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Pandora was sometimes known by the alternate name “Anesidora,” meaning “she who sends up gifts.” Attributes and Iconography. Pandora, perhaps more than any other figure in Greek mythology, was defined by her attributes. Indeed, her name was interpreted by the ancient Greeks as a reference to the fact that, when she was created, each of ...
Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, was a Greek Titan, known for being as slow-witted as Prometheus was quick. Neglecting his wiser brother’s warnings, Epimetheus accepted Pandora as his bride and thus inadvertently helped unleash all the evils of the cosmos upon mankind.
Hesiod, then, seems to treat mythology as something that is adaptable, malleable, and evolving. Sometimes Hesiod’s contradictory use of myth is less self-conscious. For instance, both the myth of Pandora and the Myth of the Races —which are told back to back—are meant to explain the origins of human suffering. The use of two seemingly ...
Greek. In Greek literature, the Charites appear first in the epics of Homer (eighth century BCE), where their number is ambiguous; the two individual Charites named by Homer, Pasithea and Charis, do not appear in the better known account given by Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE), who gives the names of the three Charites as Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia in his Theogony (907–9).
Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia. Offered up as a sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, Andromeda was rescued from death by Perseus, who took her back to Greece to be his queen.
Daphnis, often said to have been a son of Hermes, was a handsome herdsman who lived in Sicily. When he was blinded by a jealous nymph for his infidelity, he invented pastoral poetry to console himself.
According to Roman mythology, Mars raped the innocent Rhea Silvia and sired Romulus and Remus, twins who would go on to establish the fabled city. Mars was largely based on the Greek god Ares, the Greek god of war, and shared much of his mythology. The two deities differed in at least one respect, however—while Ares was a source of ...
Though ubiquitous in Greek popular belief, daemons and spirits had virtually no mythology. Nor were they generally worshipped in traditional cult, the way the gods were worshipped. Instead, they were most familiar from tall tales and folklore, where they appeared as strange and mysterious beings that haunted the many facets of everyday life.
Pliny the Elder (23/24–79 CE): There are references to Marsyas and his mythology in the Natural History (5.29, 16.89, etc.). Silius Italicus (ca. 26–102 CE): In Book 8 of the Punica (502ff), Silius Italicus mentions a tradition in which Marsyas escaped his punishment and became the ancestor of the Marsi of central Italy.
Greek Titans. The generation of Greek gods who directly preceded the Olympians. The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.