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Lucina (mythology) In ancient Roman religion, Lucina was a title or epithet given to the goddess Juno, [1] and sometimes to Diana, [2] in their roles as goddesses of childbirth who safeguarded the lives of women in labor. The title lucina (from the Latin lux, lucis, "light") links both Juno and Diana to the light of the Moon, the cycles of ...
Actaeon. Diana and Actaeon by Titian (1556–59) Actaeon ( / ækˈtiːən /; Ancient Greek: Ἀκταίων Aktaiōn ), [1] in Greek mythology, was the son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, and a famous Theban hero. Through his mother he was a member of the ruling House of Cadmus. Like Achilles, in a later generation ...
Aricia (mythology) Diana returning to Aricia Hippolytus resuscitated by Aesculapius. Aricia ( Ancient Greek: Ἀρικία, Arikía) is a name appearing in Virgil 's Aeneid in a context that makes it possible for it to be interpreted as referring to a mythical personage: Ibat et Hippolyti proles pulcherrima bello,
In Greek and Roman mythology, several goddesses are distinguished by their perpetual virginity. These goddesses included the Greek deities Hestia, Athena, and Artemis, along with their Roman equivalents, Vesta, Minerva, and Diana. In some instances, the inviolability of these goddesses was simply a detail of their mythology, while in other ...
After his death, the myth has it, his bones were transported from Aricia to Rome and buried in front of the Temple of Saturn, on the Capitoline slope, beside the Temple of Concord. The bloody ritual which legend ascribed to the Tauric Diana is that every stranger who landed on the shore was sacrificed on her altar, but that, when transported to Italy, the rite of human sacrifice assumed a ...
Aëtos was an earthborn childhood friend of Zeus, who befriended him while in Crete as he was hiding from his father Cronus. Years later, after Zeus had married Hera, she turned Aëtos into an eagle, as she feared that Zeus had fallen in love with him. The eagle became Zeus's sacred bird and symbol. Agrius and Oreius.
In Greek mythology, Endymion [a] ( / ɛnˈdɪmiən /; Ancient Greek: Ἐνδυμίων, gen .: Ἐνδυμίωνος) was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis. [1] He was also venerated and said to reside on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor. [2]
