"Theia In Greek mythology, Theia (; , also rendered Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa ""wide-shining"", is a Titaness. Her brother/consort is Hyperion, a Titan and god of the sun, and together they are the parents of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn). The name ""Theia"" alone means simply ""goddess"" or ""divine""; ""Theia Euryphaessa"" () brings overtones of extent (, ""eurys"", ""wide"", root: ) and brightness (, ""phaos"", ""light"", root: φαεσ-). Hesiod's ""Theogony"" gives her an equally primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). Robert Graves also relates that"
"Medea In Greek mythology, Medea (; , ""Mēdeia"", ) is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god begat by the Titan Hyperion. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's ""Theogony"" around 700 BC, but best known from a 3rd century BC literary version by Apollonius of Rhodes called the ""Argonautica"". Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate. There have been many different accounts of Medea's family tree. One of"
"Pandia In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia (, meaning ""all brightness"") was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon. From the ""Homeric Hymn to Selene"", we have: ""Once the Son of Cronos [Zeus] was joined with her [Selene] in love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods."" An Athenian tradition made Pandia the wife of Antiochus, the eponymous hero of Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes (phylai). Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, but by at least the time of"
"the late ""Homeric Hymn"", Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, and an Athenian festival, called the Pandia, probably held for Zeus, was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her. Pandia In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia (, meaning ""all brightness"") was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon. From the ""Homeric Hymn to Selene"", we have: ""Once the Son of Cronos [Zeus] was joined with her [Selene] in love; and she conceived and"
"many times in ancient texts and contemporary scholarly work. Other, non-literary traditions guided the vase-painters, and a localized, chthonic presence of Medea was propitiated with unrecorded emotional overtones at Corinth, at the sanctuary devoted to her slain children, or locally venerated elsewhere as a foundress of cities. Medea In Greek mythology, Medea (; , ""Mēdeia"", ) is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god begat by the Titan Hyperion. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's ""Theogony"" around 700 BC, but best"
"been seen as being possibly connected with the festival. The name ""Pandia"" is associated with the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon. Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, but by at least the time of the Homeric Hymn to Selene, Pandia (""all brightness"") had become a daughter of Selene and Zeus, and ""Pandia"" Selene or Selene's daughter Pandia, have been offered as possible origins for the name of the festival. Another mythological figure whose name has been suggested as a possible source for the name of the festival is Pandion, a legendary king of Athens"
"daughters each wear a moon amulet to symbolize their power of the moon. Menae In Greek mythology, the Menae/Menai (Μηναι; singular Mene Μηνη), 50 in number, were the goddesses of the lunar months within an Olympiad (the span of time between Olympic Games), and the phases of the moon. They were the daughters of the Titan Moon goddess, Selene, by her lover, Endymion, a mortal king of Elis and Olympia, home of the Olympic Games. Each presided over one of the 50 lunar months of the 4-year Olympiad - a basic time measurement unit for the Ancient Greeks; the eight"
"not only to similar mother-of-the-sun goddesses such as Phoebe and Leto, but perhaps also to more universalizing mother-figures such as Rhea and Cybele. Theia's mythological role as the mother of the Moon goddess Selene is alluded to in the application of the name to a hypothetical planet which, according to the giant impact hypothesis, collided with the Earth, resulting in the Moon's creation. Theia's alternate name ""Euryphaessa"" has been adopted for a species of Australian leafhoppers ""Dayus euryphaessa"" (Kirkaldy, 1907). A Theia figure has been found at the Necropolis of Cyrene. Theia In Greek mythology, Theia (; , also rendered"
"The word ""men"" (feminine ""mene""), meant the moon, and the lunar month. It was also the name of the Phrygian moon-god Men. The usual account of Selene's origin is given by Hesiod. In the ""Theogony"", the sun-god Hyperion espoused his sister Theia, who gave birth to ""great Helios and clear Selene and Eos who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."" The ""Homeric Hymn to Helios"" follows this tradition: ""Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaëssa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios."""
