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Ouranos

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**Uranus** is an Earth character in *Greek Mythology*. He made his début in around seven hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century. His next appearance will be in the novel "More In Heaven and Hell". Ouranos was the Primordial God of the sky in Greek Mythology.

## History

In Greek mythology, Ouranos is the primordial Greek God personifying the sky. His name in Roman mythology was Caelus and sometimes: Uranus. In Ancient Greek literature, Ouranos or Father Sky was the brother and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Chaos alone, Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky and Styx might be joined, however, in a solemn invocation in Homeric epic.

### Notes

* Ouranos wa born from Chaos however, he married his sister Gaia and also made many children with her.

## References

1. ↑ Ouranos was born from Gaia, who is also the Earth. This would make his birth in Earth.
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Herion

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**Herion**, simply known as **Hera and Ixion** is the romantic pairing between Hera and Ixion from Greek Mythology.

* Strange Case

In Strange Case, the story mostly revolves around Ixion's love for Hera.

### Notes

* Ixion was sent to Tartarus after Zeus found out he wanted Hera.
Pan

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**Pan** is an Arcadia character in *Greek Mythology*. He made his début in around seven hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century. His next appearance will be in the novel "Strange Case".

Pan was the god of nature, satyrs, the wild and many other naturistic features in Greek Mythology.

## History

In Greek mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs. His name originates within the Ancient Greek language, from the word paein, meaning "to pasture"; the modern word "panic" is derived from the name. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism.

### Notes

* **Pan**, unlike many other gods only had three consorts.
	+ They were Syrinx, Echo and Pitys.
Lachesis

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**Lachesis** is a Mount Olympus character in *Greek Mythology*. She made her début in around seven hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and her next appearance will be in the novel, *"Strange Case"*.

Lachesis was the measurer of the thread out of the three Moirai in Greek Mythology.

## History

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In Greek mythology, Lachesis was the second of the Three Fates, or Moirai: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. Normally seen clothed in white, Lachesis is the measurer of the thread spun on Clotho's spindle, and in some texts, determines Destiny, or thread of life. Lachesis was the apportioner, deciding how much time for life was to be allowed for each person or being. She measured the thread of life with her rod. She is also said to choose a person's destiny after a thread was measured. In mythology, it is said that she appears with her sisters within three days of a baby's birth to decide its fate.
David Hoflin

**David Hoflin** is the Swedish-born, Australian actor who portrays Zeus on ABC's **Once Upon a Time**.

## Biography

He has appeared in TV shows such as Ocean Girl, Head Start, A Country Practice, McLeod's Daughters, Eugenie Sandler P.I., State Coroner, and The Lost World.

Hoflin was ten when he starred in his first role alongside Meryl Streep and Sam Neill in Evil Angels (released as A Cry in the Dark outside of Australia and New Zealand), a film about the famous tragic case where a dingo stole baby Azaria Chamberlain from her tent at Ayers Rock.

In the Australian medical drama All Saints, he played a character named Kieran who had become heavily intoxicated with alcohol at a rave and subsequently passed out and neglected his younger sister, who was later raped by his friend Lewis.

In Ocean Girl, he played one of the lead male characters. The romantic chemistry between his character and that of Marzena Godecki's character, Neri is one of the central themes of the series.

Hoflin joined Neighbours in 2007 as Oliver Barnes. He received the job without auditioning after Christian Clark quit with immediate effect. He filmed his last scenes on 6 May 2008, the same day as fellow cast member Daniel O'Connor. Hoflin returned to Neighbours in April 2011 for a two-week guest stint.

Hoflin joined the cast of Alcatraz in 2012. He plays Thomas "Tommy" Madsen, a supposedly deceased, former Alcatraz inmate who disappeared in 1963. He is Rebecca Madsen's grandfather. In 2013 he was also seen on Touch and on Season 8, Episode 20 of Criminal Minds. In 2014 he appears in Crossbones. In 2015 he was a guest star in Supernatural (U.S. TV series)

## Trivia

* Hoflin was born in Stockholm, Sweden and has a sister called Emma.
* Hoflin began a relationship with his Neighbours co-star Natalie Blair in 2008. The pair currently live together in Los Angeles.
* On 10 March 2012, Fiona Byrne of the Herald Sun reported the couple were engaged. They married on the 4th January 2013 in Wharton Victoria.
Dia

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**Dia** is a character in Greek Mythology and mother to one of the lapiths, Pirithoos.

