agros), a son of Oeneus (whence he is called Οἰνεΐδης), and Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, and was married to Cleopatra, by whom he became the father of Polydora. (Apollod. 1.8.2; Paus. 4.2 in fin.; Orph. Argon. 157.) Other accounts call Meleager a son of Ares, by Althaea (Plut. Parall. Min. 26; Ov. Met. 8.437; Hyg. Fab. 171); and ...

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Leto in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Leto (Greek: Λητώ, Λατώ, Lato in Dorian Greek, etymology and meaning disputed) is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe:[1]. Leto was the titan goddess of being unseen. Kos claimed her birthplace.[2] In the Olympian scheme, Zeus is the father of her twins,[3] Apollo and Artemis, the Letoides, which Leto conceived after ...

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Melpomene in Wikipedia

Melpomene (Greek Μελπομένη, English: /mɛlˈpɒmɨniː/; "to sing" or "the one that is melodious") , initially the Muse of Singing, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now. Her name was derived from the Greek verb melpô or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song." She is often represented with a tragic mask a...

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Leto in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Λητώ), in Latin LATONA, according to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 406, 921), a daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe, a sister of Asteria, and the mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus, to whom she was married before Hera. Homer, who likewise calls her the mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus (Il. 1.9, 14.327, 21.499, Od. 11.318, 580), mentions her as th...

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Maia in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Maia is also the name of a divinity worshipped at Rome, who was also called Majesta. She is mentioned in connection with Vulcan, and was regarded by some as the wife of that god, though it seems for no other reason but because a priest of Vulcan offered a sacrifice to her on the first of May, while in the popular superstition of later times sh...

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