| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Eriphila" | Greek | The personification of avarice, who guards the path that leads to pleasure, in Orlando Furioso. Greek |
"Eriphyle" | Greek | A daughter of Talaus and Lysimache, and the wife of Amphiaraus, whom she betrayed for the sake of the necklace of Harmonia. Greek |
| Goddess name "Eris" | Greek | Born of Ate and Zeus, or, according to Homer, Hera and Zeus (Iliad IV), she is the goddess who calls forth war and discord. According to the Iliad, she wanders about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon raises her head up to heaven (IV). Greek |
| Goddess name "Eris" | Greek | Goddess of dissent or strife. The consort of ARES, the god of war, and the mother of HORKOS (oath). She is depicted throwing the apple of discord among guests at a wedding, offering it to the fairest to provoke argument. In Roman mythology she becomes DISCORDIA.... |
"Erix" | Greek | Son of Goliath and grandson of Atlas. He invented legerdemain. 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 |
"Ersa and Pandeia" | Greek | 1. The wife of Danaus and mother of Hippodice and Adiante. (Apollod. ii. 1.) 2. A daughter of Cecrops and sister of Agraulos, Pandrosos, and Erysichthon. She was the beloved of Hermes, and the mother of Cephalus. Greek |
"Erymanthean" | Greek | A devastating boar which wandered about in Arcadia. Its capture was one of the labours of Hercules. Greek |
"Erysichthon" | Greek | That is, the tearer up of the earth. Greek |
"Eryx" | Greek | In Apollodorus. ii he is called a son of Poseidon though others call him a son of Aphrodite and Butes of Sicily. Greek |
| Goddess name "Esenchebis" | Greek | The Greek name of the goddess Isis. Greek |
"Eteocles" | Greek | 1. A son of Andreus and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to have been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites at Orchomenos, in Boeotia. |
"Eteocles2" | Greek | A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. Greek |
| God name "Euboea" | Greek | A daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Acraea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera. Greek |
| Goddess name "Eucharis" | Greek | A nymph of the goddess Calypso. Greek |
"Eucleia" | Greek | A personification of the glory which the Athenians had reaped in the battle of Marathon. Greek |
"Eudora" | Greek | A daughter of Nereus and Doris. Greek |
| Goddess name "Eumenides" | Grek | Eumenides [the good-tempered goddesses ]. A name given by the Greeks to the Furies, as it would have been ominous and bad policy to call them by their right name, Erinnyes. |
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