## History

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### Notes

* **Dia** was only ever married to Ixion.
	+ However, she made love to Zeus once and made a boy named Pirithoos.
Clash of the Titans 1981

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## Synopsis

King Acrisius of Argos (Donald Houston) imprisons his daughter Danaë (Vida Taylor), jealous of her attracting suitors. When the god Zeus (Laurence Olivier) impregnates her, Acrisius banishes his daughter and his newborn grandson Perseus to sea in a wooden chest. In retribution, Zeus kills Acrisius and orders Poseidon (Jack Gwillim) to release the last of the Titans, a gigantic sea monster called the Kraken, to destroy Argos. Meanwhile, Danaë and Perseus safely float to the island of Seriphos where Perseus grows to adulthood.

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## Characters (Species) Mentioned and Shown

In the movie, the characters shown were:

* **Zeus**
* **Hades**

* Characters in **bold** are characters that were officially meant to be the actual character and not just an allusion.
* Italic is unknown.
Demeter

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**Demeter** is a character in Hesiod and Homer's myth. She débuts, with her appearance in around 700 B.C. and usually ends at around the 9th Century.

Demeter is the greek Goddess of the harvest, fertility and agriculture. She would also be the oldest Olympian if that Hestia backed down from the Olympian council in Greek Mythology.

## History

Demeter is a deity, the daughter of Cronus and the older sister of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon and Hera, younger sister of Hestia. When Cronus dethroned Uranus (or Ouranos), he told him a prophecy that one day, one of his children will do the same and dethrone him, so Cronus ate each of his children, including the goddess of the harvest, Demeter. Demeter also helped Zeus and the other Olympian gods defeat the titans in the titanomachy. Once the titans were destroyed, Mount Olympus was made and Zeus raped Demeter, and she later bore Persephone.
Hades went to great lengths to be married to the goddess of spring, Persephone. He saw this beautiful woman and told his grandmother Gaia to show her a flower, the most beautiful flower, Persephone dazzled by the flower's beauty got too distracted, then Hades coming up from the Underworld in a beautiful, rich golden chariot and forced her into it by grabbing her arm and then getting her fully and heading back down to the underworld with him. Hecate, who lived in the underworld heard the poor goddesses' cry but could not know what had happened. Demeter, devastated over her daughter's disappearance, went searching for her, out of nowhere, Hecate appeared and said she heard Persephone's cries but could not see what had happened. She then suggested going to Helios, the sun [god], who immediately spoke out that Hades kidnapped her. Hades was going to let Persephone go, but before she left the Underworld, he gave her a pomegranate to eat. Persephone, not knowing what the fruit of the Underworld does, ate it. Not knowing, it keeps you trapped in the Underworld for eternity. So Demeter knew a deal needed to be struck. She told Hades and begged him to let out her daughter. Hades refused, then Demeter requested that Persephone stay the first half of the year up with her mother and the other half, in the Underworld with Hades. Hades accepted the offer. After a while, Hades asked Zeus, for his hand in marriage to Persephone, who agreed without a thought.

## Family

*Notes:*

* Solid lines denote parent-child blood relationships
* Dashed lines denote marriage relationships that result in offspring
* **†** denotes the deceased
* Sorry for the closeness of the 6 names of the children

### Notes

* **Demeter** had many lovers/consorts, they are: Ixion, Zeus, Oceanus, Karmanor, Poseidon and Tripolemus.
	+ Meaning that she was not one of the virgin goddesses.
Pallas

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**Pallas** is a Mount Othrys character in *Greek Mythology*. He made his first appearance in around 700 BCE.

Pallas was one of the titans in Greek Mythology.

## History

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## References

1. ↑ The Titans are seen as they wage war on the Olympians.
Midas

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King **Midas** is a character in Hesiod and Homer's Greek Mythology. He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 BCE and usually ends at around the 9th Century.

