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Caeneus
In Greek mythology, Caeneus or Kaineus () was a Lapith Greek hero, hero, ruler of Thessaly, and the father of the Argonaut Coronus (mythology), Coronus. Caeneus was born a girl, Caenis (), the daughter of Elatus, but after Poseidon had sex with Caenis, she was transformed by Poseidon into an invulnerable man. Caeneus participated in the Centauromachy, where he met his demise at the hands of the Centaurs by being pounded into the ground while still alive. Family Caeneus' father was the Lapith king Elatus, from Gyrton (Thessaly), Gyrton in Thessaly. Caeneus' son was the Argonaut Coronus (mythology), Coronus, who was killed by Heracles while leading a war against the Dorians and their king Aegimius. According to the mythographer Hyginus, Caeneus' mother was Hippeia, Hippea—the daughter of a Thessalian from Larissa named Antippus—and his brothers were Ischys and the Argonaut Polyphemus (Argonaut), Polyphemus. Hyginus also states that, in addition to Coronus, Caeneus had two othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centaurs And Kaineus (Caeneus), Small Bronze Relief, AM Olympia, Olym14
A centaur ( ; ; ), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae (), is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in the mountains of Thessaly. In one version of the myth, the centaurs were named after Centaurus (Greek mythology), Centaurus, and, through his brother Lapithes (hero), Lapithes, were kin to the legendary tribe of the Lapiths. Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Ancient Elis, Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. Centaurs are subsequently featured in Roman mythology, and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary. They remain a staple of modern fantastic literature. Etymology The Greek word ''kentauros'' is generally regarded as being of obscure origin. The etymology from ''ken'' + ''tau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapith
The Lapiths (; , ''Lapithai'', sing. Λαπίθης) were a group of legendary people in Greek mythology, who lived in Thessaly in the valley of the Pineios and on the mountain Pelion. They were believed to have descended from the mythical Lapithes, brother of Centaurus, with the two heroes giving their names to the races of the Lapiths and the Centaurs respectively. The Lapiths are best known for their involvement in the ''Centauromachy'' (), a mythical fight that broke out between them and the Centaurs during Pirithous and Hippodamia's wedding. Mythology Origin The Lapiths were an Aeolian tribe who, like the Myrmidons, were natives of Thessaly. The genealogies make them a kindred people with the centaurs: In one version, Lapithes (Λαπίθης) and Centaurus (Κένταυρος) were said to be twin sons of the god Apollo and the nymph Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. Lapithes was a valiant warrior, but Centaurus was a deformed being who later mated with mare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapiths
The Lapiths (; , ''Lapithai'', Grammatical number, sing. Λαπίθης) were a group of legendary people in Greek mythology, who lived in Thessaly in the valley of the Pineios (Thessaly), Pineios and on the mountain Pelion. They were believed to have descended from the mythical Lapithes (hero), Lapithes, brother of Centaurus (Greek mythology), Centaurus, with the two heroes giving their names to the races of the Lapiths and the Centaur, Centaurs respectively. The Lapiths are best known for their involvement in the ''Centauromachy'' (), a mythical fight that broke out between them and the Centaurs during Pirithous and Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous), Hippodamia's wedding. Mythology Origin The Lapiths were an Aeolians, Aeolian tribe who, like the Myrmidons, were natives of Thessaly. The genealogies make them a kindred people with the centaurs: In one version, Lapithes (hero), Lapithes (Λαπίθης) and Centaurus (Greek mythology), Centaurus (Κένταυρος) were said to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centauromachy
The Lapiths (; , ''Lapithai'', sing. Λαπίθης) were a group of legendary people in Greek mythology, who lived in Thessaly in the valley of the Pineios and on the mountain Pelion. They were believed to have descended from the mythical Lapithes, brother of Centaurus, with the two heroes giving their names to the races of the Lapiths and the Centaurs respectively. The Lapiths are best known for their involvement in the ''Centauromachy'' (), a mythical fight that broke out between them and the Centaurs during Pirithous and Hippodamia's wedding. Mythology Origin The Lapiths were an Aeolian tribe who, like the Myrmidons, were natives of Thessaly. The genealogies make them a kindred people with the centaurs: In one version, Lapithes (Λαπίθης) and Centaurus (Κένταυρος) were said to be twin sons of the god Apollo and the nymph Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. Lapithes was a valiant warrior, but Centaurus was a deformed being who later mated with mares ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argonaut
The Argonauts ( ; ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, ''Argo'', named after its builder, Argus. They were sometimes called Minyans, after a prehistoric tribe in the area. Mythology The Golden Fleece After the death of King Cretheus, the Aeolian Pelias usurped the throne from his half-brother Aeson and became king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos). Because of this unlawful act, an oracle warned him that a descendant of Aeolus would seek revenge. Pelias put to death every prominent descendant of Aeolus he could, but spared Aeson because of the pleas of their mother Tyro. Instead, Pelias kept Aeson prisoner and forced him to renounce his inheritance. Aeson married Alcimede, who bore him a son named Jason. Pelias intended to kill the baby at once, but Alcimede summoned her kinswomen to weep ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the name Coronus (Ancient Greek: Κόρωνος means "crooked, curved") may refer to: *Coronus, king of the Lapiths, the son of Caeneus and counted among the Argonauts. In some accounts his father was Actor. His own children were Leonteus and Lysidice. He led a war against King Aegimius and was killed by Heracles. According to '' Bibliotheca'', Coronus was erroneously(?) called the father of Caeneus instead. *Coronus, king of Sicyon, son of Apollo and Chrysorthe, and father of Lamedon and Corex. Coronus inherited the kingdom of Sicyon from his maternal grandfather Orthopolis. Corex succeeded to his father's power, but himself left no heirs so the kingdom was usurped by Epopeus, after whose death it went back to Lamedon. *Coronus, the Corinthian son of Thersander. He and his brother Haliartus were adopted by Athamas after the latter had lost all of his own sons. He was given land by Athamas and founded Coroneia. *Coronus, father of Anaxirhoe, herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poseidon
