Naiads - Mythopedia
2023年8月31日 · 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.
Nymphs – Mythopedia
2023年1月6日 · The nymphs were minor divinities who took the form of beautiful young women. They represented diverse aspects of nature, including water, mountains, trees, and even specific locales. They were also frequently divided into subgroups (such as Dryads, Naiads, and Nereids) according to the type of environment they inhabited.
Nereids – Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Avi Kapach. The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris. Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities. The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis.
Oreads – Mythopedia
2023年7月26日 · Naiad by Antonio Canova (1815/1817–1820/1823) National Gallery of Art (US) Public Domain. The Oreads represented one of the main categories of nymphs, alongside the Naiads (water nymphs associated with springs). However, “Oread” was a very loose classification within the Greek taxonomy of nymphs.
Pan – Mythopedia
2023年5月20日 · Rustic Pan was the Greek god of shepherds, goatherds, and their animals and pastures. He himself was part-animal and was most often imagined with the horns, hind legs, and tail of a goat. Originally an Arcadian god, Pan’s fame had already spread by the beginning of the fifth century BCE, and he was soon worshipped across the Greek and Roman ...
Daphne – Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Daphne was a beautiful and virginal nymph, usually represented as the daughter of a river god. Numerous myths tell of how Daphne’s male admirers attempted to conquer her chastity. The most popular of these describes the god Apollo ’s pursuit of Daphne, and how she transformed into a laurel tree to avoid his embrace.
Centaurs - Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · One was born to the Naiad daughters of the River Lamus. These Naiads had made the mistake of nursing Zeus’ bastard son Dionysus, thus incurring the wrath of Zeus’ wife Hera. Hera transformed the daughters of Lamus into creatures with cow horns, shaggy hair, and tails (a kind of cross between a Centaur and a satyr or silen).
Penelope - Mythopedia
2022年12月8日 · Penelope was a beautiful princess from Sparta, best known for marrying the hero Odysseus. The couple lived together in Odysseus’ small island kingdom of Ithaca, where they had a son named Telemachus. When Odysseus went to fight in the Trojan War, Penelope awaited his return for twenty years—the ten years of the war, and another ten as ...
Aristaeus – Mythopedia
2023年7月27日 · Aristaeus, son of Apollo and Cyrene, was a Greek hero and deity connected with many domains, including animal husbandry, agriculture, hunting, healing, and prophecy. One famous myth told of how he was able to regenerate his bees after they were killed as a punishment from the gods. Due to the diversity of his skills and knowledge, he was …
Doris – Mythopedia
2023年8月1日 · Doris did not have much in the way of an individual mythology. According to Hesiod, she was an Oceanid, one of the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. She eventually married Nereus, the sea god known as the “Old Man of the Sea,” and gave birth to the fifty Nereids, whom Hesiod described as “passing lovely amongst goddesses.”. [7]