## History

Dionysus, the god found that his old schoolmaster and foster father, who was a satyr, was missing. The old satyr had been drinking wine and wandered away drunk, to be found by some Phrygian peasants who carried him to their king, Midas. Midas recognized him and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and songs. On the eleventh day, he brought Silenus back to Dionysus in Lydia. Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wished for. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold.

Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched an oak twig and a stone; both turned to gold. Overjoyed, as soon as he got home, he touched every rose in the rose garden, and all became gold. He ordered the servants to set a feast on the table. Upon discovering how even the food and drink turned into gold in his hands, he regretted his wish and cursed it. Claudian states in his In Rufinem: "So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer."

Midas' daughter came to him one day, upset about the roses that had lost their fragrance and become hard, and when he reached out to comfort her, found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well. Now, Midas hated the gift he had coveted. He prayed to Dionysus, begging to be delivered from starvation. Dionysus heard his prayer, and consented; telling Midas to wash in the river Pactolus. Then, whatever he put into the water would be reversed of the touch. Midas did so, and when he touched the waters, the power flowed into the river, and the river sands turned into gold.

### Facts

* 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.

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: "The Shephard"Season 3, Episode 21: "Snow Drifts".
Gods

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**Gods** can refer to as:

* **Deities**, general deities but not specifically gods in Greek Mythology.
* **Titans**, the first generation of Deities in Greek Mythology.
* **Olympians**, the newer generation of Deities in Greek Mythology.
Hydra

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The Lernaean Hydra, simply known as the **Hydra** is a character in the old Greek philosopher's myth. With his appearance in around 700 BCE and usually ends at around the 9th Century. He recently appeared in the book and movie Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.

The Hydra was a fierce monster in Greek Mythology.

## History

known for having 3 to 7/9 heads. The Hydra was a great monster that guarded the gates to the Underworld until Eurystheus sent Heracles to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes. He shot flaming arrows into the Hydra's lair, the spring of Amymone, a deep cave from which it emerged only to terrorize neighboring villages. He then confronted the Hydra, wielding either a harvesting sickle (according to some early vase-paintings), a sword, or his famed club. The chthonic creature's reaction to this decapitation was botanical: two grew back, an expression of the hopelessness of such a struggle for any but the hero. The weakness of the Hydra was that it was invulnerable only if it retained at least one head.

### Death

* The remains of the **Hydra** was shown to Eurystheus who did unknown things to it.
	+ He most likely threw it out, as most of Heracles' labor items, the exception being Cerberus.

## See Also

* Monsters
* Heracles
* Cerberus
* Underworld
* Typhon

## References

1. ↑ It has been confirmed that the **Hydra** will appear in the third installment.
Polyhymnia

## General Information

### **Relatives:**

Zeus *(father)*
Mnemosyne *(mother)*

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**Polyhymnia** is a Mount Olympus character in *Greek Mythology*. She made her début in around seven hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century.

Polyhymnia was the greek muse of Hymns in Greek Mythology.

## History

In Greek mythology, Polyhymnia is the muse of hymns.

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Achilles

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**Theseus** is a character in Hesiod and Homer's myth. He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 B.C. and usually ends at around the 9th Century.

He was the slayer of the Minotaur and the hero who completed six labors on his journey to Athens. Theseus is generally regarded as the second greatest hero in Greek Mythology.

## History

Achilles was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the hand of Thetis until Prometheus, the fore-thinker, warned Zeus of a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father. For this reason, the two gods withdrew their pursuit, and had her wed Peleus.

There is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica (iv.760) Zeus' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him. Thetis, although a daughter of the sea-god Nereus, was also brought up by Hera, further explaining her resistance to the advances of Zeus.

According to the Achilleid, written by Statius in the 1st century AD, and to no surviving previous sources, when Achilles was born Thetis tried to make him immortal, by dipping him in the river Styx. However, he was left vulnerable at the part of the body by which she held him, his heel. It is not clear if this version of events was known earlier. In another version of this story, Thetis anointed the boy in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire, to burn away the mortal parts of his body. She was interrupted by Peleus and abandoned both father and son in a rage.

However, none of the sources before Statius makes any reference to this general invulnerability. To the contrary, in the Iliad Homer mentions Achilles being wounded: in Book 21 the Paeonian hero Asteropaeus, son of Pelagon, challenged Achilles by the river Scamander. He cast two spears at once, one grazed Achilles' elbow, "drawing a spurt of blood".

