herself was Apollo's lover, with whom she had the daughter Parthenos, who died young and was transformed into the Virgo constellation by Apollo. Additionally...
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The statue of Athena Parthenos (Ancient Greek: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena...
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Parthenos, and by some accounts, Phoebe, Hilyra and Scylla. Apollo turned Parthenos into a constellation after her early death. Additionally, Apollo fostered...
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with the myth of Parthenos, which explains how the constellation Virgo came to be. According to this legend, Parthenos is the daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis...
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Hemithea were carried by Apollo to Chersonesus, where she became a local goddess. Strabo also mentions a goddess named Parthenos worshipped throughout Chersonesus...
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Rome, guided by the "Mark of Athena", a magical talisman designed to lead children of Athena to the missing Athena Parthenos. During their journey, they...
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Athena (redirect from Athena of the city)
myth of Athens, Athena bested Poseidon in a competition over patronage of the city by creating the first olive tree. She was known as Athena Parthenos "Athena...
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Rape in Greek mythology (category Culture of ancient Greece)
rape) is irrevocable and the parthenos is changed in some way from her existence prior to the assault. Daphne is a parthenos who wanted to become a huntress...
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virgin goddess, immune to the charms of romantic love or marriage; one of her most common epithets is Parthenos, "the maiden", and her most famous temple...
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Ramírez-Arellano, and Coach Gleeson Hedge attempt to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood in order to prevent a war between the Roman and Greek...
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Hemithea – Daughter of King Staphylus of Naxos and granddaughter of Dionysus, she was turned into a god by Apollo alongside her sister Parthenos to escape...
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Artemis (redirect from The Hunt of Artemis)
tradition, Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo. In most accounts, the twins are the products of an extramarital liaison...
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Hera (category Children of Cronus)
Παρθένος (Parthénos) 'Virgin' Παρθενία (Parthenia), Παῖς (Pais) 'Child' (in her role as virgin) at Stymphalus. Συζύγιος (Syzygios) 'patroness of marriage'...
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Amazonomachy (section Shield of Athena Parthenos)
of Attica. The shield of Athena Parthenos, sculpted by Phidias, depicts a fallen Amazon. Athena Parthenos was a massive chryselephantine sculpture of...
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Hemithea (mythology) (category Deeds of Apollo)
Molpadia, daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, sister of Parthenos and Rhoeo. According to Diodorus Siculus, she and Parthenos were put in charge of watching...
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cup-bearer of the gods Glaucus (Γλαῦκος), the fisherman's sea god, made immortal after eating a magical herb Hemithea (Ἡμιθέα) and Parthenos (Παρθένος)...
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whom he had three daughters: Rhoeo, who was a lover to Apollo, Parthenos, and Molpadia or Hemithea. The latter became the mother of Basileus with Lyrcus...
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Helios (category Rape of Persephone)
Judgement of Paris, and possibly the birth of Pandora on the base of the Athena Parthenos statue. They were also featured in the pedimental group of the temple...
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Rhoeo (category Female lovers of Apollo)
Chrysothemis, daughter of Carmanor. Her sisters were Parthenos and Molpadia (later named Hemithea). In one account, Rhoeo was named as one of the possible...
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like the decoration of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos housed in the Parthenon. It seems to be an evocation of the opposition between...
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Makrois (Apollo under the High / Long Rocks, also worshipped as Pythios). Here, according to tradition, Apollo was united with Erechtheus' daughter Kreousa...
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Selene (category Consorts of Pan (god))
Athena Parthenos. Pausanias also reports seeing stone images of Helios, and Selene, in the market-place at Elea, with rays projecting from the head of Helios...
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usage more often applies to young women, contrasting with parthenos (παρθένος) "a virgin (of any age)", and generically as kore (κόρη < κόρϝα) "maiden...
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Ancient Greek religion (redirect from End of Hellenic Religion)
most famous Greek cult images were of this type, including the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, and Phidias's Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon in Athens, both...
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Women in the Bible (redirect from Old Testamentical views of women)
refers to the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier named "Panthera". (Ehrman says, "In Greek the word for virgin is parthenos").: 67–69 Mary is not introduced...
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Parthenon Frieze (redirect from Frieze of the Parthenon)
evidence of Phidias's known work on the Athena Parthenos and his central role in the Periclean building programme that he is attributed authorship of the frieze...
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Press, 1999 W. Bell Dinsmoor, "The Repair of the Athena Parthenos: A Story of Five Dowels". American Journal of Archaeology 1934. 38(1). Mikalson, Jon D...
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of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections. Children of Priam Homeric Neleides Sons of...
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Giants (Greek mythology) (redirect from Battle of the Gods and Giants)
Parthenon (c. 445 BC) and for the interior of the shield of Athena Parthenos. Phidias' work perhaps marks the beginning of a change in the way the Giants are...
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shall be with child", uses the Greek term parthenos ("virgin") as in the Septuagint Isaiah, while the Book of Isaiah 7:14 uses the Hebrew almah, which...
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