Mount Parnassus was likewise sacred to them, with the Castalian spring, near which they had a temple. (Plut.De Pyth. Orac.17.) From Boeotia, which thus became the focus of the worship of the nine Muses, it afterwards spread into the adjacent and more distant parts of Greece. Thus we f...
The sacrifices offered to them consisted of libations of water or milk, and of honey. (Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. 100; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vii. 21.) The various surnames by which they are designated by the poets are for the most part derived from the places which were sacred to...
xiii. 79.) At the beginning of spring thanks were offered to her in advance (procharistêria, Suid. s. v.) for the protection she was to afford to the fields.Besides the inventions relating to agriculture, others also connected with various kinds of science, industry, and art, are ascrib...
I could see how she could come in handy, but I don't see how anyone drunk on the Wine that she's the Goddess of could say a toast in her name! Actually, Amphictyonis was just a surname of Demeter, to whom sacrifices were offered at the beginning of every meeting (in Thermopylae)...
(like in Greek “lego”-“logos” and the same way the S the place of Z (like in German and Dutch in the beginning of words e.g. sun-Zonne) and so the S instead of Z of Meggous-oglou-Mengguzu is not a problem and the name means “Mongolian, from Mongolia” (in Greek Mog...
Once there were German Emperors, beginning with Charlemagne, in the West, legitimized by the Pope, they began to think of themselves as "Romans" (as in the Sanctum Imperium Romanum, the "Holy Roman Empire") and to dismiss the Emperors in Constantinople as "Greeks" or even insultingly as...
The sacrifices offered to them consisted of libations of water or milk, and of honey. (Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. 100; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vii. 21.) The various surnames by which they are designated by the poets are for the most part derived from the places which were sacred to...
Gaea was the ancient Greek goddess of the earth. She was one of the primoridal elemental deities (protogenoi) born at the dawn of creation. Gaea was the great mother of all creation--the heavenly gods were descended from her through her union with Uranus