Also, in the fragmentary poems of the Epic Cycle in which we can find description of the hero's death, Cypria (unknown author), Aithiopis by Arctinus of Miletus, Little Iliad by Lesche of Mytilene, Iliou persis by Arctinus of Miletus, there is no trace of any reference to his general invulnerability or his famous weakness (heel); in the later vase paintings presenting Achilles' death, the arrow (or in many cases, arrows) hit his body.

Peleus entrusted Achilles to Chiron the Centaur, on Mt. Pelion, to be reared.

## References

1. ↑ Thetis dipped Achilles into the River Styx, but held him by the heel, his only weak spot.
Charon

* Once Upon a Time
* Hercules (1997)

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**Charon**, also known as **The Ferryman** and **Rower** is a character in Hesiod and Homer's myth. He débuts, with his appearance in around seven hundred BCE and usually ends at around the ninth century.

Charon is a chthonic deity and ferryman of the boat in the Underworld in Greek Mythology.

## History

Charon is a deity, mostly known as a daemon, the son of Nyx and Erebus and the older brother of Thanatos and Hypnos. Charon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes – such as Aeneas, Dionysus, Heracles, Hermes, Odysseus, Orpheus, Pirithous, Psyche, Theseus and Sisyphus – journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.

Charon is depicted frequently in the art of ancient Greece. Attic funerary vases of the 5th and 4th centuries BC are often decorated with scenes of the dead boarding Charon’s boat. On the earlier such vases, he looks like a rough, unkempt Athenian seaman dressed in reddish-brown, holding his ferryman's pole in his right hand and using his left hand to receive the deceased. Hermes sometimes stands by in his role as psychopomp. On later vases, Charon is given a more “kindly and refined” demeanor.

## Trivia

* Notes
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* **Charon** was apparently not evil. Just very gloomy like Hades.
	+ This is likely because he was stuck in the Underworld.
### Astronomy

- Charon, the second dwarf planet of the Pluto-Charon system, is named after him.
Leto

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**Leto** is a Mount Othrys character in Hesiod and Homer's myth. She débuts, with her mention in around 700 BCE.

Leto is a greek titaness and greek goddess in Greek Mythology.

## History

Leto [...]

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### Marriage

* She was the first **ever** wife of Zeus.
Eurydice

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**Eurydice** is a character in *Greek Mythology*. She made her débutt in around seven. hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century.

Eurydice was an ancient greek mortal nymh in Greek Mythology.

## History

In Greek mythology, Eurydice was a nymph and one of the daughters of the god Apollo. She was married to Orpheus, a legendary musician and poet.

After their marriage, Aristaeus, a minor god pursued her and wanted to marry her. While trying to avoid the minor, Eurydice accidentally stepped on a snake who bit her and she fell dead. Upon hearing the news, Orpheus was so depressed, he wouldn't do anything or go out of his house for **days**. Then he cleverly devised a plan to get her wife back from death. Since he was the former apprentice of Apollo, who happened to be the god of music as well, the music Orpheus played was immensely amazing and even the deities of Olympus would listen in on it.

Orpheus went to the entrance of the Underworld and made all the guardians fall slowly asleep, also the three headed hellhound, Cerberus fell asleep on his duties as guardian. Even the Furies or **Erinyes** let him in and made way for him. When it came to the ferryman daemon, Charon, he immediately refused to let Orpheus go any more into the Underworld and that it was strictly for the dead. Except, when he played his music, the daemon agreed to let him pass because he was soothed by the music that Orpheus played. He took him to the castle of the Underworld deity, Hades. When it was the god's turn, even he felt that the music was soothing and asked his wife, Persephone how she felt about the idea about letting his wife go. Persephone agreed. So, Hades agreed on one condition. Orpheus dare not turn back and look at his wife until they were **both** out of the demonic realm.

Orpheus went around in the Underworld searching for Eurydice, when he heard her, he closed his eyes and held her hand. While holding her hand, she walked behind him and they passed all the Demons that lurked down in the Underworld. When they got to the entrance and passed the three headed hellhound, Orpheus saw the sunlight of the overworld and finally was out and looked back to his newly living wife. Except, he forgot that they **both** had to be out of the Underworld. Eurydice was still inside. He then saw his wife slowly being dragged back into the Underworld.

