shoulders draped with a fawn skin, carrying rods tipped with pine cones. While other gods had temples to be worshipped at, the followers of Dionysus worshipped him in the woods. There, they might go into a state of ecstasy and madness, ripping apart and eating raw any animal they might ...
Pentheus, who then ruled at Thebes, endeavoured to check the riotous proceedings, and went out to the mountains to seek the Bacchic women; but his own mother, Agave, in her Bacchic fury, mistook him for an animal, and tore him to pieces. (Theocrit. Id. xxvi.; Eurip. Bacch. ...
Hermes was the Olympian god of herds, trade, heralds, athletes and thieves. This page describes the god's various divine roles and privileges including animal husbandry, heralds, birds of omen, thieves and trickery, trade and merchants, language and wile
Monsters and “hybrids” (human-animal forms) also feature prominently in the tales: the winged horse Pegasus, the horse-man Centaur, the lion-woman Sphinx and the bird-woman Harpies, the one-eyed giant Cyclops, automatons (metal creatures given life by Hephaestus), manticores and unicorns,...
Sculptors, poets, and painters, however, had no such problems. Artemis is almost universally depicted as a young, beautiful and vigorous huntress carrying a quiver with arrows and holding a bow, typically wearing a short knee-high tunic and often accompanied by some animal (stag, doe, or hunt...
Most of the relevant theorists are included: most importantly for this book, M. Nilsson's work on Greek religion. It is Nilsson's claim that animal sacrifice was in steady decline in the period 100 b.c.鈥揳.d. 200, which Petropoulou convincingly refutes. The second half of chapter 1 ...
Now she is top Goddess of the feminist movement — and by far the most requested deity at Godchecker.com. She’s also an inspiration to animal rights activists, as long as quails aren’t involved. Artemis Facts and Figures Name: Artemis Pronunciation: Coming soon Alternative names: Agrotara...
Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle 2. a handsome young man [C16: from Latin, via Greek Adōnis from Phoenician adōni my lord, a title of the god Tammuz; related to Hebrew Adonai] ...
Aristaeus - (a.k.a. Aristaios) Patron god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping, and fruit trees.Artemis - (a.k.a. Agrotora, Amarynthia, Cynthia, Kourotrophos, Locheia, Orthia, Phoebe, Potnia Theron) Goddess of the moon, hunting, and nursing....
Some Greek mythology creatures were human-animal hybrids. Chironwas a notable exception to this understanding of centaurs; he was a wise and rational centaur and one of the most important centaurs in ancient Greek mythology.Achilles, an ancient Greek hero and the protagonist ofThe Iliad, was Chir...