Polyphemus is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey. His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail; for comic effect, Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea. Often he was portrayed as unsuccessful in these, and as unaware of his disproportionate size and musical failings. In the work of even later authors, however, he is presented as both a successful lover and skilled musician. From the Renaissance on, art and literature reflect all of these interpretations of the giant.
In Greek mythology, Hilaera was a Messenian princess.
In Greek mythology, Eurypylus was the name of several different people:
Polydora was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:
Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
The Pleiades, companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They were the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. Together with the seven Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Dionysus. They were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain.
Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow was an English classical scholar and teacher. Apart from eleven years as a master at Eton College between 1914 and 1925 his career was entirely at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Arthur Sanders Way, was a classical scholar, translator and headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia.
Agamede was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and legendary history.
Andrew Dalby, is an English linguist, translator and historian who has written articles and several books on a wide range of topics including food history, language, and Classical texts.
In Greek mythology, Phoebe was a Messenian princess.
Anaxibia is the name of six characters in Greek mythology.
In Greek mythology, Diocles may refer to:
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson is a British classicist and the Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she became the first woman to publish a translation of Homer's Odyssey into English.
In Greek mythology, the name Perimede refers to:
In Greek mythology, the name Clytie or Clytia may refer to:
The name Merops refers to several figures from Greek mythology:
In Greek mythology King Eurytus of Oechalia, Thessaly, was a skillful archer who even said to have instructed Heracles in his art of using the bow.
In Greek mythology, Philomache or Phylomache was an Minyan princess who became a queen of Iolcus.
In Greek mythology, Bias, was one of the three kings of Argos when the kingdom was divided into three domains. The other kings were his brother Melampus and Anaxagoras. From Bias, they say, a river in Messenia was called.
