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Danaus in Wikipedia

Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper";[citation needed] Greek Δαναός), in Greek mythology he was the twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt. The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend (or re-foundation legend) of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus. In Homer's Iliad, "Danaans" ("tribe ...

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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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Calypso in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Καλυψώ). Under this name we find in Hesiod (Hes. Th. 359) a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and in Apollodorus (1.2.7) a daughter of Nereus, while the Homeric Calypso is described as a daughter of Atlas. (Od. 1.50.) This last Calypso was a nymph inhabiting the island of Ogygia, on the coast of which Odysseus was thrown when he was shipwrecked...

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Chaos in Wikipedia

Chaos (Greek χάος khaos) refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in creation myths, particularly Greek but also in related religions of the Ancient Near East. The motif of chaoskampf (German for struggle against chaos) is ubiquitous in these myths, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a ...

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Briseis in Wikipedia

Brisēís (Greek: Βρισηΐς; also known as Hippodameia Greek: Ἱπποδάμεια)[1] was a mythical queen in Asia Minor at the time of the Trojan War. Her character lies at the center of a dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that drives the plot of Homer's Iliad. In Greek mythology, Briseis, a daughter of Briseus was a princess of Lyrnessus. When Achil...

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Cephalus in Wikipedia

Cephalus (Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos) is an Ancient Greek name, used both for the hero-figure in Greek mythology and carried as a theophoric name by historical persons. The word kephalos is Greek for "head", perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding "head" of a great family that includes Odysseus. It could be that Cephalus means the hea...

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Chiron in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Chiron (also Cheiron or Kheiron) (Greek: Χείρων; "hand"[1]) was held to be the superlative centaur among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being wild and lusty, overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents. Chiron, by contrast, was...

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Cassandra in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Cassandra (Greek: Κασσάνδρα, "she who entangles men",[1] also known as Alexandra[2]) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so t...

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Chaos in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Xa/os), the vacant and infinite space which existed according to the ancient cosmogonies previous to the creation of the world (lles. Thmeog. 116), and out of which the gods, men, and all things arose. A different definition of Chaos is given by Ovid (Ov. Met. 1.1, &c.), who describes it as the confused mass containing the elements of al...

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Cephalus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ke/falos). 1. A son of Hermes and Herse, was carried off by Eos, who became by him the mother of Tithonus in Syria. (Apollod. 3.14.3.) Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 160, 270) makes him a son of Hermes by Creusa, or of Pandion, and Hesiod (Hes. Th. 986) makes Phaeton the son of Cephalus instead of Tithonus. On the pediment of the kingly Stoa in the Cera...

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