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In Greek mythology, Echo (/ ˈ ɛ k oʊ /; Greek: Ἠχώ, Ēkhō, "echo", [3] from ἦχος (ēchos), "sound" [4]) was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. [5] Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch ...
Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph , Echo , into the story of Narcissus , the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
Isis and Telethusa by Picart, 1732.. In Greek and Roman mythology, Iphis (/ ˈ aɪ f ɪ s / EYE-fis or / ˈ ɪ f ɪ s / IF-iss; Ancient Greek: Ἶφις, romanized: Îphis, gen. Ἴφιδος Íphidos) was a child of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete, born female and raised as male, who was later transformed by the goddess Isis into a man.
Modern scholars were in disagreement as to whether any Greek original really existed; but all doubt on the point was removed by the discovery of a fragment in Greek amongst the Tebtunis papyri found by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1899–1900. [4] [5] It revealed that the Latin was a close translation.
Charybdis (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ b d ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, romanized: Khárybdis, Attic Greek: [kʰárybdis]; Latin: Charybdis, Classical Latin: [kʰäˈrʏbd̪ɪs̠]) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. Charybdis, along with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas.
Enyalius or Enyalios (Greek: Ἐνυάλιος) in Greek mythology is generally a son of Ares by Enyo [citation needed] and also a byname of Ares the god of war. Though Enyalius as a by-name of Ares is the most accepted version, in Mycenaean times Ares and Enyalius were considered separate deities.
The doomed Greek is a "tough but battle weary warrior, plagued by phantasms of his death". [21] [22] Echion, one of the suitors who came with 53 others from Dulichium to compete for Penelope. [23] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus. [24]
In Greek mythology, Epopeus (/ ɪ ˈ p oʊ p iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐπωπεύς, romanized: Epōpeús, lit. 'all-seer', derived from ἐπωπάω (epōpáō, "to look out", "observe"), from ἐπί (epí, "over") and ὄψ (óps, "eye")) was the name of the following figures: