Hecate – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Overview. Hecate was a powerful goddess of uncertain origin. She was usually called the daughter of the Titans Asteria and Perses, but there were many alternate versions of her parentage, including some that made her a daughter of Zeus. Though Hecate was most commonly depicted as a sinister goddess of magic, witchcraft, and the Underworld, she ...
Medea – Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · Medea, like most princesses of Greek mythology, was usually depicted as a beautiful woman in both literature and art. But Medea’s most important attribute was her skill as a witch and magician. She was usually associated with Hecate, a goddess of magic—an association that presumably had something to do with her own abilities.
Empusa – Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · Other sources identified her with the goddess Hecate or with Lamia, another spirit. Attributes. In Greek popular religion, Empusa belonged to a category of beings that can be described as “spirits” or even “demons”—malevolent creatures who preyed on innocent people. The Greeks themselves did not have a specific word for such beings.
Mormo - Mythopedia
2023年2月27日 · Mormo was a female spirit or phantom, a ghostly being known for inspiring fear. Like Lamia or Gello, Mormo was used above all to frighten children; in fact, she was sometimes considered interchangeable with Lamia, Gello, or the strix, a vampire-like bird of the night that fed on the blood of children. [3]
Asteria – Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Mythology. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Asteria “of happy name” [8] was born from the union of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. She went on to marry Perses and give birth to Hecate. Very few myths about Asteria have survived, though there is one story in which she became a target of Zeus’ lust (or Poseidon’s, in other versions).
Erinyes (Furies) – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Avi Kapach is a writer, scholar, and educator who received his PhD in Classics from Brown University. The Erinyes (“Furies”) were terrifying sisters who acted as goddesses of vengeance and retribution. From their grim home in the Underworld, the Erinyes punished crimes that violated the natural order—especially offenses against family ...
Perses – Mythopedia
2022年12月5日 · Avi Kapach is a writer, scholar, and educator who received his PhD in Classics from Brown University. Perses was the son of the Titan Crius and his wife Eurybia and was often numbered among the Titans himself. He married Asteria, another second-generation Titan, with whom he fathered Hecate, a goddess of witchcraft.
Persephone – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Persephone, often known simply as Kore (“Maiden”), was a daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Her mythology tells of how she was abducted by her uncle Hades one day while picking flowers. Demeter, distraught, wandered the entire world in search of her daughter. When Demeter at last located Persephone in the Underworld, she demanded that her ...
Leto – Mythopedia
2022年12月7日 · Leto, sometimes still known by her Latin name Latona, was one of the daughters of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. She was a lover of Zeus, with whom she mothered the radiant twins Apollo and Artemis —thus incurring the wrath of Zeus’ jealous wife Hera. According to the common tradition, Hera pursued Leto across the earth, forbidding any land ...
Minerva – Mythopedia
2022年12月9日 · Thomas Apel is a historian of science and religion who received his PhD in History from Georgetown University. Minerva was the wisest of the Roman pantheon, the patron deity of philosophy, craftsmanship, art, and strategy. A quintessentially Roman goddess, she was part of the widely worshiped Capitoline Triad, along with Jupiter and Juno.