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Xanthe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [2] Xantho, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [3] [1] Xanthe, wife of Asclepius in the Messenian version of the story. Machaon was her son. [4] Xanthe, one of the Amazons. [5]
Only mentioned by name in a single myth Admete Adrasteia [21] Apollodorus, 1.1.6 makes the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus, daughters of Melisseus, leader of the Kuretes of Crete: Aethra [22] [23] Aetna [24] Amalthea [25] [26] Nurse of Zeus, but not always an Oceanid [27] Amphirho Amphitrite + [28] The name of a Nereid [29] Argia
Xanthe (/ ˈ z æ n θ iː /; Greek: Ξανθή, meaning "blond-haired") is a name with origins in Greek mythology. People with this first name include: People with this first name include: Xanthe Elbrick (born 1978), British actress
Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.
In Greek mythology, Ianthe (Ancient Greek: Ἰάνθη Ianthê) or Janthe [1] was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. [2] [3] [4] Her name means "she who delights", [5] or probably from ianthên (heat) or ianthos (violet).
In Greek mythology, the name Xanthus or Xanthos (/ ˈ z æ n θ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος means "yellow" or "fair hair") may refer to: Divine. Xanthus, the gods' name for Scamander, the great river of Troy and its patron god. [1] Xanthus, one of the twelve sons of the god Pan who were allies of Dionysus during the latter's Indian ...
In ancient Greece, the concept of autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός autos "self," and χθών chthon "soil"; i.e. "people sprung from earth itself") means the indigenous inhabitants of a country, including mythological figures, as opposed to settlers, and those of their descendants who kept themselves free from an admixture of colonizing entities.
The Sisters of Phaethon are Transformed into Poplars by Santi di Tito, 16th century.. In ancient Greece, the surviving Greek mythology features a wide collection of myths where the subjects are physically transformed, usually through either divine intervention or sorcery and spells. [1]