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Diana in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

an original Italian divinity, whom the Romans completely identified with the Greek Artemis. The earliest trace of her worship occurs in the story about Servius Tullius, who is said to have dedicated to her a temple on the Aventine, on the ides of Sextilis. (Augustus.) It is added that, as Diana was the protectress of the slaves, the day on whi...

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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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Cyclopes in Wikipedia

The plural form of Cyclops, a one-eyed monster from Greek mythology - Wikipedia...

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Clotho in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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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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Danaus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Δαναός), a son of Belus and Anchinoe, and a grandson of Poseidon and Libya. He was brother of Aegyptus, and farther of fifty daughters, and the mythical ancestor of the Danai. (Apollod. 2.1.4, &c.) According to the common story he was a native of Chemnis, in the Thebais in Upper Egypt, and migrated from thence into Greece. (Hdt. 2.91.) Be...

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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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Dido in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Διδώ), also called Elissa, which is probably her more genuine name in the eastern traditions, was a Phoenician princess, and the reputed founder of Carthage. The substance of her story is given by Justin (18.4, &c.), which has been embellished and variously modified by other writers, especially by Virgil, who has used the story very freel...

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Cyclopes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ku/klwpes), that is, creatures with round or circular eyes. The tradition about these beings has undergone several changes and modifications in its development in Greek mythology, though some traces of their identity remain visible throughout. According to the ancient cosmogonies, the Cyclopes were the sons of Uranus and Ge; they belonged t...

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Daphne in Wikipedia

According to Greek myth, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly,[1] or of the river Ladon in Arcadia.[2] The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses...

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