400 résultats pour "greek"

• ker (plural: Keres) Greek Female spirits that represented a person's death or perhaps destiny.

• Palladium Greek The sacred statue of Pallas Athene that was said to have fallen from heaven.

• Hypnos (Sleep) Greek The personification of sleep and the twin brother of Thanatos (Death); the son of Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness).

• Laocoön Greek A priest of Apollo and Poseidon; son of Priam, king of Troy, and of Hecuba.

• pantheon Greek and Roman In mythology, pantheon refers to all the gods of a people, particularly those considered to be the most prominent or most powerful.

• Ida (1) Greek The Nymph who with her sister, Adrastia, and the goat-nymph, Amalthea, tended the infant god Zeus on Mount Ida (2) in Crete.

• Nereids Greek The Nymphs of the sea, specifically the Mediterranean Sea; the daughters of Nereus, an ancient sea god, and Doris, a daughter of Oceanus.

• Galatea (1) (Milk White) The most famous Galatea in Greek mythology was a Nereid, or sea Nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris.

• Odyssey Greek The epic poem by Homer that describes the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

  turn his men back into their human forms. Under her spell, he dallied for a year on the island of the sorceress, who gave him warnings about the perils he would encounter on his way home. Odysseus in the Underworld - Mythology. After suffering under the spell of the witch-goddess Circe for a year, Odysseus and his crew grew restless and wanted to leave. On the advice of Circe, Odysseus and his crew visited the Underworld (1) to consult the ghost of the blind seer Tiresias. Tiresias had many wa...

• Maria Callas Maria Callas (1923-1977), American-born Greek operatic soprano, the preeminent prima donna (lead female opera singer) of her day, and the first modern soprano to revive forgotten operas of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire.

• Prometheus (Forethought) Greek One of the Titans, descended from the Earth Mother (Gaia) and the Sky Father (Uranus); son of Iapetus and one of the daughters of Oceanus, possibly Clymene; brother of Atlas and Epimetheus; father of Deucalion.

  knew he was being tricked, Zeus decided to keep the knowledge of fire-making from humankind. Prometheus, undaunted, stole fire from heaven, or from the forge of the smith-god, Hephaestus, and took it to Earth hidden in the hollow stalk of the fennel plant. He then began to teach people all the uses of fire—how to make tools and fashion metal, how to build, and how to cook. He also taught people how to sow and reap, and how to use herbs for healing. Prometheus, Bound and Unbound - Mythology. Pro...

• Iolcus Greek A town in Magnesia, a region of Thessaly.

• Minos Greek Son of Zeus and Europa.

• Rhodes Greek The easternmost island of the Aegean Sea.

• Olympus Greek A mountain range in northern Greece.

• Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) Greek Son of Achilles and Deidamia.

• Selene (Moon) Greek An ancient moon goddess.

• Lydia Greek A wealthy kingdom of western Asia Minor (now northwestern Turkey).

• Python Greek A female serpent born of the Earth.

• Laconia Greek A region in the southeast Peloponnesus whose capital was Sparta.

• Naxos Greek An island in the Aegean Sea southeast of Greece.

• Narcissus Greek The son of the river god Cephissus and Liriope.

• Protesilaus Greek A hero from Thessaly, son of Iphicles; husband of Laodamia.

• Philoctetes Greek The most famous archer in the Trojan War.

• Melampus Greek A descendant of Aeolis and a cousin of Jason.

• Perses (Destroyer) Greek A little-known secondgeneration Titan, the son of Crius and Eurybia.

• Moria (Folly) Greek The heroine of a story of overcoming death.

• Pontus (Pontos) Greek An ancient sea god; the first sea god.

• Pi. Pi, Greek letter (p) used in mathematics as the symbol

• Pelion Greek A mountain in the north of Thessaly, connected with Mount Ossa on the northwest.

• Libya (1) Greek Mother, with sea god Poseidon, of Agenor, king of Tyre.

• Oreads (Oreiades) Greek Mountain Nymphs; like most nymphs, daughters of Zeus.

• Pygmaei (Pygmies) Greek A mythological race of very short people, only 13.

• Persephone (Kore) Greek Daughter of Demeter and Zeus; called Proserpina by the Romans.

• Pluto Greek and Roman A name used to refer to the god of the underworld.

• Dike (Dice; Justice) Greek The personification of justice, particularly under the law.

• Muses Greek Originally deities of springs, later designated as goddesses of various human inspirations.

• Dithyrambus (Child of the Double Door) Greek A name for the god Dionysus, referring to the legend that he was born twice.

• Typhon (Typhoeus) Greek A hundred-headed monster whose parents were Gaia (Earth) and Tartarus.

• labyrinth Greek The word labyrinth means any intricate building full of chambers and passages, or a maze of paths bordered by high hedges.

• cow The cow, like the bull, was a common farm animal found in Greek mythology.

• Penthesilea Greek Amazon queen who led her female warriors to Troy to help the Trojans in the Trojan War.

• Sibyl (Sibylla) Greek Originally, a young girl, the daughter of a Trojan, who had the gift of prophecy.

• Ether (Aether; Bright upper air) Greek Son of Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness); brother of Hemera (Day).

• Eros (Erotic Love) Greek God of love and fertility, called Cupid by the Romans.

• Maia (1) Greek Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, the eldest and most beautiful of the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters).

• Priam Greek King of Troy during the Trojan War, though too old to take an active part in the war.

• Naiads (Naiades) Greek Nymphs of fresh bodies of water, such as springs, wells, brooks, streams, lakes, and marshes.

• Erytheia (Erythia; Dazzling Light) Greek A Dryad, or wood Nymph; one of the sisters known as the Hesperides; either the daughters of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night) or the daughters of Atlas and Pleione or Hesperis.

• Crius (Krios) Greek A first-generation Titan; son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth); with Eurybia, a daughter of Pontus and Gaia, the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses.