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Cadmus in Wikipedia

Cadmus or Kadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek, Roman and Phoenician mythologies, was a Phoenician prince,[1] the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of P...

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Castor in Wikipedia

Castor (pronounced /ˈkæstər/; Latin: Castōr; Greek: Κάστωρ, Kastōr, "beaver") and Pollux (/ˈpɒləks/; Latin: Pollūx) or Polydeuces (/ˌpɒlɨˈdjuːsiːz/; Greek: Πολυδεύκης, Poludeukēs, "much sweet wine"[1]) were twin brothers in Greek and Roman mythology and collectively known as the Dioskouroi. They were the sons of Leda by Tyndareus and Zeus resp...

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Cepheus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Κηφεύς). 1. A son of Belus and husband of Cassiepeia, was king of Ethiopia and father of Andromeda. (Apollod. 2.1.4, 4.3; Hdt. 7.61; Tac. Hist. 5.2.) 2. A son of Aleus and Neaera or Cleobule, and an Argonaut from Tegea in Arcadia, of which lie was king. He had twenty sons and two daughters, and nearly all of his sons perished in an expedition...

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Charon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Χάρων), a son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead-- though only of those whose bodies were buried--across the rivers of the lower world. (Verg. A. 6.295, &c.; Senec. Herc. Fur. 764.) For this service he was paid by each shade with an obolus or danace, which coin was pla...

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Chryseis in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Χρυσηΐς). [ASTYNOME.] Another mythical personage of this name occurs in Apollodorus (2.7.8). - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Castor in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Cadmus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ka/dmos), a son of Agenor and Telephassa, and brother of Europa, Phoenix, and Cilix. When Europa was carried off by Zeus to Crete, Agenor sent out his sons in search of their sister, enjoining them not to return without her. Telephassa accompanied her sons. All researches being fruitless, Cadmus and Telephassa settled in Thrace. Here Telepha...

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Cerberus in Wikipedia

Cerberus, (pronounced /ˈsɜrb(ə)rəs/);[1] Greek form: Κέρβερος, /ˈkerberos/[2] in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound (usually three-headed)[1][3][4] which guards the gates of Hades, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in wo...

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Charybdis in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Charybdis or Kharybdis (pronounced /kə ˈrɪbdɨs/; in Greek, Χάρυβδις) was a sea monster, once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before be...

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Circe in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Circe (pronounced /ˈsɜrsiː/; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē "falcon") is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress) living on the island of Aeaea, famous for her part in the adventures of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, ...

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