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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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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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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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Chronos in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Chronos (Ancient Greek: Χρόνος) in pre- Socratic philosophical works is said to be the personification of time. His name in Modern Greek also means "year" and is alternatively spelled Chronus (Latin spelling). Chronos was imagined as an incorporeal god. Serpentine in form, with three heads-that of a man, a bull, and a lion. H...

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Briseis in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Βρισηίς ), a patronymic from Briseus, and the name of Hippodameia, the daughter of Briseus of Lyrnessus, who fell into the hands of Achilles, and about whom the quarrel arose between Achilles and Agamemnon. (Hom. Il. 1.184, &c.; ACHILLES.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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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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Cassandra in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Kassa/ndra), also called Alexandra (Paus. 3.19.5, 26.3), was the fairest among the daughters of Priam and Hecabe. There are two points in her story which have furnished the ancient poets with ample materials to dilate upon. The first is her prophetic power, concerning which we have the following traditions : Cassandra and Hellenus, when yet ...

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Cepheus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Cepheus was ruler of Ethiopia. Cepheus' parentage is usually given as Belus and Achiroe, making him the brother of Danaus, King of Libya, and Aegyptus, King of Egypt. However, it is not clear if this Cepheus is the same as the more well-known Cepheus, who features in the Perseus legend as the husband of Cassiopeia and father...

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Charon in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (pronounced /ˈkɛrɒn, ˈkɛrən/; Greek Χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mou...

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Chryseis in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Chryseis (Greek: Χρυσηΐς, Khrysēís) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome.[1] In the first book of the Iliad, Agamemnon enslaves her, whom he admits is finer than his own wife, as a war prize and r...

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