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Euryale in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Εὐριάλη), the name of three mythical beings. (Hes. Th. 276; Pind. P. 22.20; Apollod. 1.4.3; V. Fl. 5.312 ; comp. ORION.) - - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Fauns in Wikipedia

The faun (also phaunos or faunus) is a rustic forest god or place-spirit (genii) of Roman mythology often associated with Greek satyrs and the Greek god Pan[1]. The faun is a half human - half goat (from the head to the waist being the human half, but with the addition of goat's horns) manifestation of forest and animal spirits which would hel...

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Furies in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς, Erinýs; literally "the angry ones") or Eumenídes (Εὐμενίδες, pl. of Εὐμενίς; literally "the gracious ones" but also translated as "Kind-hearted Ones" or "Kindly Ones") or Furies or Dirae in Roman mythology were female chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the a...

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Glaucus in Wikipedia

Glaucus (Greek: Γλαῦκος) was a Greek sea-god. His parentage is different in the different traditions, which Athenaeus lists (Athen. vii. c. 48 , Claud. de Nupt. Mar. x. 158.): Theolytus the Methymnaean, in his Bacchic Odes - Copeus (also records an affair between Glaucus and Ariadne) Promathides of Heraclea, in his Half Iambics - Polybus of Sic...

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Hades in Wikipedia

Hades (Άδης or Ἀΐδας; from Greek ᾍδης, Hadēs, originally Ἅιδης, Haidēs or Άΐδης, Aidēs, meaning "the unseen"[1][2]) refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive ᾍδου, Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Ha...

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Eurydice in Wikipedia

Eurydice (Εὐρυδίκη, Eurydíkē) (yur-ID-ih-see) in Greek mythology, was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of light). She was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, a satyr saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a venomous sna...

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Fu'riae in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Faunus in Wikipedia

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan. Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities, known as the di indigetes. According to the epic poet Virgil, he was a legendary king of the Lat...

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Glaucus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

7. Of Anthedon in Boeotia, a fisherman, who had the good luck to eat a part of the divine herb which Cronos had sown, and which made Glaucus immortal. (Ath. 7.295; Claud. de Nupt. Mar. 10.158.) His parentage is different in the different traditions, which are enumerated by Athenaeus; some called his father Copeus, others Polybus, the husband ...

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Hades in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

or PLUTON (Ἅιδης, Πλούτων or poetically Ἀΐδης, Ἀἵδωνεύς and Πλουτεν́ς), the god of the lower world. Plato (Cratyl. p. 403) observes that people preferred calling him Pluton (the giver of wealth) to pronouncing the dreaded name of Hades or Aides. Hence we find that in ordinary life and in the mysteries the name Pluton became generally establish...

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