Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Aegisthus" | Greek | A son of Thyestes, who unwittingly begot him by his own daughter Pelopia. Immediately after his birth he was exposed, by his mother, but was found and saved by shepherds and suckled by a goat. |
"Enorches" | Greek | A son of Thyestes by his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built a temple to Dionysus. Greek |
God name "Hyes" | Greek | The moist or fertilising god, occurs like Hyetius, as a surname of Zeus, as the sender of Rain. Greek |
God name "Hyesistos" | Greco - Roman | Local tutelary god. Known from the region of the Bosphorus circa 150 BC until AD 250. As late as the fourth century AD there are mentions in texts of bypsistarii in Cappadocia, who seem to have been unorthodox, Greek-speaking, Jewish fringe sectarians. The word bypsistos occurs in the Septuagint version of the Vetus Testamentum and means almighty.... |
"Leda" | Greek | A daughter of Thestius, whence she is called Thestias but others call her a daughter of Thespius, Thyestes, or Glaucus, by Laophonte, Deidamia, Leucippe, Eurythemis, or Paneidyia. She was the wife of Tyndareus, by whom she became the mother of Timandra, Clytaemnestra, and Philonoe. Greek |
"Thyestes" | Greek | A son of Pelops and Hippodameia, was the brother of Atreus and the father of Aegisthus. Greek |