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In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: / ˈ p ɜː r. s i. ə s /, UK: / ˈ p ɜː. sj uː s /; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [1]
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
In Greek mythology, the Perseides, "those born of Perseus" and Andromeda, are the members of the House of Perseus, descended, according to Valerius Flaccus [1] through Perse and Perses. [ 2 ] After the Greek Dark Ages , tradition recalled that Perseus and his descendants the Perseides had ruled Tiryns in Mycenaean times , while the allied ...
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
The first European translation of Thucydides (into Latin) was made by the humanist Lorenzo Valla between 1448 and 1452, and the first Greek edition was published by Aldo Manuzio in 1502. During the Renaissance , however, Thucydides attracted less interest among Western European historians as a political philosopher than his successor, Polybius ...
Perseis' name has been linked to Περσίς (Persís), "female Persian", and πέρθω (pérthō), "destroy" or "slay" or "plunder". [citation needed]Kerenyi also noted the connection between her and Hecate due to their names, denoting a chthonic aspect of the nymph, as well as that of Persephone, whose name "can be taken to be a longer, perhaps simply a more ceremonious, form of Perse ...
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. [2] They were called Olympians because, according to tradition, they resided on Mount ...
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.