Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. Some while after, she thought fit to go into the forbidden precinct of Zeus, not knowing the law, and being pursued by her own son and the Arkadians, was about to be killed because of the said law; but Zeus delivered her because of her connection with him and put her among the stars, giving her the name Arktos (Bear) because of the misfortune which had befallen her. She touched the goddess' bow : ‘This bow I touch,’ she cried, ‘Be a witness to my virginity.’ Cynthia [Artemis] praised her, and said : ‘Keep the pledge you vowed and you will be my companions' princeps.’ She would have kept the pledge but for her prettiness. "Perseus, the son of Jove [Zeus] and her whom, in her prison, Juppiter's [Zeus'] golden shower made fertile. As she hesitates, they strip her body--and her secret--bare. to C1st A.D.) :
The ignorant lad would have bedded his honed spike in her, but both were whisked to homes above. .
", Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.
8 : 100 (trans.
Her father received a prophecy that he would be killed by his grandchild. 240 ff (trans. EUROPA A princess of Phoinikia (Phoenicia) (West Asia) who was abducted to Krete )in the Greek Aegean) by Zeus in the form of a bull. to C1st A.D.) : Ovid, Fasti 2. Antiopa had been given over to Dirce, Lycus' wife, for punishment. [see Family], PROTOGENEIA A princess of the Hellenes, one of the daughters of King Deukalion, surviver of the Great Deluge. When Perseus was born, Acrisius had to have him killed.
And as he came and went, busy, there caught his eye [Kallisto] a country Nympha of Nonacris and love flared in his heart. ", Herodotus, Histories 7. . "Jove [Zeus] is aid to have come as guest to Lycaon, son of Pelasgus, and to have seduced his daughter Callisto. But the youths, informed by the shepherd who had reared them that she was their mother, quickly pursued and rescued their mother, but slew Dirce, binding her by the hair to a bull. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. In this form she bore Arcas. Saturnia [Hera] still fumes and asks white Tethys' waters not to bathe or touch Maenalian Arctos. Perseus by Danae, daughter of Acrisius. 5. 1 : Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 7 (trans. 6. 6. Thus widowed, Jupiter [Zeus] embraced her. When Hera detected the intrigue she turned Kallisto into a bear, and Artemis to please Hera shot the bear.
3. . Danae [was the] daughter of Akrisios. She whom I forbade to be a woman, made a goddess!
"[Artemis] slew Kallisto with a shot of her silver bow. Silent, her awkward blushes told her shame. ", Herodotus, Histories 6. Homer, Iliad 14. Hesiod's account presumably went on to describe her liaison with Zeus. Who now would hesitate to insult Juno [Hera]? Perseus had nothing to give and so pledged service to Polydectes.
LAODAMEIA A princess of Lykia (Asia Minor) who was loved by Zeus and bore him a son, Sarpedon.
Polydectes asked why he had returned to the island and asked for proof of Medusa's death. [see Family]. However, Zeus, disguised as a golden shower, found her, leaving her pregnant with a son, Perseus. 6 : "[On Mt Kithairon] is a small cave, and beside it is a spring of cold water. Zeus sent Hermes with orders to save the child that Kallisto bore in her womb, and Kallisto herself he turned into the constellation known as the Great Bear (Arktos Megas), which is mentioned by Homer in the return voyage of Odysseus from Kalypso :--‘Gazing at the Pleiades and late-setting Bootes, and the Bear (Arktos), which they also call the Wain (Amaxa).’ But it may be that the constellation is merely named in honor of Kallisto, since her grave is pointed out by the Arkadians. One day, out hunting in the forest glades of Erymanthus, as he placed his nets, he chanced to meet her; seeing him she stopped stock still, seeming to recognize his face. I am dethroned; another reigns; my words are false unless, when night darkens the world, you see, new-honoured in heaven to injure me, twin constellations at the utmost pole, where earth in last and shortest circle turns.
"The Greeks recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of Danae - they make no mention of the god [Zeus, the father of Perseus] - and prove these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be classified as Greeks.
The girl held out her arms for mercy.
Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. According to some, her first born son, Hellen, was fathered by Zeus rather than Deukalion. Zeus saw the chest and safely guided it tothe island of Seriphos. This page describes three of Zeus' mortal liaisons--Danae who was impregnated by the god in the form of a golden shower, Antiope who was seduced by the god in the guise of a satyr, and Kallisto who was deceived by Zeus disguised as the maiden Artemis. I said as far back as Perseus, and I took the matter no further than that, because no one is named as the mortal father of Perseus, as Amphitryon is named father of Herakles . At the call she shrank at first lest it were Juppiter [Zeus] again, but then she saw the Nymphae came with their queen, and feared no trap and joined their company. ", Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 95 (from Scholiast on Homer's Iliad 2. She laid an egg from which were hatched the Dioskouroi twins--one Polydeukes was the son of Zeus, the other Kastor the son of her husband Tyndareus. Over those arms spread grisly fur, her nails lengthened to claws, her hands curved down to serve as feet, the lips that Jove [Zeus] so praised were hideous jaws, and, lest her prayers prevail, her power of speech was quenched; a fearful growl, angry and menacing, came from her throat. His own Arcadia was his weightiest care . Fearful for his life, Acrisius locked poor Danae up in a bronze tower to prevent the prophecy from coming true. After Zeus had seduced Kallisto, Lykaon, pretending not to know of the matter, entertained Zeus, as Hesiod says, and set before him on the table the babe which he had cut up. This painting depicts the mythical character of Danae, welcoming Zeus into her bed, and who later bore his son, Perseus. "Io, the daughter of Inakhos, and Kallisto, the daughter of Lykaon, of both of whom exactly the same story is told, to wit, love of Zeus, wrath of Hera, and metamorphosis, Io becoming a cow and Kallisto a bear. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : PHTHIA A girl from Aegion in Akhaia (southern Greece). 53 (trans.
Juno [Hera], in fury when that concubine shone midst the stars, descended to the sea, to Tethys and old Oceanus, whom the gods greatly revere, and to their questioning replied : ‘You ask why I, Queen of the Gods (Regina Deorum), come hither from the mansions of the sky? Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) She was Jove's [Zeus'] unwilling victim.
She raised her hands (her paws!)
: Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. From them Arcas was born, who named the land [of Arkadia] from his own name.
She shunned mortals, Jupiter [Zeus] made her sin. ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33. He shrank away; those eyes, unmoving, fixed for ever on his own, froze the boy's heart with nameless fear, and as she moved towards him he aimed his javelin to strike her dead. Kallisto he changed into a star, which he called Arktos (the Bear).
On the top of the mound is a sanctuary of Artemis, surnamed Kalliste (the Beautiful). Never before has love for any goddess or woman so melted about the heart inside me, broken it to submission, as now: not that time . ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16. 10 (trans.
Dirce, in the revels of Liber [Dionysos], was brought to the same place. THYIA A princess of the Hellenes, one of the daughters of King Deukalion, surviver of the Great Deluge. She bore twins: Herakles by Zeus and Likymnios by her husband Amphitryon.
Zeus spotted Danae all miserable in her cell, came down to her in a shower of gold. She was the mother by Zeus (or by her husband Aithlios) of Endymion. This, then, is the greater Septentrio, about whom it is written in Kretan verses [in address to Arkas son of Kallisto] : ‘Thou, too, born of the transformed Lycaonian Nympha, who, stolen from the chill Arcadian height, was forbidden by Tethys ever to dip herself in the Oceanus because once she dared to be concubine to her foster child.’ When her father wished to punish her on account of her disgrace, and threatened harm, Antiopa fled. She has seven rather dim stars on her head, two on either ear, one on her shoulder, a bright one on her breast, one on her forefoot, a bright one at the tip of her tail; at the back on her thigh, two; at the bottom of her foot, two; on her tail, three - twenty in all.
. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. Along the way she gave birth to twin sons at Boiotian Eleutherai. Arcas by Callisto, daughter of Lycaon. NIOBE A princess of Argolis (southern Greece). to C1st A.D.) : 401 ff (trans. Juno, then, finding a bear instead of a girl in that place, pointed her out for Diana [Artemis], who was hunting, to kill. She bore him three sons: Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys.
to C1st A.D.) : : . [see Family].
He then transformed back and laid with her. to C1st A.D.) : https://greekmythology.wikia.org/wiki/Danae?oldid=74154. When the jealous Hera stole her children by the god--Herophile and Akhilleus--she was driven mad with grief. It show women from Classical myth seduced by the god Jupiter. When opportunity presented itself, she fled, and came to her sons. Danae and Perseus then returned to Argos.
SEMELE A princess of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece) who was loved by Zeus, but through the machinations of Hera was consumed by the heat of his lightning bolts. Now you shall pay! Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. In Greek mythology, Danaë (Ancient Greek: Δανάη, English translation: "parched") was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Eurydice (no relation to Orpheus' Eurydice). KALLISTO (Callisto) A princess of Arkadia (southern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the guise of the goddess Artemis. "In addition to all this male issue, Lykaon had a daughter Kallisto. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Strabo, Geography 10. She was loved by Zeus and bore him sons Magnes and Makedon. Danaë definition is - a princess of Argos visited by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold and by him the mother of Perseus.
DIA A queen of the Lapith tribe of Thessalia (northern Greece), wife of King Ixion. So great my sovereignty!
The legend about the cave is that Antiope after her labour placed her babies [Amphion and Zethos] into it; as to the spring, it is said that the shepherd who found the babies washed them there for the first time, taking off their swaddling clothes.
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