Apollo – Mythopedia
2023年4月11日 · Apollo was a powerful Greek god and one of the Twelve Olympians. He served as the divine patron of prophecy, healing, art, and culture, as well as the embodiment of masculine beauty. Apollo belonged to the second generation of Olympians, along with his twin sister Artemis, goddess of the wild and hunting.
Apollo (Roman) - Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Apollo quickly mastered the instrument and soon was celebrated as the greatest of all musicians. Some time later, the rustic god Pan compared his music to Apollo’s. The shining god became incensed at the comparison and challenged Pan to a contest. While the judges declared Apollo to be the winner, King Midas of Phrygia dissented. As ...
Artemis – Mythopedia
2023年4月13日 · Some scholars have suggested that the name “Artemis” appears in the first Greek texts, equating the goddess of the hunt with a-te-mi-to or a-te-mi-te in the Linear B script (the writing system in use ca. 1600–1100 BCE, prior to the development of the Greek alphabet). If this is correct, it would mean that Artemis was known and worshipped ...
Daphne - Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Ovid, whose colorful account of Daphne and Apollo in the Metamorphoses would immortalize the myth, claimed that Apollo’s unrequited love was a punishment from Eros, the god of love: Apollo had mocked the boyish Eros and the bow he used in his role as god of love, so Eros decided to teach him a lesson. He picked out two special arrows from his ...
Marsyas – Mythopedia
2023年3月23日 · Marsyas and Apollo prepared for the contest. They chose judges (depending on the tradition, the contest was judged by either the Muses, the Phrygian king Midas, the mountain god Tmolus, the people of the nearby city of Nysa, or, as sometimes in art, by Athena). Though both Marsyas and Apollo played beautifully, Apollo was declared the winner.
Phoebe – Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Subsequently, Apollo added his grandmother’s name to his own, becoming Apollo Phoebus. Pop Culture. Phoebe’s influence continues to resonate in popular culture thanks to the many people (both real and fictional) named after her. Commonly used in Greek and Latin, her name has remained popular in languages descended from them.
Asteria – Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Family. Asteria was a daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, two of the original twelve Titans born to Gaia and Uranus. She had one sister, Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis. Asteria married Perses, who, like her, was a second-generation Titan. Family Tree. Parents
Achilles - Mythopedia
2023年7月31日 · Family. Achilles’ mother was Thetis, a Nereid. As daughters of the sea god Nereus, the Nereids were goddesses themselves. Achilles’ father, Peleus, was a son of Aeacus and a grandson of Zeus. Peleus was the king of Phthia in northern Greece, while his brother Telamon was the king of the island of Salamis.
Asclepius - Mythopedia
2023年7月10日 · Family. Asclepius’ father was Apollo, the Olympian god associated with healing, prophecy, and the arts. His mother, however, was less certain. According to the best-known version, Asclepius’ mother was a mortal woman from Thessaly named Coronis. But in other versions, she was a Messenian woman named Arsinoe.
Diana – Mythopedia
2023年2月27日 · Her twin brother was Apollo, a deity associated with wisdom, rationality, and the order of law. Diana had a huge number of half brothers and sisters; these included Mars, the god of war, Vulcan, the god of the forge, and Juventus, …