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Sterope in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Sterope (pronounced /ˈstɛrəpiː/, Greek: Στερόπη [sterópɛː]), also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven Pleiades (the daughters of Atlas and Pleione, born to them at Mount Cyllene in Arcadia) and the wife of Oenomaus (or, according to some accounts, his mother by Ares). - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography...

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Syrinx in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

an Arcadian nymph, who being pursued by Pan, fled into the river Ladon. and at her own request was metamorphosed into a reed. which Pan then made his flute. (Ov. Met. 1.690. &c.; comp. Voss. Virg. Ecl. p. 33.) - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Silenus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Silenus (in Greek, Σειληνός) was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. The plural Seleni (in Greek, Σειληνοί) usually refers to drunken followers of Dionysus......

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Sisyphus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Si/sufos), a son of Aeolus and Enarete, whence he is called Aeolides (Hom. Il. 6.154; Hor. Carm. 2.14. 20). He was accordingly a brother of Cretheus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Peisidice, Calyce and Perimede (Apollod. 1.7.3; Paus. 10.31.2). He was married to Merope, a daughter of Atlas or a Pleiad (Apollod....

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Sterope in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Στερόπη). 1. A Pleiad, the wife of Oenomaus (Apollod. 3.10.1), and according to Pausanias (5.10.5), a daughter of Atlas. - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Tantalus in Wikipedia

Tantalus (Greek Τάνταλος) was the ruler of an ancient western Anatolian city called either under his name, as "Tantalis",[1] "the city of Tantalus", or as "Sipylus", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the Common Era,[2] although few trace...

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Prometheus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Προμηθεύς), is sometimes called a Titan, though in reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of the Titan lapetus (whence he is designated by the patronymic Ἰαπετιονίδης, Hes. Th. 528; Apollon Rhod. 3.1087), by Clymene, so that he was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus (Hes. Th. 507). His name signifies "forethoug...

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Remus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

the twin brother of Romulus. [See ROMULUS.] - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William Smith, Ed....

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Pygmalion in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Πυγμαλίων). 1. A king of Cyprus and father of Metharme. (Apollod. 3.14.3.) He is said to have fallen in love with the ivory image of a maiden which he himself had made, and therefore to have prayed to Aphrodite to breathe life into it. When the request was granted, Pygmalion married his beloved, and became by her the father of Paphus. (Ov. Me...

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Sarpedon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Σαρπήδων). 1. A son of Zeus by Europa, and a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthys. Being involved in a quarrel with Minos about Miletus, he took refuge with Cilix, whom he assisted against the Lycians; and afterwards he became king of the Lycians, and Zeus granted him the privilege of living three generations. (Hdt. 1.173; Apollod. 3.1.2 ; Paus....

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