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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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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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Leander in Wikipedia

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

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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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Medea in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Mh/deia), a daughter of Aeetes by the Oceanid Idyia, or, according to others, by Hecate, the daughter of Perses (Apollod. 1.9 § 23; Hes. Theog. 961; Diod. 4.45). She was the wife of Jason, and the most famous among the mythical sorcerers. The principal parts of her story nave already been given under ABSYRTUS, ARGONAUTAE, and JASON. After he...

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Ismene in Wikipedia

Ismene (Greek: Ἰσμήνη Ismênê) is the name of two women of Greek mythology. The more famous is a daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several plays of Sophocles: at the end of Oedipus the King and to a limited extent in Oedipus at Colonus and ...

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Iapetus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἰαπετός), a son of Uranus and Ge, a Titan and brother of Cronus, Oceanus, Coeus, Hyperion, Tethys, Rhea, &c. (Apollod. 1.1.3; Diod. 5.66.) According to Apollodorus (1.2.3) he married Asia, the daughter of his brother Oceanus, and became by her the father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius, who was slain by Zeus in the war ag...

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Hymen in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

or HYMENAEUS (Γ̔μήν or Γ̔μέναιος), the god of marriage, was conceived as a handsome youth, and invoked in the hymeneal or bridal song. The names originally designated the bridal song itself, which was subsequently personified. The first trace of this personification occurs in Euripides (Eur. Tro. 311), or perhaps in Sappho ( Fragm. 73, p. 80, ...

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Jupiter in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Ju'piter or Ju'piter Conciliatrix or perhaps more correctly, JUPPITER, a contraction of Diovis pater, or Diespiter, and Diovis or dies, which was originally identical with divum (heaven); so that Jupiter literally means "the heavenly father." The same meaning is implied in the name Lucesius or Lucerius, by which he was called by the Oscans, a...

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