The legend concludes with this:

*Orpheus wept and wept, he was so close. He got so upset.*

### Production Notes

* Eurydice was married to Orpheus *formerly*.
Nine Muses

The **Nine Muses**, also known as **Water Nymphs** and **Singing Women** are a group of characters in Hesiod and Homer's Greek Mythology. They make their début in around 700 BCE and will appear as an allusion in the novel, "Strange Case".

## History

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Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muses.

## Known Muses

* Clio (History)
* Euterpe (Music)
* Erato (Lyric Poetry)
* Melpomene (Tragedy)
* Polyhymnia (Hymns)
* Terpsichore (Dance)
* Thalia (Comedy)
* Urania (Astronomy)

### On-Screen Notes

* Nine Muses, like Deities and many other beings are known to be immortal.
	+ However, Zeus' lightning bolt has the power to destroy them by erasing them from existence. *("Wrath of the Titans", "Once Upon a Time", "Greek Mythology")*

## References

1. ↑ They are sometimes referred to as Water Nymphs, as well as Deities
2. ↑ There is an allusion to the Nine Muses **only** because Ixion refers to:"It was so beautiful, there were nine women all singing in tune."
Clash of the Titans

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Ixion

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**Ixion** is a character in Greek Mythology and a king of the Lapiths.

## History

Ixion was a king of Lapiths in Greek Mythology. His father was named Leonteus who was one of the commanders of the Lapiths during the Trojan war. His mother, Perimele was a daughter of Amythaon and she married Ixion's father, Leonteus.

Later in his life, Zeus took pity on him after he done a primordial act of murder and went mad; defiled by his act. Zeus brought him to Mount Olympus and introduced him to the gods and goddesses that lived on the mountain. Unfortunately instead of being thankful to Zeus, Ixion grew lustful for Zeus' wife, Hera and would try to mate with her at every turn.

Whenever Hera used to get up and be excused, Ixion thought that was his queue to go and mate with Hera. When she arrived at her room and sat down, he would try to push Hera and told her how much better he was than Zeus and would never cheat on her. Except, Hera ran away from him and once she told Zeus, he didn't believe her. Unfortunately, because he felt pity on his wife and he made a cloud, in the exact same form as Hera and Ixion mated with her and surprisingly they made a child from that.

When Zeus found out, he was outraged. He regret that he brought this mortal all the way to Mount Olympus and introduce him to the gods and even offered him immortality. Zeus quickly banished Ixion with his lightning bolt to Tartarus and made Hermes bind him to a burning spinning wheel that would stay that way for eternity.

### Notes

* **Ixion** had no consorts after his wife Dia died.

## References

1. ↑ It has been confirmed that **Ixion** will be in the third Greek Mythology series.
Astraeus

## General Information

### **Home:**

Tartarus
Mount Othrys *(formerly)*

## Physical Description

### **Affiliation(s):**

Cronus
Titans

## Relevant Pages

**Astraeus** is a Mount Othrys character in *Greek Mythology*. He made his mention in Homer's The Iliad in 700 BCE.

Menoetius was the titan-god of the dusk in Greek Mythology.

## History

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## References

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Calliope

## General Information

### **Consort:**

Oeagrus
Apollo *(unknown)*

### **Relatives:**

Zeus *(father)*
Mnemosyne *(mother)*
Orpheus *(son)*
Various Sons
Apollo *(former lover)*
Oeagrus *(husband)*
Ares *(former lover)*

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**Calliope** is a Mount Olympus character in *Greek Mythology*. She made her début in around seven hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century.

Calliope was the greek muse of Epic Poetry in Greek Mythology.

## History

In Greek mythology, Calliope is the muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. She is spoken of by Ovid as the "Chief of all Muses."

One account says Calliope, the best of them all, was the lover of the war god Ares, and bore him several sons: Mygdon, Edonus, Biston, and Odomantus (or Odomas), respectively the founders of Thracian tribes known as the Mygdones, Edones, Bistones, and Odomantes.

