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11 de set. de 2023 · Endymion was a handsome mortal of Greek mythology. In what seems to have been the earliest account, he was the son of Aethlius and Calyce and eventually became the king of Elis. However, other accounts made him a hunter or shepherd from Mount Latmus in the Anatolian region of Caria. The myth of Endymion took a few different forms, including one ...
7 de dez. de 2022 · Selene, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, was the personification of the moon. Her brother Helios shone as the sun, while her sister Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though Selene had many consorts, the most famous of them was Endymion, a handsome young mortal. When Selene spied him sleeping in a cave, she immediately fell in love and ...
27 de jan. de 2023 · Endymion was a handsome young man loved by Selene, the goddess of the moon. Selene asked that Endymion be allowed to sleep forever so that he would remain eternally young and beautiful. According to a tradition that seems to have originated with the poet Licymnius of Chios, Hypnos also fell in love with Endymion and was the one who brought about the young man’s eternal slumber.
11 de mar. de 2023 · Adonis, son of the Eastern king Cinyras and his daughter Myrrha, was an exceptionally handsome young man. He was so handsome, in fact, that the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone competed for his love. Though they were ultimately forced to share the young man, Adonis favored Aphrodite and was best known as her lover.
31 de ago. de 2023 · Overview. The Naiads were water nymphs, most commonly associated with bodies of fresh water such as springs, rivers, lakes, and fountains. However, any nymph associated with water could be called a “Naiad,” including sea nymphs like the Oceanids and Nereids. Like other nymphs, the Naiads were represented as beautiful young women.
The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month: then her great orbit is full and then her beams shine ...
10 de mar. de 2023 · Overview. One of the original twelve Titans of Greek mythology Phoebe was the daughter of the primordial deities Gaia and Uranus. She married her brother Coeus, and together they had two daughters, Asteria and Leto. Through Leto, Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis, powerful gods of the Olympian pantheon.
10 de mar. de 2023 · Hyperion was the son of Gaia, the incarnation of the earth, and Uranus, the embodiment of the heavens. His siblings included the other Titans— Coeus, Crius, Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Thea, Themis, and Cronus—as well as more monstrous brethren, such as the one-eyed Cyclopes and the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires.
13. Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus, having two sons by Poseidon, Neleus and Pelias, married Cretheus, and had by him three sons, Aeson, Pheres and Amythaon. And of Aeson and Polymede, according to Hesiod, Iason was born. “Aeson, who begot a son Iason, shepherd of the people, whom Chiron brought up in woody Pelion.”.
2 de out. de 2023 · Arachne—daughter of the Lydian dyer Idmon of Colophon—was so proud of her skill as a weaver that she challenged Athena herself, the goddess of crafts, to a weaving contest. When Arachne’s tapestry surpassed Athena’s, the goddess flew into a rage and attacked her. Arachne then hanged herself.