"Menae In Greek mythology, the Menae/Menai (Μηναι; singular Mene Μηνη), 50 in number, were the goddesses of the lunar months within an Olympiad (the span of time between Olympic Games), and the phases of the moon. They were the daughters of the Titan Moon goddess, Selene, by her lover, Endymion, a mortal king of Elis and Olympia, home of the Olympic Games. Each presided over one of the 50 lunar months of the 4-year Olympiad - a basic time measurement unit for the Ancient Greeks; the eight year Octaeteris--which was used in place of our modern counting of decades--consisted of"
"Artemis as goddess of the moon was identified with Hecate. Angelos could be an early version of Hecate, the one that pertained both to the upper world and the underworld, similar to the position of Persephone. Angelos (mythology) In Greek mythology, Angelos () or Angelia (Ἀγγελία) was a daughter of Zeus and Hera who became known as a chthonic deity. Her story only survives in scholia on Theocritus' Idyll 2, and is as follows: Angelos was raised by nymphs to whose care her father had entrusted her. One day she stole her mother Hera's anointments and gave them away to"
"also calls her Eos Erigeneia: Hesiod wrote: Thus Eos, preceded by the Morning Star, is seen as the genetrix of all the stars and planets; her tears are considered to have created the morning dew, personified as Ersa or Herse (Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.621-2). Eos is the daughter of Hyperion, a bringer of light, the ""One Above, Who Travels High Above the Earth"" and ""of Theia, The Divine"". Her brother was the Sun god Helios, and her sister was Selene, the Moon goddess. Her team of horses pull her chariot across the sky and are named in the Odyssey as ""Firebright"""
"the ancient lunar deity Selene, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. Claiming to have already been old when modern mankind was just emerging, Selene was born over 17,000 years ago somewhere in what is now Central Europe, ""after the Oceans swallowed Atlantis and before the rise of the Aryas"". Her tribe's elders recognized her for what she was and commanded the entire tribe, including her own mother, to sacrifice their lives to feed her. Selene was revealed to have been an old enemy of the sorcerer Kulan Gath. Kulan Gath was active during the Hyborian Age (before any recorded"
"moon of the planet Saturn, and the prehistoric Tethys Ocean are named after this goddess. Tethys (mythology) In Greek mythology, Tethys (; ), was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, sister and wife of Titan-god Oceanus, mother of the Potamoi and the Oceanids. Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology and no established cults. Tethys was one of the Titan offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). Hesiod lists her Titan siblings as Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Cronus. Tethys married her brother Oceanus, an enormous river encircling the world and was"
"Gravitational perturbations by Venus could have eventually put it onto a collision course with the Earth. Theia was named for the titaness Theia, who in Greek mythology was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the moon, which parallels the planet Theia's collision with the early Earth that is theorized to have created the Moon. An alternative name, Orpheus, is also used. According to the giant-impact hypothesis, Theia orbited the Sun, nearly along the orbit of the proto-Earth, by staying close to one or the other of the Sun–Earth system's two more stable Lagrangian points (i.e. either L4 or L5)."
