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Danae in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Δανάη). See ACRISIUS. We may add here the story which we meet with at a later time in Italy, and according to which Danae went to Italy, built the town of Ardea, and married Pilumnus, by whom she became the mother of Daunus, the ancestor of Turnus. (Verg. A. 7.372, 409, with Servius's note.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and my...

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Demeter in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Δημήτηρ), one of the great divinities of the Greeks. Tho name Demeter is supposed by some to be the same as γῆ μήτηρ, that is, mother earth, while others consider Deo, which is synonymous with Demeter, as connected with δάις and δαίνυμι, and as derived from the Cretan word dha/i, barley, so that Demeter would be the mother or giver of barley ...

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Dione in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Διώνη), a female Titan, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (Hesiod. Theog. 353), and, according to others, of Uranus and Ge, or of Aether and Ge. (Hygin. Fab. Praef.; Apollod. 1.1.3.) She was beloved by Zeus, by whom she became the mother of Aphrodite. (Apollod. 1.3. sec; i.; Hornm. Il. 5.370, &c.) When Aphrodite was wounded by Diomedes, Di...

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Creusa in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, four people had the name Creusa (or Kreousa - Κρέουσα); the name means simply "princess". Naiad According to Pindar's 9th Pythian Ode, Creusa was a naiad and daughter of Gaia who bore Hypseus, King of the Lapiths to the river god Peneus. Hypseus had one daughter, Cyrene. When a lion attacked her father's sheep, Cyrene wrest...

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Cybele in Wikipedia

Cybele (Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubeleyan Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis; pronounced /ˈkɪbəliː/), was the Phrygian deification of the Earth Mother. As with Greek Gaia (the "Earth"), or her Minoan equivalent Rhea, Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mou...

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Danaïdes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Danai/+des), the fifty daughters of Danaüs, whose names are given by Apollodorus (2.1.5) and Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 170), though they are not the same in both lists. They were betrothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were compelled by their father to promise him to kill their husbands, in the first night, with the swords which he gave them. ...

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Cybele in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Diana in Wikipedia

Diana (lt. "heavenly" or "divine") was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon in Roman mythology. In literature she was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in origin. Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is currently ...

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Clotho in Wikipedia

Clotho was one of the Three Fates also the youngest of her sisters. Clotho or Moirae, in ancient Greek mythology. Her Roman equivalent was Nona. Clotho was responsible for spinning the thread of human life. She also made major decisions such as when a person was born. This made her responsible for birth, which in effect controlled people's liv...

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Creusa in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Kre/ousa). 1. A daughter of Oceanus and Ge. She was a Naid, and became by Peneius the mother of Hypseus, king of the Lapithae, and of Stilbe. (Pind. P. 9.30; Diod. 4.69.)2. A daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea, was married to Xuthus, by whom she became the mother of Achaeus and Ion. (Apollod. 1.7.3, 3.15.1; Paus. 7.1.1.) She is also said t...

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