Calliope also had two famous sons, Orpheus and Linus, by either Apollo or the king Oeagrus of Thrace. She taught Orpheus verses for singing. According to Hesiod, she was also the wisest of the Muses, as well as the most assertive. Calliope married Oeagrus close to Pimpleia, Olympus. She is said to have defeated the daughters of Pierus, king of Thessaly, in a singing match, and then, to punish their presumption, turned them into magpies. (see Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.294–340, 662–78)

She was sometimes believed to be Homer's muse for the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Roman epic poet, Virgil, invokes her in the Aeneid (9.523).
Epimetheus

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—Prometheus

n Greek Mythology.

## History

Epimetheus is a titan, the son of Iapetus, also the younger brother of Prometheus, Menoetius and Atlas.
Epimetheus teamed up with the Olympians to help take down the titans along with his older sister, Menoetius and older brother, Prometheus and a few other titans. His older brother, Atlas unfortunately led the titans into attack.

According to Plato's use of the old myth in his Protagoras (320d–322a), the twin Titans were entrusted with distributing the traits among the newly created animals. Epimetheus was responsible for giving a positive trait to every animal, but when it was time to give man a positive trait, lacking foresight he found that there was nothing left.

Prometheus decided that mankind's attributes would be the civilizing arts and fire, which he stole from Zeus. Prometheus later stood trial for his crime. In the context of Plato's dialogue, "Epimetheus, the being in whom thought follows production, represents nature in the sense of materialism, according to which thought comes later than thoughtless bodies and their thoughtless motions."

According to Hesiod, who related the tale twice (Theogony, 527ff; Works and Days 57ff), Epimetheus was the one who accepted the gift of Pandora from the gods. Their marriage may be inferred (and was by later authors), but it is not made explicit in either text.

In later myths, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora was Pyrrha, who married Deucalion, a descendant of Prometheus. Together they are the only two humans who survived the deluge.

## Family

*Notes:*

* Solid lines denote parent-child blood relationships
* Dashed lines denote marriage relationships that result in offspring
* **†** denotes the deceased
* Iapetus and Epimetheus' mother were never married.

## penis Trivia

* Notes
* Production Notes

### Notes

* **Epimetheus** means 'afterthought.'
	+ Which means he wasn't very smart.

### Production Notes

* Epimetheus has the least amount of appearances of all the characters.
Phoebe

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**Phoebe** is a Mount Othrys character in *Greek Mythology*. She made her début in around seven hundred BCE in Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century.

Phoebe was a greek titaness and also the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis in Greek Mythology.

## History

In Greek mythology, Phoebe was one of the original Titans, who were one set of sons and daughters of Ouranos and Gaia. She was traditionally associated with the moon, as in Michael Drayton's Endimion and Phœbe (1595), the first extended treatment of the Endymion myth in English. Her consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and Asteria, a star-goddess who bore an only daughter Hecate. Given the meaning of her name and her association with the Delphic oracle, Phoebe was perhaps seen as the Titan goddess of prophecy and oracular intellect.

Through Leto, Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. The names Phoebe and Phoebus (masculine) came to be applied as synonyms for Artemis and Apollo respectively (as well as for Selene and Helios).

According to a speech that Aeschylus, in Eumenides, puts in the mouth of the Delphic priestess herself, she received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis: "Phoebe in this succession seems to be his private invention," D. S. Robertson noted, reasoning that in the three great allotments of oracular powers at Delphi, corresponding to the three generations of the gods, "Ouranos, as was fitting, gave the oracle to his wife Gaia and Cronus appropriately allotted it to his sister Themis."

In Zeus' turn to make the gift, Aeschylus could not report that the oracle was given directly to Apollo, who had not yet been born, Robertson notes, and thus Phoebe was interposed. These supposed male delegations of the powers at Delphi as expressed by Aeschylus are not borne out by the usual modern reconstruction of the sacred site's pre-Olympian history.
Prometheus

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—Homer

**Prometheus**, also known as **Fire Thief** is a Mount Othrys character in Hesiod and Homer's myth. He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 B.C. and usually ends at around the 9th Century.

Prometheus is the greek titan stealer of fire and creator of mankind in Greek Mythology.

