| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Cupido" | Greece | Like Amor and Voluptas, a modification of the Greek Eros, whose worship was carried to Rome from Greece. |
"Cyparissus" | Greek | A youth of Cea, a son of Telephus, was beloved by Apollo and Zephyrus or Silvåñuś. When he had inadvertently killed his favourite stag, he was seized with immoderate grief, and metamorphosed into a cypress. Greek |
| King name "Dion" | Greek | A king in Laconia whose daughters were metamorphosed into rocks. Greek |
"Doris" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Thetys, and the wife of her brother Nereus, by whom she became the mother of the Nereides. (Theogony 240, Metamorphoses by Ovid ii. 269.) The Latin poets sometimes use the name of this marine divinity for the sea itself. Greek |
"Elpenor" | Greek | One of the companions of Odysseus, who were metamorphosed by Circe into swine, and afterwards back into men. Greek |
| God name "Eros" | Greek | In Latin, Amor or Cupido, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Greek |
| Deity name "Eros" | Greco Roman | Primordial deity. One of the children of AETHER and Hemera in the pre Homeric cosmos. Listed in Hesiod's Theogony as one of three archetypal beings with chaos and GAIA. Also AMOR (Roman).... |
"Eurylochus" | Greek | One of the companions of Odysseus in his wanderings. He was the only one that escaped from the house of Circe, while his friends were metamorphosed into swine; and when Odysseus went to the lower world, Eurylochus and Perimedes performed the prescribed sacrifices. It was on his advice that the companions of Odysseus carried off some of the oxen of Helios. Greek |
"Evippe" | Greek | The name of five mythological personages, concerning whom nothing of interest is related. (Apollodorus. ii. Metamorphoses) Greek |
"Gorge" | Greek | A daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, and the wife of Andraemon. When Artemis metamorphosed her sisters into birds, on account of their unceasing lamentations about their brother Meleager, Gorge and Deianeira alone were spared. Greek |
"Hecuba" | Greek | Second wife of Priam, and mother of nineteen children. When Troy was taken by the Greeks she fell to the lot of Ulysses. She was afterwards metamorphosed into a dog, and threw herself into the sea. Greek |
"Helice" | Greek | A daughter of Lycaon, was beloved by Zeus, but Hera, out of jealousy, metamorphosed her into a she-bear, whereupon Zeus placed her among the stars, under the name of the Great Northern Bear. |
| King name "Hypseus" | Greek | A son of Peneius, and the Naiad Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of Asopus, was king of the Lapithae, and married to Chlidanope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia. (Apollodorus) Another personage of this name occurs in Ovid (Metamorphoses v by Ovid). Greek |
| Goddess name "Kamaksi (of amorous appearance)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Goddess. A SAKTI of SI IVA recognized locally at Kanchipuram, but also in her own right at several places in southern India. Also Kamatchi (Tamil).... |
"L?laps" | Greek | A very powerful dog given by Diana to Procris; Procris gave it to Cephalos. While pursuing a wild boar it was metamorphosed into a stone. Greek |
"Lavinia" | Greek | The daughter of Titus Andronicus, bride of Båśśiåñuś, brother of the Emperor of Rome. Being grossly abused by Chiron and Demetrius, sons of Tamora, queen of the Goths, the savage wantons cut off her hands and pluck out her tongue, that she may not reveal their names Lavinia, guiding a stick with her stumps, makes her tale known to her father and brothers; whereupon Titus murders the two Moorish princes and serves their heads in a pasty to their mother, whom he afterwards slays, together with the Emperor Saturninus her husband. Greek |
| Nymph name "Lotis" | Greek | A nymph, who in her escape from the embraces of Priapus was metamorphosed into a tree, called after her Lotis. Greek |
"Lycabas" | Greek | The name of three fictitious personages mentioned by Ovid Metamorphoses. (iii, v, xii.) Greek |
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