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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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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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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 Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Dryades in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Electra in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

4. A daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, is also called Laodice. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 742.) She was the sister of Iphigeneia, Chrysothemis, and Orestes. The conduct of her mother and Aegisthus threw her into grief and great suffering, and in consequence of it she became the accomplice of Orestes in the murder of his mother. Her story, ac...

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Eos in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἠώς), in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphassa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. (Hes. Th. 371, &c.; Hom. Hymn in Sol. ii.) Ovid (Ov. Met. 9.420, Fast. 4.373) calls her a daughter of Pallas. At the close of night she rose front t...

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Eumenides in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Eu)meni/des), also called ERINNYES, and by the Romans FURIAE or DIRAE, were originally nothing but a personification of curses pronounced upon a guilty criminal. The name Erinnys, which is the more ancient one, was derived by the Greeks from the ἐρίνω ορ ἐρευνάω, I hunt up or persecute, or from the Arcadian word ἐρινύω, I am angry; so that ...

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