## History

Prometheus is a titan, the son of Ouranos *and* Gaia, also the older brother of Epimetheus and Menoetius and younger brother of Atlas.
Prometheus was one of the four titans that helped Kronos take down and castrate Ouranos. He then teamed up with the Olympians to help take down the titans along with his younger sister, Menoetius and younger brother, Epimetheus and a few other titans. His older brother, Atlas unfortunately led the titans into attack.

The four most ancient sources for understanding the origin of the Prometheus myths and legends all rely on the images represented in the Titanomachy, or the cosmological struggle between the Greek gods and their parents, the Titans. Prometheus, himself a Titan, managed to avoid being in the direct confrontational cosmic battle between Zeus and the other Olympians against Cronus and the other Titans.

Prometheus therefore survived the struggle in which the offending Titans were eternally banished by Zeus to the chthonic depths of Tartarus, only to survive to confront Zeus on his own terms in subsequent climactic struggles. The greater Titanomachia depicts an overarching metaphor of the struggle between generations, between parents and their children, symbolic of the generation of parents needing to eventually give ground to the growing needs, vitality, and responsibilities of the new generation for the perpetuation of society and survival interests of the human race as a whole. Prometheus and his struggle would be of vast merit to human society as well in this mythology as he was to be credited with the creation of humans and therefore all of humanity as well. The four most ancient historical sources for the Prometheus myth are Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, and Pythagoras.

## Family

*Notes:*

* Solid lines denote parent-child blood relationships
* Dashed lines denote marriage relationships that result in offspring
* **†** denotes the deceased

## Trivia

* Notes
* Production Notes

### Notes

* **Prometheus** was one of the good characters in Greek Mythology and usually made the right decisions.
	+ Except with giving his younger Epimetheus, the jar of evil.

### Production Notes

* Prometheus has the least amount of appearances of all the characters.

## About

* Prometheus is mainly known for stealing the fire from the gods and giving it to making. On some accounts, Hestia helped him because she was the goddess of the hearth.
Asteria

## General Information

### **Home:**

Mount Olympus
Mount Othrys *(formerly)*

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**Asteria** is a Mount Othrys character in *Greek Mythology*. She made her mention in Homer's The Iliad in 700 BCE.

Asteria was one of the titaness' and goddesses in Greek Mythology.

## History

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Minotaur

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The Minotaur, also known as the **Guard of the Labyrinth** is a character in the old Greek philosopher's myth. He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 BCE and usually ends at around the 9th Century. He recently appeared in the book and movie Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.

The Minotaur was a monster in Greek Mythology.

## History

The Minotaur was a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull". The Minotaur dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Theseus volunteered to slay the monster. He promised his father, Aegeus, that he would put up a white sail on his journey back home if he was successful, but would have the crew put up black sails if he was killed. In Crete, Minos' daughter Ariadne fell in love with Theseus and helped him navigate the labyrinth. In most accounts she gave him a ball of thread, allowing him to retrace his path. Theseus killed the Minotaur with the sword of Aegeus and led the other Athenians back out of the labyrinth.

On the way home, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos and continued. He neglected, however, to put up the white sail. King Aegeus, from his lookout on Cape Sounion, saw the black-sailed ship approach and, presuming his son dead, committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea that is since named after him. This act secured the throne for Theseus.

### Death

* The Minotaur was a dangerous Monster and is widely used in many movies.

## See Also

* Monsters
* Theseus
* Underworld
* Crete
* Minos
* Greek Mythology
Athena

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> **Annabeth**: My mother is Athena. The goddess of wisdom.
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—Annabeth Chase and Perseus Jackson / *Movie\Book*

**Athena** is a character in Hesiod and Homer's myth. She débuts, with her appearance in around 700 B.C. and usually ends at around the 9th Century. Athena is the *virgin* greek Goddess of wisdom and war in Greek Mythology.

