2023年9月12日 · Dione was a beautiful goddess with early, obscure origins. In Homer, she appears as one of the divinities living on Mount Olympus alongside the twelve Olympians, the rulers of the Greek pantheon. When Dione appeared in ancient art—for example, on vase paintings—she was depicted as an attractive woman, often wearing a crown or veil.

2023年3月8日 · Dione was, in some traditions, a consort of Zeus and the mother of Aphrodite. Doris was the wife of Nereus and the mother of the Nereids. And Metis was an early ally and wife of Zeus. Otherwise, the Oceanids were seen primarily as companions of other gods, such as Artemis or Persephone. They were rarely worshipped on their own.

2023年9月20日 · Among the immortals, Zeus’ lovers included Leto, Demeter, and Dione. According to some traditions, Dione became the mother of Aphrodite. Zeus also had many mortal lovers—mostly women, though Ganymede, a handsome prince of Troy and the cupbearer of the gods, was one famous male exception.

2023年4月10日 · There are different versions of Aphrodite’s birth. In one version, known from Homer’s epics, she was the daughter of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greeks, and the goddess Dione. But the best-known account of Aphrodite’s birth comes from Hesiod’s Theogony.

2022年12月9日 · Venus was the Roman goddess of love, sex, maternal affection, and erotic passion. Incomparably beautiful, she was the guardian of lovers and prostitutes, and revered as the mother of Aeneas, founder of the Roman people.

Dione then: “Thy wrongs with patience bear, And share those griefs inferior powers must share: Unnumber’d woes mankind from us sustain, And men with woes afflict the gods again.

But Leto was racked nine days and nine nights with pangs beyond wont. And there were with her all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite and the other deathless goddesses save white-armed Hera, who sat in the halls of cloud-gathering Zeus.

2023年10月4日 · Danae, daughter of Acrisius, was a princess of Argos who was imprisoned by her own father. After Zeus seduced her as a shower of gold dust, she gave birth to the hero Perseus. Acrisius locked Danae and her child in a chest and threw it into the sea, but they were ultimately rescued by a fisherman in Seriphos.

2023年3月8日 · Eileithyia, daughter of Zeus and Hera, was the Greek goddess of childbirth. She was worshiped throughout the Greek world but had especially strong ties to Crete, where her cult most likely originated.

2023年9月28日 · Boreas was a Greek god, the personification of the north wind that blew down cold and powerful from Thrace. He was known for abducting the Athenian princess Orithyia, who bore him several children, including the winged heroes Calais and Zetes.