Atlas - Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Atlas had a large family with connections across Greek mythology. According to the best-known tradition, he was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, though there was another version in which his mother was Asia (also an Oceanid). Atlas had several brothers, including Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
Calypso - Mythopedia
2023年1月6日 · Calypso, daughter of the Titan Atlas, was a Greek nymph and goddess. She lived on the island of Ogygia, where the hero Odysseus was shipwrecked on his way back from the Trojan War. Calypso rescued Odysseus and kept him on the island as her lover until finally commanded to let him go.
Quetzalcoatl – Mythopedia
2023年1月24日 · Quetzalcoatl was the Aztec’s Feathered Serpent god, controller of winds and bringer of maize. A clever shapeshifter, he used his wits to trick the Lord and Lady of Death into giving him the bones that he shaped into mankind.
Mythopedia – Encyclopedia of Mythology
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Hyades - Mythopedia
2023年9月18日 · The Hyades, daughters of the Titan Atlas, were goddesses who were placed in the night sky as a cluster of stars. They were associated above all with the rainy season. It was said that they made into stars after dying of grief for their dead brother, or, alternatively, as a reward for nursing Dionysus.
Ladon – Mythopedia
2023年3月23日 · Ovid (43 BCE–17/18 CE): Ladon is tasked by Atlas with guarding the Garden of the Hesperides in Book 4 of the Metamorphoses (643ff; cf. 9.188ff). Seneca (either 54 BCE–39 CE or 4 BCE–65 CE): There is an allusion to how Heracles bested Ladon in the tragedy the Madness of Hercules (530ff).
Hesperides – Mythopedia
2023年9月19日 · The Hesperides—daughters of Nyx and Erebus or, in later traditions, of Atlas and Hesperis—were Greek sky goddesses who were represented as beautiful young nymphs. They were associated with the evening and the West and served as the guardians of the golden apples that Hera had received from Gaia as a wedding gift.
Menoetius - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · Menoetius, the son of Iapetus and the brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, was a rash and violent Titan. Caught on the wrong side of the war between the Olympians and the Titans, Menoetius was ultimately struck down by …
Epimetheus – Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, was a Greek Titan, known for being as slow-witted as Prometheus was quick. Neglecting his wiser brother’s warnings, Epimetheus accepted Pandora as his bride and thus inadvertently …
Greek Gods - Mythopedia
The Greek gods ruled over every aspect of Hellenic existence—from war to love, from childbirth to the afterlife. Commonly depicted in human form, they were capricious deities who demanded worship and sacrifice to stave off misfortune and ruin.