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Venus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

the goddess of love among the Romans, and more especially of sensual love. Previously to her identification with the Greek Aphrodite, she was one of the least important divinities in the religion of the Romans, and it is observed by the ancients themselves, that her name was not mentioned in any of the documents relating to the kingly period o...

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Terpsichora in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Terpsi'chora （*Teryixo/ra), one of the nine Muses, presided over choral song and dancing. (Hes. Theog. 78 ; Pind. Isthm. 2.7; Plat. Phaedr. p. 259 ; comp. MUSAE.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Terra in Wikipedia

Terra Mater or Tellus was a goddess personifying the Earth in Roman mythology. The names Terra Mater and Tellus Mater both mean "Mother Earth" in Latin; Mater is an honorific title also bestowed on other goddesses......

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Themis in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Qe/mis). 1. A daughter of Uranus (others say Helios, Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 129) and Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), Eirene, and the Moerae. (Hes. Theog. 135, 901, &c.; Apollod. 1.3.1.) In the Homeric poems, Themis is the personification of the order of things established by law, c...

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Teiresias in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Teire'sias （Τειρησίας), or TIRE'SIAS, a son of Everes (or Phorbas, Ptolem. Hephaest. 1) and Chariclo, whence he is sometimes called Εὐηρείδης. (Callim. Lav. Pall. 81 ; Theocrit. Id. 24.70.) He belonged to the ancient family of Udaeus at Thebes, and was one of the most renowned soothsayers in all antiquity. He was blind from his seventh year, ...

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Tisiphone in Wikipedia

Tisiphone (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, "avenging murder") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology. Erinyes Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera. She was the one who punished crimes of murder: parricide, fratricide and homicide. A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron, and caused his ...

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Turnus in Wikipedia

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas. Prior to Aeneas' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people. Upon Aeneas' arrival, however, Lavinia is promised to the Trojan prince. Juno, determined to prolong the suffer...

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Triton in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Τρίτων). 1. A son of Poseidon and Amphitrite (or Celaeno), who dwelt with his father and mother in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea, or according to Homer (Hom. Il. 13.20) at Aegae. (lies. Theog. 930, &c.; Apollod. 1.4.6.) Later writers describe this divinity of the Mediterranean as riding over the sea on horses or other sea-monst...

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Theseus in Wikipedia

Theseus (Greek: Θησεύς) was the mythical founder-king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra lay with in one night. Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order.[1] As Heracles was t...

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Terra in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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