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Asclepius in Wikipedia

Asclepius (pronounced /æsˈkliːpiəs/; Greek Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós /askliːpiós/; Latin Aesculapius) is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia ("Hygiene"), Iaso ("Medicine"), Aceso ("Healing"), Aglæa/Ægle ("Healthy Glow"), and Panacea ("Univer...

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Atalanta in Wikipedia

Atalanta (Greek: Αταλάντη, English translation: "balanced") is a character from ancient Greek mythology. Atalanta was the daughter of Hades or Iasius (or Mainalos), a Boeotian (according to Hesiod) or an Arcadian princess (according to Apollodorus) or Schoeneus according to Hyginus. Many categorized Atalanta as a goddess. Apollodorus is the on...

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Atropos in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Atropos (pronounced /ˈætrəpɒs/) (from Greek Άτροπος, "without turn") was one of the three Moirae, goddesses of fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was Morta. Atropos was the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as the "inflexible" or "inevitable". It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and ended the life of e...

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Bellerophon in Wikipedia

Bellerophon (Βελλεροφῶν) or Bellerophontes (Βελλεροφόντης) was a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside of Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles",[1] whose greatest feat was killing the Chimera, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "her br...

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Argus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)/Argos). 1. The third king of Argos, was a son of Zeus and Niobe. (Apollod. 2.1.1, &c.) A Scholiast (ad Hom. Il. 1.115) calls him a son of Apis, whom he succeeded in the kingdom of Argos. It is from this Argus that the country afterwards called Argolis and all Peloponnesus derived the name of Argos. (Hyg. Fab. 145; Paus. 2.16.1, 22.6, 3...

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Atropos in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Asclepius in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)Asklh/pios). 1. A fabulous personage, said to have been a disciple of Hermes, the Egyptian Thot, who was regarded as the father of all wisdom and knowledge. 2. A Greek grammarian of uncertain date, who wrote commentaries upon the orations of Demosthenes and the history of Thucydides; but both works are now lost. (Ulpian, ad Dem. Phililp. I;...

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Atalante in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀταλάντη). In ancient mythology there occur two personages of this name, who have been regarded by some writers as identical, while others distinguish between them. Among the latter we may mention the Scholiast on Theocritus (3.40), Burmann (ad Ov. Met. 10.565), Spanheim (ad Callimach. p. 275, &c.), and Muncker (ad Hygin. Fab. 99, 173, 18...

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Ariadne in Wikipedia

Ariadne (Greek: Αριάδνη, Latin: Ariana), in Greek mythology, was daughter of King Minos of Crete[1] and his queen, Pasiphae, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan.[2] She aided Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur (actually her half-brother) but was equally the bride of the god Dionysus.[3]......

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Bellerophon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

or BELLEROPHON (Βελλεροφῶν or Βελλεροφόντης), properly called Hipponous, was a son of the Corinthian king, Glaucus and Eurymede, and a grandson of Sisyphus. (Apollod. 1.9.3; Hom. il. 6.155.) According to Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 157; comp. Pind. O. 13.66), he was a son of Poseidon and Eurymede. He is said to have received the name Bellerophon or Be...

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