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Erato in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἐρατώ), a nymph and the wife of Areas, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan. (Paus. 8.27.9; ARCAS.) There are two other mythical personages of this name, the one a Muse and the other a Nereid. (Apollod. 1.3.1, 2.6; Hes. Th. 247.) - A Dictionary of Gree...

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Echo in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἠχώ), an Oreade, who when Zeus was playing with the nymphs, used to keep Hera at a distance by incessantly talking to her. In this manner Hera was not able to detect her faithless husband, and the nymphs had time to escape. Hera, however, found out the deception, and she punished Echo by changing her into an echo, that is, a being with no con...

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Enyo in Wikipedia

Enyo (Greek: Ἐνυώ, English translation: "warlike" in Greek mythology), was an ancient goddess of war, acting as a counterpart and companion to the war god Ares. She is also identified as his sister, and daughter of Zeus and Hera[1], in a role closely resembling that of Eris; with Homer (in particular) representing the two as the same goddess. ...

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Erebus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Erebus (pronounced /ˈɛrəbəs/), also Erebos or Erebes (Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, "deep darkness or shadow"), was the son of a primordial god, Chaos, and represented the personification of darkness and shadow, which filled in all the corners and crannies of the world. His name is used interchangeably with Tartarus and Hades sinc...

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Eteocles in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Eteocles Ἐτεοκλῆς was a king of Thebes, the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia. The name is from earlier *Etewoklewes Ἐτεϝοκλέϝες, meaning "truly glorious". Tawaglawas is thought to be the Hittite rendition of the name.[citation needed] When Oedipus killed his father Laius and married his mother, he was expelle...

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Dioscuri in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Διόσκουροι), that is, sons of Zeus, the well-known heroes, Castor and Pollux, or Polydeuces. The singular form Διόσκουρος, or Διόσκορος, occurs only in the writings of grammarians, and the Latins sometimes use Castores for the two brothers. (Plin. Nat. 10.43; Serv. ad Virg. Georg. 3.89; Hor. Carm. 3.29, 64.) According to the Homeric poems (Od...

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Electra in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Electra (Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) was an Argive princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Electra is the main character in the Greek tragedies Electra by Sop...

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Eros in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἔρως), in Latin, AMOR or CUPI'DO, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to...

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Dionysus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Dio/nusos or Διώνυσος), the youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeksand Romans Bacchus (Βάκχος), that is, the noisy or riotous god, which was originally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but does not occur till after the time of Herodotus. According to the common tradition, Dionysus was the son o...

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Enyo in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἐνυώ), the goddess of war, who delights in bloodshed and the destruction of towns, and accompanies Mars in battles. (Hom. Il. 5.333, 592; Eustath. p. 140.) At Thebes and Orchomenos, a festival called Ὁμολώϊα was celebrated in honour of Zeus, Demeter, Athena and Enyo, and Zeus was said to have received the surname of Homoloius from Homolois, a...

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