Further thou dist greatly commend swift-footed Atalanta, the slayer of boards, daughter of Arkadian Iasios (Arcadian Iasius), and taught her hunting with dogs and good archery . . . Lady of many shrines, of many cities, hail! Khitone (Goddess of the Tunic), sojourner in Miletos; for ...
p. 771) describes them as marine beings without feet, the place of the hands being occupied by fins, though in the same page he also states that originally they were the dogs of Actaeon, who were changed into men. The following are mentioned as the. names of individual Telchines:--Myla...
The Greek Hound is a black and tan hound, built for tracking and chasing hare that is indigenous to Greece. It has existed for thousands of years and its progenitors are the ancient laconikoi (later: lagonikoi, where lagos=hare) kynes (dogs) native in southern Greece (Peloponessus). The...
Graces is an alternative name for the Charites. Graeae In Greek mythology, the Graeae were three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto: Deino, Pephredo, and Enyo; their names meaning respectively "alarm", "dread", and "horror". They were sisters and at the same time guardians of the Gorgons...
διδωμι (didomi), to give ידד (yadad), to love, דוד (dod), beloved (hence the names Dido and David) δολος (dolos), a cunning contrivance for deceiving or catching דלת (delet), a curtain door (hence the name Delilah) δωρον (doron), a...
Many names, one of which was to be Phaesporia or Light-Bringer A bow and arrows like Apollo’s a knee-length hunting tunic sixty ocean nymphs as her companions twenty river nymphs to care for her hunting dogs and protect her bow all the mountains in the world one city of Zeus’s choo...
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 hunting dogs). As amoongoddess, she is some...
GREEK NAMES: Male MYRON: "myrrh" NAPE: myth name NAPOLEAN: "of the new city." Variant Napoleon exists. NARCISSUS: "daffodil." Variants include Narcisse, and Narkis. NAUPLIUS: myth name of an Argonaut NECTARIOS: name of a saint NELEUS: myth name of a son of Poseidon NEMO: "from the ...
Now this Cerberus had three heads of dogs, the tail of a dragon, and on his back the heads of all sorts of snakes. When Hercules was about to depart to fetch him, he went to Eumolpus at Eleusis, wishing to be initiated… [He sought ritual purification for his past misdeeds] … And...
"Swift-footed Atalanta, the slayer of boars, daughter of Arkadian Iasios (Arcadian Iasius), and taught her hunting with dogs and good archery. They that were called to hunt the boar of Kalydon (Calydon) find no fault with her; for the tokens of victory came into Arkadia which still ho...