Metamorphoses: Books IX-XV
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Venus (goddess)
Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed ...
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Eurydice
In Greek mythology, Eurydice (Greek: Εὐρυδίκη, Eurydikē) was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of music, prophecy, and light, who also drove the sun chariot, "adopting" the power as god of the Sun from the primordial god Helios). She...
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Orpheus
Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. He is the son of the god Phoebus and the muse Calliope.The major stories about Orpheus are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his ...
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Ganymede (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganymēdēs) is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals. He was the son of Tros of Dardania and of Callirrhoe. His brothers were Ilus and Assaracus. In ...
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Heracles
Heracles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklēs, from Hēra, "Hera", and kleos, "glory"), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Gr...
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Deianeira (wife Of Heracles)
The better-known Deianira was a wife of Heracles and, in late Classical accounts, his unwitting murderer, killing him with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. She is the main character in Sophocles play Women of Trachis. more...
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Nessus (centaur)
In Greek mythology, Nessus was a famous centaur who was killed by Heracles, and whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles. He was the son of Centauros. He fought in the battle with the Lapiths and became a ferryman on the river, Euenos...
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Pygmalion (greek)
Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Greek: Πυγμαλίων, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus. ] He is most familiar from Ovids narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.mor...
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Midas (king)
The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. This came to be called the golden touch, or the Midas touch...
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Achilles
Achilles is a mythological hero featured in Homers Iliad, where he is depicted as the most feared warrior of his age, a son of the nymph Thetis. Later authors rewrite his story to make him invulnerable, having been dipped in the river Styx by his mo...
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