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Andromeda in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀνδρομέδη), a daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Her mother boasted of her beauty, and said that she surpassed the Nereids. The latter prevailed on Poseidon to visit the country by an inundation, and a sea-monster was sent into the land. The oracle of Ammon promised that the people should be delivered from these calamitie...

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Aphrodite in Wikipedia

Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη, IPA: /apʰrodíːtɛː/; English: / ˌæfrɵˈdaɪtiː/; Latin: Venus) is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. According to Greek poet Hesiod, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the aphros (sea foam) arose Aphrodite.[4] Because of her beauty other gods feared that...

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Argo in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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

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Amor in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

the god of love and harmony. He had no place in the religion of the Romans, who know and speak of him only from what they had heard from the Greeks, and translate the Greek name Eros into Amor. [EROS.] - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Anteia in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(*)/Anteia), a daughter of the Lycian king Iobates, and wife of Proetus of Argos, by whom she became the mother of Maera. (Apollod. 2.2.1; Hom. Il. 6.160; Eustath, ad Hom. p. 1688.) The Greek tragedians call the wife of Proetus Stheneboea. Respecting her love for Bellerophontes, see BELLEROPHON. - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and ...

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Anchises in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἀγχίσης), a son of Capys and Themis, the daughter of Ilus. His descent is traced by Aeneas, his son (Hom. Il. 20.208,&c.), from Zeus himself. (Comp. Apollod. 3.12.2 ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1232.) Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 94) makes him a son of Assaracus and grandson of Capys. Anchises was related to the royal house of Troy and king of Dardanus on m...

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Apollo in Wikipedia

In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων- Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων-Apellōn), is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; medicine, healing, and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; a...

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Argus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes (Ἄργος Πανόπτης) or Argos, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor,[1] was a primordial giant whose epithet "Panoptes", "all-seeing", led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred, eyes. The epithet Panoptes was applied to the Titan of the Sun, Helios, and was taken up as an epithet b...

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Adonis in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*)/Adwnis), according to Apollodorus (3.14.3) a son of Cinyras and Medarme, according to Hesiod (apud Apollod. 3.14.4) a son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea, and according to the cyclic poet Panyasis (apud Apollod. l.c.) a son of Theias, king of Assyria, who begot him by his own daughter Smyrna. (Myrrha.) The ancient story ran thus : Smyrna had n...

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Aegyptus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Ai)/guptos), a son of Belus and Anchinoe or Achiroe, and twin-brother of Danaus. (Apollod. ii. 50.4; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 382, 1155.) Euripides represented Cepheus and Phineus likewise as brothers of Aegyptus. Belus assigned to Danaus the sovereignty of Libya, and to Aegyptus he gave Arabia. The latter also subdued the country of the Melampod...

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