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Elysium in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: Ἠλύσια πεδία) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Ἠλύσιον Elysion). The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. Elysium is an obscure name that evolved from a designation of a place...

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Epimetheus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Eris in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)/Eris), the goddess who calls forth war and discord. According to the Iliad, she wanders about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon raises her head up to heaven (4.441). She is the friend and sister of Ares, and with him she delights in the tumult of war, increasing the moaning of men. (4.445, 5.518, 20.48.) She is insatiable in ...

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Dionysus in Wikipedia

Dionysus or Dionysos (English pronunciation: /ˌdaɪ.ɵˈnaɪsəs/; Greek: Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος, pron. [di.'o.ny.sos]) is the ancient Greek god of wine, wine cups, wineskin, grapes, theater, and fertility. The god who inspires ritual madness, joyful worship, and ecstasy, carnivals, celebration and a major figure of Greek mythology. He is included as...

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Dryope in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Δρυόπη), a daughter of king Dryops, or, according to others, of Eurytus. While she tended the flocks of her father on Mount Oeta, she became the playmate of the Hamadryades, who taught her to sing hymns to the gods and to dance. On one occasion she was seen by Apollo, who, in order to gain possession of her, metamorphosed himself into a torto...

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Eros in Wikipedia

Eros (Ancient Greek: Ἔρως, "Intimate Love"), in Greek mythology, was the primordial god of sexual love and beauty. He was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart was Cupid ("desire"), also known as Amor ("love"). In some myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares, but according to Plato's Symposium, he was conc...

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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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Endymion in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Endymion[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἐνδυμίων, gen.: Ἐνδυμίωνος or Ενδυμίωνας) could have been a handsome Aeolian shepherd or hunter, or even a king who ruled and was said to reside at Olympia in Elis,[2] but he was also said to reside and was venerated on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor.[3] There is confusion...

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Erato in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Erato (Ἐρατώ) is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica.[1] Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, especially love and erotic poetry. In the Orphic hym...

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Echo in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Echo (Greek: Ἠχώ, Ēkhō; "Sound") was an Oread (a mountain nymph) who loved her own voice. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and visited them on Earth often. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mt. Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs. Zeus, the King of the Olympians, was ...

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