Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) Greek The horn of the goat-Nymph, Amalthea, who had tended the infant Zeus.
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Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) Greek The horn of the goat-Nymph, Amalthea, who had tended the infant Zeus. The horn was as large and full as that of a cow's, and would remain forever filled with food and drink for its owners. Zeus gave the horn to the ash nymphs, Adrastia and Ida (1), who, along with Amalthea, had tended him when he was an infant. The cornucopia remains a symbol of plenty, generosity, hospitality, and general well being.
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- 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.
- Metis (Wisdom) Greek A Titan, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, an Oceanid, or ocean Nymph, who was counted among the Titans.
- Nemesis Greek Goddess of vengeance; personification of the wrath of the gods toward those who had hubris, a Greek word meaning exaggerated pride in one's achievements or good fortune.
- Omphale Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo.
- Pleione Greek Daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys; a nymph, one of the eldest among the thousands of daughters born of this union who were themselves considered by many writers to be Titans.