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Somnus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

the personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of Death (θάνατος), and as a son of Night (Hes. Theog. 211, &c.; Verg. A. 6.277). At Sicyon there was a statue of Sleep surnamed ἐπιδώτης, the giver (Paus. 2.10.2). In works of art Sleep and Death are represented alike as two youths sleeping o...

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Styx in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Στύξ), connected with the verb στυγέω, to hate or abhor, is the name of the principal river in the nether world, around which it flows seven times. (Hom. Il. 2.755, 8.369. 14.271; Verg. G. 4.480, Aen. 6.439.) Styx is described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (Hes. Theog. 361 ; Apollod. 1.2.2; Callim. Hymn. in Jov. 36), and as a nymph she ...

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Taygete in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Taygete (pronounced /teɪˈɪdʒətiː/; Greek Ταϋγέτη [taːyɡétɛː], Mod. [taiˈɟeti]) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to Apollodorus (3.10.1) and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals". Mount Taygetos in Laconia, dedicated to the Goddess, was her haunt......

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Semele in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Σεμέλη), a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, at Thebes, and accordingly a sister of Ino, Agave, Autonoe, and Polydorus. She was beloved by Zeus (Hom. Il. 14.323, Hymn. in Bacch. 6, 57 ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 2.40), and Hera, stimulated by jealousy, appeared to her in the form of her aged nurse Beroe, and induced her to pray Zeus to visit her in ...

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Sibyls in Wikipedia

The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earliest oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity, "who admittedly are known only through legend"[1] prophesied at certain holy sites, under the divine influence of a deity, originally- at Delphi and Pessinos- one of the chthonic earth-goddesses. L...

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Sirens in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, the Sirens (Greek singular: Σειρήν Seirēn; Greek plural: Σειρῆνες Seirēnes) were three dangerous bird- women, portrayed as seductresses who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on an island called Sirenum scopuli. In some later, r...

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Sphinx in Wikipedia

A sphinx (Ancient Greek: Σφίγξ /sphinx, sometimes Φίξ /Phix) is a mythological creature that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head. It has its origins in sculpted figures of lionesses with female human heads (unless the pharaoh was depicted as the son of the deity) of Old Kingdom Egypt in association with their solar deities, Bas...

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Symplegades in Wikipedia

The Symplegades (pronounced /sɪmˈplɛɡədiːz/; Greek: Συμπληγάδες, Sumplēgades) or Clashing Rocks, also known as the Cyanean Rocks, were, according to Greek mythology, a pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together randomly. They were defeated by Jason and the Argonauts, who would have been lost and killed by the rocks except for Phineas...

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Taygete in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ταϋγέτη), a daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Pleiades. (Apollod. 3.10.1.) By Zeus she became the mother of Lacedlaemon (Apollod. 3.10.3; Paus. 3.1.2, 18.7, 20.2) and of Eurotas. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Ταν̈́γετον.) Mount Taygetus, in Laconia, derived its name from her. (Schol. ad Eur. Orest. 615.) According to some traditions, Taygete ref...

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Sirenes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Sire'nes or SEIRE'>NES (Σειρῆνες), mythical beings who were believed to have the power of enchanting and charming, by their song, any one who heard them. When Odysseus, in his wanderings through the Mediterranean, came near the island on the lovely beach of which the Sirens were sitting, and endeavouring to allure him and his companions, h...

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