Poseidon (; ) is one of the twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, Poseidon was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes, with the cult title "earth shaker"; in the myths of isolated Arcadia, he is related to Demeter and Persephone and was venerated as a horse, and as a god of the waters.Seneca quaest. Nat. VI 6 :Nilsson Vol I p.450 Poseidon maintained both associations among most Greeks: he was regarded as the tamer or father of horses, who, with a strike of his trident, created springs (the terms for horses and springs are related in the Greek language).Nilsson Vol I p.450 His Roman equivalent is Neptune. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priasus
In Greek mythology, Priasus (Ancient Greek: Πρίασος) may refer to two individuals: * Priasus, one of the Argonauts and son of Caeneus. He was the brother of Phocus, another Argonaut. * Priasus, commander of the Phrygians who fought in the war that Dionysus waged against the Indians.Nonnus, 13.521 & 37.624 Notes References * Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic StudiesOnline version at the Topos Text Project.* Nonnus of Panopolis, ''Dionysiaca The ''Dionysiaca'' (, ''Dionysiaká'') is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus. It is an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity at 20,426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hex ...'' translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.Online version at the Topos Text Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyphemus (Argonaut)
In Greek mythology, Polyphemus ( /ˌpɒlɪˈfiːməs/; Ancient Greek: Πολύφημος ''Polyphēmos'') was a Greek hero and also an Argonaut from Larissa. Family Polyphemus was the son of the Lapith chief, Elatus,Apollonius Rhodius1.40-41 Apollodorus1.9.16/ref> by Hippea and thus, possibly the brother of Caeneus, Ischys and Ampycus. According to one source, he was married to Laonome, sister of Heracles. In some accounts, Polyphemus was called the beloved of the latter hero. Mythology Polyphemus, as a Lapith, was remembered for having fought against the Centaurs in the days of his youth.Apollonius Rhodius1.40-44/ref> In ''Iliad'', Nestor numbers "the godlike Polyphemus" among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe (i.e. centaur) whom they utterly destroyed." No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elatus
There were several figures named Elatus or Élatos (Ancient Greek: Ἔλατος means "ductile") in Greek mythology. * Elatus, a son of Arcas by either Leaneira (or Laodameia), Meganeira, Chrysopeleia or Erato and the brother of Apheidas and Azan. He was allotted by Arcas the region of then-nameless Mount Cyllene as his domain, but afterwards migrated to the region which later became known as Phocis, and assisted the local inhabitants in the war against the Phlegyans; he was renowned as founder and eponym of the city Elatea. An image of him was carved on a stele in the marketplace of Elatea. He married Laodice (daughter of Cinyras) and became by her, the father of Stymphalus, Pereus, Aepytus, Ischys, and Cyllen. *Elatus, a Lapith chieftain of Larissa, Thessaly. He was the father, by Hippeia, of Caeneus, Polyphemus, the seer Ampycus, Ischys who was beloved by Coronis, and a daughter Dotia, possibly the eponym of Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly (see also Dotis) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippeia
Hippeia or Hippea (Ancient Greek: Ἱππεία) is the name of two characters in Greek mythology. * Hippea, daughter of Antippus. She married Elatus and bore the Argonaut Polyphemus, Caeneus and Ischys. * Athena Hippeia (or Hippeia Athena, "Athena of Horses"), Athena as a goddess of horses. In this form, she was said to be the daughter of Poseidon and Polyphe, daughter of Oceanus. She was given her name because she was the first to use a chariot. Suidas, s.v. ''Athena Hippeia'' Notes References * Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic StudiesOnline version at the Topos Text Project.*Suida The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; ; ) is a large 10th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine encyclopedia of the History of the Mediterranean region, ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas () or Souidas (). It is an ..., ''Suda Encyclopedia'' trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phocus
Phocus (; Ancient Greek: Φῶκος means "seal" (marine animal)) was the name of the eponymous hero of Phocis in Greek mythology. Ancient sources relate of more than one figure of this name, and of these at least two are explicitly said to have had Phocis named after them. * Phocus, the son of Poseidon and Pronoe, possible eponym of Phocis according to a scholiast on the ''Iliad''.Scholia on Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.517 * Phocus, son of Aeacus and Psamathe,Apollodorus3.12.6 Marchs.v. Phocus, p. 628 also possible eponym of Phocis according to a scholiast on the ''Iliad''. * Phocus, son of Ornytion. * Phocus, father of Callirhoe. *Phocus, father of Manthea(seems to be a variation of the Callisto story) who consorted with Zeus(who was in the form of a bear) and became the mother of Arctos(seems to be variation of the character of Arcas) by the god according to clementine literature,Recognitions.The figure is mentioned by the literature to criticize the evils of polytheism in the views o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
