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In Greek mythology, Thanatos (UK: / ˈ θ æ n ə t ɒ s /; [2] Ancient Greek: Θᾰ́νᾰτος, Thánatos, pronounced in Ancient Greek: "Death", [3] from θνῄσκω thnēskō "(I) die, am dying" [4] [5]) was the personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person.
His central narrative in myth is of him abducting Persephone to be his wife and the queen of his realm. [2] Plouton as the name of the ruler of the underworld first appears in Greek literature of the Classical period, in the works of the Athenian playwrights and of the philosopher Plato, who is the major Greek source on its significance.
Danaus did not want his daughters to go ahead with the marriages. He fled with them in the first boat to Argos , which is located in Greece near the ancient city of Mycenae . Danaus agreed to the marriage of his daughters only after Aegyptus came to Argos with his fifty sons to protect the local population, the Argives , from any battles.
Alcestis (/ æ l ˈ s ɛ s t ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκηστις, Álkēstis) or Alceste, was a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband. Her life story was told by pseudo-Apollodorus in his Bibliotheca , [ 1 ] and a version of her death and return from the dead was also popularized in Euripides 's tragedy Alcestis .
In Greek mythology, Theano (/ θ i ˈ eɪ n oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Θεανώ) may refer to the following personages: Theano of Icaria, wife of Metapontus, king of Icaria. Metapontus demanded that she bear him children, or leave the kingdom. She presented the children of Melanippe to her husband, as if they were her own. Later Theano bore him ...
In ancient Roman myth and literature, Mors is the personification of death equivalent to the Greek Thanatos. [citation needed] The Latin noun for "death," mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known to depict death as a woman. [1] Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the ...
Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for revealing many secrets of the gods and for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he ...
Thanatos is a character in the 2020 video game Hades. He is based on the Greek mythological figure of the same name , who is described as a "peaceful death." He is dispatched by the game's antagonist, Hades , to prevent Zagreus from leaving, and challenges him to see who could defeat the most enemies.