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Athena in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀθήνη or Ἀθηνᾶ), one of the great divinities of the Greeks. Homer Hom. Il. 5.880) calls her a daughter of Zeus, without any allusion to her mother or to the manner in which she was called into existence, while most of the later traditions agree in stating that she was born from the head of Zeus. According to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 886, &c.), Me...

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Aurora in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Bellona in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

the goddess of war among the Romans. It is very probable that originally Bellona was a Sabine divinity whose worship was carried to Rome by the Sabine settlers. She is frequently mentioned by the Roman poets as the companion of Mars, or even as his sister or his wife. Virgil describes her as armed with a bloody scourge. (Verg. A. 8.703; Lucan,...

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Arion in Wikipedia

Arion (Ancient Greek: Ἀρίων, gen.: Ἀρίωνος) was a legendary[1] kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: "As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth,"[2] The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of ...

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Asterope in Wikipedia

Another name for Sterope (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades. - Wikipedia...

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Auster in Wikipedia

Auster was, in Roman mythology, the embodiment of the sirocco wind who brought heavy cloud cover and fog or humidity....

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Boreas in Wikipedia

Boreas (Greek: Βορέας, Boréas) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak.[...

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Asterope in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀστερόπη), two mythical personages: see ACRAGAS and AESACUS. - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Atlas in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Atlas (English pronunciation: /ˈætləs/, Greek. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens from the ranges now called the Atlas Mountains. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia[1] or Klyménē (Κλυμένη):[2] "Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went ...

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Arion in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀρίων). 1. An ancient Greek bard and great master on the cithara, was a native of Methymna in Lesbos, and, according to some accounts, a son of Cyclon or of Poseidon and the nymph Oncaea. He is called the inventor of the dithyrambic poetry, and of the name dithyramb. (Hdt. 1.23; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 13.25.) All traditions about him agree in de...

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