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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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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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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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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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Avernus in Wikipedia

Avernus was an ancient name for a crater near Cumae (Cuma), Italy, in the Region of Campania west of Naples. It is approximately 2 miles in circumference. Within the crater is Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno).[1] Avernus was believed to be the entrance to the underworld, and is portrayed as such in the Aeneid of Virgil. The name is coming from the...

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Atlas in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)/Atlas), according to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 507, &c.), a son of Japetus and Clymene, and a brother of Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; according to Apollodorus (1.2.3), his mother's name was Asia; and, according to Hyginus (Fab. Pracf.), he was a son of Aether and Gaea. For other accounts see Diod. 3.60, 4.27; Plat. Critias, p. 114; S...

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Boreas in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Bore/as or Βορᾶς), the North wind, was, according to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 379), a son of Astraeus and Eos, and brother of Hesperus, Zephyrus, and Notus. He dwelt in a cave of mount Haemus in Thrace. (Callim. hymn. in Del. 63.) He is mixed up with the early legends of Attica in the story of his having carried off Oreithyia, the daughter of Erech...

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Amazons in Wikipedia

The Amazons (Greek: Ἀμαζόνες, Amazónes, singular Ἀμαζών, Amazōn) are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in Asia Minor [2] or Libya.[1] Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who ...

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Amphitryon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀμφιτρύων), or AMPHI'TRUO, a son of Alcaeus, king of Troezen, by Hipponome, the daughter of Menoeceus. (Apollod. 2.4.5.) Pausanias (8.14.2) calls his mother Laonome. While Electryon, the brother of Alcaeus, was reigning at Mycenae, the sons of Pterelaus together with the Taphians invaded his territory, demanded the surrender of the kingdom, a...

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