Hyacinthus – Mythopedia
2023年9月18日 · But Hyacinthus was killed prematurely when Apollo accidentally struck him with a discus; in his grief, Apollo turned the blood that flowed from the boy’s body into the hyacinth …
Apollo – Mythopedia
2023年4月11日 · It does not appear in the Linear B tablets, the earliest surviving texts of Greek civilization, written in a syllabic script during the Greek Bronze Age (ca. 1600–1100 BCE). …
Greek Mythology – Mythopedia
Greek Mortals. Human beings doomed to die who lived at the mercy of the gods. The mortals of Greek mythology included kings and queens, prophets, healers, warriors, and peasants. …
Hermaphroditus – Mythopedia
2023年9月19日 · Hermaphroditus was a deity who was half-male and half-female. Originally a male child of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphroditus was loved by the nymph Salmacis, who …
Greek Gods - Mythopedia
Greek Titans. The generation of Greek gods who directly preceded the Olympians. The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, …
Greek Heroes – Mythopedia
2023年6月20日 · Hesiod, Works and Days 160. ↩; Hesiod, Works and Days 109–79.Cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.89–112. ↩; Cf. Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the …
Mythopedia – Encyclopedia of Mythology
Greek Text Theogony. The Theogony, composed by Hesiod around 700 BCE, is an early Greek epic. It describes in detail the beginnings of the cosmos, the origins and genealogies of the …
Apollo (Roman) - Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Apollo’s incorporation into Roman mythology underscored the Romans’ conception of themselves as the rightful inheritors of Greek culture. Despite his foreignness, …
Greek Primordial Gods - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · The Greek primordial gods were the first beings to populate the cosmos and gave birth to all the subsequent gods, creatures, and mortals of Greek mythology. Two of …
Hydra - Mythopedia
2023年5月21日 · The Hydra has had a long and colorful afterlife in modern pop culture. The mythical creature has been adapted by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Henry Kuttner. A …