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Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon [5] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
Rhesus (/ ˈ r iː s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος Rhêsos) is a mythical king of Thrace in The Iliad who fought on the side of Trojans.Rhesus arrived late to the battle and while asleep in his camp, Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.
The oldest known image of Dionysus accompanied by his name is found on a dinos by the Attic potter Sophilos around 570 BC and is located in the British Museum. [34] By the seventh century, iconography found on pottery shows that Dionysus was already worshiped as more than just a god associated with wine.
The Telchines were said to have invented useful arts and institutions which were useful to mankind and to have made images of the gods. [17] Telchines were regarded as excellent metallurgists; various accounts [ 26 ] state that they were skilled metal workers in brass and iron and made a trident for Poseidon and a sickle for Cronus , both ...
Aeacus (/ ˈ iː ə k ə s /; also spelled Eacus; Ancient Greek: Αἰακός) was a king of the island of Aegina in Greek mythology.He was a son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina, and the father of the heroes Peleus and Telamon. [1]
In Greek mythology, Comaetho (/ k oʊ ˈ m iː θ oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Κομαιθώ Komaithṓ means "bright-haired" [citation needed]) is a name that may refer to: . Comaetho, a nymph of a spring who incessantly mingles her waters with those of the river god Cydnus, who in one passage of Nonnus' Dionysiaca is said to be her father, [1] and in another her consort.