## History

Athena is a deity, the daughter of Zeus and in some accounts, Zeus *and* Metis.When the Olympian gods defeated the titans in the titanomachy, the titans were destroyed and Mount Olympus was made.
Athena was remade as the favourite daughter of Zeus, born fully armed from his forehead. Eventually Zeus experienced an enormous headache; Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes, Ares, or Palaemon (depending on the sources examined) cleaved Zeus’ head with the double-headed Minoan axe, the labrys. Athena leaped from Zeus’ head, fully grown and armed, with a shout — “and pealed to the broad sky her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia…”. Athena rejects the marriage suits of everyone that proposes to her, and swears herself to perpetual virginity. She thus rejects Aphrodite's values and becomes, to some extent, her chaste, domestic complementary, or antithesis. In a late myth, Medusa, unlike her sister Gorgons, came to be viewed by the Greeks of the 5th century as a beautiful mortal that served as priestess in Athena's temple. Poseidon liked Medusa, and decided to rape her in the temple of Athena, refusing to allow her vow of chastity to stand in his way. Upon discovering the desecration of her temple, Athena changed Medusa's form to match that of her sister Gorgons as punishment. Medusa's hair turned into snakes, her lower body was transformed also, and meeting her gaze would turn any living man to stone. In the earliest myths, there is only one Gorgon, but there are two snakes that form a belt around her waist. Athena is associated with Athens, a plural name, because it was the place where she presided over her sisterhood, the Athenai, in earliest times.
Athena was one of the three Goddesses (the other two were Hestia and Artemis) whose "hearts" Aphrodite could not affect.

## Family

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* Solid lines denote parent-child blood relationships
* Dashed lines denote marriage relationships that result in offspring
* **†** denotes the deceased
* Sorry for the closeness of the 6 names of the children

### Notes

* **Athena** did not have any consorts / lovers.
	+ She was one of the virgin goddesses. The other two being Hestia and Artemis.

## About

* Athena did not have any children as she was a virgin goddess.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena#Birth
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena#Mythology
Erasing Deities From Existence

**Erasing Deities From Existence**, also known as **Killing A God** is a method of destroying/killing gods in Greek Mythology. They make their début in the movie, Clash of the Titans.

## History

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## Step-By Step Method

2. Either stab them with the lightning bolt or simply conjure lightning from it.
3. Now the desired deity will be destroyed.
4. Method Complete

### On-Screen Notes

* Deities are known to be immortal.
	+ However, Zeus' lightning bolt has the power to destroy them by erasing them from existence. *("Wrath of the Titans", "Once Upon a Time", "Greek Mythology")*
Danaids

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The **Danaids**, also known as the **Daughters of Danaus** are a group of characters in Hesiod and Homer's Greek Mythology. They make their début in around 700 BCE and are scheduled to appear in the novel, "Alternate Realities".

## History

The Danaids were the fifty daughters of Danaus. In the Metamorphoses, Ovid refers to them as the Belides after their grandfather Belus. They were to marry the fifty sons of Danaus's twin brother Aegyptus, a mythical king of Egypt. In the most common version of the myth, all but one of them killed their husbands on their wedding night, and are condemned to spend eternity carrying water in a sieve or perforated device. In the classical tradition, they came to represent the futility of a repetitive task that can never be completed.

Danaus did not want his daughters to go ahead with the marriages and he fled with them in the first boat to Argos, which is located in Greece near the ancient city of Mycenae.

Danaus agreed to the marriage of his daughters only after Aegyptus came to Argos with his fifty sons in order to protect the local population, the Argives, from any battles. The daughters were ordered by their father to kill their husbands on the first night of their weddings and this they all did with the exception of one, Hypermnestra, who spared her husband Lynceus because he respected her desire to remain a virgin. Danaus was angered that his daughter refused to do as he ordered and took her to the Argives courts. Lynceus killed Danaus as revenge for the death of his brothers and he and Hypermnestra started the Danaid Dynasty of rulers in Argos.

The other forty-nine daughters remarried by choosing their mates in footraces. Some accounts tell that their punishment was in Tartarus being forced to carry a jug to fill a bathtub (pithos) without a bottom (or with a leak) to wash their sins off. Because the water was always leaking they would forever try to fill the tub. This myth is likely connected with a ceremony having to do with the worship of waters, and the Danaides were water-nymphs.

### On-Screen Notes

* The list in the Bibliotheca preserves not only the names of brides and grooms, but also those of their mothers.

1. ↑ He was the one in charge of them and the one that would boss them around.
2. ↑ *Bibliotheca*