"later Theia is referred to as the ""cow-eyed Euryphaessa"" who gave birth to Helios in myths dating to Classical Antiquity. Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, ""mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one"" of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn). Pindar praises Theia in his Fifth Isthmian ode: She seems here a goddess of glittering in particular and of glory in general, but Pindar's allusion to her as ""Theia of many names"" is telling, since it suggests assimilation, referring"
"Cleopatra Selene II Cleopatra Selene II (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Σελήνη; late 40 BC – c. 6 BC; the numeration is modern), also known as Cleopatra VIII of Egypt or Cleopatra VIII, was a Ptolemaic Princess and was the only daughter to Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman triumvir Mark Antony. She was the fraternal twin of Ptolemaic prince Alexander Helios. Her second name in ancient Greek means moon, also meaning the Titaness-Goddess of the Moon Selene, being the counterpart of her twin brother's second name Helios, meaning sun and the Titan-God of the Sun Helios. Cleopatra was born,"
"and ""Daybright"". She was the Mother of several notable offspring, including the Winds, Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, and the Morning Star, Eosphoros, all of whom she bore to the Titan Astraeus (""of the Stars""), and Memnon, her son by Tithonus. This rosy-fingered, saffron-robed and golden-throned goddess, who goes up to Olympus to announce the light to the immortals, fell in love several times, and some say it was Aphrodite who cursed her to be perpetually in love, because once had Eos lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares, the god of war. Eos is the daughter of Hyperion and Theia and sister"
"and Hera returns to the battlefield where the gods begin to fight amongst themselves. Echo Semele and Dionysus Lamia Gerana Cydippe Tiresias Chelone The Golden Fleece The Metamorphoses Ixion Hera Hera (; , ""Hērā""; , ""Hērē"" in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister-wife of Zeus. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hera rules over Mount Olympus as queen of the gods. A matronly figure, Hera served as both the patroness and protectress of married women,"
"Harmonia In Greek mythology, Harmonia (; ) is the immortal goddess of harmony and concord. Her Roman counterpart is Concordia. Her Greek opposite is Eris, whose Roman counterpart is Discordia. There was also a nymph called Harmonia. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, she was a naiad of the Akmonian Wood who was mother of the Amazons. According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. By another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island. Almost always, Harmonia"
"Rhea (mythology) Rhea (; Ancient Greek: Ῥέα ) is a character in Greek mythology, the Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus as well as sister and wife to Cronus. In early traditions, she is known as ""the mother of gods"" and therefore is strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele, who have similar functions. The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right. The Romans identified her with Magna Mater (their form of Cybele), and the Goddess Ops. Most ancient"
"Aglaonice Aglaonice or Aganice of Thessaly (, ""Aglaoníkē"") was a Greek astronomer of the 2nd or 1st century BC. She is mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and in the scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes as a female astronomer and as the daughter of Hegetor (or Hegemon) of Thessaly. She was regarded as a sorceress for her ability to make the Moon disappear from the sky, which has been taken to mean she could predict the time and general area where a lunar eclipse would occur. A Greek proverb makes reference to Aglaonice's alleged boasting: ""Yes, as the moon obeys"
"Helios Helios (; ""Hēlios""; Latinized as ""Helius""; in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia (according to Hesiod), also known as Euryphaessa (in ""Homeric Hymn 31"") and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. Helios was described as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. In the ""Homeric"
"Pyrrha of Thessaly In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (; Ancient Greek: Πύρρα) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora II and Thyia. According to some accounts, Hellen was credited to be born from Pyrrha's union with Zeus. In Latin the word ""pyrrhus"" means red from the Greek adjective πυρρός, ""purrhos"", i.e. ""flame coloured"", ""the colour of fire"", ""fiery red"" or simply ""red"" or ""reddish"". Pyrrha was evidently named after her red hair as Horace and Ovid describes her as red haired. When Zeus"
"of the sea. He can take the form of all animals of the zodiac. Some lists, cited by Hyginus, of the names of horses that pulled Helios' chariot, are as follows. Helios Helios (; ""Hēlios""; Latinized as ""Helius""; in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia (according to Hesiod), also known as Euryphaessa (in ""Homeric Hymn 31"") and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. Helios was described as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole"
