Composed of three sisters—Clotho,LachesisandAtropos—theFateswere a trinity of goddesses. They were the personifications of man’s life and destiny. These three immortals decided man’s fate as a singular force: his life, lifespan and death. Consequently, they were in control of the past, t...
The Erinys or Furiae also called Dirae, Eumenides, or Semnae - that is, the "revered" goddesses - were, in Greek mythology, daughters of Night, or, according to another myth, of the Earth and Darkness, while a third account calls them offspring of Cronus and Eurynome. They were ...
13、onology.Clotho, one of the three sisters of fate, used the spindle to weave the thread of life. afterUse her name to name her cloth.A goddess of harmony and peace in the Roman mythology of Concordia. ConcordHarmony, consistency; Concordant harmonious, consistent.Cupid, Cupids name in ...
Creation Myth of Greek Mythology In Ancient Greece, the mythological stories were more than just entertaining tales. They existed to help the Ancient Greeks better understand the world around them. ...Read More Who Was Helen of Troy in Greek Mythology?
Another name for The Muses because of their birth on Mt. Parnassus. Pepromene Pepromene was the personification of the idea that every human is tied to a destiny. This is basically the same as Ananke (Fate). Perse Perse was one of the underworld moon Goddesses. She was the consort of ...
(again) showed her where the springs at Lerna were. They lived happily ever after, had a son named Nauplius, and she escaped the fate of her sisters. According toRobert Graves, Amymone could also be the name of the goddess at Lerna, the center of the Danaid water cult. But, Robert ...
In myth Nemesis was particularly concerned with matters of love. She appears as an avenging agent in the stories of Narkissos and Nikaia, whose callous actions brought about the death of their wooers. In some versions of the Trojan War, she was the mother of Helene, and is shown in ...
The Myth of AeneasAeneas was a Trojan hero of Greek mythology, a princely son of the mortal Aghisis and the
[N.B. This genealogy was constructed to try to explain the connection between the two figures named Aiolos in myth.]Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 7. 5 : "When Liparos (Liparus) [King of the Aiolian (Aeolian) island of Lipara] had already come to old age, Aiolos (Aeolus)...
The number twelve had great symbolic significance to the Greeks, and sothere always had to be twelve primary Olympians.This is regardless of the fact that far more than twelve gods lived at Olympus, and some of the Twelve barely resided there if at all (like Poseidon and Hades). Myth hol...