In Euripides' play Heracleidae, Hebe granted Iolaus' wish to become young again in order to fight Eurystheus. Hebe had two children with Heracles: Alexiares and Anicetus.The name Hebe comes from Greek ...
Dion (also spelled Deion, Deon and Dionne)Denise (also spelled Denice, Daniesa, Denese, and Denisse)Dennis, Denis or Denys (including the derivative surnames Denison and Dennison), Denny, DennieDenis ...
The earliest discussions of mythological parallels between Dionysus and the figure of the Christ in Christian theology can be traced to Friedrich H?lderlin, whose identification of Dionysus with Chri ...
According to the myth, Zeus gave the infant Dionysus to the care of Hermes. One version of the story is that Hermes took the boy to King Athamas and his wife Ino, Dionysus' aunt. Hermes bade the coupl ...
Demeter's epithets show her many religious functions. She was the "Corn-Mother" who blesses the harvesters. Some cults interpreted her as "Mother-Earth". Demeter may be linked to goddess-cults of Mino ...
It is possible that Demeter appears in Linear A as da-ma-te on three documents (AR Zf 1 and 2, and KY Za 2), all three apparently dedicated in religious situations and all three bearing just the name ...
At Ephesus in Ionia, Turkey, her temple became one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was probably the best known center of her worship except for Delos. There the Lady whom the Ionians associated ...
Artemis saved the infant Atalanta from dying of exposure after her father abandoned her. She sent a female bear to suckle the baby, who was then raised by hunters. But she later sent a bear to hurt At ...
The name Artemis (noun, feminine) is of unknown or uncertain origin and etymology although various ones have been proposed.For example according to Jablonski, the name is also Phrygian and could be "c ...
Classically, Athena is portrayed wearing a full-length chiton, and sometimes in armor, with her helmet raised high on the forehead to reveal the image of Nike. Her shield bears at its centre the aegis ...
Later myths of the Classical Greeks relate that Athena guided Perseus in his quest to behead Medusa. She instructed Heracles to skin the Nemean Lion by using its own claws to cut through its thick hid ...
The major competing tradition regarding Athena's parentage involves some of her more mysterious epithets: Pallas, as in the ancient-Greek Παλλ?? ?θ?νη (also Pallantias) and Tritogeneia (als ...
Athena as the goddess of philosophy became an aspect of the cult in Classical Greece during the late fifth century BC. She is the patroness of various crafts, especially of weaving, as Athena Ergane, ...
Athena is associated with Athens, a plural name, because it was the place where she presided over her sisterhood, the Athenai, in earliest times. Mycenae was the city where the Goddess was called Myke ...
