ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology Sosipolis (Greek: Σωσίπολις, lit. 'City savior') was a native god at Elis. His mother was the goddess Eileithyia...

Sosipolis (Greek: Σωσίπολις, lit. 'City saviour') may refer to: Sosipolis, an epithet of Zeus. There was a temple of Zeus Sosipolis at Magnesia on the...

minor goddess or nymph whose name apparently refers to sewing Sosipolis (god), a native god at Elis, son of the goddess Eileithyia Tritopatores, wind and...

"Giver of Signs") or Latinized Semaleus: Sosipolis (Σωσίπολις; "City saviour"): There was a temple of Zeus Sosipolis at Magnesia on the Maeander Splanchnotomus...

Sosigenes (Stoic) Sosigenes of Alexandria Sosigenes the Peripatetic Sosipolis (god) Sositheus Sostratos of Aegina Sostratos of Chios Sostratus of Dyme...

from all women. Humiliated, Dané calls out to Amor, and, in response, the god curses Narcissus. In a classic example of poetic justice, Narcissus is forced...

though at times turned secondarily to other purposes, in which the hero god vanquishes a power or powers opposed to him, which generally dwell in, or...

Nineteenth century scholarship wrongly identified the god Attis with the similar-sounding name of the god Atys. The name "Atys" is often seen in ancient Aegean...

Plutus (/ˈpluːtəs/; Greek: Πλοῦτος, translit. Ploûtos, lit. "wealth") is the god and the personification of wealth, and the son of the goddess of agriculture...

another, Aether and Nyx were the parents of Eros (in Hesiod, the fourth god to come into existence after Chaos, Gaia (Earth), and Tartarus). Others tell...

Moirai (Fates) and responsible for the creation of offspring. Her son was Sosipolis, who was worshiped at Elis. The earliest form of the name is the Mycenaean...

for the gods. Iris was traditionally seen as the consort of Zephyrus, the god of the west wind and one of the four Anemoi, by whom she is the mother of...

to Demeter, Erebus is used to refer to Hades, the location in which the god Hades and his wife Persephone reside, while in Euripides' play Orestes, it...

captive Titan Prometheus on stage. Kratos compels the mild-mannered blacksmith god Hephaestus to chain Prometheus to a rock as punishment for his theft of fire...

naiad Salmacis attempted to rape and prayed to be united with forever. A god, in answer to her prayer, merged their two forms into one and transformed...

naiad-nymph, daughter of the river-god Achelous, who is said to have flung herself into the spring when pursued by the god Apollo. In older traditions, the...

of the twelve Titans, the children of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus in Greek mythology. She is the Greek goddess of sight and vision,...

sacrifice the bull to Poseidon as he had promised. Pasiphaë was the daughter of god of the Sun, Helios, and the Oceanid nymph Perse. She was thus the sister...

"hygiene". Hygieia is related to the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius, who is the son of the Olympian god Apollo. Hygieia is most commonly referred to...

the storm-god Teshub, with many striking parallels to Hesiod's account of the Greek succession myth. Like Cronus, Kumarbi castrates the sky-god Anu, and...

main character. Megaera is one of the three antagonists in the video game God of War: Ascension where she is portrayed as a deformed humanoid with spider...

burst the first-born deity Phanes, or Phanes-Dionysus. Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic hymn he is named as "Lord Priapos", although others...

Epimetheus God of afterthought Pandora offers the jar to Epimetheus. Personal information Parents Iapetus and Clymene Siblings Prometheus, Menoetius,...

In Greek mythology, Phyllis (Φύλλις) was the god of the homonymous river in Bithynia. By a local meadow nymph, he became father of a son Dipsacus, who...

Pyroeis (Ancient Greek: Πυρόεις) in ancient Greek religion is the god of the wandering star Areios, the planet Mars. He is also known as Mesonyx (Μεσονυξ;...

of attracting their attention); the ironic name is similar to how Hades, god of the dead is styled Pluton, or Pluto, "the Rich One". Using euphemisms...

was also a mythological personification of the contests listed above. This god was represented in a statue at Olympia with halteres (dumbbells) (ἁλτῆρες)...

mythology, Peneus (/pəˈniːəs/; Ancient Greek: Πηνειός) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers (Potamoi), a child of Oceanus and Tethys...

and Damascius similarly refers to Night as the "first being". When the god Phanes springs from the cosmic egg created by Chronos, there emerges a bright...

relates that Lycurgus of Sparta dedicated a small statue of Gelos to the god, and elsewhere, mentions that in Sparta there was a sanctuary of Gelos, as...