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Hyacinthus and the West Wind engaging in intercrural sex on a red-figure vase (5th century BCE) In Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a Spartan prince of remarkable beauty and a lover of the sun god Apollo. [13] He was also admired by Zephyrus, the god of the West wind, Boreas, the god of the North wind and a mortal man named Thamyris. Hyacinthus ...
The name comes from Greek mythology: Hyacinth was killed by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, jealous of his love for Apollo, who then transformed the drops of blood into flowers. Several species of Brodiaea , Scilla , and other plants that were formerly classified in the Liliaceae family and have flower clusters borne along the stalk also ...
The specific epithet non-scripta means "unlettered" or "unmarked" and was intended to distinguish this plant from the classical hyacinth of Greek mythology. This mythical flower, which was almost certainly not the modern hyacinth, [3] sprang up from the blood of the dying prince Hyacinthus. His lover, the god Apollo, shed tears that marked the ...
When Ajax killed himself during the Trojan War his blood that dripped on the ground gave rise to a white-and-reddish hyacinth flower which bore on its leaves the initial letters of his name ai, which also was an expressive of lament. In antiquity, hyacinth probably described the various species of delphinium, and not the modern hyacinth flower ...
Anthousai (Ancient Greek: Ανθούσαι from ἄνθος ánthos, meaning "flower, blossom") are nymphs of flowers in Greek mythology. They were described as having hair that resembled hyacinth flowers. [1] [2]
Hyacinthus's daughters, who were sacrificed either to Athena or Persephone, were known in the Attic legends by the name of the "Hyacinthides", which they derived from their father. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The names and numbers of the Hyacinthides differ in the different writers.
The Death of Hyacinthos, sometimes referred to as The Death of Hyacinth, is an oil painting completed by Jean Broc in 1801. This is Broc's most famous work and is considered to be drawn from the Metamorphoses by Ovid. It is a depiction of the dead Hyacinthos cradled by his lover, the Greek god Apollo.
Hyacinthus orientalis, the common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Palestine. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century.