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Fates in Wikipedia

The Fates were three mythological goddesses and may refer to: Moirae the Fates of Greek mythology Parcae, the Fates of Roman mythology...

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Fortuna in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

the goddess of chance or good luck, was worshipped both in Greece and Italy, and more particularly at Rome, where she was considered as the steady goddess of good luck, success, and every kind of prosperity. The great confidence which the Romans placed in her is expressed in the story related by Plutarch (de Fortitud. Rom. 4), that on entering...

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Greek Mythology in Wikipedia

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to the myths and study them in an attempt to throw light on th...

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Ganymedes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Γανυμήδης). According to Homer and others, he was a son of Tros by Calirrhoe, and a brother of Ilus and Assaracus; being the most beautiful of all mortals, he was carried off by the gods that he might fill the cup of Zeus, and live among the eternal gods. (Hom. Il. 20.231, &c.; Pind. O. 1. 44, xi. in fin.; Apollod. 3.12.2.) The traditions...

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Dis in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

contracted from Dives, a name sometimes given to Pluto, and hence also to the lower world. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. 2.26; Verg. A. 6.127; comp. PLUTO.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Electra in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

2. A daughter of Atlas and Pleione, was one of the seven Pleiades, and became by Zeus the mother of Jasion and Dardanus. (Apollod. 3.10.1, 12. §§ 1, 3.) According to a tradition preserved in Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 1.32, 2.325, 3.104, 7.207) she was the wife of the Italian king Corythus, by whom she had a son Jasion; whereas by Zeus she was the...

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Eos in Wikipedia

Eos (Greek Ἠώς, or Ἕως "dawn") is, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess[1] of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun. The Greek worship of the dawn as a goddess is believed to be inherited from Indo-European times. The name Eos is cognate to Latin Auro...

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Dryads in Wikipedia

Dryads (Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) are tree nymphs in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies 'oak,' from an Indo- European root *derew(o)- 'tree' or 'wood'. Thus dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees,[1] though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general. "Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures def...

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Erinyes 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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Eumenides 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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