"Persephone In Greek mythology, Persephone ( ; ), also called Kore ( ; ""the maiden""), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the underworld, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead. She becomes the queen of the underworld through her abduction by and subsequent marriage to Hades, the god of the underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence, she is also associated with"
"Pleione (mythology) Pleione (Ancient Greek: Πληιόνη or Πλειόνη) was an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology. Pleione lived in a southern region of Greece called Arcadia, on a mountain named Mount Kyllini. She married the Titan Atlas and gave birth to the Hyades, Hyas and the Pleiades. She was also the protectress of sailing. In different stories, Pleione had a different number of children (sometimes 3, 4, 5 or 7). Among her grandchildren were the god Hermes and the demigod Iasion. In some accounts, when Pleione once was travelling through Boeotia with her daughters, Orion who was accompanying her, fell in"
"those of the Greeks and the Babylonians. In ancient Greece, the two great luminaries the Sun and the Moon were called ""Helios"" and ""Selene""; the farthest planet (Saturn) was called ""Phainon"", the shiner; followed by ""Phaethon"" (Jupiter), ""bright""; the red planet (Mars) was known as ""Pyroeis"", the ""fiery""; the brightest (Venus) was known as ""Phosphoros"", the light bringer; and the fleeting final planet (Mercury) was called ""Stilbon"", the gleamer. The Greeks also made each planet sacred to one among their pantheon of gods, the Olympians: Helios and Selene were the names of both planets and gods; Phainon was sacred to"
"Kleodora In Greek mythology, Kleodora was one of the prophetic Thriai, nymphs who divined the future by throwing stones or pebbles. She and her sisters Melaina and Daphne lived on Mount Parnassus, were Delphi is located and was loved by Poseidon. With Poseidon she became the mother of Parnassus. In myths where demigods have two fathers the other is listed as Kleopompos. Parnassus is famous for creating a method of telling the future by using birds and founding the main city on Mt. Parnassus. Her father was the local river-god Cephissus of northern Boeotia. The meaning of her name and"
"Aetna (nymph) Aetna (Greek: , ""Aἴtnē"") was in Greek and Roman mythology a Sicilian nymph and, according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uranus and Gaia, or of Briareus. Stephanus of Byzantium says that according to one account Aetna was a daughter of Oceanus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily. By Zeus or Hephaestus she became the mother of the Palici. Mount Aetna in Sicily was believed to have derived its name from her, and under it Zeus buried Typhon, Enceladus, or Briareus. The mountain itself was believed to be"
"Alcyone of Trachis In Greek mythology, Alcyone or Alkyone (; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκυόνη ""Halkyónē"" derived from ""alkyon"" αλκυων ""kingfisher"") was a Thessalian princess and later on queen of Trachis. Alcyone was the daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia, either by Enarete or Aegiale. She married King Ceyx, son of Eosphorus, and by him, the possible mother of Themistonoe, Hippasus and Hylas. Alcyone and Ceyx were very happy together in Trachis, and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's account, often sacrilegiously called each other ""Zeus"" and ""Hera"". This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea (going to consult an oracle according to Ovid's"
"daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia), the daughter of a Pallas, son of (otherwise unknown) Megamedes, which is possibly the same as this Pallas. Ovid uses the patronymic ""Pallantias"" or ""Pallantis"" as another name for Aurora, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Eos (""Dawn""), who was the sister of Selene; Ovid apparently regarding Aurora (or Eos) as the daughter of (or otherwise related to) Pallas. The ""Suda"" in discussing Athena's epithet ""Pallas"" suggests a possible derivation ""from brandishing (""pallein"") the spear"". The geographer Pausanias reports that Pellene, a city in Achaea, was claimed by its inhabitants to be named"
"Cleopatra Thea Cleopatra Thea (, which means ""Cleopatra the Goddess""; c. 164 – 121 BC) surnamed Eueteria (i.e., ""good-harvest/fruitful season"") was the ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. She was queen consort of Syria from 150 to about 125 BC as the wife of three Syrian kings: Alexander Balas, Demetrius II Nicator, and Antiochus VII Sidetes. She ruled Syria from 125 BC after the death of Demetrius II Nicator, eventually in co-regency with her son Antiochus VIII Grypus until 121 or 120 BC. Cleopatra Thea grew up in Egypt as the daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. She was"